Home and Living April 18th, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I got a bad headache last night that I need to sleep early than usual, I was not able to finish my blog hop or do my blog hopping, when I wake in the morning my head is still aching so I return to bed and wake up in the after few hours, my head still feels heavy but it does not ache anymore.
The photo below was taken the other day when we are going to the gym, I have asked Pookie bear to change our route so I can take photo of the sakura tree nearby this office building, my shot is not that great because I am walking when I did this, feel shameful if someone saw me taking photo of a flower. As it is spring here, you can find lot of flowering sakura trees, mostly are white.
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Home and Shopping April 17th, 2011 | 6 Comments »
As I have blogged yesterday I went out to buy iron supplements for me, before buying it I’ve seen a newly open store where there’s a lot of Korean girl’s in chaos. So after I went to the pharmacy I went inside the store, oh well the store looks like Redeye where the primary products are earrings, hair accessories, key chains and other small accessories. I took a little basket and I also look around like others, its kind of busy and there’s really a lot of girls, grown up and even primary students busy on choosing key chains maybe for their bags. I don’t think they already appreciate bangle earrings eh, so they are on key chain stands which are made in different shapes, animals and cartoons.
A feeling of luxury and the pursuit of cuteness accessories – Naughty Cat
The store has no counter yet, the guy was just standing in a tall chair with a head microphone and speaking something on their language, and usual I am into earrings even though I can’t used them as we don’t always go out, aside from taking sight seeing plus it is also very unfashionable to wear long earrings and you are wearing pants, t-shirt and rubber shoes. Hehe, So I just bought them to keep or somehow for my sister or else it can be a good business for my mother to sell few Korean accessories, and I am going to save for that. Hehe
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Home and Cooking April 17th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We sleep at 5:30 in the morning today doing nothing, I am just watching TV shows online as I feel very stressed out. At three o’clock in the morning I went to GS25, the street is so empty even the sales clerk in the store is almost sleeping on his desk.
I went to GS25 because I am sort of hungry I just bread for dinner, so the result is to run for instant meal and a bowl of rameon for Pookie bear.
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Health and Home, Home and Shopping April 16th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As I have blogged lately I am bored but I just found out it is not really boredom, it is simply tiredness. I am not very energetic, I even feel weak going to gym. I already observed for the past few months that I always got a cold feet and hands, my husband keep teasing me I am a cold blooded. If before wearing socks can comfort me these past few days it won’t anymore, I still feel cold not my entire body but as what I have said just my feet and hands. So last night I research what does this feeling cause, so here’s what I have found out:
- Parasites
- Allergies
- Hypo-Thyroidism
- Anemia
- Candida
So probably I am anemic, lack of iron in short because I am not eating a balance diet and I just eat two times a day with big servings, I sleep late as two o’clock in the morning sometimes later than that.
So today I went out to buy iron supplements. The pharmacist gave me two kinds of iron supplement I picked this one because this is the cheapest for $55.08, the other one is times two. It is 120 tablets good for 4 months. When I reached home, Pookie bear asked me to return it to the pharmacy because it is very expensive just for iron supplements but I didn’t follow him because it is such an embarrassment. So the end result I have to pay for it, my three weeks allowance was gone. Huhuhu
Just a little information Anemia is a decrease in number of red blood cells (RBCs) or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood and is the most common disorder of the blood. Some common ymptoms are feeling of weakness, or fatigue, general malaise and sometimes poor concentration. They may also report dyspnea (shortness of breath) on exertion. In very severe anemia, the body may compensate for the lack of oxygen-carrying capability of the blood by increasing cardiac output. The patient may have symptoms related to this, such as palpitations, angina (if preexisting heart disease is present), intermittent claudication of the legs, and symptoms of heart failure.
Hopefully the feeling that I can’t explain that there are days I feel tense that my heart palpitates abnormally is because of being anemic and not a heart disease, and I also hope my frontal headache is because of being anemic and not because of my eyes, I don’t want to wear eye glass and I think my blood don’t really circulate well because sometimes I feel pain like electricity shock on my arms and legs plus I cannot crack my fingers, I remember when I had a massage my aunt says if I can cracked my fingers, it means good blood circulation but I can’t so it is not good circulation.
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Home and Cooking April 16th, 2011 | No Comments »
I think the most easiest food to cook is eggs, just fried or boiled it and you will overcome your hunger. So I always cook and eat eggs (lol), just lately I am being tired of frying it and eating it with soy sauce or kimchi, so yesterday I tried scrambled egg without tomatoes. I put a lot of onions as well garlic, I remember when I am still a kid I hate eating scrambled eggs with garlic and onion even if my mother keep telling me that it tasted good.
Well I think when you grew up everything changed, you ate what you don’t like to eat when you are younger!
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Home and Cooking April 15th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I feel bloated right now, after I ate my dinner. I munched some cookies and now I am eating cereal even I don’t like too, guess why? The milk is going to expire tomorrow and Pookie will not like it if I wasted a fresh milk.
So I have no choice but to pour more than half of it in this bowl of cereal, wish me luck that I am going to drink all the milk tonight. Waaahhh….
