:Photohunt 168: Pink (Flowers)

I've chosen these beautiful flowers for my entry this week. These are two flowers with different shades of pink but both are equally pretty. I've always loved pink flowers ever since I was a kid because it's so feminine and it exudes an air of innocence just like white ones. The first photo was taken in the garden of St. Audry Learning Center where Josh is studying and the second photo is just over the fence, from my cousin's pots of flowers, nice resources :-) I have another entry at my Beyond Horizons

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The Car Connection

I’ve known some friends whose hobby is to collect cars, improve it and when he has used it for some time he sells it. He just has some fascination over cars and he feels good every time he turns a simple car into a fashionable and sleek car. Actually it doesn’t only feel good but it pays good also as he’s been gaining a sizeable amount of money from his hobby of buy, improve and sell cars. As for his own personal car he prefers those seen on car pictures online. He’s also into finding and searching updates on styles and designs for his make over business.

Lately he’s been telling me that he’s been visiting The Car Connection site and he found this super cute 2 door mini cooper with convertible top, the smallest on sale in the US. It’s still the same Mini car as the previous ones but there’s a bit change in roofline and side windows. Now you have it and choose among some variety of interior design. Anyway he’s just curious but this Mini may not be of use to him. As I’m intrigued by the site that he mentioned I browsed online and found that indeed they have a lot of sleek and beautiful cars in full review. You can see the reviews on each car that they feature.

Well I’ve noticed the popular best selling car of Chrysler, the dodge ram 1500 I know this one because my sister works for a company that distributes in the Philippines. Even if the country is suffering a major economy crisis some individuals can afford to have many vehicles as they wish and this one is great as many wanted pickups for their field jobs. It’s more applicable than using a car especially on non-urban places. With the updates on its design you can be sure of a smooth ride and great also to help tow vehicles on the road.

The site has a lot to offer in terms of showcasing the beautiful cars and in bringing to public the reviews on each and every car featured in their site. The last I read a review on is the ford f 150 which is also familiar to me as I like pickups though I’m just a novice when in terms to cars. Well there’s no doubt that this pickup is a best seller also and the maker has improved it as well. So with the current update on this pickup with an improved box frame, superior performance in towing and hauling, minimized rollover risks you can now be assured of a more stable ride. For those interested in cars and seeing reviews on their most wanted models you can visit thecarconnection.com and see for you.

:Food Friday - Cheesy Maja

This is the very yummy maja with lots of cheese inside and out, just looking at this pic makes me want for more but no there aren't anymore of this as we consumed all of this very fast :-) This is a gift and pasalubong for my Mom from one of her wedding sponsored godchildren, specialty of Rina and her hubby Santi, a bank manager with a great flair for cooking.

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Beautiful Lights to Brighten Up Your Homes

We took after our father’s love for designing houses. I think it runs in the family although it’s just my brother who pursued the field of civil engineering. My sister and I entered the world of computer courses. I remember when we were younger we used to spend our summer vacation designing and planning our dream house and we used to supplement our design with floor plans just like the real engineers. Well as my brother is into construction business now doing design and supervision on residential houses and buildings his talent and skills were directed properly into a lucrative source of income.

When we get to talk about his projects I asked him the latest trends in construction and designing and I usually delve further into his style in home lighting because I’m really interested in these things. I’ve always loved looking at beautiful houses with nice lightings because it exudes a warm ambience and even on the outside houses looks noticeable. Lights make a lot of difference when it comes to the aura of the house be it in the dining, living room or kitchen area. It reflects the personality of the owner of the house if they’re conservative, modern or simple family. Actually if I see the ceiling light fixtures of the house I visit I can tell some characteristics of the people living in the house. It really reflects some of the owner’s personality.

Choosing the perfect lightings for your house can be tasking though as you’ll need to visit various shops to compare designs, stocks and prices. To help you with it you can go to Farreys which offers various choices of the finest light fixtures and products for your specific requirements and needs. They have what you want when it comes to lights like chandeliers, lamps, pendant lights, accent lighting, home lighting, outdoor lighting and many other lights particularly made to brighten up your home. You can be assured of their products’ quality, good craftsmanship and beautiful designs. Visit their site and transform your homes now.

Thursday Challenge : Male (Church Brothers)

These are my fellow brethren in the church, most of them here are our ministers in our church., deacons and the young ministers. This photo was taken during our December Camp Meeting in Villa Dominga Forest Resort in Indang, Cavite just beside Tagaytay City where we had our camp fellowship for three days. This was our last day and this was shot before we travel back to our homes. You can see their faces here enjoying the photo session :-). It was an enjoyable camp fellowship there last December last year and we've booked again for next December.

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June 2009 Top Droppers

I want to express my appreciation to these people who regularly drops their entrecard to my site. For those people who didn't make it to top ten I would like also to extend my warmest thanks.

