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The Godesses: Celebrating Christmas in Greece 2014

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It's a beautiful time of the year where families get together and celebrate the most special day of the year- Christmas. I really love Christmas. It a significant day for me because this is the time we will remember that our Savior was born. He came to save us. Christmas is also a time of giving, forgiving and loving. I don't know but for me, the warmth of Christmas penetrates in my heart. The songs... the cold wind... the gifts and laughter in every homes (makes me realize, ah! it's Christmas time) It makes my heart glad-indeed. Thank you God for making Christmas. Well, what also excites me the most is how our family celebrates it. For this year's theme, we decided to have a Greek inspired Christmas celebration. We sew and wear different costumes based on theme we agreed. For me, it's not just the output (the pictures that we post on Facebook), but our bond in making and creating these costumes matters most. Anyway here are the #GreekInspired #ThemeOutfit #forChris

A Man is a Dog's Best Friend

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"The journey of life is sweeter when traveled with a dog". This is definitely true to those who treated their dogs more than "a man's bestfriend". A dog is a friend whom you can really count on. They're instant cuteness and sweetness removes all your stresses and worries in life. Dog's could really feel the pain, knows our aches and rejoices with our victories. Indeed they're the best buddies. I can remember the time when I'm in deep sorrow I spent time with our dog named scamp and I just touch and tap his head and he just wagged his tail. We know that they sincerely care- I can feel it.  Dogs have feelings too. Though, they cannot speak but sometimes they're in pain. In pain emotionally or physically. Whether they're sad or in sickness, but mostly they're in physical pain. We can still show our love and care to them by treating them.  The common ailment dogs do have is the otitis and other fungal infection. You can have minor treatme

Happy Birthday Mom

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I cant stop celebrating this special day with my mom. Yes, it's her 45th birtday and she loved it. We gave her a small party to celebrate her day of birth and this is our simple way of saying that the date of her birth is one of greatest date of our life. We will not be here without her. I cannot imagine myself without her. We grew up under her care and tender loving touch. This day, is indeed, worth celebrating. Keep going everyone. I love to see her happy. Look at that beautiful smile. She really enjoyed her day. awesome. She was really happy when she saw her new tablet. :)

I Got my Cherry Smartphone

Hi everyone I'm so happy that I'm doing this post using my new smart phone. Yes, you read it right. I'm so happy I got this new phone.You might think that this phone is expensive, well, I only paid 3999 pesos for this phone. It's super affordable and it doesn't compromise the quality of the phone. In my next post, I'll be featuring and posting my review about my Cherry Mobile S3 experience. Keep going everyone. Enjoy your day.

Wishing for a Birthday Serenade

Yeah, I'm already 25 last October 17. I celebrated my silver years last week Friday. I had  a great time celebrating my birthday with my loved ones and my co-teachers. The number of guest who attended my party is unexpected, but I had a wonderful time being with them. My desires and wish that somebody will serenade me at dawn never happens, but still I feel grateful with the people who spent their precious time with me in my special day. I'm already 25, but my frustrations to learn the guitar doesn't happen yet. Though serenading me on my birthday doesn't happen, but I wanna learn to play the guitar so that I'll be the one to serenade others and my loved ones on their birthdays. It would be a heart-touching moment if I'll do this to the people I love. So, from then one, I'll start finding the best guitar in town. :) Well, the best place to find an acoustic guitar is here . Keep going everyone. It's not too late to send your birthday greetings here. Pleas

GSP Encampment - Ready Set Camp!

