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My friend hilary is moving in with her husband tomorrow and we’re holding a house warming party for her.

We’d bring food that we ourselves have cooked and eat them all in their new terrace while discussing trivial things such as their future plans for the family, and how many kids they want to have! It’s time to scare them half to death since they started moving on towards the next step. Teehee.

Their new house is simply fantastic, and the best thing that I love about it would be the view from the roof top. The view is just priceless. You get to see the landscape of the whole city from there, and I could just imagine the fireworks that she’d be able to see during New Years.

I’m still considering what new house gift I should get her. She seems to have everything covered! Hahaha.

I’m so happy for her and her husband. I hope they have a happy marriage, much like my parents.

When I was young I used to watch the stars with my brother until our parents scolded us for staying up late and forced us to go to bed. This was one of the reasons why I begged our mom to build a rooftop when our house was still being constructed.

When I was thirteen, our parents bought us both spotting scopes. It’s a smaller telescope used for low magnification visions. I loved watching birds nest and just staring at the wildlife around us. My brother started going to college, so most of the time I did this alone.

I kind of miss it, hanging out with my brother like that. Maybe when he graduates we’ll have more times like that together.

What kind of activities did you do when you were young, and who did you do it with?

My mom recently has been planning to redesign our living room, and has asked me to research on what type of light we should buy for each room.

I, myself, am quite a fan of Murray Feiss lighting, so I showed their products to my mom. She was quite pleased! I guess it’s safe to say we both have the same exquisite taste.

I really am looking forward to getting inside the house and chilling in the living room when my mom is done with the interior design. She told me about some of her plans and all I can say is: I love it.

I guess her age gives her a lot of experience, she got her fair share in traveling around the world, so she has a lot of inspiration and ideas to use.

I look forward to traveling with her someday.

As a kid, I’ve always had this slight intimidation with wheels.

I couldn’t ride anything that had less than three wheels on it even if my life depended on it.

My brother had these power wheels when he was young, and I used to stay away from it a lot, probably because of the fact that I’m too clumsy, and I fall flat on my face on level ground, and I know if I rode that thing, things would end up horribly.

As a clumsy person, I’ve learned to stay away from things I’m sure I couldn’t handle the hard way. You can count my scars to prove my premise.

I guess it’s safe to assume we learn things by experiencing them firsthand other than listening to what other people have to say. It’s just part of our nature to do that.

Next to my bedroom, my favorite area in our house is our spacious cozy bathroom. Unlike the usual stiff bathrooms you see, ours is designed for maximum relaxation – from the floor and wall tiling, to the shower curtain.

In fact, I like our bathroom so much that I have invested heavily on it. I bought an expensive towel rack that goes with our tissue and magazine holder. To cap it off, to enhance our bathroom-experience, I had our electrician install Dolan Designs Belle Fleur Bathroom Lighting. Frankly, the ambiance is so nice there I’m starting to like it more than my own bedroom! Ahahaha!

Since we’ll be gone for four days and three nights for my sister’s wedding, we wanted to make sure that our house and things will be safe during that period. Consequently, we went to the mall two days before the wedding and purchased a driveway alarm which signals you for unexpected detections for security purposes.

What’s really great about the driveway alarm we purchased is that these units can give you approximately 1500’ range between transmitter and receiver, and in some cases you may get a distance of to 3000’. Moreover, it’s weatherproof! We already asked our neighbor if they could house the receiver during the duration that we’re gone and they were very accommodating.

We already have everything installed and tested. Now we’re all good to go for the wedding! ^_^

Our basement got flooded last 2008….it was heart breaking as we tried salvaging what was left from our old stuff. Old textbooks in grade school to high school with our own notes, Decades old books kept by my mom, my mom’s wedding dress, my dad’s plaques, basically years of tangible sentimental stuff. It was hard picking out most of the stuff that we can save, but it was more hard to let go of the thing s we couldn’t. My mom who was tired was sobbing all over the place.

The flood was unexpected because it was something about our water pipes that did it and not some natural occurrence. It apparently went on during the night while we were in our deepest slumbers. The next morning my cousin who was staying over for a week… went down to get a book to read, that was basically how we all found out about it. It was too late.

At least no one got hurt, if by any chance someone decided to sleep there last night (like me, I like sleeping there every now and then) something bad might have happened. Out of all the sadness at least we had one thing to be happy about: we were all okay and together.

Today I had a fight with my younger sister because she almost burned the house down. Last night she charged her cellphone in the laundry area and left it there. Earlier, when I went there to stash my dirty clothes, it smelled like something was burning. I found out that it was her charger! It was almost about to blow because it was so hot. Fortunately, I got there in time before it burned the laundry room down (and eventually the whole house).

I told Mom about this and she confronted my sister. Chargers and electrical appliances which could generate heat should not be left plugged it unattended. Blow dryers, chargers and irons are among the common. You may think I am over reacting but hey, prevention is better.

Because of this incident, we became interested in getting an insurance for the house. I requested for a home insurance quote from a website offering insurance. Accidents can never be totally eliminated but most accidents could be prevented, so it is important to keep in mind some safety precautions at home.

For the Media Noche or midnight meal on December 31, New Year’s Eve (Trivia: this is a feast that is also supposed to symbolize our hopes for a prosperous New Year) our entire family decided to cook and/or prepare a dish each. Of course, mine is my highly coveted, award winning chicken curry! ^_^

My mom already made sure that everything we will need for the preparation is available and are in good condition – from the chopping boards, clean running water in the kitchen faucet and knives, to the ingredients and dining utensils. Aside from my chicken curry, I will also be contributing a very luscious, “one of the tastiest” leche flan, thanks to my friend, Mark, who gave me two boxes as present this holiday season. I can’t wait for the feast!

If you’re going to work in one of the largest states in the US like Minnesota, you’ll probably having a difficult time finding a house to buy. This state is not only large, it is also heavily populated. Most of the land are already private property.Good thing there is another cheaper and better alternative – renting an apartment.

A friend of mine transferred to Minnesota last week to do some maintenance work on one of our outsourcing clients. Instead of getting a hotel, he rented in on of theMinneapolis apartments. Minneapolis is a very interesting city, populated yet not crowded. This is one of the US states where you can find a good balance of nature, tradition, history, and high technology. Not to mention the high literacy rate in this city.