If Maria Aragon got a whirlwind week after she talked to Lady Gaga, then show up in Ellen Degeneres show and now at Good Morning America, I could say I have my own share of whirlwind weekend in a different way. As you know, all teachers should make grades, fill in report cards and make worksheets after every school semester and I'm not exempted of it. For the whole week I've been in front the computer typing grades and filling up report cards and reconstructing my summer class worksheets. It's draining all my energy and now I'm so tired and weary that my hubby sent me to a hair saloon for he knows it's enough to revived my strength....yeaaahahhhh!!! Now my hair's rebonded but I don't have a photo to show you coz I'm not in the mood of posing in front the camera, maybe tomorrow before going to church. All I want to do now is just sit down, read, eat and pray. God's sooo good to me this week. He saw our needs and He provides in amazing ways!!! I gotta give you the details later after I finished reading about uncle mikes Trunk Organizer review.
Uncle Mikes Trunk Organizer
This trunk organizer is a perfect gift for our godfather who loves hunting. The custom compartment sizing makes transporting and organizing his hunting equipment easier than ever. I think I saw something like this in Sports World inside Robinson Mall. Hope it's on sale.
My souvenir photo with my K-1 learners during the school fair. Aren't they darlings? I gonna miss them but I'm sure we'll see each other again next school year. They can't wait to be in Anuban 2 (K-2). Surrounded with children, I always feel young, won't you?
Are you following Lady Gaga's tweet? Well it's what everybody's waiting for "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTW-14e6KsE Such a doll. Monstercovers are all beautiful. I love this song so much,thanku for giving it life." (21 hours ago the moment I'm writing this) and she's referring to Maria Aragon- 10 year-old Fil-Canadian that I blogged HERE! She's finally a guest in Ellen Degeneres Show and she received a standing ovation for her performance!
Another Filipino pride in the name of Maria Aragon. Hoping she will be given full support from foreign media. We have so much talented fellow Filipinos abroad. Long live super talented Filipinos and Lady Gaga is absolutely right- you are the future.
I'm guilty of being soooooo BUSY. I have to admit that this past few days I'm too busy that I decrease my time of just being still to be with God, I just read a chapter a day instead of 2 or more and just do quick prayers. Satan knew that as long as we CHRISTIANS stay close to God he and his demons have no power over us so as much as possible they do the following to keep us away from God:
(1) Keep us busy with non-essentials.
(2) Tempt us to overspend and go into debt.
(3) Make us work long hours to maintain empty lifestyles.
(4) Discourage us from spending family time, for when homes disintegrate there's no refuge from work.
(5) Overstimulate our minds with television, computers, internet, blogging so that we can't hear God speaking to us.
(6) Fill our dashboards with opportunities,and our coffee tables and nightstands with newspapers and magazines so we've no time for Bible reading.
(7) Flood our letter boxes with sweepstakes, promotions and get-rich-quick schemes; keep us chasing material things.
(8) Put glamorous models on TV and on magazine covers to keep us focused on outward appearances; that way we'll be dissatisfied with ourselves and their mates.
(9) Make sure couples are too exhausted for physical intimacy; that way we'll be tempted to look elsewhere.
(10) Emphasize Santa and the Easter Bunny; that way we'll be diverted from the real meaning of the holidays.
(11) Involve us in 'good' causes so we won't have any time for 'eternal' ones.
(12) Make us self-sufficient. Keep us so busy working in our own strength that we'll never know the joy of God's power working through us.
Have you figured out the difference between being busy and being successful in what God's called us to do? Sometimes being B-U-S-Y just means Being Under Satan's Yoke! Christians, let's be aware!
I woke up early this morning and paused before entering the day. I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray...a true and honest prayer it was!
This family photo of ours is one of my favorite. It was taken by one of my friends who’s passion is blogging and photography. She’s also one of the reasons why I ventured the word of blogging. I even made this photo as our computer’s wallpaper. The moment I saw it bigger on our screen, I noticed something-my hair’s thinning especially the temple part! I used to have thick, black hair but now that my hair undergone dyeing and rebonding plus postpartum hair loss, it’s getting thinner and that makes me sad…so sad...I have really bad hair!
I want to bring back the glow and thickness of my hair. Could you recommend the best hair loss products that I could use? I’ve told one of my Thai friends about this concern and instead of recommending me hair loss products, she recommended BEER! I thought she's just kidding but she's not! According to her that though beer is usually associated with drinking, but it has excellent biotin supplements.
I'll just mix 1 cup of beer (the darker the better, dark beer contains more biotin in it) and 2 teaspoons of jojoba oil. These ingredients will compose my bitin shampoo. I'll massage the scalp gently and leave it on for 10-15 minutes. Rinse off with luke warm water.
