Barricks.

Last Saturday lunch time, I finally got out from the hospital. And whaddaya know? As soon as the clock striked 7pm, I made kulit to my dad to drive me off to North Walk 2 in Olongapo-Gapan road to meet my friends at Gloria Jeans. Well, one of my Wednesday Group friend is celebrating her **th birthday.

We ate at this newly opened resto bar called Barricks. The food was superb! I took a pic of the food we ordered (yung iba, wala ng pics kasi kinain kaagad,LoL!) because I can't say any negative to it specially the baked mussels in the seafood platter, it was oh so divine!

DJ, me, Ericka & Reggie

King of Pop

I was still confined at my hospital room when I saw in the news that Michael Jackson had a cardiac arrest. It was so surreal because I am just listening on my MP3 with his song, Man In The Mirror which is one of my favorite song. Then TMZ proclaimed that Jackson's dead though CNN is still not confirming. Hours later, at 2:26 LA time, they announced the King of Pop dead. My mom and I got sad because he's still young and still can contribute a lot in the music industry.

Here's a video of one of my fave music from the King of Pop:




I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .

As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I See The Kids In The Street,
With Not Enough To Eat
Who Am I, To Be Blind?
Pretending Not To See
Their Needs
A Summer's Disregard,
A Broken Bottle Top
And A One Man's Soul
They Follow Each Other On
The Wind Ya' Know
'Cause They Got Nowhere
To Go
That's Why I Want You To
Know

(chorus:)
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change)
(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah)

I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish
Kind Of Love
It's Time That I Realize
That There Are Some With No
Home, Not A Nickel To Loan
Could It Be Really Me,
Pretending That They're Not
Alone?

A Willow Deeply Scarred,
Somebody's Broken Heart
And A Washed-Out Dream
(Washed-Out Dream)
They Follow The Pattern Of
The Wind, Ya' See
Cause They Got No Place
To Be
That's Why I'm Starting With
Me
(Starting With Me!)

[chorus 2x]

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror,
(Man In The Mirror-Oh
Yeah!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make The Change)
(You Gotta Get It Right, While
You Got The Time)
('Cause When You Close Your
Heart)
You Can't Close Your . . .Your
Mind!
(Then You Close Your . . .
Mind!)
That Man, That Man, That
Man, That Man
With That Man In The Mirror
(Man In The Mirror, Oh Yeah!)
That Man, That Man, That Man
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
You Know . . .That Man
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Oh Yeah!)
Gonna Feel Real Good Now!
Yeah Yeah! Yeah Yeah!
Yeah Yeah!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Ooooh . . .)
Oh No, No No . . .
I'm Gonna Make A Change
It's Gonna Feel Real Good!
Come On!
(Change . . .)
Just Lift Yourself
You Know
You've Got To Stop It.
Yourself!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
I've Got To Make That Change,
Today!
Hoo!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Got To
You Got To Not Let Yourself . . .
Brother . . .
Hoo!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
You Know-I've Got To Get
That Man, That Man . . .
(Man In The Mirror)
You've Got To
You've Got To Move! Come
On! Come On!
You Got To . . .
Stand Up! Stand Up!
Stand Up!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Stand Up And Lift
Yourself, Now!
(Man In The Mirror)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Aaow!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Gonna Make That Change . . .
Come On!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know . . .
(Change . . .)
Make That Change.

Jay's birthday

It was my cousin's birthday last Friday, June 12. We had a simple celebration at their house. Ate Linda, their ever reliable house maid cooked spaghetti, friend lumpia and spring rolls. My Tita Arlene who knows how to cook well (she's studying culinary in Australia), made some Leche Flan and Bibingka...both were so divine when I tasted them! It's not that because it's my tita who cooked/made it, but it's because it's really yummy!



The birthday girl with my 2 kulit cousins


Of course, we went home late again. It's nice to see my cousins and relatives every now and then...

cake from Red Ribbon


Bibingka and Leche Flan

Fwends...

They are my Wednesday group friends. Not that we are included in the show "That's Entertainment", it's just that we have a lot of errands to do on some weekdays, so we finalized that we meet every "W" of the week.

