De la Cruz-Busto: Thoughts on getting older
IN A week's, I will be 39 years old. When I am by my lonesome, I think about how things would be before turning 40. I feel I am already doing things that I think people turning older do. I know I am getting old because of the things that I do now that I do not normally do when I was younger.
De la Cruz-Busto: Discovering little known facts
I AM usually at home reading autobiographies and books of facts. In fact, these mostly compose my reading collection. I am just so drawn with facts and non-fiction, and those that tell its readers on the How’s, Why’s, What’s, When’s and Where’s of life, thus, my interest in these books.
...De la Cruz-Busto: Wasted
I WOULD have wanted a sequel to the article I wrote last week because a lot of friends suggested more fun and cheap finds that I had not heard of when my family and I had vacation in Davao last month.
Instead, I felt a contrasting necessity to write my thoughts on young people who...
De la Cruz-Busto: Inexpensive finds in Davao
SINCE my mother suffered a massive stroke almost two years ago, my family’s trips to Davao have become frequent. We would take turns in coming home to somehow perk up our mother’s spirits and let her feel that she is loved even if she could hardly express any emotion.
De La Cruz-Busto: One year after
JUST as I was composing my thoughts to write about what has happened to my mother and to our family after the biggest challenge that struck our family a year ago, fortuitously, I was able to watch a news feature of a miracle. A former government weather bureau spokesperson related that his wife...
Busto: Loving life
TWO days ago, I celebrated my 38th birthday. While I feel old being two years shy of being 40, I could not thank God enough for giving me another year (and hopefully more years) to appreciate how beautiful it is to live life. I have always prayed for a long life so I may be able to enjoy being...
Cruz-Busto: Copycat
IN MY disgust a few days ago, I vented my ire and posted on my Facebook (FB) wall: "you know you've arrived when people literally copy your business, even those you thought are your friends." Being the most popular social networking site among people today, a number of my FB friends sent their...
Cruz-Busto: Rediscovering Davao
FOR six days in December last year, I was in Davao with my eight-year-old son. My husband could not join us because he had flights lined up before and after Christmas Day. So, it was just me and my son who travelled to spend Christmas in Davao. The last time we spent the Christmas holiday in...
De la Cruz-Busto: Sunshine after the storm
I WAS overjoyed when I learned that my father won in the recent barangay elections as one of the lucky seven kagawad in our barangay. Even if he did not have any of us as immediate family members around to help him when he hit the campaign trail, he was victorious.
We learned about it...
Busto: Cruel intentions
ONE would think that antagonists and villains can only be seen in movies and telenovelas but sometimes they are actually real life characters. Just a few weeks ago, the entire nation saw this cop in a video torturing a lawbreaker to admit a criminal offense. Whether the suspect actually...
De la Cruz-Busto: About school
I HAVE several reasons to complain about things at my son's school here in Manila, which is located in a Makati village.
Busto: Facing the Giants
IN THE course of my schooling, which ended a couple of weeks ago, our class had about a few films to write a review on and among the films that we reviewed was an inspirational one entitled: Facing th
Busto: Getting sober with Padre Pio
AFTER several attempts to go to the Philippine Centre for Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, I was finally able to go there a few days ago.
De la Cruz-Busto: Progress
JUST a few days ago, I graduated from school again. Unlike graduating from grade school through college, this time, was not as festive.
De la Cruz-Busto: Getting by
WHEN we decided to subject our mother to surgery, a number of friends and relatives were not as supportive.
Busto: Realizations
WHEN my mother had another major stroke two months ago, I realized how life can be unpredictable. That no one ever knows what would happen next.
De la Cruz-Busto: Miracles happen
THE past two months have been extremely difficult for our family that is why I have not written articles. My mother had a seizure which I later learned was another major stroke.
Cruz-Busto: Taking part in history
IF IT were not for my former boss, who is among the presidential candidates for this year's elections, I would not have queued for three hours to vote for him as well as for others running for differe
De la Cruz-Busto: Student episodes
THANK goodness, time flies so fast.
Cruz-Busto: Student life
IT HAS been 12 years since I last considered myself a full time and regular student.
Busto: Another sad story
ONLY into my second week of classes, I have already logged a number of kilometer runs, several push-ups and sit-ups for the physical requirements of my course that runs for 15 weeks more.
Busto: Anticipation
WHAT a great way to celebrate Women’s Month with Kathryn Bigelow making de history at the Oscar’s when she won the Best Director award, becoming the first woman to hold such a distinction; and the
De la Cruz-Busto: Helpless
IF THERE is one battle cry that fits people with very limited resources these days, it would be that of one pharmaceutical company that says: bawal ang magkasakit.”
Busto: Unstable
OVER my birthday dinner two weeks ago, my brother in law told me that a number of our former colleagues in the service were at risk of losing their jobs in an airline company.
Busto: Beliefs, folklore, and superstitions
I WAS in a bookshop looking for a craft book when I chanced upon a less than hundred page book on the Filipinos’ list of beliefs, folklore and superstitions whatever one may want to call it, entitle
