A View in Negros

My Tito Gigi is a nature photographer. He took this picture when he visited one of the mountain sides of Patag, Silay City, Negros Occidental in 2007. He said that this place is cool as there is always fog.

the sun
keeps on peeping
at the lonely tree

Melchor F. Cichon

Rock

My Tatay is a wrestling fanatic.

So I often see those wrestlers fighting each other.

One of them is Rock.

Rock is one of the WWE superstars.

And when he goes to the ring, he usually gives this sign (see my picture, 2007).

My Latest Pictures

This morning, my Tito JJ came home from Bacolod.

And he took me some pictures:

Here is one of them.

This was taken at home near our Flowerhorn.

I Promise

Last Night I had a very memorable moment with my Nanay.

Nanay and Tatay were watching a teleserye over ABS-CBN.

And since they were not attending to me, I kept on putting off the tv.

Nanay told me that she would give me leche flan if I would not put off the tv.

And since I really like to eat this food, I came near to her. But she ignored me.

Then Tatay told me to raise my right hand and told me to follow him.

"I promise not to put off the tv."

After saying this, I would ask my Nanay if she had heard me.

But mother would not answer me.

So I told my Tatay to say "I promise".

So we did it five times.

Each time, I would ask my Nanay if she had heard me.

Finally, she said yes.

And she gave me the leche flan.

I ate it with gusto.

But Nanay and Tatay had a surprise.

I went back to the tv and put it off again.

Nanay told Tatay: " If I have ten more of this kind of apo, my hair would turn white so soon."

But not only that.

Because I still had another surprise to them.

I played in our sopa.

While I was playing, the remote control of our tv fell down on the floor.

It broke down.

Then I got out the rubber part of it.

Tatay got the remote control from me and tried to fix it.

Incidentally, the whole thing locked close.

But the rubber part of it was not put inside the remote control.

And Tatay could not open it.

So for whole day today we had no remote control.

It was fixed when Tatay phoned my Tito Dodong who is now in Makati.

Tonight, I did not put off the tv because Tatay would say again to me: "I promise not to put off the tv."

I felt ashame.

Me and My Mommy

Here is my other picture with my Mommy.

I am wearing my new dress.

Rock Sign

My Tito Gigi came home today from Antique and he took me some pictures.

Here is one of them.

Gulay

Whenever I see and hear the advertisement of knor wherein children sing and dance, I follow them. I sing and dance although I could not correctly pronounce the lyrics.

My tito Gigi came home today and he took me a picture.

Here it is.

I Am Studying Now

I attended my first day in school at Balaybalay Learning Center in the U.P. in the Visayas in Iloilo City this morning.

I enjoyed in my first day of school.

Before we entered our classroom, our teacher told us to remove our shoes and socks.

We were asked to put on our socks and shoes before we went home.

While my classmates could not wear their socks and shoes alone, I could.

I have been doing this months ago because I have wanted to do things alone.

I ask help only when I know I cannot do it myself.

There were nine of us in the class, three boys and six girls.

Two of my classmates cried when their parents left them in our classroom. I did not.

I did not quarrel with my classmates. I played with them.

We were taught how to shake hands with my classmates.

My Tito Popoy accompanied me to school. He also accompanied me home after one and a half hour of schooling--actually playing only with my teacher and my classmates.

Tito Popoy is my Uncle, the younger brother of my Mommy.

Tomorrow, I will go to school again.