Dropper	# of drops
Yummy-as-can-be	31
The Modern Mom	31
Take a coffee break...	31
A Simple Life	31
Mommy's Little Corner	31
Life's Tricky Situations	31
moms..... check nyo	31
Life's sweets and spices	31
Family Health Avenue	30
Whatever Comes To My Mind	30

Special mention to Liza of Simple Life, Yummy-as-can-be, Mommy's Little Corner and moms...check nyo coz her four blogs made it to the top, thanks sis! Appreciate your visits!

Xbox 360

I’m not so keen on playing online games because I spent my time reading books and online studying. I prefer surfing different sites than spending my time gaming. But with my kids of course they love games so much even if I only allow them only on weekends because I can monitor them what kind of games they played. They’re contented enough to surf games over the net because they’re still young but when I asked my teenager nephew he wants XBox because he can play games, compete with other players online and enjoy multi-media.

I browsed through sites which offered Xbox 360 and found out that there are consoles and accessories aside from the games that they sell. Now upon checking available games my nephew decided on racing games just like my choice. Anyway there’s a lot to choose from and you can pick by piece or buy a bundle which for me is a good deal. One good thing is it’s not just games and songs but you can also watch HD TV shows and movies. That’s a lot for a good deal price.

Your Blog Makes Us Smile

Cecile of Small and Simple Things gave this very sweet award to me and I appreciate her thoughtfulness. She's not only sweet but has a smiling heart that even if I just came to know her online I know that she always have a ready smile for every one. Her sites always bring a smile in my heart when I see and read how she lovingly cares for her family. Cecile thanks again for this award and for your friendship with me and my sis!

Now I would like to pass this to Tita Bheng, Lainy, JennyL, Emzkie, Tere, AnaPS, Vicy and Jia!

: Food Friday - Kare-Kare

This is my Mom's favorite recipe 'Kare-kare' which my old work friends brought on my Mom's birthday. Instead of bringing cake they chose to bring this because I told them she's not fond of sweets. It's also my specialty but since I'm too busy with other preparations on her May birthday I opted to assign this to my friends - clever huh :-) With this they used the 'twalya' instead of my recipe which uses pork hind and some lean meat. We love kare-kare in our house because it has everything in it, vegetables,, pork and a very yummy peanut sauce. How about you?

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Rare Coins

With the present economy we have now people are getting wiser with their finances. As permanent employment becomes unstable these days we can’t rely on our present work to sustain our family’s daily needs. With the massive layoff and termination people tend to invest on safer grounds.

Some find it safe to invest on lots, houses, jewelries but others discovered investing on high-quality rare coin. Monex made it possible for anyone to invest online on precious metals such as rare coins, silver, gold and platinum bullion coins. These metals appreciate value over the years and investing on it will give you a sure good profit after several years. Why invest on something that’s not stable when you can be assured on a safe investment.

I ♥ Faces-Let's Hear It For The Boys (Kids)

KIDS CATEGORY

This is my favorite boy simply because he's my one and only Josh. I have two equally favorite daughters :-). Josh was only a year and a half here and he keeps on pointing at me to take his photo he doesn't want any other to shoot a picture of him. Of course he's comfortable with me taking his photos. I just love his eyes and smile here, a captured innocence of baby! It's a good thing I have many pictures of him since he was just a baby because when he grows old it will be easy to remember his baby face with my photo collection.

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My Discipline Style

I happen to came across this quiz through my friend Cecile and took this one, here's the result (we're the same):

You're a Moderate Mom

You pay attention to the parenting books -- and you cut your kids some much-needed slack when necessary. Here are some ways to encourage even better behavior. 1. Let them help. Little kids are more likely to be cooperative when they feel as if they're part of the game. If your toddler is underfoot while you're preparing dinner, have him fold some napkins and place them on the table. 2. Foster empathy. A child who understands that others have feelings similar to his own will learn to treat people the way he wants to be treated. If a sibling has a cold, you could say, "Emily feels bad because she has a cold. What can we do to make her feel better?" 3. Be kind. Kids copy everything you do, and they want to be just like you. Small acts of kindness -- an extra smile for the mailman, or holding the door for someone -- will inspire your child to do the same. This quiz is for entertainment and/or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health problems or illnesses without consulting your pediatrician or family doctor. Please consult a doctor with any questions or concerns you might have regarding your or your child's condition.

I took this test from American Baby.com/Parents.com, try this here!

POS Systems

Running a large scale business or even just an average grocery store takes a lot of perseverance, effort and finances. The owner should have feasibility studies first before starting a business to carefully planned and gauge the advantages and disadvantages of many things concerning your own business. After all whatever happens it’s your money which is at stake. Feasibility studies should include the location, products or services, prospect clients and number of staff you’ll be getting.

In a simple grocery store you should know how to minimize the employment of staff by getting modern technology equipment to help you with. I’ve known a friend who started his business with minimum staff hired but he invested in a computerized POS systems to take care of the things needed to keep his business running in good condition. Of course these things include generation of purchase orders, sales tracking and inventory. He told me that he doesn’t have to hire many employees to maintain the upkeep of his business as his equipment minimizes mistakes and provided him with quick and dependable checking out. Good for him to have that kind of investment.

