Independence Day

Though Madame President changed the date of Independence Day holiday I still post this on the real day of the time that our country had its Independence. As always buildings, establishment, school and houses put their flags waving in front of their establishment to commemorate the day that our Philippine flag was raised on June 12, 1898 in Aguinaldo’s House in Kawit, Cavite.

Every Independence day our church was spending the holiday on a beach renting a hall and cottages to have a one-day fellowship and every June 12 we go to Villamar Resort in Rosario, Cavite because we’re comfortable with the setup there. On our way to Villamar Resort we always passed by near the place of Aguinaldo’s house but 6am onwards the police authorities there were rerouting the vehicles to have some traffic order.

We only see the house and the place on our way back to Manila and as we passed by the house I’m always on a trance imagining things that happened in that house, history was my favorite subject you know that’s why I’m really interested with places, origins, events, culture and things that pertains to history.

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Awareness On Folliculitis

Went home earlier yesterday and brought Josh to his doctor before going to bible study. Josh had one of those small pimples on the forehead and beginning to spread on the head. Since school has already started I wanted it to heal faster as it also causing him some pain. Just in time before the doctor closed her clinic we luckily entered the clinic as the last patient. Josh was very comfortable with Dr. Cristy Pablo, a sister of my classmate in high school and a daughter of my father’s friend. He answers every question asked of him with a smile that’s why Dr. Cristy can’t stop smiling at him too commenting how smart he is.

Upon examination of his head she concluded that the small pimples around his hair follicles are folliculitis forming on the head and scalp. I’ve researched about this as the name sounds new to me and I’ve learned that this infection on the head are really itchy and painful due to wounds that are open with yellow-brown crusts formed around the margin. The wound bed appears inflamed, reddish, bleeds easily and can spread rapidly. I’m glad that my son’s infection is not that inflamed or reddish and his doctor told me that within one week of treatment his wounds will dry out.

She gave Josh a prescription of Cloxacillin antibiotic, 3x a day for 7 days together with Povidone-Iodine as antimicrobial treatment to be applied to the freshly cleaned wounds. I’ve been using agua-oxinada as cleanser for the wounds. By the way this infection is like boils the difference is boils tend to be single and larger while folliculitis is a group of small infected spots. So for moms out there take note of this if you happen to see a pimple-looking thing on your kid don’t just take it for granted, it could be an infection.

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New Hope For Cancer Patients

Many women nowadays are suffering from breast cancer. Some have recovered but others aren’t lucky enough to escape the sting of the killer disease. I have a friend who has recently recovered through her improved healthy eating habits, strong faith and prayers from us. Statistics have shown that a lot of women suffered from this disease because of many factors, wrong eating habit, too much physical stress, overworked, some complications and few have hereditary roots. The common cure for this disease is chemotherapy but a lot of the women I’ve known completed the chemotherapy program but their bodies resisted the recovery. If only there’s alternative cancer treatments for cancer patients maybe some of them would have recovered.

Have been very interested with finding alternative method on how to prevent and cure this prevailing disease and came upon New Hope Medical Center, an alternative cancer center which offers better method of treatment that will work well with your body’s natural health and not against it. They focus on restoring your immune system to cope up with strong medications. They build immune system, implement anti-tumor methods and detoxification, promotes stress reduction and most importantly psychological healing which would help them recover fast. All treatments are different individually depending upon the patient’s needs.

It’s nice to know that there’s really a new hope for cancer patients. With all these that New Hope Medical Center has to offer I can see that there are big chances and possibilities of surviving cancer. Patient needs healthy life style, well balanced food, right eating habit, rest and alternative cancer treatment to have strong immune system to fight the most common cancer these days.

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Josh Is Kinder Now!

Josh was so excited that even if his schedule is on the afternoon he asked me to prepare his things earlier and even requested me to take him to school before lunchtime, really missing his schooling or maybe his school friends. It took me a long time to get ready because I’ve dressed his wound in the forehead. It’s just a small skin infection but I’ve covered it just to be sure that his wound wouldn’t be infected with dirt.

