A Little Farmville At Home

This is my first post for this year. I just want to clear my head of all the things that has been disturbing me that I just don't want to think about anymore.

You might be asking why I am posting a new article now. Well, it is due to the fact that I want to update my blog because a friend of mine suggested that I must update it and I want to share the photos I took from our small Farmville.

In addition, for the past two months, I was busy. With the Christmas season approaching and all, I needed a sure income. I do not want to write articles about the holidays since I might cry a river. I worked hard that my back ached, taking my mind off the coming holidays. I guess working late nights took a toll on me that I have to plaster a salonpas on my back every night.

Anyway, as a person who lives and breathes the Internet, I noticed that people are going gaga over Facebook's Farmville online game and I am no exemption. But I believe I have a little "Farmville" here at home.

I am not used in living in the country side but I have no choice. Still, I have learned to love all the things that surrounds me. I now have 3 dogs, 2 kittens which my son adopted when he was strolling with his friends in our subdivision, a goat and her 2 kids.

When we were still new in this place, my son was so excited that he would get and pet whatever animal he could get his hands on. Some of the animals and insects that he petted were mariposa or large butterflies (I was very surprised when he got home handing me a larger than life butterfly!), big spiders, big lizards or geckos, birds that accidentally went inside our home; and baby snakes (Yes, you read it right. We got like 5 baby snakes and my son was so curious that he wanted to eat those.). I told him not to touch those since we were not familiar on how to handle those strange yet wonderful creatures.

I also planted vegetables like mustard and bitter melon. At this time of year, we harvest mangoes from our one and only mango tree.

I read somewhere that being happy is not a condition of one's mind. Being happy is a choice. When I wake up every morning, I ask myself, "Should I be happy?". My answer is "Why shouldn't I?". I like Pollyanna's philosophy in life and that is why i adapted it... But for how long?

Our one and only mango tree

Our one and only coconut tree (Our Kamatsile tree is on the background)

Fruit from our Mango tree

The mother goat with her kids

Mother goat strikes a pose

Kittens my son adopted

This kitten thought that our dog "Botchog" is her mom

The kittens sucking milk from our male dog "Botchog"

 

 

Transgender Surgery - Male to Female

This post is not for the faint of heart.

I got this video when I googled about how a male could become a female. I was really curious as to how it could be possible. If gays could only see this, maybe they won't have the heart to undergo this kind of surgery. I have a gay assistant who lives at home with me and I let him watch this short video. He said that it was so gruesome and even though he was gay, he would not want to undergo the "procedure", which was also called Gender Reassignment Surgery or Sex Reassignment Surgery. Isn't it amazing that it can only be done in 6 minutes?! That was for both the breasts and the genitalia.

After seeing the video, all I can say was that gays who had this "tranny surgery" were very strong, determined individuals.

Transgender surgery-male to female

This transgender surgery was performed in Thailand where many gay people go to have this procedure. They said that the said medical operation was cheaper in Thailand than anywhere else in the world.

 

 

Octopus man | OctoMan

A man in Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines was one of the oldest living persons, who was born with excess limbs.

At first, one would think that Rudy Santos, who hailed from Pampanga, looked like any usual man who only had an ordinary disability, i.e., his right leg was shorter than his left leg, but there was something else. He showed Jessica Soho, a multi-awarded reporter in the Philippines, what his true predicament was.

He used to work in the carnival as one of the featured people with exotic looks. He then admitted that the story about the Octopus Man was not a myth, and that he and Octopus Man was one and the same person.

He was ashamed to show his true self to other people, but eventually, he showed on national TV what he was hiding. Beneath his pants, he's got 2 extra arms and 1 extra leg. All in all, he's got 4 arms and 3 legs. A doctor had checked up on him and said that Rudy has this condition called "parasitic twin".

Parasitic Twin is a condition also known as an asymmetrical or unequal conjoined twin. It is the result of the processes that produce vanishing twins and conjoined twins, and may represent a continuum between the two. Parasitic twins occur when a twin embryo begins developing in utero, but the pair does not fully separate, and one embryo maintains dominant development at the expense of the other.

