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Thursday, August 21, 2008

When I’m not busy making a living or searching for the diet pill that works, I am busy setting an example for my daughter. I believe that our children are closing watching what we do, and what a more fulfilling way to know you’re doing it right than to see your children emulating the values you want to impart. Like me, I’ve always believed that if it should be conserved, it must be conserved (and that’s not just regarding saving money). And regarding conserving resources, Princess Wendy has made me proud on many occasions:

PW: [when I asked her if she wanted another printout of the poem she was memorizing for school] No na Mama. I’m almost done memorizing. Isang paragraph na lang. Sayang ang paper. {No Mama. I’m almost done memorizing. Just one more paragraph. Let’s not waste paper.}

PW: No Mama, don’t buy that for me, I don’t need it. Sayang ang pera. {No, Mama. Don’t buy that for me, I don’t need it. Our money will just be wasted.}

PW: Mama, di mo sinara yung light when you went out! Sayang ang electricity! {Mama, you didn’t turn off the light when you ent out. Your’e wasting electricity.}

Not only in her words, but also in her actions, Wendy has gotten my “conservation” mentality. I see this when she takes measures to close the faucet properly or when she finishes her food on her plate. She may not know it, but she makes me proud through these “small things.”

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Time for retirement? I don’t think so

Yes, I know I said that I wouldn’t write about tennis anymore….but the “failure” of Roger Federer to capture the gold in this year’s Olympics makes one wonder whether it’s time for him to exchange his tennis rackets for, say, golf equipment. I mean, winning the gold was supposed to lift up his slumping career this year and give him the needed boost. But luck wasn’t on his side this time. Another loss….But then, as a colleague and I have discussed, the year is still long (we still have half a year), and things can still happen. For a great player like Federer, setbacks like these will only serve to challenge him more!

(By the way, he and his partner Wawrinka did win the gold in the men’s doubles in tennis)

(Photo courtesy of Chicago Tribune)

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