life is always the way we make it

HAPPY 2009

2009-01-16T05:48:00.000-08:00

HAPPY FAMILY! HAPPY 2009!!!

FOR LUCK IN THE NEW YEAR
Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year.

THE PROSPERITY CANDLES

each color of these candles has its meaning...and its in the small manual inside it when you buy it in Quiapo church which as well includes a prayer...you just have to observe which candle burns fast...and that's you will experience the whole year...

THE WATER OF LIFE every year, this has been our family's tradition even from our great grandparents and passed on to generations to generations to drink the water with 7 fresh petals and make sure that everyone in the family has to drink on the same glass...it symbolyzes refreshment and a life of good health...

yes, indeed everyone have a share of it! me, my husband,my kids, my sister,my brother and a cousin who was with us during the new year....

The long noodles are meant to symbolize long life, and you should take care to eat them without breaking the noodles.

CHOCOLATES which brings sweetness...

Eating Greens Eating vegetables such as cabbage, collard greens, mustard greens, chard, or kale for New Year's seems to be associated with the idea that the folded greens symbolize money and are thought to bring good fortune.

Legumes

Legumes including beans, peas, and lentils are also symbolic of money. Their small, seedlike appearance resembles coins that swell when cooked so they are consumed with financial rewards in mind.

The custom of eating pork on New Year's is based on the idea that pigs symbolize progress. The animal pushes forward, rooting itself in the ground before moving.

Malagkit Rice....

to make make blessings stick on the whole year round....

Fish Scales to Symbolize Silver

Fish, especially those with silver scales, are thought to be a lucky food for the new year

Pork for New Year's

Pork is a symbol of prosperity in many cultures, which is one reason pork dishes are often associated with New Year's feasts. Pigs are considered good luck because they root forward, symbolizing progress, and the fatty meat is also symbolic of fattening wallets

Foods like doughnuts or bagels which are shaped like rings are thought by some people to represent the year coming full circle, and are believed to bring luck.

fire crackers/
fire works....

to drive away evil spirits..

"torotots"

let's make some noise!!!

we cooked evything that we needed...and i let the kids sleep in the afternoon to make them fully charged during the midnight...because i wanted to make sure that everyone's awake during the midnight....

in the afternoon just before meeting the New Year me and my husband went to Market-market to shop all the necessary things needed for our family's celebration during the midnight...well, lucky for me that i got everything i needed though! which probably be a good sign!

....school days....

2008-08-18T03:01:00.001-07:00

hello eveyone! it's schooltime once again...yeah i know it's been in the 1st quarter since the school year has begun here in the Philippines....but i just wanted to express that my kids are once again been goin' to school...and hopefully they would both do good again like every year...

i just simply wanted both my sons be the best that they could be..not just in school but all throughout their wonderful life in general...i just wanted them to excel much their sense of good being and excellence be a lot more than the other year..like getting more and more better each and evey school year...
wishing you luck for this school year my sons!
I LOVE BOTH OF  YOU!!!

come on let's get going or we'll get late!!!

===i'm back again part2===

2008-08-07T22:59:00.000-07:00

yeah, after a long time of being out of the flow..here i am again..and will soon be knocking to each and everyone's precious doors...i believe this thing has been a part of me...but as much as i wanted to log on each and every minute of my day with this...there are still these crambling things that are beyond our control..that was why as purely human as i am i opt to stay just behind the level of my comfort zone...
but as long as i am here starting to click and tik tak once and for all these keyboard, i will once more keep in touch with you my beloved friends here there and everywhere!
so as i would say I MISS MY THING...

======i'm back!!!======

2008-07-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

hello everyone!

i miss my blogging thing soooo much that i can't help but think about it every minute and second of my day that i've been so away for long...

ohhhh..i don't want to reiterate everything or it may take me more than 2 months to tell....long story...

anywayz, what is far more important is I AM BACK!!! for good.....

i missed my friends in here sooo much!!!

now, gotta start my rounds...wait for me there in all your chatbox!!!

my pizza poch kidz....

2008-04-26T04:54:00.001-07:00

my kids are big fun of pizza poch at Pizza Hut...after a long way route inside the mall...after a very tiring walk...we ate....yuh! family's personal favorite part when going out...

here Andre stroke a pose as we arrived at the south wing of the mall...

the fresh air within the city was indeed naturally soothing!

here was the big fountain... well, i never got to take a shot while the water was high! but that was it! very nice and relaxing view...

and in this fountain where we got to throw a coin and whisper a wish! yuh, and the great thing is the coins gathered through this fountain has got to go to charity...it was afterall worthwhile indeed!

here we go as we enjoyed ourselves throwing coins!

i must say that intimate bonding with the family need not be too expensive...it's the thought behind the bond that counts the most!