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Hi guys, I am quite nervous and excited for our upcoming GSP encampment. GSP means Girl Scout of the Philippines. I am the troop leader in our school and I'm entrusted to organize and prepare all the things that's needed for the camping. As teacher, you should learn how to do multi-tasking. In line with this job, I also need to make sure that everything are all set- from utensils, tents, camp layout, chants and troop presentation. Setting up tents and preparing are easy to do, but preparing a presentation (a dance, drama or song number) is a little bit scary for me. I'm not that talented to choreograph such number. It would be easier in our part if we have all the gadgets needed to practice for great production number. Yeah, one of our chicklist is sennheiser wireless mic . Probably, we really need it in our troop performance. I would like to do it like in the "high school musica" show. Creative ideas are very welcome in this site. Honestly, thinking of a great pr

Happy World Teacher's Day

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It's good to be back in my teaching career. Last Friday, Oct 3, I celebrated one of the most unforgettable teacher's day of my life.It was one of the simplest Teacher's day celbration but I come to understand what Teacher's Day is all about. It's not really about the expensive cakes or the bouquet of flowers  that you could receive from your students but it is the thought that you are valued and highly appreciated. In my first 5 months in that school, where I'm currently working, I celebrated Teacher's day with a bunch of gumamela flowers and sincere love letter (quite funny letters ). It's not really expensive at all (actually you can find those flowers everywhere), but the thought that they remember me and my co-teachers in our very special day is already great significant for us. Through the school officers, they conducted a program for all  of us and they had presentation dedicated to us teachers. After the program they prepared a semi-fine dining fo

A Teacher Must Read Books: Benefits of Reading

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I want to start and develop my habit in reading. I want to develop it back again (honestly). I can't remember the time the last time I read a book. I didn't say I don't read books in school- of course I study my lesson, but what I am talking about is "reading" as a form of hobby or passion not a forced action. Definitely reading was just an obligation for me to be prepared, but enhancing my reading hobby to widen my knowledge, well that's what I want develop. Actually there are many benefits when you read. First is to be knowledgeable. Thousand of information can be stored up in our brain- how you're going to do it? Read. Another is to improve my English. I'm a Filipino and I speak the Filipino language or our native tongue. I can only be exposed to the English language when I read books, watch English movies or listen to the music. So, I better to be a better speaker and a writer. Last thing is that, I can go anywhere. Yes, reading can transport you i

A Sweet Harmony from the Past

I think everyone, mostly the young people, were very attracted to learn different kinds of modern musical instruments. It is very cool and very pleasing if someone can play a musical instrument like guitar, drums and piano. Due to the fast track of change, people already forgotten some of the native instruments that could really produce a a great harmony. Some don't even know about mandolin, gong, flute, xylophones and etc. These are what we called traditional, but when it plays, truly magical.  Music is not just limited to 3 to 4 musical instruments. There are thousands or millions of instruments that remains unnoticed.I think it's a start to revive the heart of the people to love other traditional musical instrument. Try to check out some of it online and here's the link to purchase it with   Free Shipping . Our celebration in "National Language" really open up my mind to embrace the beauty of folk music, traditional music as well as the musical instrument. Well

Buwan ng Wika- A National Language Month Celebration

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Here we  go. Everyone are busy preparing for the "Buwan ng Wika" celebration. This is an annual event in the Philippines, where all schools all over the Philippines celebrate the whole month of August. This is an annual event where students as well as the teachers were dressed in national costumes, tribal and other folk clothes. There is a contest in folk dances, folk song, cooking contest (native delicacies), "larong lahi" (Filipino native games), "Lakambini at Lakandula" (Filipino style beauty contest for men and women and many more. This kind of event preserves the Filipino culture, heritage, values, customs and tradition. For me this is a very important event because this will help open up to the minds of the young children to embrace the Filipino values and develop the love for their country. Enjoy. Have a happy weekend. God bless.  

