Dear Santa I’ve Been Good: Bloggers Christmas Exchange Gift 2

Weeh! Christmas time is here and I am so excited about it. I love cold mornings, I love gifts and I love Christmas. Yahoooo….

Anyway, for this year blogger PM is again hosting a bloggers exchange gift and I am joining. Hindi ako nakasali last year but this time hindi ko na palalagpasin to.

And here’s my wishlist:

Something small: silver butterfly earrings
Something big: backpack
Something cute: pillow for my baby
Something soft: pillow for me
Something techie: ipod?
Something fancy: anything red
Something red: jacket
Something wearable: wrist watch
Something you need: red wallet
Something you can use for work: planner
Something sweet: chocolates, chocolates, chocolates…kahit hindi pa ako pwede kumain ng madami nyan!
Dear Santa I’ve Been Good and I really, really, really want: to have a laptop or netbook before the year ends. Hehehe……try lang! malay mo may magdonate.

So, what are you waiting for? Hop at PM’s blog to see the mechanics and let’s all have fun.

my new baby!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present to you my new baby.

Tada….


I am so excited to use it na and upload more pictures here in my blog. But please excuse me for a while coz I have to familiarize this first. I still need to read and understand the manual at baka ano pa mapindot ko dito. Hehehe.

December 2009 Highlights

December is my favorite month of the year. The Christmas bonus, the Christmas shopping, the Christmas gifts, the Christmas parties and all the Christmas preparations are some of the things that made me love this holiday season. Of course, stress and some unexpected problems are always there but hey set them aside for a while. They are just spices of life!

For this year, December is another milestone for me for some reasons/highlights:

►EB with Jeanny. Yeah! Finally, I was able to met Jeanny and had a wonderful chat with her last December 11. For my 31 years of existence, it was my first time to go on EB. At first, I was so afraid that I might just bore her. Mas madalas kasi akong tahimik. But hey, hindi ata kami nauubusan ng kwento at parang ang bilis lumipas ng oras.

►Won and received prize from kg’s contest. Thanks God coz kg added two more prizes on her contest and that randomizer favored me this time. I think my new pen name/nick name got me lucky here as well. Hehehe. Thank you so much kg for these:
►Lots of gifts. Happiness is for all the gifts that I had received this year. A million thanks goes to:

jeanny for this:

redlan for these:

sheng for this:

my boss and officemates for these (and for some gifts that I failed to take picture):

►First Christmas at our new home. This year since it was our first time to celebrate Christmas at our new home, hubby and I decided to ask our family to join us. We let them traveled from the province to be with us on Christmas.

We prepared bags of candies & chocolates for the carolers. On the 24th of December, carolers started to arrive as early as six o’clock in the evening. KA enjoyed a lot. She entertained all the carolers. She danced as the carolers sang. And the funniest part, she shouted wala pang kanta…wala pang kanta…then she requested boom-tarat-tarat. After boom-tarat-tarat, ikaw na nga…ikaw na nga! Hehehe

Then, at around 8 o’clock (since maaga natutulog ang aking Santa Claus) I let her gave all the gifts.

Papicture muna si Santa ha:

For our Noche Buena we had bihon, sandwich, ham, fruit cake, chocolate cake and buko salad. Hubby and I also made sure that we had red wine for the ladies and alfonso for the heavy drinkers (my father & my father-in-law).

Though we only had a simple Christmas celebration at home, the joy/happiness brought about of being together for the celebration is immeasurable.

How about you? I hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas celebration too.

my christmas wish list

I love writing my wish list because it gives me the guide and inspiration to work hard to be able to achieve or have all those things in my list. Sometimes genie and/or santa claus give me some rewards and grant my wishes. Though sometimes along the way or as time goes by, my likes or interest change, giving me a shift of things in my list. Like for example in the wish list that I made few months ago, I was so lucky to have and read some of the books written by Bob Ong, a complete set of the twilight series and some books of Sophie Kinsella. Though I was not able to have any book of Jennifer Weiner, I was able to have books by Paulo Coelho and Sidney Sheldon. These two authors captured my interest and made me forgot some of the books listed in my wish list including those of Weiner.

Today, one month before christmas, I want to create my Christmas wish list.

Of course, I know that some of the stuffs in my wish list are really just WISHES and I know that I am not rich enough to buy all these. But who knows, if santa claus might just land on our house and deliver some of these gifts to me. And as like as what Napoleon Hill quote:
“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

So, here’s my wish list:

For my Family
♥ good health

♥ car

♥ new clothes & shoes for KA

♥ New clothes for hubby

gadgets for me
♥ Acer laptop computer

{via}

♥ wrist watch

♥ digital camera

♥ ipod

{via}

stuff for my closet
♥ new backpack

♥ new shoes

♥ new clothes

more books for me
♥ bloodline by Sidney Sheldon

♥ nothing last forever by Sidney Sheldon

♥ best laid plans by Sidney sheldon

♥ by the river piedra I sat down and swept by Paulo Coelho

♥ winner stands alone by Paulo Coelho

♥ the alchemist by Paulo Coelho

travel for the whole family
♥ trip to Boracay

♥ trip to Bohol

♥ trip to Avilon Zoo

other
♥ I wish and I hope that the road from Quezon City to Montalban via Litex be repaired as soon as possible

For now, these are all I could think about. Sobrang dami! Anyway, libre naman ang mangarap. Hehehe.

