Looking at the Sky on Friday - Sierra Madre

We've visited my Mom's hometown in Famy, Laguna to pay our last visit to her brother. The weather in Laguna is always on the rainy side in the afternoon. I guess I just had some luck on this shot as the sky is somehow clear here over the top of Sierra Madre mountain. I took a shot on this scenery as this photo relaxes me and a warm remembrance of my uncle's view from his house. Yes I took the shot from his house, beautiful isn't it?

Imagine waking up in the morning seeing this scene of rice fields, mountain and beautiful clouds and sky. Actually we've lived here for several years before we transferred to my father's hometown in Rizal. After moving to where we are now we just visit our close relatives occassionally or when we want to have some vacation. We left when I was 7 years old and I still miss this scene from our beautiful town.

Visit more of beautiful sky photos here!

Read more...

Vacation in Santa Monica Beach

What a great way to spend your free time away from the bustling city of your work and the common view of your homes. We all love our homes but you can’t really take your full time relaxation and rest there because some of the visitors may suddenly came in or some other household problems may arise. It’s best to have your vacation elsewhere away from workplace and home no matter how peaceful your community is. Just a thought of spending a week by the beachfront house makes me shiver with excitement. I’m imagining some really nice place like Santa Monica Beach Hotel which my friend keeps telling me about. She happened to browse on it online while searching for nice places to stay on vacation. Of course for busy people like us and internet savvy too we always look for something online. It saves us time and a lot of effort.

We all know that continuous working with no vacation at all will stress us and it can’t be cured just by resting or sleeping at home. Too much pressure, anxiety and stress can cause sickness so we better take some break off our work to relax, enjoy and bask in the glorious sun over the beach. You can do it at book a Santa Monica Beach Accommodations to experience the excitement, adventure and a real vacation package. There are many tourist spots there and you’ll enjoy facilities like shops, restaurants, parks, art galleries, museums, theaters, gyms, and many others just for the tourists’ convenience.

I’m very happy to visit their site as I got some detailed info about Santa Monica, a very beautiful place along the bay. It’s good learning some other country’s history, businesses, community and all things that made it a very nice place to stay on your vacation. I’ll have to tell my Auntie in California that they can spend few days here when they want a beach place to stay for a few days. She’ll be happy to know that it’s just a few hours drive from her place.

Read more...

:WW - Nutrition Day Slogans

'You should prepare the right nutritional food to have strong body

and to prevent sickness'

'Kids should not be deprived of proper nutrition'
'Eat plenty of vegetables for a stronger immune system' 'We should prepare nutrition foods to our dining table like fruits,
vegetables, fish and meat to help us combat lifestyle disease'To prevent sickness and hospital expenses we should not
deprive our family with proper nutritional foods'The good future of our kids start with proper nutrition'

Today is family day and nutrition day in my daughters' school, since I'm a PTA officer in Gen's 5th grade class and now have free time I joined their parade and cooking competition which I'll post later. Meanwhile I just posted here the slogans of each grade level from 1st grade to 6th grade each having an assigned color (per grade level). I enjoyed the whole morning starting from the parade up to PTA officers' cooking fest. My daughter Gen was assigned in their journalism group to take pictures and notes of this school event. I helped her with it.

Happy WW though I'm every inch Wordfull! Visit more entries here.

Wordless Wednesday

Read more...

Ten on Tuesday : 10 Favorite Sounds

1. Baby's light cry
2. Giggles of toddlers
3. The sound of baby's first attempt to call Mommy or Daddy
4. The first ever songs sung by my three kids, it was so memorable.
5. The sound of my 4-year old son's graduation speech
6. The sound of my Mom's lullabies to me when I was small and now to my kids (her grandchildren) when the were babies, the sweetest song I've ever heard.
7. The sound of my kids and hubby's whisper to me saying 'I love you'
8. The sound of light waves on a white washed seashore.
9. The sound of flute or saxophone playing instrumental music
10. The sound of gospel music to my ears.

Read more...

