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I have always wanted to have a bar in our home. It actually reminds me of our old home in Manila where parties revolved around the bar area because it was where all the food was placed. We are not a family of drinkers so the function of the bar eventually was to be a buffet table instead. In the event that there weren't any parties scheduled, we would just hang out by the bar, sitting on those high bar stools while we enjoyed each others' company.

We let the little girl eat twice a day now. It started upon the suggestion of the maternal and child health nurse at the health centre when we dropped by last Tuesday for a routine check-up. We are now feeding her mashed vegetables and fruits, in addition to her daily rice cereal and fruit juice intake. Since then, Erin has been sleeping better on most nights, which means everyone else is too. The chain reaction is just amazing in this household! :)

I miss my maternal grandfather. The last time we were together was during the holidays when we were all in Manila. That is almost a year ago.

Lolo N, as we call him, is as busy as ever with his life in the province, even at the age of 87. He regularly tends to our farm, raising goats and growing mango trees, and for leisure, he makes it a point to go to the driving range to hit some balls. The only thing that is slowing him down is his arthritic knees.

We are definitely going home to the province to see him when we go back to visit the Philippines next year. I better include a pair of golf shoes in our shopping list as a present for our dear grandfather.

In the world wide web, that is.

Yes, J and I finally took the plunge! We now have our own domain. It sure beats the crap out of maintaining too many blogs at once. I found it too time-consuming so I convinced J to get a site that we can truly call our own.

It's still a work in progress so I'm not too keen yet about announcing it's formal launch. Keep your eyes peeled in the meantime for any future announcements.

Classroom Strategies for Managing Behaviors of students with ADHD, ADD and Dyslexia
1-Day Workshop

Dates: 27 Nov 2007
Time: 9 am - 4.30 pm

Venue:
Furama Riverfront Hotel
405 Havelock Road,
Singapore 169633

Speaker: Mark Le Messurier

Mark Le Messurier is a teacher, author and conference presenter. His background spans twenty years in the classroom which includes special education, adult education, child-centred education and community education projects. His expertise is developing cognitive behavioural training (CBT) programs to underpin the success of students frequently identified with learning, behavioural difficulties and personality disorders. He works in private practice at Fullarton House Adelaide, South Australia providing mentoring, educational advice, academic remediation and social skills training for children and teens. He is a recipient of the prestigious National Excellence in Teaching Award.

Mark regularly presents at workshops and conferences for public and independent schools, parents and interested groups throughout Australia and overseas. Mark has recently returned from New Zealand where he spoke as a Keynote Speaker for New Zealand’s International Learning Difficulty Conference held in Auckland. The theme was “Promoting Positive Connections from research to practice”

He had co-authored a book and video entitled ‘STOP & THINK Friendship.’ In 2004 Mark wrote ‘Cognitive Behavioural Training: A How-to Guide for Successful Behaviour.’ Mark has also completed a training and development film on Learning Difficulties – ‘Reflections on Dyslexia’. His latest book, Parenting Tough Kids: Simple Proven Strategies for Success has only just been released. It is already on the bestseller list in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

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A meme! Yay!! It has been a while since i last did one. And I know it has been a while since I last updated my blog. Maybe that's why I got tagged twice, again. Thanks too Ade and Steel, both retards, for getting me into this. Actually, it was Ade who tagged me the other day and well, 

 

ade_magnaye: oh BTW i tagged you
ade_magnaye: http://adez23.multiply.com/journal/item/88/Desktop_Meme._Coz_Baddie_Tagged_me._Bah.
Penny : multiply?
ade_magnaye: i dun do no memes on my main blog
Penny : oh i see
ade_magnaye: anyway i sleep nao
Penny : yep and i go home nao so i prntscrn tomorrow instead

 

Somehow, I got busy with facebook work so i kinda forgot. (sorry Adez)

If I weren't dicking around with twitter today, looking for someone to harass/stalk (read: Steel),  I wouldnt even have remembered to do it. I already tried stalking him through text, but i was unsuccessful. So I tried a different medium, YM, but he still figured it out. I just got him confused that's it. Stalker!!

Penny: steeliowz!
Steel: ah? who r u?
Penny: i thought you were a good stalker
Steel: penny? pft
Steel: so you just have one YM handle but it appears as two different users
Steel: im confoosed i'll add both
Penny:yep no more stalking for me if you add both
Steel: because im a bettar stalkerz!
Penny: yeah i know
Steel: tagged ya!
Penny: what the, this aint the desktop thing>
Steel: eet ees!
Penny: oh my gawd ade tagged me and i havent even done eet
Steel: ok now you have to do it twice!

And that's how I remembered to do this desktop meme! THE END. Oh no wait,

I don’t know if this report is true but if it is, shame on Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile. I wonder: Does he also get angry every time his face appears in the newspapers and television?

Enrile sends college student shaking in fear

The demeanor of Sen. Juan Ponce-Enrile during a hearing at the Senate on Friday sent one student who went to watch the proceedings trembling in fear.

Mark Jemel Galez, 19, a broadcast journalism student of La Salle-Dasmariñas, Cavite, drew the ire of Enrile for taking photos of the senator using his handy video camera.

Enrile got peeved and asked the student: “Who are you? Why are you taking my picture? Come here.”

Galez went a bit closer to Enrile to explain but his voice was too soft to be heard by the crowd. Enrile later reportedly told him “to get out of this room.”

Read more here.