Praise the Lord, Betina is six years old!

Last Friday was Betina's birthday. She turned six. The four of them, Betina, Chloe and dad Bird and mum Chi went here yesterday and brought yema cake which I forgot to photograph. I cooked pancit bihon or fine Chinese rice noodles mixed with bits of carrots, cabbage, celery and chicken.

I was able to catch Beti and Oe on video while they were playing. Beti gave a very impressive dance performance on my bed. I even took a video of Beti drawing on the new sketch pad I gave her. Sadly the programs in my pc will not cooperate with me and won't play the video when I click play. As Ellen would say, "we need a teen-ager here" to fix the techie problem.

My son Bird lent me two dvd's of foreign language films, both films from Afghanistan. One is titled The Kite Runner and the other Osama. They were about the war and the Taliban. They were sad movies. While watching the films, I came to thinking- so these are the Muslim descendants of Ishmael. I also remembered what my eldest sister explained to me about being very careful to choose to obey and do God's will for our lives, to wait... so that we will avoid getting into an Ishmaelite situation.

Tomorrow I will go to Divisoria to buy additional fabric for the gowns I'm making. I hope the mass transport strike threat will not affect the buses going to Divisoria. Tomorrow will be SONA, too. Our lady president will deliver her Sad State of the Nation Adress. Sad because there's oil price hike every week, rice is now 40 a kilo from the original 30 a kilo, the coast guards were still trying to recover the decaying bodies from the sunken MV Princess of the Stars, the Catholic Church was rejecting the Reproductive Health Bill congress was trying to pass in a desperate effort to remedy the bursting 90 million Philippine population.

Although tomorrow I will go about my own business concerns while my militant countrymen, the laborers and farmers will gather to protest the SONA show, I will still do my part. That is I will pray about the situation. God is not sleeping on the job. He knows our greater good.