fine by me

Teaching ESL

snaed — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:04:06 +0000

It’s been a month now since I started juggling two jobs. This is the first time this happened to me. I’ve never really thought I’d do it. It came in the first of June when I suddenly received a phone call from the HR of the company I’ve applied to almost two months ago at that time. She was offering me a full time job and she was willing to give me the schedule I wanted but 4 or 5 days before that I already signed a contract with another company. It was kind of a good problem. Never have I been in this kind of dilemma. I actually felt good. I’m not sure I made the right decision at that time though. Well, right now I don’t really have a lot of students. I’m enjoying my work at my part time job. (I accepted the offer and it’s a good thing they were still willing to take me even when I could only go part time). There’s not a lot of pressure. But I also like teaching “live” people. There’s a kind of “fun” to it that I can’t compare with just speaking with students on the phone. Ever since I took the part time job, I’ve been starting my day at 3 o’clock in the morning – sometimes a little later but that’s around that time. I get to work around 4:45am. My first class usually starts at 5am (Philippine time) or 6am (Korean time). I thank God for work. I thank God that I can trust him to bless the work of my hands. I hope I won’t regret the next decision I have to make…

Birthday E-Cards

snaed — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:43:17 +0000

Was trying to look for an e-card for my aunt’s birthday and found this. I can’t remember when I started sending e-cards to family. All I can remember is that I really used to send them but it has quite been a long since I have. It’s like a looooooooooong time. I’m glad I was able to do it again. I hope I don’t forget again… You can click on the icon if you want to send an e-card to your loved ones too!

You can also try these ones I’ve posted. Just click on the icon to send…

Tagged: birthday, ecard, flowers

Restaurant Hops

snaed — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:39:01 +0000

These are just some of the places we’ve been and eaten since we got back from Tianjin…

Dampa at Roxas Blvd.

DAMPA. We went here on my haneh’s 33rd birthday last April. We had calamares with mayo-garlic dip, sinigang na maya-maya, spicy shrimp and steamed crab legs. Superb…

ITALLANI’S. Pizza, pasta, and fruit shakes at Itallani’s on my mother-in-law’s birthday – three days after we got back from China. Yummy!

Eastwood, Libis

SOMETHING FISHY. Something Fishy at Eastwood, Libis on Mother’s Day for a breakfast buffet. Food was ok but not so great although it was quite cheap for a buffet for only P119.

WORLD CHICKEN. The first time we tried eating here was in Glorietta. It’s located at the Food Court. It was a Sunday afternoon after church. When we got there, I noticed the long line of people who wanted to eat there and compared it to the other food stalls that only had one or two customers at a time. While I was in line, I was actually wondering why. We were eating at World Chicken because my sister-in-law recommended it. Then we got to try it…

For only P150, I would rather eat here if I’m really really hungry… (besides going to a buffet, of course) Anyway, this is how one order looks like. A quarter of roasted boneless chicken with your choice of gravy, a choice or two of either pasta, rice and other sidings. When we went to eat at an outlet in MOA, I tried the barbeque sauce for the chicken. Wow! I really like it. It’s like salsa on chicken. I really love it. This is what I call… SULIT!

DAD’S AT GLORIETTA. We went to eat here on our 4th wedding anniversary. We first tried the snack buffet during Max’s first birthday – my cute and precocious nephew who’s growing up fast and is turning 2! on December. We really liked it so we decided to go back. I think I missed Chinese food so the ones I ate were the beef noodles, siomai, tofu and shanghai rolls. I thought we could always eat pasta anytime we want so I didn’t try any of their pasta dishes. Food the sweets, I had my share of palitaw. Yummy!

: Som’s Noodle House at Rockwell

SOM’S NOODLE HOUSE. I was really curious about this place. I am not really the type who experiments on eating new kinds of food. And this was thai cuisine. Before we went here, I actually asked my sis-in-law if I could eat anything here. She thought I was asking because of my allergies – of which I discovered after eating a lot of shrimp since we ate at Dampa. Actually, I was asking because I might not like the food. But when we got our order… I really ate a lot. I love the curry. The chicken pandan and the sauce. The pad thai – which I thought I wouldn’t really like but I really love it. The fried lumpia. I want to eat there again… It’s not really expensive. For five people, we only got to spend P800 including drinks and a lot of extra rice…

This is the place I really want to go back to… After eating here, my husband requested that I make vegetable curry. I’ll try to write about it next time.

Tagged: buffet, dad's buffet, dampa, food, restaurants, som's noodle house, thai cuisine

God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!

snaed — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:50:52 +0000

A friend sent this to me. It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish….. all before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We’re such slow learners…

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them)

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Psalm 46:19
‘Be Still and Know that I AM GOD’

Buffet Meals

snaed — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:33:00 +0000

My haneh and I just recently celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary at Dad’s with a snack buffet. It was really great since we both like eating a lot. After four years of marriage, this is actually the first time we ever went out on our anniversary. It’s not that we didn’t want to go out. It’s just that a lot of things are usually happening around us — things that prevent us from really being able to celebrate. In fact on our first wedding anniversary, we weren’t even together. He was in a province preparing the house that we moved into and I was here in Manila finishing my teaching job. We moved back to Manila a year after that and I’m not even sure now if I remember what we were doing on our second anniversary. I just remember my in-laws confirming our anniversary date after a week or so and asking us why we didn’t tell them so they could have prepared something for us (sweet)… haha… And then there was last year… We didn’t really get to celebrate for some reasons but I think it’s one of the reasons we started having our eating sprees…

Buffet meals really work for us since beside the fact that we really love to eat, we also like to eat without limits until we really get stuffed and get the most for what we paid for… hehe… Another buffet meal we had since we got back from Tianjin was at Something Fishy where we had a breakfast buffet. It was not a date for us but a Mother’s Day treat for my haneh’s mom. We went with my parents-in-law, my haneh’s sister, her husband and their 1 1/2 year-old son. Something Fishy is located at Eastwood, Libis. I actually expected a lot from the place but it didn’t really meet a lot of my expectations. In short, I was a little disappointed. The buffet meal was really cheap for only Php119 per person but the food wasn’t that great. Compared to the snack buffet at DAD’s for only Php139, I would still go for DAD’s. They have a small difference in price but the food at DAD’s is way much better. So next time, we’ll probably try a breakfast buffet at DAD’s.