Watsons shopping story

I went to the bank today to pay our bills, after it I am thinking between going home or going to the supermarket to look for sale. But neither of the two wins because I decided to walk at the shopping district to have a window shopping rather than walk in the national road. So as far I saw winter jackets are on sale 20-50%, I did not bother to look at them because I know even it is 50% sale it is still expensive because the stores are signature brand. As I reached Dunkin Donuts I was surprised to see that the clothing store is already a Watsons shop so I went inside, my plan is just to look around but when I saw the word SALE I forgot everything. I went to Men’s Section because I am planning to buy gift for Pookie bear, I am already holding a Calvin Klein Perfume and Nivea Shaving gel when I saw Mise En Scene (Oil Free Fresh Lotion), I don’t  know what is it but I found it cute so I am looking at it when the sales lady told me it is buy one take one, so I put two on my little basket and I walk around…

While looking around I have found out that Nivea Sparking White and Moisturizing lotion are also in sale, so I grabbed the two lotions and get one Nivea Creme because my creme is almost finished. I also buy an Elastine conditioner because my  Dantrol conditioner is also saying goodbye.

As I continue walking around I’ve seen M & M’s chocolate, darn this chocolate is pretty expensive in our place (Philippines) in my twenty four years of existence as far as I remember I just ate this chocolate two-three times and it is not a full packed either but “tikim-tikim” to classmates who can afford or have a relative abroad. So I grabbed two different package thinking that my mother and sister will like this chocolates. Looking at my little basket I found out I cannot afford all of the stuff so with a heavy heart I returned the “Calvin Klein” perfume with a promise I’ll buy you next time. Lol! So I walked on the ladies section looking for ponds whitening cream but they have none except for Pearl white and whitening foam so I grabbed two Snickers Almond Bar instead in the adjacent tray.

Then I pay in the counter, it looks like they have a promo if you shop with a certain amount you are qualify for a draw of DSLR camera but for sure they won’t count me in, haha. Anyway my stuff is W604 short to qualified, I spend $44.06 for my Watson shopping today. I forgot to take photo of the store because of the icy ice, so cold to remain outside.
When I reached home I thought Pookie bear was already home but he is not yet, as I finished changing my clothes to home clothes I heard foot steps outside the door and cleaning the shoes with ice and dirt in the pavement. So I hurriedly push the Watson bag below the bed,  and after few  minutes I gave him my gift the shaving gel first which I manage to put in box while his changing his clothes. Then next the Mise en Scene products which we both don’t know how it works. Lol! Mr. Google gonna help me..
He said thank you then he told me I should save my money  for my own but then after wards he asked where’s his Christmas gift because I told him that’s my New Year (Chinese) and Valentines gift. I replied that’s three item so it is included. Lol, now what I am going to save is for his birthday four months from now, thinking if I should buy him the Calvin Klein perfume or the men’s wallet in Artscow.

Sauted Mongo Sprout

This is my version of Sauted Mongo Sprout or Bean’s Sprout as Pookie bear called it. I missed eating vegetables, its our normal food in Philippines. We only ate meat when we had extra money for it, anyway  I wish to buy another head of squash last weekend but it’s darn expensive for one meal, so when I’ve seen this sprouted mongo I grabbed it.

My ingredients:

Sprouted Mongo, pieces of pork, lettuce, onion, garlic, salt and water.

Procedure:

  1. Saute garlic and onion until brown.
  2. Add the meat and fry it for few minutes
  3. Add water
  4. Add the sprouted beans (mongo)
  5. Wait until it boiled and add the lettuce and seasoned it with salt.
Yeah, you heard it right, I used lettuce because that’s the only present leafy vegetable inside our fridge left over from the meat sandwich we had on weekend.  I did not add soy sauce on my menu which is usually in Sprouted Mongo menu. Well I had a burped after I ate.,solved.