When asked by Jessica, if he felt that there was another person inside of him, he answered that he just felt there was just excess limbs on his body.

Photo courtesy of Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho

Rudy Santos when he was younger

Dr. Vince Gomez, an orthopedic surgeon said that Rudy's twin could be operated on, to remove the extra mass of flesh and limbs from his body, and that it won't have any ill impact on him. But Rudy have his own family now and they do not approve of him having his "twin" removed from his body, because they were afraid they could loose him also in the process.

Rudy said that when he was a child and his "twin" would get wounded, Rudy would then suffer severe fever. On the other hand, if any part of his body would get hurt other than his "twin", it didn't have bad effect on it.

"Some people might think that he was weird, but what matters most was that he could continue to live and fight in this circus-like world of ours.", said Jessica Soho.

 

 

Chinoys

I just finished watching the movie "Ip Man". I didn't want to watch it ,but my son kept on calling me and insisted that I watch the movie. Well, he won. I watched it and it was a nice movie although we cannot understand it, since it was in Cantonese! Good thing it had a subtitle under it, whew!

Ip Man movie was the life story of a Chinese martial arts teacher who was well disciplined and loved by his disciples or students. He was an expert in "Wing Chun". As a matter of fact, he was the master of Bruce Lee.

Photo of Ip Man courtesy of TWK

Photo of Ip Man courtesy of times are priceless

I wish I knew how to read, write and understand Cantonese. There are so many Chinese schools in Manila and in other places in the Philippines but it was more expensive to study there, and so my parents opted to let me and my siblings study in Catholic schools.

For most people who have never gone to the Philipines, they did not know that the Chinese have been living in the Philippines way back even before the Spanish, Japanese, Americans and other nationalities have come in our country.

Aside from the Filipinos, the second largest group of people who live in the Philippines are the "Chinoys". Chinoy came from the word "chinese" and "pinoy". The Chinese in the Philippnes are known also as "Intsik", but the Chinoys didn't like it because it sounded like "insect".

I must say that all Filipinos have a mix blood of Spanish, Chinese, Americans, Indians, and all the nationalities you could think of. My mother's mother is Chinese and the mother of my father is Spanish. When I checked on the internet where our surname had first appeared, it said Mexico!
Some people mistook me for a Filipina-Mexican or Spanish-Filipina or Indian-Filipina since I have round eyes and fair complexion.

I don't think that there is a Filipino nowadays who could truly say that he has no foreign blood running through his veins.

 

 

My 14 Year Old Son's Abs

It took me some time to post here on my personal blog since I was too busy with all sorts of things.

I have to adjust myself with the things around me, since I am not used in living in a place which is quiet. As for my son, he made big adjustments also. He often asked me when we will be living in the city again. I told him that we now live in our own home, the home of my parents, so there was no way we would transfer again.

When we were still living in Manila, I only rented a one bedroom apartment. And my son and I could not move around. The only place that we stayed always was inside the small bedroom.

He asked me time and again to buy him a bike so he could get around the village. I said I will buy him. But then, he grew tired of waiting for me to buy, so what he did was that he saved money so he could buy his own bike. I was really amazed at my son.

Since my son was very bored in our new home, he also started exercising. He used the other bedroom as his gym. He set up a punching bag which he made! He just became so creative and matured! He got an old bag and stuffed old clothes inside of it. Almost everyday, he punched the "punching bag" for two hours. I asked him why was he exercising so hard. He told me he was not exercising. He called it a "training", and told me he wanted to be a boxer! No way! I would not permit him to be a boxer like Manny Pacquiao! If he would do that in the future, i.e. to become a boxer, I will be the one who will go inside the boxing ring and punch his opponents! He also taught me "Wing Chun", a Chinese martial arts which is a branch of Kung Fu. And would you believe that he learned it only from youtube?

See the body of my 14yo son below. He now has 6pack abs! We do not have gym equipments here at home but he managed to contour his body. He does not eat pork. Once in a while, he eats beef, but most of the time, we eat fish and wheat bread and rice.

I am so proud of my son. How in the world did he became like this? 14years ago, he was just a baby...