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Watching Favorite Movie At Home

June 30, 2008

I like watching sports event. Lately, I’ve watched Manny Pacquiao vs. Diaz boxing match. Another is the Euro 2008 football cup final between Spain and Germany. This would be an interesting game as Spain would really try to make a brilliant performance in a bid to end their 44-year drought against three-time champions Germany.I am looking forward to watch tennis matches in the Wimbledon. I normally watch big game with friend’s on a big screen. How I wish that we’ll have that Flat TV Wide screen at home with matching comfortable LIVING ROOM FURNITURE . Having a home theater with surround sound.

Catch all the excitement and thrill on a big flat screen at home. Everyone can enjoy the cinematic experience by getting some home theater system.  Selecting the right kind of equipment needs research on components and lots of comparison between one brand with the other. The Internet is a good source of information regarding home theater rooms. This is not yet on the top of the list of things to buy, but I’ll just dream first and save money for this.

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June 29, 2008

Information technology had widely helped companies, business and individuals convey their messages to the viewers. It is said that if you don’t have a website for your product then better not expect to increase your sales significantly.  I admire small and medium businesses or entrepreneurs who have managed to advertise their products online. They are exposing such items to global market. If you haven’t done creating your site yet better consider Theme Empire to have your domain hosted. You can choose from a variety of hosting company starting from Bluehost, LunarPages, Hotrocket and more.  Apart from this you can also get your own choice of web design that is Adsense compatible.  So there’s no need for you to search anywhere else.  Theme Empire has all you need for creating a better website.

If in case you have your existing site hosted in another service provider and still you have to get the package in Theme Empire, the latter could serve as your slave drive or back up for your files. You will never loose anything at all.  In fact it’s an advantage for you to have two hostings at the same time.  During emergency situations like downtime, it is possible that you use the other service to keep your site running in just a few seconds.

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Another Victory for Manny

Our Filipino hero Manny Pacquiao did it again.  After tossing 3 champions out of the ring, now it’s time for Diaz to step back as well.  But what’s good with Diaz is that his sportsmanship is so unbiased that I could even say he’s also a winner by good character as shown on the interview.

By now people in the Philippines are in joyous celebration of this victorous event.   May we continue to fight with excellence like what Manny did and acknowledge defeat in a good way like Diaz showed us. 

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On Learning French

June 28, 2008

My eagerness to learn French taught me new vocabularies on my personal dictionary.  Learning the very basic would mean knowing how to greet somebody good day like, Bonjour Monsieur, Bonjour Madame or simply Bonjour will do. Another is learning how to ask simple question like ‘how are you?’, Comment allez vous?  The answer would normally be, “Tres bien merci. Et vous?”, [Fine/Very well, thank You and you?].  So far this what I could recall from studying French conversation in a month.

After quite some time, I noticed my knowledge has obviously decreased. They say that inorder not to forget it or any other foreign language you should at least practice speaking with the natives or listening to some tutorials online once in awhile.  My teacher suggests of traveling to France.  That may not be a practical option, though as expected you’ll be forced to think and speak out the right words to say. I long to experience Morbihan from a private gite for a week.  What other choices do I have? Hmmm. Excuse me for my dreaming escapade again.  The silly me is just finding ways to occupy my mind. I don’t want to turn my Sunday into something ordinary.  So I might as well put a good spell in a family friendly holiday gites in Orne.

Light shines over a distance.  As I look intently I imagine this private chateaux to rent in Perigord Pourpre.  I will allow someone to bug me as long as he has pandesal with him.

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Shelldon a Lighthearted Cartoon TV Series

A new TV series will be shown on October here in Thailand and in 45 other countries around the world.  Shelldon is another cute sea creature from shell land.  His story will surely capture the attention of most children and the young at heart.  The original story is in Thai but it is expected to be dubbed in English and other national dialects when aired on your respective countries.  And by the way, Lea Salonga will be singing its theme song entitled “It’s a Brand New Day.”

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Breeding Tulips on my Front and Backyard

June 27, 2008

Luckily both my bosses are away and I’m free to do whatever I want even if I daydream the whole day nobody will ever bother me right now. And speaking of daydreaming, my mind is flying somewhere cold surrounded by tulip bulbs and butterflies.

I examined my cut on my right hand which has totally healed. I got this one from my recent gardening venture outside our unit. I noticed that my plants were growing like bonsais as they have been potted for years now. So I decided to transfer them on the ground for their greater good.

I  took out the weeds with my bare hands then I remembered my friend in US who said that she mowed all the weeds herself including the tulips which grows like shrubs on her backyard.  I reacted on that.  I pitied the tulips as I love them so much. 

Two years ago, I had my first glance with  Dutch tulips at the Royal Flower Festival in Chiang Mai. They must have ordered them straight from Goodbulb, I thought. That was December when I went there. Most probably they have those beautiful plants ordered six months ahead of the festival since it is very hard to secure rare variety of tulips. Giving someone a bouquet of tulip on weddings or anniversary means love and passion.  Among other types I choose the combination of Kingsblood, Maureen and Menton as the prettiest. For me breeding these kinds of flowers on your front yard and backyard contributes positive effects to ones health.

