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Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella.

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Elvis was an avid gun collector. His collection of 40 weapons included M-16s and a Thompson submachine gun.

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Elvis favorite collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in.

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It was at a concert in Minneapolis in 1954 that Al Dvorin first closed Elvis’s concerts with: “Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night.”

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The harmonica is the world’s best-selling music instrument.

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Tap dancing originates from Irish clog dancing and what is called the Irish reel and jig.

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The British anthem was performed the most times in a single performance. In 1909, while waiting for King Edward VII who was getting dressed a German band played the anthem 17 times.

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Prodigy

Me and the little kiddo is hooked with watching youtube videos lately. We've been watching videos from cute and funny babies to animals and some amazing stuff. You'd be surprise what people to do to get on their free time and even have the time to record and upload it online. Anyway, it's been pretty entertaining I must say. What amazes me even more is that there are a lot, I'd say A LOT of talented musicians out there, and there are pretty young too! Makes you wanna think that your kid could be the next child prodigy right?. Oh well if that happened to us, we would be like so thrilled. And as a parent, I would definitely support her/him by providing music instrument--from tuning hammer to piano/guitar/violin and exposure to extensive lessons. As a musician myself, it'll be pretty exciting. For now, we'll be watching youtube videos the little kiddo and hopefully baby lj would be a musician like her mom and ate.

Happy Halloween!

We had our yearly Halloween party here in the Village this afternoon. And this year, we are MALEFICENT. We bought this costume last year at Walmart, from our US trip and good thing it still fits!

The kiddo won the MOST ORIGINAL costume.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN GUYS!

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The Star-Spangled Banner became the US national anthem in 1931. Prior to that, it was My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” which had the same melody as Britian’s national anthem God Save the Queen, which is based on music written by John Bull in 1619. Bull’s melody has been used more than any song in national anthems.

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About one-third of recorded CDs ever sold were pirated.

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The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold were about equal.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy happy 7th Birthday to the beautiful Georgina! 

Babies are growing up too fast....!

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Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy – by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million.

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Happy Birthday!

Baby GIRL

I know I am excited on every OB check-up but this kid is much more excited than I am. She wanted to be present on all of check-ups coz she wanted to see how our bunso is doing. I was praying for a baby boy, but God gave us another GIRL. So it's a BABY GIRL!

~ Ate and bunso ~

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The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.

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40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that’s some 90% of all music downloads.

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The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the greatest DAD ever!

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Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

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Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).

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To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.

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Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.

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Music

I lot has changed in the music industry. I miss the golden days of the 90s wherein alternative and rock bands reign MTV and the radio. I remembered leaving the television on on MTV channel and watch for hours. During summer vacation I would play in the guitar every song on the songs hits. I would also save my allowance to buy that much awaited cassette tape I was eying for several weeks. Years had passed, some artists moved-on with family their family, some stayed in the music industry and others started a new career as procedures etc. I know a lot of musicians wanted to produce their own music. That's why I became curious on how they do it. I know for a  fact that music engineers use the uad satellite because of its many inputs and superb output. But when I dug deeper and made researched more on the subject, I came to realize that it is not my thing haha. It's pretty much complicated for me, so I'll probably stick with playing and making music. I guess, I'm one of those artist who wanted to stay in the music industry performing. Peace out.

Big sister

My 2 sisters accompanied by their husbands is here on vacation. They'd been working in Dubai for years and this month is their vacation time. And that gave us the opportunity for a family picture. So after the big family picture, kiddo and I have to have our own shot. And walla! Big smiles for the Big sister!

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On average, US online view 100 videos per month each.

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People view 15 billion videos online every month.

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24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

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About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.

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The HTC Dream was the world’s first Android phone.

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My weekend with the babies

We went to the mall earlier an took a selfie before we drove off. I super love this photo! Unfortunately, I was not able to take a photo of myself last month, which broke the monthly-pregnant-selfie we were trying to accomplish. Oh well.

And yes, I cut my hair short.

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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

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TGIF

Had the morning walk and work-out at the park and ate a calorie-full breakfast. Stayed home to do some online chores. And I'm ending my day still in front of the laptop. But I finished a bunch today so it's a TGIF indeed!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

FastFaQs

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

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160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

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The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

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Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

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First day high!

It's the first day of school for the little angel today. And come to think of it, she's not little anymore *sob* ... She's already on 4th grade and entering a higher level gives me the jitters that she may drift away from me. I hope not. I pray everyday for her to be safe and she may grow up smart, talented, kind and obedient. Sending hugs and kisses everyday to my little angel.....

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Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

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9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

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Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday sister M! The surprise birthday bash was a success. Thanks to our parents and other sisters who made it possible. And thank you friends for coming. See you soon!

