Be Frugal – Or Not

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Posted on 13th April 2010 by Mary Jane in Escapades | Fixations | Life | Personal | Random

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I know some people are not really too happy about my “extra-curricular” activities. They don’t approve of my traveling and the other stuffs I’m doing. But you know what, I don’t really care what they say (if you know me well enough then you must know that already.)

You know what I tell everyone who asks why I am being or acting the way I am right now? I just say: Leave me along because unlike you I am living my life to the fullest. I’m just making the most out of my life, enjoying the moment and savoring the fruits of my hard work. I deserve to be happy. and I have learned not too long ago that life is really short. We’ll never know when our time is going to be. But I know that when that time comes there won’t be too much regret inside my heart because I have lived my life to the fullest!

So please just let me live my life. And please get a life of your own while you’re at it!

PS.
I am gradually practicing frugality. Yes I really am, believe it or not. :)

You Live You Learn

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Posted on 3rd February 2010 by Mary Jane in Family | Life | Personal

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And what do you know I remembered my blog!

How are you my niche? It has been a while since the last time that I poured my heart out to you. Maybe I was just afraid that someone might be reading what I’m writing here. Someone who I don’t really want to know what I’m really feeling because I am not used to sharing my feelings with him or her. But I guess I don’t have to worry about that now right? You have come a long way my blog. You are a part of a community now. You don’t belong to only me anymore. This might be the last blog post that I’m going to share with you how I’m really feeling these days.

So many things has happened last year. I thought it was going to be the best year of my life. But it was not. Year 2009 started really great actually. I was having the best time of my life. I finally had the freedom that I have always dreamed of. I was having fun with Tim. I felt so loved by him, my family and my few close friends. I was traveling to places I have never been. I had (and still have) the best job and the best boss ever. I work on my own time. I had (and still have) the financial freedom that I have always wanted. Everything was going so well. But the year 2009 left a devastatingly huge black hole of emptiness in my life.

I have learned so many things last year. One of them is to value time. Especially the time that you have with your loved ones, your family. I don’t have to explain why right? Now I believe that life is definitely too short. To those who don’t know this yet, don’t wait for your very own wake up call.

I have always tried to live my life to the fullest without stepping on someone else’s life. And I will continue to do so. I just want to get something out of my system. I just want the whole world to know that even though I am laughing, smiling and acting like everything’s doing great right now, it’s because I have accepted the fact that my father is gone. I know and feel that he is in a better place right now watching over us. And I also know that if I will be a really good girl, I will be with him too when the time is right.

God I miss Papang. :(

Happiness

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Posted on 22nd August 2009 by Mary Jane in Life | Love | Media | Music | My Bebeh | Personal

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The happiest people in the world are those who have a hard time recalling their worries..

and an easy time remembering their blessings.

–Alin Austin

A Happy Weekend!

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Posted on 18th August 2009 by Mary Jane in Events | Friends | Friendship | Iloilo | Iloilo Bloggers

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Iloilo Bloggers (photo courtesy of Junelle)

I had an awesome weekend! And this post is so late. LOL. Last Saturday August 15th was the first meet-up of the Iloilo Bloggers. We had lunch at Fort San Pedro and discussed the future of our group. We elected a new set of officers and planned for future events and meet-ups. Congrats to Claire – our new President! The lunch and meeting was fun because everyone really had the best sense of humor. You should hear Efren and Junelle laugh! It was also great to see Marcos again and I’m glad to meet Antoine Greg in person. We are also recruiting Ronald to become a member of the group as well as some of Junnjun’s friends! :D

To know more about the meet-up you can go here and for pictures you can click here.

And last Sunday, Tim went home to Kabankalan so I had the chance to hang out with my best pals Monica and Amy. We had lunch and coffee. I haven’t seen Amy since we went to Guimaras in May so we had so much stuff to ‘talk’ about. LOL. Monica and I meet often so I don’t miss her. Joke lang Nix!harhar!

MJ, Nicay & Mimay

For more photos of my Sunday please check out my photoblog. :D

Iloilo Bloggers Meet-Up on Saturday(Aug. 15th)

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Posted on 13th August 2009 by Mary Jane in Events | Iloilo | Iloilo Bloggers

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Iloilo Bloggers

Calling all members of IloiloBloggers.com, we are having our very first meet-up this Saturday, August 15th so all members are invited to attend. We are having lunch at Fort San Pedro so please come on or before 12PM alright? Don’t worry about the tab because some members are going to take care of it but if you want to contribute you are very welcome to do so too. We will discuss the following agenda:

Meeting Agenda:

  • Getting to know
  • Event to put up
  • Site / Group administrators
  • Fund raising activities
  • Mode of communication
  • Suggestions for improvement

So for those who want to attend please RSVP here. You can also state your suggestions and expectations there. Hope to see more Iloilo Bloggers this Saturday! :D

SM City Iloilo’s FREE Wifi Launch

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Posted on 2nd August 2009 by Mary Jane in Events | Iloilo | Iloilo Bloggers

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“SM believes that no customer should be left behind.”

