World’s Largest Shoes

Marikina City being the shoe capital of the Philippines had made the world renowned largest shoes. It measures 5.29 meters long, 2.37 meters wide and 1.83 meters high. It can carry 30 pairs of normal shoe size. Shoemakers made the shoes for 77 days in year 2002. The whole shoes materials are equal to 250 pairs of regular shoes. To fill the shoes you have to be big enough and 125 feet tall.

Sunday’s Delicious Recipe " Menudo Especial"

I was thinking of a delicious recipe that I can cook for Family Day. My husband suggested to cook his favorite “my special menudo recipe”.

Here are the ingredients:

1 kilo of Pork belly (cut into strips)
1 kilo of Potato (cut into stips)
1 red bell pepper (medium size
1 carrot (cut into strips)
1 big can of liver spread
6 cloves of garlic (chopped)
2 red onions (chopped)
2 tbsp of soysauce
3 tbsp of. Calamansi juice
1 pouch 200g (UFC ready recipe menudo sauce)
Salt and pepper to taste

For marinate: 2 tbsp of soysauce and 3 tbsp of. Calamansi juice, 1tsp salt, chopped onion and garlic

Preparation:

1. Marinate pork for 15 to 30 minutes in calamansi and soysauce mixture with the half portion of chopped.onion and garlic

2. Boil the marinated pork in a mixture for 10 minutes or until the pork is tender(set aside)

3. In a casserole, heat the olive oil. Over medium-high heat, fry the potatoes and carrot. Add the remaining chopped onions, garlic, bell pepper and pork. Saute
for 10 minutes then add the pork broth. Simmer for 5-10 minutes

4. Add liver spread, menudo sauce and 1 cup of water, season with salt and pepper. Stir constantly, if you want it more sauce you can add another cup of water and seasoning.

5. Set the fire to a medium low heat and Simmer for 5-10 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked
.
6. Best to serve with rice.

“What makes it more special is that I sprinkled it with LOVE”

A MUST HAVE THINGS FOR STUDENTS

Month of June is past approaching and a new school year will begin. Parents are all busy preparing the things their child needs: I have searched and interviewed some mommy of the things that their children needs:

PRE-SCHOOL
1. School uniform
2. Shoes
3. Socks
4. Notebooks
5. pad paper
6. Pencil
7. Color
8. Scissor
9. paste
10. clay

GRADE SCHOOL
1. School uniform
2. Shoes
3. Socks
4. Notebooks
5. ballpen
6. color
7. watercolor
8. paste
9. eraser
10. padpaper
11. spelling booklet
12. pencil
13. bond paper
14. Ruler

HIGH SCHOOL
1. School uniform
2. Shoes
3. Socks
4. Notebooks
5. pad paper
6. ballpen
7. pencil
8. Math Notebook
9. bond paper
10. yellow paper
11. Ruler
12. Scientific Calculator
13. Pentelpen

COLLEGE
1. School uniform/civilian clothes
2. shoes
3. Binder
4. Notebook Filler
5. Ballpen
6. Pencil

BORACAY ISLAND

Boracay is a tropical island, one of the most popular tourist destinations here in the Philippines. Boracay is the original home of the Ati or negrito, a native group of people in Panay.

There are two seasonal whether pattern in Boracay, the “Amihan” or the cool northeast wind which is characterized by moderate temperature. The other one is the “Habagat or west or southwest wind with hot and humid weather, regular rainfall and wind from the west.

The island is comprised by the barangay of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag and Yapak (the three of the seventeen barangays to complete the municipality of Malay.

During Amihan season is where they’re tourist boost and at its peak. White beach is the main tourism area in Boracay. There are so many activities you can do in Boracay like wind surfing, kite boarding/kite surfing, scuba diving, snorkeling, and most of all relaxation.

To get there you can either travel by air or by sea. There are two airports in Aklan, the Kalibo International Airport and the Caticlan Airport.

PACMAN "The longest running video game"

Pacman is an arcade game created by Namco. It was released in Japan On May 22, 1980. This arcade game became popular and a phenomenal hit among arcade gamers. It is one of the longest running video game. Happy 30th anniversary Pacman.

