The Magical Words!

It feels so overwhelming when you hear you daugther call for your name the first time. Cj has finally called me mama last Wednesday! Bad me I almost forgot to add this one on my post. But guess what? Cj also blurted out daddy for the first time last Sunday while we were at the clinic waiting for Cj's pedia doctor to arrive. Her dad almost cried out in tears because he has been noticing that Cj is not as close to him as she is to me. I always joked about it and said that the reason why she is not that close to him is because he almost never spoke to Cj while she was still on my womb. Well, all those bad feelings and thoughts my husband had came to an end after Cj called out for him his name.

Birthday Parties!

One of the things I enjoy as a mom is doing the preparation for my daughter’s birthdays. And since I love art, I get pleasure from adding my personal touch on the DIYs I make.

As mentioned on one of my previous posts, I have already started with some designs for the favors and tarpaulin for my youngest daughter’s coming 1st birthday this September. I’m still not done with the other birthday party supplies though. Right now I am focusing on searching for a good cake supplier near our area. I have already received an email from one of the popular cake suppliers in my mommy group. But since I want the design of my daughter’s bratz cake to look cool and unique, I have to search for sample designs on the internet so I can have a better idea of how I want my daughter’s bratz cake to look like. I am really excited to do this!

Other than the cake, I might also get other bratz party supplies as well. Thank God I have some funds on my Paypal account! With this, I believe ordering online won’t be a hassle.

However, since we’re on a tight budget, I have to search for suppliers that can provide me discount party supplies. I hope I can find one that sells edible bratz cake design so I can order it and give it to my cake supplier soon! :)

Let’s do the Countdown

I've been getting a lot of tags this week=) and here's another one from one of my new blogmates. Thanks for the tag kathy!


Participants: Me and Mine | Creative in Me | For the LOVE of Food | Little Peanut | Pea in a Podwalk on red | kathycot | buhaymisis | when mom speaks | kathycot cooks | Ours and our family | You |

Ten movies you’d watch over and over:
:: White Chicks. Home Alone. Rush Hour . Bruce All Mighty . Mrs Doubtfire . Die Hard . Rambo . Just Like Heaven . The Notebook . Double Jeopardy


Nine people you enjoy the company of:
:: My husband. My daughter Missy. My daughter Carrie . My mom. My dad . My eldest brother . My inlaw Anne . My younger brother . Cousin Lala . Cousin Gigi


Eight things you’re wearing:
:: Blouse . Slocks . 2 under wears. pair of socks . shoes . wedding ring. earings . watch


Seven things on your mind:
:: jira is still down . resolve remaining issues on jira once its setup again . email from anne for my other project . approval of project plan and costing for another project . my daughter's birthday . how to increase traffice on my blogs . prepare for an interview


Six objects you touch every day:
:: Laptop. Cellphone. eye glasses . coffee cup . telephone . Milk Bottle.


Five things you do everyday:
:: brush my teeth . take a bath . play with missy . play with cj . watch news


Four things that you see when you turn your head to the right:
:: chair . lunch box . eye glasses . laptop charger


Three of your favorite things that are red color:
:: cellphone . eye glasses . shirt


Two people who have influenced your life the most:
:: My mother and Father


One person who has been nice to you today:
:: My eldest daughter who keeps on calling my name on the phone=)


I'm tagging... Pheng, Ruby , Era , and Jigi=)

Tags from Rocks

Thanks for the tag pheng=)

domino tag



Rule: Copy the entire list and add your name at the bottom. And tag at least 5 friends. (But you can tag as many as you like).Note: Please link the blog where you posted the tag We appreciate you linking all your blogs but make sure you post the tag in the blogs too.

Mommy Talks Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps All Kinds of Me Stuff The Salad Caper Winding Creek Circle Anorexic Queen Apple of Yan Ple YanPle Howell and Abie My Planet Purple WomenXplore
Princess Bela My Happy Place I am Dzoi Cliktrik Life’s Simple
Pleasures Coffee Table Conversations 100% Kelly My Colorful World Ramdom Thoughts Scribbles of My Life In This Game of Life The Shopaholic in Me Mommyhood and Me My Charmed Life My Joys Sassy Finds Celebrating Life Life is Peachy Belly, Baby and Beyond {BloggerHappy} {BerryScrappy} / God's best gift / Life. Love. Family. Work. Travel. / Ours and our kids

Im tagging sujee and cez

First, Last and Now!

