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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Tadhana

This is the first time I watched a Wedding Proposal that I literally cried. Kinikilig ako ng bongga! Seen this many times already and I still shed a tear, especially the part when Coach Rio kneel down to ask her girlfriend to marry her. He only planned this in one week and he contemplated it very well. The soon-to-be bride's favorite band Up Dharma Down serenade her to the tune of Tadhana and played like a live background music the whole time. Who wouldn't say yes?! Love is sooo in the air!!!

Watch the video and be in love.







Snapshots of my favorite part



Who is Coach Rio Dela Cruz?
Also known as The Man with the Afro. A high-speed road runner, running coach extraordinaire and running maestro as his website would define him. First heard of him when Elaine and I joined the Run for Pasig River 10.10.10 event, then I saw him as a guest on Headstart with Karen Davila on ANC. I was inspired with how he live his life. How he did everything he can to achieve his goals by doing what he loves most, running. He is such an inspiration.

For more of him: click HERE

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Music and Me



Jeff and I are a total opposite in so many things, including our love for Music. He loves hardcore, rock or any music that includes shouting and roars. I hate listening to it! We even argue on which playlist to play at home and we'll end up with the TV. I'm not a fan of Top Charting Pop Music either, well, it's pleasurable to listen to and are most likely to appeal on mass audience, but I don't really enjoy getting a load of that type of genre. Don't judge me, I love Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, et al. It's just that I don't listen to them more often than I do with OST. (and House). Yes, I'm an OST baby! Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars are few of the many TV Series who have the best music collection of all times. I listen to them on a trip, when I'm sad or even when I'm happy! It's always a feel-good song to me. My ears will never get tired of these musics, it'll forever be a part of my journey. Collecting songs since 1998.

Here's a list of my all time favorite OST songs.

I Don't Wanna Wait - Paula Cole
Ready for a Fall - PJ Olsson
Any Lucky Penny - Nikki Hassman
Cry Ophelia - Adam Cohen
Life's A Bitch - Shooter
Grace - Kate Havnevik
Heart Door - Paula Cole
Feels Like Home - Chantal Kreviazuk
London Rain - Heather Nova
Letting Go - Kim Sozzi
Lose Your Way - Sophie Hawkins
Shimmer - Shawn Mullins
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Just Breathe - Anna Nalick
If She Wants Me - Belle and Sebastian
Falling - Mindy Smith
Suddenly - Soraya
All About Your Heart - Mindy Gledhill
Inevitable - Anberlin
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
White Dress - Ben Rector
I Saw - Matt Nathanson
Found - Phillip Larue
Wait It Out - Imogen Heap
Beauty Queen - Ben's Brother
You - Switchfoot
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
Suggestions - Orelia Has Orchestra
More Of You - Mozella
All Those Pretty Lights - Andrew Bell
Fresh Pair Of Eyes - Brooke Waggoner
Your Love - Fay Wolf
Slow Me Down - Emmy Rossum
Brown Eyes - Andy Davis
Wedding Dress - Matt Nathanson
Wait - Chandra Wilson
Down - Jason Walker
Help Me I'm Alive - Metric
Missing Me - RJ Helton
The Way I Do - Marcos Hernandez
September - Daughtry
Nothing - The Script
Science and Faith - The Script
The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
Anonymous - Bobby Valentino
Make It Without You - Andrew Belle
Love Me - JJ Heller
Us - Regina Spektor
Samson - Regina Spektor
Sentimental Heart - She & Him
Smoke - Natalie Imbruglia
Soon - Moonpools and Caterpillars
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun - Copper Down
Feeling A Moment - Feeder

I need to cut here cos I think my list is too long already. I still have tons to add though. Will make another entry for it. Teehee!!




Credits to Youtube

Photos: Google

God is Faith



Do you need to see God before you believe in him? I don't! My faith is bigger than any theories in Science can explain. I'm one Proud Christian. God bless everyone!!!

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student :Yes

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smell it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face
unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.


