Pinay WAHM

That's basically what some say when the result of a competition/contest did not go their way...just like the result in the recent season of American Idol. I did not vote. Not once. It's just not my thing. I watched the show a little bit whenever I could but I didn't sit down and wait for it. But that doesn't mean I knew nothing of what was happening. If anything, I knew too much for someone who didn't watch it religiously. I knew from the first time I saw & heard Jessica Sanchez that she had a shot in the title. I was in the Philippines when she got eliminated & saved by the judges but I kinda' had the feeling that's what happened...and I don't know why but I just had that odd feeling she was voted off and saved. Just like a lot of people, I was shocked she would get voted off that early in the competition. Good thing the save vote was still available. Anyway, I posted days before the finale about my take on the possible winner. Of course I ...

This is my latest favorite You Tube video. I first saw it a couple of weeks when it had about 2 Million hits. Now, it already has a little under 9 MILLION hits. And there's a million and one other videos that either spoofed or copied this one. C'mon! Be original and come up with something else. The video is that of the Harvard baseball team lyp-synching a song called "Call Me Maybe". It's a bunch of good looking college kids...errr men singing along with a girl 'teen?' sensation.  Hawt maybe?  You be the judge. Enjoy!

Now that I'm back home, I can't help but think of all the things I want to send to my family back in the Philippines. Just simple things that we here take for granted. For one, I want to send my sister some picture frames because the ones she has are still the ones I had when I was living there So the first thing I did when I got here was to locate all the frames that I've put in a box because I don't use them anymore. Another thing I want to get her is a tv stand with mount . She has a TV set in her bedroom which is on a stand which is an accident waiting to happen The stand is not so bad but I'm afraid that even with a very light tremor, that TV will fall over her when she's watching. At least when the stand has a mount, it will be more secured. There's probably a million other things I can think of that I want to send them but for now I will just send what I can come up with. I'm pretty sure my sister will be very happy to get whatever it is I can sen...

Before we left for our vacation, work has been slow already. This is true for both my work & hubby's work. That's basically the reason why we were able to take the vacation anyway. If hubby's work is busy then we won't be able to take a vacation because work has to be a priority especially with  this very unstable economy. Anyway, it's been almost a month since we came back from that vacation...and guess what? Work is still slow! There is work waiting to be done already but in hubby's case they have to wait on materials to do the job while in my case, we have to wait for the work to reach us because it goes through several processes before we get it. In the meantime, hubby is busy working on their company's website while I'm busy doing the usual nonsense stuff online. Ha! Today, hubby spent time looking for a fire hose online. For what? I believe it's for their landlord where they're renting their shop. It seems they need one for the complex...

After that refreshing boat ride we took in 100 Islands in Pangasinan, we continued with our road trip. This time around, it's a looooongggg road trip. I think we left Pangasinan before 6 PM and only made stops to eat and get gas but it still took us hours to get to our next destination which is Fort Ilocandia in Ilocos Norte. My brother used to work there so he was familiar with the place. He had an estimate as to how long it would take us to get there but because of the ongoing [neverending] road constructions as well as the usual traffic jams, that estimation flew out the window fast. How long did it actually take us to get there? Well, we got there around 2 o'clock in the morning the next day so go figure. Needless to say we were all pooped when we arrived at the hotel. Since we got in the hotel very late already, we spent most of the morning of our 3rd day snoozing. The original plan was to spend part of the 3rd day in Pagudpud which is about an hour and a half from Fo...

...and in a few days MAY will be over. How time flies! Our weekend was spent scouting for stuff...again. We were able to get a plant that we want to put beside our gardenia [rosal for fellow Pinoys]. This gardenia is quite finicky. It has a  bunch of buds right now but some have fallen off already and it's aggravating because I'm really looking forward in seeing and smelling the flowers. Apparently, it does not like too much sun. Our solution is to find a plant taller than the gardenia itself to serve as its shade. The plant we got is still short but we're hoping it will grow taller very soon to save some of the buds still left on the it. In other news...I've been feeling a bit ill this weekend. I'm not sure if I'm coming down with a cold or I just lack some sleep or maybe it's my allergies acting up again. I really have no idea but I decided to take a couple of Alkaseltzer just to be sure. So far, the cold is not here and my allergies...well, it's a...

Not me, thank goodness [knock on wood] but somebody we know. First it's the arm, now it's the ankle. What's next? I really don't have any idea how this person can get into so much mishaps. With the arm, there's not much needed but a sling. But with the ankle, crutches are a must if he wants to be mobile. Or maybe he can rent one of those knee walker roll about I've seen online. Hmmm...that's actually a great idea I think since he's home alone most of the time and he needs to get around to do stuff, I should probably bring up the idea next time we see or talk to him since he would be in a cast for a few month.