new horizons

Thankfully my travel blog is now back after being absent from the web for 3 agonizing days (from February 13-15) and it came back with an October 2008 backdated version on February 16. Did the unreliable and unsatisfactory webhosting company do anything to regain my 51 missing posts? Never! Thanks to techie bro for helping […]

I woke up early today and opened my laptop to see some unread messages alert on Yahoo! Messenger. They were from my web hosting’s tech support. So finally they replied after I submitted a support ticket last Saturday about my travel blog which cannot be accessed. After more than a day, I got a reply […]

Whew, I haven’t been able to do some Photohunting for more than three months now, and I do miss Photohunting! Well, finally here goes my entry for this week’s theme “nautical”.

These are miniature polyresin objects from Rayher Hobby Kunst (www.rayher-hobby.de) which I bought from a hobby shop in Pori, Finland. I also bought a small […]

Are you feeling the current economic crisis and has it significantly affected your financial life? I had this conversation with somebody about feeling the financial crunch, and she told me she’s not affected about it since it’s always happening anyway. Well, maybe for her, it’s just a negligible dent in their family budget but for […]

It was drizzling as our van stopped at a fruit stand by the road. I went down to buy unripe papaya (with the green skin) which we plan to use for the achara or papaya salad. I haggled with the vendor since I felt he was overpricing. I was not happy with the price of […]

The blogosphere is not just a venue for sharing ideas, rants and raves, it has also become a place where bloggers get to be entrepreneurs and put forth their small businesses online. The idea of an e-commerce solution to expand the business market globally used to be intimidating to SME’s. Thankfully there are now e-commerce […]

It’s so inspiring to see somebody change, from being wayward and disobedient to being respectful and remorseful. I have seen such personal change just recently with somebody I know and it warms the heart and encourages me to look at my own personal struggles to become a better person myself.
This brings to mind the wisdom […]