Philippine Barangay Election

I called my parents on Monday, October 29, 2007 (Philippine date), and they told me that they were already done casting their votes for the Philippine barangay election. I asked them how’s the election going on and they said, so far the election in our place is peaceful although there is a little tension between the opposing parties. It was a normal thing that’s been going on for so many years now that’s why I didn’t mind it.

My mother further told me that there's still nothing changed on how politicians play their game. The candidates are still giving money to the voters, generally called "vote buying" with the hope that they are going to get a vote from them. So sad to know that our politics doesn't really change and I think the hope of changing it is very impossible. Imagine, even the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) candidates were even buying votes? My said that one SK candidate for a chairman position is giving out Php300.00 to each teenagers that are eligible to vote the SK election.

How can these young people become the hope of our country if they are even taught of doing dirty politics at this early age? So sad to think about...but it's happening...

Why I am Into Blogging?

I was tag by Jackie this.

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This meme is based on a recent post that was conducted asking the question “Why do you Blog?” and the rewrite “Why do you Blog? - Reworked.”The purpose of this meme is to tell our tales by spreading the reasons that we blog to as many sites as possible. We get to explain ourselves, direct traffic to our site and highlight our most important, most representative or most relevant post in an SEO favorable format. This will be a positive experience for everyone who wants to get involved. This will enable you to create a short advertisement for your site that will be spread across the blogesphere; a growing directory of blogs.This is an open meme. You do not have to be tagged to join in. All you have to do is follow the rules. Please let me know when you have added your site by leaving a comment on “Complete List” with a link to your post. This will insure an up-to-date list, giving you even greater distribution. You then have the option of copying the growing list back to your site.


Rules:

*1. Create an inventive post title.

*2. Write a brief introduction to the meme.

*3. Copy from “**Start Copy Here**” through “**End Copy Here**” .

*4. Paste into your post.*

5. At the end of the “*list*”, before “**End copy here**”, please add your name, site name (with link), a very brief description (2-3 sentences) of why you blog, and your most important, most representative, or most relevant post (with link.)

*6. Tag at least 5 others to participate.

*7. Leave a comment and a link to your post on “Complete List”*List


*1.My name is Mel and I am the Author of Attitude, the Ultimate Power, aka Monday Morning Power. I blog because I am passionate about happiness and living in the moment. I want to spread the concept that we are in control of our own lives and can choose how we act and react. My site is focused on the Pursuit, Capture, Care and Feeding of a Positive Mental Attitude. One of my most representative posts is “Happiness Vs. Human Nature.”

*2.I am Max and I offer weekly articles on MAX. Why do I blog? I do it because I want to share my thoughts with you guys. I present a new and interesting way of transmitting philosophical thoughts: funny, engaging and intriguing! My funniest, yet intriguing, post is "Don't you just love People?"

*3.I am the Great and Powerful Baba Doodlius. My 100% factual blog The Thoughts and Sayings Of Baba Doodlius is intended to educate all of you curious readers about the Truth behind the Great Secrets of the Universe. I have the Truth! Can you handle the Truth? For a sample of my powers of enlightenment, read my Revelation of the terrible secret of Bigfoot, aka Don't get stepped on.

*4.My name is Amelia and I am the Author of Amel's Realm. I blog because I need to voice everything in my world so that I won't explode. My site is all about thoughts, experiences, fears, problems, misadventures, hopes, and dreams of an introverted tropical girl in a foreign land (Finland). One of my most representative posts is On Trust and Relationship.

*5.I am Geoff of Geoffandcarley.com and I blog for reasons as diverse and as fickle as my moods. Mostly I blog because I'm firmly convinced I've figured a few things out and that the world will benefit from my experience the same way I've benefited from others' experiences. One post that I feel captures my emotional involvement and my ire (but not my humor as much) is Decision time.

*6.My name is Judy and I am the Author of ~~Sugar Queen's Dream~~. I blog because it's cheap therapy and I have something to say. I feel my most powerful post is called “The Myths of Smoking......”

*7.My name is Sindi and I have written a blog entitled Life is a roller coaster!. My blog is based on the ups and downs of everyday life. I started blogging because I was going through some hard times and I wanted to meet new people to talk to. I like to write and was hoping people might enjoy reading what I have to say. I think the most inspiring post I have written to date is We Effect So Many.

