:Today's Flowers #81 and MYM#2

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These two shots were taken on the garden beside my former office in Libis where the owner lend the place to a family and they built a wonderful garden of vegetable and flower plants. I even bought some plants for my Mom. I missed the place because it's the first thing that I get to see before reaching our building and these beautiful Española flowers (am I right?) were the ones near the road. I have to brave myself before the family's watchdog before I had these shots! Anyway they held the dogs while I take the shots but I'm really not comfortable if they're not tied lol!

It's my granny's favorite flowers and we used to put some of these kinds in her grave when I was young.

Happy Monday!

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He’s so Fond of Amusement Parks

My little boy always wants to talk about his educational tour especially our visit to his favorite amusement park. He always talks about the exciting rides, the tree house, the funny mascots & characters and all the fun he had experienced there. He asked me if we could go back there sometime and I told him we will with his two siblings. Of course his two sisters want to go there also and have fun with the rides he’s talking about. When my friend JennyL went on a trip abroad and had some Disney vacations she told us her exciting time there. She showed her tons of pictures when she was there with her family. Since that time Josh always ask me when we could possibly visit Disneyland. He likes to see all Disney characters that he love to watch on cable tv. He’s really hopeful that we could arrange a vacation there.

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Will You Live to 100?

Chance You'll Live to 100: 88%

100 is looking like a sure thing for you. So don't screw it up!
In fact, you may live even longer than that. You're healthy, and you have good genes.
Unless there's a robot uprising, you'll probably live a very long time.

I was taking this test to relax myself as I'm not feeling well this morning, I didn't make any work and asked my Mom to massage my back. It was a nice therapy for me as I feel good now, I even made muffins with my daughter Ruth. I'm just taking it slowly today to recover from over work last week. No regrets though as I've saved a lot of bucks for my kids' tuition fee next year! Oh well nice chances for me don't you think? Try this one out!

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Invest in Gold Bullion

Today’s economy is fast changing and most often its fluctuating. This situation in the country affects all people from all walks of life because economy covers the entire country thus the price hike of basic commodities, transportation, education and many other things. It greatly affects stock exchange business. It’s good to invest your money on stocks but it also changes daily. There are other investments like land, houses, jewelries and small business but some of these are not good investment idea as they depreciates throughout the years.

With this situation it’s better to put your investment in tangible assets where there’s no fear of declining value. It’s time to buy gold bullion from US Gold Bureau if you want a good return of investment in the future. They offer gold, silver and platinum bars, maplets and more. There are greater possibilities of increasing your profit if you buy gold now so don’t wait for long visit their site and decide.

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:Friday Fill-Ins#164

1. Johnny Weir is a champion figure skater.
2. I wish I was in Vancouver Canada watching 2010 Olympics.

3. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was even more delicate than before.
4. Take a cool shower at dawn if you get an urge.
5. Having sweet dreams is just like having sweet thoughts the whole day.
6. What does it take for him really change for good.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to stay up very late to finish tasks due midnight, tomorrow my plans include jumbling up online and offline tasks as usual and Sunday, I want to think of fellowship only and nothing about blogging!

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Vital Things in Seeking Employment

My niece didn’t pursue college for lack of finances, her Mom died when she’s very young and her father can’t afford to send her to college. She has flair of fixing appliances and mobile phones and quite interested in enrolling in electronics vocational course or even a short course in repairing cellular phones. I’m happy that finally she found what she wants in her life and even if it’s only vocational I encourage her to pursue her plans as she can do it with perseverance and will power. I know in time she’ll have her dreams achieved just like others who dreamed and achieved their goals. Just follow what you want to be in life and try your best to meet your goal.

There are many chances of studying and many channels in which we can study on low finances like the training programs offered by may train institute. I’ve known private and government agencies those who provide training for electronics associate, dress making, computer secretarial, typing, and cooking and many others. I heard this green educator who offers courses for green economy like energy auditing, solar training, wind training, sustainability training and more. All these courses are good for green economy and will be of great help to those who want to have a career on those fields. Education and training are two vital things for seeking job in the future. With proper knowledge and skills gained from education and training a good job opportunity will await the graduates.

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He’s Slimmer and Healthier

We chance upon a former office mate who used to be our companion in our overnight working for bid proposal. He was so big and needless to say he has excessive pounds but he’s not so keen on losing some of his extra pounds. Now when we saw him we couldn’t believe our eyes as he seems to be fit and very healthy. He’s still big but the fat he has in the past is slowly turning to muscles.

He told us he has decided to change his eating habits and turned to a healthy lifestyle because he has been sick in the past and the reason was too much cholesterol on his body. He has enrolled in a gym workout schedule to monitor his weight and he’s happy that he has become slimmer now. One of our friends asked him if he’s taking testosterone booster and he winked and smiled. Guess what? He played along with our friend’s question but he doesn’t know anything about the boosters. Now he's asking about it too because he's really serious in getting slimmer and becoming as fit as possible. He also wants some good hard muscles to complete his dream.

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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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