Nostalgia (my 6th)

Hey am back! I felt bad for missing this wonderful meme for some weeks. It was an unavoidable circumstances though so i hope i won’t miss this again in the coming weeks.

The photos i will be sharing with you all this week will some photos before leaving the leaving China for good. I was the emo type so i made sure i had picture taken with all the teachers (chinese english teachers) and my boss. So one day, i think the last week before leaving, we took time to take pictures in the 4th floor of the building.

~~ Me with the men in the department. Larry and Angus are teachers and Mr. Wang (in green shirt) is the communist leader in the school. I bet his work is to oversee that all teachers are teaching stuff inline with the communist teaching ~~

~~ Here’s me with the lady teachers and my lady boss (on my right) ~~

~~ with all the chinese english teachers. my boss teaches english too. ~~

I remember my boss looks extra pretty that day for this picture taking.

My eyes were already abit puffy because the last week was spent saying goodbye to colleagues and friends and there were crying sessions, too. hehehe

I don’t cook anymore, too so almost daily at lunch we eat out as it it was so cheap there.  At lunch, my boss and some teachers can accompany me.  And here’s one of me and Penny (my boss) and Linda (one of the English teachers).

The name of my last employer was: Zhangjiakou Vocational & Technological College.  My students were ages 18-21.  Studies they make after senior high school.

Making this post makes me miss my friends out there.

Renovation of Rest Room

The renovation of the rest room inside the coordinator’s office is going on. It’s almost done and a brand new beauty is soon to be seen. The tiles were changed, the bowls, as well as the sinks. They browsed online for the model of sinks they used and they like Elkay sinks products. I dunno where they bought the product because the idea of ordering online would take a much time. I bet they just order it from the Citi Hardware, the home of modernized living.

Post Crossing Update

There are 5 postacards in my desk now ready for mailing.  I hope to drop them today or tomorrow.  They are off to Finland, Russia, Brasil, and Germany.

I got my online update and they are as follows:

Your July statistics:

Country distribution: Sent postcards

Top 3 favourite postcards

Sent by you in July: favourited 1 time

All time favourites: favourited 3 times favourited 3 times favourited 2 times

Moving

Not my blog but me…am movingto another office. =)  Not sounds really bad because that office was the first office that i worked with when i was accepted to work here in this institution.   Worked there for almost 2 years.  I never thought i’d be moving there again but since there are reshuffling of several workers, i was the one picked to be assigned there.

Because of this move, i have so many things to do – saving of photos in my online album, sorting my personal file here and placed them in a box – the box i will be carrying to the other office.  I don’t have all the time now so am hoping i could do much on Saturday evening and Sunday evening.  Tomorrow which is suppose to be my last day will be spent in Cagayan de Oro for the Statistic seminar-workshop.  So will do all my personal stuff the weekend nights.  After this post i will also be checking out this iphone insurance and share it with my friends who have iphones.  They should know that they can inquire about insurance before they buy an iphone.

Iphone for me? In my dreams.  Maybe in the next 30 years – when i am already happily retired. =)

Thick Clouds Just Before the Rain

We need umbrella to sheild us from the heat of the sun.  Fan to cool ourselves.  Humidity so thick.

Suddenly…we heard thunder!

Opps we need the umbrella for the soon coming rain.

The white clouds starting to turn grey.

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Thanks to the sky watch team for this great photo meme:

Sporting Clothes

We are now back to the season where students participate in try-outs hoping to be qualified as varsity players for basketball, volleyball, badminton and other major sports here in our College.  After picking out the new players, they then will decide to get new jerseys or uniforms.  Some uniforms are unique in design and color combination also is unique that even ladies whishes to join varsity clubs so that they can avail of the uniforms.

I think all sports have it’s particular apparel.  Like people who love horses or does horse sports then they have to browse through equestrian apparel sites to check out what’s new and what’s on hot deals. I have checked it out and i saw horse’s dress and it’s so cool. I thought only dogs have clothes but am wrong – horses have clothes, too!

New Songs

I’ve been listening to very nice songs this afternoon.  They are new to me because i only heard them today.  Some are cute and lovely and a few let that heart that is in love flutter like butterfly wings.  =)

I also discovered that youtube can play music on and on without me clicking on the particular song.  All i need to is click on the auto play on to make it play on and on.  One of the songs i enjoyed this afternoon is of Kelly Chen.  I so heart Love Paradise.

