www.morefoodadventures.blogspot.com

I have a new blog which I created for food related topics. I call it MORE FOOD ADVENTURES. It is still under construction. But soon I shall be posting all food related topics there. Hope you visit that site too. In the meantime, I have posted copies of my previous food related posts from all my blogs there. Soon after, it will have every new food related posts that I shall be doing. I should like to think that this blog segregation will make my blogging a better experience.... Not only for me but for all my readers as well..

If you have ideas or suggestions, you may send me email or leave me a comment here. Or maybe even leave the comment there...

Well, see you there... this is the link www.morefoodadventures.blogspot.com

Online Food Market

My student, Jamillah, brought me a treat made of coconut milk and cornflour. It looks weird at first but once you taste it, it is definitely YUMMY. I asked her how it is prepared and she said it is simple. But preparing it goes with tradition and culture. The food she gave me can only be prepared by a "Muslim" (a person in the practise of the Islamic faith). Well, that was three years ago. Jamillah is now in the US, working as a Nurse. Hmm.. Am I that old? hehehe... Never mind...

Anyway, she was chatting with me the other night and she said she is about to prepare the foodie she gave me years ago, and that she just came from an Asian Store to purchase the ingredients. Then our chat centered on the foodies available in the store. And I am so amazed because lots and lots of stores have opened to help the cultural minorities in the area find the food they want to prepare and eat. Aside from the sores that are sprouting, it is already easier to find said stores because they can be found with just a click.

Do you know that you can find a large selection of ethnic food products online? Yup, that is correct. There are lots of online foods available. There are over 4500 various ethnic food products and it is definitely growing everyday. What I specifically like is the fact that wherever in the United States, there is a flat rate for shipping and that is in the amount of $4.99 only. Amazing huh? What's more, it carries food from all over the world. You can get Asia, Indian, European, Middle Eastern, South American foods and have them delivered at your doorsteps. Plus, if you are simply trying out other country cuisines, there are lists of over 4000 recipes for various food dishes. Wow.. Thinking about that just make my mouth water. Specially because I just came from practice and I am oh so hungry... By far, you can consider it the largest ethnic super market---online. Now if there are foods that you wish to get but could not get them mainly because you do not know where, the think again. Because www.efooddepot.com offers hard to find food products such as, snacks, sauces, spices, cooking mixes, sweets, cookies, beverages, and many others...

YUMMY SUNDAY

Here are some of the food we had during our eat all you can luncheon meeting for the 3rd year level advisers of our school... My YUMMY SUNDAY entry for this week... We had lunch at Mindy's, and the said eat all you can costs P 170.00 per head... I love the prawns, but I was not able to take pictures of it... anyway, enjoy...

THOUGHTS TO PONDER ON LOVE...

A friend sent this on email...sharing with you here some thoughts to ponder on...In one way or another, they make sense.. Don't you think so???

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

7 CHURCHES

Here is the promised slide show for our church visitation. What should have been 14 churches was narrowed down to seven. We had a little girl with us so we should consider the time. But of course, Zarelle enjoyed every moment during the visits...

And of course, she had her personal intentions too... And I am sure God will hear her prayers...

Church Visits...

We are going to visit 14 churches tonight. I will be posting details on all of my blogs for everyone to see them... Will post them later after we are done with the visits...

I shall be editing this post, so just keep posted ok...

A NEW BEGINNING...

This is a repost from my other blog, EMPOWERED MOM... Just thought I should share this here...

I actually got this photo from a friend's friendster account. A picture of her first time to assist in another woman's giving birth... It is always an amazing event, the actual experience of witnessing BIRTH... Amazing how a vagina spreads out to let out a new life that has waited months for his or her first day on the outside world... As a mother, it was really amazing how a new life comes out from your very own body... All the pain and the cramps and the nine months of having the baby inside you can not compare to that very moment the baby comes out... A miracle indeed... I thank God for blessing me with a wonderful, intelligent and beautiful daughter... What more can I ask for...

Eve Ensler, the author of the world's most controversial, provocative (and I should say women's spiritual rediscovery of the world of womanhood...) book, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, have written a very wonderful monologue about the Vagina and Giving Birth... It is called, "I WAS THERE"...

A new life that comes out in this world deserves all good that we can give... Love, Security, Peace, A Name, Education, A future--- everything that is stipulated in THE RIGHTS OF A CHILD... I hope all parents will stand up for their children and give them the life that they deserve...

Goodbye Yenyen...

Yenyen said goodbye tonight. As expected, I knew she was to leave. I could not tell her not to, after all, we are all entitled to find our happiness, our future. She just has to go... And I gave her my blessing. I hope she finds what she is looking for in life. I hope she will be happy.

She too is a good employee. I am amazed at how much she has to put up with being the eldest of her siblings and having a sick father to care for.

Am pretty sure Baby Zar will miss her.

An Invitation from CINEMALAYA

For its fifth edition, the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival launches the first Cinemalaya-NETPAC Prize. Cinemalaya joins the list of select prestigious film festivals throughout the globe which have partnered with the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) in order to cite the finest new works from the region. NETPAC is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries and is composed of critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, as well as film educators. Other NETPAC partners include the film festivals of Singapore, Pusan, Jeonju, Kerala, Kazakhstan and Osian’s Cinefan in Asia; Berlin, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Vesoul in Europe; Brisbane in Australia; Hawaii in the US; Antalya in Turkey and Black Nights in Estonia.

The Cinemalaya-NETPAC Prize will be given to new independent works that will premiere at the Cinemalaya 2009 festival this 17 to 26 July at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The current batch of Cinemalaya 2009 full-length features in the main competition are not eligible for this award.

This special Cinemalaya award is open to all full-length digital features that will have its Philippine premiere during the Cinemalaya festival. Filmmakers who are interested in participating should submit an entry form (will be available after Holy Week break) by 1 May 2009. Nine to fourteen titles will be selected to hold their premieres during the festival and vie for the 1st Cinemalaya-NETPAC Prize. A panel composed of international and local jurors will select the prize which will be given, along with the other Cinemalaya awards, during the awards ceremony on 26 July at the CCP Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theatre).

For more info, please call CCP Media Arts at 832 1125 locals 1702 and 1705.

Holy Week Heat...

It's Tuesday on a Holy Week... The weather is not so good. The heat is overwhelming.. Since yesterday we felt the surging heat eating up our skin like it's going to burn it, even if it was as early as 8 in the morning yet...

What a very HOT day it was... and now again.

It seems that the weather is also into the LENTEN mood...

With this heat, I just want to stay at home and have the running water of the shower pour all over me... UGH!!!


But I think after the Holy Week everything will be okay then....

ARIZONA RELOCATION

It's so so hot here in Cagayan de Oro City today..ugh, CDO Summer is really bad for me now!!! It totally burns the skin! I hate it. But of course, since I live here, I do not have a choice but live, lol...And of course, it's not always like this really. On most days, it's cool even when your under the heat of the sun...with suntan and sunglasses, you'll be fine.

If I have the chance to migrate to the US, I will choose to live in Arizona. Arizona relocation would be the best option, I think. See, the whether is similar so I guess I will not have a difficulty adjusting.

So maybe when I choose a job and a new home, Arizona would be the choice. It's currently about 80 degrees in Ariozona now, so the heat is tolerable for me... lol...

Oh dream on... hahaha... but really, I'm serious...