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Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

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Why hello there....

This is our first ultrasound and baby LJ is 3 weeks and 3 days old. Another surprise is the estimated date of delivery is same birth date as the kiddo's lol. I know it's just estimated but it was a surprise to see her birth date here. Anyway, seeing the the results makes me more and more excited!

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The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.

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Happy!

I know I don't look pregnant (yet) but me the kiddo is trying to start a monthly selfie, so we'll have a shots to compile and look back next year. I just hope I won't forget to take a photo. For now, we are HAPPY! 

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Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

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One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

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POSITIVE!

YES! We are pregnant. It's been awhile since I've use one of this and it's pretty exciting. I've been thinking and wishing with all my heart that now is the right time to have another child and my (out) wish was granted. We are expecting our second child (after 9 years) next year. Thank you God.

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Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).

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About 3 billion people connect to the Internet, 850 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.

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Facebook has more than 1.3 billion registered users; about 100 million of those are fake profiles.

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SURPRISE!

SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

Hubby came home yesterday (from Qatar) without me knowing it! Actually he's a week early tsk tsk. He wanted to surprise us (little angel) and he really did a good job about it. So he talked to her sister, my parents and my sisters about it and they formed a plan to divert our attention yesterday. Aaaaahhh! Can't believe everybody knows except me! LOL Yesterday was really THE day because of the stress in the morning and happy surprise moment in the evening. Now we are re-united... It's time to lakwatsa! =)

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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

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Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

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The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom! You are the best mom in the world. God bless and stay healthy. More zumba in the morning! =)

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There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

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There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.


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There are more than 1 billion computers in use.

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A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.

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Abroad

The hubby finally passed all the requirements for his new job offer abroad and now we're waiting. We haven'y prepared any of his stuff yet and we'll probably do that once we get all the details and confirmation flight. I also plan to do a major clean-up of our room when he leaves. I haven't decided though on what to do with this sofa bed. The kiddo said, it's not that comfortable so I'm still thinking if we're gonna replace it with Foam Factory cushions or not. Kiddo's toy will have to go somewhere and a new cabinet for her clothes is also a must. But for now, we're enjoying our time together as a family and hopefully me and kiddo can visit hubby abroad. 

Congratulations!

Another important chapter of our life is getting married to our better half. We were lucky and blessed to witness another wedding in the Belleza clan. Congratulations pinsan Ramil and his wife Arreth. God bless!

~ Lovely smile of the Bride ~

Good question

Funny sometimes I wonder how FB took all our time. We cannot resist not checking the news feed. It's like it's part of our lives. Sometimes I wanted to resist the temptation and do something useful online, like read "real" news, research and blog hop (which I haven't done for quite some time). I wanted to expand my knowledge like check new gears, like traktor kontrol s4, or get more ideas on my next cupcake project. The real question here is.... Is the world ready to let go of the social network? That's a good question!

Sunday celebration

This is her Sunday birthday celebration with cousins and friends from school. It was one hectic day for me... as in! But it was all worth it.

~ Happy 8th Birthday! ~

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday little girl... Mommy loves you forever!

Random updates...

My dad's been very busy lately because he's trying to renovate his other house in Caloocan. A new tenant will occupy the house sometime in March. Renovation is in full swing that's why he's been going back and forth. I wish I can help but my schedule is already full especially now I'm back in the graveyard shift. I'm trying also get my baking time on track. It's hard to get clients after Christmas because it seems like everybody's paying their credit card debts hahaha. Maybe I can get more order this February. I looked for other online just to be prepared. Anyway, I'm enjoying my weekend off and how I wish I have the weekend off... forever!

Sunday Lakwatsa!

Sunday lakwatsa at Tagaytay! Simba, road trip down taal lake, Mushroom burger, Skyranch, Zipline, Horse ride, Savory, Starbucks, Picnic Groove, Gourmet's.... 

What's it gonna be?

Sometimes I can't help myself but to browse for other new gear online. I wanted to be updated on the latest gear from my favorite brand. Been thinking if I should get a warwick 5S or prioritize with a fx. It's hard to be torn between two awesome gear you know! Then there's this new gibraltar drumset. I can't help it... I'm also a drummer hahaha. So what's it gonna be? Probably the fx because it's cheaper hahaha. Let's it.

Eight years.... 8

We celebrated our Wedding 8th year Anniversary at Magnolia Ice Cream house. Lasagna, salad and ice cream!

~ 8 years na kami.... ~

Last day....

Last day.....

Happy New Year to all!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Surprise!

Surprise birthday bash for Polbax last night. It was one hell of a night! Centido... re-united! 

Ang gagaling nyo...

~ Yeah, Beejay, Lizz, Pobax, Rani and Randel ~

Gig tonight!

