YOU can HELP!

A fellow blogger said if we are spared let us help. There are lot of ways to help, whether you are in another country, another town, another province if you are willing to help then there are thousand of ways to do it. Of course we can always anytime pray for them but wouldn't it be more nice if we also help in actions?

saw this post from a fellow Christian blogger too, and thought of re posting it here just in case you want to give something.

Here's the post from the Barrio Bayanihan site..I encourage you to go there and help.

My fellow bloggers, readers and lurkers; it breaks our heart seeing all these images and watching the videos coming from Manila – the wrath and devastation not only to properties but also to the lives of our fellow Filipinos. Tropical typhoon Ondoy is not only creating havoc but also bringing epic floods in the Metropolitan Manila area.

In the spirit of Barrio Siete, I invite you all to join our Bayanihan Fund Drive: Donate to Ondoy Flood Victims. Very simply:

1.) Make a donation to our Bayanihan Fund Drive: Donate to Ondoy Flood Victims. If you can’t, then help us by making this viral and create an entry entitled: “Bayanihan Fund Drive: Donate to Ondoy Flood Victims“. A link to this original entry will be appreciated where your readers can make a donation. Please leave us a note in the comment section if you are joining so we can list your entry, in case the pingback doesn’t work.

2.) Invite other bloggers to join our “Bayanihan Fund Drive: Donate to Ondoy Flood Victims”

3.) We will list the names of the donors in a worksheet, their organization and/or their websites, unless they prefer to be anonymous.

4.) The listing will be updated regularly and will be posted here in Barrio Siete Dot com.

5.) We are only accepting monetary donations in currencies accepted by Paypal.

6.) All donations will be remitted only to the Philippine National Red Cross in Manila. (We have not made any contact with them yet.)

7.) If you prefer: You can make donations directly to the Philippine National Red Cross. Here is the link: Ways to donate

In Barrio Siete, this is where you can make your donation. We will in turn, turn this over to the Philippine National Red Cross.

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Your donation will surely be of help.

Ondoy and the flood

the gate/garage

our dining area

our motorbikes

the kitchen - so obviously we were not able to cook food for a time

Those are some of the pictures we took last Saturday. It's my first personal experience of house being flooded. As you all now we just moved in a little over a month ago and when the water started coming inside the house noontime last Saturday, I was like..what? we are being flooded? because the landlord didn't mention about that, but then a little later I learned that Metro Manila and some nearby provinces are submerged in water and also I also learned that the last time this house/area get flooded was 20 years ago.

It's scary, watching the water going deep, you do not know what to think, good thing the bedrooms are upstairs so we have an option, but right at that moment i was thinking what if the rain don't stop?

Praise God we are all safe, the water was knee deep inside the house, we moved up all the stuff we can moved because were afraid the water might get even higher, it reached near the kitchen sink, an up to our not so Kohler faucets but outside it's worse as you can see the motorbikes are all underwater.

I almost did not sleep, I wanted to watch the water subside and make sure it won't get deeper. And the news is even depressing, there are still people on their roof waiting for rescue and it's already midnight, people sleeping at the LRT station, and the facebook is swamped with messages of people asking for help.

It's not a good weekend. But I do hope and pray everyone gets back to track after this calamity. My heart goes to them who lost their loved ones, lost their homes. And in the end I still end up praising HIM because he made us safe in HIS hands.

Birth Announcement

If you have a 19.2 pound baby you won't be needing a nice, creative or unique birth announcements anymore because the media will be all over you and the world will know in an instant that you just delivered a big baby. But of course not all of us will have that fate and I know most of mommies out there wouldn't want that because it's very risky, so if you happen to deliver a baby with normal weight and you are proud and you want the world or at least part of your world to know that you just gave birth, you can use birth announcement from peartreegreetings.com. Just like the one below, nice no? Can't wait to do something like this.

19.2 pound jumbo baby

He was delivered through CS section and if you wonder how he got that big, it is because the mom is diabetic and that raised her glucose level and the baby's. It is really a must to those pregnant women to really take good care of their health while pregnant or else something like this would happen.

Here's the story and picture from yahoo news


This photo provided by Abdul Manan District Hospital shows newly born baby boy Muhammad Akbar Risuddin, the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country on September 23, 2009. An giant Indonesian newborn has become a tourist attraction, with dozens of people crowding a hospital to see the 8.7 kilogramme (19.2 pound) baby boy, his mother said Friday.

