Memories with my Grandmother

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the movie that makes me cry every time I watch it. The movie revolves around Charlie and his grandfather's dream to enter Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. There comes the contest that Wonka created, he decided to put five golden tickets on one of his chocolate bar and the lucky person who will get one golden ticket would be having a chance to enter the chocolate factory. Charlie's father bought him a chocolate bar, unfortunately there is no ticket inside. His grandpa Joe gave him his last money to try again. (this scene made me cry) On the other day Charlie buy another chocolate bar, this time he got it right, many people want buy it for their children but he didn't sold it and he decided to chose his grandpa Joe to take the journey with him inside Wonka's factory. At the end of the story Charlie is about to choose between his family and in becoming Mr. Wonka's heir. He later chose his family and this scene made me cry once again. Like Charlie in the story I will choose my family over my dream, because they are the most important thing in the whole wide world, without them I would be nothing.

In connection to the story my grandmother is like grandpa Joe. She is very caring She took good care of me when my mother was not around. She always sleeps with me every 2 am and I will just woke up with her by my side. We always clean the house together, sit on her chair together, she's always telling me stories about her past, stories about her experiences during her childhood that easily captured my interests. Then when I was four years old I woke up without my grandmother by my side, then, I went to her room trying wake her up but she didn't rise up from her bed and she told me that she can't stand up and she can't move her legs. I was so worried that time because she is the only friend I have and I can't take to see her in a miserable situation. It was the same day that she became bedridden and she have to ride a wheelchair on her entire life.
                                        

From then on our lives changed, we haven't bond anymore because I became busy in doing school stuffs. She's still caring as ever one time when I will be having my field trip she gave me money and I am so touched because it is from her pension and she gave it to me that made me think that she always want what is the best for us, her grandchildren. When I was in grade one my grandmother gave me money for my good performance in class and every time I go to school she always give one peso that was used in the olden times. I was in grade six when my grandma passed away. It was September 9, 2006 when she accidentally fell from her bed and her head was badly hurt I was there and always checking on her. I always ask "Nanay how are you feeling?" "Nanay don't sleep huh?" It's not that I don't want her to take a nap, its just that I'm afraid that we might lose her. Then weeks have passed and she had an alzheimer she doesn't know us already and she's making me sing songs of goodbyes and every time she tells me that she's going out of the country I will immediately go to the bathroom and cry my heart out because it means that she will leave us already. One morning I woke up and everybody's in the living room then my uncle asked me to accompany him to fetch my grandmother's youngest sister, unfortunately she can't go with us. When we came back my grandmother was gone. I feel so sad because I wasn't able to say my goodbye to her. I know that the life journey I had with my grandmother was quite short, but it doesn't mean that I didn't learn something from her. I've learned so many things like I have to work hard for everything to be able to have a better life and learned to value the people who will help me on the process while achieving my goals in life. 

So Close yet So Far

“Cousins are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” - Ed Cunningham

Growing up as an only child is not easy. Not easy in a way that you've got no one to turn to when everything falls apart, you've got no one to share your secrets with, you've got no one to be your playmates when you’re bored, and lastly you've got no one to laugh at when unusual things happened. I could only do the things that I have mentioned when my cousins are around.

Me and my cousins have a very tied relationship when we were younger, we always play together and tell each other stories. Back then, I was very close with my cousins every time they spend their vecation at our house it was already expected that we will be playing different games such as chinese garter, rainbow rack, and hide and seek. I could still remember one time when we played hide and seek my cousin was holding a rake and he run after me and he was telling me that he is “kamatayan” he’s gonna kill me. I was so scared that time because what scared the hell out of me was people who pretend to be a ghost or a monster. I thought that they are real monsters who will get me and bring me to their world. After playing games with them we will have an unplanned picnic. We love to swim nonstop one of the happiest picnic we had was when my cousin brought his girlfriend and his sister told me that the name of the girl was “Lola Maybelyn” so Every time I call her I called her “Lola Maybelyn!” it was so weird that she never gets angry at us and she was teaching me how to swim and she always offer me a piggy back ride. When I was nine was the last time we had an unplanned picnic and that was the most memorable picnic for me because I almost got killed because of drowning thankfully there is my knight and shining armor to save me and it was non other than my mighty cousin. 

At this time my relationship with my cousins is not like before that we are so close, every time we have a small gathering it was like that we are a stranger from each other. We don’t talk to each other more often. Whenever they spend vecation at our house they are the one who will greet me first and I would not greet them back because I became shy when it comes to talking with family members. If I am about to describe our relationship status it was so close yet so far. We are very close in a way that we still sea each other every Holliday but we lack in communication that made us far from one another.

Clumsy Little Aera

Have you ever experienced to become clumsy in your entire life? Of course everybody experience this kind of thing when we are doing something for the very first time.

As for myself I consider clumsiness as my twin sister. I am clumsy in many ways. Clumsy when it comes to remembering the names of the places that I have recently visited, and clumsy in using web pages in the internet.

As far as I could still remember way back in first year high school, when I experienced being clumsy. It was the second day of school and our teacher was asking if we are familiar with the internet and my classmates said yes. As a typical teenage girl who grew up in the barrio, I didn't know about that thing. it is because I used to study in public elementary school where there is no computer units available to use by the students. Since I was just an elementary student that time my mother thought that I don't need computer. She will just buy it if I badly needed it.

So, when my teacher asked if we know the internet, I just go with the answers of my classmates. Then on of my classmate asked me if I have a friendster account. That was the time I was caught off guard. I don't know what to say. At the same day, I learned how to make my own friendster account with the help of my new found friend and with the help of my cousin. I could still remember his facial reaction of my cousin when he was teaching me the basics in using friendster. He was like mad because I'm always asking "Kuya how can I find theme for my account?" "Kuya how can I post photos?" "Kuya what shout I do? It is not loading" I think he was so pissed off with the way I am asking questions every minute. There come our computer class and our topic was the basics of microsoft word. My classmates were already pro in typing words and saving file in microsoft word . I was like lost in the middle of something. I even cried because I don't know what to do anymore. That incident taught me to try things out with patience, and learned that there is no such thing as too late. I may be late in learning those things when it comes to computer but my eagerness to learn made me computer literate person who can do hard tasks such as editing videos, installing application on my laptop and use different web pages responsibly.