What did you get for Christmas? Have you finally mastered the art of gifting after all these years?
New clothes? Toys for your children? A new bag? Tech toys? Kitchen gadgets? Dinner ware? Personalized pub mugs? Baked goodies? New shoes?
Or perhaps a new lease in life like what some of our brothers and sisters down south got.
I don’t know if it is considered as new lease in life if they survived but their family members did not. Yes, knowing as I am quite obsessed with knowing details when things like these happened, I read articles, watched videos, discussed when someone’s willing to listen and thought about them. I prayed for them too.
So now I ask again, “What did you get for Christmas?”
The answer depends on what values you treasure most: family, love, friendship, peace of mind, and being a channel to be able to help others are just a few things that may give satisfaction not just for Christmas but for the rest of the year.
Tags: Christmas, Christmas gifts, gifting
14,087,000 is the number of unemployed Americans.
I wonder how many we have in the Philippines.
Going home, I always see people just sitting on the sidewalks: talking, more often than not, they are having a drinking session. They even have time to sing videoke songs. And yes, these young men, teenagers, all they do the whole day is walk to and fro, going nowhere.
I see them every single day where we live. And if I don’t look out the window, I can hear them. Yep, that bad.
I’d like to believe it’s just my perception that I don’t like them but then, when I sometimes ride a cab, the drivers tell me the people we see on the way to where we live kinda look scary. Eeeep!
I wonder where they get their money to buy the basic things they need on a day to day basis. Perhaps I don’t want to know.
Hello RH Bill?
“Unemployment in the U.S. rises”, says an online news headline.
So true to almost a thousand Filipino teachers who are now out of job. I could have been one of them because I was interviewed by the recruitment officer for a teaching position in that certain county.
If I got in I would have paid almost a million pesos. Yes, I’d be swimming in debt even before I set foot in the great big US of A. I know it’s probably like having a lot of payday advance loans except they haven’t received their salary yet but they’re already paying for the fees.
Just like the other teachers who have been duped by a fellow Filipino recruiter, these teachers paid a whole lot just to be able to teach over seas. The authorities should also look into the agency that got them their jobs because it is to the agency that they paid thousands of dollars as “processing fees”.
Tags: Filipino teachers, no more jobs for teachers
“Ka-ching, ka-ching!” goes the cash register. All roads lead to bookstores these days, now that classes have started on this side of the planet. I’m sure POS systems guys are on stand-by just in case a machine breaks down.
One of the things I don’t particularly like when I go to stores during times when there is a crowd is to see empty cash register stations and long lines where there is a cashier. That goes true to fast-food joints with long lines and only one or two functioning cash registers. That goes to banks too, where there are only 2 tellers with 40+ people waiting to be served.
Of course, I understand why some establishments don’t have fully functioning cashier stations since these establishments are not always full of people and it’s not practical to have people manning these cashier stations when there are no customers around.
Best thing to do to avoid these problems? Go when there’s no crowd.
Tags: bookstore, buying school supplies, long lines at the cashier stations, school opening
I don’t know if the “Buy HGH” doctor’s order is acceptable to some people. There are some things that are quite difficult to accept regarding one’s age.
If there is a real fountain of youth, then perhaps people will be at each other’s neck to be able to get to it first.
Aging is inevitable.
Being a teacher dealing with young children (and several tweens), I have to feel young, have a know-how with what’s in and what’s hot. Sometimes it irritates me when people acknowledge me and say “opo” or call me “tita” or worse, “mommy” -> duh, hindi kita anak no?! LOL.
Ho do we age gracefully? Here are a few tips on aging gracefully:
- Have a positive outlook in life.
- Surround yourself with loved ones who will not just support you but will accept you and all your little flaws.
- Be physically fit.
- Eat healthy food.
- Be mentally alert by constantly learning new things and re-learning other skills you may have forgotten along the way.
- Take charge of your life by planning ahead.
There are times when I feel young and vibrant and full of new dreams to conquer. There are also times when I feel old and tired.But when I look at my family, I know there’s so much to live for and I want to live longer while I age gracefull, all for them.
Don’t you want to do that too?
Tags: aging, aging gracefully, healthy food, physically fit, planning ahead, positive outlook, taking charge of your life
One of the earliest article I wrote for the now offline wmn.ph was “Wedding Favor Ideas“.
This article was not really about sentimental anniversary gifts though the suggestions there are related for celebrating wedding anniversaries. Main topic was about wedding favors and how couples have become creative in giving their guests wedding favors that can be used and not thrown away as junk.
Part of my article goes:
Here are some tips on choosing the apt wedding favor depends on the couple’s taste, style, theme and yes, budget.
- Be practical: practical favors like wine bottle stoppers, notebooks and pens are wonderful ideas. These are not discarded easily because one can have a use for these wedding favor ideas.
- Anything consumable can be a big hit: mini wine bottles, bottled flavor sauces, flavored candies, mini-cakes and cookies in fancy boxes are some of ideas for this kind of wedding favors. Tea bags with attached instructions with an inspiring message are a good idea too. These can be put in fancy containers that can also double as a table centerpiece.
- Stylish and functional: linens like handkerchiefs, mini-towels and stationery are some suggested wedding favors.
- Go green: potted orchids and/or herbs can double as a table centerpiece. Pots can be painted to match the color motif of the wedding.
FYI: This entire article I wrote was copied in it’s entirety by a Multiply account, a seller of wedding favors. No attribution was given to the online publication which was owned by one of the bigger TV networks in the country. If I hadn’t gotten Google Alerts from it, I wouldn’t know that my published and paid for article was copied, word per word.
Oh yeah, my name was there, along with this blog’s url which was linked only when the editor asked seller to.
And no, I will not post the seller’s link here and have her get inquiries and traffic.
Tags: copying article without attribution, wedding favor ideas, wedding favors, wedding favors article copied
