In a film, Heaven, Cate Blanchett is Philippa, a schoolteacher who decides to plant a bomb in the office trash can of a successful business man who is in fact a drug lord. She does this because her repeated cries to the police have gone unheard because of pay-offs they receive from the monster himself.

Unfortunately, instead of killing the drug lord, the bomb is carted off by the cleaning lady 30 seconds before detonation and explodes in the elevator carrying two small children and their father.

Do you know that Jim Carrey, a comedian who has a great skill of impersonation and who is now paid $20 million per movie, used to have problems in school as a kid? Well, it’s true. In fact teachers had a hard time controlling him, until they found a solution: If they allowed little Jim 15 minutes at the end of each class to show his impersonating skills, he became manageable.

The evening is one of my favorite times of the day. It’s time to look back, take stock, and recall on the events of the day—whether good or bad. When whether permits, my husband I walk, or sometimes we’ll just fix a cup of coffee and talk with each other about our day and what we’ve accomplished. It’s time for careful thought and evaluation.

“Naandipat lahat ya singa bura.” was all my Mom could say in Pangsinan, as if talking to herself in disbelief as she sat quietly at the wake with downcast eyes. In English, it means, “He just vanished into thin air like a bubble.” She was describing, how quickly my Dad had disappeared from her life without as much as saying goodbyes.

No one is ever prepared for the passing away of a loved one.