Some pics from the disco

Just want to share some photos from the disco bar last Friday. As I shared to you in my earlier post, we went to the disco last Friday to celebrate the birthday of my cousin, Lisa. She turned 28 and it was a girl's nightout for the 4 of us.

d bday girl - me - best - yan2x

Best and me

The photos were from my best's camera. I havn't uploaded mine yet. But when I do, I'll also share some pics from there because I want to share a pics with my sexy boots. :) Anyway, it's my friends who told me that they like my boots coz it's kinda sexy, but I'm not sure about it thought. So, I'm going to share it to you next time and tell me if you find it sexy too.:)

No internet for almost 2 days

Hi everyone! I'm glad and I'm finally on-air once again,hehehe. I was not able to blog lately because our internet connection here was not working for almost 2 days. It started very early yesterday morning and it's fixed just around 7pm today. The good thing about it is that, I was able to sleep early lastnight and had a good night sleep.:)

I had a nice monday. Though it was a little bit busy since I cleaned the house and walked the child to school. I also picked her up from school together with her friend home. And then, I prepared dinner and made spaghetti. The child requested since her friend liked it too. But I separate some meat from the eldest child without the tomato paste since she's not allowed to eat something with tomato for the moment.

And today, I'm pretty relaxed coz there's not much to do in my employer's place. And I'm happy too because I already started working for our neighbor for 2 hours. I'm talking about our preggy neighbor who asked my employers of I can work for 2 hours in their place once a week to help her in putting the clothes into the closets and some ironing since she has difficulty moving already coz her belly is already so huge. Good thing and my employers agreed and so thankful coz the neighbor is paying me pretty good.:) It's nice coz I really need extra moolah for the project that I have in mind way back home.

Inogen oxygen concentrator

My friends just left a while ago and here I am taking my time in blogging and surfing. I didn't have the chance to do those things while they're still here because I was so busy talking and bonding with them.

I just stumbled into a health site a while ago featuring Inogen oxygen concentrator and I'm really impressed about the product. It's a portable one and it's very convenient for people who are always on the go but need it. Oxgen concentrator is also called an oxygen generator and it's a device used to provide oxygen therapy to a patient at substantially higher concentrations than those of ambient air, used as an alternative to tanks of compressed oxygen. Oxygen concentrators are also used to provide an economical source of oxygen in industrial processes.

If you knew someone who are using the huge and old models of oxygen concentrator, tell them about the Inogen portable oxgen generator and they might want to have one. Tell them to visit http://www.oxygenconcentrators.org.

Senior Sto. Ninio fiesta celebration

4 of my close friends are here in my apartment today and we are having a lot of fun. Last night, we went to the disco until 3am because it's the birthdayt of my cousin and we finally went to bed at around 5am.:) And then we woke up late and prepared ourselves for the 2pm Cebuano Mass in honor of the feast of Senior Sto. Ninio. The mass was officiated by a Cebuano priest and the homily was very lively. We liked it a lot. And then there was a fiesta celebration afterwards and of course, we went there because we havn't eaten breakfast yet and we're all very hungry.:)

2 are already sleeping, while 3 are still awake. We are still wide awake, preparing something to eat. We are cooking "sinabang baboy" because we are hungry once again from the 30 minute walk from the bus stop up to here. More updates later folks and meanwhile, we still have to clear the table and be ready for the yummy food.:)

Funny t-shirts

I'm really fascinated with blouses and t-shirts with cool and funny quotes in it. I remember during my caregiver days that I've been malling with my younger cousins for baby tees with cool and funny quotes. The one we liked much was the baby tee with a quote "I'm a virgin. Note: This blouse is very old".,:)But too bad because I was not able to buy one beccause the sizes available were too small for me,:(

And my fascination with blouses and t-shirts with cool and funny quotes was refreshed as I stumbled into www.roadkilltshirts.com where they are selling funny t-shirts online. And the quotes in the left side is one of the quotes that I like.

If you all also into collecting t-shirts with cool and funny quotes, feel free to visit www.roadkilltshirts.com.

No stretching for 3 days

Hi everyone! I hope that you're having a blessed Sunday. I'm just staying here in my apartment during the weekend. And I didn't go to Church today because I went to my extra job. It was postponed for today instead of last Friday.

