Dec 31

Tagged by Lolli and I am really hoping that this can be done before January 1, 2008 at least I don’t owe anyone some unfinished tags. Hahaha! Thanks Lolli.

- I love the word chocolate. In my mind they taste so yummylicious but really – I don’t eat chocolate candies or chocolate bars. If am blessed with candies and bars, I gave them away to my family.
- I was born, raised and lived most of my life now here in the Philippines but I love snow and wish that Philippines has 4 seasons.
- I want to experience staying in Afghanistan or Iraq at least a year.
- I 99% slept past beyond midnight for 5 years now.
- I love Chinese food but I don’t like their watery sweets.
- I can live life without meats.
- I don’t have plans of getting married again but yet I dreamed to have that wedding every young girls’ dream.

Now am tagging the following:

1. Jen of Cellulitic Bliss
2. Mommy Angel of Mommyness
3. Leena of Blogging in My Pyjamas
4. Tin of Pinaymommy
5. Sexy Mom of Unpredictable Life
6. Darlene of Utah Mommy
7. Mayi of Nutty Thoughts

to keep this tag going and here are the rules:
- Write 7 weird things about you
- Link back to the one who tagged you
- Tagged 7 others and inform them that they are tagged.

Happy Tagging!

Dec 30
I didn’t busy myself today in shopping for food for the new year’s night. Instead I busied myself cleaning. “totally” cleaning (head to toe) (top to bottom) my bedroom. I started at 9 AM and I ended up past 3. I moved the pc case and pc outside the bedroom and change the position of the bed. It ended up that we got almost half of the room unoccupied. It does not matter the door won’t open wide but at least we got more than a meter wide space of floor. Dimple likes the new look very much.

My wrist is painful. I guess I have used it so much in washing last night and when I wringed the towel, it was jst suddenly painful. I have experienced this before too back in china when I handwash big or heavy clothes. I hope this will just go away soon.

Tomorrow is the last day of 2007 and then 2008 comes. Goodbye 2007 and welcome 2008. May the coming year be a great year for all of us. Hope to blog later or til tomorrow my hopes and goals for the coming new year. :)

ONe interesting news I read this evening was the one that a Woman finds dead rat in her cracker. Not a dried dead rat, but it seems not yet so old because according to the news, it still stinks and she lost her appetite for the days. yayyy. You can read the whole news HERE.
Dec 29
I started my week-end with movies yesterday although i’ve been on and off watching some of my old movies in the past week to break boredom. One thing I really treasure im my movie watching was time spent being with my girl. She’s having nice time too and occassional pauses to ask and answer her questions.

I was watching Second in Command last night. It was one of the old movies of Van D and it is my 2nd time to watched it too, but last nights viewing made me think of the death of exPM – Madame Bhutto who died in a merciless death but honorable one because she was on the act of serving her country. The movie depicted USA trying to save a president from a revolutionary militia and the rescue was successful although there were many unnecessary deaths. Some of the lines i can’t forget in the movie was with President Anirev said: “if my surrender will stop kidnappings and bloodshed, it’s been a long time I have given up myself, but that is not likely to happen…” That statement made me conclude that no matter who is being voted as leader of a country or whatever organization, there will always be a handful that will never be satisfied. Anyway, it was a good movie.

After that movie, I watched Three Seasons (a Vietnamese movie). Today I started it with another old movie – Clerks – with an unforgetable tag of: Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they LIKE you. It make sense. hahaha!

This afternoon, Dimple and I snuggled in bed to watch Butterfly Effects. She think it was scary so she lay down so close to me. On the Part II, she did not finish it because she fall asleep. The movie is not Rated semi-violence and sexy so i have to cover her eyes from time to time. hahahaaha

Happy Week-end, everyone!

Dec 28
My Mind is 43% Cluttered

Your mind is starting to get cluttered, and as a result, it’s a little harder for you to keep focused.
Try to let go of your pettiest worries and concerns. The worrying is worse than the actual problems!

Heheheehe, hope to unclutter them in a year or two.

Dec 27

Here’s another blog contest that everyone of you who visits my site might like to join. This is a unique contest compared to most blog contests in the sense that the winner here is the person who has the most entries. How to do that? Read on…

Here’s how:

Subscribe to the rssFeed. (5 entries)
Post about the contest. (Each post gives you 3 entries)
Add the 125×125 button to your site. (10 entries)
Comment anywhere on this blog. (The top 5 commentators at the end of the contest period will each receive 100 entries!)