BACKVIEW OF MY UNCOMBED HAIR...

2008-04-20T20:33:00.000-07:00

while going down from the escaltor in the Mall of Asia, i just so happen to take a picture of my favorite waiting area in the mall...i simply love this design and been planning to have a "mini sitting area" at the front yard for our future home...wahahaha! so nice!

whoo! but the main thing here is the backview of my uncombed hair...
i just can't believe how my hair looks like when it is uncombed...

my friends used to tell me that i am more like "sadaku" when i am in white dress...whaaaaatttt!!!!!!

just enjoying our summer here!

we never go out to the beach while hubby isn't around...

missing my bestfriend in school...

2008-04-18T00:22:00.000-07:00

this is my bestfriend in school...she was all the way been with me wherever and whenver i needed her...so sad to say that she's leaving..she's gonna be going back to her home in General Santos City...she is Brookshild..her name sounds like a celebrity name but that's her real name indeed! i like her personality of being such a nice friend..she went here at home to say goodbye...

saying goodbye to good times chatting together...eating together...hang-out together...studying together...shopping together...eating out together...etc..etc...etc...anything good under the sun...i truly missed my friend...

she is also my goodfriend at school..she is Juliet...she is very quiet...reserved...but believe me, when she laugh the whole neighborhood catch an eye up on her...she's really really nice as well...it's really worth keeping to have such great friends in your life...it was like having a cake with enough icing on it!

"nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at distance: they make latitude and longitudes..."

"a mark of genuine friendship is the previlege of being yourself and still being accepted..."

WW LINK LOVE

2008-04-15T20:01:00.000-07:00

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Worldwide Link Love! Participants:

1. Julia (Philippines)
2. Catherine (Malaysia)
3. shimumsy(u.s.a)
4. Mitch (Philippines)
5. Hailey (Philippines)
6. Sexymom (USA)
7. Liza (Philippines)
8. Sasha (Philippines)
9. Tere (Philippines)

10. Simply The Best
11. The World Wide Web Addict
12. My Daily Nourishment
13. My Euro Travel and Adventure
14. Euroangel Graffiti (Germany)
15.Venus1-Life is always the way we make it(Philippines)
16.Venus2- =ARTVEN= I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU (Philippines)
17.Venus3-VENUS...the goddess of love and beauty (Philippines)

i am tagging my ever wonderful friends
1.JESSEL
2.VINCENT
3.SHENG
4.ELIZABETH
and all the rests of my friends...

another sad story...

2008-04-15T09:38:00.000-07:00

my kids weren't really been giving up in taking good care of their favorite pet...after the violet and yellow chikkies passed away, they then again asked me to buy another pair of good ones.....they loved chicks so much! (i hope not too much when they grow up! another type of chicks i bet!!??? lol)....but then again and again, without a week of being on their hands the two little-cuty-chickkies once again bid goodbye...so sad...
i could nearly jumped up to death when they asked me to then again buy another pair! but not the chicks anymore they wanted to give it a try for little duckkies which they happen to catch their eyes on, the other sunday when we went to the church...OMG! where could we ever put all those duckkies which they've been asking for??? where on earth could i ever find a pond here in the 3rd floor of our apartment?
yet in some way, they're giving a try for little birdies...we hope this will live long this time...

kidzz banging around!!!

2008-04-14T09:00:00.000-07:00

school vacation is here once again..kids are all in tact and bound to do what they ought to do (but not behind nor over the boarderline of freedom! lol)...

i was just wondering how they acted with their toy guns...as they say "criminally good-looking" in action...my kids are the kind of kids who knows how to find themselves anti-boredom though you put them on one small corner side...they know how to suit themselves without telling them to do this and not to do that..at this early they had learned what's a big YES behind the NO and in the same manner, the big NO behind the awfully sinful YES...

it's indeed great to be a kid once again! you laugh! you live! you are hurt, but the pain fades away too easily! and they love so tenderly sincere!

my kids' poor little chicks...

