i'm back

i haven't been online for two days now. aside from the fact that i was too busy with the kids coz hubby was away in phuket for 6 days, my girl, my dear dear girl... did something in my laptop. i didn't know what she did, but she climbed up on one of the boxes just to reach my laptop which i put where i thought she wouldn't be able to reach. and so my notebook now is locked. the cursor doesn't move. other keys don't work as well. is there anybody here who knows how to give my notebook a fix? would really appreciate it. thanks!

check out her other mischief here: samantha

blogs i visit

A Mother's Heart

All in Korea, Only in Korea

Baby Smooches

blessings and beyond

cheeky pinay

chismis today

education

embrace simplicity

Eve's Daughter

Everything About Deye

Everything and then Some

Heart of Rachel

Home Worked

Isaac Story

janeth vicy's life journey

journey and journal

julie

live it up...

Ma Crèche Privée

My Hide-away

my life... my journey

My World in my Own Word

Peter Shankar

reflections by mariz

Republic of A

straight from the heart

the sweet life

Thesserie

Thru Phases of Life

Tricotine

Writing in Faith

Zech's Journey


janet speaks
expressions and thoughts
our family story
places and memories
a glimpse of me

e-book publishing

Pinay Mommy Online
Mommy Emotes
Blessings and Beyond
Oneline Biz and Resources
PM Digiscrap
Lourdes' Mia
Posh Thoughts
Ivory Tasks
The Ruby Posts
I Play Mom

it's me,

weekend snapshot 19 - Q-dees Sports Day 2008

Last Saturday was my son's Sport's Day at his school, Q-dees. It was amazing to see him participate in his first ever Sport's Day. He got his trophy too.

his second trophy. the first one was when we joined him for the cutest baby competition at Sunway Lagoon Club... and he got the most energetic award when he was 10 months old.

proudly showing his trophy to his sister...

his classmates at school. aren't they cute?

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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

We all know the answer to “Why did the Chicken cross the Road?,” right? I have read this before... and it had brought tears to my eyes and pain in my tummy. So I encourage you to read.

To get to the other side has been carefully considered by these famous people:

Moses, 1300 BC: Know ye that it is unclean to eat the chicken that has crossed the road, and that the chicken that crosseth the road doth so for its own preservation.

Julius Caesar, 47 BC: veni, vidi, vici (I come, I see, I conquer)

Mrs. Thomas Paine, 1776 AD: Out of common sense.

George Washington, 1776 AD: Actually, the chicken crossed the Delaware with me back in 1776. But most history books don’t reveal this where I created the first chicken soup!

Einstein, 1905 AD: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference and your relative speed!

Mrs. Sigmund Freud, 1926 AD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying secret sexual insecurity.

Mrs. Pablo Picasso, 1938 AD: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken is an Abstract of my Art!

Gilligan, 1964 AD : The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail the chicken would be lost, the chicken would be lost!

Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate -357687.2 (1966): To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Howard Cosell, 1970 AD: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapiens pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.

Richard M. Nixon, 1973 AD: The chicken never crossed my crooked road and for the record,“I am not a crook!”

Roseanne Barr, 1988 AD: Burrrrrp. What chicken?

George H. W. Bush, 1991 AD: To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.

Bill Clinton, 1998 AD: I have no recollection of exposing myself to this chicken, although the chicken may have crossed the road to examine my normal grooming techniques after removing my pants!

George W. Bush, 2005 AD: The fact that the chicken has been able to cross the road with impunity despite my UN resolutions, is an affront to Democracy, liberty and justice!
Speedy Buddhacat, 2008 AD: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

Well, too much laughing can bring tears to ones eyes and sometimes it can give one a tummy pain, right? That's what I meant. have a good laugh, pips.