And as my title says, I didn't have any exercise for 3 days. But don't panic because it's not because of laziness, but because I'm having my period and I'm having a minor dysmenorrhea. So, I'm not that comfy in making any exercise, though my mind is really ery eager to do it. But don't worry coz this is only temporary. After my period, my exercise routine will continue. I'm already very determined to lose weight, so I'm not stopping at all.hehehe.

Golf shoes anyone?

If you want to buy a new pair of golf shoes, you can now do it online at www.theworldofgolf.com.

Live Science

I've been visiting Live Science many time for some readings and I love it. This site is very informative and you'll learn a lot of things from there. If you haven't heard about it before, it's your oppurtunity to visit them at www.livescience.com.

Shopping at Asian store

Yes, I went to the Asian store this morning to buy some food stuff for my cooking in my employer's place. It has been a long time that I haven't shop in the Asian store and I don't have asian stuffs for my cooking anymore. So I told my employer that I'm going there and he gave me money for the shopping.

I'm not busy today because I already had my general cleaning yesterday and my extra cleaning will be on Sunday, instead of this afternoon. So, I just made some tidying up in the house, walked the child to school and went to the Asian store with the bus.

I came back at around 11:30am and I also made a general cleaning here in my apartment afterwards. I'm soo glad because my apartment is so clean now and I also changed the beddings. So for sure, I'll have a goodnight sleep tonight,:)

MY female employer is finally home now after a 3 day performance management seminar. She also bought new skiing stuffs because she's they'll also be skiing. glad and she's already home. Atleast, my male employer will not be very stressed dealing with the kids.

Wnjoy your weekend everyone!

Facts about muscle and metabolism

Here are some facts about muscle and metabolism from weightlossresources.co.uk:

The metabolic rate - the rate at which the body burns calories - is partly determined by the amount of muscle we have. In general, the more muscle we have, the higher our metabolic rate; the less muscle we have, the lower our metabolic rate. This explains why men, who have a high proportion of muscle, have a faster metabolism than women, and why a 20-year-old has a higher metabolism than a 70-year-old - again, they have more muscle.

Ultimately, muscle burns a lot more calories than fat so when we lose muscle, our metabolic rate drops and we burn fewer calories. In fact, research shows that the body loses a proportionately high amount of muscle with a very low calorie intake and this may considerably suppress metabolism by up to 45 percent.

This explains why it's crucial to do as much as you can to protect your metabolic rate, especially when you're dieting. And this means dieting sensibly with a suitable, rather than a very low calorie intake so that you lose fat rather than muscle.

Accessories for your truck

If you want to buy some truck accessories for your vehicle, try to visit BuyAutoTruck online store.

Don't drink too much fruit juice

I always thought that juice is healthy, so one can drink as many as he/she wants in a day. But I was really wrong and I found it out in an article I read a while ago at Yahoo Health.

Fruit juice can only fit into our diet in 2 rules: 1. we can only drink 100% fruit juice and 2. we have to monitor the portion sizes. So we have to be very careful in buying jiuces. make sure to look at the labels. And for the portion size, adults should only drink no more than two cups (16 ounces) each day.

But it's still advisable to eat whole fruits because it has more fiber than fruit juices.

For the complete story, just click here.

Signs are everywhere

I guess, I already shared this thought in my other blog a month ago, but let me tell you about it here since it's still progressing.

It's been months now that I felt the urge to get married.:) I used to say to myself that I'm going to marry at the age of 30, but suddenly, I felt the urge to settle down and have my own family. Have you experienced it too? And the funny thing about it is I tend to see signs wherever I go. I've heard news that some of my friends are getting married, saw pictures in their friendster accounts that they're expecting a baby and other sign related to motherhood,marriage life and the like.

Then one time, I stumbled into a site with an advertisement on the side about engagement and wedding rings with matching pictures.Ohh ohhh. As my title says, signs are everywhere and they continue to tickle me. And just a while ago, I stumbled into another site featuring baby cribs. Ohh my, what does it mean? Are those signs trying to tell me something?hehehe. And to add to the pressure, the site is also linked to another baby site that features baby furniture. I hope there will be no more signs like this for today. 2 is enough already,:)

And my aunties, uncles and friends are also sending me text messages and asking me when I'm going to marry. I'm really in the hot seat nowadays!:)

She's having milk allergy

Yesterday morning, I found out a note in the kitchen for me from my female employer. She usually leaves notes for me if she has something to remind since they usually got up late. And the yesterday's note was all about the eldest child's milk allergy. She has been complaining about a re occuring stomach ache, so her mother brought her to the doctor. And the official finding says that the kid is having milk allegry. So we have to be careful in giving her food for her lunchbox as well as be careful in making food for dinner.

