50 Random Questions

This is such an old tag from Mandy,... sorry for the late post but better late than never :)

1. What time did you get up this morning?

Which time ? My baby still does not sleep through the night so I woke up at 2:30a for a feeding, at 4am to pump breastmilk, at 5:30a to soothe a fussy baby and again at 8:30 am to my son's happy "ma ma ma ma ma".

2. How do you like your steak?

Medium

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

I have not been to the cinema in years :( I don't even remember what movie I saw the last time.

4. What is your favorite TV show?

Nowadays, TV is a luxury. If I have time, I like to follow So You Think You Can Dance. Otherwise, Judge Judy entertains me - it's short, quick, goes straight to the point and if I don't get to finish it because I have to attend to my baby, it does not really matter to me.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

If the stars were aligned and all considerations became ideal, then I'd love to live in Manila.

6. What did you have for breakfast?

Granola bar.

7. What is your favorite cuisine?

I love Japanese cuisine - especially sashimi.

8. What foods do you dislike?

I don't like wet and slimy chicken. For example, tinolang manok or adobong manok where the chicken skin is still intact.

9. Favorite place to eat?

McDonald's (can't get enough of their sweet tea, chicken nuggets and Angus burgers) and Moe's (triple lindy pulled pork with guacamole).

10. Favorite dressing?

I used to always go for the caesar dressing but I am a recent convert to Asian dressing (citrus and sesame).

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?

Subaru Tribeca, Subaru Impreza

12. What are your favorite clothes?

These pants that I got from Habagat (I love how the cool the fabric feels on my skin) & a baby tee.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?

Greece, Japan, Venice

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?

Half full

15. Where would you want to retire?

Manila, manila!

16. Favorite time of day?

Evenings just after we give our son a bath and before I go to bed, this is my "me" time where I get to take care of myself - shower, groom myself, etc - while hubby takes over baby duties and gets the baby to sleep.

17. Where were you born?

Manila.

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?

Not really interested in sports, but I do love to watch speed-skating (go Ohno!) during the Winter Olympics.

19. Who do you think will not tag you back?

uh...

20. Person you expect to tag you back first?

uh...

21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?

uh...

22. Birdwatcher?

Only when they land on my balcony, I like watching squirrels from my balcony door too.

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?

Night person.

24. Do you have any pets?

Used to have a gold fish till it died while I was away on a business trip and my family flushed it down the toilet and tried to convince me that the replacement they bought was the same fish I had for years - lumaki lang at biglang naging dalawa, haha!

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?

My son just turned 7 months old, yay!

26. What did you want to be when you were little?

A programmer, I used to call it a "computer scientist" back when I was small.

27. What is your best childhood memory?

Going for fried rice with my Dad - he used to reward me with fried rice (my favorite) if I get top honors in class. Ang cheap ko, no ?

28. Are you a cat or dog person?

Neither.

29. Are you married?

Yes.

30. Always wear your seat belt?

Yes.

31. Been in a car accident?

Yes, I accidentally hit the car in front of me on my way to the gym one morning. Traffic was heavy and I was trying to eat my cereal.

32. Any pet peeves?

People who always like to top others (ayaw magpatalo). Like if you're buying a new item, meron rin siya soon after (or uunahan ka w/ the purchase). Or if someone compliments your child na gwapo, kelangan ring makisingit na 'mas gwapo anak / apo / pamangkin' nya.

33. Favorite Pizza Toppings?

Sausage, mushroom, bacon, spinach on alfredo sauce.

34. Favorite Flower?

Pretty much anything, really.

35. Favorite ice cream?

Anything coffee-based.

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?

McDonald's

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?

Never.

38. From whom did you get your last email?

a high school friend

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?

I would never max out my credit card - probably not even to save my life. =)

40. Done anything spontaneous lately?

No.

41. Like your job?

Not at first, but I'm loving it now - I'm currently in between jobs and I'm a SAHM.

