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Ten movies you’d watch over and over:
:: My Bestfriend's Wedding, My Big, Fat Greek Wedding, Titanic, Monsters, Inc., Ice Age, Finding Nemo, Love Actually, Grease, Sound of Music, Mac and Me

Nine people you enjoy the company of:
:: Husband, Yakee, sister, Libet, Lota, Fuz, Allee, Te Gang, Len

Eight things you’re wearing:
:: Shorts, undies, top, smile or frown depending on how kulit my son is... and when I go out, I wear a bra, my engagement and wedding rings and shoes

Seven things on your mind:
:: School work, paid blogging, my baby, my husband, my nephew, upcoming outing with cousins, keeping the peace at home

Six objects you touch every day:
:: Computers, cellphones, diapers, remote control, electric fan, orange glass

Five things you do everyday:
:: Breastfeed, eat, go online, text and read

Four things that you see when you turn your head to the right:
:: play pen, diapers, books and plastic chests

Three of your favorite things that are red in color:
:: my son (because of his name), Skittles and underwear!

Two people who have influenced your life the most:
:: My sister and my husband

One person who has been nice to you today:
:: My sister, because she keeps on taking care of my son for me :)


Now, I am tagging Nick, Ghee, Mari and Tin

Kids say the funniest things right?

My SIL recently got braces. She told me that she was scolding her three-year old daughter for being extra-spirited one afternoon when the girl piped up, "OK na Mommy, OK na, wag moko duraan!"

:D

And isn't it funny sometimes how they'd twist our own words to use against us... or other kids? Same child, when faced with a two-year old playing with a toy she wanted, was heard saying... "Sophia, sharing is good!"

I have many favorite quotes. I am not really that eloquent anyway, and I tend to be verbose so quotes help me get sentiments across.

One such fave is this:

It's my personal battlecry when I find myself having to make difficult decisions. And of course, my standards of PURE LOVE are high indeed. At least, I get to remind myself to shake off any self-serving motivation. And generally, I can live with myself... and have no problem looking at myself in the mirror.

Anyway, I am sharing this now to you guys... just in case you find yourself in similar thresholds, or crises.

I am properly ashamed that instead of investing on better things, I have been spending on my favorite Starbucks cream chip drink (grande, with extra whipped cream, hold the chocolate syrup, and extra caramel drizzle) served in a venti cup so the whipped cream won't overflow, with a straw that has a sort of spoon at the end of it so I can scrape up the choco bits and caramel, if I wanted to.

Anyway, sometimes, to save... hubs would have the whipped cream on his drink just put in mine (and the chocolate syrup on mine put in his). That's still P15, you know.

And usually, baristas would find the order amusing, if initially confusing, but they're usually more intrigued. And it doesn't take them long to get it right. And they chat and engage while the orders are being made.

Now, we try for the first time to order the same at that Starbucks along Macapagal Ave (not the one at the Blue Wave Mall area). Not only did we have to repeat our order at least two times to three different baristas, not one smiled at us during the (their) confusion. And heaven help me, I got readily annoyed and expressed my frustration over their inability to get what we want. And the more I took a deep breath and employed the use of cups to more easily get the idea across, the more we weren't being misunderstood. What's more, nobody was even smiling at us, or apologizing for the slow uptake, or just chatting us up.

Not one of them even smiled at my son... who was pointing at the pastries over by the glass display case, which would have been cute for most people.

Hay nako talaga!

I admit to having low tolerance but I am actually far from war-freak. And I really don't think it's wrong of us to expect a more satisfying service from them in terms of interaction because their frappes average P150 per friggin' cup! It's not like you're buying Nescafe 3-in-1 from a sari-sari store no!

I have not been watching much TV lately. So it was only recently that I have enjoyed this... however, it's really not something kids should be allowed to watch since they are likely to immitate it...

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Meanwhile, the Pinoy Parenting Blog Carnival is asking parents everywhere what type of parents they are. Care to join us?

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Oh... and I have consolidated the most common ways I know how to earn from home so you might want to check it out.

Because two complete strangers tried chatting me up in two different malls today.

Yuck.

Talk about feeling violated.

Maybe it's because one was this foreigner guy, and both of them are old. Way older than me. Ugh.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell


I find myself unable to browse your pictures still... or mostly. But since I had to look for a picture for the layout I was making for you, I couldn't help but notice that your brother actually looked like you when you were younger. So I guess Ice will be super cute as well.

You know Andie, your former playmate here? She's already in Grade 1. Remember how she used to refer to you as her boyfriend? Anyway, now she refers to your cousin as that. I hope you don't mind. I guess she's really just missing you.

Please continue looking out for us from where you are... and do inspire your parents to be better parents for Ice. Oh, and I always tell those I encounter who've recently suffered a loss that you'd be welcoming their departed and making them feel at home in heaven. I trust you're doing a good job.

Sigh. I guess, in order to live in people's hearts, we indeed have to die first. But you were loved, darling Py, and thus will always be.

credits: Scrapbookflair.com and elegantwordart2.blogspot.com