On having a baby
After almost two years of being married we are naturally bombarded with questions such as
“When is the baby coming?”
“Are you already expecting?”
“No? So when do you plan do you plan on having a baby?”
“Sorry but do you have fertility problems?”
“Don’t you ever like to have babies?”
I always answer these questions politely although sometimes they are [...]
Looking Forward to Christmas
Four weeks from now we will be heading to Austria for our Christmas holiday. That could only mean massive shopping for gifts. I asked my husband’s relatives if they could send us their Christmas list so we could save time thinking what to buy but I don’t think they’d be giving it to us. Maybe [...]
Our Simple Anniversary
We celebrated our one year of being married together on a plane. Yep. I was so angry at Marcus when he unthinkingly booked our flights from Vienna to Shanghai on the evening of October 12 (GMT +1:00) so technically we were on air when October 13 happened.
So I didn’t expect too much from the beginning. [...]
Knowing your Roots
How cool it is that the net allows us to get in touch with old friends, classmates, and acquaintances. With the help of networking sites, we are once again in contact with people whom we thought won’t be crossing our paths again. But here is something cooler that networking communities.
Ancestry.com is a free genealogy that [...]
Having a Baby
I don’t know if you’ve heard the news about hundreds of babies in China dying because of consuming a certain milk formula. This news really shook me and made me think again about having a baby while we are here. Initially, we agreed to wait two years after our wedding for a baby and that [...]
Why Did You Marry Me?
One Sunday morning while stuffing ourselves with Bretzel and Weißwurst dipped in sweet mustard, I asked Marcus a question just so there’s something to talk about other than how lucky we are to be able to get a Bretzel and Weißwurst in China.
Vienna: Schatzi, Why did you marry me?
Marcus: Because I thought you were rich?
Vienna: [...]
Home Alone
It’s utterly boring here. Marcus is away in a business trip for a week or two and it sucks. The longest time we haven´t seen each other since we were married was I think 10 days. That was when I went home to the Philippines earlier than him so I can spend longer time with [...]
Making a Home
It’s been almost two months since we moved in here in Shanghai and almost everything about this city is still new for us. It’s still a place far away from our families and friends and we still need a few more months until we can call this place “home” but we are working on it [...]
Nice Moment with my In-laws
A year ago we made this video and I just saw it recently when Marcus and I went through our collection of video cassette tapes waiting to be edited. It’s a candid video of me singing while my in-laws play. My father-in-law got an accident and lost three fingers on his right hand a few [...]
Call Time
Just like any other Pinoy, I owned a cell phone (CP) when I was still in the Philippines. But unlike any other Pinoy, I don’t like it that much. Actually, the first CP I bought was not for me but for my baby brother which I gave him as Christmas gift. The second CP I [...]
