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Life

Back to work again

Happy Easter everybody! So we’re back to tackling some pending tasks and getting ourselves oriented with our regular work schedule again huh. Somebody on my Yahoo! Messenger has the online status of looking forward to the next holiday. Sigh. We just can’t get enough of holidays I guess. Anyway, our family just spent the Holy […]

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Life

Sunset-watching is nature’s gift to the soul

Sunset at Punta Bulata White Beach Resort, Cauayan, Negros Occidental Have you ever watched a sunset in its entirety, from the moment the sky changes to its orange hues, you see the sun coming down slowly until it touches the horizon giving that beautiful spread of colorful rays until darkness shrouds the earth? As a […]

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Blogging

It’s back!

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 […]

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Blogging Life

So down

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 […]

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Tidbits

Photohunt: Nautical souvenirs from Finland

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 […]

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Finances Life

Feeling the economic crunch

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 […]

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Tidbits

Overpricing by the roadside

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 […]