HHC - Feb'10

Our HHC Valentine Assembly was held in Bustos Gymnasium last Friday, Feb. 12'10, hosted by Barangay Poblacion.

I'm not in the mode to participate so I never attended our daily rehearsals, because it will be held at night and because the election is fast approaching, there are so many politician that will come and I hate to hear them repeatedly saying their undone platforms and promises (so boring you know). But the day of the assembly my group called me and begging me to attain. So I went there just for the attendance and in my mind I well just escape early after but I can't escape, they watched me tightly. When it's their turn to perform they really forced me to join, they said I can do it 'coz the steps were really so easy, so I did. And I came home so late, it's almost 1:00 A.M. and I felt so sleepy and tired .

Got few photos, my camera was not in the mode too.
All photos were not good.

My Purrfect Valentine's Day

Me..having a Purrfect Valentines day!!!!

See ... My adopted "Market" have grown up so fast.

Happy Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year In Chinese

The Chinese most important traditional holidays is the Lunar New year (also called spring festival). It begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as chu xi ("Year-pass Eve").

Concerning the celebration, the people will buy presents, food, clothing and lots of decoration and materials for good luck. Thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. And during the Eve of Chinese New Year, a festive supper with families. All special foods and sweet delicacies on the table. And lightning with firecrackers will end the night.

In the next early morning, children will greet the elders by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes (known as Hong Bao in Mandarin, Ang Pao in Taiwanese Hokkien and here in Philippines too and Lai See in Cantonese, and li xi in Vietnamese) .

Chinese has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors too, like Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tet), and the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu).

Seol-nal In Korea

Note: "Seol-nal" pronounced as “seol-lal”.

This holiday started today and will end the next day (3 days holiday - Feb. 13-15) but the actual "Seol-nal" is tomorrow, Feb. 14'10, same date as Valentines day.

They said that"Seol-nal" or the Lunar new year is one of the two biggest holidays in Korean and the other one is the Thanksgiving day or “Chu-seok”, that is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar (Sept. 21-23'10, 3 day holiday too). These holidays are based on the lunar calendar, the dates on the Gregorian calendar changes every year.

It is said that the wife of the first born son of the family are the ones who will prepare foods and everything for the celebration of the holidays. And as I've heard that made most Korean women hate the holiday.

On the first day , they do all the cooking and preparations for next morning’s offering for the ancestors in the eldest son's house. They had to make “tteok” or rice cakes, “mandu” or Korean dumplings, “jeon” or panfried food and “banchan” or side dishes.

On new year’s day, the adults wake up early to prepare the table for the ancestral rites called “cha-rye”. Foods to be offered are prepared and place properly and attractively on wooden containers (“je-gi”). Every food group has to be represented. There should be food taken from the land as well as the sea. Everybody wears a “hanbok” (traditional korean clothes). Only the men are allowed to do the offering for the ancestors, but the women in my family also pay respects by bowing (called “jeol”).

The men of the family offer the food to the ancestors by placing the spoons in the rice. They will also fill the wooden cups with wine (“sul”) and place them on the stand. After the offering, a white paper with the ancestors’ names written on it is burned. The descendants then bow (men first then the women) and after wards drink the wine and eat the food on the altar.

Then the juniors bow to the seniors and receive their new year’s “sebe ton” (money). And after the ceremony, it's the only time that the whole family can eat thier breafast in the table full of foods same as what they offered in the altar for their ancestors.

Then, they would have to visit the tombs of the ancestors.

4 Minute live in Manila

The cutie 4 minute Korean pop singing group arrived yesterday, Feb. 4'10 here in the Phils.They gonna stay here for 5 days and there's a Press Con in Shangrila Plaza Hotel in Edsa before their Mall Tour.Their first itinerary was in Mall of Asia(that's today), and tomorrow you can see them in SM Mega Mall ( it's along Edsa H-way, too). So be there.

