"Tips From Your Everyday Experts"

Good morning! Before I start the daily grind, let me share a site which might interest you, the MOMs specially. I contributed a short article, "Keeping Up with the Demands of School", as part of the Tips from Body Builders of sustagen.ph.

I am sure most parents can relate. Isn't it that school is getting more demanding as years go by? It was "simpler" during our time. It's more competitive now as the world keeps on advancing. This is to be expected but still, the work load in school still overwhelms me most of the time. I attribute this to the fact that we have to compete globally, our children need to be more equipped in facing the world so to speak. I have concerns concerning curriculum in school but whatever my concerns are, still, my top of mind is how I can support my daughter.

In our busy lives whether we are working parents or stay-at-home-mothers/fathers, our foremost concern is still the well-being of our children. Like what I have said in my article, "a great part of my support is in ensuring that she manages herself well and that she has the stamina to do all the activities she participates in."

Dragons, Toys, Vampires and A Kid

I am excited for today's Mommy Moments. I knew right away what to share when I checked the theme last night. My family loves watching movies. My daughter is in her tween years and she is already keeping up with the movies I like...Or is it the other way around? I am keeping up with the movies she likes.

So far this year, there are four movies we both love. One is How To Train Your Dragon which is a movie about the transformation of a boy named Hiccup who wants to slay one of the most feared dragons in their land. Eventually, the goodness in his heart overpowered his desire to kill but instead a friendship between him and the dragon unfolded.

Something Orange

The picture below was taken three years ago when The Simpsons Movie was shown. I asked my daughter to stand beside the movie's life-size standees. I love the dominant colors here - yellow and orange. I love these two colors because they are so full of energy and they make a place or a thing looks so happy. I love the orange sofa too. I'm thinking of getting an orange sofa to replace our dark blue one.

Can I relate to the characters of The Simpsons?

Morning Calmness

Let me find time to squeeze blogging about a happy thought or feeling I had (and still have) this morning. Good feelings like these should be shared and post without delay (at least I've post it within the day, haha). This is nothing big but I just felt extra-ordinarily good from the moment I wake up. There's this sudden sense of calmness in me. I usually wake up rushing, hurrying to start the day.

Cillian Murphy

Finally I was able to watch the very much raved about movie, Inception. I love it just like how I loved the first Matrix. But let me discuss about Inception in succeeding posts. For now, all I want to talk about is CILLIAN MURPHY (Robert Fischer in the movie). 

Another Get-together with High School Classmates

Some of my high school classmates and I had a get-together yesterday at our favorite restaurant, Cravings at Shangrila. We often meet here because it's convenient for most of us. It has space for long tables which we usually occupy, there's the salad bar for anyone who wants it. But next time we said we should change venue, just for a change of atmosphere. :)

This is the second time this year we met with high school friends based in a different country and vacationing for a few weeks in the Philippines. It's a great feeling to see familiar faces from one of the happiest periods of my life - high school.

Anyway, it was really exciting to see again a former classmate, one of my close friends during my early years in high school, after twenty six years. She is in the country with her family for a month-long vacation. This is the first time I have been with at least three of them after high school graduation. They had a reunion during the early 90s at Barrio Fiesta but I was not able to make it. In fact I don't think I even know they were going to have a reunion then. I was so preoccupied with my own activities that I was practically missing in action during those times.

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The Bangs

If there is one thing my daughter and I keep on arguing about is it's her hair. Her hair! I don't like the way she seems to cover her face with all those hair. She's fond of putting on her headband on the mid part of her head and let all the bangs fall over her face. It doesn't look neat at all. Why even wear a headband? And why even make your life difficult by having all your hair cover your eyes? These things maybe only a tweener/teener can comprehend and makes mom in her midlife like me dumbfounded.

Is this scene familiar? Did this happen between my me and my mother when I was my daughter's age? Maybe not the hair but something else. So history repeats itself. I know that that is why I always trace back how my mother and I dealt with our differences when I was in my teens.

Or maybe it's Justin Bieber's fault? You tell me. But at least the Bieber boy's hair does not cover his face. My daughter and I agreed that we will have her bangs trimmed to a reasonable length. She does not want it above her brows. That's fine with me.