The Class of Dreamers and Achievers

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I missed my life as a student. I graduated last 2010 and I miss the feeling when it's the first day of a class. My news feed in Facebook is flooded with a "back to school" status and it's kinda annoying but those status simply reminds me of how it feels when another school year is approaching. That weird feeling of mine just rekindled in my heart. Truly "those are the days" that will truly be engraved in my heart-happy, sad, exciting and pressured moments. If only, we could record all the great memories into a video. Or we could simply put this inside our class ring. Rings are symbolic too. My sister and I are planning to have a class ring- just to remind our "student life" days. Make your high school and college memories last forever. Check out for these amazing class ring.It will surely remind us that we are once part of a class of dreamers and achievers. "Class may be over, but memories will be forever". my sister and I were looking f

Summer Youth Camp Planned Activites

Yeah, everyone are excited for the upcoming Summer Youth  Camp in the church. Youth leaders and officers were all busy planning for the said event. Here are some of the summer camp ideas that we're going to pursue. In the opening night, we'll going to have a dance mob where all the campers and delegates are not just requested but are summoned to dance. So we're all busy practicing for the dance mob production. Video Montage and Invitational Video. The team also planned to have a video presentation that will showcase our camp theme- "Reach Out". We also prepared different kinds of activity and workshops where everyone will enjoy. We prepared a games, sports competition, workshop and continuous activity that will lasts for the whole week of camp. I cannot define and describe everything in words. Later on, after the camp, let just the photos do the talking. Keep going everyone and God bless.

How to Get Comforable Sleep During Camp?

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Hi friends, summer is here! When we say summer, it is always associated with the word camp.I am very much excited for our summer youth camp. But, let me share to you my experience of our so-called "mini camp" with my cousins. We had a mini camp and sleepover with my cousins at our rest house. We cooked our food using wood and we had enjoyable activities. We had a lot of fun games and we did a lot of crazy things. That was really fun and I'm looking forward for more of it this summer. One thing about camp that you should take note is that you should take your best foam mattress with you. I am not a picky person, but I always make sure that I got a comfortable sleep during the camp. Camp is a fun and active activities, so make sure you have enough sleep to energize for the rest of the day. Based on my experience, camp sites are different to your home. It is no longer your own room or even your not allowed to bring your bed with you. Foam mattress is the best solution. It

Weekdays Summer Getaways

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Hi guys,I got this wonderful photographs from my weekday-getaway. Due to my job, I usually unwind and relax every weekend. But I'm glad that I got the chance to do some fun activities with my cousins and my churchmate. In morning, I decided to help my churchmate to shoot the video for our upcoming camp. It is a montage video- sort of invitational video. I thank God for the production team who really did well in the shooting. Truly I had fun doing the video shoot. Though the weather is not good that day, but at least it didn't get worse. The video shoot is a success and I had fun!      After we took the video shoot in the morning, then I headed to Abuno, Iligan City. It is 45 mins travel away from the city. This time I'm with my cousins. We spent our overnight so-called "camping" at out resthouse. It's not that very big, but the place is very relaxing and peaceful. In that place, I was reminded the basic way of life- the simplicity of life. In that place I am a

The Main Lies About Technical Devices

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Contemporary technical devices comprise so many functions that we got used to the fact that camera should have a lot of megapixels in order to make shots of high quality and that products of Apple company are protected from viruses. And because of these opinions and a great number of options it becomes difficult for us to distinguish what is true and what is false. I check customers’ opinions at wikitalks.com from time to time, to be more convinced about new gadgets and their real abilities. When your phone has a lot of bars you think that the connection is perfect, but it is not true. It can only mean that you are somewhere close to the nearest tower. If a great number of people are as close to that tower as you then be ready that the connection won`t be that perfect anymore. Defragmentation of a hard driver  There is an opinion that if you are defragmenting the hard driver of your computer periodically, then it will work faster. The truth is that hard drivers can work faster even if

I'll Go for Hinterland Escapade

Yes, it's summer and everyone are thinking which place to go, what activities to do and whom you go with. well, for me it's my family time. I'm going to go with my family in the secluded place in our city. My family, together with my cousins are planning to go to our little house in the hinterland. It's 1-hour travel from the city. We will going to spend the night there and in the morning we will go on hiking in the nearest mountain. Wow! I am very much excited. And all my bags were packed and I am ready to go. Keep going everyone. I'll be posting all the pictures after I come back. Enjoy!