42. Broccoli?

Yes.

43. What was your favorite vacation?

I always loved going back to Manila.

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?

My husband and son.

45. What are you listening to right now?

A Baby Einstein video

46. What is your favorite color?

Yellow

47. How many tattoos do you have?

None

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?

None for now

49. What time did you finish this quiz?

10:55pm

50. Coffee drinker?

Occasionally, because I breastfeed and when I do give in to the urge, I usually go for cold coffee drinks nowadays - fraps, iced coffees, iced lattes. Afterwards, I used pump & dump but one of the mommies who I donate breastmilk to asked me to keep the milk for her baby anyway and just mark the bag so she'll know if my coffee drink affected her baby.

Treasured Award

A tag and award from Berry. 

Let me share this Irish Blessings’ friendship proverb:

“May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.”

Am giving this award to all my readers, hope that this post fills you with joy and blessings :)

6 unimportant things that make me happy

The rules are:
1. Mention the person who nominated you.
2. List 6 unimportant things that make you happy.
3. Tag 6 blogs, state the rules, and notify them with a teeny comment on their blog.

This is a tag from Berry. I had to think hard to come up with things that I can live without (unimportant nga eh) but give me so much pleasure and here they are:

1. Coffee - I'm not a regular coffee drinker but I do adore flavored lattes (especially caramel ones, iced coffees and fraps.

2. Library books - books that you can read for free, can't go wrong with that.

3. Wireless Internet Access - Free wifi from a local cafe, from the hotel, or even if you subscribe to a cellphone carrier's Wireless Internet Access or data plan. Gotta love them.

4. Discounts and/or coupons - need I say more?

5. Ice-cold Coke - I can go without soda for a long time but there are times when nothing quenches your thirst like an ice cold Coke.

6. Personal blogs, websites, and online photo albums - easy to share and easy to maintain, helps me keep updated with what's going on with my friends' lives.

This is such a late post so I'm not tagging anybody anymore but feel free to snag this if you're interested in sharing your 6 unimportant things that make you happy.

Noblesse Oblige Award

This Award is presented to bloggers who display consistency in any one or a combination of these conditions:

1. The Blogger manifests exemplary attitude, respecting the nuances that pervades amongst different cultures and beliefs.
2. The Blog contents inspire; strives to encourage and offers solutions.
3. There is a clear purpose at the Blog; one that fosters a better understanding on Social, Political, Economic, the Arts, Culture and Sciences and Beliefs.
4. The Blog is refreshing and creative.
5. The Blogger promotes friendship and positive thinking.

The Blogger who receives this award will need to perform the following steps:
1. Create a Post with a mention and link to the person who presented the Noblesse Oblige Award.
2. The Award Conditions must be displayed at the Post.
3. Write a short article about what the Blog has thus far achieved – preferably citing one or more older Post to support.
4. The Blogger must present the Noblesse Oblige Award in concurrence with the Award conditions.
5. The Blogger must display the Award at any location at the Blog.


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Special thanks goes out to Mandy for sending me this award.

First thing I did when I received this award was to check out what Noblesse Oblige means, check out this page on Wikipedia to learn what it means.

Now, before I end this post, I'd like to leave you guys with a plug to check out a new networking site at Acobay.com. Why don't you register, check and see if we have any common "Stuff" out there.

Shot on the Spot Tag

I've been tagged by Berry and I was supposed to take a picture of myself right there and then and post it without editing.

So here I am at 8am in the morning. Thankfully, I've just come back from an early morning appointment at the laboratory (blood test at 7am) so I had already brushed my teeth and run a brush through my hair. *whew*

Oh and for those who has not seen me in a while, this is my new 'do. Mom and sis dragged me off to their favorite Korean hairdresser and got me a haircut. The first time I saw myself in the mirror after the haircut, I thought I looked like a boy. Now that it's grown out a bit more, I love my hair na, especially how it looks when I've just woken up and have NOT combed my hair (yeah, it's much nicer if I do not brush my hair).

