Take your Part in Saving the Earth

Author: yanilea  //  Category: Personal, Technology

bird

Can you bear to watch this bird die because of toxic foods it gathers from the garbage we carelessly throw anywhere? This is just one of the effects of exploiting natures resources. Thinking of what you can do to help save our Mother Earth? You can! By doing in your own simple ways. Practice them and eventually you’ll be used to them. We can as a responsible care taker of Mother earth take part on this valuable cause.

We cannot let the Earth just die. Climate change is man made problem therefore, it is us who would solve it (John F Kennedy). Little action could make a difference. If you have passion of the things you are doing, eventually you can influence others too.

1. When going to a grocery, don’t use plastic bags. Bring your own bag or basket. The benefits, less garbage more convenience in shopping. I bought a bag like this for grocery purposes.

2. Don’t buy something new just because their is a new gadget being introduced in the market like cellphone. You may throw the charger and cellphone just anywhere when you purchase a new one. Remember: They are not biodegradable and it takes years to decompose them or maybe not. So please take good care of your things to avoid purchasing and throwing the old ones. The benefit, save more money, save mother earth.

3. When going to grocery, buy the packed size items or the larger ones to reduced purchasing many plastic. Sample, instead of sachets, go for the bigger ones. Sachets creates mess too.

4. Instead of riding your own vehicle to go somewhere, have an exercise and take a walk. The benefit, less oxygen and good exercise for the heart. You can opt to do bicycling too.

5. I know you’ve been eating at fast food restaurants. Minimize eating in them, styrofoam are already in millions Don’t try to contribute to this problem. Don’t be lazy, take time to cook in your own house.

6. Helium balloon is a no no! Do you know where they go after flying them? Inform your friends if they like to fly balloons that it’s a contaminant. They would not decompose and became hazardous to forest, riverbanks, seafloors where some of our endangered species lives.And the worst part is they became foods to these

8. Be early to bed as to minimize energy use. Turn off unnecessary appliances.

9. Holding a a kiddie party? Don’t use paper plates and plastic glasses and spoons. Be a warm host, offer your treasured plates to your guests.

10. Go natural. Instead of buying fruit juices stored in cans and plastic container, why not choose the fresh fruits? Easy to bite and has more nutrients.

11. Recycle, recycle, recycle. Don’t throw away your things yet and find ways to recycle them so they can be used again.

12. Support the green company. I admire and patronize companies that helps in campaigning the green community and saving mother earth because they are not only thinking about profiting but thinking as well what they can contribute to the country.

13. Test your politician how much he cares. Think of a presidentiable and candidates who cares a lot about saving the mother Earth. Haven’t decided yet on this one but this factor should be considered.

14. Become a green driver. The faster you drive the more gasoline/diesel you burn. Our recycling truck gets 18 mi/gallon when we drive 70 mph but it run 22 miles a gallon when we drive 53 mph.

Have you realized today when going to a mall how many waste they are disposing? Just in a store or a food chain alone? You can’t count them but you can count the things you can do.

Aware of climate change? Or just too blind. The challenge is to take your part!!!!

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I Wish You Enough

Author: yanilea  //  Category: Personal

grandmother_and_grandchild_reading

Dating back when I was just a little kid in my elementary years, I always looked up to my lola and admire her for being such a bookworm. She collected and subscribed to monthly editions of reader’s digest and Women’s magazine. She also had some educational books around her room she well kept and treasured. She treat it with great care and kept it in place where no insects and dust can touch. She was like that, keeping those books in a place we Filipinos called kaban. Due to my curiosity as a little kid I started to climb and reach her collection of books and slowly opened them once a day, one by one. I became enthralled by them and a book lover out of me eventually crept in as time goes by. Books are not only made up of papers and pens. Far more it is made out of love and passion for knowledge and the value of sharing. Furthermore it creates a memory, a memory of someone who’s been part or a great influence to us. One true value that lola gave me is to always seek knowledge in books. That’s why when I see a collection of books I can always remember my lola.