Security for Your Files

Being employed for several years doing IT and telecommunication works made me aware of how I should maintain my PC in the best working condition. I always see to it that my office computer is devoid of any virus attacking my files and documents. Of course it’s a daily maintenance and sometimes it’s hard to maintain it when others use it. We were given a memorandum of all sorts which includes using only your own PC to avoid getting viruses in the process. Our software specialist maintains our internet security and he always come up with good software maintenance to avoid hackers from invading our network connections.

With regards to our precious office files in our PC we see to it that there are updates on antivirus to prevent loss of important files. After all it’s not that easy to recover damaged files so we take precautionary measures before it’s too late. For my usage I want a good antivirus, the one that will detect and cure possible viruses that may damage if not totally disintegrate our PC.

These days there are so many spyware and hackers who want to invade the confidentiality of emails and the privacy of instant messaging. With this in mind a good anti spyware like that of ZSecurity should be carefully maintained to prevent these people from getting your personal information and confidential documents. Hackers can do serious harm to precious documents if they’ve succeeded in sweeping all your documents so better be cautious and careful.

Read more...

Manic Monday #177

What is one thing that you would change about yourself if you could?
I wish I'm not too trusting 'coz some people just can't be trusted

Name three exotic countries you would like to visit:
Israel (God's promise land and very historical)
United Kingdom (to visit the Queen :-) seriously My SIL lives there so I want to visit places there)
Caribbean Islands

What do you think the secret to life is?
The secret to life is putting God in the center of your family and your life. When you start with God everything will fall into the right places. Even in marriage it's still best to put God in the center of your relationship, I assure you nothing can go wrong. Big problems, failures and worries will seem small when you pray together.

Join us here

Read more...

Getting Quality Seats for Watching Events

To relax our mind and body it’s nice once in a while to spend sometime watching quality event shows. Whatever your inclination is, be it music, theater or sports, a night of watching your favorite event is a night of relaxation and self-satisfaction. One thing that’s preventing most people from watching their favorite events is the difficulty in securing tickets. I agree that it’s really hard to wait in line just to get a ticket to watch your favorite game or be asked to return another day as the ticket is sold out already. It can happen to anyone and it happened to one of my friends when she waited in line for her favorite concert. She’s living abroad now and she kept on telling me through online instant messaging that it frustrates her.

I’ve made some browsing online about getting tickets for my friend’s favorite event and I’ve found an online site which provides premium seating to special events without having to wait in line. Oh this is as good as she can now check and get Blossom Music Center Tickets without waiting in line and on the phone. Actually I’ve checked their lists and if you’re the one who really likes to spend precious free time on watching events this is your site.

We browse through the lists of different seating and their prices and my friend easily found what she needs. I know she’ll also get LandShark Stadium Tickets to share it with her sister who is so fond of soccer and baseball just like me. If only we’re together I think I’ll go with them as I’ll never miss a chance to spend my rest day on watching my favorite sports. I’m very fond of watching sports event, actually when SEA games was held here when I was a college student I go to the event place and watch together with my sister. Now modern technology has even provided people with the convenience of securing seating for their most wanted concert, theater and sport events.

For people like me and my friend time is very important that’s why waiting in line or in phone for several hours is a big disturbance on our work and it also exhausts our energy. It’s good that ACheapSeat.com offers quality event tickets online, no need to wait and you’ll also have a chance to get quality seating. This one is very important as it’s nice to watch events if you have the premium seats. Like when you’re going to get Mellon Arena Tickets I’m sure you’ll want the front seats to ensure great watching time with your family and friends. Oh by the way they also have customer service representatives to assist you in every way they can. Secure your best seats now!

Read more...

What Kind of Friend Are You?

You Are A Good Friend

You're always willing to listen to your friends. And you're the first to lend a shoulder to cry on. You're there through thick and thin. You won't stop being friends with someone when times are tough. In fact, you're such a good friend that many people consider you their "best friend"!

What Kind of Friend Are You?

I think it's true even if sometimes I'm a bit frank they look up to me when they're in grief or trouble, I always listen because that's a privilege for me - having your friend turn to you in times of need, it makes me feel complete as I also turn to them if I'm the one in trouble. True enough I have many friends and bestfriends guys and girls!