The note has a list of all the things she can't have aside from milk and it includes: butter, butter cheese, goat cheese, tomato paste, bell pepper. I really pitty her because it means that I can no longer put butter into her bread and I know she hates eating bread without butter. She's really struggling and I can no longer make spaghetti for them too coz she can't eat something with tomato paste too. Poor child! I really pitty her. And it also means that I can no longer prepare chicken afritada and chicken curry for dinner. Hmmm, making dinner would be a tough job for me already. I have a lot of things to consider. But I'll try to manage the situation. I have to coz for sure, my employers will scold me if I'll cook something that's not good for the eldest child.

So good luck with my cooking then.:)

Wishing for an espresso machine

The cold weather here in Norway makes me wish for an espresso machine! I am not a coffee addict, I only drink very seldom. I love tea, espresso and cacao. And I usually drink a lot of water. But this winter, I want to have a hot drink most of the time and it would be nice to treat myself a cup of espresso everytime I feel so cold. I've been looking for
espresso machines online and they're just out of my budget and I think it would be very impractical for me to buy one for my apartment. I mean it's nice to have once since I can still use it in Pinas, but then if I'll ship it with my box. The entire thing will take a lot of space. So, I better be hardworking in boiling water and make a hot drink for myself the traditional way.

Let's switch from bottled to tap water

I just read an article at Yahoo Food about the downside of drinking bottled water. Firstly, according to the article, the 60 million bottles of empty drinking water thrown into the US landfills take up to 1,000 to biodegrade. And it's only in the US alone, how about if we'll total the all the empty bottles used by people all over the globe?? For sure, Mother Nature is in trouble.:( And 2nd, producing all those bottles burns through 1.5 million barrels of crude oil annually which is enough fuel to keep 100,000 cars running for a year.

And the solution is to reuse. We are suggested to invest in a couple of portable, dishwasher-safe, stainless steel bottles like that won’t leach nasty chemicals into your water. But we should all remember not to get into the habit of refilling the water bottle you just emptied; the polyethylene terephthalate it’s made of breaks down with multiple usings. Ohhh, ohhh, I am exactly doin this and I am endanger.. I have to stop this habit and buy a stainless water container. I have to throw my water bottle now!!

And here are 4 more reasons to turn on to tap water from Yahoo Foods:

1. Tap water is tested daily
Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, water suppliers are required to provide an annual report on the quality of your local water and to test tap water daily. By comparison, the FDA examines bottled water only weekly, and consumers can’t get the agency’s results. You can easily get the lowdown on your state’s drinking water quality at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html

2. Tap water is a bargain
Bottled water costs about 500 times more than tap. If you’re into really fancy labels, up to 1,000 times more.

3. Tap water is a tooth saver
It has more fluoride than bottled water, which helps prevent tooth decay. (Yes, you never outgrow your need for fluoride.)

4. Tap water is often tasty
Some places (New York City for one) have delicious water, but if you don’t love the flavor of yours, the solution is simple: Run your tap water through a Brita or Pur filter to remove most tastes and odors. The average home filter goes for $8.99 and produces the equivalent of 300 large (16.9 ounce) bottles of water. That’s about $0.03 cents a bottle, versus the $1.25 or so you’d pay in a market.

Source: Yahoo Foods

Remembering Mama's first reading glasses

As I stumbled at Great Discovery: www.ZenniOptical.com a while ago, I suddenly remember my Mama's first reading glasses. My Mama has been using reading glasses since my brother and me were still in our elementary years and we really had a good laugh at my Mama's first reading glasses because it's so huge that the bottom rim reaches her cheeks.:) She had a photo with the glasses and she too had a good laugh about it. Glad that today, there are already a lot of nice and small-framed glasses available and my Mama has a new reading glasses already. She had her latest last year and it's already small-framed just like the photo below:

The irony of it all

I'm here in Ate Eves' apartment, spending the weekend with her and Ate Minang. But right now, I'm alone because they are out for their extra jobs. I'm now enjoying Peter Cetera's music. I really love his music and my fave is Glory of Love.