Last Wednesday, our friend Ericka celebrated her birthday and treated us at Gerry's Grill. Guess how much our bill is? Just the 6 of us, our bill is almost Php4k! That means we munched a lot at the resto! LoL!

Fishes.

My Red Paco fish died last week. I don't know what really happened, I just saw him (i think he's a HE) kinda swimming sideways and the next day, I saw him floating already. So sad. I had him for like nine years already, imagine that. He's so big, more than a foot I think in length. My mom said that I just buy small fishes so that I could design the aquarium this time.



I bought 6 Tin Foil fishes and 6 different carps. The two died (one carp and tin foil), I think it's because of over feeding. Now I am kinda hesitant in feeding them every day, so I decided to feed them just every other day to avoid over feeding.

I bought half a sack of white sand, plants, shells, 3 volcanic rocks and a mountain like painted rock wherein they can swim over and under it.

I am B-A-C-K!

Not that I went anywhere but I am back here in the blogosphere....blame it on the virus that attacked our PC.

Anyways, I have a lot of kwentos to share to you and I don't know where to start.

Let me share to you who visited us two weeks ago.... Our Lady of Fatima visited our house. She's coming from house to house here in our village. It was a perfect timing because my dad needs a lot of prayers these days.



After my dad's angiogram 2 weeks ago, the doctors at the Heart Center found out that there's something blocking in one of my dad's veins in his heart. His cardiologist wants him to have angioplasty, that's the best thing to do for him. The problem is money. My mom asked for a quotation at the hospital as to how much is the procedure....Php675,000! That's more than half a million pesos! Now, we're still looking for someone who can sponsor my dad for his angioplasty. I know PCSO can help him, it's just that we need to go through a lot of processing of papers when it comes to charities like that.

Please pray for my dad.

still here...

I know I am not that present here in the blogosphere for almost two weeks now...there's a culprit. A TROJAN HORSE VIRUS in my computer! I had it reformatter however the man who did my computer ( I assumed) doesn't know what he's doing because our files (as in ALL our files) got corrupted and cannot be retieved anymore! How great is that, huh? I wanted to cry because all of my precious (million) pictures are not yet saved on any dics. Boohoo.

Still, my computer is running funny. It really has to be reformatted by a licenced technician not just any wannabe computer technician.

I learned my lesson now.

Butter VS Margarine

The Butter ... please ...

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal, so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% <> according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..

Very high in trans fatty acids .

Triple risk of coronary heart disease .

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response..

HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it.

Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends..... (If you want to "butter them up")!

Things I've Learned...

That you should always leave loved ones's with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

That you can keep on going long after you can't.

That we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

That Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

That either you control your attitude or it controls you.

That sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down are the ones who will help you get back.

That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

That true friendship continues to grow, even over the distance. Same goes for true love.

That just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to be doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

That maturity has more to do with what type of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

That no matter how good friends are. They're going to hurt you in a while and you must be able to forgive them for that.

That are background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we are.

That life can be changed in a matter of minutes by people who don't even know you.

That the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

That you shouldn't be so eager to discover a secret which could change your life forever.

That two people can look at the exact same things and see something totally different.

That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

That it isn't enough to be forgiven by others, sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I really need to...

lose weight.

I am serious this time.

Hah! How many times have I told my self about that particular line?

Anyways, I have enrolled my self in the gym (again)...I got inspired by my friend Shey, who lost weight just by drinking juice. And I mean 100% natural juice. What the frustrated me did? I bought a power juicer!

It's not a Jack Lalaine but it's kinda like that. It's JML power juicer, it's the one on Home shopping network. Guess how much I got it? It's on 50% off! Regular price is Php10k, thanks to SM 3 day sale, I got it half the price!



The excited me tried the juicer this morning. I tried combining one whole carrot, cucumber, apple and 2 small oranges. The outcome? Taste like carrot-orange juice. Not bad. The cucumber and apple were overpowered by the carrot and orange.




