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Life

Our music-lover son

As I have mentioned in one of the posts, music runs in the blood of our family. When our eldest son was still in college, he joined a band with his close friends, who were also music lovers. The band was mainly a way of expressing their love for music, which they had in common. […]

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Life

A close friend is a Yolanda victim in Palo, Leyte

Last December 29, 2013, our homeowners association just had a get-together with a contribution of only P30.00 (for a minimal snack) per person who would attend. It was agreed in a previous meeting, that whatever we would spend for food in a Christmas Party would instead be collected in a fund to be given to […]

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Technology

More developments of sound technology

I have just remembered the one happy unforgettable vacation we had in Boracay, the “paradise” of the famous white sands. And the ukulele my grandson wanted, but later destroyed anyway. This brings my memory to the family of the stringed instruments: the guitar (under which is the ukulele?), the harp, the violin, the viola, the […]

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Travel

A vacation to remember

One of my girls now lives in Europe with her Czech hubby and their young family. They have one girl and one boy, aged about six and four years respectively. When their family came for a vacation one time, they invited us (me, dad and her sister) to go with them for a few days’ […]

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Technology

Technically-challenged grandma? Not anymore!

At past 70 years of age, and a grandma of 8, I’m a senior citizen indeed, and proudly so! A civil engineer by profession, and “forced” to have learned the computer by circumstance having been conducting Computer-aided Seminars on Structural Analysis and Design, and Computer-aided Seminars on Project Management too, I could pass for a […]

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Shopping

The finer things in life

Women generally love the fine, beautiful and dainty things in life, one particular example are jewelries. Diamonds and special stones may be beyond the reach of most, but they resort to even fancy ones to satisfy their desires to possess jewelries. Most of the wealthy ladies of high society however look for the real ones […]

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Life

Musical instruments for music lovers

Musicians in their heart want to have their own instruments and the instrument they usually own first is the guitar. It’s smaller than most of the instruments as much as it is handy. Aside from these, there are also lots of variety one can choose, from a variety in size, cost, and even design. Weight […]