God, Happiness and Life

If I can, I would love to watch these movies: 1. Public Enemy with Johnny Depp 2. Inglorious Past with Brad Pitt for historical (sort of) entertainment 3. All About Steve with Sandra Bullock for the laughs. I saw her 'The Proposal' 4. Julie and Julia because Meryl Streep is my favorite actor 5. Time Traveller's Wife for its story 6. The Informant with Matt Damon, because he's a favorite In the Making Movies: 1. The Inception with Leonardo di Caprio (he's going to be emaciated in this film, says the producers) 2. Shutter with Di Caprio 3. Iron Man 4. Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp 5. Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp

Another memento I need to share here for online posterity: father's day card which my children sent their pa. This was prepared in 2000.

I found these pics from one of my memento boxes :-) This was taken by my father I believe when I was 3 years old. That big box at the back is our "giant" radio. It can not be seen here but my name was inscribed on the upper portion of the radio box. Another pic clipping taken while I was still active as a marketing officer for a software company many years ago. The other lady was my long time boss, the company president. I cropped the picture for the purpose of publishing it here, but the original photo also featured two others, the two top executives of our bank client, who approved the purchase of a M/F DBMS.

My daughter's latest picture. I believe this was taken in Singapore on their way to Vietnam for a 3 day holiday .

These things which were all part of my children's lives were given away when we moved to this place about a year ago. Space, obviously was not enough. Though we were sad to part with them, I am comforted in the fact that the memories attached to these mementos will stay with us forever. They are all now in the possession of happy kids. (I hope)

Sadly, I now realized, indeed my brother has colon cancer. Cory Aquino's condition and subsequent death convinced me. I could no longer deny it as much as when I found out the unfortunate news. I can now openly talk about it. Does it help that my family had witnessed a couple of deaths caused by the big C? First, on my father's side was my aunt who died when she was 11 years old from cancer in the stomach. It was known then as tumor. And then my grandfather; who also died from a certain type of digestive cancer. His brother also died from one. My grandad's daughter, my aunt; including, my cousin, her daughter, both died of bone cancer one year after another. On my mother's side, her sister died of lung cancer. Last year their brother died of lung cancer. And then my cousin, my aunt's daughter, died of breast cancer just 2 years ago. Forgetting this genetical misfortunes, this post's purpose is really just to document my observations of colon cancer...

Sadly, I now realize, indeed my brother has colon cancer. Cory Aquino's condition and subsequent death convinced me. These are some of the local symptoms my brother had when it was discovered that he had colon cancer. It started when his stomach grew big as large as though he was 7 months pregnant. The hard head that he was, didn't want to see a doctor. But that day, he no longer had any choice. He was in huge pain.And he was vomitting. He went to the hospital with his wife,  our niece and his son. The doctor immediately decided to do an operation. A certain part of his large intestine was ready to burst. Bacteria was fast spreading all over his stomach. They had to arrest that first,  before doing an operation. They found a tumor as big as an egg in his colon. It had to be removed. It was the source of  all the infection he was suffering from. At that point, I knew he most likely had cancer. I looked over wikipedia, "a tumor that is large enough to fill the entire ...

I have only two brothers. My father's gone but thank God my Mom is still around. I don't know how to say this but my brother is also with colon cancer stage 3. His children are aged 13, 11 and 3. Too young to lose a parent. It's been awhile since I learned this, but didn't have enough courage to write about it anywhere; as if not talking about it will make the ailment go away. But because Cory Aquino just died of the same ailment, I finally got enough gut to speak about it. I consider myself a coward, refusing to think of what is going to happen. I fact I have only seen him twice since the news broke out. I realized, how selfish of me, thinking only of my personal pain, instead of doing my share in attempting to give him comfort in whatever form. Today, I cry and cry and cry for my brother... his children and Cory Aquino.