A 90's Theme: A Throwback College Graduation Ball

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Happy graduation. It's the day to celebrate and tell the world that you made it. To all the graduates of "Batch 2014", congratulations. Being in college is one of the most exciting and most memorable days of our life.It lies between the childhood school years and the adulthood years. Graduation is the end of the journey you used to have and the start of another journey to walk in. I remember the days when I was in college where all the school work stress, tears and sweat just perfectly blend to my daily routine. It's just so amazing how we enable to surpass every obstacle that we go through despite everything. The time that we officially graduate, you had this feeling that our tormenting years are over.LOL. So, graduation is a celebration. Get ready for your 90s fashion and outfits for the graduation ball. 90s theme would be a wonderful theme for today's batch of graduates. As we reminisce the colorful 90s style , you could also remember the past years that you w

Building up my Goals

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -Jim Rohn Building goals... In life, you have to build goals to keep moving, people who have no goals are wanderers- they don't know where they are heading. Discipline is essential. Without discipline, no doubt, establishing your goals will never workout. I decided to start up my goals. I started laying out my goals for 2014. Three months of 2014 are gone, but it's not too late to start up my goals.  I so love this quote about building goals. *I don't own this photo. Thanks Google for this. My "12-months" goal (1 year): 1. Go on a mission trip- it's either in our city or outside the country (why not?) 2. Develop my blog and experience great sales. 3. Paint at least 7 canvas paintings. 4. Published 4 kindle books. 5. Experience great miracle through reaching out people. 6. Enjoy teaching. 7. Do the house make over. (There are still many goals but I'll list 7 for now) My "4 weeks" goals (a

Photography Connects the Present with the Past

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What reminds you of home when you’re far away? What reminds you of youth? What inspires you to travel and to try new things? Somehow, photography can be the answer for all the listed questions. I see it as the reason of so many trips happening and the main reminder of who we are and where we are from.  If there were no New York photographers taking pictures of the Empire State Building or the 5 th avenue, there were no people willing to go there and see it all live. Photography is this huge intermediate between people and places, present and past, inspirations and desires. You know there is a small chance of you traveling to Brazil but only looking at a cool picture of the Rio beach and listening to some Vanessa Da Mata songs, can make you feel like you’re there. Even if it is all happening for 10 seconds, a photograph can give you a sense of being in some other place than the one you’re at now. When I said that photography is an intermediate between the present and the past, I mea

8 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Ignore Virtual Services for Business

If you are into virtual services for business and you want to know more information about this job check out this article. I've been a virtual assistant for almost three years now and I bet this article is pretty helpful. Check out this guest post from Regus Philippines. In this digital age, a company would be eating someone’s dust if they are stuck in the dark ages. That is, they haven’t embraced yet the convenience and benefits of the internet whether for the exchange of information or for conducting business itself. In all likelihood, they probably don’t know all about virtual services neither those that are offered from different parts of the world nor those accessible only through the web. Why do they matter? Well, why not find out some examples of such services: ·          Virtual Personal Assistant. Need someone to organise your calendar, sort out your files, respond to emails and takes care of other administrative tasks? If so, a virtual PA is what you need. Because he or

Writing Kindle Books

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Writing is a very great hobby. In writing you can create your own world. Today, I started writing kindle books. It is a story books for kinds and I am planning to sell it online. I don't know how this works and the outcome, but I'm confident enough that it would be a best selling book. Heheh (Always think positive). I am also working in my book as a illustrator. Yes, I can write/create stories and illustrate my story (so it won't really cost me much money- as an investment). All I need now is an editor for my book. If you want to offer me a free editing, you are very welcome to comment here. This is just my head start, I will updated you more in this blog, after I publish my first story book. Keep going everyone. God bless. Enjoy the week. :)