2008-04-12T06:01:00.000-07:00

my kiddos used to call these 2 tiny-cuty-chickkies as

violetty and yellowetty...

isn't it cute enough? but so sad to say that these pictures are already meant

to be "in memory of violetty and yellowetty"...

the two had already passed away...

when hubby bought these two my kids were totally glad...

but sad to say that they couldn't survive a new world here at home in the 3rd floor...
the niche isn't that condusive enough for such little chicks as them...

there's never any soil where they could normally scratch...and

the temperature for incubation everytime they retire from the day...

oh.....

my kiddos were totally sad..

but at least the photographs remains....

at least these two little chickkies had brought happiness in our home...

they had poured on gladness for my kids...

bid goodbye to you two tiny little chikkies!

bye and thank you for making us happy...

little chikkies...

my "must-read" nuggets of wisdom

2008-04-09T23:50:00.000-07:00

hi there folks just wanna share with you some of my personal favorite nuggets of wisdom about being WITTY:

If you must choose between two evils,

pick the one you've never tried before.

If you can't have what you want change your mind.

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished!

Accidents don't just happen. They must be carelessly planned.

If someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

loving my crowning glory....

2008-04-07T23:27:00.000-07:00

loving my long black hair....

ever since, my hair had never experieced being applied with different chemicals into it...

except for shampoo and not all the time the hair conditioner...

virgin hair as they say...

i really take extra care of my hair...

and loving every strand of it...

i never gets tired combing it and i never cut it so brutally short...

except for little trimmings...

give your hair all the love it deserve...

and believe me, it gives back more happiness for you

than you can ever think of...

head over heart? heart over head?

2008-04-06T23:45:00.000-07:00

i was so surprised! i thought i was using more my brain before my heart beats!

try this friends and you'll enjoy!

You Follow Your Heart

You're romantic, sentimental, and emotional.

You tend to fall in (and out of) love very quickly.

Some may call you fickle, but you can't help where your emotions take you.

You've definitely broken a few hearts, but you're not a heartbreaker by nature.

Your intentions are always good, even if they change with the wind

Do You Follow Your Head or Your Heart?

HAPPY MONTHSARY...

2008-04-05T17:37:00.000-07:00

the taste that speaks it all...

12 YEARS AND 5 MONTHS

of unconditional love...

we are now on our 12 years and 5 months of loving each other...we usually celebrate the most special day of our lives every month..which indeed reminded us that every month of it our love never changed and even grow more deep...
even when many times that we wouldn't be together during our most special times we still manage to make every bit of it as meaningful as we could be...
although we couldn't be together physically, but the most important thing of all is the spirit and depth that we both express the same mutual feelings toward each other...

ARTVEN FOREVER....be safe there in the ship my love....

I LOVE YOU AND I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU!

WHAT DO WE NEED TO KOW ABOUT ANGER?

2008-03-30T08:02:00.000-07:00

the size of the person can be measured by the size of the thing that makes him/her angry!

anger is an acid that can do more harm to the container in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured!

if anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it!

lazy day....

2008-03-30T07:30:00.000-07:00

hello everyone!

how's life been goin through today? well, mine was hhMmmnn...kinda a lazy day today...i just stayed here at home..did nothin' much..this was all probably that my kids had occupied my throne in our PC area...school vacation..and i could hardly even touch the keyboard nor the mouse either! wahahaha...i just stayed on the side waiting for them to get bored..but believe me they never get bored...goshhh...

but fat chance for me by next week, since i had enrolled both of them for a summer class...some kind of an advancement class for the school year..

and right now..they are all up to bed...now is my thinnest chance again..huhuhu sleepy as i am but i still get to keep in touch with my blogging thing!

i know this helped me awaken my sleepy senses...hahaha!!! especially when friends and foes drop by through ny chatbox! that indeed made me feel awake!

TAKE TIME

2008-03-28T08:09:00.000-07:00

hello everyone!

i just wanna share with all of you this poem worth learning for!

please do take time to read...

and feel...

here it is.....

TAKE TIME

Take time to read

It is the foundation of wisdom,

Take time to think

It is the source of power,

Take time to work

It is the price of success,

Take time to remember

It seals the promise of friendship and love,

Take time to give

It fills a heartful of need,

Take time to play

It is the secret of perpetual youth,

Take time to look around

It reveals the beauty in truth,

Take time to love

IT IS THE ESSENCE OF LIFE....

MY SON'S GRADUATION

2008-03-27T03:12:00.000-07:00

a very heartwarming disbelief and pride putting on 3 gold medals....

i am more than just proud of you son!!!