Here are the rules:
1. DON'T change your clothes.
2. DON'T fix your hair.
3. Just take a picture.
4. Post that picture with NO editing.
5. Tag 10 people to do this.

This is such an old tag and I see that my blogger friends have already done this so I'm not going to tag anyone anymore. If you feel like doing this, please feel free to snag this and do leave a message to let me know.

Books I've Read

I came across this "Books I've Read" list in one of my friend's site on multiply and I decided to try and see which ones I've read. I just realized now that I read most of the classics in this list while I was in high school. My reading tastes have changed dramatically since then and I now favor science fiction & fantasy books, though I still find the time for the overly-cheesy romance novels every now and then.

How about you ? Which books have you read ? Feel free to snag this :)

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1. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2. Italicize those you intend to read
3. Underline the books you LOVE.
4. Reprint this list in your own sites so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

A to Z

A to Z - response to Mandy's tag :)

A. Attached or single ? — Attached
B. Best friend? — Hubby
C. Cake or pie? — Cake
D. Day of choice? — Saturday
E. Essential item? — Phone
F. Favorite color? — Yellow, though this might not be so evident since I don't have a lot of yellow clothing
G. Gummy bears or worms? — bears!
H. Hometown? — Quezon City
I. Favorite indulgence? — Caramel Lattes
J. January or July? — January
K. Kids? — none yet
L. Life isn’t complete without? — God and my family
M. Marriage date ? — Feb 11
N. Number of magazine subscriptions? - 5
O. Orange or apple? — apple
P. Phobias? — Cockroaches that fly and *ulk* chase after people
Q. Quotes? — "Smile at your enemies, it will drive them nuts." I read this from a Garfield comic book and it has never left my mind. When times are rough and filled with adversaries, this quote comes to mind and helps me smile.
R. Reasons to smile? — Love :)
S. Season of choice? — Winter
T. Tag 5 people - Berry, Mai, Tin, Sheryll, and Berns- I would love to read / hear your response to these questions :)
U. Unknown fact about me? - Shy talaga ako.
V. Vegetable? — Eggplant
W. Worst habit? — Biting my nails when I'm tense
X. X-ray or ultrasound? - Ultrasound
Y. Your favorite food(s)? - Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs, I can eat this everyday.
Z. Zodiac sign — Scorpio

i heart your blog

Thank you, Sheryll for this award :)

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The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you have nominated.



Previous awardees: Mabelle, Prily, Ate Norma, I Love Philippines Too, Shenga, Nova, WebbieStuffs, Nancy, Webloglearner, Pinay Wahm, and My So Called Life, Let’s Spice Things Up, Beauty and Shop, Idealpinkrose, allin, kimchiland, Korean Food, The Paper Vision, Embrace Simplicity, Me and Mine, A Window To Our World, A Grateful Heart, Can of Thoughts, A Mother’s Stuff, http://housewifeatwork.blogspot.com/, MommaWannabe, Lourdes Mia, Praning’s Shoutout, When Silence Speaks, Etc Atbp, Aeirin’s Collections, Life is What we Make it, Underneath It All, Cellulitic Bliss, 100% Kelly, C'est La Vie, Our Family Adventure!, PopcornsThoughts


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Super late na to, I've seen this tag is most other blogsites but I'm tagging my blog-buddies Mandy, Berry, and Mec in case wala pa :)

Propagating Friendship Award

I love the blogs of these people and I'm glad to pass this award onto them! All they need to do is to leave the following message on their post when they pass the award on to their chosen eight bloggers.

My thanks to Mandy for this award.

I'm passing this award to the bloggers that I've recently met and have started to love: Eds, Tin, Chocobread.

(Bitin ng konti yung tag *blush*).

Creative Blogger Award

Many thanks to Sheryll for this Creative Blogger award :)



The rules are:
* The winner may put the logo on his or her blog.
* Put a link to the person you got the award from.
* Nominate five blogs.
* Put links to the blogs.
* Leave a message to the nominees.