[ Tagged In ] Breakfast, Cereal, Chocolate Cereal, Expat Life, Expat Living, Fresh Milk and Cereal, Living in Icheon, Living in Korea, Living in South Korea, Milk
Dreams and Nightmares April 15th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
There is no particular photo that reminds me, seeing this photo I remind my childhood dream to be a ramp model and somehow beauty queen. God gave me long legs but not a very good height, well yeah I am taller to my cousins but it is not a ramp model height. What I wish is to inherit my Aunt’s height (mother side) because they are so tall at 5’7. Sometimes I wonder if my childhood accident prevent me from being taller or makes me being tall at this height, lol.
On my 4th year college I am in the top of being me, I am very confident. One day our institute/department is looking for a student to compete in the upcoming pageant in our school. Well yeah few of my schoolmates/classmates encouraged/asked me to join or if I want to join and then I told our director I am going to join he didn’t believe me because he knew I am joker.
[Photo courtesy of cdd20/pixabay.com]
Well maybe he believes me but seeing my face, my thin posture and knowing my ability he know I am going to put myself in shame. Hahaha! Well I don’t think even our director allowed me to join, I am going to join. I am not that confident with my assets (as if I have), I have no talent in singing or in dancing so thinking myself dancing for the opening number makes me to be embarrassed because the whole school will be watching me. So merely it is just a good time and my wishful thinking. I also did not join pageants in our Barangay because mostly it is money contest, just this past few years that they hosted beauty pageant which is I am already old and some of the contestants are teens. Anyway if ever I will tell someone what is my dream and what do I like, probably they will just laugh on me. So my dream will will remain a wild dream.
When I told Pookie bear that if we got a daughter in the future I am going to join her to beauty pageants, you know maybe I am going to make my dream materialized to her, he disagree a lot. He said he had watched a lot of documentaries how beauty queen’s are forced by parents to join a prestigious pageant and how their life ruined by pageants. So it is a BIG NO to pageants!
[ Tagged In ] Dreams, Life, Memories, My Life, Wild Dreams
Home and Improvement, Home and Living April 12th, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Seriously I need a break, I need a break from blog hopping what I mean Entrecard dropping. Since I decided to add my two blogs in entrecard I am dropping cards over time, my schedule is in the afternoon or evening I am going to dropped using my two new cards, then in the evening my travel or personal blog plus visit also my friends on my link exchange. Well its reshuffle sometimes my personal in the afternoon, I need a break right now because I want to watch few TV shows, so see you folks later…Hehe, drama!
But for sure I can’t take a break because while watching I can stop my hands from opening a new tab, haha. But before that this my share of red for Tuesday, taken after gym. This are still good looking chairs, sofa set or sala set but they are already thrown by owners, so if you want one picked your choice.
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Korean throw anything in the street as long as they don’t need it, not like us me Pinoys we keep holding on to them which is sometimes for display. There are times you can see a good looking cabinet in the street, it really looks like brand new and when a truck came they will just tore it down. Sayang!
My husband kept telling teasing me that I should picked the green one because he knows how I want to have a relaxing chair inside our apartment, we don’t buy things, furniture and etc., here because we’re not going to live here for a lifetime plus our stay in one apartment depends on his work contract, so if he got a new job it means new apartment. So carrying just two big back pack is a relief.,
[ Tagged In ] Expat Life, Expat Living, Garbage, Get a Sofa Set for free!, Korean Garbage, Living in Icheon, Living in Korea, Living in South Korea, Purple Sofa, Red Sofa, Ruby Tuesday, Sofa
Home and Cooking April 12th, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I am being busy lately with tweaking my blog, looking for more nice template and etc., this is what I have cooked yesterday, Sinigang ala pobre. Haha, correction just sinigang (sour soup) I just added ala pobre because of the poor ingredients. I cooked it with tamarind powder, from the stuff we bought from the Asian store which I am not mistaken last year, just cannot remember what month. As it is there’s only small powder left after I seasoned it I decided to use it all and the result very sour…yummy!
My ingredients include meat, cabbage, potato and onions. Haha, I use potato instead of gabi, that’s all I got here, I just used the present ingredients what matter most it tasted like sinigang and not nilaga isn’t it? My bowl is quite small so I didn’t put a lot of soup in it.
[ Tagged In ] Expat Life, Expat Living, Filipino Dish, Filipino Foods, Filipino Foods in Korea, Living in Korea, Living in South Korea, Pork, Pork Sinigang, Sinigang, Sinigang na Baboy
Travel and Places April 11th, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I have been busy yesterday tweaking my blog templates, I am the type of person who won’t stop until I don’t want too and until I know I can do it I will do it. So I was not able to post blogs on my blogs aside from the other one.
By the way just sharing some photos from Seoul Lotus Lantern Festival 2010, it was taken in Insadong. If you don’t know yet, the Lotus Lantern Festival held in the Jongno area is one of Seoul’s landmark traditional festivals. Maybe this guys are the one who entertained the King and the back is the old man as the geomancer or adviser of the King.
The time-honored festival which originates from an exciting tradition of Gwandeongnori has been keep alive throughout the entire 600-year history of Seoul.
[ Tagged In ] Living in Korea, Living in South Korea, Lotus Lantern Festival, Seoul, Seoul Lotus Lantern Festival, Seoul Parade, South Kora