Plants and Zombies for BA–Flower Therapy for Me on Mar 21, 2010 in Fun LIFE Thoughts summer Mother Earth From out of the blues, BA suggested that we go to Manila Seedling Bank (along EDSA corner Quezon Avenue) one hot summer day the other day. A few days before that, Monica and I brought the 2 little ‘uns there—and I asked, “Now do you...
The Oscars 2010–a night of many firsts on Mar 8, 2010 in Celebration That's Entertainment The Oscars The 2010 Oscars was a night of many firsts, including that of the major awards. Kathryn Bigelow won her first Oscar for Best Director (her 1st nomination, too). It was also the first time in the history of the Oscars for a woman to win as Best Direct...
Happy International Women’s Day (2010) on Mar 7, 2010 in Celebration Filipina Images International Women's Day Got this from a very good friend, which I share with you, dear women friends: Here’s wishing one of the most impressive women that I have met on the occasion of International Women’s Day. I do hope you can take time off from work and pamp...
Miss You Like Crazy (a movie review…10 days after) on Mar 7, 2010 in Fun Reviews That's Entertainment Filipino Movies Oh wow! I promised myself to make a review of the Star Cinema movie, Miss You Like Crazy, starring John Lloyd Cruz (as Alan Alvarez) and Bea Alonzo (as Mia Samonte) and directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina. I watched the movie on its second day at Trinom...
Despite Ondoy, despite Haiti, despite Chile…life has to go on (help save Mother Earth) on Feb 27, 2010 in Advocacy Blog Action Day Mother Earth Tips and How Tos Typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng Chile 8.8 earthquake Despite Ondoy, despite Haiti, and despite Chile which lately experienced an earthquake with an 8.8 intensity in the Richter scale and the upcoming tsunamis in Hawaii and the Pacific basin…life has to go on. We commiserate with our brothers an...
Farmville for Real Anyone? (not FB Farmville, btw) on Feb 21, 2010 in Fun Mother Earth Thoughts Mother Nature On our way to Manaoag yesterday, we passed by hubby’s Dairy Farm in Pangasinan (nay, not his—but he is managing it, well, not really—the international NGO he works with pays people to manage it and show the local farmers the how tos...
…and literally and figuratively–I have stopped and smelled the flowers! on Feb 20, 2010 in Celebration Fun LIFE Parenting and Family Thoughts Happy Birthday It feels like I am starting anew—groping to write a personal blogpost. Oh yes, I have been writing on socio-political issues with Blogwatch, but it has been months since I have written a real blogpost, one that speaks of what I have in my heart...
TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL(?) I wonder… on Feb 9, 2010 in Information Thoughts Philippine Politics “TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL”—This is the byline of The Philippine Star, the newspaper that has been delivered to my doorstep everyday for the last many years. I seldom read newspapers, though. But what caught my attention, which has give...
TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL(?) I wonder… on Feb 9, 2010“TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL”—This is the byline of The Philippine Star, the newspaper that has been delivered to my doorstep everyday for the last many years. I seldom read newspapers, though. But what caught my attention, which has give...
RH Bill is NOT DEAD—But it continues to haunt on Feb 8, 2010 in Blog Watch Elections 2010 Parenting and Family Socio-Political Philippine Politics RH Bill The 20 plus year old Reproductive Health Bill (HB 5043) may have died in the 14th Congress, but it will continue to haunt presidents and lawmakers to come, if the presidential debates I have been watching and the interviews at Blogwatch I have partic...
