February Top Droppers

I'd like to show my appreciation for those who are patiently dropping their EC on my blog. Thanks to you all!

Dropper	# of drops
Lola's Diner	30
Our Journey to Forever	28
Beyond Feron	25
Lainy's Musings	25
My Sweet Haven	22
C'est La Vie	21
Cinnamon Spice & Everything Nice	21
The Certified Fashionable Chic	20
Mortgage and More	20
moms..... check nyo	19

Special mention to Lainy who made it to all her blogs, thanks sis! Also to My Sweet Haven and Lola's Diner who are one of my top droppers in my other blog 'Moments of My Life'

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Heidi & Lister's Wedding

It's my niece' wedding, another wedding after Crisna for which I posted last December. They're both my nieces to my male first cousins Kuya Audy and Kuya Eddie. I saw Heidi grew up from baby to toddler to little girl and to being the woman she is now. Despite some trials that happened in her family she bravely faced the challenges and succeeded. She graduated with two courses Computer Secretarial and Bachelor's Degree in Education.

My father's youngest sister Tya Elvie raised her up until she became a very good preschool teacher. She continued the teaching profession legacy in our clan and loved every single day of enriching the kids’ knowledge. I was happy that she has chosen to be a teacher, one of the most humble and dignified profession. My mom and my two aunties were retired teachers. I love teaching in fact I was the one who taught Heidi how to read the ABCD book when she was 6 years old but I don’t have the patience of teaching more than 10 students lol!

It was a civil wedding only and they will plan for a church wedding in the coming years. They picked me and my Kuya to be one of their sponsors and I was happy to accept it. She grew up with us and we love her. Lister on the other hand became Josh’ favorite as they always play cars when Lister visits us. Mayor Mon Ilagan officiated the ceremony and it was a very enlightening moment as he discussed the value of respect, trust and love in every relationship. He’s a very good speaker owing to his many years in the media I guess. We laughed with his antics and agreed with his advices.

We later had our late lunch reception in Max’s Restaurant in Sta. Lucia Grand Mall with just a few close relatives present in the occasion. Mom and Tya Elvie didn’t make it so they just brought food packages back home.

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Social Security Coverage

For several years now that I’m employed I’ve enjoyed having my social security contributed not only by myself but with the help of my employers. In this way you’ll have more remittances deposited on your account unlike those with voluntary contributions. Actually I’ve reached the minimum contributions needed for an early retirement and I was very thankful that anytime I stopped working I can enjoy my contributed remittances.

It’s a great help for employees to be secured with social security insurance which covers pension when you reached maturity, maternity and sickness benefits, disability insurance, salary loans and many other benefits opened to contributing members. It’s good to have one because you’ll never know what will happen to you when you’re working, at least you’ll be covered enough. There are other companies that will assist you in your medical and healthcare needs; you can actually browse them online.

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:Today's Flowers #29

White Hibiscus - Even the fly can't resist the white simple beauty of it!

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:WW - Relaxing Water Falls

Just seeing this picture somehow relaxes me quite differently. As always moving water affects my mood, makes me pensive sometimes and peacefully happy most of the times. The effect is greater when I'm on a beach seeing the ocean and its waves. But then this pool can relax me also with its man-made falls which makes it nicer. This is the pool of Marabella Resort in Antipolo where my niece celebrated her wedding reception.

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Wordless Wednesday

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Having Some Discipline

I feel great having disciplined myself not to eat too much on dinner time, it was hard because I’m the one who cooks dinner and the temptation is very high. I really must start on my diet plan or my clothes wouldn’t fit me in two months time. Just today I had to change my clothes because my size got bigger. I heard about acai berry and I still have to decide if the story about losing 14 pounds in 25 days is really true and can happen also to me. I think for now I’ll stick to my ‘after-six no meal’ plan. By the way I eat at 5:30pm.

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Road Improvement Headache

I had only an hour or two sleep last night because Meralco has started changing our street’s electric post for the new widened roads. The widening and drainage improvement of A Bonifacio Avenue is nearing to an end, hopefully with all prayers! This project has caused too much disturbance in our place and the sad thing about it is it took them more than 2 months to do widening of a street which is less than 1 kilometer in length. I’ve been in a consulting company for construction of bridges and roads and I have a basic knowledge of at least knowing how long it will take to do the job.

The progress was so slow it will give you headache if you’re living in our place. Not to mention that we were only given a meager amount for the affected properties that was demolished. The amount was not enough to construct a new wall fence, gate and the private concrete post we have in our house. Though we have accepted all of this because we have no choice I think it’s the government’s duty to at least finish the work as fast as they could because it’s giving us a headache. Really road improvements are most of the times a pain!

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We Can Never Really Tell!

Accidents happen at unexpected times and we should be always ready with car insurance just in case we encountered these things. I remember a friend of mine forgot to update their car insurance and lately had some major accidents on the road. It’s good that there are no casualties because the car hits 3 cars parked near the streets with no passenger inside. It was nerve-shattering news but when we learned that there’s no passenger inside the wrecked vehicles we got our breath again.

We know that insurance will not prevent accidents but it can help us recover from financial burden after the accident. There are many car insurance coverage recommendations online which will help us get the best quotes ever. Just always remember to update your insurance on time to prevent financial loss, after all we can never really tell what would happen tomorrow.

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:Today's Flowers #28

My entry for this week is again our church' flowers yesterday, it’s a Malaysian mumps (or so I think?) I like color of this flower but my Mom doesn't want this color in our house because for her violet is a sad color for flower. But for me it's still flowers and I really love flowers; I love their different species, color, scent and form. Here we combined it with baby's breath and white chrysanthemums.

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Auto Parts’ eStore

Having a car requires maintenance and careful updating of its parts and accessories. You always have to check the lifespan of each part so you’ll be able to save for its replacement and that’s if you want your car to last and give you its best performance ever. One thing is for sure you’ll have to do a lot of searching, canvassing and comparing of each part prices. I’m so happy that you can search through cars and trucks’ auto performance parts online. It’s a better alternative for busy people like us and most of the times you’ll get the best prices online.

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