Unlike Christmas eve, we didn't have any party or games last new year's eve. Although we used to have them too before, but I asked the kids to excuse me this time. Although we didn't have a party, it doesn't mean the kids didn't have fun, they did... I guess.
As early as 3PM, I prepared the Crema de tsokolate. Yes, not fruta, because I used chocolates, choco wafer sticks and coffee instead of fruit cocktail. We had that already Christmas so I thought we should have a different flavor for New Year.
After which I prepared the food for hotdog-and-marshmallow-on-cabbage (whatever you may call that). And while Angel was helping me with that, I was cooking the Pancit Canton - the first ever pancit canton I cooked in my entire life.
Although I panicked because I thought the canton would turn into mami, the excess soup banished when I added the noodles. At 9:30PM I was already finished and set everything on the table (except the graham chocolate cake). I went outside where I watched some fireworks occasionally popping in the sky.
The kids were inside playing on the computer, and I had time to spend for myself and think. Sometimes they would go out and see me. Nobody slept, we all waited for the clock to hit 12 o'clock midnight.
At 11:30PM, they were all outside with me, playing with the 'luses' (or luces) that I bought. We never used firecrackers or 'paputok.' Of course, I took their pictures too, as well as videoed some fireworks I can catch on sky.
When all the sparklers where consumed (past 12midnight), we all went inside to eat. As humble as our medya noche maybe, the kids seems to like what I have prepared for them. They ate the pancit canton up to the last noodle and vegetable bit. We also had a box of brownies which my mother gave to us.
We didn't have games, but we had fun. We were all together as we waited for the new year to come. And together, we will always be for the years to come.
Happy New Year to everyone.
More pictures will uploaded in my multiply account.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Our new year celebration
Additional income opportunity
Almost everyone knows that I don't have a regular job. You know, those types wherein you report for work everyday and watching the wall clock the whole day waiting for it to hit 5PM. Seriously, I am without work now although it was more of my own choosing.
But of course, that choice has to be justified as I have kids I need to feed. That's why I'm always searching the net for income opportunities. Almost clicking on every link that promises additional income. Of course I know better. While I may click every link, I do not exactly 'follow through' every time. We have to careful as there are many scams on the net.
Although one site, which is the Plug-In Profit Site appears to be a different one. It is an affiliate marketing that offers not just one, but six different programs from top affiliate marketing companies. Some of which are ClickBank, Traffic Swarm and Host4Profit.
Looks like a good Home Based Business opportunity. A passive income that can give me additional money for daily expenses. From the looks of it, the site have lots of Home Business Ideas too.
I am inclined to check it out. Well, if you are interested too, you can visit their site at http://www.HomeBusiness.us
Maybe, you can find additional source of income too.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
New year REFLECTIONS...
So what's next? 2008 has just ended and 2009 has just started, what is in store for me and my kids this year? If I say that it will be a better year for us isn't exactly realistic for me, but if I say that it could be worse isn't really healthy either.
My year-end post isn't exactly a positive one, and yet my first letter for the year shows me looking forward to a better year - am I confusing myself? What is really my state of being at this point?
Let me put it this way, most of the time I can be seen as a pessimist. Whining here and there, like there is really nothing good happening to me. That I am carrying such a heavy load on my shoulders
Yet there are also times that I would write to project optimism. Like I can do anything, and I mean anything, that I want to do. You can see me writing posts of gratitude and other inspiring lines like I was the inspiration guru.
So, where I am really? Am I a whiner and a loser? Or am I winner and an inspiration?
Either-or, neither-nor? Well, I really don't know. Truth to tell, I take everything that life brings to me. If I am blessed, I will definitely spread the news, because joys multiply when they are shared.
And when I'm down, it does make me feel better if I can pour it all out, even though it is just in writing. It is not really my intention of spreading gloom and letting everybody down - it is just how I write.
Whenever I write, I open my soul. You may not always like or agree in every REFLECTIONS that you read...
Right now, this much I can say, for 2009, expect to see more of these honest and sincere reflections...
for those with too much angst and pains... perhaps, I'll just sugar-coat it.