I gonna try this tonight. I'm really hoping that this "BEER shampoo" will surely promote hair growth. Wish me luck dearies.
A lot of women take weight loss pills here in Thailand. If in Philippines, I seldom hear about that but here it’s very common . I knew some Thai co-teachers of mine who’s getting married , they popped pills to lose weight on their wedding day. I could say that it’s very effective but I think that losing 3 kilos a week is alarming . Isn’t that too speedy? Some says that some of the slimming pills are actually amphetamines. A friend of a friend confessed that when she takes one she is so active. She sleeps only 2 hours a day and could talk nonstop for 22 hours a day!
So, do diet pills work? They do work but I think they would not be good for me. My health is my wealth!
Few months after giving birth, I had difficulty in defecation so I was advised to take laxatives to aid a smoother way to defecate and to help me colon cleanse or body cleanse. After a month of using, I noticed that I lose weight and I loving it. But I stopped using it when I read a very alarming article stating out the fact that someone taking laxatives will only cause harm and not lose weight because the laxatives work usually to empty the large intestine but the majority of calories, nutrients and fats are absorbed by the small intestine. What the laxative does is act as a diuretic and create the risk for dehydration and water loss, which gives the ILLUSION of weight loss. This is seriously harmful for your health! This can lead to insomnia, restlessness, severe headaches, heart palpitations, weakened bones, and other serious health issues. It further explains that a laxative works as an IRRITANT to the nerves of the colon. Long term laxative use can actually damage the nerve cells in the colon, causing it to lose its natural ability to contract. Laxatives can create a physical dependency. When you stop taking laxatives, the bowel is unable to function normally and constipation will be CREATED! This is what my hubby told me too!
So now I simply drink lots of water for a smoother way to defecate and also a natural way of colon cleansing.
One of the good things of having a music buff brother is to be updated of what's going on in the music industry. Every time my brother posted music videos in his FB account, I won't let it pass without viewing because I knew that it's one of his favorite or good finds. Last night, he posted a video about 10-year-old Maria Aragon doing a piano-based cover of "Born this way- Lady Gaga's newest single that she first performed last February 13 during the 53rd Annual Grammy Award. The cover of the song has gone viral- today it gets 8,616,900 views since her performance was posted last February 16 and it's still counting!
Here's the lyrics of the song:
My mama told me when I was young
We are all born superstars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
"There's nothin' wrong with lovin' who you are"
She said, "'Cause He made you perfect, babe"
"So hold your head up, girl and you you'll go far,
What do you think of the lyrics to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"? I like the point where she emphasized that God makes no mistakes in creating us! That's quite an acknowlegement of the Creator but I'm not comfortable about the issue of being gay, bi, lesbian, transgendered and having different lover. They're totally a contradiction to my belief . It's up to you how you decipher the message of the song.
On the other hand, Lady Gaga shocked this Fi-lCanadian Maria when she talked to her on phone during the latter’s interview on Winnipeg radio station Hot 103 last Feb. 18.Upon learning that Maria will be flown to Toronto (by Virgin Radio) in March to watch her show there, she personally invited her “Oh maybe you're just gonna have to come onstage with me and sing that song. What do you think?” . If you're Maria, what would you say? Maria accepted the offer with so much joy and tears while say that it would be really COOL!
How did Lady Gaga knew about Maria? During Maria's interview she only knew that Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger, tweeted Lady Gaga about her performance and on Feb.17 after Lady Gaga watched the video, she then re-Tweeted the video to her followers (over 8 million followers!) early Thursday, writing, "Can't stop crying watching this. This is why I make music. She is the future." along with the link of her performance, thus catapulting Maria into instant stardom.
Here's Maria and Lady Gaga's phone conversation:
I'm not really a great fan of Lady Gaga (maybe because of her weird fashion taste-often out of this world outfits) but I do appreciate her talent both in writing songs and performance . This video was my first time hearing Lady Gaga's plainly talking and I think that she's a sweet girl.
If you want to listen more of Maria Aragon's song you can visit her Youtube account HERE. She's been posting her performance since she's 7 years old. I love this girl. She had what it takes to be the next BIG superstar!
This happened on year 2007, few days before my flight back to Philippines to attend my wedding . My girl friends we're planning to surprise one of our girl friends who used to be my apartment mate (we live within the same apartment but with different rooms and I used to sleep with her). They plan to serenade her on her birthday at early dawn and the only way to do that is to sleep in my room which is only a room apart from her room. The celebrant is known to be a very light sleeper and usually wakes up as early as 4:00 am. How could they surprise her if she's already awake? The solution: one of them suggested that I'll let her drink an orange juice with a mixture of over the counter sleeping pills! It sounds wicked but fun ! Actually, we've already tried this sleeping pills before when we're having trouble in sleeping but we only take it on weekends. We proved that it does work!
