Dance, baby, Dance!

Hyzyd already knows how to use his body to express emotion and loves to explore the ways his body can move. He has his own invented dance moves. He slowly sway or spin when we play a slow , classical music. He's rocking out and his legs are bouncing out to the beat of a rock music.

We , the parents couldn't deny that we enjoy music and dancing though we feel clumsy or uncomfortable with dancing in public places.We enjoy dancing with our little boy by not focusing on any formal type of dance but we concentrate on the silly aspect of just moving to music . As you can see in the photos, we're just trying to remember what it was like when we were children. It seems that we still remember all the silly songs and movements that went with them (as if I'm not doing this everyday inside my class ) .

How about you? Do you dance with your toddler?

Is it OK to say NO?

Do you approved anyone who wants to be your friend in facebook?

In my friendster account, I used to do that because I thought that the more friends I have the more Ill be popular . No, I'm just kidding. It's just that I'm not used to decline a friendship and I think that there's no harm in it.

Here comes my inquisitive bf, my hubby now. He asked me if I know all my friends in friendster and before I could reply he bombarded me with questions if I know Mr.So and So and Ms. Sa and Sa . He asked me to choose only those that I personally know and those whom I'd like to share my lousy photos. He has his points and now I'm only accepting friendship request from people I personally know even in my Facebook Account.

You , too, could ignore invites from strangers!

Friendship, it is generally understood, is a relationship that evolves through shared interests, common experiences and a primeval need to share your neighbor's power tools.

Yet for many people, Facebook permits a return to the simplicity of the schoolyard.

Rather than inviting someone to be our Facebook friend only after we've become friends in the real world, many of us are using Facebook as a short-cut around all that time-consuming relationship building.

Why bother asking someone you've just met questions about their family, interests and ability to run a farm or aquarium, when you can simply send them a friend request and read the answers in your Facebook news feed? And so we think little of receiving friend requests after we meet someone for the first time at, say, a dinner party.

Of course, many people don't have a problem with being Facebook friends with colleagues, especially those they know well. But for those who would rather keep their work and private lives separate, there are options other than ignoring an unwanted friend request.

One is to accept the invitation and then use Facebook's privacy settings to limit the flow of information between you and your new "friend." To do this, you can create a "colleagues" list from the Friends menu and then add to it your new friend. Then navigate to the privacy settings and use the "Profile Information" section to control what information people on the "colleagues" list can see.

Another way of declining a friend request from people you don't wish to be friends with, you can decline by simply selecting "Ignore." Doing so will remove the request from your Requests list. They will not be notified that their friend request was declined, but they will be able to send you another friend request in the future.

If you take no action on the request they've sent you, they will not be able send you another friend request. You will appear instead as a pending friend request when they view you in Search or elsewhere on the site until you either accept or ignore the request.

Happy Birthday Eugene Rijn!

Eugene Rijn (read as RIN) is my brother and he's celebrating his 27th birthday! He's the third in a row of 14 children, a teacher by profession but currently enjoying a computer geek's life and happily engaged to his long time girlfriend.

This is "us" about 22 years ago

A brother is a little piece of childhood that can't ever be lost.
Thanks for being there for me through the years.
A brother is a special gift.
I'm so glad that God gave me a brother like you.
There is no other brother like you.
A brother is a friend for life.

Happy birthday, bro! May you have more years to come. I love you. Stay blessed and happy with your chosen career.

I wish I was smart enough ...

...in preserving my old photos and in choosing the best photographer for my senior year photo.

It has been an age-old habit of the past to capture images and photographs to cherish precious memories forever. My family didn't own a digital camera until I was 21. So, there's a lot of my life that is virtual undigitally documented. But only few photos of mine were left and usable as of these days. I'm not yet smart enough at that time to put my photos in "acid-free" boxes when I left for Thailand. They were left in photo albums and the last time my sister checked them, most of them deteriorates because of moist. Technology rescued some of my photos. I requested my father to scan all my photos and saved it for me. He forgot to bring the CDs that saved my photos. I asked him to send some for me but that's equal to impossible because of the uber slow internet connection in our place. I missed my old photos . I missed looking at my old photos- how I posed when I'm in elementary, high school and in college years, my expressions, and the surroundings in which the photos were taken. It's funny, sometimes, as I rarely smile in most of my old photos – it is as if I've been told to stand really still and not move at all!

Take a look at my old photo when I'm in my senior year:

This may appear stodgy to you but this old photo which I successfully salvaged from being forever buried in a muddy place , is an amazing testament of my life's story that I graduated with flying colors in my high school.

Talking about senior year photo, I wonder why our advisers didn't take much effort to give us what we deserve-a senior picture that will capture what a lot of others can't see- the real US! They just settled for the cookie cutter photos that amateur photographers took. When I open my senior yearbook, I will always remember that I was once a gawky teenager! How I wish it's the opposite- someone with style, someone with class, someone trendy.

If I will handle a senior year in the future, I will give my student the best. I will choose a senior portrait photographer that will take photos that are so different, so fun, and so fresh that they could not be mistaken for traditional studio pictures that most seniors end up with.

If I will be given a chance to be 16 again (I get the concept from the movie 17 again ) and I have a senior year photo, I would choose a pose something like this:


Whaddya think?

first entry for: