To Be, To Be. Tutubi.

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Gat Andres Bonifacio. Today is the birthday of one of the leading heroes of the Philippine revolution against the Spaniards.  He is known as the "Great Pleabian (pleabian, meaning, of the the masses) and the Father of Philippine Revolution and Father of Katipunan. 

It will serve us well to remember our heroes so that we will know that people fought with their life for the freedoms that we are enjoying today.  A holiday does not just mean a free day from work and school.  May it serve as a reminder that our freedom came with a price, and we should never take it for granted.

This is me. All 138 lbs on a 5'2'' frame, and based on any BMI calculator that I can find, I am OVERWEIGHT. If  the emphasis is not enough, well, I have bulges where bulges have no place and my skin  sags where they have no business sagging! And lest you say I let it happen to me, let  it be known that I do Zumba, I run (did 3k and 10k and you can sometime see me running along Araneta Ave or at QC circle on weekends) and I cut down on my food intake (no rice, baby).  I do Hiphop Abs at home, I buff the floor, walk to the market and use the stairs! I also religiously participate in our fire drill (since I am fire marshall) and go down the fire exit from the 42 floor of our building! Thankfully, they allow us to use the elevator to go back up, ha ha ha. So, I live an active lifestyle and I eat sensibly. But how did it came to this, you ask? 

Well, I have three wonderful kids aged 15, 10 and 8 and I am only 35. The body undergo changes from whence we are young to become teenagers and young adults, and to one who has reared children, and that's times three for me.  So naturally, I have excess fat and stretch marks and no amount of diet and exercise can help me get rid of what nature and pregnancy did to my body. And that's where my flawless beauty transformation comes in!

"In celebration of its 11th birthday, Flawless is inviting everyone to take advantage of its 1 + 1 beauty blowout this National Flawless Month. If this isn’t the best time to boost or jumpstart your top to toe beauty transformation, then I don’t know what is. Go to www.flawless.com.ph or visit a clinic near you for more information."

And this is my most WANTED service: NANO RF:  A fantastic alternative to invasive liposuction, Nano RF services contour and lift the skin with almost no downtime—making RF the perfect solution to instantaneous slimming. By heating up the specific area, collagen is stimulated, which provides immediate contouring effect; tightening and lifting the treated area. Flawless provides Nano RF services for virtually any part of the body and face.

This will be perfect time for me to get rid of the bulges and sagging skin, thanks to Flawless! Then the battle of the bulge can finally end and I can be one "Hot Momma" already! 

Motherhood, the most difficult yet the most rewarding job in the world!

My son celebrated his 10th birthday last Saturday with a simple family celebration.  I cooked his favorite champorado for breakfast and we sang him a song and he blew his birthday candles.  Then we had some pansit for lunch.  At around 3 pm, we left for SM North Edsa where I had a voucher for unlimited play at Active Fun that I bought from Metrodeal.  They played for almost 3 hours! After that, we went in search of his gift, the board game Game of the Generals but we couldn't find it at Toy Kingdom or at the department store so I will just look for it elsewhere and give the gift later.  Then, we had dinner at KFC. On the way home, we bought McDonald coke float to cap off the night.  The birthday boy was all smiles at this simple celebration and my heart was filled with happiness at his obvious delight at life's little joys! Thank God for this awesome kid!

Happy Birthday, Anak! My only wish is that you become a good person and everything else that is good in life will follow.  I love you!

These huge art installations were such a hit with my eldest son.  They were part of the KM1 public photography exhibit and they indeed are great to make the masses enjoy art!

One more look at this beautiful Tropical Garden and a shout out to the QC government and the park administrators for maintaining the QC Memorial Circle into a family park!

Aside from the good health and well-being of my family, I only have one other fervent prayer to God every night, and that is to have my dream home for my family.  We are currently renting a cramped space in Sta Mesa Manila, in a house where my husband grew up, and for a family of seven, cramped is not even close to describe how tiny our house is.  Just imagine this: if  you fall down  in the living room, you will get up in the kitchen! Why not move? Well, my husband was born here, the rent is very minimal and it is close to everything: school, church, malls and work.  But it gets flooded during heavy rains too!  We are currently paying for a row house in Montalban, Rizal but after Typhoon Ondoy (flood reached the roof of the house) and the recent Habagat (knee-deep flood inside the house), we know we will never live in that house ever. The house is nice since we already spent money to build it, but the location is such that when it rains, you won't get any sleep in fear of flooding! So the next option, now that my kids are getting big, is to find that dream house, God-willing.

By now, I have already described what my dream home is: big enough for a big family like mine(me and my husband, my 3 kids, my mom and sister), close to school(college and elementary), work(my husband works in Pasay City), church(a place to worship), hospitals(for my mom) and leisure(who can stay away from beaches?), and safe from flooding(unlike Montalban) and crimes, and some where we can have activities that will make us enjoy being a family (think outdoor fun). It must be a good place to retire too, when the kids grow up and leave the family home and where I can imagine me and my husband growing old in peaceful retirement.  

So when I saw Bel-Air Residence in Lipa, Batangas,  I know that this is "The One" and let me tell you why:

There is really no place like home, and indeed Bel-Air Residences in Lipa, Batangas is the home I am dreaming of  even before I saw it! It has everything that my family will ever need, and everything that a mom's heart would ever pray for in a dream home!

The movie: it was awesome.  I think this is the only time that I would say this but the movie's twist was better that how it was in the book!  I loved the movie more than the book.  And I have never, ever said that before.  I actually want to see it again!  The cinema was filled with reactions from the crowd as the movie unfolds.  It was an awesome movie! But Bella still can't act and Jacob's still sent the ladies drooling.  We had free popcorn and drinks too, thanks again to this wonderful Nuffnang hosted event.  Oh, and Ehms even won in the raffle before the movie where she gets a gift certificate for one set of Sorci Age product. But they cant say her name correctly, right Mirdinin? He he.

After the movie, we went inside the casino to apply for membership at Resorts World.  My sister was only 20 years old so she was not allowed inside.  She applied for her membership at the mall while we roamed inside the casino.  We all won a key chain at the spin it thingie.  We had no time to try the slot machine because my sister was waiting outside.