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Archive for June, 2010
Hindi kailangan ang baterya (LP 112 Teknolohiya)
Jun 30th
‘Mamaya ka na maglaro ng Xbox, laro muna tayo ng chess’
Ah, technology. Those new gadgets! The latest this and that… “I want!”
May nakikita ka pa bang mga batang paslit na naglalaro ng patintero, tumbang-preso, teks o taguan sa lugar ninyo? Malamang ay ‘oo naman’ ang iyong sagot dahil tiyak ay meron pa rin naman. Pero konti na lang sila. Bihira na lang ang makukulit na bulilit sa kalye. Nasaan na kaya sila?
Naglalaro ng Facebook games? Nakikipag chat online? Naglalaro ng playstation, xBox o kaya naman ay Wii sa loob ng bahay? O nakakulong naman kaya ang dalagita at binatilyo sa kanilang kuwarto at may pasak ang mga tenga na nakikinig sa kanilang iPod?
Balanse. Kailangan natin ng balanse. Lalo na tayong nakakatanda.Kailangan maging role model.
(Nagsalita ang addict sa FB games …kasalanan ng internet ito eh 
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Happy LP everyone! 
Let dogs be dogs.
Jun 28th
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I found this photo from my 2008 files. This was shot at Bangkok’s Pratunam Market. I took this shot not because I thought the dog was cute but on the contrary, I was pissed off at its owner. Not only that the dog was dyed with colors but to add insult and DISCOMFORT to the poor thing, it had a shirt on. On a humid and high-temperature day! I don’t know if this was the dog owner’s way to attract people to buy from her or just plain naiveness.
I can understand people clothing their dogs during low temperature but in BKK where people would take their shirts off if they could, this was just wrong. I am no stranger in clothing dogs because my own pug has his jackets, which I seldom put on him and if ever I do, only for a few minutes of photo shooting, that’s it. But even when I do it only for few minutes, my husband would scold me bacause it’s not right to that to a dog, any dog. And he is absolutely right! Dog experts say that an exception is the chihuahua breed. I don’t know about that because I don’t have a chihuahua (yet.)
Anyway, imagine yourself covered with hair and living in a land where the average temperature is 29C? And with a shirt on?! Perhaps you’ll pant, hang your tongue out until it drops to the ground and BITE others around you because you’re irritated and feeling discomfort, wont you?
Let dogs , be dogs. Without shirts and not dyed, that’s the way they are created and should stay.
Note: background was changed into B&W and dog was selected to show only its colors.
party animals
Jun 27th
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Rockin’ Boys!
These two know where and how to party! Up from sunset til sunrise and yet still looking cute and sober.
How do they do that!?!
left: bear from hard rock cafe las vegas, gift from my husband.
right: bearista from starbucks las vegas, gift from an uncle.
photographer: woke up too early and had nothing better to do.
Pagbabalik ng kanyang bunga (LP 111)
Jun 23rd
Malamang ay nagtataka kayo kung ano ang relasyon ng aking mga larawan sa temang Pagbabalik (return) ngayong Huwebes sa Litratong Pinoy.
Simple lang. Taon taon ay inaabangan ko ang pagbabalik ng mga bungang ito! Kung pwede ko lang awayin ang ang haring habagat malamang ay ginawa ko. Matalik na kaaway ng mga bungang ito ay ang malakas na bugso ng hangin at ulan. Nanghihinayang talaga ako kapag nakikita kong puno ang lupa ng mga nalaglag na bunga dahil dito.
Ang puno ng peras na ito ay nasa aming maliit na hardin sa likod bahay. Ang klase ng peras na ito ay iyong iniluluto, hindi sya kinakain ng hilaw.
crooked tree trunk
Ito ang isa sa aking paboritong dessert na pinaggagamitan ko ng mga bunga ng aming puno. Iniluto sya sa red wine.
