Last Sunday...

 It was  tiring weekend for me. For  a change  I took my 10-year old Sunday school students for a breakfast communion at McDonald's. It was a refreshing change for my kids as they kind of belong to the lesser privileged and eating-out is not part of their usual family routine. After the church services was a really long meeting. Various ministries of the church are tasked to present their activities for the coming conference year 2012-2013. The meeting dragged on but at around 5:00 pm, I had to go to fetch D3. 

En route, I noticed that there are  a lot of big-named supermarkets and hypermarts that line Aguinaldo Hi-way  from Coastal Road all the way to Tagaytay. An ongoing construction somewhere in Dasmarinas is another Ayala Mall. I guess there is really I need for these commercial areas as the whole Cavite area is now literally peppered with residential subdivisions and housing. Won't it be something if the one of these developers opted for park model homes? Simple no-fuss instant homes.

Raymart-Claudine-Tulfo Fist Fight!

The Ramon Tulfo-Raymart Santiago-Claudine Barretto brouhaha. According to Raymart and Claudine, Ramon Tuifo punched (Raymart) and kicked (Claudine) when they "respectfully" asked Tulfo to stop taking pictures of Claudine while she was lambasting CebuPac staff.. The airline allegedly lost one of Claudine's luggage.

The couple, their children and a horde of yayas and bodyguards landed in NAIA 3 from Boracay. Ramon Tulfo just landed from Davao. He said he's in the process of writing an expose on the many boo-boos of CebuPac. He naturally noticed the commotion going on for who would not notice a crossed and unpleasant pretty woman while she hurdles insult on a "lowly" airline employee?  Being who he is (and his current task of writing an article about CebuPac) Tulfo took pictures (or was it videos?) of the scene he saw not knowing that the screaming banshee was Claudine.

Enough said! Just watch the video. Isusumbong ko na lang kayo kay Tulfo! 

*** Where the heck is the video that i embedded?***

Anyway... here's the link:  

http://youtu.be/EVgnszX_iAo

Kaftan and Scarf

Ethan,my son and I attended the vesper services at CRL in UP Diliman last Sunday. I asked the girls to tag along so we could all eat out for dinner. Since the temperature was close to 37-degree Centigrade that afternoon, the girls refused to budge from their air-conditioned rooms. At dinner time, they opted to troop to my mom-in-law's house to eat. They were quite surprised to find our ex-seamstress there visiting my in-law. She went abroad more than 10 years ago and heard that she is doing fairly well as she married a nationale of that particular country. She seems to be very financially stable as she gifted my mom-in-law with a beautiful kaftan and cashmere scarf. I wonder what's her line of work.

Gymboree for Tabby

Come on everybody it's parachute time!

Tabby goes to Gymboree classes once a week. Now, you might ask, what do 10-month old babies do in such a class. Plenty! The baby and parent sing and do movements to increase the baby's cognitive intelligence and improve physical coordination. Tabby loves parachute time. Babies sit on the parachute as  teacher blows bubbles.

Tech-Savvy Kids

no more crayons and coloring books

The Z generation will certainly rule the cyber world.  Kids born between 1995 to 2012 comprise this generation and they are the most highly exposed to current (and future) high technology.  This is the generation that will be the most internet-savvy.  When  my kids were little, I used to buy tons of coloring books, crayons, drawing paper and colored pencils for them to 'hone" their artistic inclinations and (in truth) as aid in baby-sitting. Twenty years+ later, the third generation in our clan prefer their electronic devices! However, I still see to it that these kids' use of these electronic gadgets is limited. Sure, these tech savvy 9 year olds do have their own social networking pages but I draw the line on internet browsing, sign-ups and game downloads  as one can never tell if a site has ample cybersecurity as protection for their users. Tech-savvy kids. What's next?

 

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