Caring for the Oldies

Filipino culture do not really look well on children "abandoning" their parents to any homes for the aged. We are reared to respect our parents and that means taking care of them when they grow old. Filipino families are close knit and taking care of our elders is a responsibility.

Here in Germany, the older generation are looking at new models of living for their retirement years. They want security, social contact and comfort. To live in a nursing home for older people is always a family decision. Some children don't have time to care for their elders because of work and own family.

In a nursing home, there are rules to follow, strict schedules and everything is planned as if you're trapped. It's also expensive and rooms depends on the pocket power. Some who cannot afford the nursing home resort to alternative care from relatives and the mobile caregivers.

The Stone Bread

For the first time in his life, dirk baked a bread. It's a dark wheat bread and he said its tastes good. For me, its more of a stone than a bread beause of the dark color and its really hard.

Actually he's just testing the ready mix wheat bread if it tastes good. Mutti is going to be with us in December and she only eats dark bread and we're going to buy a bread baking machine soon.

The Second Hand Shop

While browsing around the city today looking for the new office of our friend michael, we came accross this second hand shop selling used clothes, accessories, decors, furnitures and other housewares. They're even selling a very old sewing machine way back from the 60's.

It seems that i'm collecting different scratcher, i found this at one euro shop and i also have two others from baguio and vietnam. My new find had double purpose, a scratcher and a shoehorn

The Strange Weather

Yesterday, i have some bouts of headache because of the hot weather. When the weather is like this, ice cream and coffee shops are full of people enjoying the sunny weather. There are also lot of shoppers because its the start of the spring vacation for students. On my part, i just bought some toiletries, fresh asparagus and kopfsalat.

While browsing around the city, i saw this black dog who dont want to get out of this stone figure with water inside. Its probably his way to fight the hot and humid weather. If its sunny yesterday, its raining the whole day today, strange isn't it??

BauHaus

Bauhaus is just like wilcon depot or any home depot in the Philippines selling construction materials and house/office/garden needs. Our heating system is somehow kaputt so we did go there to buy the needed parts. Unfortunately, its not available there so we did drive to Obi and consulted their technician.

While dirk is explaining what is kaputt in our heizung system, i found this toilet bowl cover with clock, interesting isn't it??

Dinner at Kaiser's Palace

Last friday, we did drive to Ortenberg to try the other chinese restaurant there. They have dinner buffet and the price is really reasonable. The dinner was a treat from the Deicholbohrer family.


The foods also taste good and there are lots of chinese dishes to choose from. They also have sushi, salad buffet and different flavor of ice cream and chinese dessert.


They also have some surprise for birthday celebrants

LP 57- Nang Matapos

Happy LP sa lahat!! Ito naman ang aking lahok sa LITRATONG PINOY sa temang NANG MATAPOS para sa araw na ito:

Ang Karneval sa Alemanya ay ipinagdiwang sa buwan ng Pebrero sa taong ito. Isa ito sa mga pinakakaabangan ng mga naninirahan dito, bata man o matanda. Sila ay nagsusuot ng costume at nagpaparada sa lansangan, subalit matapos ang parada ay kalat ang matutunghayan sa kalye. Ilang minuto matapos ang parada ay nililinis agad yan ng mga kinaukulan.

The Carneval here in Germany is one of the event that the people here are always looking forward to. They're wearing colorful costumes during the street parade. But after the parade, it takes just minutes to clear the area.