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Dear Senator Trillanes,  Reading over my Twitter timeline earlier this morning, you said that technicalities must be set aside in order to be able to seek out the truth.  That sent me asking, WHAT DID YOU SAY? As a senator of the Republic of the Philippines, I would have thought that although you are not a lawyer, you must have respect for the law.  I agree, we all are in the quest for truth and accountability.  Who would not want to know the truth?  Every person is always in search for the truth.   However, I believe that this quest for truth must have respect for the rules of law which have been established in the first place.  People cannot just go on a fishing expedition.  For example, rules on evidence are there not in order to suppress the truth but in order to aid litigators seek out the truth.  Flexibility may be used during the impeachment trial but these rules of evidence cannot be disregarded, as what I believe you are s...

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It was when I finally had kids that I realized that even if they come from the same parents, they would always have different personalities. Caleb is the family clown. He has made us laugh a countless number of times with his antics. He is a happy baby and he has a bubbly personality. Just now, when we attended the 1st birthday party of my niece, he joined an on-going pictorial of adults. He was not part of the pictorial nor was he familiar with the adults- except of course my broter and his wife. Everybody just laughed. Calix, on the other hand, is the more serious and emotional one. He cries easily and gets sad easily. I told him earlier that if we played during the party, he would get the Toy Story magnetic set as his prize. So he gamely played bring me. But when he received his prize, his face was sad and there were tears on his eyes. I asked him why and he said "Buzz Lightyear." He expected to get the Toy Story set. So I had to ask my brother if we could change his p...

Time indeed flies fast.  They're almost 3.  My friends often tell me how much they admire me for being able to take care of twins and I often answer back, I admire mothers- be it of singletons or of multiples.  Cheers to all the mothers out there!  Caleb at 0 months old.. Calix at 0 months old. Caleb and Calix at 2! Now almost 3!

I never did quite understand what being a mother means.  They say you only understand what it is to be a mother when you have finally become one. My twin boys are now turning 3 years old this March.  Time indeed flies too fast.  I remember the time when I was pregnant with them and only discovered that I had twins when I was 5 months pregnant.  I was not even due for an ultrasound yet but my ob-gyne was quite worried why my stomach was too huge.  She even went as far as telling me to stop drinking Anmum, my drink of choice back then (apart from Calamansi juice!).  Seeing both of them on the screen and feeling them move were emotional experiences for me.  Seeing their hands on the contours of my tummy was even more emotional and amazing.  That's when I understood how amazing it is to be a mother. Knowing I had twins made my pregnancy actually more difficult.  I was on bed rest from 6 months onwards, and prohibited from walking around that ...

I wanted to write and maintain a blog but didn't quite know what to write about.  I've experimented with blogs since last year- made a blog, maintained it for a while, and then eventually deleting it.  Something back then was quite not right.  I wanted to write a blog with an identity. So here goes another attempt at blogging.  A new idea just clicked this morning.  So this is now a blog about my foray and adventures into marriage and motherhood, a partial glimpse of our lives as a family, and the experiences of having children.  It's actually an attempt to write about life and love, and what matters most for me. Cheers!