Smiling Moon

Today at 7:00 p.m. May 16, 2010. I have witnessed another sky phenomenon. A smiling moon was with star. Millions have seen this event. The big star on top of the moon is Venus. The second planet in the solar system.

On December 1, 2008 the same sky phenomenon is also seen by millions of people. It was so amazing two planets are on top of the moon. The planets are Jupiter and Venus.

My Daughter's First Greeting Card

I enrolled my three year old daughter in summer school in preparation for the coming school year. At first she is hesitant to get inside the classroom, but on the following days she no longer cried instead she voluntarily say that its time get in the room because the teacher is calling them. I can’t see the activities that they are doing. I was so surprised when she gave me a card I thought it was just an ordinary card but when I open up a mother’s day greetings is written with her name. I almost cry and left speechless. I hugged her and I couldn’t explain the happiness I felt…………….. And my daughter asks me “Are you happy Mama”. And I told her that I am so happy, she kissed me and said “ I love you Mama” I didn’t notice that my tears fell down. She said don’t cry mama, I told her it’s a tears of joy and she smiled.

Origami Basket

A very fun and interesting way doing an origami crafts. There are so many designs that you can do, like this basket it can be use as fruit or bread basket.

Star Origami

I use star origami as Christmas décor. It is so easy to do just cut a strip of colored paper and you can make a cute star origami. It can also be use in scrap booking. It depends how creative you are.

I started making origami designs in 2008 when I was decorating our Christmas tree and my budget is so tight to buy for Christmas décor. I use different kinds of colored paper for my star origami

ELECTION 2010

It’s been how long since my first vote was cast on a ballot. Now another election is past approaching with a new system. With the computer age, a new and safe way to cast your vote is being designed by IT experts.

It was recently pilot tested and found out that there are so many errors in the matters of counting the votes. Some say that machine only counts for national and not included the local. With this problem many people including the one who run for the post are getting nervous as to how it would turn out effectively, without affecting the accurate counting in the number of votes.

Many have suggested of postpone the election for may result in a failure of election if ever. Others would say that it’s been started and the only way to resolve is to finish it.

On the side of the IT problems, I have talked to an IT expert about his suggestion regarding this matter he said “I knew this problem will rise since every Municipality, City and Provinces needs different names needed to be read by the machine. The problem could have been lessen if the COMELEC sends an IT Expert along with the machine that will make the flashing of needed program into the flash memory upon the arrival to its destination. Flashing was just an easy task; it’s just like copying a certain file to another destination. This could save them time money and effort and should also make the new system more credible”

Euphorbia Milli

Euphorbia milli (Christ Plant) named after Baron Milius and originated in Madagascar. A succulent climbing plant with small flowers that grows abundantly with a very small amount of watering. Mostly flowers are red, pink, white, yellow, orange. The sap is said to be moderately poisonous and with its thorns it was believed that this plant was use to crown Jesus Christ.

Dracaena Marginata

It is a popular flowering plant originated from Madagascar. A slow growing plant and looks like a small tree. Dracaena marginata requires only a little of your attention. It can survive with irregular watering a favorite plant used in offices whereas the office ambiance suits them to grow easily. Another importance of this plant is that it’s been used by NASA to their Clean Air Study and had proven to have remove formaldehyde.

Dracaena Marginata along with sansiviera trifasciata are effective air cleaner. It is also perfect for removing xylene and trichloroethylene.

This plant is best for busy people who spend most of their time outside and most often than not they forgot to water the plants.

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

Parents are always there to support their children. Especially our mother, they see to it that their child is well taken care of. No matter what is the status in life, mother’s love is unconditional.

When you become a mom, you will not think of yourself, children are always the priority. I remember how my mom raised us. Being the eldest I have matured so early to help her in selling fruits and vegetables in the market. I have seen all the hardships she had gone through from being a wife and a mother. That is why it is very important to give them the best of everything.

Here are some of the things that you can to pamper your moms:
* Take them to spa or a massage
* Give them gift certificates for shopping
* Buy her a favorite jewelry
* Bring her to a dinner date
* Take her to a Cruise to see different places that she had never been to.

There are so many things that we can do make our mother feel special and happy. From the smallest to the most luxurious things in this world the most important is that how you give thanks to them and how you love them.:-)