sEeing liFe tHrough my EyEs..!

expensive dinner

2006-01-29T18:29:00.000-08:00

just recently, the family had a dinner celebration. it was great, so far, this was the most expensive dinner i had. it was a buffet style and cost 1,500pesos per head minus the drinks. i ordered iced tea with wild berries (cost around 160pesos). saw same variety of foods though but i was awed to see a chocolate fountain corner. my daughter had fun dipping marshmallows into the choco fountain. ........men.. i didnt eat the next day....... ..i was so "busog" pa... this the place....

Healthy Eating Amazing Tastes,
Edsa Shangrila

join na...!

2006-01-25T15:54:00.000-08:00

SEARCH FOR MR & MS PHILHEALTH 2006

SOON...!

Essence of Trust

2006-01-14T03:32:00.000-08:00

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daugther , "Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river."
The little girl said, "No, Dad. You hold my hand".
"What's the difference?", asked the puzzled father.
"There's a big difference", replied the little girl. "If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go". But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind but in its bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours.

This message is too short...but carries a lot of feeling.

tick... tock... tick

2006-01-09T07:40:00.000-08:00

another year - its 2006 - year of the fire dog which will commence on January 29, 2006 and will end on February 17, 2007.

started the year not so right...i was absent on the first day of office work. anyhow, its second week of january... time keeps clicking... you'll never know... in just wink of an eye... it will be december again.

now, i am busy rushing the handbook assigned to me. whew!! so much loaded with work. the organization's anniversary will be next month and we are IN-CHARGE... yes..we are again in-charge of the month-long activities. i really dunno if i will be able to meet the deadline. H-E-L-P..!

btw, i was born in the year of dragon and most of stargazers and feng shui masters said that i should be extra careful this year. and so i checked my personal horoscope and according to
Aisling DArtBellaOnline's Feng Shui Editor, my personal chinese horoscope for 2006 is :

Dragon: Appreciate (literally) what you already have. Like other zodiac signs, 2006 will test your self-control. Unlike other signs, 2006 is your year to learn self-reliance, and to trust your "gut feelings" when dealing with others. Don't confuse that with being impulsive!
This is a very bad year to speculate in the stock market, or rush from "couch potato" mode to an "iron man" competition, or any other risky activity. Also, if you have a good romance now, don't take your partner for granted; Dragons should not look for new romantic partners in 2006. Mostly, invest your time and resources in what you already have. By making steady improvements in yourself, your home, your career, and your relationships, you'll be ready for a dynamic 2007.

so to speak... smile!

circle of friends

2005-12-27T16:11:00.000-08:00

oh how i love my friends
i have only few real friends
true friends i love dearly
like sister and brothers
they go in circle
they have friends that i befriend too
and they are nice
bubbly, happy, kikay en troublefree
i like to have more friends
to take care and share life
so to all my dear friends
way back and this present time

i say.......

for coming into my life
cheers!!!!

is this true? never tried getting married yet..! duh?

2005-12-20T15:49:00.000-08:00

is this for real? yeah, its real !!!!

2005-12-20T15:39:00.000-08:00

funlines....

2005-11-27T03:11:00.000-08:00

some funlines to ponder and wonder about..!

"you can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving" (anonymous)

"love is like art..the more you practice, the better it gets" (anonymous)

"just standing around looking beautiful is so boring" (michelle pfeiffer)

mmmmm... sounds very much like me!

heart care

2005-11-15T21:40:00.000-08:00

Here Are Some Heart Care Tips
by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty (a leading Heart Surgeon in India)

Question: What are the five thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
Answer:
1. Diet – Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil.
2. Exercise – half an hour’s walk, at least five days a week. Avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a long time.
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar.

Question: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Answer : No

Question: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Answer: Yes

Question: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do
you suggest to de-stress?
Answer: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in
everything in life.

Question: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required
to keep a healthy heart?
Answer: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue
and injury to joints.

Question: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Answer: Extremely rare.

Question: Does cholesterol accumulate right from an early age (I’m currently
only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30
years of age?
Answer: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

Question: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart?
Answer: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your
body’s enzyme releases for digestion gets confused.

Question: Can a healthy person without a medical history have a heart attack
due to stress?
Answer: Extremely rare

Question: which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Answer: Best food is fruits, worst are oils.

Question: Do negative emotions like depression or anger always cause heart
disease?
Answer: Not always. On the other hand, positive emotions help recovery of
the heart.

Question: What is the routine check-up one should go through? Is there any
specific test?
Answer: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP,
Treadmill test after an echo.

Question: Can drinking less water lead to heart problems ?
Answer: No. However, drinking plenty of water in normal people helps
preserve good health.

Question: Is it true that diabetic women seem to have 3 to 7 times greater risk
of developing heart diseases than non-diabetic women? Is it the same
with high BP patients as well ?
Answer: Women are protected by the hormones till the age of 45. After that,
their risk increases like men and in general, the result of treatment
on heart patients who are women is slightly poorer than men.

Question: What are some of the precautions during pregnancy to avoid heart
problems in the new born ?
Answer: German measles, which causes congenital abnormalities in the babies. No smoking.

