Of Honor Awards and Designer Dresses

Daughter #4 did it again. She was on an overnight stay with her thesis #2 group mates when she sent me an SMS message.

Mom, are you free on August 2?

Most likely. Why?

I need you to attend a formal function. I am a recipient of the school's annual Honor's Award and I have two tickets for the occasion. Can you come?

Of course I'll be there! I know that was not an easy feat. She has been a consistent first honor awardee and the school will finally confer her an award.

I excitedly told the news to my three daughters and the first thing that came into their minds was.. what was I to wear. I have had my share of 5 high JS Proms and 5 high school Senior's Ball. You can just imagine the number of prom dresses my girls have in their wardrobe. Add to the list the numerous other long gowns and cocktail dresses that are akin to celebrity dresses they have used in 3 undergrad Grad balls, 2 doctorate Grad balls and 3 Oath taking ceremonies. I am not kidding when I say that these special occasion dresses cost me a fortune! Now, what will I wear for the occasion? I chose to wear something black in a classic cut - nothing obstructive. It's daughter #4's day anyway, not mine.

Blog Award

It has been a while since I Posted a tag or an award in my blog. The reason was that my computer crashed and I was just pinching laptop time from my son. Now, my cpu is back. Most of my files are intact. Back to posting tags and awards.

I got this award tag from Cielo of Brown Pinay. Thank you!

Now I am passing this blog award to Honey's Inlove Filipina in Hawaii
Fun to Watch Steve and Emz Journey Memories by Jenn

Top Five

Desperateblogger (that' s me! ) got this award from bluedreamer27. He conducted a contest wherein bloggers submit their top 5 favorite blogs. I ranked 5th. Actually, there were a number of blogs who ranked 5th. Anyway, the important thing is, I got an award. Thank you fellow bloggers!

Awards Galore

Got these awards from Constance. Thank you!

I now pass these awards to momhood moments my daily ramblings

daily happy thoughts uncomplicated

Go get your awards please.

A Plethora of Awards

I was tagged with about 5-6 awards by PinoyMommyOnline with the option to get whatever award you feel like receving, not necessarily deserving. I opted for these three awards. Why? Blame it on wishful thinking.

Yes I am!

I certainly HOPE so

Ultimate Wishful Thinking

Now I pass these awards to : Nora,My Two Cents Worth, Analyn,Julianne, Tetle, Avee

Well, that's it. Go girls!

Online Buddies

Thanks Yvette for the friendship ball

Let me pass the friendship ball to Elda, Sheng, Cha

The Tagging Game

taTagged again and again. I have seen nothing like this before:the tagging, being tagged, getting awards and issuing out awards. I can truly say only in the Philippines or only the Filipinos can think of this tagging game. I received three tags today. The 3rd tag has some issues since the blog names have no links. The two other tags are basically the same.I'll just combine the two lists to simplify matters.

Peachy Thea Childstar Mike My Scrappy Side Abie Aggie Alpha Apple Apols Andrea Jacqui Jane Jody Joy Kelly Mich Peachy Geo Lis LisLo LisaTexas BabeLisa Lowrey apple joey allinkorea umsik idealpinkroserickarickavieves weblink cheersgerlgentomsgingmunchkingenevericKavinMars
JK youuuuuuuuuu Lena:desperateblogger

To all those being tagged, bear with it. This tagging will add to your technorati authority and maybe increase your SEO plus you get to know more bloggers! You, the tagged one, has the option to reject or play along. It's really up to you. No Pressure.

That being said, I now tag: Filipina In Hawaii FLIP' antasticWEB Pinay Mommy Online Money Money Money LightsNshaDes My Daily Ramblings Splice and Dice Pipit Blog Noypi Tayo BrainLoopsBlog

To a couple of serious political writers that i tagged, Bear with me! Add your blog right after mine then go tag at least 5 bloggers! Have a nice day!

Godless Oscars?

Last night I watched a re-run of the 80th Academy Awards. The event was hosted by Jon Stewart. This is his second time to host the Oscars but I found his hosting quite stiff. I’ve never been really a fan of his, actually. Has Conan O’Brian hosted the Academy Awards yet?

Anyway, the red carpet is an important aspect of the Academy awards. This is where superstars, mediocre stars and wannabe stars strut for the press. This is the event where designers fall all over nominees to wear their creations. I love Helen Miren’s gown best.

There was a flashback of all the films that won the best picture award. Out of the 79 films that won I saw about 35. From these awardees, my favorites are: Gone with the Wind (1939, no! I wasn’t alive back then), West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965, I can sing all the songs from this movie), The Sting (1973, this was when my secret love affair with Robert Redford begun, which Robert still doesn't know), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Kramer VS Kramer (1979), Terms of Endearment (1983) , Rain Man ( 1988, Dustin Hoffman was brilliant!), Dances With Wolves (1990), Silence of the Lamb (1991, Clarisse!), Forrest Gump (1994, run Forrest run), Braveheart ( 1995), and Gladiator (2003).

As each winner’s name was called, the statuette presented, acceptance speech uttered, I noticed one thing; no one thank God (in whatever form of religion or faith). All the awardees’ gratitude was directed to mere mortals. Where is God to these Hollywood people? It astounded me that the best script writer award was given to a woman named Diablo! Are these people Godless? Are these superstars so blasé that God has no more space in their ultra-hectic-luxurious-chic-lives?

I was sent an email petitioning the boycott of all Kathy Griffin shows. Why? It happened that Griffin got an award at the Creative Arts Emmy and her acceptance speech was: "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now." Heaven forgive for that blasphemy.

Let's say Kathy is an atheist, or a Buddhist, or a Moslem or a Jew. Her religious or non-religious affiliation does not give her right to mock Jesus Christ. Whether Kathy believes or not, there is a supreme being forgiving her right now.

Was the Kathy-incident a precedent to the Oscar winners? Was the idea of being ridiculed so daunting to the Academy winners that they opted not to thank God? Were the Academy winners just a bunch of talented-Godless-Faithless-people?

I sincerely hope not.

Token

Thank you Juliana. Juliana is my eldest daughter's math teacher when she was in grade 4.

Being new to blogging, I was browsing other blogger sites leaving short messages for me to build up my network. I said "hi" to Juliana and left it that.

Juliana dropped by my site and left a message too. Read: Lena? I am Ms. Saporne Luanne's grade Math teacher. I recognized her picture in your blog. That was 16-17 years ago!

Small world, indeed!

I've Been Tagged!

I have no idea what being tagged is. I had to ask around. Easy. All I have to do is copy/paste my tagger's thingy then tag 5 other people after. So here goes.

Thanks Butchay for sharing me this award.

Rule: Copy the entire list and add your name at the bottom. And tag at least 5 friends. (But you can tag as many as you like)

Rule: Copy the entire list and add your name at the bottom. And tag at least 5 friends. (But you can tag as many as you like)

Thea Childstar My Scrappy Side Abie Aggie Alpha Apple Apols Jacqui Jane Jody Joy Mike
Kelly Mich Peachy Dorxie Butchay Lena

Now I would like to share this award to Sheng, Rukee, Anna , Juliana, and Nanay