Vince Andre with his his proud kuya Vince Arthur....

ALL THE HARDWORKS HAS INDEED PAID OFF...

this is for you dad...

be safe there in the ship...

we missed you so much!!!

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH

hey! hey! hey! it's been a little while since i haven't kept in touch with my blogging thing! and it pimps my butt a lot!!! hahaha !!! i've been missin' this all the days of being out for a while...

well, well, well....it was because i made all the effort for my son's graduation...

i spend all my time and even after the graduation treat!!!

well, i was just been so overwhelmed...because my son got three gold medals! and he was indeed one of the class academic awardee!!!

who would have thought about having such an award for a little naughty-naughty little boy of mine...

we even have an absolute "marshall law" when mastery tests and quarter exams arrive...

but i was just been so proud of him! my little brainy boy!!!

how's life goin' on?

2008-03-23T18:42:00.000-07:00

good morning everyone!

well, just woke up a little late today..some kinda easter aftershock! hahahaha no,no,no never at all...well, just back to the normal way of life..just that it's the final rehearsal of my son, Andre's graduation..in preparation for tomorrow...he's gonna be graduating in preschool... :)

well, here i am once again sitting down on my throne doing my thing...oh oh oh blogging has really been my thing..OMG! this has been part of my system!..... seems like it follows the same blood flow of my daily routine that i can't live without it! whaaaaaaaaattt!!!!!!

where am i now? i thought i'm just gonna be checking mails, sending glitteries to my friendster folks, updating MySpace, checking what's new to Hi5...but oh? my oh! i've alloted too much in blogging! isn't it unfair to my other online accounts? well, i know i can manage everything..it's just probably that i am yet new here..and it hitted my senses!

well, gotta go blog hopping folks! gotta visit each one of you!!! see u in all your chatbox!!!

my family's easter celebration!!!

2008-03-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!

well, me and my two sons just celebrated our easter watching movies til we get tired...from comedy, wrestle mania....etc...etc...anything that we desire to watch we have plenty of movie collections here...and we do not have easter egg hunting here in our place...but we never get to the mall it's not our mall sked yet!

well, spending it inside the house makes it a lot budget-wise! wahahaaha! but since hubby is still onboard we usually stayed at home...it's so nice to celebrate it together with the entire family..but he needs to work...but the good thing is, my brother and his girlfriend arrived here at home..an additional family fun!!!

we cook and cook and cook...eat and eat and eat!!! yeah! cooking together and eating together is a lot more fun!!!

that's how we celebrate our easter season!!!

always remember that like in any celebrations in our lives from the simplest to grandeur, it's never the place nor the number of guests that count most but the special persons and the real happiness you shared makes every celebrations in any occassions worthwhile!

AGAIN, HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!

WHAT KIND OF EASTER EGG AM I ???

2008-03-21T22:33:00.000-07:00

VERY INTERESTING FOLKS!

TRY THIS!!!

What Your Easter Egg Says About You

You are cheerful, friendly, and open minded.

You do your best to make sure everyone is happy, including yourself.

Empathy comes easily to you. You are very forgiving.

You don't hold grudges. You easily forget about any negativity in your life.

The Easter Egg Personality Test

HOLY SATURDAY

2008-03-21T21:13:00.000-07:00

On Holy Saturday the Church waits at the Lord's tomb,

meditating on His suffering and death.

The altar is left bare,
and the sacrifice of the Mass is not celebrated.

Only after the solemn vigil during the night,

held in anticipation of the resurrection,

does the Easter celebration begin,

with a spirit of joy that overflows into the following period of fifty days.

HAVE A BLESSED HOLY SATURDAY EVERYONE!!!

i slept late again....ggrrrrrr

2008-03-21T09:31:00.000-07:00

here i am once again...i kept on telling myself that i gotta give myself a new leaf by sleeping not really that early but in a normal time...it's been too long now since i joined this blogging thing that i slept late every night..but wew! never did i blamed myself for that! i've been addicted to this! 2am seems like a normal sleeping time for me now..wahahaha!!! how will my hubby react to this? he's still onboard and i never told him that i've been so much addicted to this which just started in a little while...i know he'll understand me when he arrives home...but of course, he is always on my first list to email each day...every bits and nitch during the day i kept on updating him...about the kids, school, stuffs at home and of course the real affection to ease the loneliness afar...
but i guess i must go to bed now...i've got too much for this day.....
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sweetdreams........

oh! i just heared our theme song from my FM phone! "I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU" wahahaha!!!!!!! it wakes up my senses again!

but gotta part flipping my fingers...i'll take this moment...listening and feeling more in-loved........

