Expressway Traffic

We had a somewhat slow but safe travel yesterday as we together with our church friends went to our favorite resort in Pansol at Calamba, Laguna. We started late in our travel, we were fetched in our house at past 6am and since it's May 1, national holiday for Laborers, traffic was all over South Luzon expressway. Yes it shouldn't be called express at this time of the year because you'll have difficulty traveling in that place. There's plenty of road construction and lots of road rerouting resulting zigzag driving (have enclosed some pictures here). I had chances of taking pictures because we're on a very slow pace and I was getting bored then. Well maybe after these things were finished we'll have a nicer South Luzon Expressway, just hoping that toll gate fees will not increase because of these road improvements. Calamba was nevertheless busy at this peak season of swimming and outing, we were really hot when we finally reached the place. I was glad that my Josh finally stopped complaining that it's been taking us too much time to reach the resort, he was just excited you know!

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Goldwasser Real Estate

Have you hunted for a good buy of house and lot? Actually it’s common to couples especially the newly married ones to look for their own house where they could start building their family. Having your own house teach you how to handle finances, household and everyday situation. But how can you be sure that you’re getting the best package deals for your desired property? In this present generation we have a way of searching homes for sale through listing networks, digital cameras and internet unlike in the older days when they search through different newspapers and brochures just to have a look at the prospective properties or go to the place where the house and lot is located, tiring isn’t it?

To start with looking for that dream house and lot we should be dealing with the right agent to ask our queries about real state. It’s very important to ask the right person or search a good real state website to help us in choosing what we want. If you’re looking for one you should go online to Goldwasser Real Estate in Austin, TX where you will find the expert in real estate transaction. They provide free tools, articles and tips to help buyers determine what they really need and what to buy. Weekly listing of the properties on sale was provided with location and complete details. For those couples who are on strict budget maybe their mortgage calculator can be of help because you can actually calculate your would be mortgage, loan payments, mortgage and payment schedule and monthly closing costs. This is really a big help to everyone wanting to buy their own affordable property. That’s what you get if you’re dealing with the best real estate team.

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May 1 Walk

I came home from office a bit later than usual and I’ve noticed that Ortigas Avenue was full of people taking the yearly walk from all places to Antipolo. The stores suddenly stayed opened for 24 hours because the walkers bought food and water in stores that they passed through, great income for food stores. It has been a practice ever since to take an offered walk on the eve of May1, I even did it many times when I was younger with my friends and cousins, not minding the tiredness just happy walking with them and enjoying the moment. I’ve always liked and enjoyed walking so it’s not so much of an effort to lengthen the miles. In truth it’s really a long mile walk, if you’re going to do it you must equip yourself with a comfortable cotton clothes, good walking rubber shoes, light food for snack, plenty of water and stamina. It’s been years since I last did that walk and will not do it anymore because that walk is heading to Antipolo church.

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Your Name In Japanese

My new friend blogger Chloe sent me this tag.

For the instructions, add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below. Tag six of your friends and inform them of the tag. Have fun.

TRANSLATION:
A - ka G - ji M - rin S - ari Y - fu
B - tu H - ri N - to T - chi Z - zi
C - mi I - ki O - mo U - do
D - te J - zu P - no V - ru
E - ku K - me Q - ke W - mei
F - lu L - ta R - shi X - na

1. OSWALD- moarimeikatate (sounds like america and states. har.... har... har...)
2. CHLOE - Miritamoku -- Um...think I still prefer my given name, ha ha
3. RACE - shikamiku - sounds like a real japanese huh!

I'm tagging JennyL, JennyR, Tere, Lutchi, Mira and Marites, have fun girls!

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Have Fun While Learning

Sometimes when I’m free from work I bring my kids to the mall for some shopping, playing at the arcade, eating at their favorite pizza and donut house and rounding up on our favorite toy store. That’s where we find various toys for all gender and ages. Even I find joy in seeing all their displays of toys for girls and boys. As always Josh will go straight to his favorite display of superheroes, sports and educational toys there. My two girls will definitely search through the store’s display of girl items. All of my kids love educational toys like word games, building toys and science kits. They particularly like the electronics science kits like robot dog, robot dinosaur, mini laboratories and many more.

As a parent I want my kids to have the best toy that they want but I also take in consideration what kind of toy they choose. Since they’re consulting me if their choices are good or worth it I gave my views and opinions with respect on their interests, luckily they follow my suggestions. As they grew a little bit older I’m amazed that the toys I want when I was a kid are also the ones they show interest also. For the record I love science toys, my father called me a little scientist when I was young because of my toy preferences. I also had my little inventions to that effect. If only there’s an online educational toy store then I’ll be so excited also, just like all other kids nowadays. Variety of toys is endless and parents should be really being considering some factors in deciding what the best toys are for their children. I’ve seen a store online, the Atomic Elephant Toy store which offers great selection of educational toys for kids in all ages and where shopping for your chosen toy is easy as you can shop by category, by age, by brand and most importantly by price.

What really interest me aside from the toy variance is that they also provide helpful tips for parents on how to choose the best toys for their children. The site discussed some factors that would be vital in knowing the right toy for certain children because not all children are the same; they have varied interests and capabilities. That’s why choosing toys for them should be given enough thought and this site helps a lot in that area. Come visit their site and have fun while learning!