Read more...

Life's Security

Life is full of unexpected events and happenings in life. Although we are getting used with life’s challenges we have a tendency to worry sometimes. As a born-again Christian worry is of the least importance as I know God will always be there to lend a helping hand whenever we need Him. The most important thing is to trust with all your heart that He can do it for you.

Now for those who worry too much of what the future is in store for them they look upon insurances as a thing that can keep them covered and secured for life. Be it a home, car or life insurance they will get it to ensure that whatever happens to them their loved ones wouldn’t worry about anything in terms of financial matters. True enough those colleagues I’ve known who secured insurance early in life now savor the benefits of having one. They search for insurance quotes everywhere and picked one that’s right for them. They say it’s better to secure than be sorry. Anyway people have different opinions and beliefs. What’s important is the ability of us to respect others as they are. As for me we must secure our spiritual life first before anything else.

Read more...

Looking at the Sky on Friday - Sky Above Aguinaldo

This is a shot from Katipunan road in White Plains just few meters from Camp Aguinaldo. I just found the sky atop Camp Aguinaldo interesting as it formed a somewhat circular shaping. It's a little dark here though it's only past 1pm after our lunch at Outback Restaurant. I'm just puzzled as my other shots are clearer than this. I can't pose those other shots as it's not clear of cables and wirings, that's my usual problem with sky photos.

Visit more of captivating sky photos here!

Read more...

Decorative Planters for Your Garden

I love flower and plants and whenever I have a chance I help my Mom in arranging and caring for them. She has a green thumb when it comes to gardening that’s why all our plants are growing up beautifully if she’s the one who planted it. Anyway I’m learning from her and might be of hand to her whenever she wanted some help especially when transferring her favorite planter. She just love dealing with her flower and plants, I even heard her talking to them. They say it’s one way of caring for plants. To make my Mom happy I bought some flowering plants from a nearby nursery in my working place and she immediately transferred it to her garden planter because she want it to line up to her existing plants. It makes her happy seeing her plants lined up.

Every day of my Mom’s life she devotes it with watering her plants and checking if it has blooming buds. It makes her morning beautiful if she sees one blooming flowers on one of her window box planters. Maybe everyone who is so fond of gardening have a certain feeling like that. I also love flowering plants like my Mom but I don’t have much time for this hobby of mine. Now that I’ve resigned from my office job I’m looking forward to spending some time with gardening, I promise myself to do this because gardening relax my senses and I feel good about arranging our outdoor planters.

Talking about gardening and planters, I’ve browsed some sites and found a marketplace for planters offering beautiful and quality residential and commercial planters. They provide a wide selection that you’ll find one that suits your specifications. I’ve found a nice decorative planter myself and promised to return to their site and show it to my Mom. It will make my Mom’s garden more refreshing to look at and more beautiful of course. It’s really nice having sites like these as I’ve enjoyed searching and shopping for things online. I’ve found a wide selection of outdoor and indoor planters, garden planters, high end planters and different kinds of planters to beautify the indoor and outdoor part of the house. Choosing and deciding which one is right for your house is easy as it’s convenient to look for the things you need in the comfort of your home.

Read more...

I'm Touched!

For the past two weeks I must say I haven’t been able to reciprocate visitors of my sites due to very tight schedules. That was the last few days of my work as I left my 16 year-old job to be a WAHM, a work at home Mom to concentrate on my family and just do some freelance writing to earn income. I decided to leave my very stable job to spend more quality time with my family especially my three kids. I’ve filed my resignation more than a year ago but was asked to extend my time leading to this very late period of extensive work.

I left the company with a light heart and my boss told me to come and visit them whenever I want. He has also offered a part-time consultancy before but I was in doubt if I could manage some days off my family. It was a hard decision for me to leave my job but I’m very happy with the result as God has confirmed it to me. I had my last day last Friday and my employers prepared a nice despedida for me for which I’m very touched and felt that indeed I’ve been a part of their lives. They keep telling me that for some month and on my despedida I’m so touched. I’m leaving the company with much gratefulness to them and to God for making my resignation wonderful.

Read more...