And also, I got myself a Hush Puppies rubber shoes for only Php650! It's their last pair and in my size! I grabbed it without thinking twice. Hahaha. Im time for my gym work out! Woohoo!

Friendship weekend once again...

How was your weekend? Mine went great because I spent it with my friends.

I had a lunch date last Friday with my friends at Ala Creme restaurant. Actually, it was my friend's post birthday treat to us.


After lunch, we decided to go to SM's 3 day sale. Who could resist a sale? But before we did our thing (shopping!), we went to Starbucks first to have some coffee and continue our chickahan. We we're not contented with our coffee, we transferred to Extremely Espresso restaurant which is just right across Starbucks and ordered our favorite Naco platter. So much for food that day! LoL.


They got my name mispelled. :-(


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Saturday morning, I went to the mall to meet up with my friends Ingrid and Helen... of course, what's a meeting without food, right? LoL...

Ingrid, color coordinated with Yellow cab. LoL


4 Seasons pizza, yummy!

My Lola's Angel

As I have blogged here before, I mentioned that my Lola's an avid fan of Angel Locsin. At 77, she feel that she's still young whenever we talk about her idol star.

In here, I share with you her first enounter with her angel.

Two Sundays ago, we went to ASAP '09 as per my Lola's request because she wants to see Angel Locsin in person. It was announced that Angel will be celebrating her birthday on ASAP that Sunday. Good thing, my cousin (who works in an advertising company) has a segment (Coke's Open Happiness) on the show that particular Sunday so we kinda tagged along with her. We just waited for my cousin's friend Net, who's an Account Executive in ABS-CBN at Starbucks' ABS so that we could enter the premise without a hassle and besides, my Lola's so eager to see Angel. Without thinking twice, we didn't bother to wait for my cousin. Haha.

And now, here's the best part, during one of the commercial breaks, my cousin's two friends in ABS called my Lola's attention. They said that they're gonna bring her to Angel. As if my Lola didn't heard a thing, she got up on her chair and followed the two AE's of ABS-CBN. Of course, my cousin and me followed her to take pics of them.

My Lola's soo happy to see Angel! Angel's been so kind to my Lola that she entertained her, they even talked as if they've known each other for some time.

One Year!

I can't believe how time flies so fast. I can still remember that time when I was bugging two of my blog mates, Eds and Nova what's the best web host so that I could put up this blog. And now, it's my blog's first birthday!

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T2

My friends and I went out just last Saturday to watch T2.

For those who haven't heard about T2, it means Tenement 2. It's a horror drama which is all about an experience of a man to an enchanted being or super natural creatures.



Of course, a late movie won't be complete without a dinner. We dined at Extremely Espresso, its a resto/coffee shop. Food is great! We ordered their nacho salad and their biggest pizza, takaw mata lang kami. LoL!

One Easter afternoon...

I know this post is a little bit late, but, better be late than never! LoL!

Two Sundays ago (Easter), we went to Glorietta to go Easter hunting. My Aunt's maid's daughter, Diane has never been to any Eater egg hunting so off we went just to satisfy her curiosity. Actually, our main agenda there is because of my cousin, Jay. We need to bring her clothes and food all the way from Pampanga to Makati.

First stop in Gloriatta is TGI Friday's. Sorry, no pics of the food. Our sin is Gluttony. LoL! We all know that servings at Friday's humongous, each of us ordered a meal of our own. In the end, bondat kami lahat.



After lunch, we realized we need to take a walk since we are sooo full (para malaglag naman kinain namin). We strolled and windowshop. We even went to Rustans to check on my cousin's eye-candy... a white gold bracelet from Tiffany & Co.

After an hour of walking, we kinda smelled Auntie Anne's newly cooked pretzels. What else can we do if our nose wants that yummy smell, indulge again!

My cousin, Jay and Diane staring at the baker


The baker, forming the dough in a pretzel shape


My almond pretzel, yummy!


After buying pretzel, we forgot that it's time already. Aww, poor Diane, she missed the egg hunting! The registration's closed and the kids are all lined up already and ready to hit the sack of balloons to find the eggs!



In the end, we just bought her a chocolate egg.