Question: Are Asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Answer: No

Question: Can a person help himself during a heart attack?
Answer: Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any
description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary-care-unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

Question: Do, in any way, low white-blood-cells and low hemoglobin-count lead to heart problems?
Answer: No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.

Question: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule, we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Answer: Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.

Question: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Answer: Yes. A strong relationship is there since diabetics are more
vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

Question: Can you brief us about angina attack? How major it is?
Answer: Angina is the pain, which comes on exertion and goes away with rest and medication. One has to be investigated in detail to plan treatment.

Question: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?
Answer: There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right
combination for your problem. But my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyle.

Question: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart
attacks?
Answer: No

Question: If there is about 85 percent blockage in the arteries, can the person
be treated without surgery? If not, what other remedies and the power
of your heart muscles
Answer: It depends on collateral or natural bypass, the quality of other
arteries and the power of your heart muscles. It’s impossible to give an
opinion without seeing the angiography film.

Question: There is a feeling that bypass is unnecessarily being performed in
some cases. When is bypass really needed?
Answer: When you have blockages affecting major arteries, bypass is the best option. I am sure, conscientious doctors will not perform an operation when it is not required.

Question: Is it true that mechanical valves can fail any moment?
Answer: No. If you take medication to prevent clot formation and maintain
the INR at accepted levels, the valve cannot get blocked. However, like any mechanical gadget, it can fail and fortunately, such incidences are extremely low.

Question: Why is it the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Answer: Nature protects women till the age of 45.

Question: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Answer: Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise every day, do not smoke and, go for a health checkup if you are past the age of 30 for at least once in two years. And WORK VERY HARD.

(¨`·.·´¨) Always
`·.¸(¨`·.·´¨) Keep
(¨`·.·´¨)¸.·´ Smiling!
`·.¸.·´

LiFe

2005-10-25T06:00:00.000-07:00

Female Prayer

2005-10-05T07:20:00.000-07:00

Before I lay me down to sleep,
I pray for a man, who's not a creep,
One who's handsome, smart and strong.
One who loves to listen long.
One who thinks before he speaks.
One who'll call, not wait for weeks.
I pray he's gainfully employed.
When I spend his cash, won't be annoyed.
Pulls out my chair and opens my door.
Massages my back and begs to do more.
Oh! Send me a man who'll make love to my mind.
Knows what to answer to "how big is my behind?"
I pray that this man will love me to no end.
And always be my very best friend.
Amen.

bakit tayo nagmamahal..!

2005-09-21T08:22:00.000-07:00

para ito sa mga nagmamahal, may minamahal, alang minamahal, nagmamahal ng lihim, nagmamahal kahit may mahal na en whatever mahal dyan....

why do we love ba?
so we can have somebody to talk to?
someone who can be there pag gusto natin gumala?
a person na pwedeng manlibre satin?
taong magbibitbit ng gamit mo?
ALALAY for short!

eh pano kung di ka nya mahal?
would you still love him/her?
would you still continue to care for that person?
bakit naman hindi?
you didnt love that person para magkaroon ka ng alalay, magkaroon ka ng instant meal dahil libre, taong gagawa ng assignments mo or projects, or taong mahihila mo if you want to go out...

if thats what you think about love well sorry ang BABAW mo!

loving a person
doesn't need to have a criteria
na dapat maganda o guwapo, dapat mabait or understanding,
kasi once you fall in-love you take the risk of accepting dat person
kahit maingay sya matulog, yung hilik ng hilik
kahit matakaw sya o sobrang fat na hindi kayo kasya pag puno ang jeep!

kahit sobrang moody nya na kulang nalang ay sapakin mo sa inis!
yung sobrang selosa/seloso na pati barkada pinagseselosan..
badtrip diba?
and yung napaka-arte OA kung baga!
o kahit ano pang things that would turn you off...
hirap tlaga magmahal trying to be PERFECT kasi....

gusto mong magtagal pero hindi yun ang sagot sa lahat...
ACCEPTING the real person fully
kasi if you said na mahal mo sya
you dont need to find answers kung bakit mo sya mahal...
kase lahat ng tao nagbabago
but if you accept that person magbago man sya in the middle of your relationship hindi ka masasaktan kasi you know that darating din yun..

tsaka tanggap mo sya ng buo...
mahirap gawin pero masarap subukan
dahil wala ng sasaya pa
if you let one person feel na MAHAL NA MAHAL mo sya
without asking 4 anything return...
then you can say wow un pla ang LOVE!

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect.
It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.... ü
Nakakatawa talaga ang love.
Isa siyang napakalaking oxymoron.
Lahat ng pwede mong masabi sa kanya,
baliktarin mo at totoo pa rin.

Ang labo diba?
Pero ang linaw.
Masaya magmahal.
Malungkot magmahal.
Di mo naiintindihan pero naiintindihan mo.
Walang rason. Maraming rason.

Di mo na kaya, pero kaya mo pa rin.
Masakit magmahal. Pero okey lang.
Leche, ano ba talaga?!
May kaibigan ako, sabi niya dati "Love is only for stupid people."
Nakakatawa kasi laude ang standing niya, pero dumating ang panahon,
na-in-love din ang hunghang.