*8.People call me the Midgetmanofsteel (although I’m neither a midget, nor made of steel). I am the sole author the blog Mental Poo: a mostly true and humorous account of things that have happened to me, are happening to me, or are just filling my head and taking up valuable space where images of women should be. You can get a sneak peek into my mess of a brain by reading “Raisins are People” – a true account of my son’s first field trip. My name is Sandee and I have a blog called Comedy Plus. My blog is just for fun, and I started it to poke fun about everyday life. My reason for blogging is to have fun and meet new friends. I have done both beyond my wildest dreams. I have posted lots of jokes, but when ask what my favorite joke is, I always pick Anger Management.

*9.My name is Lynda. I blog to as a way to expose my writings and to spread my knowledge on the subject of love. My primary blog (I have 15) is lynda's loft. My favorite piece would be I LOVE..... I have over 300 original poems and posts dealing with the wonderful and painful world of love. I love love!

*10.My name is Adrian, although most of you probably know me as the Mighty Genie King. I am the author First Time Dad. I started blogging as a way to document my growing up pains as my wife and I raise our daughter. I hope that one day my daughter will be able to look at this and get an idea what life was like "back then". Now I blog about everything but the main focus is still the same! One of my favorite posts is Goodnight Sweetheart! Hello Basil! Eh...Who's Basil...

*11.Hello, my name is Ann and I'm the author of A Nice Place in the Sun. I blog because I care about people and want to make them happy. My site is focused on humorous, inspiring, and nostalgic posts about life, children, and memories. My most representative post, or the post where I'm most myself is "The Craziest Experience Of My Life.

*12."We are a team of writers, and everyone calls us NAFA, so that would be our name. We are the proud authors of NAFASG©™ - United And Dedicated Behind You™. Blogging, to us, is a form of spreading useful information and sharing our knowledge to every part of the world in order to contribute to the betterment of our global community. The post that we feel would be representative of our blog and the global community at large is The Sociological Interaction.

*13.Hola! This is Mariuca and I blog because writing is what makes me whole. I write about anything under the sun from life, love, friends to cats and work. I tend to write best when under pressure and my personal favourite post from Mariuca is Love in Disarray.

*14.My name is Susan and I am the Owner of ~~Wake up America ~~, which is a political, right leaning blog. I blog because I believe we need more voices out there to separate fact from fiction, to support our troops and to high light the lack of ethics from journalists today. I feel my most powerful post is called "Are You Proud to be an American......"

*15."Here I am :-) My name is Mauro and I'm the author of 1 Million Love Messages ...That's my challenge! My favourite post it's (for sure) Adam Donkus & Lizzie's Love History.

*16."Hi there World I am Aussie, the author of Little Aussie Cynic and I want to BreatheThere is Always a Natural Way the latest edition to the Aussie Cynic Family...

*17.I am Zubli Zainordin, in Total Happiness, I organize the Book Project blog and co-author Santa's Community Blog and Hall Of Fame Blog. I blog with the purpose of documenting about my self for my own reference, my future generations and friends who prefer to know me. I also share vital and valuable information entirely on total happiness. I believe in Santa Claus and I share the Spirit of Christmas within this Blog World. In addition I promote bloggers, their blogs, and invite them to share their blogging experiences, and together with Shinade, I review their blogs and award them with the Zubli and Shinade Recommended Read awards. Those who continuously show continuous blogging improvements shall be residence of the Hall Of Fame blog.

*18.Hi! My name is Crystal, my middle name actually. I am the author of Choc Mint Girl. I started to blog because I need my own space to 'just write', but what I find here is quite inspiring and I am amazed at how many different bloggers with different approach ended up as great friends and inspire each other. It doesn’t matter what I blog about as long as the two parties find the connection in one another, that will be the best reason of why do I actually blog. I guess my most relevant post is my very first innocent post, Getting Started.

*19.Hello world! My name is Lucel Juliana, you can call me Juliana. I author the blog, My World. I'm a newbie blogger and I'm so loving it. I blog because, I love to write and I want to document my life as a stay at home wife in my newfound home: New York. And if anyone out there tries to tell the story of my life, I prefer that it's going to be me. The one post I'm really passionate about is Cell Phone Hazard . I want to spread awareness about lurking dangers on cell phone use.

*20.Hi! My name is Thira. I author the blog As The World Turns. I blog because I love and enjoy it. I used to write on journals before but blogging online is more fun. With blogging there are so many things one can do. You can write down your thoughts, experiences and interests. You can express how you feel, learn many things, share information and knowledge, meet new friends and a lot of interesting people. Like they said, there is a world of endless resources out there.

