Thursday, December 31, 2009
NEW YEAR 2009 CELEBRATION
We had the usual fun and games for the new year and suffice it to say everyone had a grand time tonight with the games and laughter and the dancing and singing we all shared the whole night long... truly a fitting way to cap another glorious year! May the year 2010 bring us all even more happiness and blessings!
Friday, December 25, 2009
CHRISTMAS 2009 CELEBRATION
We had the usual fun and food for Christmas and though our festivities were simple, we were all together and quite happy, I guess that's all that matters...here are a few pictures of how our celebration went...
Thursday, December 17, 2009
VMS XMAS PROGRAM
Today I took a leave of absence from work to attend my daughter’s Christmas program… she will be performing a dance number with her classmates and I want to be there to watch her. They danced to the tune of All I want for Christmas and I’m glad she danced well and was not at all shy to perform on stage. I’m glad she is starting to come out of her shell na din and is becoming more comfortable with her classmates… here are some of the pics I took, as usual I had a difficult time because the camera’s range was limited so I could only take pictures of her while she was still near me…the place was a bit crowded and stuffy so I could not venture near the stage. Maybe, when we get a better camera I would be able to take better pictures…hehehe. I wish I could post the video na lang, which was a bit clearer…but I really don’t know how.
Monday, December 14, 2009
ONE BIG RIPE LANGKA
Finally, after four months of waiting…we have already harvested the first ever langka that came from our very own tree! Imagine that! In fact, I could not even remember anymore when the langka was first planted but I guess it was already there when the hubby and Kuya Ric constructed the fence sometime March of this year. Then, at around August (I think) we began to see some semblance of a real fruit coming out. You see, prior to that, we have already been seeing small bits of langka fruit but it only reaches the size of a normal fist before it would suddenly fall to the ground, all black and withered.
But around the third week of August we already saw some that reached the size of an open palmed hand. And when it still hasn’t fallen to the ground after a few more days, we were finally convinced that these were real fruits this time. One tree had as much as five fruits in all while the other one had only about two. Our first harvested fruit came from that tree (the one on the left side) that only bore two fruits but boy oh boy those two langka fruits were huge…and I mean huge! I don’t think I would be able to lift it even if I tried… just check out the pics!
What’s even great about our langka, even if they were so big, they were still quite sweet…I guess it was also because the fruit was ‘hinog sa puno’. Now, our only problem would be what to do with all the langka??? Of course, we could only use so much for paladusdos and minatamisan…? Maybe, we could give some to our neighbors and the others bring home to our province and give to the hubby’s sister who cooks puto, biko, espasol and other kakanin for a living…but definitely, I am quite sure not an inch of this fruit would go to waste, after all many in our family love this fruit and could eat it as is after picking out the flesh with our bare hands! Ohhh, thank God He blessed our tree with so much fruit…I hope the tree won’t make ‘tampo’ and just continue bearing this much fruit for many many years to come!
Sunday, December 06, 2009
RENOVATING THE KITCHEN
We finally decided to commence our home project of renovating the kitchen – it started at around November 20 though we had the money about a month ago already from Jun’s GSIS Conso loan… We actually had this extension for our kitchen constructed last February 2006 but due to budget constraints we were unable to complete the finishing touches to the kitchen and instead just used it after smooth finishing of the walls was done. At that time, I wrote that we may have to continue the finishing touches (like tiles and cabinets) at a much later time whenever we have the extra money for it…
And now I guess is the time… we decided on putting in some tiles, after the hubby had excess money from his GSIS loan that he took out to help him finance his brother’s funeral. But it turned out we spent just a little money and relied mostly on dole-outs from relatives and friends (which were quite many, mind you!) And so we had money to tile and paint the kitchen. We hired the same guy who does the tiles for Ate Ne/Inang in their Norzagaray home. He worked slow but sure…
The only problem we had with him was that he tended to disappear for a few days without so much as a text or warning…then he would come back without much ado and go on with his task just whistling and not saying much. He really is a good worker it’s just that he has such an erratic sked that he doesn’t inform us about. We think he may be taking on odd jobs that pay higher than we do…well, that’s his choice but he should have informed us and not left us hanging. As a matter of fact, the last few tiles underneath the sink were already placed by the hubby na…because he never returned…oh well, I guess this will be the last time we will be getting him na…But at least, he did good work on our kitchen – just check out the pics!
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