Updates from our side of the planet...*

Dear family and friends – hello!
I have gotten out of blogging recently – sorry for the "blog-blackout". As you can see I am trying to shake procrastination off of me and get back into blogging as I realized it’s already been a month since we returned from Thailand. And when I was finally out of it, that’s when the internet connection went awry due to the road works in our area.

So what’s new, you might ask…
Nothing much for me. Let me rephrase that – nothing much that I am unhappy about. After returning from Thailand, we’re pretty much back to normal. Fresh from the Thailand course, Rob is back in the swing of things at the international school where he’s now handling the primary school English. With new teachers in the primary department’s roster, he hopes to implement the new plan for the English curriculum this year. Some teachers were not too welcoming about the changes that he is introducing, and surprisingly the ones clamoring are the Filipino teachers. They think my husband has no qualifications to be even teaching and so they are, sort of, waging a silent war against him. One particular teacher went to great lengths of spreading nasty things about him. Ano naman kaya ang mapapala niya? Teacher pa naman siya, and teachers are supposed to be paragons of virtues for students to emulate. I know who they are and my take is this – manigas na lang sila! My husband doesn’t talk much but he’s a silent worker. Unknown to them, he’s taken teaching courses long ago which made him qualified to teach. That’s all I can say.

Now let’s go to me.
Initially, I thought that my adventures as Sreisaat ended after I’d quit my job, but, I was proven wrong. My life now as a stay-at-home wife is quite an eye-opener, and, if I may add, I find myself in hilarious predicaments from time to time. I wish I had made a list and blog about these experiences but these are moments that I’d rather keep untold until the time comes that I am not too embarrassed to write about it.

Being a full-time housewife now, my concerns have changed. Instead of community work and dealing with research methodologies and project management, nowadays, I get busy with household management and all. Gone are the days of identifying research communication needs in the pilot communities, nowadays I identify our weekly needs at home – groceries, utilities to be paid and many others. Instead of balancing the project’s monthly budgets, I do our household’s monthly budget. One time I was in the supermarket, fumbling at my grocery list. I stood in the middle of the supermarket, frowning over my own notes when a familiar voice called my name. My former colleague was there, too, and I smiled at her. I was really pleased to see her. We talked for a while about her ongoing management difficulties in the projects she’s handling, and me, with my ups and downs on being a domestic diva. While she was talking, I couldn’t help but think about how the things she’s telling me sounded so familiar and yet now seemed so distant from me. Like they were from another time.

Anyways.
Despite the household work, I still find myself idle most of the times. That’s when I go out and see friends, do lunch, have coffee or go on market-tours *lol*. If not, I just stay at home with Max. She’s our pet dog and I’d like to think she makes attempts to talk to me by grunting, sneezing, winking, or tapping my knees. It amuses me so much that I sometimes find myself talking to her. *lol*. Ngek, nasisiraan na yata ako ng bait. Am I losing my sanity? Hope not. She’s just over two years old and so full of life. She takes her morning and evening walks regularly with Rob and I taking turns to walk her. She rarely goes out of the house to play with other dogs so she’s a bit unsettled whenever there are other dogs around. That’s one reason Rob picks her up and carries her around. She loves being picked up, mind you, and with her nose up in the air, she acts as if she’s the queen.

So we are all fine here.
I sometimes think about how unproductive I am but I am actually enjoying the bliss of idleness.