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Day 5: Favorite Movies and Black and White

7 November 2013 No Comments

Blog Challenge: Favorite movies you never get sick of watching Thinking about this, I can think of two at the moment: Edward Scissorhands and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. (I know there are still a few more but my mind’s almost dead at this time as I haven’t had any sleep yet. Don’t ask how long. :P) I like Johnny Depp because of his versatility as an actor. He played his character, Edward Scissorhands, very well. But that is not the reason why I never get sick of watching this movie. I like this because I see it as something […]

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Day 4: Best Childhood Memory and A Special Moment

5 November 2013 No Comments

Blog Challenge: Best childhood memory It’ took me a few hours to think about this topic. Well, not exactly a few hours, more like a few days. Whenever I am asked about my childhood, the best memories that comes to mind are the ones spent with family. Sunday picnics, evening joyrides, breakfasts at the park, summer beach outings or just a simple bonding moment around the dinner table. When I was younger, about twice a month, our family goes on picnics at Burnham Park after Sunday service. We would bring food with us so we didn’t need to buy food outside […]

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Day 3: What Makes You Happy And A Smile

5 November 2013 No Comments

Blog Challenge: What makes you happy? Honestly, this is quite a simple question to answer but for some reason I find myself thinking hard about it. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy. I just like to think a lot, too. LOL! And I guess when I answer this question, it is more of the who rather than the what. So, the no-brainer answer to this question would be: being with family and friends. They make me happy even if there are times that I would rather be alone than be with any of them. I love my family and […]

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Day 2: Favorite Quotes and Out and About

4 November 2013 No Comments

Blog Challenge: Favorite quotes I am not the kind of person that has a certain quote that I live by or even something that I can say my favorite. But here is something that I have kept posted in my cork board at work. Something to remind me about the difference of a boss and a leader. I found this during the times when our workplace was chaotic and power struggle was everywhere. It was actually a very shameful time that was. Oh well, so here goes: A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader […]

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Trip Down Memory Lane: Remembering Daddy

3 November 2013 No Comments

I was at the mall earlier with little Zaine. One of the things that we do together on weekends. I know he still doesn’t have any idea what we are doing or where we are going at this stage but I just want to expose him to different sounds. After looking around and listening to his surroundings, he slept. LOL! The malls have already started with their Christmas themes. Christmas decorations are being sold as early as September, pre-holiday sales are everywhere, store clerks are now swapping their halloween costumes/masks to santa hats and red shirts (for some). Yep, Christmas […]

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Day 1 pt. 2: Good Morning!

2 November 2013 No Comments

So as mentioned previously, here is the photo challenge for the day. Photo Challenge Day 1: Good Morning It is very tempting to put a few more photos up but I guess this will do for now. This was just taken a few minutes ago.

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Day 1 Pt. 1: Self-Portrait and 5 Random Facts About Me

2 November 2013 No Comments

So, since it is still way early in the morning, I will start with the blog challenge first. I’ll post the photo challenge day 1 once the sun is up this side of the world and once my baby is awake. He’s sleeping too peacefully to disturb it now.

Okay, here goes – Day 1 challenge: Self-portrait and 5 random facts about me

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Photo Blog Challenge, anyone?

2 November 2013 No Comments

A cousin of mine is currently doing a 365-day photo challenge. Sounds easy to do with all the smart phones / camera phones all over. And there was a video that I saw of a baby. It was a video montage of video clips taken since day 1 up until the kid turned 1 year old. I actually loved the idea of the video montage that I was planning to do the same with my son. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to do that. The idea of it is really cool but doing it is not as easy as it sounded. […]

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On Being a Single Working Mom

27 October 2013 No Comments

I am now a single working mom. I went back to work last Monday, after a 60-calendar-day maternity leave. Last Monday was the first time that Zaine was out of my sight for longer than an hour. And it was so hard to leave the house, I tell ya. My Mom almost had to literally kick me out of the house just so I leave. You see, I have been hands-on with my son for the duration of my leave. He has not left my sight for more than an hour. And leaving him for a few hours so I […]

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Zero to Sixty

21 October 2013 1 Comment

It feels like it was just yesterday when I started my maternity leave. And it seems like it was just yesterday when I was impatiently waiting for my son to arrive and it seemed like it was just yesterday when I actually met him in person. I can still remember the anticipation of his arrival, the excitement, the impatience.

Sixty days has come and gone in a blink of an eye. It seems too short a time to really get to know my son and to spend time with him before the real world comes knocking.