summer escapade in our garden

it’s scorching. intense. it's a hot hot summer! haaayyy... the heat turns our chikiting “masusungit” and uncomfy. still couldn’t get the chance to go out for a swimming, hopefully before the summer ends and still hoping (and praying) my medication will tame my stubborn allergy huhuhu (well, this is another story). anyways, for the meantime, to work out france’s incessant demand to go swimming, i went upstairs. dug out the huge box (where i kept all rarely used items and “abubot “) and voilà! they can now beat the summer heat with the instant swimming pool. yey! charles is no longer scared of the cool water , i guessed he just wants some fun in an open space such as this~ swimming in our own garden with his ‘ate france hahaha. it feels so goood to see them giggling and enjoying the water . this activity is now part of the our daily routine while the heat is on.

btw, want to share the fact i had just read from the newsletter (voice of south). did you know that boredom and unproductive activities for months can cause “SUMMER SLIDE” also known summer” brain drain” to the kids. It is wearing away of the things they learned from school. many of the parents (including me :( ), however, don’t even know that there is such occurrence as this. so help stop summer slide, engage your kids to productive summer activities or simply let your kids read books to improve reading skill and broaden their vocabulary.

substance of the drinking H2O

since the birth of our son, my mother in law (mama), py and i keep on discussing and pointing out different notions and comprehensions about the kind of treated water to give to charles. it is my decision to give him distilled water. (syempre nasunod ang nanay hehe). however, mama persistently telling me that distilled water can make the tummy “maselang” since it has no minerals, but then i told her that baby charles gets the minerals from his food i.e. milk and not from the water as the amount of nutrients from the mineral water is insignificant. from then she never misses to talk to me about it everytime we get the chance to see. of course, i could not debate with her as much as i wanted and it’s when the worth of the blog comes in. on the other hand, my mother-in-law is just being concerned and i admired her for that ( uy! biglang bumawi hihihi).

honestly, i was really considering of blogging about what’s in our drinking water until I got an email from my college friend/classmate...this leads me finally to post some facts or still hypotheses to other experts about the water that we are drinking.

here are some of important excerpts from the articles/links below:

***The organic minerals are the only ones that our body can use. Only one kingdom can convert the inorganic to the organic, and that is the plant kingdom. One would normally find that more than 95% of the minerals in bottled spring water [and in tap water] are inorganic minerals, meaning our body cannot utilize them. If they roll up in our kidney, they form kidney stones and if they roll up in the gall bladder they form gallstones, and if accumulating in our joints they can be the main culprits of arthritis.

***"When pure water enters the human body, it leaves no residue. It is free of all inorganic salts. It is the perfect drink for internal cleanliness and health.


waterworld usa, inc

what type of water is the best

happy bithday france!

Today is the 5th birthday of our panganay and she will always be our little kulit girl. As usual, we have celebrated her bday in her school (CFC) and she always loves it. Actually today is declared holiday, however, due to time constraint raw according to school admin, they decided to go on with their classes, exam kasi nila, kala ko ligtas na sa blowout e hehehe. Anyways, she enjoys how her classmates sing for her the ever popular "happy birthday to you" , making wishes afterwards, accepting presents from them and of course, the cake and ice cream time... Just a while ago she asked me when will be her 6th bday. ? 'kabebirthday mo lang a " i replied; ganon yata talaga pag bata always looking forward on their next bday.
To you, our smart daughter, happy birthday and wishing you lots of cheers and may GOD bless you always...We love you...

Milenio

Last Saturday afternoon, Sept. 30 we headed to “muddy” SM Sta Rosa for our grocery. We’re always buying consumer goods in SM supermarket, coz I’m considering the bonus points I will earn every time I use my advantage card, I’m mababaw, who cares?? just find it advantageous as the card title clearly says.. Anyways, yun nga, we went there primarily to buy meat coz we ran out of food, why?? we forced to cook all the meat we got in the freezer to prevent from spoiling (we cooked it lahat abodo…chicken, liver and gizzard adobo and pork abodong tuyo), apparently, our ref gone absolutely empty!... You guessed it right…the culprit is MILENIO, the blustery gusty typhoon who whacked down the sturdy huge trees (the acacia tree at the back of our house almost hit me when it fell down, thank God that our fence hindered it from dropping it on me.), crashed the heavy billboards on the road, blew the roof and turned the land into a river. Furthermore, the equally important transmission and facilities such as water supply, electricity , internet and communication were disturbed. Milenio hit manila, calabarzon and nearby regions in the daytime of September 28. Lots of residences, industries, farms and establishments were devastated…and worse, lives were taken…
….. Back to muddy SM Sta Rosa… the whole parking area was covered with mud of about a thickness of 2” when we went there 2 days after the typhoon. ‘Py’ told me that it was not just the parking area that was flooded as we first thought but the mall itself. His officemate who happened to be there at the height of the typhoon had experienced how the water rushed into the mall and rose up to his chest level. All the people there grasped each other's arms so as not to get lost. It’s hard to imagine how it will be like if you’re there with the kids around!.... It will be better if you leave the mall if similar incident happens…than be caught by the terrible flood.

Addendum…as of this writing,,nakadown pa rin broadband connection namin. I’m currently using the limited internet access via cellphone to post this message… grabe ang connection super slow mamumuti mata mo …haaay life…