Recently, there have been discussions and arguments between lawmakers and the Catholic church here in our country. What’s the ruckus about?

Use of contraceptives as a family planning method.

I highly repsect the church’s views on promoting preservation of life and I am strongly against abortion. But I strongly disagree on one of the statements of a highly-ranked church representative.

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Not the blog, but the author.

Today is my birthday.

As always, I have 2 options. One, feel depressed because at my age, I’m still going through financial and emotional issues. Two, feel grateful for the things I’ve been blessed with, so far.

I choose the latter.

So at 28, what do I have to be thankful for?

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There have been too many things in my mind lately. I wanted to write them all down here, but for some reason, I don’t know where to start.

A member of our support group had miscarriage about a month ago. She’s fine, but she’s wondering why she’s feeling “normal“. “I’m supposed to feel depressed, right?” she asked the group.

Below is part of my private message to her. I’m posting it here because I believe that what I said can be applied to everyone who have suffered loss, to those who are enduring hardships, and to those dealing with dismal episodes in their lives.

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“Hindi ko na nga alam kung san ko kukunin ang pambili ng pagkain namin kinabukasan eh.”

In English, “I don’t even know where I’d get the money to buy our food for the next day.”

The Filipino translation has a much deeper impact that its English counterpart.

Anyway, a lot of Filipinos use that sentence when describing hard times, money-wise. I thought they were just exaggerating. I have to learn the hard way that situations like that do happen.

You live by the day, not really knowing if you’ll have money to feed yourself the next day.

I admit, I have finance management problems, but the situation is in a kinda worse case now because of my maternity leave. For two months, we have to live off the husband’s income. Nothing from my side. I wonder when paid maternity leaves will become a law.

In that two months of one-income living that just passed, we have drained what little savings that we have. Of course we don’t have much savings, I suck at budgeting our income.

Hopefully, things get better now that I’m back to work. Seriously, I need to get better at managing our finances, or I might be forced to make the kids help bring in additional moolah by entering show business even before they turn 3 years old.

Heeeey…

Nah, Philippine show business isn’t ready for them yet.

Credit goes to Sodahead and Cashflow for the images.

I know I haven’t posted for more than a week now. I’m still adjusting to the “concerts” my little boys have every night (When one cries for milk, the other other wakes up and cries with the other. More on that on a separate post.)

Right now, I want to be a good citizen and try to make a difference in our country, so I signed this ONLINE PETITION for the passage of Cheaper Medicines Act.

Philippine Senator Mar Roxas has authored a bill concerning medicine cost in the country. It was discovered that there are many expensive medicines in the Philippines that cost much less in other countries. Same medicines, manufactured by the same medical company. Here are examples of of price differentials of drugs in the Philippines and other countries:

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