Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Bathroom

Taking a bath has never been so much fun especially when the bathroom is so nice and comfortable. Sometimes, I can’t help myself but dream about having a bathtub where I can plunge myself on it. How I wish I have a very spacious and nice bathroom, where I can halt for a moment and just relax. It would be nice to have a bathroom filled with cool colors and nice bathroom accessories. To comfort myself with this dream, I just browse the internet and search for topics and photos about bathrooms.

Just today, I browsed over this site, http://www.fairfieldbathroomsdirect.co.uk/, a company that sells different kinds of bathroom stuff. As I was browsing on their products, I found some great and modern items that I would love to have for my bathroom. You too can find nice bathroom showers from different manufacturers, bathroom taps and bristan taps that are affordable and made with ideal standard. There are still a lot of bathroom products which I haven’t mentioned on this post. Why don’t you visit the site today and find some great stuff for your bathroom.

Rafting at Cagayan de Oro River

My husband's relatives who were from Manila came here last Wednesday and before they went back home they tried this famous adventure here in Cagayan de Oro, the River Rafting. We planned to do it on a Saturday but didn't make it as all of the schedules for Saturday were fully booked becuase of the Mason's convention which was also held here in Cagayan de Oro. So, we got the Sunday slot, 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon.

After church, we immediately went back home and prepared all our stuff for the said activity. Since, my hubby and I have experienced it already we know now what to do especially with the stuff that we are going to bring. Since, the entire water rafting experience will be 3 hours, we brought with us some snacks because during our first rafting experience, we were so hungry in the middle of the ride.

You might be thinking what are you going to do in the entire 3 hours duration. Of course, you will surely enjoy the time you spent for your rafting adventure becuase you will experience 14 major rapids, and some still waters where you can have a swim and of course you will surely love the beauty of nature. The photos below are some of the scenes we happened to pass by while rafting in Cagayan de Oro river.

All About Webhosting

My aunt who is a blogger newbie wanted to purchase a new domain for her blog. She asked me where to find the best webhosting service as she is now so excited to be one of the bloggers in town. I told her that I bought my domain through blogger but she can also ask the other bloggers about it. I guess she was able to refer the matter to my cousin but until now she hasn’t got one because of purchasing problems.

If you’re also new to web site hosting and you have no one to inquire about it, you can visit webhostinggeeks.com. This is one good site where web hosting customers review and rate their web hosting providers. Through the customer’s ratings and reviews you can choose which web hosting provider is best for you. Added to that, you can also compare which webhost provider is reliable and affordable. They also have best hosting awards where you can find out the best webhost in terms of budget hosting, blog hosting, forum hosting and etc. The information you will get from this site will truly give the information you need about web hosting. With this great information, you can never get lost in choosing the right web hosting provider.

Friendship

Thank's so much Koko for giving me this award, thanks also for the friendship!

I'm passing this award to:

1. Denise of Shortybear's Place - She's my newest blogger friend who's presence never fails to encourage me all the time.Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog everyday.

2. Laureen of "Word's from my Heart - She's my bestfriend and her life is truly a blessing!

3. Laurencita of "A Glimpse of a Widows Heart - A loving and generous Nanay... Thanks for being a blessing to me.

4. Fe of Fe's Journey of Life - She's my new found friend. For just 3 months we have already established a wonderful bond as friends. Thanks for being so nice to me.

5. Anne of Love is all about Love - My hardworking friend. Your hardwork and your love for your kids is a great inspiration. Thanks for the friendship. I'll see you around.

* You can also pass this award to your blogger friends!

Web Search Engines

Search Engines are very useful to me because it gives me easy access to the information I need online. Now, there’s a new web search engine that is so useful in terms of its multi-faceted utilities, this site called AAfter.com. It’s a high privacy web search engine and has many utilities which is quiet useful to people like me. It’s useful because it has IP Geo Location Tool for every webmaster or blogger. The quick IP research tool is a powerful utility of AAfter.com and they become popular about it. As one blogger writes the IP in the search box, AAfter will be of great help by providing a complete detail of the IP address. Check this out too!

Wedding Songs

Love of Love's Haven gave me this wedding song meme. This is so simple as you will just have to choose your five favorite wedding songs. That's all!

So here's my 5 preferred wedding songs:

1. I Can't Live a Day Without You by Avalon

2. When God Made You by Newsong

3. I Will Be Here by Steven Curtis Chapman

4. I Promise by Jaci Velasquez

5. Cherish the Treasure by Steve Green

Now, I'm tagging the newest bloggers in town Grace, Laureen and Laurencita.

