burn, baby burn!

19Feb10

I didn’t cut myself. Well at least not yet. A few nights ago I was pressing clothes for work using this tabletop ironing board that I bought recently. The ironing board is cheap, the cheapest of the bunch that was being sold at the nearby mall. Since I am out of space, I thought of [...]

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a world of plastics

18Feb10

Back at our home, my mom had a thing for keeping almost every refuse that others can easily throw away. She’d rather keep them in our laundry area cupboard until she could think of what to do with them. I’d see balls of grocery plastic and paper bags, plastic cups, utensils and take-out food containers. [...]

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bathroom exhaust fan

17Feb10

When I woke up on Tuesday morning and went to the bathroom, it smelled of fried fish. A few minutes later when I was about to hit the shower, it smelled cigarette smoke. As I gazed as to where the smell was possibly coming from, I saw the gaping hole on the bathroom wall. My [...]

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curtains

16Feb10

Since my apartment is an inner unit, my only window faces the other unit across on the opposite side of mine. I feel that the others can see the every move I make while inside my apartment. Thus the need to have some privacy. For this, I ended up getting green curtains for the beige [...]

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budget stretching

15Feb10

Today is payday. When living on your own and depending on no one, there are so many sacrifices to be made when it comes to spending. Since you live from paycheck to paycheck, every centavo of your spending counts and you have to be wise with your spending and your budgeting skills gets tested all [...]

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katorse

14Feb10

Me: Manong, puwede ka ba sa Robinsons? Him: Sige. biyahe na tayo? Ano bayaraan mo na lang yung dalawa? Me: Magkano ba? Him: Katorse. Me: Magkano yon, twelve? Him: Fourteen. **The guy shakes his head that I don’t know how to count.** Me: Sige. Note to self: Learn how to count in Spanish at least [...]

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housewarming gift 1

13Feb10

Prior to my moving in last February, a colleague from work gave me my first housewarming gift way before I moved in. She handed me a bag full of household cleaning materials since she knew I’d need it to have a clean house. She gave me a liter each of dishwashing liquid, fabric softener and a [...]

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not the usual breakfast

12Feb10

It’s Friday, the last day of my work week. I woke up late today and had to run to work hence no chance to prepare breakfast. Walking along the street nearing my office I saw a taho vendor. I bought a small cup for 10 pesos  then continued my trek to work. At work before [...]

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the stove is without gas

11Feb10

Last weekend I bought a small gas stove for me to do my home cooking. It’s the basic, no-frills single burner stove. Little did I know the further complications it would cause as I didn’t buy a regulator and an LPG tank. It just slipped my tiny little head. Moreover, there’s no place nearby to [...]

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cold drinks, anyone?

10Feb10

Things in the apartment have been quiet lately. Not because my life has become uneventful but because work (as usual) has taken so much of my time and the fact that I don’t have an internet connection in the apartment so I’m unable to regularly post updates. And now for my newest home acquisition– a [...]

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