-Mr. Abraham Imas

Last Friday, July 31st, I attended SM City Iloilo’s Free WiFi Launch with the Iloilo Bloggers and some of my blogger and VA friends. It was not as great as we expected because for one it didn’t start on time but still we managed to have fun and fulfill our duties as bloggers. We took photos and now I am writing my blog post. I met more members of the Iloilo Bloggers (it was really nice to finally meet Efren, Vincent Juanga of Inicenti, Alvin of Oh My Iloilo and Vincent of ExploreAklan!) and I also saw some popular Pinoy billiard players too and an upcoming presidentiable (although he’s not part of the WiFi event). I thought the launch was for bloggers, forumers and IT people only but it actually was not. It was also for the Senior Citizens, the families of the OFWs, people from OWWA, and various IT organizations and students from the different schools here in Iloilo as well. Everyone received freebies from SM and their sponsors.  Jonha, Monica and I also won a GC courtesy of Figaro from the raffle . A Lola Techie from the Senior Citizens organization won a Nokia Phone too! Congratulations to her!

I would like to thank SM City Iloilo for inviting the Iloilo Bloggers and of course for the freebies and the free Wifi. A big thank you to all the sponsors; Jollibee (for the free meal), Netopia (for the Click Club membership card and Microsoft Training gift card), Café CelinaMister Donut, Our Home, Saint Café, Picture City, Bo’s Café, SM Cinema, Text Terminal, Q-Solutions, Figaro and Philcom.

Here’s a copy of the program of SM City Iloilo’s Free WiFi Launch:

SM Wi-Fi Launch

July 31, 2009

3:00            Registration

Program Proper

3:15            Opening Remarks         -Majella P. Liboon (Mall Manager, SM City Iloilo)

3:20            Message                          -Nimfa Hirang (Sales and Marketing, Philcom)

3:25            Raffle                               -15 Gcs

3:30            Message                         -Steve Santos (Operations Manager, SM Cyberzone)

Countdown to the launching of the WiFi (test the system by by connecting to the SM Website)

Smash Collection Dancers

3:45            Raffle                              -15 GCs

3:50            Live Video Conferencing with SM City Bacolod

4:10            Closing Remarks        -Abraham Imas (Educ. Supervisor, SPED, DepEd, Division of Iloilo)

Final Raffle                     1 Unit Nokia Cellphone

4:10            Seminar                          -Angelo Arendain (Network & Systems Administrator, DepEd)

Free Tutorial                -for OFWs and Elderly (Facilitated by STI College)

***the live video conference with Bacolod didn’t happen because SM City Iloilo started their program late.

And here are our photos:


And by the way I have another blog post about the event somewhere on one of my web accounts. And it isn’t as nice as this one. ;)

UPDATE:

Because of insistent public demand (as if! LOL) Here’s the link to the not so nice blog post.

Our names are going to Mars!

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Posted on 16th July 2009 by Mary Jane in Dreams | Random | Technology

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NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory is sending a rover to Mars in 2011 so they’re inviting and encouraging everyone to participate by filling up a simple form with our names so we could have our names included on a microchip that will be in the rover. Isn’t it exciting? So even if we can’t go to Mars physically at least our names could get to go. So if you want you could join in the fun too! :D

weeeee!

of course my name’s not going anywhere without his name too. :P

Tim and Jane

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Posted on 29th May 2009 by Mary Jane in Life | Love | Media | Music | My Bebeh | Personal | Photography | Random

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I made this video a couple of weeks ago. Just want to share it with everyone.

Kabankalan!

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Posted on 27th May 2009 by Mary Jane in Escapades | Family | Hometown | Kabankalan | Life | Love | My Bebeh | Personal | Photography | Religion | Travel

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I know I haven’t blogged for 2 weeks now. It has been a couple of hectic weeks. What with my brothers getting sick and some urgent stuffs to finish at work. I’m going to postpone writing about our Boracay vacation for now to give way to my Kabankalan escapade. :)

Last Saturday, 23rd of May, I finally got the chance to go to Kabankalan. Tim’s hometown. I went there along with my little brother Rino John and Tim of course. I got to meet Tim’s parents for the 3rd time and his sisters the first time (except for Dainah because we met a couple of times in the past when she went here to Iloilo). We stayed there until the 26th so that’s about 4 days and 3 nights. I loved Kabankalan! Not only did Tim’s family and relatives welcome us in their homes but they also gave us a tour of the city. I didn’t know that they have a palace-like city hall. You have to see it to believe it. It looks more expensive than our Capitol actually., honest. And Kabankalan is a very clean city. They have clean streets. Yes I know Iloilo is also clean but Kabankalan’s cleaner. Maybe its because Kabankalan is still more a rural city than urbanized. Their cathedral is also a lovely structure. It won’t rival Jaro Cathedral but still it’s a beautiful place to worship the Lord. We heard Mass there last Sunday. :D

