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I have voted: Philippine 2010 Elections

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: Done with electing my President, VP, Senators and city officials. It sure was hot and humid. When I got down from the jeep at Leodegario Victorino Elementary School, I was immedialtely approached by a couple sample ballot distributors. What can I do. They were shoved into my hands.. On to the school gate, PPCRV volunteers snatched them from my hands..okey that was clear enough. I proceeded to the PPRCV Volunteer Desk. I gave the young man my Precint Number obtained from the Comelec website. The young volunteer asked me my first name and to note it down on small Precint Inquiry Sheet which I dutifully wrote. He gave the piece of paper noting 92 as my clustered precint #, together  precint #0377A and a third # which I presume is my number on the Voter's List. It was orderly. But after staying on the line for 15 minutes, I was wondering, when our turn will be. On my left is a classroom with people seated.. oh I wondered, what were they doing just sitting there? And then I get t...

My Mother I Am

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Happy Mother's Day Ma! Today is our day. Should be.. day off.. relaxation .. spa moments.. hair or foot .. off from the stove.. simply just laying back.. I am glad you are enjoying mother's day over there at your  hot and humid Northern hometown.. Hooray!  All I can offer to you this year are these mother quotes I found from the web:  I used to believe that,  "the commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician." But as I was growing up, I thought that,  "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." And on to adulthood, the task, "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." And then,  "Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religiou...