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This is also my entry to the 52WoC task#47 by Shai Coggins.

beautiful but small!

These are the pasalubong that my in-laws brought 2 weeks ago.

They know how fond I am with the native slippers like these. But sad to say, they are small and I can’t use it. I asked my sister if these will fit her but she said it’s too small for her too.

So, I’ll just put these in my collection of gifts to be given away this coming Christmas.

What do you think?

blog love: from across the miles

Yes, my secret Santa who seemed to be a no secret at all to me since December 19 last year is from New Zealand. Her name is Nicola. She spoiled the holiday thrill because she was so worried about the package she sent to me. She told me in her e-mail last December that she sent the parcel sometimes last week of November yet she doesn’t hear anything about it from me. But I told her in my reply that her package might just trap and delayed due to the volume of packages sent in time for the holiday season.

Last Friday, January 9, the notice about the parcel finally arrived. Upon reading the notice, I immediately run to claim my parcel at the central post office which I know that it is from her. I was so excited about it.

Though the package arrived late, I can say that it’s worth my wait. I so love everything that she sent to me. Thank you very much sweetie!

Come, let’s see what I got:

a Christmas card, a kiwi Christmas decoration and chocolates

☺☺☺

On the other hand, this beautiful postcard from Abu Dhabi arrived together with the parcel notice I mentioned earlier.

This one came from the ever thoughtful and sweet lady, Ms. Jo, of witsandnuts. Jo, maraming salamat mula sa kaibuturan ng aking puso.

You guys really made me happy. I love you ladies.

☺☺☺

"Let us be grateful to people who makeus happy;

they are the charming gardenerswho make our souls blossom."

~ Marcel Proust~

Blog love: thank you!

Just like you I am also busy catching up my deadlines. But I still have until January 15 to finish tons of work at my desk. Good luck to me!

Before the day end, I would like to say thank you to all the people who remembered me and greeted me last Christmas and New Year. You guys made me happy.

Special thank goes:

To shai coggins for these early Christmas gift.

To jeanny for this pretty and yummy looking Christmas card. I got this before I take the long holiday break.

And of course, thank you to sheng for these beautiful Christmas card and necklace. I got these two days before I go back to work. Just timing to cheer up my spirit and be ready again to face tons of work at the office.

Also, I would like to extend my thank you to purple ink who always be a very special person to me, to redlan, to iluvgreen, to mel, to nance, to dong, to spool artist, to witsandnuts, to miss firefly, to javaqueen, to toni, to at wits end, to ibyang, to nicola, to the girl with the curl, to caryn, and to all the lovely guys who left comments in my post. Guys you made my blogging life so meaningful. You guys inspired me. Thank you very much!

This poem is for all of you:

Thank You!
By Joanna Fuchs

I really appreciate you,
Your helpful, giving ways,
And how your generous heart
Your unselfishness displays.


I thank you for your kindness,
I will not soon forget;
You’re one of the nicest people
I have ever met.

I love you all…. Mwuah!

a short message

Dear friends,

Sorry for not visiting your site more often this time and i'm sorry for not replying on your comments too. I am no longer busy with my work but I am just feeling so lazy. After all the hardwork, the overtime, the rushing for lots of work before the holidays and of course the christmas party. Now, I am feeling so down. I feel like I lost all my energy. And all I really want this time is to take time for myself and have enough rest so I can fully enjoy the holiday season.

But before I take my vacation, let me share to you my favorite pictures taken during our office Christmas party.

Here I’ll introduce to you my very own little Santa. She is the Santa Claus who doesn’t give gifts on Christmas instead she is the one who ask gift from everyone. Hehehe.

Little Santa with her lovable papa

Little Santa with yours truly

Oh guys, what yah all think? Do little Santa looks like her papa or her mama?


With that I just wish everyone to have a Merry-Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!




See you all next year.

With love,
~blue rose

Blog love: my four seasons notebook plus goodies in-transit

I know I am not lucky to win in any raffle or contest. But my patience and determination always give me rewards.

When I joined Shai’s 52WoC tasks for partly #7, random org never favored me for the four raffles. But Shai decided to gave special prize for this round of tasks to the contender who completed the tasks. And she declared that I’m the sole contender who completed the tasks. Hooray for me! I do not know if my fellow 52WoCer just gave way for me to have the prize or they are just so busy to complete the tasks. But whatever their reasons, it made me won the special prize alone. So, I would like to say thank you very much guys.

