Category: Personal

Giving Birth at Chinese General Hospital in the Philippines

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Once a woman learned that she is pregnant, one of the many things that she needs to decide on is the place or hospital where she will give birth. There are a lot of things to consider when choosing the right place, such as the facilities and location of the hospital, costs of the maternity package, the doctor who will perform the delivery of the baby and I think the most important is how comfortable you are giving birth at that place. Continue reading “Giving Birth at Chinese General Hospital in the Philippines” →

Motherhood | My 9 Month Pregnancy Journey

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Seven years have passed since I gave birth to Matteo, our first born baby. Over those years, a lot of people thought that we were having issues and difficulties in getting pregnant again, but the truth is, I was not ready emotionally and I was so afraid that the same thing might happen to our next baby. Last year, I must admit that I was pressured because I felt that my time is ticking, I am on my 30s and most of my married friends already have babies, some of them even have two. Whenever I see them playing with their kids, I knew then that I wanted to have one. I remembered praying to God, telling Him to be in control of everything. If having a baby is part of His plans for us, then let it be, but if not, we will accept whatever it is that He has in store for us. 

Then, just before 2017 came to its end, we received one of the greatest blessings, I am pregnant and the monthly journey towards motherhood began.  Continue reading “Motherhood | My 9 Month Pregnancy Journey” →

Capture Memories with Fujifilm’s X-T100 and SP-2 Printer

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Capturing memories through photography has always been essential to most of us. Whether our purpose is for safekeeping, for documenting our daily lives or for sharing to our social media accounts, it is vital to have a good camera handy to keep us company to our day to day activities and one that will give us a picture-perfect result.  Continue reading “Capture Memories with Fujifilm’s X-T100 and SP-2 Printer” →

Observing Ramadan | What I Learned from Living in a Muslim Country?

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Coming from a country where most of the people are Catholic, I have a lot of questions regarding Islam’s culture and tradition when I first arrived here in Qatar, and some of those were regarding the celebration of this holy month that they call Ramadan. Over the years of staying here, I came to learn and understand their ways in observing this event. That is why on this post, I will try to answer some questions that you may have which may be similar from those that I have in mind before; and these are all based on my personal observations and experiences for the past 4 years of living here in Qatar.  Continue reading “Observing Ramadan | What I Learned from Living in a Muslim Country?” →

Spreading Kindness on My First Instameet | Worldwide Instameet 15 | Souq Waqif and Doha Marriott Hotel

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KINDNESS. According to Google, it is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Each of us may have our own meaning and interpretation about this word since it is very easy to define. But this simple word, if we understand it correctly and done it whole-heartedly, may have a long lasting and life changing effect to other people.  Continue reading “Spreading Kindness on My First Instameet | Worldwide Instameet 15 | Souq Waqif and Doha Marriott Hotel” →

Appreciating Art | Picasso and Giacometti in Qatar

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. – Pablo Picasso

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I wont know what it is until I succeed in doing it. – Alberto Giacometti 

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