Dancing in Midlife Tune

I still haven’t had anything since before 5 pm yesterday. I didn’t mean it then just at 7 pm when i was thinking of having my dinner, i remember that i should be on fasting because i will undergo FBS test this morning and guess what’s the result?

Am grinning because it’s down to 100 mg/dl compared to the 116 mg/dl 3 months ago. That’s normal!!!! yeheyyyyy!

I know it’s not much to be happy about because it’s still a hundred. But 110 is the step into the insides of the Diabetic Home eh. Well, i still got a long way to go but i am sure it will never go up that 100 again. I am working out to make it lower than than and also control my weight. But i never increased my weight again since 3 months ago though i still look chubby and hey i will never look bamboo thin ever — this is my structure. So those who would tell me that i should be skinny or what, then sorry na lang. You will never get your wish ever. You have to love me the way i am. oh diva?

Hey am off to to m breakfast now! I was NPO for more than 12 hours already. Am still ok though but i don’t like that it will come to the level of having low sugar na coz of hunger.

If am not mistaken, people in Tacloban or Leyte, they call Cebuanos as “kana” for women and “kano” for men. I had the privileged of staying there for almost two months when i joined the first time student “canvassing” – canvassing of books or in simpler terms, selling books. We sold books printed by the Philippine Publishing House. Anyway, going back to the terms – they call us folks from Mindanao as kano or kana. We did not know that when they asked that they were referring to us. Because for us from Mindanao we refer to American woman for “kana” and American man for “kano”. Kana/kano from the word AMERICAN or AMERIKAN. So if we use that term here in our area, we are sure that you are referring to a person who is native AMERICAN.

Now we were wondering why us from Mindanao were called kano and kana. The first time we heard it we tried explaining that we are not “kano” or “kana” but we are Bisaya from Bukidnon. So there was sort of confusion later that they gave us the following explanation and it is somewhat funny.

KANA in cebuano is “that.” When we point at something or sharing the information of direction to someone, we use ther term “kana” in which am sure that term is not used by any waray.

KA/NO? or kano is an affirmative ending of a question like this — bisaya ka no? (are you bisaya?) which a bisaya will answer ” oo” or yes. Or like the following questions:
1. gigutom ka no? (are you hungry?)

2. katulugon ka no? (are you sleepy?)
3. Waray ka no? (are you waray?)

Well, i think i just heard someone outside askign someone a question with a NO at the end — so i thought about this.