Airstar Avenue

Hi everyone  I just wake up, happy Tuesday but it seems I will just enjoy half of the day. Here/s my share of love for the day, these photos are taken last December 2010 in Incheon Airport, its Christmas so red and green colors are everywhere. There’s a lot of booth for picture taking and this one is one of the biggest near the train transfer

As you can see there’s a lot of teddy bears everywhere, the funny thing was there’s a Christmas tree with a lot of gifts below it and one of the gifts has a medium teddy bear setting at the top of the gifts. I’ve seen one toddler crying and trying to carry the teddy bear but it looks like the gift box attach to it is so heavy maybe there’s a stone so nobody will took it. The little boy keeps crying while trying to remove the bear, I saw here mother stopping him before we walk away and look for a restaurant to eat.

This is one of the small booth around the airport Pookie bear want to take photo of me here but  I insisted I want the bigger booth, because if I did it here no more photos to be taken. And if he wouldn’t take photo of me I am going to cry like the toddler. Lol!

Mellow Yellow in Sri Lanka

Hi guys I think I am getting old, when I wake up I thought it is Tuesday today so I posted a post for Ruby Tuesday but when I visit Mr. Linky it is not yet up, feeling confused I check my calendar. Darn, it is Monday today and Mellow Yellow day. Have you been in these kind of situation?

Anyway here’s my share of yellow, a little of bit of yellow (see the clothes of the devotees), this picture was taken in Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, Pethiyaboda, Sri Lanka. One of the most sacred worshipping places of the Buddhists in Sri Lanka since it is a site made hallowed by the visit of Lord Buddha. In the past Kelaniya itself was a large city and the Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya was one of the largest and one of the most beautiful temples of Sri Lanka.

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Chicken Kimchi Stew

As what I have said before I love experimenting with food, these past few days I have been tired eating adobo, chicken or pork. I want to try another dish and we have nothing here but kimchi so I tried to cook chicken and kimchi the other day and the result was great. I’m loving it!

Chicken Kimchi Stew

Pookie bear says it doesn’t look good, so I told him to try it because it tasted good but he won’t do it because he said he is on a diet. After few hours I found two chicken bones in the sink  and then my food container is almost empty, well your guess is right as mine Pookie bear cannot resist the temptation so I told him about his diet he just said he will ate small amount in the evening than the usual amount, he is  also using the soup to his scrambled egg. So as of today I have cooked another chicken kimchi stew and someone’s gonna drool over it. Lol!

My ingredients:

Chicken, Kimchi, Salt, Black pepper, Oil, Onion, Garlic, Water

Procedure:

  • In a  sauce pan or in a pot sauté garlic and onions on cooking oil.
  • Add the chicken to the pan. Friend it a little then add the kimchi and stir.
  • Add water enough for the chicken to boil.
  • Seasoned it with salt and black pepper.
  • Wait until the chicken became  tender.
  • Serve hot with plain rice.
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Sleep Paralysis is Haunting Me, I am Dying Slowly

So weird. That’s how I called my dreams/nightmare yesterday morning, I woke up around nine o’clock in the morning when the alarm clock rang. It was breakfast time for Pookie bear I just opened my eyes and went back to sleep because he prepare his meal alone.  He doesn’t eat heavy breakfast, a glass of whey protein and few grams of sliced apples was enough to start his day.  I woke up again at ten o’clock when Pookie bear get ready for school and went back to sleep when he left,  we sleep at 2 AM every night, we are nocturnal. Anyway, I turned my laptop first so there’s something to disturb me or wake me up in case I had a bad dreams again and sleep paralysis strikes again.

Low Angle View of Spiral Staircase Against Black Background

[Photo courtesy of pixabay/pexels.com]

As I am sleeping I had this dream that we are traveling and we are in a very familiar place, it wasn’t my first time to be there because everything was very familiar then I don’t know how my dream changed on seeing me sleeping. On my dream I was sleeping backwards, my feet where facing in the headboard when Pookie bear arrives from school and I can hear his movements while his changing to home clothes and getting something in the fridge for his meal, I tried to wake up but I can’t open my eyes (you know I was worried on my dreams to being scolded by my husband for sleeping too much and not even preparing his meal after work) and it was getting hard for me to breath. As I am struggling to wake up in my dreams Pookie bear peek inside my blanket to wake me up and I constantly heard some movements.  I struggle to wake up again,  I opened my eyes but they will closed again and I am already losing air. Then suddenly after struggling so hard I finally woke up and found out I was holding my nose preventing me to breath (imagine when you are preparing to dive in the water), as I tried to move out from the bead, I realized my body was paralyzed up to my head.  It was weird but my head feels like a balloon that is full of air and can explode anytime. With this,  I rest for a little bit and move out of our bed to make a coffee so I can’t sleep anymore. Well, I found out the movement I’ve heard in my dream was not from Pookie bear but to our neighbors in the second floor it sounds like they are moving/arranging their cabinets and tables. I was so lucky and thankful on their noises, lucky they did it while I am fighting to live and wake up again.  As usual the consequences when I have this kind of dreams was my body is dead tired, I feel so tired as if I work-out so much.

