Manic Monday #218

What are 5 things you want to do in your life?

1. Be able to have the time to enroll in a baking class
2. Want to study short course on journalism
3. Travel beautiful places here and abroad
4. Assist hubby in bringing up our kids in the right upbringing with the help of God
5. Have financial capabilities to help our church


What are you saying goodbye to?
I'm saying goodbye to my temper, bad moods and to all my previous work's upsets.  I want to remember all the happy and nice things and leave the bad things behind. God will take care of all that and help me change for the better. 


What are you currently fascinated with?
I was fascinated previously with laptops and notebooks, now I had my 2-month old laptop.  Second fascination is Iphone but because I couldn't afford it I'll have to settle for a new Wifi Cellular Phone because I want to be updated always with my incoming messages even if I'm offline.  It's part of my work and it would be nice to check it anywhere I am.

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Learning Math the Easy Way

Math subject has always been one of the hardest subjects that students complained of. I also had my share of some gruelling days in my college days with Engineering Math but I happily passed it all luckily. I was just a regular kid when it comes to Math as my best subjects were English, Science and History but I learned the technique in dealing with it through the help of my brother. He helped me through Algebra 2 and passed on to me his invaluable secrets on solving problems and getting formulas like the Formula for volume, and for other difficult formulas to take. For my classmates in school who didn’t have a brother or someone who would gladly teach them they sometimes found themselves in trouble in solving some Math problems.

It’s a really a common problem to many children to manage Math subject easily because they find numbers a difficult subject to learn. They didn’t know that it just takes some vigorous practice and some tutorial lessons to get through the difficulty of Math. That was in the past when tutorial lessons were made through physical presence of tutors who would teach the students with their daily challenges in Math. Usually the kids get bored and found themselves sleepy at the tutorial time. Now it’s more enjoyable to learn Math with the help of tutorvista.com with their comprehensive online tutorial lessons that you’ll learn in the comforts of your home with your family. TutorVista will help your kids’ problem in solving 5th grade math or 4th grade math so you will not worry about your kids being left behind in learning Math subject. They have thousands of different questions and problems to solve for them and you’ll find yourselves solving them too!

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:Photo Hunt#226 : Orange (Flower)

I don't know the name of this flower, I just love its vivid color of tangerine. At first glance I thought it's from the family of Hibiscus but on closer look I found that its leaves are different and also the shape of the petals. This shot was taken in Nabas, Aklan together with my other today's flower entries in my main blog. I've got plenty of shots from this town's rich soil.

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On Buying Repo Cars

There are advantages and disadvantages of having a car but of course the advantages weigh much more than the other one. It’s nice having a car for your family’s needs like shopping, having quality time with kids like picnic and vacationing. For us the main purpose of our car is for our service vehicle every Sunday fellowship and when we have our ministry in the rural areas of the country where we spend few days outside the bustle of the city. We bring all our things, food and even musical instruments so there’s a great need for a car. It’s just too expensive sometimes to have a car especially on the up keeping and maintenance. If you can’t maintain your car in good running condition it’s better that you just get rid of your vehicle because it will bring you trouble during your travel.

It’s also very expensive to buy a brand new car that’s why we only buy second cars to afford buying one. Actually it’s really fine to have second hand cars as long as you’ve checked everything from engine to every parts of the car before purchasing to ensure that it’s worth your money and the car would be of good service to you in the future. If you have enough budget it’s better to buy repossessed vehicles because you’ll save a lot of money because they’re usually slightly used ones because they came from banks, financial institutions, credit unions and government. Just make sure that you’ll buy from a trusted source like cars-central.com so you’ll get quality vehicle which has been inspected meticulously and with a good price.

I’ve checked the site myself and I saw how they categorize their products as to mileage spent, model type and complete specifications of car. Everything you need to know about specific car you want is listed there so just visit their site and choose from their products.

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Are You the Suburbs or the City?

You Are the Suburbs

You've got a bad rap, but you think people are just jealous of how good you've got it.

You prefer to live somewhere that's clean, safe, and cheap. What could be wrong with that? You're not going to apologize for liking chain restaurants and good schools.

While you may not be as sophisticated as the city, you're content with your life. Plus, there's more to do in the suburbs than people think.

Besides, you can visit the city anytime you'd like. And when your fun in town is done, you have a comfy suburban house to come home to.