Lakbayan Meme

I was tagged by Bern

Show me how much of the Philippines have you travelled? Add your links here:1) mind bubbles, 2) may, 3) VANITY KIT 4) SOMETHING PURPLE, 5.) A DETOUR, 6) Big Eyed Gal, 7)The Chronic Shopper, 8) Free IT and Blogger's EBook, 9) Ness 10) Mica 11) Bernadeth 12. Bernisaac13. expressions and thoughts 14. our family story 15. Add your name here..

My Lakbayan grade is C!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.

What about you Aish, Budget traveler, Litlit, Josiet, Mitch and Bogie?

Children of Hurin by J.R.R Tolkien

I finally bought it. I have been wanting to buy it since it's new publication. My hesitation was... it was sooo expensive because it came in a hard-bound cover. But this one, it's in soft paper cover. It's half the price. I bought straight away. This is an additional to my JRR Tolkien collection.

I already have the The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), and this one, The Children of Hurin. If you are Tolkien book lover and you have read the Silmarillion, you would get excited to get one.

Christopher Tolkien, JRR Tolkien's son, edited this one. Accodring to him:

There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: land where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.

In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sisterNienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy him and scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest version of his story by JRR Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterwards, when the Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to final and finished form. In this book, I have endeavoured to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.

I am looking forward to finishing this book. I have started reading the 10-paged Introduction already. Hopefully, Peter Jackson would make a movie version of this literature. And also, I'm looking forward to writing my reviews/reflections as what I did with the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I always wanna find where God is in every epic movie I see (book I read).

Look of the Year

It's happening now. There's a beauty contest that will be happening and it's going to be a world wide event. Who can join this beauty contest? If you are young and beautiful and you think you have what it takes to be a famous model, please come and join. You might be the lucky person to win the title, and win cash... as in cold cash worth 10,000$! This is open to all people from all over the world. You may submit your most beautiful shot and you could be that "one" to be the next model working in Paris, Milan and New York. Sounds really exciting. If you want to know more about this contest, please check out http://www.lookoftheyear.com. Right now.

EntreCard Drop List

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I have been card dropping and blog reading nowadays. It sure is fun discovering blogs thru Entrecard. I just love entrecard. And besides, it helps with my blog traffic too because everytime I drop my card, friends would usually return the favor and visit my blog and drop theirs. I joined red hot drops and it's fun dropping cards there. But they only have 100 droppers in the list. I wanna drop more cards by doing my own entrecard drop list. If you're an entrecard member and wants me to visit your blog and drop some love, please join in and enter your url... only if you have entrecard card, please. Leaving a comment would be a lot better too.

Note: I may take off your link if you don't have an entrecard in your blog. sorry. for entrecard users only.

Another note: if you want to have the list, just leave a comment and say so and I will send you the html version of the list so you can have it too. :) Come join the fun and explode your traffic!

Pexlink Triple Love Project

I just joined Pinay Mommy's Pexlink Triple Love Project.This project aims to achieve the following.

1. To have a lot of technorati fans.
2. To have a lot of RSS subscribers. (if we can't visit all blogs, we can always check what's new in just one click if you use a rss reader)
4. To have regular EntreCard droppers.
5. To get your blog exposed to others (you might have great content – all it needs is a little push to be seen by the world).
6. To have more friends in the blogosphere!!!

How to participate?

1. Write a post about this project and how this project can show love to fellow bloggers.
2. After that, leave a comment here with your post permalink, technorati fave link, rss/feeds link, your blog’s name and link, EntreCard user details (why? read more below) and email (for updates please). You can optionally grab the banner if you want.
3. Then of course, please don’t forget to do the following:

* Fave 300 participants of this projects (more if you want)
* Add the blogrolling script at your post (to the post about this contest)
* Subscribe to their RSS/Feeds using bloglines – highly recommended (or any reader or email subscription if you want).

I just joined. I find it very helpful for my blog, too. If you wanna give some love and meet friends just click the image down and it will take you to the project.