I dunno when i would find true love and felt that love in paradise but I know it will come one day – in God’s time.  Wanna listen to the song?  Then check this out.

Lack of Sleep

July 20 is already an unforgetable day because it is my mom’s birthday.  But for this year, something depressing happened that the more i will not forget the July 20 of this year.  First was the news that i will be transfered to another department and the second was the discovery that i lost 7 months of blog entries in two of my blogs.  The latter was more heavier than the first so i was sleepless for several nighst that caused me to have dark under eye circles (meaning dark circles under my eyes) that is not so nice to be seen. So for two days now i put on heavy concealer to cover the dark circles.

Just few minutes ago, i discovered some way to retrieve the lost posts by googling using the direct url – and i already recovered some. Woe unto those that i have not really taken down (except for the paid posts) so this problem will just be solved in some days. I really wish to take a leave to spend the whole day in an internet bar to do this thing. But i doubt if i can do so tomorrow when there is a scheduled faculty and staff meeting. So i will try over the weekends. I know i should do it the quickest before the i will be emailed for a refund.

My Card Arrived in Austria

The latest card i sent to Austria arrived yesterday.  Not my first card to Austria but what i love about this is the comment she sent ~~

“Dear Artene,

Thank you very much for your super-beautiful card of the Alburquerque church in Bohol!

What a really lovely view, I appreciate it very much!

Yes, like you I love Postcrossing, I am virtually addicted, hehe.

I wish you all the best and many lovely cards through Postcrossing,

Cheerio, Sibylle”

Happy Birthday, Ma!

credits:

background paper – ZPBD Glow
paper 1 & 2 – Mathilde Scrap Orange Juice
Photo paper background – Laetiscrap Luca and Nathan
Add ons – Mathilde Scrap Orange Juice
Bubbles – Honey Designs Welcome to China
Template – Latham # 15

It was mom’s 68th birthday yesterday.  This should have been posted in my http://sunshineleneforlife.com blog  but when i was about to do so last night, i had a hard time logging in and when logged it tells me to update – checking up the front page,  realized that i lost 7 months of posts.  For now, the problem is not yet settled though I am not sure the posts will be retrieved but am waiting word from my host and other power bloggers.  For time being, let me do my updates n this blog.

Mom’s birthday just simply celebrated like my sis and her baby with our family friend came by.  They brought some bread and ice cream.  I also arrived with some flowers and a slice of watermelon.  I didn’t pick any fancy food because i know that she had tooth extraction yesterday morning.

I am so happy she has reached another year in life – 68!  still alive and kicking.  Though not as strong as she was 30 years ago, but am sure glad she is happy and thankful to God that she is still alive and get to enjoy life with her grandchildren

Blue Sky & Blue Waters

We visited the pool again last Friday and it was at Timoga Spring Pool. We didn’t go up the huge pool because there were lots of kids in the clan. So for the children’s safety,TSP was a great place.

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Thanks to the sky watch team for this great photo meme:

Excited for the Weekend

I am excited for the weekend to come because aside from resting from work, i have several things in my mind to be done this weekend and that includes the posting of weekend photos at our weekend memoirs blog, get pedi ( i badly needed one), start the a new blog, and of course not going to miss the Friday memes.

I just totally let go of Friday memes when i know that my weekend will be full with activities.  But seeing the things to be done list – it’s not quite long and enough reason to miss Sky watch and Looking at the sky on fridays as well as the Friday Photo Flashback.

I missed LP last night/today because I was having a hard time looking for the right photo and i finished doing my task at midnight already so I said, i will join next week.

Another thing to check out is the wrinkle remover my friend is using and telling me about. Her aunt sent her the product from the states and she is asking me if am interested. I told her that we are still to young to be wrinkled but she said that whether we like it or not, we are not yet in our forties yet we already have almost visible lines beyond our face. Huh? I then wonder should be be alarmed? Oh well, i don’t have plans of preventing aging yet i want to age but still looking good. So I will try to see what can be done to minimize or totally remove these wrinkles.

I will be posting my sky photos later tonight.  I gotta go because i need to take a shower before the curfew starts.