So what are you waiting for? Join the contest by reading it more HERE. This contest rans from December 25 til January 25, 2008.

Dec 27

I just wanna share this find! Incase you might have not yet known….

I bumped into a very interesting contest at Contestbeat. Guess a sound and you will win #300.00! Isn’t that cool? So click in HERE and you might be the lucky winner, if I won’t be.

All you need to do is click on that link above, then listen and guess the sound, send your entry, and wait for February 29 for the result.

Good luck!

Dec 26
One of the things that was busy during the Christmas night especially is the celphone. :) Did your phone start beeped continuously throughout the night? Well for me, not really, but it there were enough beeps to make my inbox full. Let me share with everyone of you here a greeting that really inspired me and I hope you will be, too.

Christmas wishes for all of us:
  • happiness down deep inside
  • serenity at every sunrise
  • success in every facet of your life
  • family beside you
  • caring friends around you
  • a love that never ends
  • good health within you
  • beautiful memories of yesteryears
  • a bright today, with so much to be thankful for
  • a pathway leading to better tomorrows
  • dreams that come true
  • a great appreciation for whatever you do
Dec 24
At home (December 24, 2004)

On the way to the class’ party (12/24/2004)

Christmas dinner with the English deparment faculty and staff (my treat). We had exchanging gift. Some teachers got drunk. hahaha (12/24/2004 late evening)

Me & Santa Clause at the hotel lobby (12/25/2004 3 AM – after the disco)

Christmas night shots (12/24/2005)


At home, Philippines (December 2006 :)

Dec 24

Dear Blogger Friends,

Love,

Dimple and Arlene

Dec 23
The Fives
icon1 admin | icon2 Tags/Memes, friendship | icon4 12 23rd, 2007| icon31 Comment »

Hailey tagged me with this. Thanks a lot!

5 Things Found In My Bag
- keys
- wallets
- lotion
- ballpen
- lipsticks

5 Things Found In My Wallet
- Cash (bills
- coins
- cards
- pictures

5 Things Found In My Room
- bed
- picture frames
- toy stuff
- computer
- plastic box

5 Things I’ve Always Wanted To Do
- Travel
- Shopping for groceries/shoes
- blogging
- study nursing
- more time for myself

5 Things I’m Currently Into
- pro-blogging
- managing the family
- scrapbooking
- working for my kids
- planning menu for christmas eve and new year;s eve

5 People to Tag for This Meme

Raquel
Abby
Mayi
Retche
Rosell

Dec 23
I am blogging about this just for the record because it is the first time that happened after a long long time.

My mom, me, and my daughter went out to the city to windowshop. We don’t have money but we just want to stretch our legs after being just at home for the past days. We tried to avoid the crowd so we walk passed the small streets and we walk very very slow — for the sake of my mom. We walked single file — me ahead, mom next, then dimple at the end. Dimple would like to walk ahead of me or beside me but i told her to walk behind my mom incase my mom would feel dizzy and will fall. We were so good in avoiding the crowd til we reach the market area. We enjoyed checking the relief goods thinking that we would come back one day to buy some for ourselves. Stuff from Japan and Korea were still good especially the tshirts and blouses. Ohhh I really want to pick something for myself but I told myself, maybe this is not yet the right time. Hopefully January will be better.
Mom walks so slow. Seeing her walking that speed aches my heart. It made me realize how her sickness made her so weak. We met some friends along the way and she was so happy to see one that is 78 years old. I met some aunties and some friends, too and it is a joy to exchange real smiles with them.
Ohhhh how i wish life is just so simply uncomplicated, but it is not like that for now.
Anyway, i really hope for a better year ahead!
Dec 22
While growing up, I am always told that sodas have harmful effects in our body. But I can’t help it once in a while but drink Coke. Am not a Coke addict but I love its taste. It’s many years I have stopped drinking it when there is chance of drinking it for health reasons.

Now there’s good news for all of us. There is now an available Zero Sugar Coke. It is the healthy version of coke that is good for us anytime in our life. Life at times sucks without Coke especially if you are addicted to it and you have low tolerance for sugar, but that will be over now with Real Taste Coca-Cola.


By the way, there is also a good news for creative artists!

  • There is a chance for you to direct your own clip showing Coke Zero campaign. Coke has found some old b/w film clips that you, as the director, can manipulate by using an easy voice recorder. You can write “the conversation” to your own clip and say what ever you want. Afterwards your movie competes with other movies to be the highest rated. Check more details here.

Because of this zero sugar? Am sure am gonna love coke now! :)

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