Inventory software for your business

Small business, home business, small investment, been researching for articles, good reads, tips and everything about it for the last few days, I do that during my free time while updating status and checking feeds on facebook :)

And somehow I stumbled upon this inventory software, one that would be of big help for business owners out there, especially in the stocks/warehousing area. One item has actually some features like this;

• Barcode Printing
• Automated Physical Counts
• Support for Store Manager Classic
• Price, Cost, & SLP Lookups
• Vendor & Location Lookups
• Add, Subtract & Replace Inventory
• Add New Items
• Edit Item Information
• Change Item Location
• Built-in Reports
• Export Capabilities

Somehow, small business might become easier if you have this no?

SKYWATCH FRIDAY

Skywatch from the Taoist temple in Cebu City
For more skywatch photos click HERE

I want another holiday

To say that I am ecstatic because it’s Friday is an understatement. It’s so early in the morning and I can’t wait for this day to end. I’m beginning to love as in dearly love weekends, because it only means rest for me. And for this weekend, I am looking forward to some pampering time. Foot spa, haircut, manicure and pedicure. Who wouldn’t be excited right?

I also had a conversation over facebook chat with my best friend last night, and we are planning a get away weekend somewhere. I actually asked for it. I don’t know. I just feel that I need to do something new, something different. Honestly speaking, I am getting bored of what I am doing here in Manila. Maybe that’s the reason why I am sad and mad for the past days or of course we women can always have that universal excuse. Blame the hormones and because I have much hormonal imbalance due to PCOS you can blame that too.

Anyways, so my friend and I thought of a weekend getaway in a beach or a nice resort in Subic. I suggested that too. Well, I can’t think of much better way to relax than go on a holiday with friends. I do not know if Subic has Cornwall cottages like they have in UK, I took time to look at over the internet and saw that they are so nice. A home away from home indeed. A one week stay in this place will rejuvenate me ten times. Hehe! but any ordinary holiday cottages in an ordinary resort will do for now, or a beach somewhere, maybe Anawangin again if possible or Puerto Galera. Anywhere it would be it is fine with me as long as I go on a holiday soon!

And to think we just came from Cebu last month. Hay, what’s happening to me? I hope I can find ways to make these self catering holidays cheap. Or do I need to work hard so I can have a holiday well spent?

Pregnant woman got pregnant again

A woman is having two babies but they are not twins! While she is pregnant she conceived again after two and half weeks. The doctors saw it while having her regular ultra sound. Sounds impossible and it's extremely rare according to the experts.

And the doctor said the two babies might be born in different year, the older at the end of this year and the younger one at the first month of 2010.

Watch the video here.

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/vid/15718290/

This is me

this morning..I really do not know why but I don't feel good at all.

No TV at home

One comment we usually get when we have visitors at home is about us not having TV. We have televison set which we bought at a very cheap price 3 years ago but since we just moved to our new place a month ago, we still don’t have cable subscription and without it our TV is useless. I wish we can afford something like bell tv but I don’t think they are available here.

And honestly, we are not so keen in applying cable because for sure that would add up to our monthly bill and besides I don’t think it is a necessity except of course when you have guests who want to watch TV shows.

Good thing I can watch and read news over the internet. I’m still updated.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY

We took a lot of sky photos when we were in Cebu. These ones were taken by my husband at Fort San Pedro.

For more skywatch click here

Tuxedo Business Suites in Cebu

And because we are not the "rich couple having their vacation in Cebu while the business is doing well in Manila" long before we had this trip I scoured the internet for cheap hotels,inns and hostels in the entire Cebu over and over just to make sure we don't regret it.

But sad to say I failed. And this is the point where I have wished na sana we are rich and that we could afford a five star hotel everywhere, yes even the gulf shores Alabama hotels and not worry of the expenses.

So I booked " Tuxedo Business Suites" because it's the cheapest place I found. Room for 4 person is at 1,300.00 but really the service is so bad. There is only one man, one receptionist and one guard when we get there. The room smells old. The aircon is surprisingly good. You have all the basic, like towels, slippers and a soap which is fine with us but the fact that they don't give you free hot water for coffee does not sit well with us and they said they have 24 hour convenience store but it is only like a "sari-sari" store which only sells noodles and coffee . Oh well for its cheap price I guess you just get what you paid for. So I should stop complaining now no? It looks good though in the picture.

the lounge upstairs

our room

The toilet

The hallway

I've seen a lot of nice but not too expensive place to stay in Cebu, I hope I can post them also so it would be of help to those who are thinking of traveling in a budget to Cebu in the future.