heipi beerday

today is the birthday of my tita nora. she is the youngest among the 6 siblings of my mom. i haven't seen her for barely 3years now. but i manage to have a communication with through SMS and sometimes overseas calls. she's having 3 lovely children.

i remember i grew up with her guidance as well. since my family resided on my mother's side my mom's siblings were the one who took care of me aside from my lola angie of course.

tita nora was my make up artist then whenever we have a parade in school or any activities in school (i was a member of majorette) and i am her biggest fan. i like the way she dress and i imitate her most of the time. she's a fashionista to me then. wink*

tita nora was a brat. maybe because she's the youngest in the family. she got everything she wanted.

but to top it all, she's nice and very accomodating to me though there were times her being brat cannot be controlled.

sometimes we had some misunderstandings also, she acts like a child, like my age.

time flew fast. many had occured in her life but conquered it.

i missed her, really i am...since i came here in UAE whenever i have extra credit i calls her and sought some advice especially if i had an arguments with either nay or tatay...

somehow, i admire her for being brave to face all her trials. truly she live with her sayings "what nora wants, nora gets.

hehehe heipi beerday to you my tita....hope to see you soon!

choose to be Inspired

Envy is worse than a waste of time.
For when you hold on to thoughts of envy,
you are actively holdingyourself back.

Envy builds a wall between you and
the abundance that could otherwise beyours.
Envy can drain you of your bestpossibilities.

Do you ever resent it when someone else has acquired or
achieved orexperienced some particular thing and you have not?
If so, then your envy actually makes your own situation worse.

Instead of being envious about the good fortune of others,
be genuinelythankful for it.
That instantly puts you in a much better position
to create similar good fortune in yourown life.

When you celebrate the achievements of others,
you connect yourself in a positive and empowering way to life's abundance.
When you choose to beinspired,
your eyes will open to manymore valuable and positive possibilities.

Be truly thankful for the success thatyou see around you.
And that successwill soon become your own.

note: from http://anetshop.multiply.com/journal/item/53/Choose_to_be_Inspired

a bouncing baby girl

2 weeks ago my sister in law delivered to a bouncing baby girl...

congratulations bro! soon you'll see my baby also

weekends at home...

typical weekends at home, after our laundry, cleaning and cooking...honey jheng and i have the time to relax all day long...watching tv, surfing net or playing my online games and honey jheng with her cross stitch .

you'll love to see her cross stitch projects...

we chose to stay at home every weekends rather than going out and spent our day under the heat of the sun @ 45degrees.

new haircut

i've been planning for a haircut...especially now summer heat here in UAE is reaching up to 45degrees...

but honey vhonn kept on insisting to better cut it after my delivery...but i can't stand it anymore, since my hair is thick, i find hard to move and find a good position to sleep. my nanay told me it is better to cut it now so when the time of my delivery to baby vaughn adrianne, so it won't be too hard for me to move...

in our new office - long hair still

so here's the new me...

i don't know how many inches they cut, but i almost cried when i saw my hair on the floor. i even planned to take it home but in the end i just told the kabayan who cut it i will just leave it. i also had my eyebrow threading. so it's a new ME. my eyebags seems getting bigger - i hardly sleep now a days due to baby's non stop moving inside my tummy.

we're ready and excited

yup guys, any moment this month my tummy will burst out vaughnn adrianne...



so here's some of the pictures of his bed...

start your day with a positive outlook

HOW TO START YOUR DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK

1. Open a new file in your PC.

2. Name it " Boss "

3. Send it to the RECYCLE BIN

4. Empty the RECYCLE BIN

5. Your PC will ask you, "Are you sure you want to delete Boss permanently? "

6. Answer calmly, "Yes," and press the mouse button firmly....

7. Feeling better?

new template

hey guys, enigmatic couple in the desert has a new template...

since we are not that professional in decorating our blogs - putting and editing widgets - we weren't able to retain some of those widgets...so all the messages and our roll of bloggers were deleted.

uuhhmmm operation make over for our blogsite....

dream, believe, survive

Graduated on May 2008 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Applied Statistics at Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

While studying, he managed to have a part time job at Wendy's and Red Ribbon.

Truly he has the passion to strive for what he aims in his life. He knows what he wants and knows how to get it.

Congratulations pate!

Double Congratulations for getting your first job so soon! Not all graduates are like you who are able start working after graduation. So you better love and treasure it.