At ayun, tanga na siya ngayon.
Lahat kasi ng nahahawakan ng love nagiging oxymoron din.
O kaya paminsan, nagiging moron lang.
Hindi lang kasi basta baliktaran ang pag-ibig.
Lahat ng bagay nababaligtad din niya.
Lahat ng malalakas na tao, humihina.

Ang mayayabang, nagpapakumbaba.
Ang mga walang pakialam, nagiging Mother Teresa.
Ang mga henyo, nauubusan ng sagot.
Ang malulungkot, sumasaya.
Nakakatawa talaga.
Lalo na kapag dumadating siya sa mga taong ayaw na talaga magmahal.

Napansin ko nga eh.
Parang kung gusto mo lang ma-in-love ulit,
sabihin mo lang ang magic words na "Ayoko na ma-inlove!"
biglang WACHA!
Ayan na siya.
Nang-aasar. Magpapaasar ka naman.

Di ba nakakatawa rin na pagdating sa problema ng ibang tao, ang galing-galing mo?
Pero 'pag problema mo na yung pinag-uusapan
parang nawawala ng saysay lahat ng ipinayo mo dun sa namomroblemang tao?
Naiisip mong wala namang mali dun sa mga sinabi mo.
Pero bakit parang wala ring tama?
Bali-baliktad din ang nasasabi ng mga taong tinamaan ng madugong pana ng pag-ibig.

"Ngayon ko lang nalaman ganito pala.
Sabi ko na eh!" "Ang sarap mabuhay.
Pwede na 'ko mamatay. Now na!"
At hindi lang 'yon.
Ang sarap din pagtawanan ng mga taong alam naman nilang masasaktan lang sila eh magpapatihulog pa rin sa bangin ng pag-ibig.

Tapos 'pag luray-luray na yung puso nila, siyempre hindi sila yung may kasalanan.
Siya!
"Bakit niya 'ko sinaktan?"
May kasama pang pagsuntok sa pader yon,
at pagbabagsak ng pinto.
Hayop talaga.

Pero ang pinaka-nakakatawa sa lahat ay ang katotohanang kapag gusto magpatawa ng pag-ibig, ipusta na mo na lahat ng ari-arian mo dahil siguradong ikaw ang punchline.
Nakakatawa no?
Nakakaiyak.

not taking the risks

2005-09-07T06:39:00.000-07:00

perhaps the only thing that i regretted is not taking the risks. i wonder up to now in my journey to life what would have happened if i took the risks and vice versa. there were choices and decisions to do. in love, we follow our heart and not think of what will happen next. we just use our mind if the situation calls for. before, it was heart over mind for me. as time goes by, a lot of things have changed, its now mind over heart for me. i have to think ahead and make plans for the future. i am not alone now. i have a daughter to take care of. and i am happy. and to think that if i took the risks 7 years ago, would my life be happy? i guess not.

finding

2005-09-02T14:29:00.000-07:00

finding the right partner isn't as fortunate as we think it is. there may be fireworks or a like-at-first-sight moment when meeting or spotting mr. well, maybe, a role played in finding "the one"..! i suppose love isn't just an involuntary thing that get involved into, but a choice. and if you have been wondering whether your prince will come, then, this is the time to go find him. but it doen'st mean that you wil hunt every male you meet. merely, you should go join some activities or go to places where you will most likely find a guy with same interests as yours. you don't have to wait for love....go find mr/ms right!

cool but not frigid

2005-09-02T11:03:00.000-07:00

yeah! i can always be cool. cool at anyplace, anytime depends on the mood. i try to be "in" on hip things, cool dude, babe! what i hate most, are those men telling am no sexy coz am big damn fat girl...damn those men! hate u guys..! dirty finger to you, too! rather, for me, sexiness is not only the physical look. i am fat but i can be sexy too. depends on who you seduce! one can be sexy, on how she communicates, on how she talks, on how she touches her hair, on how she puts lipsticks on her lips, on how she laugh and smile, on how you look into one's eyes! wink! busy tonight! come over! hahahahahaha!

just jeans and shirt

2005-09-01T22:12:00.000-07:00

a friend asked me, "why r u always into jeans and shirt"? my reply was.."i feel comfortable wearing jeans and shirt". ahhh! sigh..! tsk! tsk! gone were the years wherein i used to wear fashionable dresses with matching belts, bags and shoes..and earrings too! not until a friend introduced me into wearing jeans and shirt..and the rest was history.. i enjoyed wearing jeans (signature ones though) and shirt with art and culture sense! but of course, i do wear formal attire on some occasion. whatever...i still feel comfy ... in my jeans, shirt and italian shoes! great!

wanting

2005-09-01T20:27:00.000-07:00

out of the blue
suddenly
my mind changes
wanting to be alone
hiding
somewhere out of nowhere
from everybody
probably
though
wanting to search
oneself
is out of the question
wanting
ahhh!
catastrophic world
topsy turvy lines
curve roads
life's journey
in this
so called "mundane world"