Campote de Poires / Pears poached in Vanilla and Red wine
Maligayang araw ng Litratong Pinoy sa inyong lahat!
Summer is here at last!
Jun 22nd
I don’t know about you but my excitement begins when I see the likes of them around at the start of the year. Still close and ‘threatening’ to open anytime soon…
Because that means spring has sprung and about to be followed by summer, my favorite time of the year!
It’s here, it’s here! and like those birds chirping way too early in the morning and waaaay past their nesttime (bed time?) I am greeting summer with loads of fun plans! How about you? 
Some people!
Jun 17th
There is something definitely WRONG in this picture. Can you spot it?
Some people really. Some people!
Pasado sana! (LP 110: Pagsusulit)
Jun 16th
Sariwang sariwa kumbaga itong entry ko para sa LP theme ngayong Huwebes. Pagsusulit. Kakauwi ko lang ng bahay mula sa isang pagsusulit. Ito ay para sa integration. Ayaw ko kasing i give up ang pasaporte ko bilang Pinoy kaya lang ay kailangan ko na talagang gawin ito dahil sayang naman ang ipinupundar naming mag-asawa dito….sabi nga ng aking esposo, kailangan kong gawin ito dahil kung may mangyari man sa kanya ( knock on wood, tok tok) ay hindi ako magkakaproblema kung iba na ang pasaporte ko. Kaya makaraan ang halos 5 taon na kakapush nya na kumuha na ako ng eksamen, ano pa nga, eh di bumigay ang lola nyo.
Nagulat ang aking tiyahin na naninirahan sa Amerika ng malaman na mahirap ang sistema dito sa Holland para lang makakuha ng local passport. Sa America ang resulta ng integration exam ay malalaman madalas sa araw din ng pagsusulit, at ilang linggo lang ay swearing in na at kuha na ang bagong pasaporte. Dito ay hindi ganyan kadali. Unang una ay kailangan mong magsalita at magsulat sa local language. Kailangan mo patunayan na kaya mong mamuhay dito, nakaya mong gampanan ang lahat bilang isang dutch citizen. Ang pagsusulit dito ay may 4 na parte. 1. Electronic (basic knowledge) 2. Listening and Speaking. 3. Dutch knowldege (history, politics..etc) 4. Idi-depensa mo ang 20 assignments na ipapagawa sa iyo and writing. Ang mga assignments na ito kinakailangan mong magpunta sa police station, banko, munisipyo, na marunong kang mag-apply ng trabaho..at marami pang iba. Maraming foreigners ang ayaw gawin ito dahil nahihirapan sila. Marami ding bumabagsak sa 4 na pagsusulit na ito. Naipasa ko ang 1,2,3, at ang dutch coach ko at ex-teacher ay kumpiyansa na pati 4th ay walang problema.
Itong pang apat ang pagsusulit na ginawa ko kanina. Okay naman, nakakatuwa dahil former teacher ko ang examinator (nagbigay ng exam). Tawa kami ng tawa dahil sa nerbyos ko, uber daldal ko Pero sabi ng ex-teacher ko ay December of last year ay alam na nyang hindi daw ako mahihirapan dahil mataas ang level ko….(tumira ka ba naman dito ng mahigit 10 taon eh dapat talaga advance na level, di ba?) Pero hangga’t hindi ko hawak ang resulta sa mga kamay ko na nagsasabing pumasa ako ay hindi ako mapapakali. Konti lang. Baka kasi hindi pa ako makatulog nyan.
Ikaw naman, ano ang pagsusulit na ginawa mo lately?
HAPPY LP sa inyong lahat!
Cherry Lovers
Jun 16th
Take care of your body. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Eat lots of cherry. Drink lots of its juice.
Then perhaps you’ll grow old like them
It wasn’t til this morning when resizing this photo when I realized (and saw) that prominent white light reflection on the right top side of the cherry…bad reflection! Looks like the cherry was beginning to rot.
Doing another exam today, the last part….looking forward to it
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