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Stop Worrying!

The country is suffering now from all forms of price hike, everything you buy, everywhere you look and every little thing we need increases. Basic commodities like rice, milk and gasoline’s prices are incontrollable. Suddenly within these past few months all prices soared up high and what are you doing? Worrying about the food that you will eat and the clothes that you will wear? It’s but natural for humans to think about that, in fact the very basic reason why we work is to provide better living opportunities for our loved ones, to give them shelter, food, education, best of health and all necessities in life. But nevertheless doesn’t worry because God will take care of all these things, just let Him take over your life. Remember worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop. Instead of worrying turn to Him for peace of mind because life is not focused only on our physical needs but also spiritual necessities. If you have trust in Him everything will follow, you’ll have confidence that no matter what happens God will not let you down.

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Home Shopping

School vacation is a season where I have time to do a lot of housekeeping and inventory of what house items I should discard, give or buy because I don’t have to think of my kids’ schooling. I’ve more time to sort things out and think of ways to improve our home and garden. I’ve been planning my time carefully to do all the things I want like recycling old quality wood furniture that my father personally made for us. It’s like giving this furniture a good brush up.

Besides recycling I should need some new stuff for a total refurnished look and since I don’t want to waste my time going to series of stores to look for what I need I browsed for window shopping online. I came upon Mpire where I found everything I need in good shopping sites like Shop eBays, Dell, Amazon, Best Buy, and a lot more actually thousands of them. If you’re looking for the best deals and coupons this is the site for you. Definitely the best auction and retail sites where you can research on their popular products, read some reviews and compare prices between retail and ebay all at the same time in the comfort of your home, no hassles and no physical weariness. They also provide pricing trend data showing the new price and the auction price.

I never know that I could find some hot deals even if I don’t go to bargain stores. It has all the widest selection of product categories like clothing, accessories, appliances, home and garden, health and beauty, kids and family, appliances, electronics, computers, jewelry, new and used cars and many others. Everything you want for your family and your home in just one click of your hand. Home shopping is really convenient and fun it makes canvassing and buying easier than before.

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Ready For Swimming

My kids were asking me since Saturday if we could drop by the mall to buy their swimming things for our church' outing on Thursday, May 1. It's a national holiday, actually a labor day so we don't have work on that day. My kids were so happy and excited since the outing was discussed a month ago! My eldest who's already 10 years old had her things and clothes ready since last week, not so excited huh! Anyway it's just an ordinary swimming in Barangay Pansol in Calamba, Laguna and we're always there at least thrice a year but since it's summer and everyone was raving about swimming and resorts it's getting more exciting for the children, they will tell it to their friends.

We left the church before 8pm and because Ever was still open they made their daddy turn the car and park it there. I heard them giggling and saying that 'Yehey it's still open'. We hurriedly went for Twiddledee and choose from among the store's various swimming gears, I picked a kiddie life vest for Josh and some gears for my girls. I was busy with my chosen things for the swimming that when I paid for them and went outside I didn't noticed that Josh was crying. He was disappointed that store closed suddenly after we went out and he wanted me to buy him a robot. I just promised that we'll buy some other time and bought him his favorite chocomilk powder and some other food he love to make him stop. He stopped afterawhile but his face was serious, oh poor kid he must have liked that robot very much!

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Online Shopping

Shopping is women’s favorite hobby, a pastime that’s been favored by most female species. Most of us devote a lot of time shopping for our personal and family’s needs but some just find shopping as a kind of work or obligation that they should do as part of their responsibility. Whatever the reason or situation is, shopping is basically fun and worth while doing especially if you do online. You don’t have to walk your way to choosing what’s best for your specific needs. Many online sites cater to shoppers online like Shopwiki where you can find every thing you need on the net. They seek every store in the net allowing buyers to seek their favorite stores online through their site.

This gave a great advantage to busy women as they don’t have much time going to malls and exploring stores for their specific brands. With working women it’s easier to browse internet, search for what they want and shop online especially with matters related to Clothing for Women, you know women they tend to care about fashion. Shopwiki.com help them look for the latest fashion trends, search for the favorite clothes designers and just shop online according to styles, sizes and colors.

For all walks of life, men, women and children of all ages they have the complete buying guides on choosing what you want especially when it comes to accessories such as gloves, hats, hair accessories, jewelry, watches and many others. Just about everything you will ever need for your personal and family’s needs in the comfort of your home at your most convenient time to get online and begin choosing what you want.

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Some Savings!

Had a very tiring day today but happy that I've saved a lot of money. I've contacted a neighbourhood electronic repair man to round up our appliances that stopped running few months ago. As this summer is giving us very hot temperature the kids wanted the fans just for themselves, we're not using the aircon in my mom's room because of some electrical voltage deficiency and honestly the country's major provider of electricity has increased its rate tremendously that you'll think twice before using them during the days. I've made some savings because my four electric fans were repaired and they looked like new. Not only that I've also made the man repair my clothes drier, so my laundry will again be easy with new things around me.

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