We have 3 local dogs at my in-laws’ house and 2 shih-tzus and a pug.

They are actually my gay brother-in-law’s pet, but he barely take care of them at all. Though twice a month he would pay a niece to bath them. He even lets my mother-in-law just feed them with left-overs.

I am not a pet lover, but I like seeing them meet me at the gate whenever I arrive home. And everytime they do that, I feel that my tiredness from having worked the whole day will be gone once, they do that to me.

But pets are meant to be well taken cared of and I always remind my brother-in-law about it. I hope he just would give them to his friends who can take care of them well, because us at home also have no time nor interest to take care of them.

Thanks Dina, I know all of you are so busy with your day jobs so you do not have much time to take care of pets. But I appreciate what you said that they are stress-relievers.

This is a nice piece on life. One thing is that life has to be lived for a purpose. No one was born without a purpose on earth. The issue is if the tinest ant have a purpose on earth hence its exsitance on earth then we must know we also have. Do you know that the ant as tiny as also fear death, respect authority, knows the weather, feels danger and understand unity? Take time to study them.

Very well said, my friend.

Did you know too that gumamemla or hibiscus is also now being added to a veggie salad? Actually @thelme at the other site posted about her salad with a hibiscus flower as one of its ingredients. I cannot imagine the taste, though I also believe that it can be delicious in addition to the other ingredients she mentioned.

And the other Saturday, I saw in Salamat Dok a nutritionist who taught how to make a salad with hibiscus and yes rose petals (i forgot what’s the edicble one). Sooner or later, this kind of salad will already be done by chefs on restaurants. I can’t wait to taste it actually.

Going back to its comparison in making our life be at the fullest, all of us should we want can really have a life as beautiful as hibiscus. If one can only have simple needs and lives simply, she can already live at the fullest. You see, disappointments are what makes our lives sad. So when we don’t have a high expectations in life or just live simply, we can already be happy in simple things, thus our lives will always be beautiful.

Very nice blog my friend, but sad this day, i was not able to go to church for my class starts at 7 and ends 12, then in the afternoon at 1 to 6 in the evening. I felt so very tired, plus so heavy traffic here due to mass goers of Ash Wednesday. I pray to father our dear Lord to forgive me for my body cannot anymore handle extra hours and go home very late.

I am so happy for you.At least we are the same RC and let us not be affected with negative feedback against priests and priests against the people and government.Let us just do our job for it is God we glorify not priests.

Filipinos have a deep sense of religiosity which they show by attending Sunday Masses or observing religious activities like the Lenten Season.

God has been the center of their lives as expressed in the way they express their religiosity. The God-fearing attitude prevents them from committing negative acts towards other people. Though there are so many religions in our country (Philippines), majority of them are Roman Catholics.

Nice article!

Lately, I have not been as religious as I should have been. Coincidentally, I just submitted a similar topic but more of my not being active than the celebration itself.

It is so nice to know that there are still many Catholics who stick with their beliefs. There maybe flaws in our religion but it will all boil down to one: that we will all return to our Creator, no matter what religion you believe in. Even sinners, like San Dimas, was forgiven by Jesus for he repented and he believed that Jesus is his savior.

That is indeed a very proud moment, very well done. Congratulations to you and your daughter. Even I wanted to be a doctor but I changed my mind lol, and now I am just an accountant.

Congrats！Very proud of you, for sure. So glad to hear this, a joyful moment. @harpreet singh good to be an accountant too, a good career provided we love our jobs, all jobs are a good job, for sure!

God bless your daughter. I’d like to add that it is truly a blessing to everyone when men and women are given the opportunity to study and to become “the best that they can be” at whatever occupation they choose as a life profession.

@Michelle

Thank you. Indeed she is a talented one. Maybe she took it from me. Joke , joke , joke

We never expected her to pursue Medicine actually. We though that when he graduated on BS Biology, she will already be contented with it.

But she really has the ambition of being a lawyer actually. But my father a lawyer who eventually became a judge discouraged her because there was a scholarship waiting for her for the science related course so she took BS Biology then pursued Medicine.

At least she also likes so much to be a doctor.