Weekend Snapshot 18 - Megakidz, Midvalley

I had a good time spent with my son last Saturday. We met with my blogger friend Josiet and her family and spent time at Megakidz at Midvalley Megamall. My boy had fun playing all over the place. He loved the place so much. Will have to take my girl there sometime. I'm sure she'll be all over the place too.

How was your weekend?

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Mother's Day

My son's communication book was sent to me once again. I knew that everytime the school sends it out, they have something to announce. This time, they just said that the kids will have something special to do on Friday, which was today and expect a surprise from them when they come home. The CB was sent last Wednesday and my DH had read it. He thought Mother's Day was on Friday so I think he started teaching DS to say Happy Mother's Day.

Last night, I was surprised coz after my son's nightly rituals (he usually would bid his good nights and I love you's everytime he goes to sleep), he leaned at me and said: "Mom, Happy Mother's day." Although it wasn't mother's day, yet, I felt that it truly was a Mother's Day to hear my boy saying that. It just touched a Mother's Heart.

Today, he came home with this card. It was pre-designed by his teacher. He just colored it.

I felt elated. It's the first time I got a card (or an award?) from my not-yet blogger son... and I'm not passing this to anybody. Hahaha. Kidding. Anyways... I'm wishing all mothers a

Happy Mother's Day

and may all of us feel the essence of a Mom: to love and nurture our kids.

Christian Cruise

I am in dire need of a nice, relaxing and refreshing holiday. But we won’t be able to do it until next month, in June. Our friend is giving us a 7-day free hotel stay on one of the Swiss Garden hotels and we’re wanting to go back to Damai Laut. I am very excited to go that’s why I’ve been searching through the internet some good stuff to do while on a holiday. And guess what information I stumbled upon.

And it is just so tempting… to go on a Christian cruise with Christians from all over the world. It’s happening on July 18, 2008 with top Bible speakers. This Mediterranean cruise is quite unique in such that there’s gonna be a Bible teaching while on board. You’re gonna be mingling around Bible believers in the whole journey of visiting those places where Apostle Paul stood and preached.

One of the places I would wanna see will be Athens. It has been my dream place to go over and visit. This is what excites me because they’re going to visit the Bible ports of Athens, Patmos, Ephesus and Pergamum. Then they’re going on board a very beautiful sailing ships! I so wish I can go and join Bible cruises like this. It would be so refreshing physically, emotionally and above all, spiritually because of the Bible teachings. I so badly needed to be refreshed and hoping I could join any Christian cruises.

Weekend Snapshot 17

I didn't join the ws last weekend. we were out somewhere and too busy to take photos. That's why I didn't know my blog was featured last week. Thanks WS!

For this ws, I took some shots of the food I made for the family. Obviously, we all had different dishes for the same meal time.

Hubby had barbecue ribs with baked potatoes and fresh carrots.

My son had rice and fried egg on top of it. He's been having this kind of meal for one month now, everyday.

I had rice with my barbecue ribs and fresh carrots. I prefer rice over potato for barbecues. :P

My girl had steamed carrots over rice which has barbecue sauce. :)

I love cooking for my family. Glad everybody enjoyed this meal over the weekend. Hope you had a good weekend too. To join the ws fun, click the image below:

Useful Tools

There are so many tools that help us earn money online. I can't help but participate in some of those. It's fun. You blog about the things you love and get paid for it. It's like having your piece of cake and eat it too. Too good, isn't it? Well, you might wanna try too. Let's have our piece of cake and eat it too. I can assure you it feels good to see results: money in our account.

Related article: My Money Making Referrals

PR Update

Google has visited us again. And once again, they have updated their page ranks. Sadly, google didn't put mine back. Hopefully I get my PR back next time. I was amazed coz my friend got PR4 in her blog. She truly deserves to have a PR. Congratulations, friend.

Looks like I have to wait for the next visit to see whether I regain my PR or not. But hopefully, next time, I get it back.

How's your PR? Or do you really care about PRs at all?