This is such an old tag and I find that most people have already done them so I'll just pass these on to two bloggers who are obviously very creative: Cidy (with her cooking) and Berry (with her egg masterpieces).

Flowers from Berry

Thanks Cidy for this tag. *smile*

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you've nominated.

This tag doesn't give any reason but after some thought I realized that one doesn't need any reason to give flowers, right ? So with that, I've decided to brighten up the days of the following people:

- Tintin, Mandy, Mec, Sheryll, Arlene, Jane and Thet (nanganak ka na ba?).

Perfect Blend of Friendship Award

Awarded to me by Hope This Helps You by Mec

Awarded: Mai Yen Suzanne Clark & Butchay's Blog MommyBa's Journey Hope This Helps You by Mec Popcorn's Thoughts Your blog where you posted this

I'm tagging Berryblitz and Sheryll :)

Brillante Weblog Premio 2008

I received an award from Berryblitz - I've been blogging since 2000 but this is the first blog award that I've received. Pathetic ba ? Anyway, this is some sort of a milestone for me. *smile*

I got this award from: Berryblitz's blog

Rules of this award are :
1. Put the logo on your blog.

2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Add links to those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

I would like to nominate the following blogs for this award to:

Mec: for being such an interesting blogger, a wonderful wife and a loving mom. I love her blogs more for the fact that her posts remind me how important it is to keep the romance going long after the giddiness of the wedding day (and the preparations!) are gone.

Berns: for being blessed with a new life.

Arlene: for sharing her courageous and inspiring journey in her quest for a baby. Good luck sa IUI :D We hope to hear some good news from you in a few weeks.

Worldwide Link of Love

Tag from Sherryl.

I love this tag, mostly because I now have a fresh supply of URLs that I can browse and check out during my free time. :P

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Join the Worldwide Link Love!Benefits of Worldwide Link Love!

1. Make new friends around the world.
2. Feel the Link Love.
3. Gain new readers and subscribers.

Rules:
1. Copy from ~start copying here ~ to ~ end copying here ~ and paste it on your blog.
2. At the end of the list, put your name and the country you're in, it doesn’t matter what’s your nationality just put the country where you are publishing your blog. Don’t forget to put links at your name.
3. If you have many blogs, you can link all of it, just make sure you post the same on each blog.
4. Tag eight (8) or more of your blog friends.
5. Tip for blogspot users: make sure you copy and paste the code in Compose mode.Wanna join, and you can’t find your name on the list? Just leave a comment here.

Worldwide Link Love! Participants:
1. Julia (Philippines)
2. Catherine (Malaysia)
3. shimumsy(u.s.a)
4. Mitch (Philippines)
5. Hailey (Philippines)
6. Sexymom (USA)
7. Liza (Philippines)
8. Idealpinkrose (Korea)
9. Korean food (Korea)
10. Allinkorea (Korea)
11. Kimchiland (Korea)
12. Confessions of an Army Wife (USA)
13. Bless Sanctuary (USA)
14. VampSquad (Philippines)
15. Manna from Heaven ( Philippines)
16. And Life Goes On (Philippines)
17. Uncomplicated (Philippines)
18. To the Moon and Back (Philippines)
19. IamDzoi (Philippines)
20. My Happy Place (Philippines)
21. Blogger Happy (USA)
22. Berry Scrappy (USA)
23. Mommy Talks. Wife Stories. (Philippines)
24. Aggie Shoots Aggie Scraps. (Philippines)
25. Winding Creek Circle. (Philippines)
26. Vanniedosa (Philippines)
27. Wannabesupermodel (Philippines)
28. Shopaholic Ties The Knot (Philippines)
29. Our Family Adventure (Philippines)
30. Popcorn's Home on the Web (USA)

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Tagging Jane, Thet, Jacqui, and Arlene.