SM Hypermarket Centris Cooking Demo: My Favorite Recipes on Mar 21, 2010 in Events Manila Life blogging events food home life recipes bangus pate Caren Yrastorza cooking demos easy recipes My Favorite Recipes cooking demo quick dinners SM Hypermarket The Eating Room Last week I attended a cooking demo at the SM Hypermarket in Centris Station along EDSA in Quezon City. The demo featured some easy and quick recipes by food blogger Caren Yrastorza of The Eating Room. In a cooking demo entitled “My Favorite R...
Hello, blog! on Mar 19, 2010 in Thinking aloud WAHMing health and fitness home life Health and Wellness The Philippine Online Chronicles WAHM work-at-home mom It’s been a while, eh? Nope, I did not go into hibernation. I’m still around. In fact, I’ve never been working online more than I am now. Never been more wired. I’ve been blessed with work! Some time in February, I started wor...
Glaucoma awareness on Mar 13, 2010 in family health health and fitness tips I’ve heard of glaucoma before. Back in my college days, I knew someone who was in the early stage of glaucoma. But I never really looked into it, not realizing how serious it actually was. Only in the recent days have I began realizing how seri...
The wheatgrass buzz on Feb 18, 2010 in Organic products Thinking aloud family health health and fitness natural remedies tips benefits of wheatgrass colon cleanser herbal supplements wheatgrass wheatgrass juice I started seeing those green grassy plants at the gym’s juice bar last year. But I have never been tempted to try it. Lately, my cousin has been posting his wheatgrass babies on Facebook. He even created a Facebook page solely dedicated to the...
Turn off the lights on March 27 – Earth Hour 2010 on Feb 16, 2010 in Events The Earth and the environment Thinking aloud tips 2010 Earth Hour 2010 Earth Hour 60 environment conservation Environmentalism March 27 turn out the lights in 2010 Last year, the Philippines topped among all countries who joined the Earth Hour 2009, with over 15 million Filipinos from 650 cities and towns turning off the lights for one hour. We reportedly saved about 611 megawatt-hours, the equivalent of ’...
Eczema and Atopic Dermatitis on Feb 15, 2010 in family health geek speak health and fitness tips atopic dermatitis children with allergy eczema management of skin asthma skin asthma skin conditions in children Even as a parent of an atopic child, I sometimes still get confused between eczema and atopic dermatitis. They are often used interchangeably, but they are quite different. I have a child who suffers from atopic dermatitis. Eczema is a general term u...
Happy Chinese New Year! on Feb 14, 2010 in Chinese culture Events Manila Life hooray tips Banawe Street restaurants Chinese New Year celebration Chinese restaurants Chinese traditions lion dance video of Chinese lion dance The Lunar New Year coincided with Valentine’s Day this year. And because my husband is, above all things, Chinese – no Valentine’s date. *sad face* But we did celebrate the New Year the traditional way. New Year’s eve was spe...
While I was driving… (Episode 2) on Feb 13, 2010 in Thinking aloud VGood children family movies parenting While I was driving... Saturday, on the way home from Mandarin classes. The two girls were discussing what to do on this long weekend. (In celebration of the Lunar New Year, my kids have no school on Monday.) Patch: I want to watch a movie! Can we go watch ‘Alice in...
I think that I shall never see… on Feb 12, 2010 in Manila Life Thinking aloud Travel beauty and vanity Louis Vuitton car decals LV car While I was driving... … A car as vain as thee: Whooooaaaa!!! I was so overwhelmed and taken aback that I just had to run after it. And try to get a closer picture. I finally caught up with it at a stoplight, and got this shot - (Sorry for the reflections. I did no...
Dark Circles on Feb 12, 2010 in beauty and vanity tips dark eye circles dark under-eyes remedies for dark eyes On some days, I have them really bad. Other days are a bit more forgiving. I’m talking about dark circles under eyes. I have friends who have really bad cases of dark under-eyes. One seems to have the genes for it (because all of them – s...
