A Piece of My Thoughts

No Bake Cheesecake Recipe

2011-12-06T15:43:00.000-08:00

The finished product ;)

½ cup sugar

8 oz cream cheese

8 oz whipped cream

1 tsp vanilla

1 graham pie crust

1 packet of clear gelatin

fruit topping og choice

Blend cream cheese until smooth, add whipped cream, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Spoon into crust. Chill at least 2 hours and top with fruit topping. Enjoy your no bake cheesecake!

Three brothers suffer a heart attack on the same day in Italy

2011-11-29T18:30:00.000-08:00

Three brothers in Rome had a heart attack all on the same day! Weird isn't it?

Guido and Alberto Garofalo were in a family picnic when Guido, 45 suffered a heart attack and dropped dead on the ground.

His brother Alberto, 54, rushed to his brother's side to help him but perhaps he was overcome by his emotions seeing his brother lifeless so he too suffered the same fate.

The third brother however was not present at the picnic but visiting their aged mother in the hospital in Catania and didn't know what happened to his two brothers. But he too suffered a sudden heart attack.

Lucky for him he was at a hospital so he was taken immediately to the emergency room where the doctor stabilized him. He survived but did they tell him about what happened to his two brothers? He might get another heart attack if they tell him.

ESL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS part 1

2011-11-29T16:57:00.000-08:00

I had been making ESL materials for a Filipino teacher in a school in Turkey called ISIK OKULLARI for her activities with young ESL learners for quite some time now. Based on the pictures she sends me when I make her reports and videos, it looks the kids have the grandest time when they do my activities. I'd like to share them with you here too and hope it helps you make your ESL lessons fun as it is educational. Have a blast!

Pronunciation Baseball

Draw a baseball diamond on the board. Divide the students into two teams. Each team takes turns “at bat." One by one, ask students different pronunciation questions. (These can be individual words, like "pneumonia" or "premise" or "indict" or "salmon", ones that are not pronounced like they are spelled; alternately, you can give two similarly spelled words with different pronunciations, like "tough" and "dough", "steak" and "beak", "blood" and "brood", "through" and "thorough").

Here are the rules:
1. Whenever a student is "at bat", he or she cannot be helped by other students.
2. If the student answers the question correctly, the team advances one base. (A total of four questions must be answered correctly before the team "scores" a home run).
3. If the student is incorrect, the team gets one "out." Once the team has three outs, the other team will go up to bat.

4. Play until you run out of words. It's good to prepare enough words so that everyone has at least one chance up at bat. Write the words in big letters on pieces of paper beforehand, but you could also post them on the board.

Kangaroo Kang

Instructions:

1. To encourage movement in the class, have students organised into teams.

2. Each team is given a balloon to place between their knees they are not allowed to use their hands to touch the balloon at anytime.

3. One person from each team must jump like a kangaroo forward to a chair in the front of the room, their they must pick with their hands a word, they then turn around jumping back to the next person in their team.

4. This continues until all the code words have been collected and all of the team members have jumped to the chair.

5. The words must then be placed in a correct order and the captain must then read it out to the teacher.

6. Rewards are given to the winning team. Fun, loud and competitive way to engage students in a physical manner with language.

ebay.com is the best!

2010-02-17T18:43:00.000-08:00

When I was in college, I don't know why but smoking was as common as if it's the most normal thing a college student has to do during the breaks. Well that was ten years ago. Now my "incurable addiction" as what my husband puts it, is no other than the wonderful shopping site called http://www.ebay.com/. As most ladies out there, I consider shopping as a stress relieving therapy which has a long lasting effect compared to other so-called stress remedy.

Here are some of the stuff I've bought from ebay. I wanted to post all the items I've bought but ebay only saves transactions made within the last 90 days.

This LV CU920 is the best deal of all. Although this is a used phone and may not be that beautiful cosmetically as it has a couple of scratches on the back, this works perfectly. A touch phone for only USD 58! Isn't it amazing?

I don't exactly remember if this one was free shipping or not but what I do remember is that it's only USD .99 and this is something that I really need coz the prayer inscribed is really nice.

This one is USD 1.00 and it's a gift I got for my aunt who is a teacher too.

I usually buy from US sellers but these two items here are from Hongkong. Who am I to resist a brooch at USD 0.99 that will be shipped to the Philippines for free?!