MY FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL POEM #2: "thinking power"

2008-03-21T07:06:00.000-07:00

THINKING POWER

(The Law of Success)

If you think you are beaten you are...

If you think you dare not, you don't,

If you like to win, but you think you can't,

It is almost certain, you wont.

If you think you are lose, you are lost...

for out in the world we find,

Success begins in fellow's will,

It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are...

You've got to think high to rise,

You've got to be sure of yourself,

Before you can even win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go

to the stronger or faster man,

but soon or late, the man who wins

Is the man who THINKS HE CAN!

THE KIND OF FRUIT I AM......

2008-03-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

TRY THIS EVERONE! THIS INDEED SPEAKS THE REAL SELF IN ME...

You Are an Apple

You are strong, powerful, and even a bit stubborn at times.

You have enough strength to help those around you in trouble.

You are adventurous and charming. Many people are drawn to you.

You love life, and you enjoy traveling the world. You enjoy fine food, art, and culture.

People have accused you of being a snob, but that's not accurate.

You do enjoy the best things in life. Unlike snobs, you truly appreciate quality... not just pretend to.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

"GOOD FRIDAY" PRAYER

2008-03-20T20:23:00.000-07:00

ANYONE WHO SHALL READ THIS PRAYER SHALL BE TOUCHED BY THE MOST POWERFUL HAND...AND YOU SHALL BE CLEANSED BY YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS...AND YOUR FAMILY SHALL LIVE IN PEACE AND ABUNDANCE AND EVERFLOWING JOY!

LORD, OPEN MY LIPS,

AND MY MOUTH SHALL DECLARE YOUR PRAISE...

MY LORD, YOUR SON HAD SUFFERED SO MUCH,
SHED SO MUCH BLOOD....
I WAS BORN WITH SO MANY FAULTS,
AND MY NATURE IS SO FULL OF WEAKNESS,
AND YET YOUR SON JESUS HAD DIED ON THE CROSS
FOR ME......
I KNOW YOUR GRACE HAS THE POWER
TO CLEANSE ME ON MY MANY SINS,
AND TO MAKE ME MORE LIKE YOUR SON...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND LOVE FOR ME...
I ASK YOU, FATHER TO WATCH ME ALWAYS...

let's teach each and every member of our family to PRAY...esp. our kids, they'll live up to it til they grow up...a child who lives up with prayer remains to have a good heart...

it is the most powerful tool against anything...

let's not count all our misfortunes..instead let's count all our BLESSINGS each day of our lives...

and believe me, all our blessings are much more than the misfortunes that we have and in fact all those misfortunes, sorrows or even problems are just life's daily spices to make us even STONGER and to remember GOD in our daily lives....

HAVE A BLESSED GOOD FRIDAY MY EVERYONE!!!

MY FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL POEM #1: "always have a dream"

2008-03-20T08:31:00.000-07:00

hi folks! i just wanted to share with you this very inspirational poem which indeed in my personal favorite...

i had lived with this..and i hope you would live this out too....

here it goes....

ALWAYS HAVE A DREAM

(by: Amanda Bradley)

Forget about the dayswhen it's been cloudy,
but don't forget your hours in the SUN...
Forget about the times you've been defeated,
but don't forget
the VICTORIES you've won...

Forget about the mistakes
that you can't change now,
but don't forget
the LESSONS ypu've LEARNED...

Forget about misfortunes
you've encountered,
but don't forget
the times your BLESSINGS has turned...

Forget about the days
when you've been lonely,
but don't forget
the friendly SMILES you've seen...

Forget about the PLANS
that didn't seem
to work out right,
but don't forget to
ALWAYS HAVE A DREAM!

1st TECHNIQUE: writing a good essay

2008-03-19T22:56:00.000-07:00

STARTING UP YOUR ESSAY:

i had actually watched over an interview with a famous Hollywood film director who once said that he wanted to make a film that began with an earthquake and worked up to a climax.

your essay should do the same---it should begin with an earthquake! it's first line must hit hard!

you must open with zest and snap and zip!

your sentence must have the fierceness of a flash of lightning, the surprise value of blitzkrieg...it must amaze, astound, awake its reader!

it must have force!

