: Photohunt 168 : Pink (Dress)

Nice to be back here in photohunt, my entry for this week is my kids' photo 3 years ago when we're about to go to our church. I remember making my girls wear their dresses given by their auntie from G.B. and I liked how the colors fit them well, red for Genesis and pink for Ruth well my youngest wouldn't be upstaged by the two so he just put a 'pogi' sign in his chin. By the way for non-Pinoys 'pogi' means handsome or cute!

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Vacation at Breezes Resorts

Talk about relaxing and vacationing, for me it’s a wonderful thought! Being a working Mom for several years my vacation includes spending three days vacation in a highland place few hours away from Manila for twice a year. I still want to have a vacation near the beaches but miles away from Manila where I would fly just to be at that place. Here in our country there are a lot of beautiful beach resorts in Boracay, Bohol, Puerto Princesa and some other not so popular places. Philippines are endowed with captivating and scenic places but some are not yet developed.

My SIL loves vacationing too and she has a habit of rounding up vacation resorts around Europe and America that’s totally new to her. She’s living in Great Britain and every time she has a chance she plans for a getaway vacation to relax her body and mind from everyday tension and pressures of her work... Last time I talked to her she told me that she wants an all inclusive resort which offers everything from the beach resorts to comfortable accommodations to fine dining to sports activities. It would really be nice to have a super inclusive package like that and Breezes Resort can do that.

She would like a different vacation this time and she’s thinking of having a vacation where she can have the view of rugged mountains, beaches and coves and can take advantage of the blue waters and richest landscapes in the Caribbean. I told her she can go to Runaway Bay Jamaica where she can enjoy sports activities like golf and tennis or just while away the time viewing all the scenic spots there.

Or she can choose a different destination where she can indulge on exciting water and land sports. It would be fun to do some windsurfing, sailing and water ski or if she’s the type of a land sports enthusiast she could do some table tennis, beach volleyball or even golf. She should choose Bahamas resorts to do all these together with all the amenities and accommodations offered by them. One good thing about all inclusive packages is that the person needs not to worry about other things like food and sports/recreational activities. All of these are available at Breezes Resort and you can visit their site now to plan your dream vacation.

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I'll Be a WAHM Soon!

I'm counting my days in my work now as my resignation was approved at last. I've resigned from my job last year in May but was asked by my employer to extend my stay leading my employment to extend up to this time. I've been following up my intended early retirement almost every two months but it was when my Mom suffered temporary blindness that my resignation was considered seriously.

Actually it was a flattering thought that they wouldn't want me to leave my work which lasted for more than sixteen years, I would like to think they like me really that they asked me to think it over and over before deciding finally. My boss even asked me to accept a part-time job of an HR consultant but I told him I can't spare more than two days of my week because my family needed my full time attention now. I was glad that my junior boss allowed me a complete resignation without consultancy or part-time work and just asked me to at least give them a one-month allowance to turn over my work properly.

I would admit I've been losing hope that I will be allowed to resign and my colleagues keep on teasing me that it would take me another year but after my final talk with my senior boss detailing the inner problems I have in my family regarding their need for my full attention my boss understood my situation and accepted my resignation. It was a very happy day for me and though I'm still working and would be in my office for two weeks I can now savor the taste of my freedom from an 8-5 work. By the way I'll still be working but I'll be joining the WAHM work-at-home mommies and will concentrate more on writing in my sites.

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Planning Your Perfect Home

At the start of marriage life couples usually dreams of a perfect home to start a family. The search starts for a good house location, the architectural design of your home and everything about house plans. It’s a very exciting first stage of your marriage where you need to prioritize getting the best design for your family’s nest. But planning a house is not that easy as you have to consider many things before choosing. Deciding is another thing as when you finally decided on getting your chosen plan there’s no backing out as the building will soon start to materialize.

I remember my father in his younger years dreamed of having a ranch house in our coconut plantation. He loves the countryside and wanted to stay there during weekends away from the bustling city. He then searched for a nice ranch house plan with all the provisions of comfort, convenience and durability. It didn’t materialize though as he suffered a mild stroke and advised by his doctor to relax and rest. My brother was very young then and it’s impossible to pursue the plan.

Now that my siblings and I were older we planned on just having a small vacation house in the countryside even though my father has passed away already. My Mom is actually dreaming of this and asked my engineer brother to look on some nice country house plans we’ve seen online. You heard it right there are available house plans and designs for you to choose from to help you plan your perfect home. House Plans and More will make it easy for those who want to have a good home plan for their family. They provide various resources and tools to make your search quick and easy. This site offers not only house plans but provide a way also to locate a builder for your house. Isn’t it great having all of these in just one site? It makes planning and dreaming your perfect home fun and easy.

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Looking At The Sky On Friday : Northern Skies

This is a sky photo along the Subic Clark Tarlac Expressway, boundary of La Union and Tarlac where our technical engineers traveled to meet our prospective clients for VoIP Termination. Anyway as the car is moving during the photo shoot it's hard to perfect the angle of the mountain and sky thus the picture is not so centered and the bridge rails covered almost one third of the view. Oh well the weather here was good anyway and the travel was just fine and sleepy.