I’m sharing here one of the poems I would never forget while reading one of her magazines. When I am contented and happy with life, these lines would pop up into my mind. It’s my lola’s second anniversary today and I simply remember her and pray for her.

I don’t know why until now I never forget this poem. It’s been 8 to 10 years ago that I have read this one. Hope you read it between the lines. It’s very meaningful and idealistic.

I Wish You Enough

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish enough “Hello’s” to get you through the final “Good-bye..”

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Wandering Mind

Author: yanilea  //  Category: Foods and Recipes, Personal

I found myself not motivated to work these days and I don’t know why. I am receiving the appropriate salary and treatment but still find some looses. I’m serious about this. Maybe I need a real break. My mind just don’t want to think, it wanted just some entertainment and funny thoughts. And work is such a serious job. Haaayyy. Sometimes I get tired with this fuss ( I can’t elaborate it here) So thinking what could be more appealing and entertaining to me at the moment I try looking up into my old pics. I really love pizza and I have collection of pics of them. Maybe this could relax my mind. I’m starting to crave for pizza as I look over at these pics. Hope I have one on my hand ready to bite as I try to overcome this frustration and wandering mind.

Shakey's Thin Crust Pizza

Shakey's Thin Crust Pizza

Bacon pizza at Shakeys

Bacon pizza at Shakeys

Greenwich's meat overload

Greenwich's meat overload

pizza hut solo

pizza hut solo

yellowcab pizza

yellowcab pizza

The face in delight with a pizza.

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A Happy Valentines at Divine Mercy Shrine

Author: yanilea  //  Category: Beauty Tips and Products, Personal, Places

First off I’d like to send my greetings of Happy Valentines to you! So how did you spent the day? Was it a remarkable one? On valentines day we visit the place of El Salvador Municipality, particularly the Divine Mercy Shrine. It is Sunday so a mass was held at the chapel. Luckily we have attended the said mass. The mass is treated with great respect and solemnity. Ladies are required to wear long skirts as it is a holy and sacred place, so ladies take note, when going there use the appropriate skirt specially when they are holding a mass (Sunday). It’s my first time to visit the place and I don’t have the knowledge yet about this policy. I’m sorry about this ignorance. Good thing they lend long skirts to visitors wearing pants like me. So I end up looking like this. So how do I look with this one?

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

Okay this is not the highlight of the Shrine but this 50 feet statue.

Divine Mercy Shrine

Bryan and I are amazed and awed upon seeing the structure. It’s a huge and beautifully crafted one. If you are devoted to the Divine Mercy, you should watch it in real life. You can only climb the stairs and reach the heart of the Divine Mercy when you have the permission (given by the priest and staff of the shrine). Inside the heart of the Divine Mercy is a hidden niche of a life size statue of St. Faustina. The cross section of Ray is made up of stained glasses.

Some Facts about the Divine Mercy Shrine:

Lot Area:9.8 hectares
Purchased Price: P8,500,000.00 including taxes
Master Planner of architects: Palafox Associates, Makati Metro Manila
Sculptor: Nick Reyes, UP Fine Arts

They also have a flowing holy water. So when you go there bring with you an empty container so you can fill it with this water.

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

Following are the pics I took while we are climbing the stairs. I took it to show or reveal how the statue looks like as you get nearer to it.

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador
Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

Looking like a real tourist….and the face looked so tired too. hehe

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

Seeing the wide ground with flowers surrounding it creates a good feeling. Across the hill where the Divine Mercy stood is the endless sea. It’s a breathless view and the air is so refreshing.

El Salvador

El Salvador

And let me remind you to bring an umbrella, the heat can spoil your visit.

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

Or if not, enjoy a cute shade of a plant.

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador Divine Mercy Shrine

Divine Mercy Shrine El Salvador

It was a great day and we’re happy with our date. :) Enjoy your visit too.

