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I have a lot of vacation leaves remaining and I’m planning to use it all up by the end of the year. It’s not convertible to cash and can’t be carried over next year either. We want to go to Baguio and experience the cold weather. I can still remember when Papa first brought us there. I think I’m about 9 then. I love it because it seems like we’re no longer in the Philippines. The hotel that we stayed has a very nice fireplace and I was drawn to the warmth and the beauty of the flickering fire.

I’ve read that gas logs on fireplaces have now been replaced by fire glass. The advantage is that it burns cleaner and more efficiently than conventional gas logs. It does not emit toxic fumes either. This is good because I have asthma and smoke is one of my triggers.

I hope we can go there this December. We would also like B.boy to experience riding a horse.

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The movie Kasal Kasali Kasalo was shown today at channel 2 and we were able to catch it while munching our lunch. We’ve heard good reviews about it but we never got to see it in big screen. It’s difficult to find time watching a movie when you have a little child.

Well, it was really good and M0rn1ng and I could relate in much of the dialogues. It was really realistic. I’ll let you in a secret. The first few months of our marriage were horrible. We (?) or maybe it’s just me that didn’t expect it to turn up that way. Now I realize that it’s just but normal having been raised up in 2 extremely different households. I discovered after the wedding that some of my husband’s ways are annoying. That’s because we are brought up differently. I should have known and accepted that fact instead of pushing my ways to M0rn1ng. What Judy Ann’s dad said in the movie was really wise. He said that we marry the person not to change them but to love them as they are. It hit the mark, bull’s eye. Hahaha!

We’ve been married for almost three years now and I say I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned to love him, as what he is and not try to mold him to what I think is ideal. I’ve also learned to disagree without being disagreeable and work out our differences in a calm way.

True, marriage is a union of 2 imperfect individuals but it is the love between us that makes it perfect. It forgoes shortcomings and forgives faults. And as the years unfold, I’ve seen love transform. From the fiery passion on the first two years of our relationship to being self-sacrificing and being always there when we had a child. I am sure our love is enough to last a lifetime. I love my husband and I will always will.

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