Posts Tagged “Tifa”
Before anything else, did you know that, aside from Oscar the Grouch, there are other grouches in Sesame Street? And according to this source, other grouches are named Grizzly the Grouch, Grundgetta Grunge and Osvaldo the Grouch. But, so far, in the entirety of my childish existence, I have only seen Oscar the Grouch – the most celebrated grouch of all time – and his grouch girlfriend, Grundgetta Grunge. Yes, knowing those two grouches are highly essential for your human existence lest you’ve been deprived of your childhood or simply getting a kick from aging – memory loss.
Here’s a YouTube video for a refresher. It features Oscar, Grundgetta and Spill O’Reilly. Although I must admit that I’ve also never heard of Spill O’Reilly until this.
Now back to the main story…
Once, I went to Divisoria to buy shirts for a print project when I came upon a store selling moderately-cute school supplies and other kiddie stuff. I saw a case of Winnie the Pooh crayons and colored pens being sold for P50.00 so I bought one for my kid (see photo above). One day, I saw her drawing shapes and other not-so-recognizable-images such as this…
I asked her what she was drawing because one of her sketches looked liked a potato (see the one next to the cat. Yeah, I drew that cat and good luck finding it. HAHAHA!). She told me that was a man.
The next day, she came up with another masterpiece and when asked what she drew that time, she came up with the following explanation…
I think I’ve been spamming this blog for the longest time so let me post something more personal today. Like how this blog is supposed to be – a personal blog. Let me start by exploiting Tifa’s wild imagination.
Yes, just like every normal child, Tifa possesses a very wild imagination. Or should I say, beyond normal imagination. Just like the fact that she possesses beyond normal intelligence.
One night, Tifa was playing and pretending she’s playing a flute. She placed this imaginary flute in her lips and her fingers in its imaginary holes and started blowing. While doing it, she danced along with the imaginary music created by her imaginary flute.
Haha! This post is being filled with too much “imaginary” words so let me share you how I tried to interrupt her imagination.
Being the nasty father, I pretended that I didn’t like the imaginary music she was playing so I snatched her imaginary flute and pretend to break (or broke?) it into pieces. Tifa started struggling to retrieve her imaginary flute from me. She was so angry, she was on the brink of crying.
So I returned the imaginary flute to her and my wife and I started laughing. Just like what was expected from her beyond normal imagination, she got too engrossed with her imaginary flute that she forgot it was just imaginary.
Photo source: Wapiano.com.au
On a Christmas Bazaar at the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, I saw potted herbs being sold at P75.00 each. Each pot contain herbs thrice (or more) the amount of those being sold in the groceries for P50.00 or higher per pack. Since I’ll be cooking chicken roast for Noche Buena, I asked my wife to buy the potted ones instead of those from the grocery. That way, I could still plant them and have them grow for future use. My wife told me that we could find cheaper ones at the back of the vegestable section of Mahogany Public Market.
True, we found more and more herbs at the Mahogany Market. The owner offered us four pots for only P100.00 so we took Thai basil, eucalyptus mint, peppermint and tarragon pots. I alredy paid for the four herbs but my wife still won’t stop bargaining so we were also able to get a pot of thyme for an extra.
That afternoon, I planted the four herbs in a wooden trough I prapared earlier. The thyme had to stay in its pot because I thought there is no room left in the trough.
One and a half weeks later, we were so excited to see that, despite the fact that I already used most of their leaves in preparing our Noche Buena, the small buds from both basil and tarragon had started to bloom. Flowers mean seeds and seeds mean more herbs. However, because the trough’s current location receives strong winds directly (we’re living on top of a hill in Tagaytay so you could imagine how strong the wind blows in here), most of the basil flower were already missing so I had to move to a more covered location for the flowers to survive until they could develop and produce matured seeds.
Today, I transfered the thyme in the plow so they could grow too and even planted a branch from the basil. I don’t know if they’ll grow that way or if I will have to create another phlough. We’ll see in a few more weeks.
