Hi there!
I actually ran across your blog while googling something about balikbayan items from Manila at work. I read a couple of entries and piqued my interest. I’m actually writing this on my downtime at work in San Francisco. I find your posts amusing, heartfelt, compelling (about your stealing house help) and interesting, to say the least. I’ve lived here since 1984 and moved from Manila to the SF Bay Area when I was 10 years old. I barely speak any Tagalog but just enought to get me by. Thanks for sharing intimate pieces of your every day life.
Anyway, I am looking forward to more blog entries by you in the coming future.
Your new follower,
Mika
awe! i’m so humbled by this. a post dedicated to me? i’m flattered. mika’s actually my nickname. my full birthname is ‘maria karissa’ – i know, so filipino, right? lol my family and relatives call me ‘marika’ for short; with my friends, ‘mika’ just stuck.
i am a little homesick. i was supposed to fly out to manila to be with my mom’s family since it’s my lola’s 85th birthday today. all of my grandmother’s children are there excluding me and two brothers (her eldest grandkids). saw them on skype earlier. it’s 9:12pm here, 10/18. can you believe that i haven’t been back to manila in 18 years?
anyway, i hope you have a wonderful and sterling week.
read from you later,
mika
please add me as one of your new followers/readers.
alam mo bang i am still reading your blog at this very hour? haha.
you are so down to earth kahit ang hogia mo na!
pag dumaan ka ng binondo, sagot ko lunch mo! 🙂
Hi, what do you mean by “HOGIA”?