CLOSING DOWN YOUR ESSAY:

in closing the essay, aim for an ending which rounds off the essay...do not leave the reader in the middle of an idea..sum up your work by a neat, bright ending...

the best way to of ending up your essay is to end it with a line that reminds the reader of opening..."hack back" to the opening...

if you can sum up with a brilliant wisecrack, then use your very best sentence as your showplace for your showpiece...

a final wisecrack----a "sting in the tail" may be a perfect ending!

VERY IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER IN WRITING YOUR ESSAY:

1. keep words short

2. keep sentences short

3. keep paragraphs short

4. defeat your problems:

a. if you can't spell it, don't write it

b. if you can't punctuate it, don't write it

at all times it is a good plan for inexperienced writers to keep their sentences short. i advise you, never carry a sentence beyond its natural stopping place. if you can end a sentence at any point, do...

dont ramble on and on, like gossip....

concise, brief writing give your work bite, punch, snap, fire, directness, force, zip, zest and life!

SO, WHAT'S THE TECHNIQUE IN PASSING AN EXAMINATION?

2008-03-19T22:30:00.000-07:00

Let me share this actual school situation with you guys and realize who between the two succeed in an examination?

here it goes............

a full-time, serious, pale-faced, industrious student works for fourteen hours everyday..he had read widely on his subject..he can in fact discuss it most learnedly..everybody knows he is the most industrious student in school.

a second pupil-------- who never seems to do any work, but who spends his time relaxing his mind and---mixes freely with his fellows...nobody expects him to shine in the exams...

strangely enough, the full-time intellectual had gained only moderate mark, while the top grades have gone to his carefree rival.

this indeed happens all over the country..the superior scholar is defeated by a less studious colleague...the reason for this lies in examination technique.

this means to say that...

IT IS NOT THE BEST STUDENT NOR THE BEST SCHOLAR WHO GAINS THE HIGHEST MARKS IN EXAMINATION. IT IS THE SCHOLAR WITH THE GREATEST KNOWLEDGE OF EXAMINATION TECHNIQUE....

HOW TO PASS AN EXAMINATION

2008-03-19T21:05:00.000-07:00

I am as well a student mom...i wanted to share with you my not really a secret, shall i call this some strategies on how i made it during examinations...

I believe this is important for us moms who needs to budget our time..the right management of our time and attention towards our family, kids, husband, household..etc...

and here it is folks..i hope this might help us student mommies...

i wanted to first share with youthe shining rule:

"it isn't a matter of knowing about your subjects it's a matter of knowing all about exams..."

that is the basis which i indeed applied in the 1st place...i had met scores of sad students who will testify to it's truth. They had failed exams, not through ignorance of their subjects, but through ignorance of examination technique.

in general, advices in my succeeding posts will be helpful for the exams normally taken around the different ages, even though the name of the exams may be different in certain countries...

hang on for my succeeding posts folks!

TODAY IS MAUNDY THURSDAY

2008-03-19T18:47:00.000-07:00

A TIME TO THINK.......

it is in the shelter of each other that people live........

TO ACT....

always look to the good you can do in every situation....

TO PRAY......

thank you Lord, for the healing power of hope....

HAVE A BLESSED MAUNDY THURSDAY EVERYONE!

DO YOU HAVE A PRAYER TIME?

2008-03-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

An American clergy, Henry Ward Beecher, said that PRAYER is an effective tool in facing life's complexities. According to him, in the morning, PRAYER is the key that opens to us the treasure of God's mercies and blessings, in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and guidance. Hence, every person should have a prayer time...

Friends, i would like to share with you this very special poem which i got from Ralph Spaulding...take a glance at this and it will touch your inner depth! here it goes..........

SECRET

I met God in the morning,
When my day was its best.
And His prescence came like sunrise,
Like a glory in my breast.

All day long His presence lingered,
All day long He stayed with me,
And we sailed in perfect calmness,
O'er a very troubled sea.

So I think I know the SECRET,
Learned from many a troubled way,
You must seek Him in the morning,
If you want Him through the day!

i hope you love it friends! always remember to stay in God's prescence whether it may be in the day or in the night!

take good care! and God Bless you all!

MY BOYS WEAR MY BRA!!!

2008-03-18T08:26:00.000-07:00

MY FAMILY'S FUNNY PIX :)

i indeed have a really humurous and the most waggish family where everyone has a share of laughters!

