Happy Mothers Day to you all

Especially to the 2 wonderful women in my life who loved me, guided me, made me laugh and cry, who cooked great food for me, taught me great values that I still have and passed on to my own children ... they would be the ones who would wish me well and good all the time. I think they thought that I was beautiful too *(hahaha!) when I was a baby....

To Mama and Auntie Loring.

May our good Lord bless you always and may you both continue to enjoy good health, happiness and peace. I always think of both of you everyday. I love you both.

Loving daughter and niece, Vicky.

I also featured Mama here, last year's mother's day.

Being Busy

Since I attended the Orientation of Ray's (my 17 year old son) school, something really struck me more than anything. His school is an all- boy's school. According to the Activities Dean,- they try to get each and every boy into one or more activities because they believe that 'A BUSY BOY IS A HAPPY BOY'
that's so very true and I could also apply it to myself. I keep myself so busy- joining the house-mothers circle in Ray's school house (a ' house' in a school is like a class section), being the boss of the Social Club at work with nearly 100 members keep me busy even during my lunch hour. I can't say exactly that I'm happy because I got thrown into this role- the leader transferred to another section and I was just next in line. But hey....i've turned it around and it's thriving more than when it was with someone. Plus i do get the credits for all my efforts unlike before when my ideas were simply ignored. Now- i could see some of my ideas being put into action. So I guess, I'm happy.
At home I keep busy with the non-ending housework, cooking, grocery but i also bought 2 beautiful photo albums... i plan to update my albums with our travel photos and also start on a scrapbook.

A busy MUM is a happy BUM oooops...Mum....have a great week ahead of you

some things about me

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I found this tag on one of the forums and i copied and modified it a bit tag yourselves and let's know each other better.



5 jobs i've have had in my life

1. bank teller
2. economic researcher
3. qc in an apple packhouse
4. caregiver for the elderlies
5. federal officer

5 movies i will watch over and over

1. star wars trilogy (for as long as ray stays with me LOL)
2. one flew over the cuckoo's nest
3. titanic
4. bambi
5. lion king

5 models of cars i've have had

1. red toyota corona
2. brown valiant
3. cream mitsubishi 4 wheel drive L300
4. gold mitsubishi magna
5. white mitsubishi express van

5 places i have lived

1. aurora hill, baguio city, philippines
2. kamia/sampaguita dormitories- u. p. diliman, quezon city
3. guadalupe, makati, philippines
4. hastings and napier, new zealand
5. brisbane, australia
   

5 TV shows i like to watch

1. dr phil
2. better homes and gardens
3. desperate housewives
4. dancing with the stars
5. boston legal

5 places i have visited in the Philippines

1. baguio of course- i was born there
2. metro manila
3. cebu, iloilo, bacolod
4. davao, general santos, cotabato
5. ilocos sur ilocos norte and many more.....this is cheating already

5 places i've have had visited overseas

1. brisbane, qld australia ( i live here now)
2. east coast of the USA (mostly on the amtrak train)
3. seoul korea
4. new territories hongkong(as a base)
5. kuala lumpur malaysia

5 websites i visit frequently

1. hello magazine


2. 360


3. national bank


4. Courier Mail


5. Baguio Midland Courier

5 favourite food

1. oysters
2. grapes
3. steak (beef, lamb, pork)
4. greek salad
5. sinigang

5 drinks i enjoy

1. buco juice
2. pineapple
3. guava
4. margarita
5. beer
   

5 places i'd rather be right now

1. with my mom and sisters in baguio
2. with my brother and family in petersville
3. with my brother and family in florida and virginia
4. with my brother and family in aurora hill
5. with my auntie and sister and family in pangasinan
6. in my bed at home reading a goss magazine or a book (i just have to add this)

5songs i like listening to

1. you're just too good to be true
2. sway
3. kokomo
4. beautiful
5. something stupid

that's all folks- please tag yourselves...have a great weekend

My son the future rockstar or roadster?

Here is an extract of an eventful day in the life of Ray as a touring rockstar of his high school rock band #1. Photos were from his old high school where he was and still is a celebrity. I uploaded this from his website.

Thursday 26th April. - Emerald
We didn’t check out today as we were staying in the Midlander Motel for 2 nights. Total costs for all 15 of us staying in this motel was $800 per night. It was a 4 star motel and it was awesome. Had a nice pool area. Gig #6 was at St Patrick’s School after their assembly. We sat through an ANZAC ceremony where The Last Post was played by one of their students. Assembly and all went for quite a while. Our eagerness to perform built up over such time. When we were finally up on stage our lead singer introduced our band and mentioned how we throw the koala bears and to keep an eye out for them. The principal of that school intervened and told us NOT to throw them out. We’re like… “Okay…”. Gig went quite alright and we threw the koalas out anyway. The next gig in my opinion was the best by far. Emerald State High School. We were all anticipating a complete disaster. We had been doing primary schools up to now and so the thought of a high school (people our own age) somehow struck us all as a mistake. We had no idea of how it was going to turn out. As we were setting up we had people coming up to us and just staring and all. We were doing the sound check and since it was the high school’s lunch hour more and more people came to see what was going on. We ran through Master Blaster for the sound check and when some kid said to me, “You guys are good”, I had a feeling this was gonna be good. I was excited. Very excited. Somehow between the sound check and when we came to the start of our performance the number of spectators tripled. I had a whole group of people around my keyboard. Just sitting around in like a semi-circle around my keyboard, mostly girls by the way. You don’t know how excited I was. We got through our songs with thunderous appaluse and cheers. Last song for rock band #1 was Long Train Runnin, which is like ‘my’ song as I feature as a solo keyboardist. It’s an awesome song and feeling my solo approaching I was so pumped. 4 bars away… 3 bars away… I look up at all these awesome people lookin’ at me… 2 bars away… I’m lovin’ the closeness of the audience… 1 bar away… The solo went over 12 bars and for all 12 of those bars I was somehow possessed, on a natural high. I looked down at my fingers, they were a complete blurr… I must have played 1000’s of notes. Went quite psycho if you like. The appreciation of my solo afterwards was… priceless. Too brilliant! Even greater was, while packing up I was distracted by some very awesome, rather good looking girls to have photos taken with them. Happened like 3 times. Loved it! Felt like a rock star. Had another gig after the high school one, which went great but my mind was still set on the high school. That night we all played a game of rugby. I don’t even play that but I did for the sake of it. Scored like 4 tries. Awesome! I LOVED this day!!!

I really feel doubly happy to know that he is having a great time.