I'm not really a big fan of Laura Mercier but because of watching too much make up tutorials in youtube, I got this one. This is a bit pricey for me at USD 15 but it's a great product so no regrets! ^^

Stay tuned to my up coming online shopping spree!

Withdraw your paypal funds in BDO or Mlhuiller for free

2009-11-17T18:04:00.000-08:00

I’ve always had a dilemma as to how on earth am I gonna en-cash my funds from paypal. I have several online students who prefer to pay through paypal since transferring money is free if you just keep on using the personal payment tab option. But the problem is there is only one bank in the Philippines that allows withdrawal of paypal funds.

But my friend and neighbor told me about this amazing way to send money to yourself from paypal. Has anyone heard about xoom.com? This is just amazing! And it’ll probably just take a couple of minutes to wait for the cash you’re dying to get your hands on.

And the best thing about this transfer is it’s FREE! As long as you have the code for free transfer. For this month the free xoom coupon code is TRANSFERSAFE. So what are you waiting for people? Withdraw your paypal fund na!

Mommy's Most Precious Treasure

2009-07-29T09:50:00.000-07:00

I'm not really good in video editing and stuff but I hope you'd enjoy watching this video as much as I had fun making it.

Credits to Eva Cassidy for the song "Songbird" used in this video.

Enjoy!!!! ^^

A Few Good Men

2009-07-28T06:21:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I braved the rain and went to Silang market to get "a few" grocery items coz as usual, we ran out of food supplies. These days my little girl is like the fish in the game Feeding Frenzy by BigFish.com... wait... is it BigFish? Well anyway, so like I said she's like a hungry little fish gobbling up anything edible and then getting plump after a voracious meal.

While I was in Needs Grocery I suddenly thought about changing our eating style, you know for our health. Believe it or not I gained 7 kg in just 2 months. I guess for those of you who know me you can probably say that it's normal for me. All my uniforms can't fit anymore and there's no more extra cloth at the sides for adjustment. Even my mother who is gifted dressmaker, who has unbelievable skills in adjusting clothes' for the horizontally challenged gave up on me. This is a seriously serious problem and right them and there I made a quick decision. We will be vegetarians.

To become a vegetarian however is a big challenge. For me it's the same as bungee jumping. Imagine the horror of eating fake beef, fake chicken and fake meatloaf. Where else would we get the necessary minerals and vitamins essential for human survival?! So I told myself to go through each aisle and chose each item carefully. After an hour or more of zigzagging the mini supermarket I've accumulated two grocery carts! By golly how am I suppossed to carry them home? I was always used to the idea of just throwing anything in the shopping cart regardless of the weight coz my husband had been always there everytime I do the groceries. Huhuhu! But I was already standing in from of the cashier and it's too late to turn back. I was at the point of no return.

The moment I got out from the grocers to add insult to injury the heavens opened up and poured who knows how many cubic tons of rainwater was that! So there I stood at the entrance staring at the rain. Then a man who drives a tricycle asked me if I want to get a ride. I told him I'll just wait for the rain to stop coz I have a heavy box and I might slip while going down the steps. He stepped out from his tricycle and told me to get in while he took the heavy box of grocery. He brought me right at the entrance of the jeepney and the dispatcher, never caring about the rain, rushed to help me get the load out. Oh and by the way I was carrying two big plastic bags of bread and oats, another smaller one with vitamins for Coycoy and a really small one stuffed with eggplants and string beans, beat that! By the way I forgot to mention that I was wearing pencil skirt and high heels.

I really wanna finish this but I can't find the letter keys anymore so be sure to drop by my page tomorrow for the continuation. Sorry! (^_^)

........... to be continued

something cheezy for my husband (^_^)

2009-07-19T08:23:00.000-07:00

I love you, Daddy!

English and friendship

2009-07-04T18:18:00.000-07:00

After shedding buckets and buckets of tears on the graduation of my very first term (December-January 2004) in SDALC, I vowed never to attach myself to students of the upcoming terms again.

It had been easy! Just spend 6 hours with them in the classroom, avoid sitting with them in the cafeteria during lunch, just say a curt hi or hello when you meet each other in the hallway and never never hug them!

