Heads or Tails : Light and Dark

The theme/prompt for THIS week, February 16, is:

HEADS - "Light" ~OR~ TAILS - "Dark"

Well I used both themes for Heads and Tails making my post here as a combination of light and dark. This was taken more than a year ago while I was attending a wedding reception at the top of the hill that's why I got a good view. This view was looking out at the metropolis particularly the Ortigas Center while I was in the hills of Antipolo City. You can see the sunset 'light' slowly hiding its majestic shine and slowly leaving and making the environment darker. I always have some fascination over sunset!

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Pursuing Her Dream After All

My friend didn’t go to college due to lack of money to finance her studies and right after high school she worked in an electronics company to help her parents in raising up her siblings. She stayed with the company for many years but due to lack of college degree she find it hard to transfer to other companies that can give her better opportunities of earning bigger salary. She can’t pursue college on normal schooling because she needs to retain her job to support her dream of finishing a college course.

It would be hard for her to study in the night as she’s on a shifting schedule and her chosen course is not available on night studies. She really wants to study as she needs something to hold on in the future and to compete with other qualified applicants. I told her that she can have an online college degree just by studying in her own home. She’s very interested and told me that she’ll think it over the night and will let me know of her decision. It's an opportunity for her to achieve her goals and dreams without sacrificing her work. She can't afford to leave her present job as it's their bread and butter. I think she'll go for it as I saw she’s very happy about it.

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Do You Have Healthy Relationship?

You Have Very Healthy Relationships

You are an amazing friend, partner, and family member.
You always take other people's feelings into account, and you're never selfish.

Your relationships are based on mutual respect.
You respect the people you love, and you only love people who respect you in return.

Just having some ponderings and tried this quiz to see if my relationship with my family is healthy enough. I'm quite satisfied with the results though I may say I'm not that really perfect. I might have flaws and mistakes along the way but I'm happy that at the end of the road I have a very happy life.

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New Hair Cut

I had my little boy’s hair trimmed down to a very neat cut for his graduation portrait in school. He has his father’s hair so when his hair is long it curls a bit. Well it’s better for him to inherit hubby’s hair because if he’ll get it from my side I’m sure he’ll have problem with thinning hair at the front when he gets old just like my Dad and brother. My Dad had nice and thick hair when he was young but when he reached thirties his hair started to show thinning at the front. If only he found the best hair loss treatments on those days he would have saved his hair from thinning. Losing and thinning hair affects our personality and sometimes it gives us inferiority complex. Anyway my Dad took it lightly and accepted his situation with a good smile. And even if there are remedies available in those days this modern technology got better cure for it.

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Always With Love

My kids were so excited with Valentine's day and they made some real cute cards for me. Well since Josh is just a little boy just some hearts here and there on the card is enough for me. As they say it's the thought that counts, he even planned to buy me some chocolates but he told me his money is in my bank lol! This lil boy always makes me laugh whatever whenever! Ruth made a very beautiful card with much creativity on the fold up images inside the card. She has a habit of filling up the cards inside and out never missing spaces to put some words and design and I love it! This occasion is not a formal occasion to us just as long as the family is bonded together and always with love we're Happy!

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Sleep Properly

I had busy days this week that made me so tired at night. I have to do blogging between my offline activities just to cope up with my schedules. I never really imagined that being a full time Mom can almost rob you of your time for yourself. This week I tried to finish all pending tasks at night but I can’t force myself to stay awake because my eyes seem to have their own mind.

DH told me not to sleep very late because my blood pressure will be affected so I followed him; besides if I sleep properly acne won’t develop on my face. Then I won’t be looking for the right acne medicine for my type of skin. It's quite a task finding the right one because skin on the face is normally sensitive and you can't take a risk on it. I'm very careful with the things that I use on my face. I usually wash it with my white germicidal soap and put only loose powder on daily activities. I don't put makeup which is why my face is always clear of anything that would harm it. Now I hope I can allot more time to my sites next week as I have tons of tasks to finish.

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My Waking Hours

Woke up every early today only to know that it’s only 3am and still hours before my regular waking hours. I woke up everyday on weekdays at 4:30am and on weekends at 6am but today Gen has review classes for RAT (Regional Achievement Test) and Ruth was scheduled for entrance test in TUMCS at 8am. I really regret having early school schedule on weekends because that’s only the days that I can wake a little later than usual.

Anyway I returned to my sleep, woke up at 5am and did every chores as fast as I can to be ready to accompany Ruth to her exam day. I really would like to sleep soundly and continuously from night to morning but I’m not used to taking sleeping pills which will give me a good night’s sleep. I can’t imagine my daughters are going to school without eating breakfast. They need a full meal breakfast to be at their smartest level when learning their lessons and be alert on whatever school activities they may have. Lack of food at the start of the day makes you lazy, weak and a little dizzy sometimes. Breakfast for me is the most important meal of the day.

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School Inquiries for Ruth

I visited TUMCS this afternoon to inquire about the requirements needed to apply for entrance exam for Ruth’s secondary education. I dropped by Jen’s internet café before going to school because I’ve never been there before. Bes’ café is near the corner of the road leading to school so I asked for directions. The school is only a walking distance but since I’m not familiar with the school I hired a trike to go there which I think is only two minutes traveling time. I entered the Guidance’ office and they quickly gave me recommendation form which will be filled up confidentially by Ruth’s current class adviser. The other form contains some info about our family. I’ll return the forms on Friday so Ruth can be evaluated before the examination date.

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:Friday Fill-ins #162

And…here we go!

1. I know things will work out fine after the talk.
2. I really think December is the longest month and the busiest also.
3. You can’t help but follow what God says in the great book.
4.You have to believe that prayers can move mountains; bring it on!
5. Where have you looked and searched for that good old antique furniture?
6. My instant messenger is always invisible but since my classmate wants to know if I'm online or not my status on my chat is now available.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to finish writing up my article on the difference of branded against generic drugs, tomorrow my plans include cooking up family's favorite chicken afritada and pancakes and Sunday, I want to go to my SIL' house in Montalban after sunday service!

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Will She Invest?

It’s getting hot again and doing some tasks here in my room seems to exhaust me. I’ve done with visiting several sites and happy that I spared some of my time for it. My PC failed me an hour ago when I was waiting for some opportunities; it hanged on me just in time for the release of assignments. I think I should have checked my PC before when I had the same problem a month ago. I can’t help feeling so frustrated because I’ve waited patiently then my PC stopped reading.

Since I’ve always been with my PC for almost the whole day I felt the same way as when a friend let me down. Since I lost my excitement now I’ll just finish this post and check the Palm Springs real estate which was requested by my friend. I just don’t know what she’ll do with the information gathered. Will she invest or just visit the place?

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