| Random.Currently getting into weblogging again. Is that even a word? Well, anyways, yeah, I am getting back into letting my fingers do the talking and let my feelings out. I've been holding all of it for a long time and now I feel like exposing my writing to the world again. I think I'm going to be addicted to Xanga for a while instead of Myspace. Facebooks kinda dead to me at the moment. I want to get out of work already! 10 more minutes. Each minutes feel much farther from the last. The anticipation is rendering! AHH! [Sighs].
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| "A letter to my daughter"Since I am lazy to cut and paste my weblog entry on myspace, I will re-direct you to it. It's a real good story I read in a book. It's basically a father giving his daughter advice as to how to be a strong woman and how to pick boys. It's not as bad as I'm describing it but once you read it, you'll be touched. Or, at least I was. Click here to re-direct please :]. For those who care I mean. |
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| Traditions.I was on my way to work when I tuned in on Star 101.9's 2 host, Hudson and Scottie B. They were talking about a distressed mother and listener of the station mentioned when her daughter was getting married. The reason why she was distressed was because her daughter expected her to pay for the wedding. In most traditions, it's the bride's family who pays for the wedding. People called and some were very in-between about the topic. You see, people have a tendency to follow traditions because it's what makes us comfortable. So, some callers say that the mother should just suck it up and pay for it. Now, the daughter is 32 years old, both her and the husband went to college, has HIGH paying jobs and lived together for the past 2 years prior to the marriage. So...why would she mention tradition if what she's doing clearly isn't tradition? On the other side of the spectrum, one caller said that she and her husband paid EVERY dime on their own wedding, including the planning, invitations, you name it. One caller I thought was the most interesting one. He called saying that everyone within the family can contribute. For example, grandma can sew the wedding gown, aunty and uncle can prepare the food, cousins can help decorate, etc. I think that sounds like a Filipino tradition, don't you think?  But I liked it and it's fair. I think I'll do that for my wedding :]. So what's your opinion on that?
And don't forget the place you have to get married in. Personally, I want to marry in the church. Problem is, I never completed my second communion AND you have to get permission from the church to get married -_-'. That's the problem with being Catholic...so many rules. Sadly, the boyfriend doesn't want to marry inside the church because for one thing, he has to convert to being Catholic, second, he hates how the Catholics killed people in the 17th-18th century to gain power. And thirdly, he thinks that church's are for places that holds funerals and masses. He says "I don't want to get married where people do funerals. It's a happy day, not a day where you have to think about where funerals are being held." or something along those lines but you get the point.
So now I had a meaningful entry.
BTW, I have a weird question to ask: What are Filipinos considered? Asian or Pacific Islander? I've always heard this controversy but it never gets settled. I think we're Asian but scientists say we're Pacific Islander. Wtf?  . Help me out here!
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