Can’t believe February is almost gone. It is the shortest month of the year. This month has been an uneventful one for me. The quiet days were spent gardening – replanting some bulbs, trimming the grass and buying vegetable seeds for germination.
One of the mulberry cuttings that our good neighbor gave me has sprouted new green leaves and the persimmon seeds I tried to plant in a pot are doing nicely. Such rewards despite the morning heat of the sun and the windy afternoons once in a while.
Summer is fast approaching and contrary to what some foreign visitors think that it is always summer here, we Filipinos consider the months of April and May as summer months. They are the hottest months of the year. We only have two seasons, the dry and the wet. The dry season usually starts in late November and ends in May the following year. The rainy season starts in June and lasts till October, sometimes we still experience typhoons by early December.
Ah yes, books of course.
According to Goodreads, I am done with 29% of the books I committed to read this year. I am still looking for those classic books. I have about three on my TBR list but discovering new books and authors always keeps me distracted. The allure of reading!
I bookmarked a particular blog here about reading books and authors all over the world. How I wish I could do that too. She has a list of all the books she has read arranged alphabetically by country. She included Philippine authors too. I recently finished a book about Guatemala and Mexico.
I don’t want to think about our political situation here but one can’t help seeing the news and the way our government is being run. It is sad that almost all of the appointees by the president belongs to his party and most of them don’t even have enough experience and expertise to do their job. It seems to be a case of “utang na loob” (a sense of obligation to return a favour owed). I am getting tired of all the jokes and the fake news. Trolls are everywhere. Imagine a president saying that the Philippines could be a province of China. My goodness, even if he says it is a joke, it is in bad taste. The Philippines is an independent nation, why would he even think of something like this? He is beholden to China, like a lap dog that just follows. Imagine even allowing China to co-own the West Philippine seas. What is happening to my country? This is a big question for me.
I hope the month of March would be more productive and lovelier than February.
Still hoping for the best. Welcome March 🙂
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