This question got me thinking too about myself.  I've experienced living in the province when iI was a kid, a real province like a place near the rice fields and less than an hour travel to mountain and everything. Now I live in a suburbs but so near the city so it makes me a very lucky person.  The city is just 15 minutes away and I can go there anytime I want but enjoy coming home to a safer, more comfortable home to live at.  As for the community as long as there are good schools and accessible restaurants, grocery, drug store, market and park it's perfect

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Make Money Online

I started blogging thanks to my dear friend from secondary school who remains my best friend to this day. Blogging has helped me to express my thoughts and share my life experiences. I was yearning for a way to write down my thoughts as a diversion from my corporate work which over the years has become routine work for me. The excitement I once found was gone, and the compensation was hardly worth my effort. Long story short I took the chance and resigned from my 16-year old job to concentrate on my family and work at home by doing online paid tasks. My friend has been an instrument in giving me a chance to change the routine of my life and God has helped me along the way giving me guidance on how I should go and how to deal with life’s challenges. I was given a chance to make money online through my sites and I was happy to be able to help DH in our finances for the kids. These days there are many online opportunities for individuals and companies. Online retailers and advertisers can now easily reach users worldwide.

Online advertising in the UK is already preferred to newspaper advertising, and online advertising is only expected to increase. Simply.com is a company that offers online advertising opportunities for companies in the form of banner ads which are placed on targeted websites. These websites are targeted using a combination of behavioural targeting, content targeting, and yield targeting as explained in Using Behavioural Targeting To Make Money Online from Banner Advertising. The banner placement is adjusted in real time depending on the targeting approach that is giving the best results. In other words Simply.com targets the placement method that is best for any specific banner, which maximizes the revenue per site visitor. It is easy to sign up and start advertising with Simply.com. Sign up is free and publishers can expect to earn 90% of all the revenue that is generated.

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Symbol that Love will be Forever

Before a couple gets married they should think many times before settling down because marriage is a serious commitment between two people. Couples should enjoy their time together and get to know each other well before making such a commitment. Once the couple becomes engaged most of their time will be spent planning the wedding, deciding where they are going to live, and so forth. One popular tradition is the giving of engagement rings that is the man will give the woman an engagement ring as a symbol of their commitment. Often engagement rings for the ladies are diamond rings I guess as a diamonds are forever, a diamond ring is a symbol that their love will be forever.  Often the engagement ring will be paired with  a  matching wedding  ring on that special day.

If you are in the market for diamond rings for a loved one, you might enjoy visiting diamondgeezer.com where you will see their wide selection of beautiful diamond rings to choose from. You get to view the ring from all angles with their simple rotation tool. You can also have a ring created to your liking in their workshop. They will also provide personal service for you whether you want consultation with their experts or a help to design your own ring. I fell in love with their diamond solitaires as always do when I see one. Diamondgeezer also has a great selection of matching wedding bands to choose from. For me being engaged is the beginning of the real love relationship because that’s when you’ll start planning your wedding and your life together. We decided on a pair of elegant gold wedding rings as a symbol of our commitment.

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:Thursday Challenge: Beverage-Banana Milk Shake

Thursday Challenge

BEVERAGE (Water, Lemonade, Juice, Beer, Coffee, Tea,...)

I love drinking natural fruit juices whenever I went to restaurants and any dining  place.  I also want to to taste each restaurant's version of my favorite fruit shakes. I love natural fruit shakes because you can taste the real flavors of the fruits and it's very healthy too!

My Fruit Shakes entry is from the combo meal of Outback Restaurant where we dined in one of my last meetings with my boss, days before I left.

I just described it by myself lol! From the pic above you'll have an idea how yummy it is!

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My Girls are Growing Up Fast

Ruth is growing up so fast now and I noticed that she’s gaining weight too. Her cheeks are so full now and sometimes I can’t help pinching it because I find so cute. She’s turning 13 next week on the 18th and officially she’ll be a teenager. I don’t know who’s more excited the daughter or the Mom? Well I just can’t help observing how she’s growing up looking so much like her Dad’s Mom and sibling. If you’ll have them on one line you’ll agree that they looked like the same. Anyway I also noticed that she’s getting out of her small size and I’m planning to ask her to shop clothes for her and buy some urban clothing for her use in going to mall, to school and some other occasions.

She has a good number of clothes already but I still think she’ll have more now so she could rid of her smaller clothes. My other daughter won’t have all her used clothes as she’s also gaining height so fast. She’ll be 12 in a few months and in few years time I’ll have two young ladies to take care of. I would surely miss their girlish carefree ways and acts. I’m lucky that I still have a kid who is so much younger than the girls whom I can enjoy a child’s charming ways and antics.

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Readying for the Birthday Swimming

I was literally blogging so fast to finish my 16 posts before I go to our midweek services. The tasks will be due tomorrow after midnight but I was rushing it because we’ll celebrate our Pastor’s birthday tomorrow at the resort capital. We’re heading to Calamba to where we reserved a private pool resort in Pansol to have a day of cooking, eating and swimming in the hot and cold water. It’s not actually that hot but just right for the body. Anyway you can have a choice whether you want it with a tinge of hot water or plain cold. We’re a returning customer plus it’s their peak season this period of the year so we’re able to secure discounted rate.

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