It's Mother's Day

Mother's day is fast approaching and so I have created a few post cards for all my friends, cousins and to everyone!

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Imus Cavite and Its Beautiful Church

I am always fascinated with beautiful and yet old churches and Imus Cavite has its own.

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Beach and Summer Getaway Top Pick at Zalora Philippines

I need to go to the market or to the mall to buy your needs. Today online shopping is gaining its popularity as well as the need due to the rapid change of lifestyle in the Philippines due to the BPO industry. And when you say online store, Zalora Philippines is and will always be my choice because of they offer a wide variety of brand that I can choose plus a customer friendly options to pay the bill.

 ZALORA provides you with all the possible ways that you can purchase from us using the payment method you are most comfortable with such as Over the counter payment, credit card (Visa and Mastercard), Paypal and internet banking PLUS CASH ON DELIVERY and your order will be delivered right on your doorstep in 1 to 3 days depending on your location.

Summer is all about FUN.... swimming, company outing, family and friends out of town and vacations and it is always on my list to shop my summer getaway and beach look.

If I would go shopping today for my summer getaway here's what I would buy at Zalora Philippines.

Swimwear is always on my list. The gray and black long trunks is a best choice for me as it is perfect for both swimming, snorkeling, or any water related sports.

My choice of sleeveless is my perfect choice to enjoy the sun, wind and sea. It is trendy but not flashy. It is simply yet it complements the male curves.

Look good and stylish and yet allows you to enjoy the beach. Perfect to be paired by a stylish shoes or your flipflops. You'd look fabulous as well with this boardshorts prints with shades.

Speaking of stylish shoes. I got attracted with this elegant and yet sophisticated shoes. It is easy to wear, it can also complete your summer getaway look as it can easily be paired by your casual wear. What I like most about it is also the shoe's capacity to be paired with your office attire.

Slipper will always have a space in my summer travelling bag. A best flipflop should perfectly fits snuggle and comfortable in your foot.

I would also need a bag that could accomodate all my needs when travelling. This Hawk Travel Bag is perfect for a jetsetter or city hopper like me with the multiple compartments and organizers it can indeed accomodate all my travel essentials while keeping them neat and clean. It is made of durashield fabric which provides enhanced durability and protection from tear and abrasion.

To finally complete my look head to toe look is my eye wear. Of course nothing beats a RayBan. Choosing Ray-Ban Clubmaster is a chic with industrial, angled shaped frame and slick temples that would definitely provide the best definition of your face.

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Lunch at Kalye Juan Restaurant

Kalye Juan became my favorite as they never failed my expectation. Kalye Juan serves a totally affordable budget friendly menu that is equally delicious.

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Circle Island Resort at Molino Cavite

I hate the summer heat but what I like is I got a chance to enjoy swimming in the pool with friends and family. One of the Resorts that we visited for Summer 2013 is the Circle Island Resort a few meters away from my house.

So my mom, my sister and I just packed our swim wears and went to the said resort and enjoyed swimming.

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Restaurant Review: Mangan Restaurant

I wanted to share what I experience when I dine at Mangan Restaurant at Mall of Asia.

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Michael Cinco Wedding Gown 2013

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Michael Cinco, a proud Filipino designer making his name in the international industry. I myself, I must agree that I never happen to know him until Americas Next Top Model featured his worked. That is the time when I started liking all his work.

The first thing that comes to my mind when we say designers is a wedding gown. Well of course there are several types of designers and they have their own specialty. My idea of a wedding gown just like anyone else maybe is to make the bride flourish and become the most beautiful woman in the planet not only to her husband but to the whole family and friend and maybe to everyone who sees the picture of the bride.

I see my cousins when they're deciding in choosing their wedding gowns undergo a meticulously picking of the right fabric up to the right fit.

So when I stumble upon Michael Cinco's wedding gown am definitely sure that the gowns would make you flourish on your very special day. Cinco's eye for details and style comes naturally thus expressed on his wedding gown creation.

I became an avid fan of Michael Cinco of course because of his magnificent work of arts and also because of his determination to succeed. This somehow is really an inspiring attitude to many Filipinos. Cinco for me is an epitome of a working Filipino. We work really hard to achieve our goals in life may it be a simple goal or to a large one.

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A Teachers Thankful Message To Everyone

Here's a message from Jan Irvin Domoguen Kis-ing - a teacher of Colalo Elementary School:

"Colalo Elementary School pupils, teachers and parents would like to extend our deepest appreciation to the Project Mountain Alphabet for blessing us as the first beneficiary . The awesome books given to us shall serve as reminders to us, teachers, to advance learning in rapid phase as possible, pupils will be able to realize how wide the world is with this books. 

at least for now if asked to name animals they can site gazelle, chipmunks and opposum not the usual given examples like dogs, cats and cow. 

Further the school will continue acquiring new books thru their waste collection initiative and School vegetable garden to ensure development of the school library to community library."

MINT Philippines Summer Spring Collection

Every March, Filipino's would have to say goodbye to the cold December-January breeze! March would be brighter and definitely sunnier and warmer! Therefore it is time for the clothing stores to definitely change what's in their stalls to match the Summer season. The same way with the fashionista's, it is time for them to change and or set aside their old wardrobe and definitely come up with a more brighter and summer apparels.

