Comments on: RJ Ledesma’s Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me: A CONTEST!

By: Welcome to the blogosphere, RJ Ledesma! | Jayvee Fernandez on Technology and New Media in the Philippines

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:58:54 +0000

[...] That’s RJ’s yaya on the banner, from his latest book release, Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me. Over the past three years, there were columns I’ve written [...]

By: Jayvee

Jayvee — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:09:18 +0000

Congratulations to Yapi for winning the competition!

By: A Bugged Life [ philippine technology. the communications industry and geek rants ] » Blog Archive » Contest Winner for ‘Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me’

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:46:18 +0000

[...] entry to RJ Ledesma’s book launch contest! She wins a free copy of RJ’s new book, ‘Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me.’ Since Yapi is currently in China I received the prize on her behalf and will figure out a way to [...]

By: Pass The Sauce » Unbelievable

Pass The Sauce » Unbelievable — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:28:38 +0000

[...] tiny cupcakes above were from RJ Ledesma’s book launch. Check out the DIY yaya kit aka. press [...]

By: Steve Lupton

Steve Lupton — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:28 +0000

My yaya, who is from Cebu, tells me, “Always study hard, always clean your study area and always get someone else to tutor you in English.”

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:40:59 +0000

My yaya made me appreciate Tony Falcon movies. Awesome stuff man, I actually believed that shit–like when Agent X44 killed a guy by throwing a bullet at him.

By: Helga

Helga — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:14:34 +0000

My yaya taught me how to make coffee with bigas and a palayok. Woohoo.

By: Jed Quiambao

Jed Quiambao — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:08:06 +0000

My yaya taught me how to speak (and curse) in Bicolano: “Dae ako tatau mag-Bicol,” “Uda lu’g ugma,” “Guano kadi?,” and most importantly, “Buray ni ta mo!”

Cool contest Jayvs!

By: Jinkee

Jinkee — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:47:58 +0000

some important lessons that i remember from our yaya:
– how to fake sleeping in the afternoon (when she comes to check if you’re really asleep, have your eyes and mouth slightly open, and not really clamped shut so you look really asleep!)
– toothpaste is poisonous and you will die immediately after so don’t eat it!
– what the term “gwapa,” “dako” and what private parts are called in bisaya. hehe

By: arpee lazaro

arpee lazaro — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:46:13 +0000

my “ma-ma” taught me that yayas can love you like you were their own. and that you miss them more than you miss your own parents. i was 9 when she left me to get married. i felt like no one else in the world would ever be my “kakampi”. i felt abandoned and unloved. by the time i was 36 and married, i went to iloilo with my wife and took a week off work to seek her out in her hometown of pototan, iloilo. it was a long trip from the city and i was excited to see her and swap stories with her and reminisce the days when our family lived in quezon city. sadly, i learned from her relatives that she had passed away five years prior. again, i cried like i did when i was 9 and she left me to get married. she had left me again to join her husband who passed away a year before she did.