Life as a teacher was happy and free... when you're students are kept away from a distance. Keep the relationship as professional as possible, be free from tear jerky moments on graduation and enjoy the infamous mango ice cream cake of Mommy Jung in the graduation party afterwards. Being an ESL teacher for Korean students in SDALC is such a breeze.

Well that was before I met Cham.

She just turned my teaching world upside down!

During our first class I thought "This girl rocks! Her fashion statement is Gothic and so is her personality." She always wear black... almost everyday. If it's not black it's gray. Cham has this character stare that makes people retaliate. It's as if she's drawing a virtual wall between herself and the people she comes in contact with.

I didn't like her. That's good! It means my defense against students is still perfectly intact.

As days later turned to weeks I began to develop a curiosity for Cham. I realized that she reminds me of the younger me. Tough shelled but soft hearted... cynical yet trusting... To my horror I was starting to see her as a baby sister!

Finally at the ending days of her first term I let my guard down... totally. I felt that somehow she needed me and I needed her. Probably I needed her more....

... to be continued

Horrific Nanny

2009-06-23T04:09:00.000-07:00

I was spending a really quite afternoon one day, working on the photoshop lessons I've been dying to do since last year, when a friend was back in college send me a videolink in MSN. She usually just don't send me links like that if its not really worth watching. I thought she found a heartwarming clip again like that of Susan Boyle before but this time, it was freaking different.

After I watched this video clip, I was shaking and crying and I was soooo angry. Are there really people like this? The video is too amateur to pass for edited. An Indonesian nanny was left in the house to take care for a child in Malaysia. It's a heartache to watch this but we should watch this and maybe we moms wouldn't be that careless in choosing our babysitters next time.

Here see for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETzgxHOQuY

black theme

2009-06-20T23:28:00.000-07:00

I really wanted to have a black and white wedding but due to an accident, there was no black and white wedding. My bestfriend however fulfilled that dream for me (so I thought) when she tied the knot with someone I fondly call Manong. For the record, there are only two lucky guys whom I call Manong. One is Pastor Ildefonso Baquilabat a.k.a. Manong Ilde and the other is ofcourse Kenneth Jo Deles a.k.a Khennjo a.k.a. my BFF's hubby a.k.a. Manong Ken.

Okay going back to the black and white thing. Sorry I often times get distracted with the details and I tend to go beyond the details. That's my weakest point as a human being. Whether I am just talking to a friend, having a lecture in class, even praying or dreaming! See I just did it again!

Okay... okay... going there..for real. Black and white... (exhales) what was I supposed to say? One moment please I'll just do a quick flashback.

...

Oh yeah, I remember. I love black and white because of its extreme appearance.

Black is evil... white is angelic.

Black is bitchy... white is innocent.

Black is bad... white is good.

Black is dark... white is bright.

Black is hostile... white is happy.

I am both black and white. Can't say that I'm gray coz that would mean a mixture of the two. There are times that the black side of me is more dominant than the white side and that is just a pain in the ass after it subsides. The times it happened is more than I can count with my fingers... and toes even. Yet the good thing is that, the white side never gives up on the black and it will continue being that way until the two become one.

Welcome to my world

2009-06-19T09:03:00.000-07:00

I know a lot of people who blog because they say it's a good way to earn money. Just write about anything under the sun, include some keywords that are linked to some websites when the reader clicks on it, and check your paypal account. Tada! You get paid! Well that's what they say coz I actually never tried one before nor did I make any attempt to try one. My computer skills are way beyond too basic for stuff like that.

So why did I create this blog?

I want to keep a diary. I've had several attempts but all failed. I think this one's gonna work. My fingers can't keep up with my brains when I'm writing but when I type, it's better. So I'm pretty sure this will work. Wait a sec... Am I convincing you reader or myself? LOL I'm not even sure if anyone will care to read this so the convincing must be for myself then.

So what will I write here?

Most likely I'd be telling you about my Korean students both in the class and online. I hope my boss won't find this blog and I hope he won't know that this is me even if he will be reading this. But on the other hand, I wish he would find this page since I have lots to tell him but I just can't have the time to talk to him.

There would be stories about my adorable little girl also. My sweet Lara Danielle, a five year old preschooler who thinks babies can be bought in supermarkets.

I hope you will have fun reading as much as the fun I will be having writing this blog and the future blogs to come. ^^