Written on 7:45PM by Ours and our kids

First

* First name: Emmalyn
* First screen name: emzy2k
* First funeral: my granda, I was 16 then.
* First piercing: Ears
* First kiss: my husband, when we were still on the courting stage
* First love: My parents. But if it's someone else, it's still my husband


Last

* Last beverage drank: Water
* Last food consumed: Lunch - Rice w/ Pork Kontatsu
* Last phone call: my husband
* Last time showered: 12 hours ago (and will stay unshowered for 14hours. i have no choice coz im still in the office)
* Last CD played: dora the explorer which i played for my daughter yesterday afternoon
* Last website visited: Blogcatalog

Now

* Single or taken: Taken
* Gender: Female
* Birthday: April 15
* Sign: Aries
* Shoe size: 6.5
* Thinking about: increasing my blog traffic=)

Participants:

1.) Me and Mine
2.) Creative in Me
3.) Little Peanut
4.) For the LOVE of Food
5.) Pea in a Pod
6.) SugarMagnolias
7.) Walkonred
8.) Buhaymisis
9.) Kathycot
10.) Whenmomspeaks
11.) Kathycotcooks
12.) Ours and our kids
13.) Your blog..


Tagging old and new friends here:
Chie, Janet, Jenny, Kitts, Leah, Mari, Jing, Monet, Eds, and Yvelle

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CJ can walk!!

I'm soooo happy that my yougest daughter can now walk! She did her first three steps just yesterday,about 2:30 in the afternoon. I will be uploading the video of her first few steps by tomorrow. One good thing about her is that she always attemps to stand up and walk. I don't even have to show her anything (like her favorite toy maybe) to do this! hahaha.. Smart baby=) just like her sister..!

Ever heard of the word Flamming?

All kinds of computer abuse are considered morally wrong. From the term "abuse" itself, it is imposibble for something "abusive" not to be considered as such. One good example here would be flamming.

Flamming is the act of sending emails to insult, curse, or hurt someone. I consider sending flamming mails as an unethical act due to these following reasons:

Ethics is defined as the study of the morality of human acions. Insulting, cursing , or hurting someone is definitely not a moral act, thus flamming becomes unethical.

Ethics is also said to focus on the care for the soul. Since the act of insulting, cursing, or hurting someone are considered elements of sin, flamming becomes unethical.

Flamming becomes unethical using the divine law because in Mathew 5:22, it is stated that

"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever * says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever * says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

My New Breakfast Recipi

I got interested in one of the recipi shared by a chef on Ka Toque (QTv 11) last week. And finally, this morning I made that same recipi I learned for my family. I gave it a different version though. Instead of adding ham alone, i added tuna with a bit of onions and dried basil leaves.

My Crunchy Cheesy Tuna Delight


To share, here's the recipi for my Crunchy Cheesy Tuna Delight

1. 1/2 of white onion - minced

2. pinch of basil leaves - you may use the one from McCormick




3. 1/2 box of cheese - sliced
4. 6 pieces of white or wheat bread - I used Gardenia



5. 1/2 butter
6. 1 cup of cooked tuna
7. 1 can of evaporated or fresh milk - I used Carnation Evaporated milk



8. 1 pack of bread crumbs **please do not use chicken breading here

How to prepare:
1. Mix the tuna and minced onion
2. Using the white/wheat bread, spread your tuna mixture on one side of the bread. Then, sprinkle the tuna mixture with basil leaves. Cover it with another bread. Add the sliced cheese and close the sandwich with another bread.
3. Soak the tuna and cheese sandwich in the milk.
4. Cover the soaked tuna and cheese sandwich in bread crumbs. Set aside.
5. Heat the frying pan and melt the butter. When the butter is melted and hot, put in your tuna and cheese sandwich and cook it in low-medium fire.
6. Slice the Crunch Cheesy Tuna Delight into four. Cool and serve.

**Makes 12 servings

DIY Preps for my little CJ's coming 1st birthday

All mommies are excited to prepare for their baby's first birthday party. But with the rising cost of our basic commodities, mommies nowadays learn to create ways on how to minimize the budget for the parties they throw.

I for one rebudgeted for my baby's coming birthday party. From my initial 30k budget, i had to trim it down to 15k.

Here are some things i did / plan to do to make this 15k budget a reality:

1. Change the party place.
The manager of Max's Restaurant in Greenhills is one of our daughter's godmother and since she volunteered to help and give discounts, our first choice was Max's. I have already started doing some DIYs with the Royal Theme in concept but since i had to cut on the budget, we've decided to have the party in Jollibee McKinley instead. My reason for choosing this Fastfood resto:

a. All kids love Jollibee
b. The Jollibee mascot is already included in the package, and
c. the mascot also gets to dance, and join the fun for 30 mins!
d. It's very near our place. Most of our guest are our neighbors so this is a big plus factor if we think of convenience.
e. Ofcourse the package is cheap! Eveything is included like the name tag, the lootbags, the invitations, the decors, the party host, the games, and the prices..

2. Photo/Videographer.
I wanted to hire a pro, but since im on a tight budget, my friends/cousins would be a great option here.

