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Experience as a "Teacher"

Thirty-five years in the world has proven to me that "experience" is the best but indeed a harsh teacher. I had my share of it and meeting many people and hearing of their experiences too has convinced me more about it. Why?

Tips: Buying Longer-lasting Onions

In my years of going to the market as a full-time mom and a home-cook, I have learned to recognize fresh meat, fruits or vegetables. And one of those I have observed and learned is about our favorite sauteing ingredient - the aromatic spice, the red and white onions.

Here are my tips on choosing the onions that last:

Home MUST-haves

A stress-free home environment is essential to a healthy-family living. We can avoid panics and relieve stress and unwanted moods as well as save our family's health with these few things around.

Here are some important things every home must have:

Worthy Little Investment Tips: Gold Jewelries MUST-KNOW

Aside from being one of my favorite colors, Gold has been very appealing to me because of its value. We invest on a lot of things that depreciate over time like gadgets - mobile phones, appliances trying to keep-up with the trend but as years gone by we will soon find out that those things do not have a value anymore all we have gained is satisfaction in using them, no long-term benefit at all. It is time we pay some attention to Gold - in its famous form, jewelries. Gold yearly appreciate in value unlike any other things we desire to buy.

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I remember buying my daughter a bracelet that just cost around two thousand four hundred pesos after maybe two years its value had almost doubled and then valued at three thousand nine hundred. Same is true with the other jewelries I bought. A friend also told me that a bracelet she gave her husband on his birthday years ago that is valued at around two thousand then has jacked-up its value to ten thousand pesos after years - just pawned (pawning is usually half the market value depending on the appraiser, there are shops that appraises at 1/3 of the MV).

Gold is easy-money when you ran out of cash and on emergencies and the ATMs are off-line especially during Holidays that ATMs became quite hard to access. No requests, no shameful begging and the like; just bring to the pawnshop - it is right away liquidated to cash.

Here are some facts I learned from a jeweler friend in Cavite (Mrs. Yeye Zarco, the credit should be hers). Gold in colors:

"Kung Hei Fat Choy"

"Kung Hei Fat Choy" to our Chinese friends. For us who are not so familiar with the way how our friends are celebrating the turn of the year, here are some facts:

- It is celebrated on the eve of the Chinese Calendar (New Year's Eve) up to the 15th day of the next month (falling between January 20 or 21-the Lantern Festival). The longest celebration in the Chinese calendar.

-They celebrate New Year as tribute to Gods and their ancestors.

-In China, it is also known as the "Spring Festival" and "Lunar New Year"

Let us understand it more: (I have employed colors for easy reading)

Reaction Paper: Social Discrimination (Ex-convicts)

I turned on the tv around nine in the morning yesterday, airing currently is the "Mission Possible" hosted by Mr. Julius Babao - looks like it is in the middle of the documentary. I had to find it in Youtube but I got only a clip, my internet access is not that good to load iwanttv.com to get the full episode.

A man at the age of fifty-two is working as a construction worker. In his interview, he is an ex-convict ...the man worked as a personal driver of a businessman that time he was only thirty-seven.

Math Aid Lesson 1: Getting the Equivalent Value of Fractions

Elementary Math:

APGM’s Lesson 1

How to Find the Equivalent Value of a Fraction

1/5 of 45 is _____ answer: 9

Easy Solution/Technique:

Use the denominator to skip count until you reach the given whole number. Since the denominator tells us how many parts a whole has been divided.

To illustrate:

Full-charged Battery Alarm Android App

Hi, browsing on Google Play I have found this useful application. And I am using it now. You will never have to worry of your mobile phone's battery ever again - that it would be damaged by overcharging. Your battery is protected.

The Coin that Speaks Aloud

When I was still a child I used to think that a single peso does not have any worth at all compared to a thousand-peso-bill. That is how I recognize the value of a thing until my teacher in Camp Tinio High School, Mr. Cesar Legaspi (I had to give him back the credit he deserved) has opened up my mind in a class discussion one day.

I can not remember the topic that we are discussing on that moment that brought us talking about the Philippine's one-peso coin. This story will prove to us that we never have to look at a status to see the value of things.

The one-peso coin circulating in the country today bears the face of the Philippines' National Hero - Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal. I liked him so much that I even used "Patriot's Daughter" as my pen name in the school paper when I was in college. So I felt a little sad that he is just seen in a peso coin although the country has this one-thousand paper bill -the highest of our currency's denominations.

Was he(Dr. Rizal) valued that low or was he being belittled by the Central Bank?

Answered Prayers

The world today is very chaotic, there is no safe place anymore. Crimes just happen everywhere even in your own territory - in the comfort of your own home...God's people are taught to find peace in His nourishment. We seek comfort on His side. We ask His elp. We do that in praying. Here is how we should pray as the Holy Bible teaches.

Prayer Lay-out (in order)

1. Praise Him - God our Father.

2. Thank Him for the blessings (everything we are thankful of) - the family, the life, the material things etc.

Missing those days you are just starting the family? Here are some tips to enliven the gloomy husband and wife relationship you are having:

Praise Your Spouse

-Say something that could brighten your spouse's day. The nice manicure, the neat coat and tie and the like.

Criticize in a Constructive Way

Reaction Paper: Fallen 44 (Mamasapano Massacre) Update

The hearing today just have some good outcome. Relieved PNP Chief Allan Purisima (resigned) had now admitted that he held the responsibility on commanding the SAF at least, it is a "little" accomplishment as for now. He said guilt of the fact has pushed him to abdicate. Thanks for the wit of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. Purisima can not anymore deny his GREAT participation on the awful death of his 44 men. Still, there is no getting-back of what we had lost - the lives of our pitiful service men after recognizing who is to blame. We are just merely diverting the public's emotions away from the real issue here.

Love Love Love Movies and Songs Suggestions

Here are some suggested movies to watch and music to search and download this time of the month, they are classic and old but still good to re-play, in no particular order:

Classic Movies to Watch:

Reaction Paper : Latest Telenovelas

I have previously watched telenovelas starting from the unforgettable Marimar, The Legal Wife, Temptation Wife, and now Two Wives - all depicting infidelity and affecting family values.

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Updated 18 March 2015 3:01am

Philippine Time

My dear valued page visitors,

Please be informed of my upcoming posts, the titles may not be final- I am still writing at the moment but at least you have the idea of what is coming. My topics just pops-out on my mind and as much as I can, I am trying to keep-up with the trend and current issues, that is why I was able to come-up with these temporary draft titles:

1. Reaction Paper: Mamasapano Senate Probe/Board of Inquiry Report
I am reviewing the live streaming of the Senate Probe right at this dawn. The paper shall be finished before dinner tomorrow.

2. Reaction Paper: Quezon City Serial Robber and Rapist

3. Tagalized "English Lessons" on Grammar