Then, two weeks ago the package from Australia arrived. I was so happy and so excited the moment I got it. I was so eager to see what’s inside but hubby requested if he can just open it for me and see for himself the treasures that I got. So, I let him opened the package. Just like me, he was so happy too.

Here’s what I got, my four seasons notebook:

My favorite is the blue one of course, which is the summer notebook. In this special notebook I will write all the important numbers and information about me and all the people close to my heart. Like for example, their birthdates, our bank accounts details, our GSIS number, SSS, TIN, etc...etc...etc…
Another special notebook, the winter, will hold all the details of the persons I met in the net like their names addresses, birthdates and other related details.
The other two special notebooks, which are the autumn and the spring, will just put on stand-by for a while. I still don’t have any idea on what among the important things in my life to write on them. I will decide later.
And she also added a christmas card.

I so loved them all. And I would like to say a million thanks to Shai Coggins for giving me these special notebooks.

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On the other hand, last Friday I sent something for my friends. Actually, I was only supposed to send a Christmas card but on the last minute I decided to include a simple token of appreciation for the friendship that they gave to me.

Guys, pardon me for I don’t know what to give. I know that you guys have almost everything in life. Those are not pricey things but I hope that you’ll gonna like them.

Here are the goodies I sent:

Hey, before I forget, one of the recipients doesn’t know that I got her mailing address. I am not a “manghuhula”. I just got your mailing address from one of your posts. I decided not to verify it from you because I want to surprise you. Hope you just don’t mind what I did.

That’s it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

who was the first person to know your real name?

It was last year when my very dear friend, purple ink, introduced me to blogger. She also taught me how to do it. Thank you very much sis!

During that time, I decided to just use a pen name so that no one except her will know who is behind the love and life blog. I am so ashamed to tell the whole blogosphere my real name. Not because my name is ugly. Actually, I love my name. The real reason why I decided to use pen name is because I just don’t want people special those who knew me personally that I am the one behind my blog. If those people close to me happen to stumble upon my blog and know that it is me behind everything, they might tease me over and over again. And I really hate that. I know I am not good in writing but I am trying my best to write what’s on my mind and what’s in my heart.

But my secret is now no longer a secret. Almost all my unit mates knew that I have my own blog. One of them, actually used to tease me by shouting”blogger, blogger” every time he saw me browsing the net even if I am just checking my e-mail or simply searching for something or anything on the google. But time just passed by. He gave up and he stops teasing me especially when I decided to ignore him. Today, teasing was never heard again.

I also got fun in visiting other blogs. Bloghopping then was part of my daily life. When I got so down and blue, reading other blog made my day and keep me inspired. Until such time that I got the habit of leaving a comment on their blog as my way of appreciation especially when I can so relate to the topic that they are talking about.

Time really flies so fast. I gained friends. And that was a greatest thing on my blogging life that I have to thank the Lord. You guys are really my inspiration and your comments and appreciations about anything I wrote made my day and made me inspired to continue blogging.

Through time, I also discovered that joining the contest or the blogger giveaways are really fun and exciting. Even though I am not lucky in any raffle or contest, the excitement that it gave to me matters most.

When Shai Coggins launched her holiday fun swap, I decided to join. It made me submit my real name and mailing address for the first time to a person I only met online. And at the same time she needed that information for her to send my prize for winning in her contest by completing the 52 WoC task #27-30. See, I think it’s time for you to head over her blog and experience the joy and excitement in joining her community task as well as reading her blog.

Then, as time for the holiday season, sheng over anything goes asked for my mailing address as well as Ms Jo of witsandnuts.

Sooner or later, the whole blogosphere will know my real name.

How about you? Do you use your real name or just a pen name? Why?

the holiday fun swap

when caryn launched her creative swap project, i was so tempted to join. but sad to say, i am not creative so i decided not to join coz i took pity on whoever will be my assigned partner.

but when shai coggins announced the holiday fun swap, i never had a second thought and i joined. because she said it can be anything. that means i can only just "buy".

after i signed up, i immediately bought my gifts to whoever my assigned secret swap partner.

i decided to gave these:

a rose quartz with 9-eyed DZi bracelet, a parker pen,

notecard with a pin where i can write and say hello to my partner and a smiley pin set

i am also got worried on how much will it cost to send a package internationally. i phoned to a certain courier and he quoted me at P2060. i also phoned to the post office near the office and the lady who answered the phone quoted me at less than P1000 for the international express mail service. yeheeey... the post office is the solution!

then, the moment i got an email from shai informing me on who will be my secret swap partner, i immediately prepared everything and run in a hurry to the post office. wishing that my partner gonna love everything that i picked.

yesterday, i received an e-mail from my swap partner and she said she got my gifts to her and that she loves them all.

thank you so much to you dear for appreciating all the goodies that i sent to you.

merry christmas!