What is a Bogie?

Bogie is my nickname. Some would spell my nickname as Boogie (a kind of dance), or Bogie referring to a thing. Just today, I browsed over the meaning of this word “bogie” and I was amazed with what I found.

Source: Wikipedia

A bogie (pronounced /ˈboʊɡi/ US: bō′•gē) is a wheeled wagon or trolley. In mechanics terms, a bogie is a chassis or framework carrying wheels, attached to a vehicle. It can be fixed in place, as on a cargo truck, mounted on a swivel, as on a railway carriage or locomotive, or sprung as in the suspension of a caterpillar tracked vehicle.

Love in Miami

Few months from now, one of my high school friends will be getting married to his online American boyfriend. My friend met her boyfriend through the internet. They started as friends and decided to make their friendship into something that would require a deeper commitment. We’ll I guess this is trend for most people nowadays. If you are single and wanted to find the person of your dreams you can visit Miami online dating site. You can have the opportunity to meet thousands of Miami singles and have fun knowing them. It’s absolutely free!

But if you really want to find the man or woman of your dreams, ask God first and He will lead you to the right person.

Philip Baker: Secrets of Super Achievers

I was cleaning our room today and I found this book "Secrets of Super Achievers" by Philip Baker. It was given to me by my cousin Lalaine which was brought by her husband from Malaysia. It was a Christmas gift but until now I haven't finished reading the book. (tsk.tsk.tsk.) At the middle of my cleaning, I stopped for awhile and read the book to give myself a break. I finished the whole chapter 1 and tonight I will try to finish around 1 or 2 chapters. I like this book becuase it gives me great insights on becoming a better person.

Chapter 1 of this book talks about the Quest for Character. As I quote from the book "Character is about doing what right, and not necessarily what is convenient or well received. Character is about building an inner world that remains stable and secure, despite external concerns or comforts".

I will share my learning from the other chapters on my next post.

It's Saturday and it's my house cleaning schedule. Actually not every Saturday but just for this day becuase this is the only Saturday I chose not to go out. I love cleaning the house but I always end up having colds becuase I'm allergic to dusts. I'm ashmatic, you know! Despite that, I still do it becuase I love it. I started cleaning today at around 11:00 am and I finished at around 5:00 PM. Wheew!!! Our house is not that big but I consumed a lot of time in sorting and arranging stuff. It was indeed a general cleaning but I'm not yet done with the other rooms. We'll I guess that would be my husband's part. LOL!

Family of Bloggers

I’m into blogging because my cousin Lalaine introduced me to it. I was motivated to blog because of the earnings she got from paid posts. So now, I’m earning from paid posts like her. After a few months, I happened to dropped by my other cousin’s blog, Eleanor. She’s also into blogging and she has so many blogs. Whenever we have the chance to meet each other, we always talk about blogs and opps and the like. Some of our relatives don’t find us interesting because they can’t relate to what we are talking about. But now, I’m so amazed because my Nanay, aunties, and cousins are also into blogging. Wow! We are now a family of bloggers. They can now understand how it is to be a blogger too. LOL! For now, they are still into adding widgets on their blogs and looking for some nice templates. I will have to post their links on my next post so you could also visit their blogs.

Facing the Giants

Have you seen the movie “Facing the Giants”? It’s a beautiful movie about having faith in God. One of the best learning I had with the movie is the truth that indeed “Nothing is Impossible with God”. Even if situations won't agree with what your faith is telling you… just continue to believe that nothing is impossible with God. Are you experiencing a difficult situation today? This movie is good for you. It will stir up your faith in God as well as trust His promises in your life.

God Answers...

Yesterday, my husband said that there’s a car accident along Gusa Road here in Cagayan de Oro City. He said that it was a Bugo Jeepney that was hit by a big truck. I was a bit worried with the news because I might have relatives riding in that jeep. My brother came to our house last night and told me about the accident too. He said that he could have ridden that jeep too together with my mom, but the driver didn’t saw them that’s why they took the other jeepney instead.

After the talk with my brother, I was so thankful to God that indeed he answered my prayers. That incident was one of the answers to my prayers. I always been praying for my family’s safety and I’m thankful that God is protecting and keeping my family safe. Thank you Lord!

I’ve heard that the passengers of that jeepney were brought to the hospital. Let’s pray for their fast recovery…

The Green Dress

My 5 year old niece Chloe, is very much excited because she's going to be one of the flower girls of a wedding this coming Saturday. We talked over the phone and she happily shared to me that she will be wearing her white stockings, white shoes and of course, her green dress. She will then walk down the aisle, showering petals. I reminded her to smile and she added “because somebody will take pictures of me.” She’s indeed very prepared for the wedding. I know she’s so excited because of the dress she will be wearing for the event. She is so fond of wearing fancy dress and her favorite is the Princess Belle dress which she wore on her 5th Birthday. Anyway, she’s now counting the days because she’s waiting for Saturday and wear her nice green dress.

Saving for the Rainy Days (2)

Last January I've made a post "Saving for the Rainy Days", where I talked about my coin bank. Last Friday, we finally opened our coin bank. I think this is the most exciting part when we save. So, my husband opened it and started counting all the coins from the can. We have saved around 3,000 pesos. Before, we planned to buy something from it but we decided to add it to our savings in the bank. I went to the bank the following day and brought all the coins... it was so heavy... as if I was bringing a bomb! ..ha.ha.ha..

Today, we plan to continue what we have started. We don't have a coin bank or a piggy bank yet, but we will try to find one tomorrow so we can start saving again. :)

Toll-Free Numbers

Four years ago, I worked as a customer service assistant. My job was to orient people how to use their ATM Cards as well as giving them instructions on what to do if they encounter problems in the future. If the problem can’t be solved they need to call a customer service representative on a toll-free number given to them. Some of the older clients we had didn’t understand what a toll-free number is. They keep on asking about the cost of making the call. We just answered them politely that it is free of charge.

Toll- free numbers are now very common and have proven to be successful for businesses, particularly in the areas of customer service and telemarketing. It allows individuals to reach businesses without being charged for the call. In this way, people are more attracted to make a call or make responses about the business. Some of the businesses here in the Philippines had higher customer satisfaction and had facilitated interoffice communications while improving cost efficiency because of this.

If you want your business to attract more responses to would be customers, why not have a toll-free number for your business. It’s very beneficial to have one because this will be your means of staying in touch with your customers. It will also give you an update about your customer’s needs and help you boost customer service. A toll-free number will also help you get an update on the trends in the market because it will then be easier for your customers to reach you. Most of all, customers loves toll-free numbers because it’s FREE!

So, if you want to get your business a good break; why not get your 800 number at 800PBX Inc. It’s a company dedicated to providing one of the best toll-free virtual pbx services in the industry. There services are loaded with features and they have amazingly low monthly fee.

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The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse!

If you want to join this meme, you can visit the Home of Word-filled Wednesday at this link: http://the160acrewoods.com

Join us and be bless!

The Meaning of Easter

The meaning of Easter

Is that God loves us and cares about us,

desiring only the best and highest good for us.

He is the God of peace, love and joy.

He is the source of all good gift.

The greatest gift God can give us is his Son, Jesus Christ

In Him God’s grace and love are extended to us, to meet all our needs.

Easter begins in our hearts when we receive God's Son

Jesus Christ, by faith.

May you come to know his blessing in your life,

always...in everyway... in everything!

May His Life in You be the reason for your Easter Celebration.

A Blessed Easter to all my blogger friends!

"He who has the Son has life". 1 JOHN 5:12

Close to Nature

I wanted to have a house that has a touch of nature. A modern house with an accent of wood would be perfect for me and my husband. Of course the furniture must be made of wood to compliment the design of the house. I would like our bedroom to be similar with that of the photo below. It so nice to have a log furniture particularly in the bedroom. It makes the room more classic and unique. Aside from that, the room looks rugged yet elegant. Having a house and a room like this would make me feel that I’m always on a vacation.

My White Water Rafting Adventure

Last Monday (April 6, 2009), hubby and I had our first water rafting experience. Thank God it wasn't postponed anymore. We were with our church friends, including my blogger friends Lalaine of Lalaine's World, Mommy Phebie of Love's Haven, Aiza of Little Singkit and their spouses. It was so fun and indeed a wonderful experience. I thank God for this wonderful experience. So, if ever you have the chance to visit Cagayan de Oro, please don't fail to try this kind of adventure. I'm sure you would love to try this.

Below is the slideshow of our white water rafting adventure:

By the way, you can visit Lalaine's travel blog "From Asia and Beyond" for more tips on this kind of Adventure.

Internet Connection Problem

Last Monday, my husband asked me to call our internet subscriber because there something wrong with our connection. It’s not a big problem though, but there’s a slight delay with the connection. It’s very noticeable because we never had any problem with it until last Monday. So, I called and the customer representative immediately detected the problem. He told me, that I will just have to wait for their action the following day. But after a few minutes, the connection was already okay. I guess the problem has to do with our telephone line. Maybe the fiber optic cables needs to be replaced particularly the lc multimode. I hope I can no longer experience problems with my connection in the future.

Whenever, I experience difficulties and doubts in life, I always find this question as a source of my encouragement. I am always reminded that indeed nothing is too difficult for the Lord. Not even our cares, our problems, our struggles. He is the God of all flesh and there is nothing too hard for Him to do.

You can find the answers to this question in the succeeding verse of Genesis 18 as well as in Jeremiah 32:17 and Jeremiah 32:27. Hope you find this question an encouragement! God bless everyone and happy Word-filled Wednesday.

Earn Hundreds of Dollars A Day?

Earning hundreds of dollars a day would be very impossible for me. If that happens then I will have no time for rest. But there are lots of sites on the internet where it gives information on how to earn hundreds of dollars a day. Sounds too good to be true, right? One of those sites is www.infinity800.com. They have this program that will help online marketers become successful no matter what they are marketing. Once you got their program setup, they have An Automated System That Produces $540 Many Times A Day. Amazing huh? Let me just try this one and find out if it’s really true. By the way, they also have testimonials from people who have tried their program and they were indeed successful.

A Summer Fan (2)

I've mentioned in my previous post that Chloe (my niece) and I made a "summer fan". Her mom was so kind to sent me a photo of it. So here's the photo of what we did yesterday. Hope you like it! :)

The Executive Recruiter

When I was in Thailand, I had the opportunity to join a mock interview for a job application. What makes it interesting was, my role there is one of the interviewers of the applicants. The applicants were the students of that English institution where I helped as a summer volunteer. The aim of the mock interview is to find out how these Thai students learned in their English Conversation class. Together with my church friends, we acted like we were Executive recruiter that day. It was such a nice experience and it’s good to be an executive in just a few hours of your life.

Anyway, are you looking for an Executive search firm? A Spencer Stuart company profile found on News Gator talks about its mission as an executive recruiter, providing executive search services to clients from all over the world. Head over to the other Spencer Stuart profile at High Beam for more information.

Out of Reach

I received a message from my Friendster account that my high school friends met together last April 3, 2009. I was sad because I missed the fun and I wasn’t informed about it. We seldom see each other, and if that happen it would be probably after a year or two. That is why I’m excited to meet them if there’s an opportunity. Today, I happened to communicate with one my high school friends through chat. I told her that I was a bit sad because they didn’t inform me about their meeting. She told me that they didn’t know where to find me. They tried to call me but my phone is out of reach. It was then I realized that I have already changed my number and nobody from them knew about it. Tsk.tsk.tsk.. It was all my fault! Anyway, we’ll meet together after the holy week.

Sunday Movie Night

When it is Sunday night, my husband usually doesn’t have time to watch movies as he needs to sleep early because of his work the following day. But tonight will be different. We will have a Sunday movie night together. I guess we’ll start to watch by 10:30 pm as he still playing computer games and I am also blogging. We’re planning to watch something funny tonight, but I still don’t know what kind of movie we’re going to watch tonight. He said it’s a surprise. My husband is now preparing the DVD and the DVD player. He wanted to put the big speaker on the TV, but I told him it won’t be necessary as we might disturb the neighbors. My husband is so fond with audio-visual set-up and effects and one of his dreams is to have a good home theater systems. He plans to renovate the other room as his home theater at the same time his music studio. He plans to put nice home theater speakers on it. But that would just be a dream for now because we still don’t have the resources for the things we need for it. Anyway, I know that will come at the right time. For the mean time, we’ll just have to enjoy what we have and enjoy the night as well.

A Summer Fan

My niece Chloe (together with her Mommy and Daddy) was here in the house today. When she first saw me, she immediately showed me a piece of paper, a green ribbon and a magazine. She told me that we will make a “summer fan”. The instruction on how to do it was there on the magazine. The paper and the ribbon were the materials to be used for the fan.

Later this afternoon, we started to make the fan. Actually we didn’t follow the instructions on the magazine because we lack some of the materials for it. I just made sure that the finish product will look similar to the one shown in the magazine. Chloe was the one who did the pasting and she enjoyed it very much. Just that, she didn’t like the smell of the glue. (ha.ha.ha.) After everything was done, I enhance it a little bit and Chloe looked at me and said “You’re good Tita Bogie!”