Curious right

Being in the music scene sometimes requires us to be informed. That's why I make sure I get some research online on my time off so I can be informed with the latest gadgets out there. I'm not into dj mixing and all that stuff but I was curios lately. How they make music mixes and stuff like that. A friend of mine recommended the Vestax Typhoon but I'm not going to shift to dj stuff hehehe. My heart still belongs to the band =) There's nothing wrong with being curious right? Right.

Sunday Morning

Sunday morning is my favorite because I get to spend it with these guys....

~ ...with Kim, Peds and Dhon ~

coins

November means it's time to make the Christmas list. I know it's early but in my case, I want to be ahead of time. I don't want to be in the middle of the Christmas rush shopping just like before. So I'd make sure everything is setup early. I also do my research online and finding more ways and ideas for Christmas gifts. There's one I found about customizing coins on challenge coin from coinsforanything.com. I think it's a very very cool souvenir especially on company Christmas parties, token of appreciation awards and souvenirs. I'm sure it'll kick ass on every celebration.

Amp

 We've been piling up songs from our old playlist, checking chords and jamming our hearts out. We're trying to get as much songs so we can make it at least 3 sets for the upcoming gig this December. We've been doing our jam sessions at home and it's good because we can get to play without rental, plus the amps are fired up and well. Speaking of amps, we haven't got any back-up guitar amp yet. I'm checking the blackstar ht-5r online and I wanted to try it out first before we make any purchases.So the question now is... Is it available in our country?

Project Band

Our project band is starting to make progress. We found our temporary drummer which we met at Papsie's birthday couple of weeks ago. Hopefully we'll get all the songs done before our December gig. I know I have a lot of things to do like work, family activities, baking and probably squeeze in some band practice in between. I wish I can do all those things my heart desire, but there's just some responsibility that's always the first priority. Multi-tasking to the highest level.

Shop for furniture

Every end of the year, we don't usually spend our hard earned 13th month pay on cellphones and gadgets. What we buy is appliances or furniture that we really really need. Last year, we bought a new bed frame because we were sleeping on the floor for a couple of months hahaha. Since the one we bought was cheaper than in the malls, we also bought sofa bed for the kido. This coming Holiday, we plan to get a new dresser for the kiddo, because her current one is about to fall off (any time now!). Yup it's been her dresser since she was born haha. I hope we can find a cheaper one so we'll have extra to buy a memory foam topper for the bed. Bed springs are starting to come off and a new mattress is quite expensive. Can't wait to shop for furniture.

Happy Birthdaysss...

Happy Birthday to my other half. My best and worst. My best friend and husband. For better or for worst, we are still together. Happy Birthday Daddy =)

Happy Birthday also to our tower of power sister A! You are always our inspiration, motivation and role model. God Bless you Ateh!

Happy Birthday to SIL Caron! So far yet so near in our hearts!

Happy Birthday guys! Love love love love love... all around.

Waiting...

 I was having problems looking for sports bras for plus size women because people here are not as big as me. I tried the malls but unfortunately, found free sizes that's still won't do. So I decided to ask a favor to my MIL whose living in the States to buy me a set or two. Ultra stretch and comfy will definitely work clap clap. So I still have to wait until Christmas for the package to arrive. Waiting.. waiting...

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday sister jx!

Online customers

Since it's nearly impossible to have two jobs here, the hubby put up his own web store. He started participating on forums and discussion rooms until he finally have his own account, just like ebay sellers. It's a struggle at the first but at least he's getting the hang of it. Advantage of that is he can get to stay at home in most cases and other times for meet-ups with client. He's currently enjoying this online store and hopefully we'll get more customers!

Remembering...

Happy Wedding Anniversary to my  +Grand Parents.

Looking up and looking for you guys in heaven =)

Can't wait to bake!

I'm happy and thrilled that I'm getting orders for the past few days. Good feedbacks from clients really made my day every time. I really need a printer so I can have easy access if I need to print a sticker label. My sister said labels are very important, especially if the customer wanted to order more. I recently visited netopia to print my label and a page cost Php30 and they don't even provide the paper! Grrrr.. So the next time I visit the mall, I'm off to see how much a printer costs. Christmas is fast approaching and I need to have my products recognize. Hopefully I'll get more order in the coming holiday. Since I'm standardizing my recipes, I think I need a biometric safe for it, for safe keeping! hahaha! Anyway, I have a lot of recipes lined-up and hopefully I can more on my list of items for sale. Can't wait to bake!

Weekend Snapshot!

Recently made these little ones again and proved that I did not loose touch on cookies. These babies rocked our weekend!