Source: Exclusively from DKP [Daily K Pop News]/by Sukira
(Thanks a lot Sukira ^_^)

They received colorful Malongs

4Minute Press Con @ Edsa Shangri-la Hotel (February 5, 2010)
Source: YT by nonbeliever04

They sang and danced - Hot Issue, Muzik, What A Girl Wants, and Anjulle
There were some fancams but the audio was not good but if you want to see just go to the links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLAQL6C3uXY&feature=player_embedded#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NumdB1kxzXs&feature=player_embedded#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOj_lfK6pM4&feature=player_embedded#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8oYp6yKtU&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcOPfMVN57Y&feature=player_embedded

Mall of Asia (MOA)
Photo credit to freewebs

SM Mega Mall
Courtesy of Panoramio/ Romeo E. Barcena

Love Rules for Single Women

Again want to share with you what I have had read in Glamour Magazine by Margarita Bertsos

15 Love Rules for Single Women

1. “Guys are like subway trains. Don’t run after them; another one is on its way.”
—canuck, on glamour.com

2. “If he says he isn’t ready for a relationship, believe him.”
—Kerri Otto, 32, Traverse City, Mich.

3. “Marry someone you want to sit next to for the rest of your life.”
—Megan Smollins, 26, Astoria, N.Y.

4. “My grandfather had some gems: ‘Don’t be with a stupid man just to be with any man.’ ‘A real man always takes care of his family.’ ‘You don’t want to be walked over, and you don’t want a man you can walk over, either.’ And my favorite: ‘Don’t be a fool, Michelle. You can be anything you want, but don’t be a fool.’”
—Michelle Porter, 28, Charlotte, N.C.

5. “Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.”
—Maya Angelou

6. “The guys who were nerdy in high school make the best husbands.”
—Jennifer Goldstein, 31, Brooklyn

7. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
—Oscar Wilde

8. “You can tell a lot about a guy by how he treats your cab driver.”
—Alanna Sobel, 25, Washington, D.C.

9.“If he likes you, you’ll know. If he doesn’t, you’ll be ‘confused.’”
—sayitloud, on glamour.com

10. “Respect yourself. I said to my ex, ‘I’m not going to make you my everything if I’m only your something.’”
—Alyssa Stabile, 19, Boston

11.“I used to be into bad boys but kept getting burned. Then I heard this: ‘Say no to the guys you usually say yes to, and yes to the ones you normally say no to.’ I did, and it totally worked. I have a great husband now.”
—Laura Knudsen, 27, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

12.“Never marry a man who has no friends.”
—Father Pat Connor, 79-year-old Catholic priest, as quoted by Maureen Dowd in her New York Times column

13.“Never tattoo a guy’s name on your body!”
—Rebekah Rankin, 27, Scottsdale, Ariz.

14.“Personal hygiene is part of the package.”
—Jim Carrey

15.“It’s OK to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s OK to have too much to drink and call your ex 20 times and then to be mortally embarrassed when you realize your number must have shown up on his caller ID. It’s OK, because making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distances you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed.”
—Veronica Chambers, Glamour’s features director and author of The Joy of Doing Things Badly

-Leny: and may I add the number
16. Never lose your personal identity and financial independence. Continue working so that what ever happens you can take care of your self (and kids,in my case as single parent)

FT Island is Going To Manila

The first ever K-Pop Showcase in the Philippines, Spin Manila Inc. is launching FT Island Manila 2010 at the Philippine International Convention Center Plenary Hall (PICC), located at CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd, Pasay City on March 6, 2010. Seats are limited so start your reservation as early as possible. Visit FT Island Manila for ticketing guidelines.

http://www.ftislandmanila.com/

PICC Plenary Hall

YT by mrskwonjiyong

Stay young and live life to the fullest

Live life, laugh lots and love forever

I've seen this somewhere, and copied to share , hope you like it too and live life to the fullest.


1. Throw out nonessential numbers and factors.
This includes age, height, eye and skin color, past stuff and present stuff that you can't change.

2. Keep only cheerful friends.
The grouches pull you down. Who you are attached to will bless you up or mess you up. Make sure that YOU are a cheerful friend and not a grouch.

3. Keep learning.
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

5. Enjoy the simple things. Breath is one of the simple things.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on.
Don't blame others for your situation. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love.
Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. Your body is the most important vehicle you will ever own.

9. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

10. Don't take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.We all need to live life to its fullest each day!

(Author Unknown)