latest goofy finds

1. goofy frame from toy kingdom. ~ my sister got the donald duck frame and we placed it in our room =)








2. goofy the archer ~ this is from a store near my house that sells clothes, bags, toys, etc. goofy looks like he's from DLSU.. heehee.. super cute!!!

3. goofy lamp ~ this one is still in my to-buy list. =( ang mahal eh. but this lamp is sooooo cute!

GOOFY LOVE....

nice family dinner

our worship service was at 5pm last Aug 17 so my family and i had dinner after church. this is rare so it's always nice to get together for some QT..

also, one of my favoritest restos opened a branch in Las Pinas and i'm hafihafi! Shakey's is the best ever!!! we decided to have dinner here..

and op kors, my peborit food at shakey's: their mojo potatoes and spaghetti!! yummmmmm

Congratulations!

my best friend JAQUELINE I. VERGARA got her license yesterday! congratulations jack.. ur gona be a great physician! mmmmmmmmmmmwah!!

DARK KNIGHT

saw DARK KNIGHT yesterday. here are my comments

1. the story had a really good sense.. not the usual batman movie

2... but i have to watch it again to catch every single detail

3. no wonder why they say heath (spell check) couldn't take the role.. joker was a sad character

4. joker was excellently played by the late heath ledger.. sayang..

5. i dont kids can watch it..

picture credits: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/HeathJoker.png

Prep Camp

Visisted PREP CAMP 2 weeks ago. i used to be a pre school teacher and this was my first job. the school has a new building and it looks great! it was a surprise visit. sayang nga, was not able to document it. my phone got busted and my dad was waiting for me outside so i was in a rush.. i said hi to the teachers and visited one of sheka's class.. this is the only pic i took. after that, my camera stopped working.. =(

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i miss teaching so much.. i know this will still be my calling after many years in the corp world.. i wish i could go back to my classroom with my old students (who are probably in 6th grade right now) and just stay in for a rainy day...

umbrella covers and more

was really rainy in hk when we arrived there the other weekend. nways, one of the things i noticed was that stores provided plastic bags for your umbrellas when you walk in so you dont get their place all muddy.

one store had this nice container out front. tek a luk!

you slip your umbrella in the hole on top and pull it out of the box towards you. and behold: your payong is now in a plastic and is no longer dripping all over the place.




i duno if you guys seen this stuff around but for me, this was a first. i wonder what they call it?



another weird thing i saw during my vacation was this gigantic walking stick? mantis? ewan.. it was almost a foot long... just there... on the wall... what the?? it really looked like a twig





another weird thing was this: strawberry butter.. super yummy... and when i asked our friend where they got it, she said someone brought it from GENERAL SANTOS city.. haller??? meron ba nito sa manila? bakit hindi ko alam?

Inside a HK cab

a funny reminder:

IF A PASSENGER DOES NOT WEAR A SEAT BELT (IF AVAILABLE):

1. He commits and offence;

2. The driver of the vehicle may refuse the hire or to drive ; and

3. He may be required to pay the fare and leave the vehicle


MWEHEHEHEHEHE... c'mon it! enumeration time...

Love at first sight...

~40% off

~last pair

~my size

MEANT TO BE..

shop and sell

when you buy and buy stuff for yourself.....

you should de-clutter (tama ba?) your life....

after several visits to the mall, i decided to have another garage sale. i duno if it's because our posters were released less than a week before but my garage sale was a flop =( compared to the previous ones i had, this one was really sad. i havnt even counted the money we got in the shoe box.. as in siguro mga less than 1k lang yun...

oh well. it just shows that maybe people are realizing the need to spend less for things you just want... look at the fuel price!

but then how come whenever you go to the mall, people are still swarming over bargain stuff?

MR. AND MRS. JOSE BIEN, JR.

Congratulations to Jose Bien, Jr. and Genevieve Magallanes!

~i'm super happy for you sis!!! love you!

Emote It

Healing lyrics
Artist - Deniece Williams
Album - Various Songs
Lyrics - Healing

Now that we have gotten through
One more fallI can just admit I've got it all
Cause I do Cause I've got you
We've crossed these battle lines to many times
It passes throught the heart
But it never leaves a mark

Cause Your love just keeps on healing me
No matter how I bruiseIf I just trust You
Your love just keeps on healing me
One more clue
One more chance that wasnt there before
In your armsno pain can harm the way im feeling
Lord I know that Your love is healing

I've kicked around those lines in my head
But I've never listened to the words that
You saidSee where its lead
Well I know I have it now
Cause You showed me how
And all I had to do
Was just to keep my eyes on You

Cause Your love just keeps on healing me
No matter how I bruise
If I just trust You
Your love just keeps on healing me
One more clue
One more chance that wasnt there before
In your armsno pain can harm the way im feeling
Lord I know that Your love is healing

(break)

Cause Your love just keeps on healing me
No matter how I bruise
If I just trust You
Your love just keeps on healing me
One more clue
One more chance that wasnt there before
In your arms no pain can harm the way im feeling
Lord I know that Your love is healing

http://www.lyricskeeper.com/deniece_williams-lyrics/212715-healing-lyrics.htm

How to get a good airshot

went to bohol and got to visit the CHOCOLATE HILLS (vote for it to be one of the new 7 wonders of nature at http://www.new7wonders.com/ ) and got some great airshots! we also did some nice ones by the beach.. love it! here's how:

1. practice!

