joanjoyce

Bisaya - thats what they call a person who speak Cebuano and grew up in Visayas or has a Visayan decendants, Cebuano is a dialect of different provinces in Visayas and in Mindanao.

I admit as a person who grew up in Metro Manila I find it too hard to learn bisaya and I wanna quit, lol! Well being married to a bisaya for seven years now is really really really hard for me. Just imagine everytime there will be an affair like birthdays, weddings, reunions or even only a visit of his relative in our house would be a big stressful experience for me. Yes I want to learn, yes I tried, yes I understand a little but you know specially if you know how to speak bisaya I know you know what I mean. When his relative talked too fast bisaya and when they do that I get lost, just imagine that and I just ended up nodding.

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What is your insights on giving money to parents when you are already married? I am happy that my father provides everything for us even if I am now married but my in-laws do otherwise and even made my husband pay for her little sister’s nursing tuition fee even if we do not have a regular income.

This is one thing that confuses me all the time and giving me anxieties at night. Isn’t it that the children are the parents responsibility? I raise my kid not asking my father for a tuition fee but out of our own earnings because i think thats the right thing to do it.

But when your parents are still strong and working and you know that has a lot of money, why pass the responsibility of making your daughter go to school to his brother? It’s not that I am selfish or what but we are not that rich nor stable as to we can afford to send one kid to a nursing school. We know how expensive it is, right?

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