So today, I didn’t sleep during the day.  I was really scared because this wasn’t the first time it happens, it always happen whenever I am sleep. I don’t know how it started but it isn’t healthy already. I have research many methods how to prevent this or how to wake up during struggle, it helps but there are times when I panicked I can’t even wake up myself unless I started to pray.

Well, Pookie bear wake up very early and went to Postal office and mailed his present to his friend (C) he didn’t bother to wake me up because I think he is a little angry with me for bothering him last night. He wants to sleep but I don’t like to sleep because I was still scared, all I want is to use my laptop, he won anyway.

My reading habit and DubaiSally

It says reading make us knowledgeable and smart but I think it depends on the kind of reading material we are reading. In my case I don’t read books or other learning paraphernalia’s what I read is all about news, cases, entertainment and gossips. Haha, well I am not that gossiper  if it is the right term for “tsismosa” it is my only way to have news about our beloved Philippines. But there are times I feel tired reading those online news because most of the headlines are toll hike, fare hike, gasoline hike. Killings, floods and etc., in my eyes Philippines is now a very dangerous country especially all I read is a son/daughter kill his/her father and mother and etc, holdup with murder, kidnap for ransom is just a normal thing to read in every news paper. Anyway on the contrary I think I also learned things by reading online at least my eyes are open on what is happening, at first I thought our Province is peaceful no mafia’s or groups or whatever they called it but darn I am so wrong.  So they are right reading make us more knowledgeable and aware on our surrounding.
 
Anyway last night I was not able to visit all of you because I am stuck again in this reading habit while I am reading an online news paper I have found out there’s a famous blogger named DubaiSally why famous because she is all over newspapers. So I have to read all her posts last night, by the way she is like us a blogger who express her thought online the only difference her blog is her diary about her work and life. A short information she is a Filipina maid in Dubai who blogged her daily life with her Ma’am. Just visit her page and for sure you are going to be entertain and somehow be touched with her life.

Other thought she is fake but no matter what it is worth visiting. So giddiyap and take a look at True Life Story of Filipina Maid in Dubai.

Philpost: Philippine Postal Corporation Untrusted

There’s only thing not to trust in Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) that it is our mail or parcel. I have ordered a Sport Metal Watch from Artscow last December and guess what? The envelope arrives yesterday but the watch did not, what the heck what’s the use of the envelope, for toilet paper? The envelope was open right where it was pasted so damn cool isn’t it. Dunno what happened to the watch maybe a cool guy  is wearing it even the watch has a photo of somebody. Lol, yes it is a personalized watch my Christmas gift to my father so it has a photo of him.

The open envelope

What a shame, for sure the watch was stolen by philpost employees unless there’s other people who segregate and transport our mails and parcels. Just a question does our mail need to be delivered house to house or just give it other people and be delivered to us? That’s how its works in our province those barangay which are 15-30 minutes away from town the post man just gave the mail to jeepney drivers or look for someone who knows the person and darn your mail is free and in express delivery. Just be lucky if nobody got interested with it.

This is how it works before the mails are delivered in our place they were delivered first in San Pablo Laguna for segregating and then to our province. The enveloped my mother had received has no stamp of “Received torn or open” from postal office from Laguna or our from our local postal office. So when they asked why it is open and empty and then no stamp of being received open and torn the postal office just says “They didn’t noticed it” what does it mean they’re just stamping and stamping without checking if the mails or parcels they are stamping are open or torn. “Good job! Clap your hands on the air”. If postal office employees has this reason every time a parcel was missing no wonder it is nowhere to be found. So who’s the real culprit, and where it gone missing the postal employees who segregated the mails when it arrive to Philippines or the mail man who gave it to other people or the person who received it  and handed to our house or maybe a ghost?