2. choose an amazing background that includes the sky!

3. synchronize your jumps!

4. go!

Stuff I Learned About Butterflies

visited a butterfly farm in bohol and learned a lot from our guide, John. Trivia time!

1. Some Butterflies have a golden cocoon while others are just the usual plain brown ones:

2. When Butterflies come out of their cocoon, their wings are wet (like wet with ink) and they take time to let the liquid/fluid drip and dry out

3. One type of Butterfly "plays dead" when you catch them. they do that as their defense mechanism. so cute! take a look at this butterfly playing dead on my hand.. after a few seconds, it flies away again..

4. And the most fascinating of all!!!! Butterflies mate for a minimum of 8 hours!!!! they do this once in a lifetime ata kasi... nway, check out this pair! the one on top is the female.. she's the larger one. we tried shooing them away and when she flew to another spot, she carried the male with her. lupet!

5. the spikes on this green caterpillar are not harmful at all. they are soft and feels ticklish "daw". you can pet them our touch them if you want:

the butterfly farm is called "SIMPLY BUTTERFLIES" owned by a lady (who looks like britney spears) from new zealand

my new cell group

when you are in pain, the only sure way you can overcome it is thru prayers. the Lord will always reveal to you His ways even if it is beyond your comprehension.

i am thankful that the Lord gave me friends like jacky, tin, dyan, ash, karen and ruiza. they have been there for over a decade. our cell group started last April 28 and we pray that this will continue.. setting up this group has been so timely, especially for me.

when you have freinds whom you can turn to when you're going thru a lot, you know that the Lord is truly good.

to my bnb.. thanks for everything.. looking forward to our next sessions!

Bohol ~ explored!

Best summer getaway ever! you have to include Bohol in your vacation spot list. I'm proud to say that our country has the best beaches in the world! better than Hawaii! when you visit the Philippines, make sure you go to Bohol!

1. Visit the blood compact thingamajig. i never really pay much attention to the historical details (sorry) as long as i know its relevance, ayos na.

2. Visit the famour Baclayon Church~ one of the oldest and preserved in the country.. this chruch is centuries old and has a museum upstiars.. (bawal pics dun eh)

3. All day tours will include a lunch in one of the floating restaurants in the Loboc River. Buffet starts at 300 per head. the cruise takes off with lunch and runs for about an hour or more. you get to cruise along the river and have 2 stop overs where the locals (kids and senior citizens) perform in front of tourists on floating stages. nice!

4. No visit to Bohol will be complete without seeing the famous Chocolate Hills! i rememeber hearing the alamat for this one- they are poopsies of giants! weheheh.. nways, you get to climb 200 steps to reach the highest viewing deck. then official photgrapers would offer to take airshots of you by A CLIFF! scary! yung tipong pag nagkamali ka ng talon, mamatay ka

5. the philippine tarsier: what i know about these guys: smallest mammals? they are pretty gross.. their tails look like that of a rat's, their fingers... like the scariest animal in the whole wide world. cant even mention it here.. after taking a pic with the little guy, i realized how gross they were.. not cute at all. i freak out when they jump from tree to tree.. ewwwww!!!!

6. Osang's Broas - the best broas so far.. they live at the back of the Baclayon church. they use this old stove to bake their broas (thin and crunchy bread with sugar on top). too bad coz when we went to osang's house, they were not selling anything since their stocks ran out due to fiestas in 2 towns! they sold us their deformed broas and we begged them to sell us 2 small bagas and one large bag. the small bag was only 40 while the large bag was 60. when i went to this large souveneer shop, they were selling the small bag for 68 pesos.. nanay ko!

7. the hanging bridge - i went 1/3 of the way. it was too wobbly for me and i got scared. mwehhehehhe.. but for picture purposes again, tried to be brave!

7. our tour guide also brought us to a small butterfly farm (entrance was 20) owned by someone from new zealand. learned lots of interesteing stuff..saw a butterfly playing dead, butterflies mating, changing colors, etc. nice!

8. Balicasag Island - a marin sanctuary~ divers love it here.. you rent a boat going here and then you rent a small boat (100 per head) going to the snorkeling area. you can also rent flippers and snorkel stuff for for 100. our boat man was the cuzin of our life guard in bohol beach club. when we got to the island, there was this big family waiting for us.. they had a small resto where one of the ladies managed it, her sister in law sold us accessories na sobrang mahal! their brother in laws and siblings served as guides to the snorkeling area. the island only has electricity at night.. their inihaw na pusit, liempo, and parrot fish were to die for.

9. on the way to balicasag, you can request your boat man to bring you to the site to go dolphin watching. you can only do this at 6am but if it's overcast, they still come out at 10am. there were around 10 more boats that morning when we went out for dolphin watching.. this is really cool since you get to see them in the wild! they act pretty much like when they do a show

10. on the way to the Chocolate Hills, you will pass thru around 3 km of man-made forest. really nice mahogany trees

Thank you to MelRons for the beautiful pics..