 

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Meeting the soon to be Mr. & Mrs

June 26, 2008

Much as our community has been expecting, two couples have decided to tie their knots these two successive months.  One was the Indonesian students Jin Ai and Ririn and the other pinoy couple Tin and Romy.  The first couple went back to their home country to celebrate their wedding. Whereas the pinoys decided to do it here in Bkk.  After knowing the good news I approached my photo savvy friends Gio and Lei to contribute their talents.  I’m happy that they both agreed that we’ll take the pre-nup photos to be shown during the wedding.  And additional photo shoots on the wedding day itself.  

Today was our first meeting at the arcade outside Pho 35 Vietnamese noodle shop.  I presented the plans and discussed with the soon to be Mr. & Mrs. Date & locations has been set and the paparazzis are now brainstorming what technical equipments do we need to purchase.

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Fun Summer Vacation

June 24, 2008

anzel and rvin Summer time is here and my nephew and niece were too excited to try out their outfits earlier to play with their inline skates on the ground floor of their apartment unit. Anzel is the one in purple sweater and pants with matching pink helmet and black elbow & knee pads. Rvin looks cool on his black tops and pants. Both dashed downstairs to enjoy their afternoon skating.

Rvin told me through YM that he can’t wait for November as he is going to play Ice Hockey by that time. It’s part of their physical education class in Finland.  At the beginning of the day, children are given time to exercise or play possibly to warm up by engaging in team sports.  As we’ve known this country is terribly freezing during winter months.

Earlier I talked to Ma who’s with the kids right now spending her vacation with other family members, I learned that Rvin’s school has this unique motto saying “A hungry stomach is deaf to learning.”  True enough these kids enjoys their buffet lunch and I noticed that they have grown in height now.  Surely, I will definitely look dwarf on our next meeting.

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How would you want to be entertained?

Me I find it entertaining to listen to original songs lately.  That’s where I got the chance to know this very talented Fil-Am Chris CendaƱa. He’s one of the participants in “Say it Again” Cover contest of Marie Digby. Warning though.  His voice is addicting. =)

Youtube has done great things to alot of people, like this one for example.  Song writers and freelance artists have honed their talents and still continues to develop them for others.

Hope you enjoy listening to this love song as much as I do. This I chose among the list of awesome songs by Chris.  

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Top Search Engine Rank Promotion Site

The market place is going global and that business are now finding the importance of e-commerce. Although the goods are being sold and made available in the Internet chances of people finding it would be difficult. This is because there are thousands of business that might carry your product throughout the globe.

The importance then of having a website promoted to get the top search engine ranking position is crucial to the business. I have heard that there’s a newly released www.servicewrap.net website promotion package called “X”. What sets it apart from other similar packages are that it guarantees submission and paid inclusions in the search engine listings.

There are many other search providers, but the important thing is you’ll get the promotion needed in the search engines. The rewards of this is better reach of the target clients.

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Folks meets Eastern Europe

June 19, 2008

mom&dadOh how I wish to experience the cold breeze of being in a place referred to a land of fairytale by lovers and a paradise of architecture by artists.  A shortcut story behind this part of Eastern Europe is comparably similar to a bread bun with toppings. This huge land mass consists of two countries Czech and Slovakia combined as Czechoslovakia. After years of the regime of Nazzi German in WWII it was taken over by communism of USSR. Comes 1989 when the toppings of communism seem not to be tasty anymore and these two countries were divided into Czech and Slovak for the sake of freedom. Though they came in one Slavik tribe in Europe yet these two countries have different views and way of living. Now Czech is full of abundance yet Slovak still needs more additional toppings to make it more appealing. 

If you have gone to Czech, they say your tour is not complete if you haven’t passed Charles Bridge which connects to Prague Castle and the historic places in the city. Year 1400 when it was finished and for 600 years it wasn’t destroyed by calamity, war and heavy loads of trucks.  If there is something that these statues of saints this bridge tells you, one is about monument of their patron saint St. John of Nepumuceno who was thrown in the river as he didn’t want to speak out what has been confessed by the wife of King Wenceslao.

Would you like to know more? I’ll tell you about it when I’m there. =)

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Photo: Ma and Dad at Charles Bridge

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Unwanted Guest

June 7, 2008

Have you ever experienced instances wherein you genuinely helped someone and sadly in the end you get all the blame for all the mishaps? Such a pain in the neck or ass (i think) would sound more better. Isn’t it? It’s actually the only trivial challenge I’m facing lately.   (more…)

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Dance celebration

June 5, 2008

Celebrating a family’s special day has been a tradition to us.  Being away from them, me and hubby normally see to it that we don’t miss celebrating their birthdays or anniversaries even if we’re miles apart from each other.  Lately, our big sis Cookie had her first celebration of her natal day in Finland. Staying in the city of Pori is quite different from TH, she said. Still they are so blessed to have everything they need and do things on their own as one happy family.

Our other family members have prepared special meals in time for her birthday, mom&dad went to the nearby church in the place were they are staying in Prague, for me and T we celebrated it by dancing in FF.  Since Ate Cooks was our dance buddy before, we thought it would be nice remebering the fun moments with her through our dance. =)

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Looking for models

June 2, 2008

I’m faced with a slight dilemma with my photo assignment today.  I noticed that almost all of my classmates have come up with quick and creative response to our new set of tasks listed on our photo club website.  Ideas are hard to find when you need it the most. I surely  wait for the proper timing if not I will settle for the old photos nonetheless.

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