Source: Friend from Facebook

Saturday, January 07, 2012

Spicy Ham Fried Rice



Jeff's a sucker for fried rice, he don't want our food to go to waste so when there's left over rice, he will cook fried rice next morning. Just a simple rice with garlic, and I don't eat that. Just not pleasant to my taste buds. I like it with as many ingredients in it as possible. And here, I made my own version of 'Chinese Yang Chow'. I'm starting to love cooking!!!

5 cups of cooked rice
1 tbsp canola oil
3 cloves minced garlic
1 large egg
4 slices of sweet ham (sliced in small pieces)
2-3 tbsp mixed vegetables (packed from the supermarket)
1 tbsp chili paste (add more if you like it extra hot)
1 tbsp soy sauce
3 tsp aji ginisa

Beat egg add a pinch of salt and cook in a pan while constantly stirring. Like cooking omelet. Set Aside.

Saute garlic in canola oil, add ham and mixed veggies. When ham started to glaze add rice. Stir to avoid the rice from sticking to the pan. Add chili paste, soy sauce, aji ginisa. Stir. Add the cooked egg. Stir and serve.

Cheers to 2012!

Our family loves to dress up on New Year's Eve. This year, we add color coding for each family. I don't know who chose red and why no one objects with the color assigned to us. No one from us owns a fab red outfit by the way. My cousin Izi lend me her dress and Jeff borrowed the polo shirt he's wearing from Red. I also needed to buy a red dress for Soleil. It made me think, why in the world did we never thought of buying red wardrobes before?!

Oh well, no more talking. Just look at the pictures. Heehee!

The RED Team. What's with Jeff's look? Haha!

Jimenez Family. Plum.

Sandoval Family. Black. (Tito Ted is on duty at work)

Thunders. Haha!

Kids performing their Waka Waka dance number.

Soleil singing her current fav 'Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen'

It's not complete without the photo of us four. Prettiness runs in the blood!

Happy New Year!!! Cheers!

Friday, January 06, 2012

Holiday Treat Bag Toppers [FP]

Late Post. I was supposed to post this before Christmas but I totally forgot to do so. I also thought of not hitting the publish button anymore since holiday is over but this is too cute not to share. 

Below is the original post...

Ever since Soleil attended school, it's been a tradition that we give small tokens to her classmates for the Holidays. It's the only chance we got since her school is very strict and they don't allow their student's to celebrate and bring food in the class during birthdays.

This is my first time to create a holiday treat bag topper and I don't want to exaggerate the layout so I made it simple yet cute. Purple background for the girls and blue for the boys.



Click HERE to download purple topper

Click HERE to download blue topper

Tuna Carbonara and Garlic Toast

I've been busy since Christmas that I had no time to update my blog. We spent Noche Buena in our teeny tiny apartment because we need to sleep early to attend the 6am service the following day. We didn't even waited for the clock to strike 12, instead we had dinner at around 9pm.

I decided to cook few simple meals and that includes Fried Chicken, Christmas Ham and the Tuna Carbonara and Garlic Toast that I will share the recipe with you. Brought some at home for my family to taste and they say it's good!

 Tuna Carbonara

450g fettuccine pasta
100g butter
2 cloves garlic
1 can mushroom (284g)
1 can century tuna flakes in water
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup cream of mushroom
1 cup full cream milk (I used a small can of Alpine)
parmesan cheese
dried basil

Boil pasta. Set Aside. In a pan, saute garlic in butter then add tuna and mushroom. Stir until cooked. Add heavy cream, cream of mushroom and full cream milk. Gradually stir in low fire till it boils. Put pasta in a plate, add sauce and sprinkle with parmesan cheese and basil.

Garlic Toast

100g butter
4 tbsp of powder garlic (add more if you like)
6-8 pieces of sliced bread
parsley

Melt butter and add powder garlic. Brush the mixture on the bread and sprinkle parsley on top then toast for 5 mins or until bread turns brown.

Enjoy!