So there I was, an accessory of the crime one fateful night. The celebrator was impressed on how I take care of her. For the first time, I served cold juice on bed and there she sipped and slept soundly.
Was our plan carried? Yes, of course but still the celebrator woke up earlier than us but we indeed surprised her! It's a birthday celebration that she won't forget- her BFF drugged her on her birthday but she loved us for that !
Do you like reading Diet Success Stories? I do. They're inspiring because they lost 10Kg each simply by changing the way they eat (though one admit that she's taking one of the top fat burners before she took the natural way of losing weight. One shares that her weight loss secrets are the following :
She cut sugary and fried foods.
She ate meals regularly and had earlier dinners.
She changed from unhealthy snacks to fruit and plain crackers.
With what she shares, I doubt if she could keep the weight off. According to the Dietician, her weight loss is ideal, slow and gradual. It could be sped up with exercises, though. Having meals on time and earlier dinners are good practices . Not sleeping with a full stomach is also very important. Sugary foods do boosts her energy but also increases her weight!Yes, snacks like fruits and crackers with fiber will sustain hunger and fill one up plus they are low in calories.
The verdict of her diet practice is OK. This eating pattern will shed the pounds and keep it off. We can try this diet, too. If it works for this woman, then it will work for us!
Last week while we're out dining , I met someone who inspires me to still look younger even I'll become a grandma. You see, at first I thought that the child she's carrying is her son (he's 2 months older than Hyzyd) but later on with our conversation she said that it's her grandchild. I really couldn't believe it because she looks so young! She just look like a woman on her late 30's instead of 56 years old. I could hardly see any wrinkles around her eyes and lips . Her skin is smooth and firm! Makes me wonder if she used any anti-wrinkle cream.
The encounter made me ponder if it's about time to use anti-aging cream. It can't be denied that aging is something I can't avoid but maybe there's some ways that I could deter the wrinkles and fine lines that come along with it. I think using an anti aging wrinkle cream can help me do just that for years to come.
My question now is "Is it time for me to use anti-aging cream?". Most experts say using an anti-aging skin care cream while you’re young can help prevent wrinkles from forming. It’s better to use anti-aging creams ‘before’ you start noticing signs of wrinkles. I started my own skin care regimen at age 20. I just used facial wash, moisturizer and pressed powder with SPF 15 on my face because the sun is a major cause of wrinkles.
Now that I'm turning 30 this year , maybe I need to add an wrinkle cream as well. What do you think ? A friend told me that before I hit the age of 30 I should try to expand my facial care regimen. Many wrinkle and anti aging skin care creams that are available on the market will help reduce the wrinkles around my eyes. I should start using an eye cream right about this age. I even started using a mask or peel every one or two weeks.
I think I need to get started including an anti-aging cream to my skin care regimen. I want to look years younger so I scouted the net for the best wrinkle cream that works. I will tell if I could find the perfect anti-wrinkle cream that works well for me. In the meantime, will you share to me your anti-wrinkle cream? Maybe your review could help me decide what anti-wrinkle is best for me.
One of the actresses that caught my attention last 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 13, 2011 in LA, California was Jennifer Lopez!
The American Idol judge looked amazing wearing a fully embellished long sleeved Emilio Pucci dress. Who would think that "that" body just popped out twins two years ago! I also popped out a baby two years ago but until now I'm still struggling to get the slim body I used to have!
At 42, J Lo still got it- attention-grabbing personality, dewy, ,fresh gorgeous skin and sexiness! The mini dress ,teamed with matching clutch and Christian Louboutin ‘Very Mix’ spiked heels made her the DIVA of the night (as we expect from J Lo).
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So clueless yesterday. I went to the Prathom (elementary department) to take lunch with Teacher Ann. It's too late for me to realize that it's her advance birthday celebration. I just thought it's just one of our lunch dates where we talked nonstop and about blogging. By the way, she just started her personal blog Epac Blue Planet and she would be happy if you could stop by and greet her. The celebration is perfect with us all (foreign teachers) , bihon (Oh how i missed this food!), pizza (it's been 2 months since my last slice of pizza), ice cream , and fruits . I forgot my diet for a second....okey..I forgot about my diet for hours! I went back to our office so full that I could hardly breath. Thanks Teacher Ann for making me a part of your celebration and of your life!
For my message to you...it's on the digi-card that I make for you. Hope you like it and I mean every word in there.
Wouldn't you be surprised if your hubby will suddenly come to understand your need for romance? I'm surprised...so overwhelmed! He has been willing to fulfill my definition of Valentines- flowers , chocolates and love notes,even though it's not the same as his.