Anyway I think Philpost needs to changed their promotional banner below, because it does not correspond on what they offered, it is not safe and it is not express either. Just remember the postal delivery van hijacked somewhere in the Philippinnes, that’s what they called safe when things are being stolen express because they don’t deliver it to you but giving them to other people to be delivered right to your house.

Anyway this situation did not happened just once in our family, as far as I remember my aunt from Germany sends a registered mail to us and guess what happened we didn’t received that mail. We only noticed it when my mother received a second mail asking if we received a registered mail. So my mother and grand mother went to office to ask about it and guess what they found out, the registered mail was given to another personwho happens with the same name with my mother but the case was she is not married with her husband so she doesn’t bear the same family name with us, anyway I think her husband or common-law partner is our distant relative. The big deal about the registered mail was it has Euro on it and as far as I remember the post office was also the one who change it into local currency.  Great job!So upon the complaint the post office ask the “lucky receiver” to show themselves in the post office and bring all the letters they received. And guess what even my grandparent’s letter from Tarlac was also delivered to them and of course it was also opened when handed to us. We don’t know what else they received before the mistake was discovered. Funny isn’t it?  That’s how express our mail delivered by number one and trusted Philpost. So are you going to trust this kind of service or just the same reason “No choice”.

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Photobooks Freebie

It’s been a long time since I checked for photo books freebies online and as of yesterday I have found out Artscow has a new freebie for  Facebook Share & Shout, how does it work? You are just going to share the good news in your Facebook wall and after it you will be given a coupon code that you may use during check-out.  This photo book is 20 pages and if you want to add more pages you’re going to pay per page which only cost few cents if I am not mistaken. You can start sharing this freebie in your wall by clicking here.

No to Mining, Save Tablas!

I think this is a hot sensation in Romblon especially in Tablas I just saw  in Facebook that some fellow Odionganon members changed their profile pictures into these photo (below). As an appeal to stop the proposed GOLD / COPPER / SILVER mining in Tablas Island.

 

“CALLING ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS OF ROMBLON, PLEASE, PLEASE, LET US ALL JOIN OUR HANDS TO END THIS THREAT TO OUR PLACE BEFORE IT BEGINS! OR ELSE, WE WILL ALL BE DOOMED. OUR NATIVE LAND WILL BE PUT INTO DEVASTATION! “
 This photo shows (above) the future mining site for Copper, Gold, Silver, Etc. by Ivanhoe Mining Corp. The proposed mining area shall cover the following barangays: 60% of barangay Camili’s land area, Bonlao, San Roque, Tugdan & Calagonsao of Alcantara, Romblon; Concepcion Sur, Talamban (San Isidro) & Paroyhog of Santa Maria, Romblon; 85% of Pato-o’s land area, Rizal & Progreso Este of Odiongan and barangay Limon Norte of Looc, Romblon (and still spreading). LET US SAVE OUR PROVINCE AND OUR FUTURE!

I got all those details in a Facebook page No Mining On Tablas Island so if you want to participate and help the advocacy just visit the page.

As far as I can see 85% of some  Barangay are subjective to mining, darn I know it. Lol, anyway I just heard some old hearsay that there’s gold in our Province like the golden boat and etc., It says Romblon is the center of Philippines and the golds of Japanese are varied there. Good to hear that Barangay  Pato-o was the first one who objected the said proposed mining:

 

  Sep 10, 2010:
“Pato-o, a poor barangay in Odiongan takes a stand against a multi-billion dollar Canadian company passing “Anti Mining” Resolution #11 of 2010. Pato-o Barangay Councilors and Captain Louie Fabello unanimously approve the resolution and should be praised for such a strong response. Contact Brgy. Captain Louie and thank him for his barangay’s stand against mining.

 

But the sad part:

 

Nov 15, 2010:
   Response from DENR Mines and Geosciences Bureau Director, calling the Pato-o Anti-Mining Resolution “inconsistent with the national policy”.
Copied from Romblon Post written by Mr. Fred Fabila.

Help us to save Tablas, Help us to save Romblon Province and the future generation!