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I just got home from watching the World Pyro Olympics. Its one of the most amazing things to watch this year - with the year just beginning. We headed out to the Palisades at the Mall of Asia but upon seeing the sea of people walking in EDSA, as...

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Astig talaga itong batang ito.
Tingnan niyo kung ano ang ipinakita
sa akin ng pinsan kong si Kimmy.
Astig!!!
Hawig ni Shinchan!
Ay hindi pala.
Kamukha lang.
Kamukhang-kamukha!
WaaHaha!
Hindi ko talaga mapigilan ang tawa kagabi
kahit tulog na lahat ng tao dito.
Ang kulit kasi eh.
Kinukulit ako.
Kainis!!!

Aarrghhh…Paking shets. si Papa Duy (lolo ko) TUlak na naman.
Grabe, sa buong panahon ng kanyang “business”
eh ngaun lang siya nag-out ng ganun kalaki.
P210,000.00……oh great!!! ang laki nun!
Imagine ha. Dahil sa gipit nga ni Granpa, isasanla ang Ford worth P200,000
Ibig sabihin yung isasanla, isang araw lang wala na?
Lahat na kami naiiyak.
Halos buwan nang minamalas ung “business” ganito pa

Hays. Grabe. Hindi yata ako mahal ng tita ko.
Alam ko GuestBook lang ang gagawin ko, na naging Photo Album
Ngayon, pati Invitation, Save the Date, at Thank you card tinapon lahat sa akin
Haay grabe. Mega puyat to da max na naman.
lalong lumalaki eyebag ko hay naku.

Here is an example of my Save the Date churvah

Pocket size na may 5-year calendar sa likod. Ok ba?
Siya sige. Invitation naman! >

Haay…grabe bagsak ako pagkauwi ng mga adakrab ko kagabi. Hindi naman ako nalasing pero inantok talaga ko.
Ni hindi ko na nga naramdam yung paggising sa akin ni mama
tulad ng bilin ko bago ko pumikit sa sofa.
Vodka saka gin? Whew.
Sabagay kung hindi rin sila umuwi na, at itinuloy naming ang isang gin pa.
baka nga humalik na ko sa inidoro.
My goodness. Tagal ko nang di nararanasan yun.
Kinda

Grabe. Sobra talaga ang epekto sa akin
nung mga sinabi ni Mama na aalis kami dito.
Tapos muntikan pang magkasunog.
Halos hindi ako makatulog. Parang ang babaw, pero ang sakit.
Dumagdag pa yang sunog na yan.
Ito na nga lang ang natitirang memorya sa akin ng mahal ko dati eh. Hehe.
Friend kasi ni utol,
kaya sa bahay na ito nabuo ang lahat ng namagitan sa amin…
(Namagitan?? Ano yon??) Walang

Si Ate Boshia ikakasal na. Tita ko…Bunsong kapatid na babae ni ermat.
Eto…ako pinagagawa ng kanyang Guest Book.
Ang daming echaburetse!
Pati Photo Album pinagawa na rin.
Ang hindi ko mainitindihan eh kung bakit pati school niya
nung elementary hanggang college eh kelangan pang isama?
Ang arte joskow.
Kano pakakasalan niya, kaya sa amerika siya ikakasal.
Dapat lang daw na malaman ng pamilya ng

“Ate, hanggang May na lang tayo dito…”

Sigurado na ngang may bibili neto.
Dahil dito baka magkahiwa-hiwalay kami ng tinitirhan.
Ang peyrents ko sa isang paupahan nila grannies sa meding malapit dito.
Si kuya, baka dun sa bakanteng lugar na hindi rin kalayuan
banda malapit sa bahay ng asawa niya (pero hindi pa sila kasal)
dahil malapit na rin daw niyang simulan ang business ever nila
at duon

She's from American Idol and she is so gorgeous. Seriously she is such a hottie. Combining her beauty and her voice I must say that she has indeed found her way to stardom. Currently her hit single "Over it" is topping the charts on both radio and tv here in the Philippines. Now for those who haven't seen Katharine, here she is :) Fair use disclaimer: This photo is courtesy of Headline

"Gretchen, may pasabog!"

Ruffa Interviews Gretchen Barreto Part 1



Ruffa Interviews Gretchen Barreto Part 2



Meron ba ? Wala akong narinig. Nabingi ba ako ?

When Ruffa asked her, "Ano ba ang pasabog mo?," Gretchen simply laughed, "Ano bang pasabog ang sinasabi n’yo? Wala naman talaga."