~ Choco-chip minis by: FeLiz ~

Dream

When I was starting to play music, I remembered I was happy with my plain old acoustic guitar. Years past and I learned a lot from jam sessions and gigs. What I learn along the way was how to pick my instrument. I'm a Fender person when I comes to bass guitars. Luckily, I have my own re-issue P.bass. And if ever I'm gonna be a lead guitarist, I would definitely go with the gibson les paul at musicians friend. The tone of this guitar is really outrageous, it makes me wanna get one for the sake of having one. Good idea hahaha./

Weekend Snapshot!

This was my recent project. Baked  a lot of choco-banana cupcakes for my niece's baptism last 2nd weekend of May.

~ Choco-Banana cupcakes by: FeLiz ~

Stuff

I miraculously sitting on the laptop and checking out my past photos on FB when I stumbled upon this Saturday jam album. 

This was how my things looked like when I was high and active with my band. Jam sessions are the best spend with wonderful and talented musician friends. And that day I remembered, was a blast!

You know what's missing in this picture? The Noise Cancelling Headphones at guitar center! 

Weekend Snapshot

Caring doesn't end at home nor just within your circle of friends. For me, it's way beyond. My weekend snapshot was taken last May 18 at out Outreach program in Calauan, Laguna. We did lectures, games, and activities. It was a very hot day but at the end of the day, it was fulfilling. Thank you God for this wonderful experience. 

~ Outreach Program ~

Small world

I've been a Internet surfer ever since the Internet was introduced here in our location. And I'm not surprise to see everything online--like buy&sell, order online, and even cigar auctions online.  And I know for sure that everybody cannot end the day without going online. It brings two far away places together, like chat and video conferencing. Amazing how Internet evolved in our lives. It makes the world small. Somehow.

Project cupcake!

And here it is! My Project cupcake: RED VELVET Cupcake with cream cheese. I know it's a unique recipe but it really feels good to see my masterpiece brought to life.

~ Red velvet by: FeLiz Confectionary ~

Repair the washer

Thank GOD we have house help. Now I'm trying to convert my time from house chores to baking time and exercise time and I can't wait to bake! I already hit the grounds on jogging and it really feels good to let all the sweat out. I'm also grateful for not doing the laundry for the time in months. But I feel bad when our washer broke down the other. Now the house help needs to do everything by hands. I really need to remind to get a washer repair because I hate to see being done manually.

Project cupcake

My sister bought this red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting yesterday and she saved some for me. I took a bite and instantly thought---"I can do this too!" So for my next project will be the red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. I already found this nice recipe and I can't wait to hit the kitchen.

Future

Hubby is still looking for a job abroad and I'm praying that he'll go soon. I know it's a risk to have him work overseas but over seeing our condition here is some what close to hopeless. God is still on our side because this past couple of month, hubby was able to undergo training on welding, mechanic etc. He also needs to be familiar with basic carpentry like milling machines and vices, which I'm sure he'll do great. I'm still hopeful and I know God will bless us a bright future.

Out of town trip...

We are planning to go to an out of town trip this last week of May and we plan to go to Baguio. Me and my friend planned to go with our families. This is their first time there and we are all excited. I borrowed my sister's van for our transportation and the hubby booked us a place to stay. One thing left to do is plan our itinerary which I'm sure is much easier to do. Yup we're definitely off to Baguio in a couple of weeks!

Fridge talk

We replaced our old fridge after we moved here to the new house. My mom was so excited, she just picked a brand in the mall and had it delivered asap, and not knowing the pros and cons of that brand. And later we did found out that this kind of brand has the disadvantage of building a big block of ice at the fridge wall inside which makes it more inconvenient because not the food get ruins but we have the defrost even week. My mom wants to sell it again and I suggested that we research first before we buy. But I already have one in mind hehehe, and that the new samsung rf197acrs. It has this cool window-like door, internal led lighting and ice maker. Samsung brands are really kicking off this year. Besides the Samsung galaxy tab that I have, maybe we'll get the Samsung fridge as soon as we get of the current one.

Labor day and Ironman3 poster at Mcdo

Happy Labor day! We went to bulacan for the fiesta thing and had lunch at Max's in SM Marilao. We went straight home after and the hot weather really made us very tired. Kiddo and I felt asleep (Thank God for A/C) and we woke up, it's already 5pm. We decided to eat at Mcdonald's near our place because we wanted to check-out the kiddie crew workshop for the kiddo. I ordered the usual happy meal, chicken meal and lo and behold, there's an Ironman3 meal for the adults.. for a choice of quarter pounder, big mac or big and tasty... it comes with a large fries and drink. Best part is you can choose from those 4 posters! (I chose poster number 1) So the meal and the poster is only 199. So I think there's more reason to go to mcdo, not just because of the kiddie crew, or the big and tasty haha! But because of the Ironman3 posters.