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Celebrate International Left-Handers’ Day 2009 Today (August 13)!

Posted in Family, Life, Odds and Ends, Parenting, tagged , , , , on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Left-handers (popularly called Lefties) comprise only about 7-10% of the world’s population.
Up until the last generation, left-handed children were forced to switch to the right hand by most parents. It’s only now that lefties are acknowledged for their uniqueness and creativity.
Based on studies, here are some interesting trivia about left-handed people:
- Some famous Lefty personalities [...]

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Jesuit Online Retreat 2009

Posted in Odds and Ends, Thoughts to Live By, tagged , on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You can be online, at work, at home, abroad and still be able to do a personal Lenten retreat at any time, at your convenience.

Fr. Johnny Go, SJ, in his spiritual blog, Pins of Light, has given a heads-up on another online Jesuit retreat (The Silences of Lent) that anyone can do for Holy Week. [...]

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Project: 50Leaves

Posted in Family, Odds and Ends, tagged on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We are a bookworm family. My kids and I love to read — a lot! We have outgrown storage shelves in the house. Where to put the books we continue to buy is becoming a space problem in itself. So when C1 decided to launch her very own project called 50Leaves, it did not surprise [...]

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Jupiter + Venus + Moon = Smiley Face!

Posted in Life, Odds and Ends, Philippines, tagged on December 1, 2008 | 34 Comments »

In astronomy-speak, it is called a planetary conjunction — when the planets seem closest to each other. The National Geographic News article ” Planets, Crescent Moon to “Frown” on Skywatchers Dec. 1″ said what we would see is a frown but lucky, lucky us here in Metro Manila tonight because what we saw in the [...]

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His name is MAX!

Posted in Blogging, Odds and Ends, Technology, tagged , , on November 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Yes, so now you’ve met my new love. But I never did get to tell you his name, right?
Well, his name is MAX. I have my own private pet name for him but for the world, this shiny, new hunk of metal is MAX – short for My Apple Xtreme!
I guess having the [...]

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Meet My New Love!

Posted in Odds and Ends, Technology, tagged , , on November 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It took me a while to take the plunge. Over a year to be exact.
So much time was spent thinking about it. My kids were on both sides of the fence. Two of them were fierce lovers of M; the other 2 went for W. Choosing either way was agony. I was torn!
My comfort zone [...]

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Want a FREE handbag from Handbag Planet?

Posted in Odds and Ends on October 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Thanks, Cathy, for giving me a heads-up on this.
HandbagPlanet.com is giving away 24 handbags in 24 hours on Oct. 15, 2008 as part of their website launch. I was able to check out their 24 handbags and I must say some of them looked fabulous!
This is what their website says:
Handbag Planet is almost here. To [...]

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Mooncakes and the Mid-Autumn Festival

Posted in Odds and Ends on September 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Tomorrow, September 14, is officially the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as the August Moon or Ghost Month). This period changes from year to year and does not fall into the August western calendar.
These past weeks, mooncakes (locally referred to as hopia) had been selling all over Chinese stores again. While the daily fare hopia [...]

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Nestle Pops Hosts Family Dinner!!!!

Posted in Odds and Ends, tagged , on June 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The launch of Nestle Pops was held at the Nestle Creamery at Roxas Blvd. This was the Magnolia Ice Cream Plant of my childhood days and as we drove up the driveway, I remembered the time when our school was given a tour of the entire plant and we did not mind that we were [...]

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