Ruffa Gutierrez,Dawn Zulueta,Gretchen Barreto

A night before their wedding, the guy went to his girlfriend’s house. While waiting for his fiance’e at the living room, her hot young sister asked, “If you’d like to have sex with me, I’m just upstairs.” The guy stood there, shocked and confused… until he made up his mind and turned back to go [...]

Click on the image to get to the morale of the story…

As I've posted on my blog before, I'm now temporarily living in Ireland.  My company has relocated here from California, and we've agreed to move to Dublin for two years.  I've made many observations about how life here in Europe is different from the US, and even the Philippines.  Today, I'm posting about one aspect in which I believe the US should follow suit: vacations (or holidays as it is referred to here.)

The Irish sure love to take their vacations!  Some info:

• The standard mandatory vacation time is 20 days per year.  (In the US, you get a measly 10 days.) That's a whole month, people.  This of course increases with position/rank, amount of time at your job and other factors.
  
• On top of that, in Ireland, you get 9 public holidays per year.  Mind you, these aren't all on -real- holidays such as Christmas, Easter, and the like.  They even had to make up 'bank holidays' as an excuse to take some more time off.  These are scattered amongst 4 Mondays throughout the summer.
• Plus you get the customary sick and personal days on top of that.
• The vacation business is huge here in Ireland.  It's everywhere online, newspapers and the many travel agencies you'll find at malls and such.
  

In all, for my situation, I get almost two months' time off this year.  Yay!  This almost balances the pains of being away from home since our family has a lot of learning and exploring to look forward to over the next couple of years.

Being in Ireland, and with the availability of low-cost carriers, it's (relatively) affordable to see the rest of Europe.  This is our plan for the next two years.

So, my wife and I sat down last week, pulled out a calendar, and started planning our vacation schedule for the year.  So far, here is what we have:

• April: Trip home to California for a week.  We need a quick sunshine fix and visit with family. We might sneak in a quick trip to Vegas as well.
• May: Planning to do a quick four-day weekend this month.  Not sure yet where we're going, but likely somewhere close by, either in Ireland (Galway, Belfast) or Scotland or Wales.
• July: Week in Spain.  We are exchanging part of our timeshare in Vegas for a week at one Marriott's beach resorts in either Malaga, Marbella or Ibiza which are in the south of Spain.  We're still working out the details and picking which resort to go to.
• July, August, September:  These are the summer months which we plan on taking every opportunity to go out and explore.  We're still working on plans for these, but places on our radar are:

• Rome, Italy
• Venice, Italy
  
• Barcelona, Spain
• Stockholm, Sweden
  

• October: Halloween in Paris.  We exchanged the other half of our Vegas timeshare for a week at the Marriott's Village d'Ile-de-France which is right beside Disneyland Paris.  We'll spend the week visiting the usual Paris landmarks.  It'll also be a good opportunity for the kids to spend Halloween at Disneyland.
  
• December: Christmas and New Year's in London/Belgium/Amsterdam. Last December, we had a rather quiet new year's eve with just my wife and two kids.  The kids were already asleep, and my wife and I huddled in front of the TV with a slice of cake and watched the celebrations in London.  They had quite a fireworks display which cost several million Euros, some free concerts, and a parade the next day among other things.  We knew right then that we had to be in London this year, so that's the plan.  The Christmas holiday is quite long (12 days) so we plan on taking a train to Brussels, Belgium and/or Amsterdam during this stay as well.

As you can see, we're really taking advantage of this opportunity.  Can't believe we actually have time this year to do all this. 

...plus we have 2008 to see the rest.

How do you handle phone calls from telemarketers?

I ask for their home phone number and tell them I'll call them back at dinner time!  That usually gets a laugh from them, then I politely (or sometimes impolitely by necessity) hang up on them.

conclusion........ In 2002 Representatives of Congress receives: Monthly Salary P35,000.00 a Month Published expenses P200,000.00 a month Allowance from the Speaker P50,000.00 – 100,000.00 a month Christmas gift from the Speaker P100,000.00 – 150,000.00 Occasional gift from Malacanang (Christmas) P100,000.00 – 150,000.00 Pork Barrel (Priority Development Assistance Fund and Public Works Fund) per Representative P65,000,000.00 a year P195,000,000.00 for 3 years Annual income per Representative plus Pork Barrel (Priority Development Assistance Fund and Public Works Fund) not including other perks such as Emergency Funds, travel per diem @US$300.00/day, attendance to plenary sessions, voting for bills, etc. P3,620,000.00 – 3,720,000.00 + Pork Barrel =...

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