Michael Christian Martinez, our lone representative for the recently concluded Sochi Winter Olympics, held a series of meet and greet event when he visited the country last February 24 and 25 for his Filipino supporters. One of the venue is at SM Megamall, which is just a few blocks away from our office. So I got a chance to see him in person. I arrived at the venue at around 4:30 PM. The meet and greet, as advised will start at 4 in the afternoon. But it hasn't started yet after 30 minutes.. So I looked for a...

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I missed eating gamja (korean glazed potato). I used to buy this treat in a stall inside a mall near our office. So to satisfy my cravings, me and shujin went to the market and bought some baby potatoes to cook my version of it (less the corn syrup). For only Php25, we were able to buy 1/4 kilo of baby potatoes. Then we bought a brick of butter in a bakery (Php31). Other ingredients are the garlic powder and half cloves of garlic. Ingredients: 1/4 baby potatoes 3/4 butter 2 cloves of garlic garlic powder (optional) Procedure: Clean the potatoes...

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Only five months left before our churches most awaited centennial. For the past months, I've been looking for the commemorative 100-peso bill with the INC centennial logo on it. If I remember it correctly, our central bank released this limited edition 100-peso bill on the last quarter of 2013. Since then, I wanted to have one. But not until this year that I finally able to get hold of it. I bought an MRT card and the cashier gave me the bill as change. Yatta! INC Commemorative 100-peso bill Five more months before our church's anniversary, our administration planned...

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Last January, we visited my father's province, Pangasinan, to attend our grandmother's wake. It was really unfortunate because we could have visited Inang (as we fondly call her) more often when she was still strong, if only we have the time and money. Sadly, it's too late. Good thing, my father was able to see her during the holidays. We stayed for only three-days as I have still work and my brother still has to go to school. But I've felt like we've been there for a week because for some reasons, we always feel like time is so slow...

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Maersk Philippines GSC had this one-week long activity for our OTCS department clusters. Five games/contests were held each day separated in two shifts - the morning and afternoon/graveyard shifts. Day 1 was the Amazing Race. We landed 3rd place here. Our Export boss said we were supposed to be on the top spot. However, there was a misunderstanding on the instructions. Day 2 was the Battle of the Brain, Again we’ve got the third spot. Third day was the email writing contest. Unfortunately, we lost in this category. The fourth day was the Movie poster contest. As expected,...

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What do you feel when you are in love? Happy, panicky, giddy? I guess we all felt the same way.  一.  cosmic love . florence and the machine 二.   heartbeat . the fray 三.   lovefool . the cardigans 四.   everything . michael buble 五.   inevitable . anberlin 六.   give my love . edward chun 七.   heart skips a beat . lenka 八.   i won't give up . jason mraz 九.   hearts like ours . the naked and famous 十.   would'nt it be nice . the beach boys 十一. when you look me in the eye . the jonas brothers...

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This fan account has been delayed for over a half year now. Mianhe chingus! I was just too busy doing other stuff (self-studying Nihongo, memorizing the Katakana and Hiragana characters, painting, toying with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop etc) kekeke. So without further ado, here’s my CN Blue Bluemoon concert experience. ========== It was the 15th of June. Four days before my birthday. I will finally see CODE NAME BLUE aka CN Blue! I arrived in Araneta at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Way too early! It’s better to wait and kill time at the venue rather than leaving...

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When you feel like drowning yourself in bed while hugging your pillow as the sky cries, all you need is good music to soothe your soul. 一.   gotta have you  - the weepies 二.   trouble - coldplay 三.   you and me - lifehouse 四.   half-life - duncan sheik 五.   lego house - ed sheeran 六.   tomorrow - avril lavigne 七.   chasing cars - snow patrol 八.   when it rains - paramore 九.   beautiful goodbye - maroon 5 十.   brick - ben folds five 十一. northern lights - cider...

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