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Top Droppers For June 2009

I want to express my appreciation to the owners of the following sites who regularly drops their entrecard to my site. Thanks extended to those people who didn't make it to top ten I appreciate your visits also. Hope my entries and inspirational posts help readers and visitors in anyway it should be.

Dropper	# of drops
Whatever Comes To My Mind	31
Wii Mommies	30
Lainy's Musings	30
Speed Route88	29
Momspective	29
Khrye.Com	29
Our Journey to Forever	28
Guitarbench.com	28
Split Rock Ranch	28
Momspective Reviews	28

Special thanks to Lainy for always making it to my top ten in my two blogs and now in this blog also with two of her sites, appreciate your visits Sis!

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Invest On Silver Bars

It’s always special if you have gold and silver collections and it’s also a good investment. Folks of the older generation used to keep these precious metals for their precious collections and as an emergency backup if they lack finances. Silver and gold can be pawned and sold at a higher price than other things so the more they keep these metals the better are their investment. Nowadays it’s also similar with the past but people invests on silver bars, bullion, gold and silver coins and many other forms of precious metal investment. Gold and silver still has the stability of increased value after several years so these metals still are the best source of keeping your money on good investment. Monex provides people ways and means on helping people buy gold and silver and keep them at a good storage place. Visit their site for more information.

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Heads or Tails : Tools

The theme/prompt for this week is:
HEADS - "Tool"

It's my first time here and I'm enjoying viewing all the posts that corresponds to the theme 'tools'. Well there are many tools used in the house, kitchen, office and every work place I go but I chose this one. My entry are my kids' school supplies and bags which I considered as their tools for enhancing their learning, their tools for education. It looks simple as ordinary notebooks, crayons, pens and pencils, bags, etc. but it helps them to achieve further learning as they grow. Without these they will not have proper tools to educate themselves.

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...In Other Words...

Quote for June 30

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

— Thomas Merton

…in other words…

I partially agree with this one as basic knowledge starts in classrooms they teach the basic and fundamentals but the kids learned it the best way when they encounter it in real life. Real experiences are the best way to learn something. And where can we get experiences of course it should start at home as parents should teach their children more than their teachers. For me teachers are just starters, parents are secondary teachers who guides their children in what they've learned from school and then exposure to society and putting your knowledge into action and life is the best teacher of all.

But sometimes you can have so much knowledge in school especially if the school teaches vocational courses where you'll have to study for a few months only. There they teach the actual work that can be done. Education is fast-paced and more on actual education than theories.

Hope I can be of help understanding this quote. Just expressing my opinion.

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Watch NFL Games

I love sports and during my school days I’m very interested in marathon, volleyball, table tennis and football. I enrolled in softball as my physical education subject in college and it was really fun though a little hard for some girls who find it hard to run fast. As I’m into walkathon and marathon it was so easy for me to have a homerun. I really enjoyed all the sports that I’ve enrolled in college like volleyball and table tennis. It feels different when you’re in sports. It’s also good for the body and I never gain pounds unlike now that it’s a lot of effort and time just to spend one day a month to do badminton. When I was in my first years or working I indulge in bowling and was so glad to receive some daily awards like striker of the day in our office competition. Oh I really miss those days when I can have plenty of time to spend on my hobbies and sports.

Well people like who couldn’t afford the time to spend it on sports can just watch sport games on television. I’ve seen online that you can watch National Football League regular season games when you subscribe to nfl sunday ticket which is exclusive on DIRECTTV. Actually if you subscribe to the GameMix you can watch 8 NFL games at the same time, great isn’t it? I know sports’ enthusiast will surely love this opportunity and will now get the nfl sunday ticket schedule so they will not miss the chance of viewing this in HD.

If you really want to avail of this good offer you can visit their site and make a selection of what you want in their listings or you can just type in your zip and they’ll look for you to give you the service you want. Be assured that MyTVOptions’ nfl sunday ticket price is just the right one for your budget. It’s affordable and it can bring you to a lot of entertainment.

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I'm An Auditory Learner

You Are a Auditory Learner

You tend to remember what you hear, and you have a knack for speaking well. You excel at debating, foreign languages, and music. You would be an excellent diplomat - or rock star!

What's Your Learning Style?

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Causes of Mesothelioma Cancer

Man has really gone so far in terms of innovations and modern technology. Intelligence of many has made a lot of convenience and comfort to our daily living with inventions on household gadgets and appliances that with just one touch of our finger we can do a lot of our job quick and easy. The same intelligence discovered miracle mineral asbestos which was found to have many uses and was regarded as a miracle mineral because of its good properties. Asbestos can be used in various ways in different fields such as industrial, residential, commercial and many other wonderful usage. From what I’ve remembered when I was a child it was commonly used in tropical country like us in house and building ceilings to resist heat. Wonderful isn’t it?

But sometimes intelligence and wonders are not appropriate because some great discoveries of human bounce back to us as harmful and toxic to our health. Asbestos was later found to be a hazard element and can cause lung diseases and Mesothelioma cancer to those that worked in industries where asbestos was used. Exposure of human to this element can lead them to that kind of disease. I’m glad that nowadays usage of asbestos was prohibited and banned.

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