But seriously, I enjoyed my stay there. I got to meet Tim’s wonderful family and that’s all that matters. I think I got chubbier too, gained a few pounds. Because all we did there was eat and eat and I’m blaming Tita Warlit because of that. Haha! She went out of her way to make us feel comfortable at their home along with Tito Ledo and we really appreciate it. When we arrived on the 23rd it was Ken – Tim’s cousin’s birthday. And then on the 25th was Hans – Tim’s nephew’s birthday. So what with no exercise and just lounging around – who won’t gain weight? LOL.  Speaking of food, I miss Tita Jane’s spaghetti.

I wonder when I’ll be allowed to go back there again. ;)

Here are a few of the photos we took during our stay there. Enjoy!

I just had the best 5 days of my life!

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Posted on 3rd May 2009 by Mary Jane in Boracay | Boxing | Escapades | Events | Family | Fixations | Food | Iloilo | Life | Love | Manny Pacquiao | OTON | Party | Personal | Photography

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I just got home from the city after a day at the malls with Tim (who else?!) and I realized that I just had the best five days of my life so far. Let me tell you why. This blog post is just a summary of those 5 days because I will blog about them one by one in the next five days  (get it?). That way I’ll have more topics to write about. LOL.

First Best Day – April 29th, 2009

Boracay! Tim, Dianne, Sev and I went to Boracay. Which I think everyone already knows (including my boss..hehe) because I blogged about it here and FaceBooked, Plurked and Twittered about it too! Bear with me guys, I’m just one lucky, excited girl. Haha. Boracay doesn’t happen often even if I’m just an island away from there. And going there is not that cheap too. Will tell you more about the first best day tomorrow. In the meantime here’s two sneak peeks.

sand-castle

Of course we had to have our photos taken with the mandatory Boracay sand castle..haha!

dinner

We had a buffet dinner at a resto near the beach, delicious dinner!

Second Best Day – April 30th, 2009

It’s our second day at Boracay. We had fun fun fun under the sun and the moon plus a little drizzle but it wasn’t bad.  LOL. We went boating and snorkeling. Our boat’s captain – Manong Bebot Salvador (who is actually from Sta. Barbara, Iloilo too!) toured us around the island and pointed some interesting beaches and mansions – which I will tell you all on my upcoming blog post. Here again are two sneak peeks.

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Boating and snorkeling!

nigi-nigi

Dinner at Nigi Nigi Nu Noos! The best seafood basket in Boracay!

Third Best Day – May 1st, 2009

Third and last day in Boracay! Bought pasalubongs for the family and friends. Rode the bus with an upset stomach because of all the gluttony. Hehehe. But riding the bus was fine because I was with Tim. Being with him makes all the pain go away and the boredom too. He really knows how to take care of me and how to deal with my tantrums too. Hehe. Love you beh. And of course, two more photos!

queens

Dianne, me, Tim and Manong Bebot Salvador our boat captain in front of our resort – Queen’s!

bebeh

Tim and MJ at the beach!

Fourth Best Day – May 2nd, 2009

It’s Mamang’s birthday! And again we went to the beach. Love of the beach runs in the family ayt? We celebrated her birthday at Riverside Beach Resort, a local beach here in Oton, our hometown. The whole family was present including Tim and Dianne of course. And the photos!

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Happy Birthday Mang!

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Sing-along time! As always..hehe

Fifth Best Day – May 3rd, 2009

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao vs. Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton! Need I say more? We watched the fight at SM City Cinema 5. I was with Papang, Mamang and Tim. It’s Tim’s birthday gift for Mamang. But actually Papang enjoyed it more. Hehehe. Pacquiao didn’t disappoint us. Even if the fight lasted until only the second round, it was all worth it. The undercard fights were longer than the main fight! Pacquiao defeated Hatton and that’s all that counts! Ilonggos brought the cinema down! We had so much fun and my throat was actually sore when we went out of the cinema. LOL. I love Manny Pacquiao. :)

manny-pacquiao-and-freddie-roach

And those are the best five days of my life and no one can take it away from me because it’s all mine. Hehehe. The blow by blow accounts will follow in the next few days! right now I have to finish my load of tasks before the week begins so I could get paid. ;)

PS.

I’m not doing anything to optimize my blog yet and I think I should start doing so soon if I want to earn from Adsense too like every successful blogger out there. Right now I’m concentrating on my work, my daily tasks which are more important. Making money on blogging is just another experimental venture of mine because I’m inspired by my other online friends who have made a living by just blogging. They are actually the ones who told me – well actually persuaded me to try blogging for money too. And I agree because I’m already blogging aren’t I so I might as well make money out of blogging! Will start concentrating on this soon! :D

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