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Tomorrow, the faithful will celebrate Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday in the modern and commercialized Philippines mean going on egg hunting and having Easter Sunday parties. Hey, no offense meant, this is a great family bonding activity after church obligations have been fulfilled.

Easter Sunday is so much more than just egg hunting.

For vacationers, this day means they go back to work the next day, dealing with bosses and clients, reading insurance blogs or whatever it is that they do to earn a living.

When I was young we used to go to the beach for Easter Sunday celebration where the pastor talks about the significance of Easter Sunday. We’d go egg hunting after the service, before taking a plunge in the cool waters of the almost uninhabited beach which by now I am sure is full of vacationers.

Sometimes the eggs can’t be eaten because these have been buried in sand and well, has been sandy all over 🙁

Sometimes one would get “lucky” and sit on a hidden egg. No need to go dig in the sand anymore, yipee!

I miss those times when things were simpler.

I gotta go to sleep now for we have an early morning church obligation. I hope the kids would be able wake up 🙂

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I plan to do general cleaning of the house this summer and discard things that haven’t been used for the longest time: clothes, toys, books, old magazines and even old chunky computers that hubby seems to have been attached to.

I want to discard the eldest daughter’s old notebooks too but hubby won’t hear of it. So there, I need a lot of containers for these things, like printed boxes, plastic containers (the ones with small wheels) and more clear plastic to put some of the clothes in.

I hope to muster enough willpower to start these Herculean tasks rather than fight annoying zombies wanting to eat my brains 😀

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In the USA: The House passed on Sunday the Senate’s health care reform bill and a package of measures meant to reconcile differences between the Senate bill and the one it passed last year. Click here to read more.

Why am I interested in this topic when I am half a world away?

A few weeks from today, this country will be having its 2010 Philippine national election. Everyone’s talking about “change“, “reform“, being intelligent voters, computerization of manual voting and counting system as well as voting for the right person who represents the values you hold dear.

We have to admit though, election/campaign time is one of the times we hear what we want to hear, we are promised what we think we deserve and yes, we live in a dreamland, thinking of promised land beyond the campaign period.

Improved health care is one of the more obvious choice of promises being made to be delivered after being  elected.

One of my criteria in choosing the candidate I will vote for would be the one who will prioritize population control.

I hope these priorities will become a reality and not just promises sworn on thin air.

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Sad news I heard today, a friend’s mother-in-law has just been diagnosed with a stage 3 colon cancer.

A few weeks ago, a friend wrote an informative article about colorectal cancer. I have read it of course but has not taken the important details to heart. But now, I am reading it again and paying attention .

For someone who has been through an open choly years ago, I feel I have a lot of improvement to do regarding my lifestyle especially my diet.

A colon cleanse is also being considered among other things.

There may or may not be a connection with the procedure I went through and this condition but then again, now is always the right time to try to live a more healthy lifestyle, isn’t it?

Have you started a lifestyle change?

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A while ago, I was reading “The Lean Years” in New York Times. I agree that a lot of men are putting less effort in acquiring education and skills. It is as if they have been complacent with their position and content about just making enough to cover the basic needs their families need.

There was this article that I read stating that women nowadays have more skills, get higher educational attainment and therefore earn more than men. Getting a degree and/or studying further is not that difficult these days since one can get accredited online degrees to suit one’s needs and position.

It has even came to a point that for some one-income families, it is the woman who is in the workplace and the man who stays at home.

I know of two three households doing that though it doesn’t bother me: the gender reversal of pre-conceived roles that women stay at home while the men go to work to earn for the family.

I say whatever is more practical and beneficial then families should go for it.

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