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Bo’s Coffee

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Coffee Jelly
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I had a refreshment at Bo’s Coffee after a ride from El Salvador. I almost forgot the price while sipping it :P. Coffee jelly can be describe just by it’s name. It’s smothered with cream and yummy jellies inside that makes it so super and pleasant. I enjoy every minute with it! It truly awakens a tired body from a long ride.

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Mandarin Restaurant

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Last day Bryan brought me to one of his favorite restaurants here in Cagayan. We had a simple dinner at Mandarin restaurant. We have been so busy with each of our works. Sometimes when we’re together all we discuss is all about work. Dinner would be a great time for us to talk and share the things we have done during the day.

A relaxing mood is offered at the place. We’ve been cutting down high expenses and Mandarin helps us out at this mission by offering cheap prices of menus.

prawn balls
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shrimp
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siomai
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I love their siomai that’s why I took almost all of it :)

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“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

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Halo-halo

I’m a halo-halo fan and Jo’s chicken Restaurant in Yacapin Street serves a halo-halo that’s very delightful. Yum!

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Bacolod Chiken Inasal Grillhouse is popular for their specialty of chicken menu. Their main branch is in Bacolod City,  here in Cagayan de Oro, it’s located in Tiano-Macahambus Sts.  few blocks from Divisoria. I like the serenity of the said restaurant because it feels like you’re inside a house. I don’t know why maybe because of their so Pinoy kubyertos! It’s a two storey building  built with traditional materials that makes me feel more comfortable about it. I must tell you their service crews are so friendly and accommodating, it’s a plus good factor of a restaurant.

Bacolod_Chicken_Inasal

Bacolod Chicken Inasal Grill offers low prices menu and tasty and satisfying servings. Their chicken inasal is awesome and mouthwatering. Cheers to their chopseuy!

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Chopsuey

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Happy Heart’s Month

Author: yanilea  //  Category: Beauty Tips and Products, Personal

happy_valentines_day

Feeling the love in the air? Don’t wonder if you see many hearts hanging on walls in every place you go. Month of the hearts is here! We usually refer valentines to love so I’m sharing here my favorite love descriptions.

This passage have been heard many times during weddings and masses but the thought it gives never gets old. It’s so refreshing to hear these words and its meaning is absolutely beautiful. Love though profound and exceptionally hard to explain is the most wonderful thing that a man can experience.

valentines

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never ends.

I’m smitten with the words of William Shakespeare. His descriptions of love could weaken any bone, it’s so deep. Makes me want to think if there’s a big difference of how people love in those Renaissance period and in this modern times. How did they expressed their love? Through poems? Cause they are magnificent writers. And now, just a text away and you could earn a lovelife so easily. You know what I’m talking about. So here are two sonnet of William Shakespeare that’s been a personal favorite of mine.

Sonnet 116 Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet 63 Against my love shall be as I am now

Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time’s injurious hand crush’d and o’erworn;
When hours have drain’d his blood and fill’d his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travelled on to age’s steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he’s king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age’s cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love’s beauty, though my lover’s life:
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.

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Then here’s Elizabeth Brownings (1806-1861) undying love poem she dedicated to her poet husband Robert Browning.
I’m in love with this poem ever since I read it. Read and be mesmerized.

How do I love thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

And below are some famous lines about love and loving. Hope you enjoy!

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. - Henry Drummond

You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

Live well, laugh often, and love with all of your heart! - Unknown

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
Unknown

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. - Robert A. Heinlein

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Cossman

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - Pablo Picasso

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~ Unknown

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.- St. Augustine

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low. - Henry Ward Beecher

The life and love we create is the life and love we live. - Leo Buscaglia

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
~ by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. - Elbert Hubbard

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. - Leo Buscaglia

Love is an act of endless forgiveness
A tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Love asks me no questions,
And gives me endless support… - William Shakespeare

A simple I love you means more than money. - Frank Sinatra

Life without love is like a tree
Without blossom and fruit. -Khalil Gibra

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