*21.Mabuhay! Lira here, author of Tasteful voyage : narrations of an expressive mind . Why I'm into blogging? Simple, I wanna share a part of my life to my fellows which I know would somehow contribute to their lives as well. I feel great writing what I'm into and at the same time meeting new friends and learning from their inputs ---vast of inputs. They said "the best teacher is your experience" and this is it. I gain knowledge from them and vice versa. Remembering Papa for me is my most relevant post.

*22. Holla!!!My Blog called Jackie-Reese Blog, welcome to my world...I join blogging because im fun on writing stuff, expressing my own opinions and thoughts. Other than that i wanna share my experiences with others too. This is real fun. I got to express how i feel for everything even on my feelings for everyone. And one thing a friend encourage me in blogging cuz she earns alot of money. Its not that i just want money but while im writing for my own stuff i can earn too. If i just knew blogging before i started it when i grade 1!!hehehe just kidding!!


*23. Greetings! I am Marie Grace, the author of the two blogs, Sweet Lullaby & Buzzing Around. Basically, I am into blogging because I find this a very good way to express myself, my thoughts and to share to everyone something that might be useful in their lives. I have been writing since high school but I just have them in papers. I started blogging in 2005 but I didn't continue and I didn't really gave much important to it until a very good friend of mine, a fellow blogger, encourages me to continue it. So, here I am enjoying every words that I write. It's only now that I find the true meaning of blogging because I am not only writing what interest me but I will also earn and make new friends.

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I am not going to specifically tag someone here but everyone is welcome to continue the list if you want to.

North Texas Coldest Temperature Ever Since Fall Started

Yesterday's temperature in the morning was the coldest that we ever had since fall started. Surrounding cities of DFW are in the mid 30's, as a matter of fact, some of them are under the FROST WARNING because near the ground could be in the freezing temperature. Dallas & Fort Worth were in 40-44F.

As usual, I was complaining again because it was so cold. I was even trembling when I opened the door when my husband left for work. . When I went out yesterday at early morning to empty the trash, darn, it was so cold. So, I decided to go back to bed and I slept until past 10AM. When, I woke up, I called my parents yesterday and they are all laughing on me because they said that my voice was very obvious that I feel so cold. Just imagine how you sound and talk if you feel so cold. That’s how I sounded. I didn't turn on the heater yet because I was the only one in the house and I want to save electricity. As much as possible, I want to use the heater only on winter. I don’t want to have a big electricity bill on fall just like what happened last summer. So here comes the real fall temperature. hohoho

What's In a Number 5?

This Five MeMe is from Parisukat. Thank you pre for this.

WHAT'S IN MY ROOM?
* PC
* Our wedding pics & other family pics
* tv
* the bed/drawers
* wall frames

I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO..
* take a vacation in Paris & Bahamas
* cruise the Carribean and Europe
* get a good and high paying job
* Buy a beach lot & build a house there for hubby & I
* take my masteral course

WHAT'S IN MY BAG?
* wallet
* camera
* keys
*my make-up kit
* sunglasses

WHAT'S IN MY WALLET?
* photos (hubby & I, his family & my parents)
* credit/debit Cards
* some cash
* important receipts
* ID's

I'M CURRENTLY INTO…
* PTC's
* Blogging / Tweaking my Blog
* watching football especially NFL games
* cooking
* watching newly released movies

Now, I am asking Witchy and SlowCatchUpKuan.

Friendly Site Award

Mari gave me my second award here in the bloggerworld. Including the Apple Candid Treat, it is my third time to receive treats or blogger give away. Mari, thank you a bunch for this. That is so sweet of you!

At this point, I want someone else's to be happy that's why I am handing this award to the following people: Lira, Avee, and Nancy.

North Texas on Threat of Wildfire

Yesterday, North Texas was feared of experiencing the same wildfire that is going on in Southern California right now. RED FLAG WARNING was issued to some part of North Texas especially to the places where there is very dry grassland. Homeowners near a vast dry meadow are warned to be very cautious always to what is going on around them.

With a bit strong wind, authorities are being watchful because even a lighted cigarette could perhaps ignite the grassland. Some firetrucks and other emergency vehicles are stationed in the high risk area.

This situation prevented North Texas to send some firemen and fire-fighting equipment to Southern California because they are afraid that they might lack facilities and manpower in case wildfire will strike. However, there are staffs of some private organizations and some volunteers had flown to Southern California to give whatever help they can offer there. At 7:30PM last night, RED FLAG WARNING in Denton County was finally lifted.

