Florence’s Blog

I was tagged by Setsu to answer this meme. So, let me take a break from reading some boring paper and do this :).

Two Names You Go By:
1. Florence
2. Cindy

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Yellow Shirt
2.Gray long shorts (duh hehe)

Two Of Your Favorite Things:
1. Chocolates
2. Books

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. Find a solution to my research topic
2. Find a cheap, but bigger apartment for us

Two Favorite Pets You Have Or Had:

I’m not really much of an animal lover, but here are some pets I had before:

1. Dogs
2. Birds

Two People You Hope Will Fill This Out:
Anyone who is interested

Two Things You Did Last Night:
1. Surf the net
2. Read a book

Two Things You Ate Last Night:
1. Pizza
2. Chocolate Cake

Two People You Last Talked To:
1. My mother-in-law
2. My mama

Two Things You Are Doing Tomorrow:
1. Cook
2. Go to a picnic by the Isar river with friends

Two of Farthest Trips Taken In The Last 5 Years:
1. US
2. India

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Anything that involves the beach
2. Anything that involves getting together with my family and friends

Two Favorite Beverages:
1. Apfelschorle
2. Bubbly water

Just want to share some of the morning news I read today while having breakfast and some one word comment for each of them. All articles are from GMANews.tv.

‘No uniform’ policy also applies to high school - DepEd chief

MANILA, Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s order scrapping the wearing of school uniforms also includes those in public high schools, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus said Tuesday. [Read whole article]

  Good!

Imelda to appear as hostile witness in Lucio Tan case Wednesday

MANILA, Philippines - The Sandiganbayan on Tuesday clarified that former First Lady Imelda Marcos will testify on the ill-gotten wealth case against business tycoon Lucio Tan in a hearing scheduled for June 4. [Read whole article]

  Ironic~

Tornado oddities: Toilet paper unwinds and rewinds

HUGO, Minn. - As residents in Hugo begin to move on from last week’s tornado, some say they noticed a few bizarre things amid all the damage. Jason Akins said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom — draped it across the countertop, then rewound it in the sink. The toilet paper didn’t even rip. [Read whole article]

:-O Interesting!

* All articles are courtesy of GMANews.Tv

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Hello my dear blog friends. Belated Happy mothers to all of you! (just to the mothers ofcourse hehehe)

Due to the busy schedule that I have as of the moment, both social (blame it on the very nice weather hehehe) and studies, I haven’t been updating my blog for a few weeks now. Instead, I just have pictures to share on my multiply. You have to be a contact in order to see most of the pictures :).

See you on my multiply!

I was tagged by Charlotte.

1. What is your occupation?
Professional…. student (hehehe)

2. What color are your socks right now?
white

3. What are you listening to right now?
German people talking on the hallway

4. What was the last thing that you ate?
cheese sandwich

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
Yes

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Green

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
My father-in-law

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Yes.

9. Favorite drink?
Orange Juice

10. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Nothing

11. Have you ever dyed your hair?
Yes (Is cellophane considered as dying hair?)

12. Pets?
None

13. Favorite food?
Filipino and Chinese food

14. Last movie you watched?
Nim’s Island

15. Favorite Day of the year?
None in particular

16. What do you do to vent anger?
Talk to the person I’m angry with, or if I cannot talk to him/her directly, I talk to my hubby or sister about that person.

17. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Miniature Kitchen and Clay

18. What is your favorite, fall or spring?
Spring

19. Hugs or kisses?
Hugs

20. What kind of pie?
Pizza

21. Do you want your friends to email you back?
Ofcourse

22. Who is most likely to respond?
My TRUE friends

23. Who is least likely to respond?
The lazy ones

24. Living arrangements?
I am living with my husband

25. When was the last time you cried?
Last week

26. What is on the floor of your closet?
Folded pants

27. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to?
Loraine and Joyce

28. The friend you have known the shortest amount of time that you are sending this to?
Kookie

29. Favorite smell?
Victoria’s Secret Love spell body splash

30. What inspires you?
Smart and successful but down-to-earth people

31. What are you afraid of?
Losing somebody I love

32. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers?
Cheeseburger

33. Favorite car?
Volkswagen new beetle

34. Favorite cat breed?
None. I don’t like cats.

35. Number of keys on your key ring?
3

36. How many years at your current job?
Job? Do I have one? hahaha

37. Favorite day of the week?
Friday!!!

38. How many provinces have you lived in?
2 (Agusan del Norte and NCR)

39. How many countries have you been to?
5 (Philippines, Japan, USA, India, Germany)

I will be tagging Loraine, Joyce, Chris and Kookie. Four smart and inspiring women (who blogs) that I know ;).

