:TC - Small Animals - Birds

Thursday Challenge

for fun and learning

"SMALL ANIMALS" (Pets, Insects, Birds,...)

I took the shot of these small birds at my son's school while waiting for him to finish his special examinations. He had been sick for three days in time for their periodical exams so I was given a schedule for him to take the special exams. I brought my digicam to spend my waiting hours outside the room and got interested in the birds flying in and out the schooll's perimeter. I took the first shot near the bench I'm sitting on. Cute little birds and we call it 'Maya'. We also have plenty of them here in our backyard because we have many fruit trees here. View my other entry here!

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Friends Are Like Walls...

Friends are always there for us to share our happiness and griefs, our ups and downs, our success and failures and many things that happen in our lives. During the saddest moments of our lives God is our refuge and He uses our friends for us to cry on their shoulders. They're like walls that we can lean on and just knowing they're there for us to accompany and hear our problems is a great relief and help. Friends are important people in our lives and we should thank God for giving them to us. Such blessings!

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Safe Investments

With the current inflation going on people are thinking about the best investment that can give them better profit. Some people invest in house and lot, jewelries, stocks and other known investments that used to yield more profit but these days economic crisis affect these things. I’ve known a friend who turned to a different kind of investment and started to buy gold bars because he figured that this precious metal appreciate value and more likely to give better profit returns in the coming years.

It’s better to invest on safer grounds than risk your hard-earned money on unstable goods. With precious metals like gold you can invest on gold bullion and gold coins to ensure that your money is placed on safe investments.

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Top Droppers for March 2010

Just came back from three-day rest from blogging and from summer camp fellowship meeting in Indang, Cavite. I want to thank my daily visitors and droppers here in my site even if sometimes I can't reciprocate your visits due to intermittent connection and busy schedule.

Dropper	# of drops
Guitarbench.com	30
moms..... check nyo	29
Life's sweets and spices	28
The Modern Mom	28
Mommy's Little Corner	28
A Simple Life	28
Yummy-as-can-be	28
Wirez and Circuitz	26
Jean sQuared	26
Fledgling Blogger	23

Thanks to my friend Liz for making it to the top ten with 6 of her blogs! Appreciate your visits!

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Some Nice Good Books

My cousin always visits me and Mom on her free time and because she saw that I’m fond of reading books in between doing my online and offline tasks she went to her friend. The friend who has a nice collection of good books to read lends some nice ones for me to borrow. I was surprised and glad when I saw the books and it’s nice to note down that books are about work attitude, inspirational, friendship and family. I really enjoy reading but sometimes I don’t have the privilege and luxury of time. Maybe this summer vacation will give me ample time to do some of my hobbies.

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Josh' Moving Up Ceremony

Before the Ceremony

With Dear Tita Mama

With DaddyWith Me

With Teacher Joan

With Friends With Lola DearJosh graduated from preparatory school last Monday the 22nd day of March and we're all excited about his last moving up ceremony as preparatory student. He's going to move up to primary schooling next school year and the whole family is all giddy about it. I had tons of pics (as always) and I just picked some for this site. I'll be posting some on my other blogs.

For this year he got the 2nd place, the Best in Reading award and that makes it three in a row. On his nursery he got the 2nd place also and last year in his kinder class he got the 1st place making him the class valedictorian. He also have a Loyalty Award because he's been in St. Audrey since nursery. This is the first time that he didn't have a piece to speak as in the last two years he's the one who delivers the speech for the giving of certificates to the honors. The speech was in Filipino language and I think it's more appealing to the graduates and parents. My opinion only of course!

As always St. Audrey is on time with the graduation ceremony finishing it before the kids gets tired much to my relief! We started at 8:30 am and before 10am we've finished with the photo shoot. We headed to our house to pick Mom and ate at Josh' fave KFC. At lunch time we brought packed foods to Ruth & Gen.

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A Kind of Anti-Stress To Me

How I would like to take a vacation by the beach but I still have busy schedule and tons of work. I have to work out my busy schedule before I can go on with my vacation plans. It doesn’t have to a grand vacation as I only want to take some rest after a 10-month circus with house chores, school activities and online works. Actually if I have an acer netbooks with me on my vacation and a prepaid broadband I can still update my blog and read emails while I’m somewhere vacationing.

I don’t mind reading emails and doing some blogging while on vacation because blogging doesn’t stress me. On the contrary it’s a form of anti-stress to me because when I’m online I can do anything, I can hear music, watch videos and movies, visit favorite sites and communicate with friends. I don’t have to get in touch with my family because my vacation would certainly include them :-)

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:Mommy Moments - Summer Days Are Here!

As school classes is just about to end we still haven't been to any resort. Next week we'll go to Villa Dominga Forest Resort where we'll have our regular summer camp meeting and possibly a splashing afternoon in the resort before we go home. We sleep in the tent which makes it more exciting.

Some shots I have here was our swimming in Brgy. Pansol's Villa Ruby Rosa in Calamba, Laguna where we regularly spend our summer swimming for the whole church. We rent the whole resvilla to our group only and cook our meals here good for around 14 families. We started going there at dawn and go home before it's dark. There are only two pools here, one for the kids and for the adults but it's good enough for us. Kids just go out of the pool when they're hungry lol!

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Earthquake in Metropolis

My sister called me yesterday that they experienced an earthquake in their office and since we’re not that far from San Juan EDSA where their office is located she asked about us. She was surprised that I didn’t know the earthquake that passed Metro Manila. She told me that it’s around Intensity 4 but I learned that in some areas it has reached Intensity 6 so I was thinking why I hadn’t felt or known it. As I remember the hour it took place it was the same time as Josh and I were preparing to go for his entrance examination and I was preparing some documents for his entrance requirements. I was also busy with the OR of our Nissan Sentra for the buyer and checking some Ferrari parts for my friend’s favorite car. Well none of my neighbors felt the jolt so I guess it’s not that as strong here in our place as in the other places in Metro Manila.

Actually it’s the second time that my sister called to inform us of the earthquake only to know that we didn’t knew it happened. Funny but it’s true. According to my niece’ husband my sister’s workplace location is really prone to earthquake and they will really feel the shake even if the intensity is not that high. The same goes to my former office because I learned that the fault line is lying around the area. Maybe that’s the reason also that whenever a heavy truck passes our building it felt as if our glasses will break because you can feel them shaking. I’m a very observant person and during my 6-year stay in Libis I think that it’s also part of the fault line.

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:Friday Fill-Ins #169

And…here we go!

1. The right word should be coming from the heart and not from the mind when you're trying to advise a friend in her most troubled moments.
2. Open and shut the door quietly, please so I can work without noise disturbances. I can do some more tasks if I can have silent environment.
3. Up , UP and away.
4. At my little office corner in the living room is where you’ll find me. If not look for me in the kitchen I may be cooking some foodie for my hungry kids
5. Ooh! What is that foreign recipe menu doing at my kitchen table, do you think I should try cooking it? Well let me see!
6. Your thought of making some giveaways for graduation of the kids is a good idea but it will be too late now to prepare it, don't you think so?
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to working til the wee hours at night because I slept early yesterday and my tasks will expire soon, tomorrow my plans include checking out all things to buy for our camp meeting on Holy Week and Sunday, I want to collect some payments for our summer camp food so I don't have to collect on the camp site!

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