Archive for December, 2007
Traveling should be relaxing and fun. I love to travel but I am really poor at planning, making the limited travel opportunities I got, less enjoyable. It is cool to be spontaneous but I worry a lot so I prefer having carefully-planned travels. It would really be great to prepare the travel necessities – flights, [...]
I love doing memes, especially Christmas memes! So I grabbed this onefrom Sandier Pastures: What is your favorite Christmas gift?A pillow or bolster with Tweety printed on it. What is your best memory of Christmas?When my father was still working in a company in Iligan City, we go to the company’s Christmas party. All of [...]
Since I had my parents subscribe to broadband internet connection, I make it a point to talk to my family, especially Shaynna, every night. Of course nobody would chat with me for 3 hours straight. Shaynna usually drops by, say hi and play with me by exchanging emoticons, then rush out to play, then “play” [...]
Before I started out this blog, I have been trying out dozens of free web hosts. I have always enjoyed trying out different page layouts and selecting colors that best suit me. Above all, I want to have a complete reign of this virtual home. Now, that this blog is already more than a year [...]
Didn’t have much time to browse through my pictures so I’m showing you this “small/mini” Tokyo: Miniatures of the places near Tokyo TowerI wanted to take a picture of the small Tokyo tower but my cellphone’s camera couldn’t zoom in enough. Please see the post about these miniatures HERE. As always, thank you very much [...]
This was a pre-Christmas tag from Rolando, then Sani just recently tagged me with it. What are the 5 gifts you would buy for yourself this Christmas, if you had unlimited income? Unlimited, you say? So here goes not just my Christmas wishes but these have been my dreams… 1.) Sponsor anyone’s education if he/she [...]
Time to self-inflict homesickness again, so I scanned through my memory bank for 13 gifts that I could still recall receiving. Truth be told, I haven’t received much “material” gifts from parents and family members because we didn’t really practice buying gifts for family members. But the love our parents shower us is just priceless. [...]
A friend asked for the URL of this blog so I just told her to search for “shiera” in Google. I was pretty sure that she could find me in the first page of the search results but days later, she told me that she didn’t find me in Google. I tried the search and [...]
It’s been more than a year since I left. It’s been a year since I’ve been trying to adapt, but many Philippine condiments are still irreplaceable. Take soy sauce for instance. I’ve been trying to use Kikkoman, but the food I’ve cooked were almost bland, causing me to lose my appetite. Or is it just [...]
I got her face shape, her smile and her voice, but I could never compare to her courage and strength. My mother has a really bubbly personality, that you couldn’t guess she had a very rough life. Her father died when she was 8 years old. Because of the tragedy, her mother broke down and [...]
These are just short spans of the very LONG hiking trail at the Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kyoto. This shrine is dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice. The 4km trail is covered with thousands of these orange torii (gateways), offerings made by worshippers – this explains those markings on the toriis. Uphill [...]
Aunt Kris became mentally incapacitated since she was ten years old. From then on my grandmother patiently took care of her, with the occasional help from her siblings who happened to live next door. As my grandmother grew older, it became a lot more difficult for her to take care of my Aunt Kris. We [...]