3. Create my DIYs.
My budget will not afford professional party planners. So to make this party more special, I started using my artistic talents to do the backdrop, souvenirs/table centerpiece, and signature frame..

Here are some of my DIY's.

Hey, feel free to comment coz i can still do some adjustments here.

Thanks for the read!

tagged:: random q's

Thanks for the q's jan;)

The rules are simple. At the end of the post, the player tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
- I was still in Baguio City..enjoying the chilly cold weather as an IT student in my favorite alma mater

2. What are the 5 things on my to-do list today? im almost ending the day, but here's what's left so far
- prepare for my conference call with our clients at 9pm
- take note of issues they have encountered, and verify this against the existing application on the singapore server.
- wait for my hubby to pick me up
- have dinner with my hubby, if the kids are already asleep when i arrive home(hope they are though..)kiss them goodnight. if not, help the nanny put them to sleep
- enjoy eating krispy kreme with hubby while watching the news

3. Snacks I enjoy
- krispy kreme (pa rin!), pizza(yung overloaded ng greenich or else ung very thick cheese pizza sa sbarro..pangpataba..hhaha), cheese burger sa jollibee or mc do

4. Place where I lived
- baguio city (21 yrs), pangasinan(1.5 yrs), quezon city(2 yr), now taguig city(turning 3 yrs)

5. Things I’d do if I were a billionaire
- have my own foundation for the orphans, give a million peso to the calamity victims, have my own building with the my following business: it firm, call center, bakeshop, and restaurant.

6. People I want to know more
- jan, toni, nol, joanne, and jovie

My newly added blog

Please visit my newly added blog today. I created another one so i can have a diary of my daily experience about my career as an IT professional.

Thanks!

Thanks to the President!

This is just to commend on our president's effort in helping the filipinos at this time of crisis. I have seen a huge amount of difference in my widholding tax computation for this payroll. I am not a fan of this current administration, but i greatly appreaciate what they have done to help us. Hope you can also consider decreasing taxes on basic commodities and (if it helps) increase the sin taxes instead.:)

Innovating our Medicines.

Based from the Philippine Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA), there are more or less 50 pharmaceutical companies is the country today. Most of them are widely known in the country thru the radio and television ads but some might still be foreign to the many.

With this number of pharma companies, how are we consumers ensured of safe and effective drugs or medicine..??

I believe it would be good for our government to look into this and check the standards on how our medicines/drugs are being packaged. Pharmaceutical packaging standards should initially demand standards for the following:

- safety of consumers,
- preservation,
- efficiency, and
- hygiene

In other countries, there is a growing increase of demand for innovative packaging in the retail sector for pharmaceuticals. Not only do they take the four items mentioned above into consideration, they also look into other factors such as bioavailability, efficiency of dosage, fast and efficient solubility of compounds, and the like.

If you notice, some drugs sold in other countries today are being repacked from the usual tablets to being a capulette, from the usual capsule to being a liqui-gel (ex. Advil), from the usual bad-drug tasting tablets to being sugar-coated tablets (ex. Tylenol). These are just some living proofs of innovative pharmaceutical packaging .

Notice that other than remodeling the design and texture of how these drugs are packaged, pharmaceutical packaging also adds value to the product by making the product more convenient and attractive to the users.

Right now, I have only seen pharmaceutical packaging and innovation on one of our most selling export products, the virgin coconut oil where in the dosage transformed from a syrup-like liquid into a liqui-gel.

Wedding Disc Jockeys?

Ever heard of professional wedding disc jockeys here in the Philippines? I am aware that some filipinos do hire sound system with the disk jockey included for their weddings. But professional Disk Jockeys?? Are you crazy? Or better question is, do we have that here in the first place? I don't think so.. I did try to do ask Mr. Google but the unlucky me did not find any. This maybe due to the fact that most filipinos still prefer listening to live singers or orchestras rather than having disk jockey's play music for them.

But guess what? These professional wedding disc jockeys do exists and is starting to be a hit in America. Most of them are located in the State of California. Check out the San Diego DJs as an example. If you look at their services, you might also get interested because, other than their disk jockey service, they also provide other wedding services such as events planning and music videos.

Language Interpreters

Coming from an IT professional's perspective, when you first hear the word language interpreter , you would think of something like an interpreter of a programming language. And since they do sound a bit the same, i thought of researching a little bit about this language interpreter services.

Like programming language interpreters, which i have learned back in college, language interpreters also share the same objective as the former. And this is to translate a language to another langauge so that it can be easily understood by the recepeint or receiver. Language here does not necessarily have to be spoken, sign languages i believe is included in this area. (just my thought though..)

It is good to know that we have language interpreter services nowadays. What makes it even better is the fact that we can get professional help from them right straight from our home thru the internet.

With these, we can now say that there are no excuses for not understanding one another;)