We are so proud of you! We love you. I hope and pray we could be together soon here...

remembering lola angie

i used to call lola angie "inang" also known as "hiling" as fondly called by "tatang fred.

i grew up with her "masungit" type of a nurture loving care. she was the one who guided me while growing up aside from my aunts. she was the first person who knew when i had my first monthly period. everyday she never failed to buy me comics and peanut from the market. she was the only person who will save me from my mom's anger. she was the one gave me secretly additional allowance till i reached college. she was the one who taught me how to play tong-its wink*. she was the one who train me to be a cashier at a very young age - so imagine as young as 6years old i knew how to deal with her customers (restaurant), receiving payments and giving change.

in return, i used to washed her underwears and clothes. i used to removed her white hairs.

when she got sick, i was with my mom who stayed with her in the hospital. after my class, i hurriedly go to the hospital to be with her, cleaned her fingers, gave her medicine/food and slept with her.

after a while, we sent her home and she stayed with us in the province. i see her every weekends only. i could see from her eyes then that she was very tired but inang was very brave. she once told me she don't want to go as her children we're not in good terms, so even if the taste of the medicines weren't that good she would still take it. she wants her 7 children to be in peace and no hatred.

2 days before she died, we celebrated her 75th birthday. she was very happy then but i could say not completely happy - since her children were not complete. they had different alibis.

a day before her bday 04 August 2003, she bid goodbye with so much pain to feel. her body was not able to cope with all the complications she had. it was a sad goodbye.

i was really hurt when my nanay called up and told me that she's gone. i thought she'll get well. i thought she'll wait for my graduation.

i missed her so much. every now and then i dreamed of her. i do know she is still watching me from up. she is still guiding me. i do know if she is still alive, she will be proud of me and surely she'll be more excited than my nanay now that i'll be a mother soon.

INANG will always be remebered. she will forever stay here in my heart.

I LOVE YOU INANG!

33 weeks_vaughn adrianne

As i register to http://www.babycenter.com/, i've been receiving emails showing how our baby looks like...

According to what i have received today (vaughn adrianne is very active now a days - he keeps on moving / kicking as if he is not sleeping nor taking any rest inside my womb), i am very excited to read this:

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

During my last pre-natal check up last month (June), my OB told us that his head is still loacted on my upper right. So there might be a possibility for a C-Section.

Vhonn and I are praying to deliver our baby via normal...Aside from the fact that it will cost a lot, I myself don't want to undergo any operation.

As i read the email and stare the picture above (from http://www.babycenter.com/) as well as the good news yesterday that vhonn's sister in law delivered her healthy baby girl via normal, i got a little relief...

3 Filipinas Killed from a Mishap in Dubai

DUBAI - Five people, including three Filipinas, were killed and four others injured in a horrific accident near the Dubai Police Officers Club on Shaikh Rashid Road in the direction of Bur Dubai from Deira yesterday morning.

The accident happened around 6.20am when the driver of a minibus carrying eight people lost control over the vehicle which jumped over the road divider and overturned on a vehicle coming from the opposite direction, said Brigadier Mohammed Saif Al Zafin, Director of General Department of Traffic of the Dubai Police.

Al Zafin said the rescue and hard task force personnel who rushed to the site found two persons lying under the minibus. They had to use hydraulic cutters to remove the injured who were rushed to Rashid Hospital. The dead include three Filipinas - Cecile, Michelle and Ethel - and 28-year-old Sheryl, Indian, and the Egyptian driver of the minbus, Mohammed Nadel. They were employees of Cafe Ritazza located in Spectrum Building in Bur Dubai. Dr Victor Butros, Head of the Emergency Section at Rashid Hospital, confirmed that five bodies were brought to the hospital. Four injured persons, including two Filipino men, were also brought to the hospital. He said one of the Filipinos was discharged after treatment, while one Filipino, whose name could not be ascertained, is in the ICU in a critical condition and two others - Raju, an Indian, and and Richard, a Filipino - who suffered moderate injuries are still in the hospital.

The identity of one of the injured, an occupant of the car, was not known till late last night.

All the eight victims, employees of Cafe Ritazza, managed by the Abu Dhabi National Hotels/Compass, were on their way to the cafe.

The victim's colleagues said Sheryl was only recently promoted as manager.

Raju, who is recovering at the hospital, was not immediately made aware of the condition of his co-workers.

A pall of gloom descended on the Spectrum office complex when the news about the tragedy of the cafe employees, who supplied snacks and beverage to the offices, broke.

"Cecile, Sheryl and the three others who died in the accident will be remembered for their cheerful exuberance," said R. Nair who works in the complex. "They brought unbridled cheer with the morning cuppa," he added.

At 9am today, staff of the 20-odd offices in the building will gather at the cafe to pray for the departed.

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