Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

Global Election: Flying Voters Are Welcone

FIRST GLOBAL ELECTION: WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

Take action
Join the movement
Switch off on Saturday for an hour, local time, 8:30 PM

Switching all your unnecessary lights and appliances will make our Earth a better place to live. I believe this campaign does not say, you need to live in darkness and discomfort for one hour. I think when it says unnecessary, those are the electronics we are not using or appliances we can live without for an hour. What are the small things you can do?

Don’t charge your gadgets during this hour

If you can’t turn off your computer, why not turn off its monitor?

If you are afraid of the dark, why not turn off your street lights instead?

You can delay turning on your air con.

You can also try not to open your refrigerator.

If you are cooking with rice cooker, cook early.

These are small and simple things but if we ALL participate, it can make a BIG difference!

So again, ARE YOU SWITCHING OFF?

and yeah, if you have more than two addresses, flying voters are more than welcome!

Meaning of My Kid’s Name

I know after my name post, you will be asking what I named my kids?

When we first learned that we will be having a baby boy, we decided to name him Mikhail.. ask hubby why but is a very personal choice for him. For his second name I thought that Indian names is so cool and named him Mahat. Mikhail if you are not familiar is a Russian name which means God liked.. not like God but like by God.. Mahat on the other hand is a complicated Indian name. Some of research points me to this name being of a God or some a stage to obtain Nirvana. What ever it is, we just like the sound of the two.. Mikhail Mahat

We did not expect Mico, and so looking for a perfect name for him was hard. We decided to name him just like his older brother, name that starts with MM and Russian name for the first name and Indian name for the second. It was really hard looking for another name, but in the end was lucky to find a name that would sound really good. We named him Marco for his first name, a Russian variation of Mark. For his second name, we named him Mahadev, an Indian name which means god of all gods..

Sofia Ananta, that could have been Mico’s name if he has been a girl. Yes, we already have a baby girl’s name. Sofia, a Russian name which means wise and Ananta, an Indian name, which sounds so good and its meaning I can’t remember.

Now, when we learned my third pregnancy, we hoped so hard that it would be Sofia. Boy! it was a boy again. I remembered when we learned i was a baby boy, Kayil was screaming and was really mad, because he wants a baby girl. Now, he told me, he does not want another baby, he was afraid that if we have another one, it won’t be as cute and as adorable as Chico.

Chico is not his real name. His name is Melor Moulik. If finding a name for our second was hard, this was hardest.. well of course it is obvious that we run out of good names LOL.. I can just imagine how hard it must have been to my grandmom who has 14 kids.. (and how about Nadya?) Melor is a modern Russian name. its meaning, that is your assignment for the day.. find out what is the meaning of Melor and report back.LOL Moulik is an Indian name, a variance of Malik I guess.. It is pronounced as Malik, but the way it was spelled was really cool. I can just imagine years from now, Chico’s teachers will have a hard time pronouncing his name… LOL

Their nick names is quite different form their real name. I had it form my mother, my name is Pilipinas or Filipinas but my nickname is Peh. My kids nicks, you already knew by now is Kayil, Mico and Chico..

Now tell me, what is your kid’s name?

What’s In Your Name?Mine is our Country

My name is Pilipinas.. yeah that is my full name.. Pilipinas.. the Filipino version of the name of our country Philippines.

The history of my name:
According to my mother, during the time she was pregnant with me, that was the time, when they felt the lack of justice here in our country. To put it simply, that was the height of them being nationalistic, hence Pilipinas.

Since my name is kinda unique, I find it hard to explain it to every people I met how my mom came up with that name. And NO, my siblings was not America or Turkey, they have more normal names.. although the history of each names is as unique as the history of my name.

What is more disturbing is not the history or the usual comment if my siblings are named as America or Turkey..it’s the P or F debate.

As I have said my name is very unique so a lot, before enlisting my name would ask.. OK not ask actually.. and not before enlisting.. they would actually assume that my name starts with F and would list it as Filipinas.. to which I would react and says it is a P. Before they change it to Pilipinas, they would ask me first why in the world my mom named me with that. To tell you honestly I hate my name before, I am not proud of it, and would sometimes wished that it was an F rather a P.

Last 2004, I discovered, upon acquiring a copy of my birth certificate from NSO, that my name indeed starts with an F.. what the F! what the FILIPINAS! And that my birthday is not the date listed on my BC.. what the! My hubby now teases me that I am not the one he married..and that he is married to Pilipinas, the name that appears on our Marriage Certificate.

What is shocking to me is, ALL MY LIFE, I have been invovled in countless debates and discussions that my name starts with a P.. that all those years, all the people who mistyped my name was correct all along. DAMN!

2008, I decided to inquire on our local municipality with regards to my name. It was clear there that my name starts with an F and not a P. The Civil Registry administrator even helped me out and lend me the book where the original birth certificate is. Now, what bothers me is how come, in the original certificate, my name is Filipinas but in the certified true copy coming from them it was Pilipinas. The admin, asked around and discovered that in the master list, my name is Filipinas but somebody who has a blue ballpen, made it a P! I can just imagine now that way back, when my mom asked for my birth certificate and saw that listed there was Filipinas, stared down at the clerk and demanded in high pitched voice that it should be P. waaaah!

It was mom’s fault afterall..

but I never blame her that much.. after all, this will will be a nice and funny story to share to my grand kids..