Everyone feel relaxed and comfortable when the warning of all places in Texas was already lifted. God is really wonderful. I am very thankful that it doesn't happen. I can't imagine having our inferno version here. Well, who will not be?

Our Better Half Tag

I am tagged by Merydith on this. Ok, here it goes.

We became blog friends the moment we added each other to our friends' list. We visit each other and learned a little about one another. Yes we posted pictures of ourselves and our better half every once in a while but we only know too little about them. This is our time to flaunt them baby.


This tag is simple. If you feel comfortable and your better half does too, you can post a picture of him in your blog ( but if not a description will do). May it be a baby picture anything that you like with the following:


1. First name: if he doesn't like his name plastered all over the internet, a pet name will do.


2. How and where did you meet?


3. Characteristics


4. Your plans 20 to 30 years from now.

Here is my beloved hubby & my answers to the above questions.

• My hubby's name is Bryan.
• We met in the net through my officemate, a close friend of mine.
• He has a lot of good characteristics but of all I love is him being sweet, romantic, responsible, loving and down-to-earth.
• In 20-30 years, we will still be here in the US because he will not retire by then. Although, our plan when he is retired already is to stay 3-4 months in the Philippines in a year and the remaining months will be here. We also have a plan to make some trips to the countries that we love to visit and in 20-30 yrs maybe we are already almost done doing it, if not we will continue it.

Now, I am tagging everyone. Whoever wants to do this, just feel free to do it. Just please leave a message so I will know and can visit it. Thank you everyone! Enjoy!

Christmas Tagged

I am tagged by Rosemarie. I will also did this tag on my other blog.

So , here it is....

1. I am longing to meet Santa.
2. Santa is a good example of a very generous man.
3. If I were in a room with Santa, I would ask him if I can bring me to the polar region, to his home.
4. I think Santa should trim his bear a lil.
5. Santa needs a more hi-tech charriot. LOL
6. I want to hug Santa.
7. Someday Santa will include adults in his gifts' lists.
8. Santa reminds me of snow, gift-giving and my family.
9. Without Santa there will be no one who will excite kids on the Yuletide season.
10. My memories of Santa are only but dreams.
11. Santa can be trendy if he'll put some bling-bling or accessories to his custome. LOL
12. The worst thing about Santa is he has a big tummy & it's not good for his health.
13. The best thing about Santa is he is giving the kids joy and set as a good example of giving or sharing one's blessings.
14. I am grateful with Santa.
15. One thing I would like to know about Santa is if he is real or only a make-up Christmas character.
16. Santa should go and start reviewing his lists to make sure only good kids will receive gifts. 17. Santa please don't forget your gift to me. I am tagging Janese and Mari. Please go to Everyday Sould Be Christmas for the template. hope you enjoy guys.

A Lady Was Arrested by Swearing on Overflowing Toilet

I was watching an early morning news today and I find this issue funny and ridiculous. Hence, I decided to share this to you guys. Here it is...

A woman in Scranton, Pa could face up to 90 days in jail and could pay up to $300 fine for swearing over an overflowing toilet. She said she was yelling to her daughter to get a mop because she was panic when the water is already going to her kitchen. A next-door neighbor, a police officer who was off duty at that time heard her and ask her to lower down her voice and when she didn't do it the officer called police.

Wow! Can you imagine someone being fined or could possibly be put behind bar just because of that reason? Isn't it horrible, nonsense and illogical? For me, it is insane. Goosh! I guess in times like that, someone might get panic and shout for help to whoever is in the house. It is just a normal reaction. I just can't get it why he needs to call the police over such matter. Can you imagine being brought to the police office and be fine just because of swearing over an overflowing toilet? I can't!

North Texas Was Hit by a Severe Thunderstorm

Last night, North Texas was hit by a severe thunderstorm. There was severe lightning and thunderstorm, strong wind and heavy rain. A lot of streets and low-lying places were flooded, some roads were temporarily closed, some trees fell down and there are even places where the roofs of buildings were blown away. The traffic got even worst today because of the road circumstances that I mentioned. People are hoping that roads will be open soon so everything will be back to normal.

The people in some part of Hillsboro thought that there was a tornado that hit there place but the Texas weather station strongly disagree that there was none. They further said that last night was only a pure thunderstorm with strong winds. Today, twelve golfers in Garland, TX was rescued and brought by the firemen rescue team to a higher ground because a big part of the golf course was flooded due to the overflowing water of the nearby creek. Good thing everyone was safe and sound.