OMG!!! i didn't noticed that my boys were doing something naughty inside the bedroom while i was in the kitchen preparing for dinner! i was just wondering why the 3 of them share the same intensity of mirth!

there they go! wearing something which were not theirs! my little one was in fact their sanctioned paparazzo!!!

these are just some of my family's tick and jiffy! and this makes us alive where laughter is the main element!

therefore, it is important to live each day as happy as can be! this makes the world even much round!

i'm back again...

2008-03-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

i'm back once again...hhmmnn and as usual still doing my daily improvisions of my blog..and i am still confused with how am i gonna do with my other blog at bravenet...huhuhuhu but anyways, i'll never give up..i'll still try to do something new and a lot more better...and i am indeed so pleased that i already had friends at this early since my registration..thank you so much to those bloggers who really understand me and they never underestimate the way i make my blog..i will try to make this nice and far more interesting like all of you my good friends online...once again, thanks to you jessel for your patience with me that every now and then i ask you so many questions on how to do this and that! you really are a natured real nice friend! you are indeed geniticallly blessed with great intelligence and beauty!
alright, i will now once again explore my site once again friends!
thank you friends for being part not just in my bloglife but in my real life as well!
God bless you all!

pppsssttttt!!!!

2008-03-17T11:27:00.000-07:00

by the way, i hope you can all hop on my new bravenet account:

http://artven.bravejournal.com

thanks!

i had just signed up my new facebook account and bravejournal account

2008-03-17T11:20:00.000-07:00

whew! i had just signed up my new bravenet account! at last i indeed made it! but it's not really that fascinating yet since i still have to make some explorations and revisions from it...i find it a little bit complicated there, but probably this is just some kind of my first impression for my new blog account..i am yet new not just there but also here...i know i still need somebody to help me out with some details in here and out there! hehehe
but for now, i gotta take some rest..it's past 2am here...but anyways, it's vacation time again for my kids..no more early morning wake-ups....

good day everyone!

the unfinished business of PACQUIAO & MARQUEZ

2008-03-16T19:13:00.000-07:00

i had witnessed yesterday the breathtaking fight between the two boxing legends of their time...

EMMANUEL (Manny) "Pacman" PACQUIAO
and
JUAN MANUEL "Dynamite" MARQUEZ

yes, every streets and zones all over the Philippines were as quiet as the dawn..while every people gathered on together for another moment of wrangle in the boxing arena!

this is the exact spot and locus where the brawl between the legends actually ensue!

can you spot how they have similarities for their defense and dependency? spot it...come on!

yes! they both have an army! an army which they depend on to guard each of them during their bout..

they both have a ROSARY on their chest! isn't it amusing! guy as brave and crammed with anguish for a fight scuffed a the symbolism contradictory for which they will be undertaking?

which may indeed hughly employ that behind the bravery, behind the strength and even heroism there is this one most premier, ultimate and supreme being above all!

and who deserves the victory?

once, again another count on for our prodigy...he has the PRAYER over POWER...

FELICITATIONS TO THE EXTREME WARRIOR OF ALL TIMES!!!

EMMANUEL "MANNY-PACMAN" PCQUIAO!!!

a great valor that each and every Filipinos are so proud of!

my favorite text message received

2008-03-15T19:19:00.000-07:00

hello everyone!

HAPPY PALM SUNDAY!!!

well, i am just so extatically touched with this text message i received from Ms. Ivy Cortel my co-employee before in Metro Drug,Megalifesciences Inc. as she always does sending senseful text messages always help my senses awaken! and here the message goes!

"NEVER LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE BAD HABIT OF BEING NEGATIVE, BECAUSE THEY STEAL THE BEST ASPIRATIONS OF YOUR HEART. ALWAYS REMIND YOURSELF OF THE POWER OF THE WORDS THAT WE HEAR OR READ. ALWAYS CHOOSE TO LISTEN ONLY TO WORDS THAT WILL EMPOWER YOU TO BE BETTER..."

isn't it nice! simple but indubitable! i really like every messages she sends to me...it helps me warn myself how to be better enough! i hope it will struck all you guys who happen to take a sneak peak on my blogs!