Happy Father's Day

To all fathers out there who devoted their time to their children and wife with lots of love and dedicated their life to their family with dignity and respect I salute you. As my father passed away already for more than ten years now I was just as happy to remember all the love and caring he showed us especially to me whom he always referred to as his junior even if I'm a girl. I cannot remember a time that he's not proud of me and my siblings. For him we're the best even if at times we had our flaws and mistakes along the way. We love you Tatay!

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: Food Friday - Milkfish in Miso

Though it's one of my favorite dishes it's my first time to cook Bangus in Sinigang sa Miso. My Mom used to cook this one but since she's relaxing in her life and leave the cooking to me I tried doing this one of her. My Mom always wants to eat fish and vegetable so everyday I thought of a dish that would suit her. She told me that she has a slight headache and her taste bud doesn’t want anything to eat but when I cooked this one of her she ate with gusto. Cooking is always a pleasure when you satisfy your family.

Happy Food Friday to all, see other delicious food here!

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Free Credit Report

All people want a good reputable name in their lives. For many dignified people it’s not important if they are not rich as long as their names are credible enough to earn respect. Sometimes even if we don’t have credit cards, loan balance and credits our records will be tainted because of identity thieves who will make your name suffer from bad record. From time to time it’s safer to have freecreditreport to verify if your records are accurate and not been hacked by identity thieves. It’s actually a good precautionary measure.

Identity theft is very rampant now in more ways that we can imagine. They can hack your personal documents, accounts, information and many other confidential things. If you’ve been attacked by hackers it felt like they rob you of your personal things. It might also give your name a bad credit reputation if they use your account in applying for loans. It’s always safer to check your credit report more often than be sorry if anything happened. Credit report is the reference report which lenders and banks look up to verify the person’s credit history, it’s where they can see if you’re a good or a bad creditor.

There are many kinds of credit report and one of these are the Credit Nexus 3-in-1 credit report where you can see your credit history and information from the three major credit reporting agencies. This wills surely you help you in monitoring your credit where you can easily see if there are discrepancies stated or you have loan balances. Always remember that our loan applications for house, car and any other things needed will depend on our credit score so it’s time for us to get our own credit report now.

I ♥ Faces - Sepia Toned

This is one of my favorite pic of Gen, my second child whom they always refer as my look-alike when I was a kid. If you've known me when I was a kid and you'll see her now no doubt you'll agree. We have the same height, body, boyish manners and ways, sense of humor and many says the looks.

I must admit though that she's a lot prettier than me because she got half of her looks to her father, she got her dimples from my mother-in-law and her complexion from my mom. All blended into my little princess Gengen!

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:WS - They Love Music!

Everytime my kids visit my big brother's house they always sit on the piano and play as if they know how to play it. Here's Ruth and Josh posing for me to have them pictured at the piano. They love it.

This piano was my father's piano way back 1945 which kuya restored and have it tuned to perfect condition. His three children are studying piano and they're very keen on playing it especially my eldest nephew Raph who knows at least 5 musical instruments. It's in my mom's blood and our children inherited that flair for music. My grandpa used to play alpha and some instruments on his prime.

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Causes of Mesothelioma

From what I remember from my childhood there’s a lot of industries that uses asbestos which they commonly called as a miracle mineral. Why this mineral was referred to as a miracle? Asbestos when it was discovered was found to have many wonderful uses in workplaces, buildings, residential houses and industries. I know it as a means of diminishing the heat that’s why it was commonly used in ceilings. In this part of the world that’s a big help for us and it would minimize the use or airconditioner.

But the intelligence of man sometimes gives human being a hazard to their fellow because this miracle mineral was found to be a major hazard to human health. If a man inhaled this or was exposed to asbestos he’ll likely to have mesothelioma and lung cancer. Victims of this sickness were those people who worked in industries where exposure to asbestos particles happened. I also read that firemen who come to the rescue of a burning building with asbestos were at risk with mesothelioma. With this in my mind I was glad to know and was relieved that asbestos was already banned for usage. I just hope that those victims get help from the industries they’ve worked for.

:Food Friday - Pickled Tulingan

Here you can see our version of pickled fish, in this recipe we chose tulingan fish because this kind has lots of meat. It's actually my cousin's recipe, she's also the one who cooked the ube maja I featured last week.

If you're interested to try this one here's the ingredients: Tulingan or any kind of fish you want, cooking oil, minced garlic & onion, tomatoes, pickle relish, raisins, salt, pepper and MSG (optional).

It's easy to cook this one just put salt into your chosen fish and mix with all of the ingredients mentioned above and fry the whole mixture into cooking oil, be sure your oil covers at least half of the mixture in your pan. Since fish is easy to cook please put on moderate heat only. When the fish is tender enough and all of the ingredients have blended well put off the fire and serve. If you have questions about this recipe just email me :-)

Happy Food Friday to all, enjoy your weekend with other delicious food here!

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