As I observed, North Texas is easily flooded if there is a storm or heavy rainfall. The water level of some lakes easily rise up and some creeks mostly overflows. I hope this problem will soon be given a solution, if not be minimized.

Let's Help the Breast Cancer Site

To all my friends and my fellow bloggers:

I am asking everyone here to please take time to visit to this site http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/. Guys, I am not paid to promote this. I did this to help the Breast Cancer site spread the words. I already posted this in one of the public forum online.

My mother-in-law sent me an email requesting me to send the letter below to my friends with the hope that more will visit the site. I am thinking that posting this to my blogs and public forum will help get more page visit there. For the record, my mother-in-law is a breast cancer survivor. Well, she has been free of it for many years now.

Our daily visit and click there will help them, through their sponsors, give a free mammogram a day to an underpriviledged woman.

Here is the letter they circulated:

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle).

This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Thank you so much! I hope that you will spare a minute of your day to go there.

Note: Anyone who want to re-post this, just feel free to do so.

My Online Madness

I woke with a bit chilly environment today. Yes, we are hot no more this week. Infact we were around 53F in the morning and only around 85-87F in the afternoon.

Wow! I got very busy today updating my blogs and replying to my friends and co-bloggers messages they left in my blog yesterday.

My online works got piled up because I wasn't home yesterday. I visited my friend who live approximately 20 minutes away from us. Well, since I don't have a license yet so my husband drop me off there before he went to work and he just picked me up to after his work. Another friend of ours was there and we just have some fun. We ate a lot of Filipino foods like pancit bihon, dried fish and chicken barbeque Philippine style.

Today, I also checked the other sites that I am a member of. Just like my blogs, I have a lot of stuff to update there. Hopefully, I will be able to find some time tomorrow to finish beautifying this new blog of mine. Remember tomorrow is the start of the weekend and my husband is off from work, so we might go somewhere else.

Anyway, have a blast weekend everyone!

Texas Bandit Tracker Website Is Now Out Online..Check it out...

Bank robbery in Texas is growing in number every year. Lately, it seems like there's a reported bank robbery everyday. Isn't it alarming already? Not only the policemen are getting more worried about it but everyone. It calls the attention and utmost curiosity of everyone in the community.

Okay, here's the reason why. Imagine, in 2005 there are 91 recorded bank robberies. The number almost double in 2006 reaching up to 211. Since the start of 2007 until the present, there are already 216 bank robberies that took place. So, expect that this number will still increase as the year progress. Is the tremendous increase already scary? Yes, it is.

Right now, both the federal and local investigators together with the public are helping hand-in-hand to possibly locate the whereabouts of these heists. As a matter of fact, a website entitled FBI, Local Law Enforcement, Texas Banking Industry & You! was launched, it contains photos of the robbers in the scene taken by the security cameras. So far, there are numbers of robbers who are captured already through this site. Constituents have been very helpful in providing leads to the authorities.

The website that I am talking about is http://www.bandittracker.com/album/bank-robbery-suspects/ . Please check it out because you might not know that you've seen or you know some of the people listed there.

Here's a video clip of Fox4 News on this issue:

I am Finally Launching My Second Blog

To be exact, it has been a month and 12 days now since I started blogging. Well, just like what blogging does to everyone, I find this hobby very addictive because it helps me ease up my boredom while waiting my hubby to go home from work and it also enables me to pursue my passion for writing. The blogworld enables me also to express my idea or opinion on a certain issue. I also share to my friends and some of my readers the latest news or happenings that could be beneficial to them as well. I also earned a lot of friends and as well being able to connect with some of my friends and acquaintances that I don't have a contact lately. Yes, I am not totally hooked up with it that hubby needs to remind me what time it is already at night so I can go to sleep already. Sometimes I was so engulfed with my blog hopping that I am not already aware what time it is.

For the record, this is already my second blog. Well, my first blog is still with Blogger.com which bears the title Sweet Lullaby. It's also a blog that covers everything under the sun. I write about news, entertainment, sports, weather, fashion, my personal experiences and the lists go on.





A couple of days ago, I am already considering of making another blog but I wasn't able to realize it until today. And yes, the page that you are viewing right now is my second blog entitled Buzzing Around. Just like my first blog, this will cover all subjects.

So, welcome here everybody and I hope I will be able to entertain you as well as give you something that's life worth knowing about.