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The last two weeks have been exciting and exhausting.

Last April 5, I flew to Cerritos California to visit my sister, brother and their families. My parents were also there visiting and arrived there last March. I was quite surprised when I got to the Los Angeles airport since it felt like I was in the Philippines because, most of the employees i have seen at the airport were Filipinos. LA have so many people with different races that you wouldn’t know which country you are in if you just appear there magically hehehe.

The few days that I stayed in California was spent by doing some shopping (ahem), watching the movie Nim’s island together with my sister and her kids, and helping my sister with some household chores like cleaning and doing the laundry. She has four adorable-but-oh-so-kulit kids (12,11,6 and 7 years old) and it’s quite a challenge to ask them to help around the house. I also visited my brother’s house a couple of times, mostly to eat dinner hehehe.

Last April 9, the whole family flew to Las Vegas to meet the other half of the clan :). We watched several shows like Mamma Mia, The Worlds’ Greatest Magic Show and Cirque de Soleil (Ka and Mystere). We also spent a lot of time in the pool which explains my ’sunog’ color :). After more than a year of not going to the beach, I was happy to fry myself under the sun and swim to my heart’s content. And ofcourse, other than the wholesome activities, we also hit the slot machines… what’s the use of going to Las Vegas if you’re not going to do a little gambling right? hehehe.

After Las Vegas, the other half of the family went back to California, while my parents, sisters (and family) and I flew to Virginia. Since I only had little time to spend there (and was able to visit it before anyway), I didn’t do much sight seeing. Last Saturday, my sister enrolled us in a cooking class where we were taught to bake some desserts. The class was divided to three groups and each group has to make one type of dessert. Our group was assigned to bake some Meringue with some coconut and topped with glazed mango. Aside from the assigned desserts, every group was also asked to make chocolate mousse. After the class, all of us ate the four types of desserts (chocolate mousse, strawberry shortcake, meringue and some pie). Grabe! Super busog kami (at medyo nasusuka dahil puro matatamis ang kinain namin hehehe). That night, my sister’s parents-in-law invited us for dinner and had a birthday cake prepared for us four April birthday celebrants (papa, mama, ate M and me).

The vacation was fun since I get to spend time with my family, but it was also very exhausting for me. Now, I’m happy that I’m back to my normal routine (and have a little peace and quiet hehe) and back to my dear hubby.

*More pictures available at ftbalagt.multiply.com (only for contacts)

After a long sleepless flight, I was really happy that a sweet surprise was waiting for me when I got back home.

Thank you dear for making my birthday a happy one :).

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It’s a cold and quiet Thursday today in the lab. There are only 3 people present in my floor and 1 person in the second floor. It seems like people are already taking an early vacation since tomorrow is a holiday which is Karfreitag or Good Friday which will last till Ostermontag or Easter Monday (the day after Easter Sunday? Don’t ask me, Ostermontag is also new to me… hehehe). It’s quite nice to have some peace and quiet though and to be able to gather my thoughts and think about my research… but the problem is… I have all the resources and silence that I need in order to be productive, but I’m just not in the mood to do anything with regards to research today :(. I just downloaded some papers that I’m supposedly going to read during the holidays, just to accomplish something (plus this blog entry hehe). I just hope I’ll have enough will power to finish reading at least one paper :).

Tomorrows plan basically consist of visiting some churches around the Marienplatz area and have dinner at a friend’s house. It’s kind of strange people greeting me Frohe Ostern or Happy Easter, when Good Friday hasn’t even passed yet. I hope the weather won’t be as nasty tomorrow as what is shown in the weather forecast, although it would be a good form of penance to go outside at -4 degrees Celcius (plus rain).

Well… just to copy what the Germans do, I’ll just greet everyone in advance…

Happy Easter! Frohe Ostern!