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KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!

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2007, according to our Chinese friends is the year of The Fire Pig. And as usual different beliefs proliferate in every conversation, in the mass media and in every Filipino Feng Shui believers, everything has to change to be able to adjust with the Yin and Yang balance required by the Fire Pig year. For those who don't know if their birthday were covered by the Year of the Pig here's what I've researched that could guide us to what really is with this year and how it will affects our lives. Year of the Fire Pig ( 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995 and 2007) Zodiac: Courageous, gallant, courteous, innocent, gullible, naive, peace loving, defenseless, trustful, honest, correct, pure, sincere, very deveoted, sensitive, indulgent, sensual, cheerful, generous, tolerant, hates quarrels, fortunate and not good in handling money but can be a perfect friend. So, let's go back to Feng Shui, and have us study how it evolves into a Chinese concept. According to some write ...

Remembering my Mom

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I was 23 years old then, fresh after college when my mom dies. She has a cervical cance r and was predicted 8 months of life when she was first diagnosed. It was malignant and as they say only miracle can spare her. At my tender age..I know she gonna die... what can I do... who could help us save her... no one . We are hopeless, I need to be strong and only prayers can make me stand against the pain I have felt as I see my mother anguished in pain. She undergone many things, from chemotherapy up to the last quack doctors or " albularyo " we could find just to keep her. During her last months, she requested to be transferred to her hometown in Baao, Camarines Sur —an adjacent municipality next to ours. I don't know why she made that decision. Maybe because she wanted to get a closer place for her visitors who lived in Baao at the same time she likes within the comfort of my aging "lola." During the time of her confinement here, she become strong and cheerful....