Last week, I Googled Oh my buhay and to my surprise I found OMB reader, Izza Lambino’s account of our personal encounter. She’s one of the winners of the soaps from Turkey. It just happened that her address is near ours and on that day, my driver made a wrong turn which brought us in front of their village’s gate. So I decided to drop-off the soap myself.
It’s been almost a year and I didn’t know that she wrote about it.
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Imported from Izza’s post:
Oh My Buhay Experience
I spend most of my time in front of the computer, tinkering with my phone, or flipping through my iPad. I love going online. Everybody knows that. I love reading blogs, specially funny ones. I love bloggers who have no pretensions; just share their daily activities, no big words or carefully constructed sentences, just plain candid.
I don’t really remember how I stumbled upon Annie Tan-Yee’s blog, Oh My Buhay (I think I was researching on a restaurant or something). But ever since I read that first entry, I was hooked. She has got to be the funniest, most adorable blogger I know. A loving wife, mom of two, and a business woman. PLUS, like me, she also wears dasters at home! I told Rach about my little obsession and she got hooked as well. We love reading about her travels, bargains, and stories about ipis and maids. Gaaah! I love her.
Imagine my excitement when she held a little contest for her readers. She wanted to give away olive oil soaps from her trip to Turkey, and all we had to do was like her page! I liked her page instantly.
Then one day, I opened my browser and found this:
I won!! I never win anything! I was jumping up and down! Sure she mispelled my name but who cares?? That’s me!! She instructed us WINNERS to email her our addresses. Of course I wasn’t just going to email her my address. I want to tell her so much more. I told her that Rach and I were HUUUGE fans, etc!
I wasn’t sure when my prize would arrive, but I forgot all about it because I was preoccupied with my dad’s condition. He was still in the hospital recovering from his stroke.
Then one day something totally unexpected happened.
Nic and I had just come home from the hospital. I was watching TV and Nic was fixing the bird bath in the garden, when I looked out the window and there she was!! Oh My Buhay in the flesh! She was in her car but her window was rolled down. Her driver was walking to our house with my prize. BUT I wasn’t going to let her leave without a picture. I started screaming and jumping up and down like a lunatic. I screamed, “Wait! Wait!” I got out of our house and approached her while muttering “OMG OMG OMG!”
She got out of her car and greeted me. We talked for a while, and I told her how much I love her and her stories. That I will probably cry the way she did when I bring my son to the airport for a 2-week vacation. Teehee. I hope she didn’t find me too creepy.
Thank you Ms. Annie! You are my cup of coffee in the morning! Never stop blogging and more power to you!
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Thank you Izza. I appreciate everything that you said.
I hope to see you again soon. Kiss your baby for me. Mwah!
hi miss annie! what a coincidence you posting this today! it’s actually izza’s birthday today!
i have a some similar experience like her, I can’t remember how I found and accidentally read your blog. When I first read it, I really enjoyed reading stories and watching videos that made me smile and even laugh, and when you said that you are going to raffle T shirt (Batanes) to your readers, I just message you not expecting to win and as I have said hoping to be one of the winners. And luckily I won and I received the T shirt trough JRS express. Although its size is very big for me, still i am very happy and thankful. And would you believe, I won again the second time with Bicol T shirt and I received it too. Thank you Ms. Annie because you really keep your promise. I also told my daughter about you and like her she is also now reading and following your blogs. So like what Izza told you, never stop blogging and more power to you! I know by now, you have a huge fans not only here in Binangonan, but also in the Philippines or even in foreign land. And I am one of them. You are an inspiration in some ways!!!
Haha! Thanks, Ms. Annie! I never share that blog to anyone, and I can’t believe you found it. So happy but very embarrassed! Hahaha! I’ll never hear the end of it from my friends and family. But anyway, this was a pleasant birthday greeting. Kissed my baby for you, too. -Izza
it’s her birthday today Ms. Annie!
How nice na yung agiging totoong tao niyo Ma’am Annie nakakapag pasaya ng maraming tao.