After the summer fan is done, she hurriedly showed it to everybody. I wanted to take a picture of it but she brought it home with her because she liked it so much. Anyway, I will just post the photo soon.

Repainting the Kitchen

Yesterday, I was cleaning the white plastic chair in our house. Actually it doesn’t look white anymore, because it’s already covered with stains and molds (LOL!). It took me a long time to clean it and I did a lot of brushing on it. But the sad part was it didn’t looked clean the way I expected it to be. It does still look dirty. I was thinking maybe it would look clean if I repaint it, but I was afraid that mom might get angry with what I did to her chair. Anyway, I still continued with my plan. As I went outside to get the paint, I remembered that I need to paint the shelves in the kitchen. So there goes the shift of my plan, from painting the chair to painting the kitchen shelves. I cleaned the shelves and started to repaint it and forget about the chair. (LOL!) As I painting, I was also praying that I hope I am doing the right thing. I painted it yellow and it looks nice when the lights are on. I enjoyed painting it and I even did not notice the time. After that I went to my husband’s office and I told him that I did some repainting job at the house. His face was worried. “What part of the house did you paint?” he asked. He was worried coz, mom might get mad with what we did to her house. I told him, it’s just the shelves.

Night came and it’s time to go home, mom was with us. She’s the one who went inside the house first. I was outside waiting for her reaction and she immediately asked my husband… “Did you paint the kitchen? My husband replied… “It’s Bogie who did that!” My mother in law was smiling and told me that it was nice. She liked it and wanted me to paint the whole shelves instead. She even told me, you’re good in painting! Wow! Thank God my husband and mom love my work.

Can't Smile Without You

I was at the mall the other day and happened to see a dental clinic. At the front side of the clinic there’s a huge poster that truly caught my attention. I was curious about the picture, so I stopped and read the poster. It’s all about Dental Implant, a new procedure of replacing missing teeth. I was even more curious how the procedure is being done. I looked at the poster more closely and I was even more amazed as I have come to understand that this is the procedure that most of our local celebrities are getting into. They chose it because it’s the closest prosthetics to natural teeth. Unlike bridges or dentures it doesn’t affect any adjacent teeth. I’m quiet interested about this but my friend told me that it’s quiet costly to have this kind of procedure. I think it’s a bit expensive because the procedure gives you an optimal result.

For those of you who might be interested to have this kind of dental procedure, you can check out San Diego dental implants. You can have a consultation with their implant Dentist, Dr. Safarian. Act now and have that irresistible smile you’ve always dreamed of.

White Water Rafting: Postponed!

We were suppose to have a white water rafting adventure today, but it was moved on Monday, (April 6,2009). April 6th is going to be a holiday here in the Philippines, so almost every one of us can join. Some of our church friends can’t join the activity if it’s scheduled today because they have work, and deadlines have to be met before the Holy week comes. Almost all of us are excited about it and I hope it’s going to be a lot of fun this coming Monday.

Work at Home Business Opportunities

Are you considering work at home business opportunities? If you try to search online, there a lot of sites that offers different ways on how to make money from your home. The sites are too many that you can’t be sure what kind of opportunity to choose. To help you with this problem, you can check out reviews or forums that can give you a definite background of the opportunity you are considering. You can check out this site http://www.PaidIdea.com. This is a review site that tells people about the best home business programs around and thus protecting them from getting into scams. This site gives you suggestions on which home business opportunity is proven and effective.

Word-Filled Wednesday : Wait on the Lord

~“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and

He shall strengthen your heart:

wait, I say, on the Lord.”

Psalm 27:14~

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This is my verse for this week. Throughout the Psalm, whenever David found himself in a difficult circumtances, he constantly reminded himself to "wait upon the Lord", and that's what I'm trying to do this week. May you find encouragement through this verse.

Happy Word-Filled Wednesday!

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The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse!

If you want to join this meme, you can visit the Home of Word-filled Wednesday at this link: http://the160acrewoods.com

Join us and be bless!

Business Help

My husband and I have been planning to put up a business but until now we still can’t figure it out what kind of business we want to pursue. It would be nice if there are people who can help us and gives us advice on what should be the best thing to do. I’m also searching for business ideas on the internet and I found some great sites that are truly helpful.

I’ve found this website, www.tradekey.com, a powerful worldwide business to business world trade website. You can join in their Power B 2 B Trade Club for free. They will help you increase sales and decrease expenses on your business. It has thousands of members from 220 countries. It has different languages from different countries so it’s easy for you to find friends using your own language. It has a lot of successful stories and find out how this website can open your doors to global trade.

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