Yesterday, I wasn't expecting anything from hubby. His morning kiss and greetings are enough to make the day. We don't even have a plan to eat something special that night. We're just comfortable and happy to be just together with our baby.
That afternoon I was a bit irritated when he didn't pick me up at our agreed time and place. I was famished and almost fuming with angry words when he called and told me that he waited for me at the other side of our school. I was confused and agitated of the sudden change of what we had agreed. His reason: traffic. I couldn't bring myself to walk another 100 metres because of my 4 inches heels and heavy stuff (I brought a lappy) so I commanded him to meet me to carry my stuff. You see, when you're starving and super tired and plans didn't turn the way you wanted it, you easily get irritated with your partner. As if he's the one responsible for everything! I know I'm wrong but I couldn't control my feelings. There he met me with his smiling face. He reached out for me and carry my things and commented how serious I looked. Good thing I'm wearing sunglasses to cover my swollen eyelid so he didn't see my piercing look...he..he...
When we reached our motorcycle, he told me that he brought me something- flowers, chocolate and Love card. I'm speechless! That explains why he's 30 minutes late-he stopped first in an overcrowded mall to buy me Toblerone and cards. Writing the sweetest words took time, of course and the bouquet of rose was bought in the other side of the road so he couldn't get through me because of the traffic. Oh this sweet gesture really makes me ashamed of myself, of how I treated my hubby because he's late. Amidst the crowd (parents and students) I hugged my hubby to say thank you and couldn't stopped myself laughing with joy! After all these years together, he really was listening to me when I told him what I really wanted on occasions like this.
Dining out is impossible for us because it's already getting late and we still need to fetch our little boy in his babysitter's place. Taking-out food from our fave restaurant, Mr. Steak is our only option . We enjoyed the food. We enjoyed the chocolate and I'll dry the rose to keep them:). I slept with smiles painted all over my face..call that LOVESTRUCK!
Didn't receive flowers and chocolates from your hubby? Don't worry, God will show you the value of gift that your hubby's capable of giving you-a gift more precious than diamonds, roses or chocolates. Trust me, I've been there:)
I got a special man. This man is the first that captured my heart when I reached 20. He's the one that let me feel the joy of what it is to love and beloved. He didn't just give me roses. Instead he planted them for me. He didn't indulge me with chocolates. Chocolates are not good for women who's desperate to lose weight. He knew I'm one of those struggling women. He never complains on how I keep the house nor how I cook our meals-some were burnt, some tasted plainly bland. He's forever faithful. I never have to worry about where he is or what he's doing. He's my best friend, always willing to listen when I have a need. His gentleness and kindness never fail. He fulfilled my dreams of becoming a wife and a working mom. He's my hubby-my only dear Joseph. Happy Valentine's Day. I love you.
Before starting my day, I usually read online newspapers to educate myself on current events (this is a practice I carried on since our region sent me to Super Quiz Bee Bowl in Subic Bay in year 2000). It also improves my outlook on life and makes me a more reasonable person. These days, with all the bad news around the world, it's quite depressing to read a newspaper. Panic seems to crawl in my inner being. It can't be denied that we're living in a fear-filled world but we have a great, big, wonderful God who can give us peace which the world can't give.If you read the headlines and not the Scriptures, or listen to the 'shock jocks' instead of those who strengthen your faith, you'll experience what Jesus described as "men's hearts failing them for fear". As a redeemed child of God I live by His rules, under His protection, supplied by His riches.
Here's a promise I need to stand on: 'Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord... For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit' (Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV). In this year when economic seems too tough to handle, when drought seems peeking on my shoulders, I don't need to panic. Instead,I trust God to come through for me and for you.
So here I am reading Yahoo news. Reading is important as it stimulates my brain. Reading the newspaper assists me in keeping up with the daily news of what is occurring locally as well in the world. The newspaper is a wealth of information - helps a person find employment, sell items, buy items by reading reviews first to ensure the best purchase (like moi- I'm reading led tv reviews because I'm really curious why so many claimed LED TV is the best compared to the standard LCD TV), and make your brain work by attempting the puzzle.
. I went to the Prathom (elementary department) to take lunch with Teacher Ann. It's too late for me to realize that it's her advance birthday celebration
. I just thought it's just one of our lunch dates where we talked nonstop and about blogging. By the way, she just started her personal blog 
. The celebration is perfect with us all (foreign teachers) , bihon (Oh how i missed this food!), pizza (it's been 2 months since my last slice of pizza), ice cream , and fruits . I forgot my diet for a second....okey..I forgot about my diet for hours
! I went back to our office so full that I could hardly breath
. Thanks Teacher Ann for making me a part of your celebration and of your life!
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