HAVE A HAPPY PALM SUNDAY MORNING!

my precious gifts in my priceless world

2008-03-14T19:37:00.000-07:00

isn't it wonderful that you are waking each day with a bundle of laughs? a barrel of joy? everyday is never "a-dime-a-dozen"! yet no wonder waking up to start for a brand new day is an onset of every twitch beginning without thinking how would the day ends! you will indeed forget how time overstep and outstrip each and every tick of the clock with these little treaures by your side...no pecuniary nor on an equal footing for a real hand personally upkeep my very special ones...

watching them grow each day is such a pleasure at heart...giving all the sentry and sentinel uplift my spirit each waking day of my life...that is why i highly salute the moms of real profession in taking good care of their little ones...a kind of proficiency where you live and you learn each of the beautiful days with them...

yes, it is and every mother's divination for the "feat and hit" of her child's imminents and forthcomings...watch them as they grow and they will watch you as you aged...there is so much more than the attention in every piece of their growth years than laying it on to others...a mother's hand is as worthwhile as the love it instill...a mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive...

2nd PRICELESS FRUIT OF MY BECOMING

2008-03-14T04:38:00.000-07:00

VINCE ANDRE

how good really God is that He once again entrusted me another life...a life that would once again change my life into something much better...October 8, 2001 the exact date where this beautiful boy catched sight of this flora and fauna...he turns my life into a much better becoming...

yet no wonder why everybody loves him...morally naughty, way-ward with a honeyed attitude which add inspiration to my diurnal foray...truly a God-given gift...

VINCE ANDRE

my ever kith and kin...ever regarded, ever important, ever weighty...my ever and ever loved...
I LOVE YOU DEARLY SON!

1ST PRICELESS FRUIT OF MY BEGINNING

2008-03-14T02:24:00.001-07:00

VINCE ARTHUR

this is our son...the eldest of two...December 15, 1998 the date where he saw the real world full of wonders...i had carried him through my poor womb when i was yet in my teenage years...i felt terrified, petrified and yet too anxious...

but look at him now...grown-up...very wonderful kid that God had entrusted me...nothing could compare the blissful gift of life that The Almighty had blessed me...

VINCE ARTHUR

the person that adds enough colors to my life...

THE ULTIMATE MAN IN MY LIFE-my ex-boyfriend

2008-03-14T00:55:00.000-07:00

ARTHUR

the absolute perfection of my flaws...

he may had gone through all the stupiest odds of fighting...

there and then my ULTIMATE SUPERHERO...

indeed my real CRUSADER, HERO, RESCUER, FIGHTER, PROTECTOR, PROVIDER and most of all my ALL-TIME AFICIONADO...

i love him despite of all his imperfections...

he is my undying forever...

nobody else gyrate around my life but him...

i've been so beholden and more than jammy that THE MOST HIGH had blessed me this man who was never been in a million but the only holiest thing alive...
see, how i sanctified him not just my life but my ALL...

i just simply wanted to tell the whole world how dignified i am of having him as my...

ex-boyfriend....who now becomes my HUSBAND...

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH and I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU!

MY TRIP TO ABS-CBN "WOWOWEE"

2008-03-11T20:39:00.001-07:00

plan...plan...plan...was afterall i got from day to day conversation to personally visit out family's favorite noontime show "wowowee"..it all started to come into reality when my sister-in-law's fiancee from London come in the Philippines to visit her.

March 10, 2008 the very exact date where we all gone through ABS-CBN...to cut the long story short the management never entertained us at the reservation area because we nevermade an appointment online since we are requesting for a seat for the TFC televiewer..and the slots for walk-in studio viewers are already full...if we insist, the next schedule for us would be July 1,2008 to have our seats for WOWOWEE be granted! whaaaattt!!!!!! thinking that we would be granted since we are together with a subscriber from London with us...we waited and waited and waited...until i don't know if they got pitty with us or got their conscience shaken..the tour guide offer us a studio tour...that was probably the persistance of Ullas (my sister-in-law's fiancee) he insisted that we see the show for the nth times...and, alas! we got what we were entirely been looking for! but note it, it was even more! we had given the chance to tour all around ABS-CBN studios...very fullfilling and we got to see countless of celebrities all around ABS-CBN walk-way...and right after our feet got tired of roaming all around the ABS-CBN vicinity...just in time that we got the chance to see in full and in front row seats the famous lunch viand for each and every Filipinos "WOWOWEE"!!!

I tell you, seeing from a normal television is too far different thanwhen you are in the real show...very enjoyable! it was indeed true that you got to forget everything that you left behind...the show was indeed alive and everybody are extatically all at its high spirits!

i love it! you better try it yourself! seing it in a reality is far more better than simply sitting down on you living room!

WOWOWEE!!!!