He has a new teacher now but he’s on the same room as when he’s on nursery. He’s very happy to see some of his buddies like Yvan, Rafael, Marc Axl and Louis Andre. Lucky they have each other again for friends. He’s different now unlike last year when he wanted me by his side. He even told me after class that their teacher told them not to bring their moms on the second day lol! That really got me laughing!

I waited for him as I’ve done with all of my kids on their first day and I’m not alone on this as almost every kid has a mommy, granny or nanny waiting for them. After they went out of the room he pleaded to play first in the slide before going home as many kinder students were already on different playthings there, some on the playhouse, others on the seesaw, I also saw one kid on the bike and a lot of them on the slide, the favorite one. Funny thing is the announcement on the wall ‘No Classes Tomorrow’. That announcement on the first day? Yap! Because tomorrow is Provincial Day of Rizal, our province.

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Thinking About Dieting?

I’ve always wanted to lose the unwanted pounds I gained from giving birth. I have a slender frame when I got married but after giving birth to my second and third child I had a hard time getting back to that frame. As I’m a working mom too my schedule didn’t allowed me to take up exercise regimen and nutritional weight loss program, it’s the usual cry of the busy mothers like me. Maybe it’s easier if busy moms would have a list of best diet pills to choose so it wouldn’t take so much time just to lose some unwanted pounds. It’s easier to have the list and the places where you can avail them and hopefully consult with them what’s the best choice that would suit you best.

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First Day of School

It’s the first day of school again; back to super busy schedules of fixing the kids’ things, food and so many school activities. It’s the beginning again of waking up at dawn to prepare food for breakfast and lunch meals of my dear students. I’m again having those first-day-of-school cramps :-). I have a morning to afternoon schedule with my girls and afternoon schedule for my boy. I’ve always see to it that I accompany them on their first day because they want to and I like it also to assist them in anyway I can and meet their teachers too.

Ruth was excited when she entered her classroom with pink wall and pink curtains, she love pink you know. She’s in the fifth grade and she’s grown taller now, my friends kept on telling me that she looked like a grade six or higher because of her height. Gen on her grade four suddenly smiled at having a new classroom on a building away from the small kids’ building, she felt more matured now as she sat on the place given to her by her new teacher. Her room has the best view as they have a very wide veranda in front of their room.

All parents were busy with their children and you can see their caring attention on their children as they assisted them on their way to their classroom entrusting their precious ones to their teachers.

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Travel To France

I’ve always love to travel to places with great historical background and culture. It has always been my favorite subject in my high school days. I dig various histories of different countries especially those with modern culture now thinking how they reached the modern transition. I’ve been reading a lot these days and been fascinated with the rich culture, background history and tradition of France which is a much known country now. I also love the beautiful places there and been fascinated with the 14^th century castle Fort La Latte in northern Brittany. I came to know its beauty and how it came to exist up to now despite being attacked and dismantled. Now it has been restored and you can visit its spectacular beauty.

Beside the splendor of the magical beauty of the castle there are many other places that a traveler would love to visit and stay on Hotel Paris where you can have the comfort and experience the luxury of staying in a hotel with all the best deal you can find. After all you really need to stay to visit all the wonderful places, experience and see the beauty of France like the famous prehistoric paintings at the Lascaux Cave in Dordogne, the luscious French chocolates and perfumes, the undeniable beauty of French crafts and fashion, the “Cable-Stayed Bridge” or Millau Viaduct and many other things that France offers to their visitors and guests.

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Memories of Fiesta

It’s barrio fiesta here in our barangay and I remember many special moments with my high school friends during fiestas. Of course Bes JennyL would always be there in our house during those occasions. During those days I’ve always looked forward to fiestas because it’s nice to watch amateur, parade and of course the food! My mom is a great cook and she always took time to cook the special and time-consuming menu like hamonado and lumpia which took a lot of preparation to do unlike the usual other menus of my mom like menudo, kaldereta, mechado. Barrio fiesta is only celebrated by the so-called ‘taga-barrio’ which is dominantly populated by the Bombay-looking people in Cainta including my ancestors – the one that they called sepoys or Indian soldiers.