Lets start with the dress. Mint has come up with these diagonal patterns in the dress. I am not fan of diagonal designs as it gives a look and feel of being cut into pieces. However, the clothes Mint has designed comes in a more sophisticated and elegant patterns complemented with such a beautiful color combination.The pictures are my top picks for an office attire if coupled with blazer and a gimik and or party dress at night.

After picking top choices for a party dress, I have also pick my top choices for tops that are or would be available in your favorite MINT Stores.

Summer is all about the colors adorned with simple prints. This would be best complemented with a simple skinny pants, or a simple tattered shorts.

Walking at the beach is really wonderful most especially with these colorful and loose pants.

Summer is really an interesting season for everyone. For me, summer is a time to enjoy and relax despite the blazing heat from the sun. To be really comfortable moving around a pair of floral and plain shorts would always be best.

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It All Started with a Giraffe

Teaching could be so difficult most specially when you are teaching in a barrio. It takes a lot of courage and patience as you have walk at least 3 to 5 kilometers away from your own house. You would need to sacrifice your own comfort and convenient. You would have to sacrifice not seeing your family for 5 days. Above all, teaching in a barrio needs a lot of creativity as there are no or very few resources in the said school.

They Cry for Books

Schools in a barrio gets the least priority in terms of infrastructure and development. They get the least number of books as well. No libraries and proper teaching or instructional materials. My mother was once a a teacher in a barrio and we rarely see her during the weekdays and then she has to leave in the afternoon of Sunday or very early morning of Monday.

My brother Jan Irvin Domoguen Kis-ing follows my mothers footstep. He is also a teacher at a barrio. He is now teaching at Colalo Elementary School. One night during our volunteer work at the said school he mentioned how his library project started and here's the story:

One day, he was energetically teaching about animals and how they are pronounced. My brother said, "this is giraffe and it should be pronounced as gee-raf." Suddenly, one of his student profusely disagreed to my brother and said that it should be pronounced as giraf-fe because the letter "F" is doubled and there is an "E" at the end so it should be the pronounced at giraf-fi his student explained.

My brother asked the student to go ahead and look for the word in the dictionary. He advised his student to look for the dictionary in the library. As the student went ahead and look for the dictionary, my brother continued discussing about the other animal... He grabbed a picture and showed it to his class. Everyone describe it as a cat. My brother said they were wrong because it is not a cat rather it is a PANTHER. Everyone disagreed and they insisted that it was a cat.

When my brother was about to ask his student to go to the library and search for the difference of a panther and a cat. The student came back and said, "Sir there is no dictionary in the library!" To his dismay he just describe the panther to his student and gave them the difference between a cat and a panther.

My brother told himself that the students needs a better library at least to have some basic reference materials that his student could read. That is where he also realized that no one passes their homework every time he gave them definition of words, or proper word pronunciation. He first thought of Books From a Garbage where he is asking his students to collect plastic bottles, bottles, sando bags, papers, etc and they are selling it for a penny to buy books. From that, they were able to buy some books containing animal pictures and information about the animals. My brother thought added a Garden for Books where he asked help from his student to plant and that is where they were able to come up with their first ever dictionary.

Garden for Pencil Project by Jan Irvin Kis-ing

He is satisfied with the outcome though he knew that the progress is really slow. Plus the fact that there are some discouraging words on the side. I rarely see my siblings maybe once a year to be exact. So when we met sometime last year during his civil wedding. He jokingly asked me to donate a few books for the school library. We never discussed about it after that joke.

This is the birth of PROJECT MOUNTAIN ALPHABET.

The Old School Library

When I reached Manila, I sent SMS to my brother asking him to send me a project proposal so at least there's some documents I could show to everyone and it would help in my book collection. However, the Mankayan District Superintendent never signed the project proposal up to this date giving all sort of alibi's.

Collecting of books, fund raising and spreading the word about the project and its purpose has finally reach its end to bring the books and whatever we have solicited to Colalo Elementary School.

Last March 9, 2013 the group composed of 8 people including myself delivered the books from Metro Manila to its destination. Upon reaching Colalo Elementary School we started separating all the goodies and putting them in a school bag (all donated by TROFI).

Sorting of Goodies....

 

The Gift we shared C/O TROFI

These goes to one student.

We spent the whole day of DAY 2 in separating the books according to its subject and building bookshelves. At night we started fixing the books in the shelves and decorating the library.

Sorting of Books according to its kind and Re-Building the Library...

The students reads books as they sort it out...

Cleaning the Shelves...

Arranging the Books in the Shelves....

Some of the books and magazines we bring at Colalo Elementary School Library

We spent the morning of Day 3 through gift giving.

There's nothing in this world who could match to feeling of fulfillment to see our beloved teachers smiles.

 Here are the students who receives your gift...A picture taking with the volunteers

The children's laughter and smile and giggles is the trophy of every volunteer. It is so rewarding to see them really happy because of the gifts they receives from everyone who helped.

Our Trophy is to see them laugh!

See these kids giggle!

He smiles with joy!

Volunteers prepares the bags on the stage!

Isn't it fulfilling to see her smiles....

THE FINAL OUT PUT OF PROJECT MOUNTAIN ALPHABET ADOPT A LIBRARY!

The Panoramic View

 The Book Shelves

 The Teacher who started it all!