Monthly Archives: July 2018

Is it ever too late to fall in Love?

I thought that at 40, I would just accept the fact that I would never find someone anymore. I focused on my job and doing my tasks well. There is someone that I love but she has told me countless times that we can never be together. I thought it was because of our age because while I was 40, she was only 28. She has a lot of qualities that I admire so much in a woman. She has a lot of dreams and she would always like to achieve more. I tried to mend my broken heart by focusing on my nieces and nephews. I have accepted the fact that I will probably never have kids of my own.

One day, we had a team building seminar in the office. There is this one girl whom I have always found to be attractive. Through the team building, I realized just how funny she is. She is game for different things. She fell off the kayak and she did not mind one bit. She is unlike all of the other girls that I have met and fallen in love with before. She is the life of the party. People listen to her whenever she talks. She has a gift to tell stories and make people actually listen to what she has to say no matter how simple or extravagant her stories are.

She is younger than the girl I used to love, only 25. The 15-year age gap cannot be denied. I did not want her to feel that I like her but at the same time, whenever she would need help in the office, I cannot help but go out of my way just to be there for her. She is so naive that she did not think twice about my gestures until the day that I told her that I like her. I asked her out for coffee and she accepted. Things have been different ever since.

I would like to say that I believe that there is always someone out there for you no matter what your age is. I have some friends who are the same age or have been divorced and they usually go to a senior dating site to meet people their age. My preference is younger women but not too young that they would be young enough to be my daughter. The love-of-my-life may be young but she has the maturity of a 40-year old woman. I cannot help but listen to her and be enlightened about the things that I am going through.

The fact that I am already 40 means that I am ready to get married and I just recently proposed to her and she said yes. I cannot help but speculate about how our wedding is going to be. She has been in charge of all the preparations. She always wants me to be with her to decide on the various aspects of our wedding. People might think that her youth makes her after my money but she actually asked me to make a pre-nuptial agreement. This is her way to prove that she has the power and the determination to earn her own money. I cannot help but feel blessed to have her. I know that truly, I have never loved anyone like this, in my time.

Whether you would like to do over 50s dating or even older than that, just push through with it. I have the belief that everyone deserves to be loved.

50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome

I was moved to tears when I saw this video of moms teaching their kids to express their feelings through hand gestures accompanied by a love song…

I’m sharing the video from the original source on YouTube. Credit to the person who created the video.

The mums in this video and the dad who created it ( https://twitter.com/5ushi ) met online and got together to show the world just how ordinary and fun life with the condition is and how they “Wouldn’t Change a Thing”.

It features a carpool karaoke lip sync in support of World Down Syndrome Day 2018 and features 50 mums and their children singing along to Christina Perri’s multi-platinum selling track, “A Thousand Years”. — Wouldn’t Change a Thing

Heavenly Balbacua

One of the vloggers I’m following featured this Cebu-authentic ox-tail stew in one of her recent vlogs. I remember my bro-in-law’s famous (among the relatives) Balbacua.

He had a chance to cook and share to us this delicious soup before he flew to Brunei for a job opportunity.

I wasn’t able to ask him the ingredients of his specialty dish and how it is prepared, so I borrowed someone else’s recipe on the net (recipes.inthephilippines.net). I’m reposting the recipe here.

Ingredients

1 kg Oxtail (sliced)
1/2 kg Beef Skin
(1 Can Pork and Beans – BIL did not include this)
4 pieces saba (cooking bananas)
1 cup spring onion (minced)
black pepper
ginger (chopped)
1/2 kg peanut butter
water

Procedure

1) Assemble the oxtail, beef skin, chopped ginger in stockpot. Pour around 5 cups of water. Add blackpepper. Bring to boil.
2) When the oxtail and beef skin are tender, add the saba, peanut butter, and the pork and beans. Let simmer.
3) Season to taste.
4) Garnish with minced spring onion before serving.