Because it’s a barrio fiesta the common visitors are also from the same or nearby town unlike town fiesta which usually invites people from faraway places. Actually me and my friends sometimes hopped in each other houses just to taste desserts like if our house have fruit salad we will eat some other kind of dessert on our other friend’s house, just for fun really! Anyway we were very young then and occasions make us happy.

Now I’ve grown up and became a born-again Christian we never celebrate and attend fiesta anymore. Beliefs and traditions change as you grow older and mature in the spiritual side of life. Those fun memories are part of my happy teenage years and will always be special.

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My Mom's Birthday

Its my Mom’s birthday last May 30, 2008 and instead of celebrating it on other venue we decided to just celebrate it simply on our home. We earlier planned to have it at her hometown in Laguna but later decided to have a simple birthday only with close family, close friends and some relatives only. Last year was a happy, fun and quite relaxing also as we had it at Bosay Resort in Antipolo, Rizal. Our relatives in Laguna were there together with friends and family. It wasn’t raining that day so we really enjoyed swimming, eating and celebrating her 75^th birthday that day.

This year’s birthday is very quiet as we didn’t invite anyone save for a few who has been with her most of the time and visits her frequently. This is quite different as we always have plenty of guests until evening. This time we had more time to sit, relax and talk to close friends and guests. You don’t have to entertain them as they’re very close and most are our own family.

Her relatives in Laguna didn’t make it as my cousin who planned the birthday visit to my mother suddenly felt ill and we advised her to just rest and visit my Mom when she’s well. They talked on the phone and my Mom was happy enough that she’s talked with her brother Uncle Ipeng and her daughter Ka Duneng, nieces and grandchildren. Ka Duneng is my Mom’s daughter also as she’s lived with her when my Mom before Mom got married.

I’ve cooked the family’s favorite hamonado, chicken and the usual spaghetti. Redge and I prepared lots of dessert like macaroni salad, fruit salad and many more. My family was so fond of salad and it includes my youngest Josh who never stopped eating macaroni salad and Gen on her fruit salad. One of Mom’s niece brought a red ribbon chocolate cake and to match that I’ve bought ice cream.

We thanked God that He has given us a mother that’s so caring, loving and never miss a day and moment in her life praying and thanking God for all the wonderful blessings that she had in her life. She always told her friends that she loves us dearly. Happy Birthday Mom! We love you so much!

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Employment in New Zealand

Do you know the latest land of opportunity? It’s New Zealand, the land of the long white cloud. What I know of New Zealand are the beautiful and fresh acres of green grass where good breed of cows were cared for to produce fresh milk exported to different countries including the Philippines. My favorite milk when I was a child until now came from New Zealand. It’s actually the most beautiful country with snowy mountains and wonderful beaches. Now I’ve been hearing some good news about this country as I have a friend applying for New Zealand residency and she actually asked help from me to acquaint her with some information and facts about the country she wants to move to. It’s always good to know everything so that preparations can be made earlier.

Alongside New Zealand’s fast growing economy are the job opportunities available in New Zealand. But you have to be competitive with your experience and qualifications to land a good employment in New Zealand so it’s better to start gaining knowledge on how to migrate, work and live there. I’ve found Lets Move 2 NZ, a website that caters specifically to those want to get work visa or permanent residence because it provides all information about New Zealand’s climate, lifestyle, job opportunities, economy and application requirements to work or live there.

I’ve found Lets Move 2 NZ, a website that caters specifically to those want to get work visa or permanent residence because it provides all information about New Zealand’s climate, lifestyle, job opportunities, economy and application requirements to work or live there.With all the information available for online job seekers finding employment in New Zealand is not anymore difficult especially if you are skilled and qualified enough in your chosen field. This will also help you get accustomed to New Zealand’s way of life as working and migrating to foreign country is both exciting and a little bit apprehensive. You’ll get to meet a lot of new friends, learn and experience different cultures and live a life away from your family, relatives and old friends.

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