By the way, i just want to share to you an ironic situation that happened early in the morning. We woke up at about 10am and I made some stretches and stomach crunches. And right after doing the routine, I grabbed the left-over pack of cheese curls and started munching it. And Ate Minang was really laughing at me coz she just find it so funny,hehehe. Yeah, it was really ironic. Eating junk food after exercising..grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I made spaghetti for dinner

I had my general cleaning day in my employer's place. I was so busy and finished cleaning at around 2:30pm and it's because I started late, around 11:30am because I dozed off in my apartment right after walking the child to school,:)

And after relaxing for about 30 minutes, I started to prepare dinner and decided to make spaghetti. When the kids arrived, the eldest was already shouting coz of happiness and shouting that it's spaghetti for dinner without even checking what's really on the table. And she said that she's sure coz of the smell,:)My female employer is awat. She left for London after work to enjoy the weekend. I'm very glad because the kids were in good mood and it was easy dealing with them. My male employer and I talked about a lot of things. He told me that the stock exchange in Norway is having a depression (he's working in an investment company) and he also told me about the education system. More parents are complaining here in Norway because they think that kids are learning less compared to the old generation. They want change and improvement in the education system. And right after he mentioned about education, I suddenly remember the engraved plaques we have at home. Some I received and some received by my mother as an appreciation of being a good secondary teacher.

Hmmm, sorry I got carried away with my story. Anyways, we had a nice dinner and I went down here in my apartment after tidying up. About my exercising, my body is still aching from the dancing I did for 2 consecutive days. Yesterday night, I didn't dance but I did stomach crunches though. And tonight, I fell lazy too, but I promise to do soome streches.

Have a nice weekend ahead everyone!

Checking out hip hop abs

Glad to be blogging here once again. I was so busy cleaning my employer's place on monday and got no chance to blog here. Though I managed to make some entries in my other blogs. Yesterday, I was not that busy but I lost track of time viewing the friendster accounts of my friends. I just miss them and wanted to view their photos.

And I have a good news, I started exercising again since Monday and so far, so good. I just hope I survive. My brother told me about hip hop abs by Shaun T. during my visit in Denmark and he also taught me some moves. He and my cousins were very supportive in my plan of losing weight. They also want me to be healthy and sexy,:) So, when I came here in my apartment, I immediately searched hip hop abs in the net and got very inspired to have a kit. I think it's for me since I love dancing. I checked on ebay for available kits. There's several, but the problem is, the seller is not shipping here in Norway.huhuhuh so sad. I still have to figure out what to do about it coz I really want to have a hip hop abs kit soo badly.

How bout you, have you tried it before? Did it work for you?

Dieting gone bad

I have a bad news for you folks and hope that you'll forgive me for this. My dieting turned bad during the holidays. :( Though I'm so happy in DK because I met my brother once again, but the downside was the dieting side. The scale went back to 55kg when I checked it 2 days ago in my employer's place. Sooo sad:(. But it's ok because my determination is still intact within me and I'm really looking forward to start all over again next week. My brother has taught me hiphop abs moves to perform everyday as an exercise. I'm really excited and I hope that it will work for me. I'm more motivated because during the party in DK, I'm the only one with a big belly, the rest are so slim and sexy. So I really have to work hard because I promised them that the next time we'll see one another, my "bil2x" has to be thinner.

I'm here in Ate Bren's place because she's leaving for Pinas today with her daughter for a 1 month vacation. We wished her a happy trip. I slept very late lastnight (3am) because I helped her in organizing her things. I only had 5 hours sleep, but glad because I still had a good sleep because I used the new foam mattress that she bought last week. It was really very comfy. I have to leave for now because one of my friends will use the computer and I have to take a bath too.

More updates later and see you all next week. Happy weekend once again!

Belated happy new year everyone!

New Year Comments


Hi everyone! I hope that you had a nice New year's celebration. Mine was a good one in Denmark together with my brother and my cousins. I was not able to blog because I was very busy in Denmark having fun with the gang and when I arrived here in Norway, I was busy cleaning the house of my employer. I'll be blogging more next week.

Thank you so much for visiting me here even if I don't have new posts. I promise to visit you all next week. I can't blog hop today because I'm here in my friend's place and I can't use the computer for long coz my friends are going to use it too. I just want to greet you a belated happy new year and happy weekend!