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The logo was the result of creative work of Peter Molina, a talented digital Filipino artist living in Denmark which you can visit and I highly recommend his services which you can check in his website www.molina.dk. He made this logo for free so in return I will put his website link in my sidebar and I can help to advertise his work thru this blog. Thanks lot Peter.

Please bear with me if if you find this blog almost naked it is because I’m in the process of redesigning this blog starting from changing the theme although I love the old theme I want more cleaner e and easy to load theme because the old one takes alot of time to load and  I think this current theme Bueno which is free from Woo theme suits me. My old categories sucks so I’m revising it and makes it more “categorize” but I have to do it post by post so it will take a while before the final but I’m loving it.

I’m in the middle of revitalizing this blog but not until my exam is over. Being active on social networking specifically Facebook took all my time in my online advocacy for filipina aupairs as I administrate a fan page and my time just eaten by online offline counselling that sometimes it sucks all my energies but I’m not sad but happy to help.

look at the www.Filipinamom.com

If you look above the Filipina mom in Denmark,  the Filipina Images is second website on the first page , which a site dedicated to Filipina image online campaign which was created by Noemi Dado Lardizabal Dado and co. I applaud them in their advocacy and  I for one believe that what you see in the search engine doesn’t reflect majority of Filipinas. I’m married to a danish guy but I’m sad whenever I hear other nationalities see Filipina as one who search for foreign husband to save them from poverty or worse be labelled as golddigger or easy to get. I’m not against dating site but Filipinas should be cautious of these sites. The more the better Filipinas should make their presence in the net whoever you are beauty queen, aupairs, caregivers, domestic helpers, etc. we should make our presence on the net, inspire and empower other Filipinas both in the Philippines and abroad.

Thank you for giving time to read my blog.

The rules:
1. Link the one who gave this award and let them know you posted it.
2. Pass this to as many Smart Bloggers as you can think and make sure to write something about them, like what makes you think they are Smart.
3. Let them know they have an Award.

Now I’m going to pass this award to

• Rolly – because you spearheaded the campaign for the Petition for the Save the Bonifacio Monument Movement and joining the Bloggersunite.org where we share supporting events that close to our hearts.
• Mel- because you founded the Filipinos Unite where it rekindled my love for our country the Philippines and supporting my advocacies.
• Marlene-because you are the only my Scandinavian neighbor and you show the rest of the Filipino communities that you by learning the language of your new host country you can be  fully integrated into the system and find a job that you love like teaching. I also admire that you teach the Filipino language in Sweden that’s tough. Go girl!! You’re mart because you still find time to acknowledge and visit your blogger friend by commenting in their blog.
• Maricris- because you are so talented with your designs and at the same time doing charities like the Locks of love and despite the financial crisis that rammed your family you still find time to blog about it and still find humor in it.

I wish you all a good  weekend.

I got this award form Maricris to whomI apologized with all my heart but its better late than never . You are the first to give me this award when I was in the Philippines and I thank you and cherish my very first award, it is time to pass it on to someone who I think is a Kick-Ass blogger!

But first here are the rules:
Do you know any bloggers that kick ass?Maybe they’ve got incredible, original content. Or they’re overflowing with creativity. Is it someone that helps you become a better blogger? Or a bloggy friend you know you can count on? Or maybe it’s someone who simply inspires you to be a better person… or someone else who sends you to the floor, laughing your ass off.Whatever the reason may be, I’m sure you know at least a couple of bloggers that kick ass. Well… why not tell ‘em so?

LOVE ON ‘EM

• Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
• Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
• Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to www.mammadawg.com
• Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!

Here are my Top picks in no particular order:

Bingkee - You get this award because you are a Filipina like me and I just read your Blog about blog police and I salute you for that. You know how to appreciate your reader by exchanging comments or just by acknowledging them in your blog.

earthlingorgeous - You get this award because as mother of autistic child you still managed to stay beautiful and active in the world of blogging. You can kiss ass when you believe in something like your latest post about Nuffnang. Go girl.

Spiritual Journey of a Light Worker/ – Patricia, you get this award because of your courage to stand up and recover from your horrible experience as a victim of incest. By talking about your experiences you’re able to encourage other victims of child abuse stand up and say stop and talk about. It isn’t just the victims that you help but ordinary folks who now realizes that child abuse really happens even within the safety of your own home.

DesperateBlogger - You get this award because you are an inspiration being a desperate blogger to a superstar blogger you still acknowledge your reader. You also blog about your family and talk about almost everything.

Marj – You get this award because I admire you for your courage to tell your story on how your father had sexually abused you and your twins. I can’t help but cry when I read your story and still I can not understand how can this happened. Now I realized that my so called problems before was NOTHING compared to what you and the other victims of child abuse. And thank you for inviting me to join the blog carnival.

There you go ladies. You all deserve it! Thank you for inspiring me both in real and in the real world.

Cheers to you.!!!

So you think you know me for A to Z well, I didn’t know me either until I did this Alphabet tag which is lying in draft for a long time now. I been tagged by Marlene I’m sorry if it’s only now I will post this.

Photo Credit: ejcbautista at Photobucket.com

The Alphabet Tag

A. Attached or single ? — Attached
B. Best friend? — Ronald
C. Cake or pie? — Both
D. Day of choice? — Friday
E. Essential item? — Computer
F. Favorite color? — Green
G. Gummy bears or worms? — Gummy Bears
H. Hometown? — Dagupan
I. Favorite indulgence? — Ice Cream
J. January or July? — January
K. Kids? — 1
L. Life isn’t complete without? — my family, my blog, Women’s network
M. Marriage date ? — June , 2002
N. Number of magazine subscriptions? – non to date but before I had Vores Børn (Our Children) n
O. Orange or apple? — both
P. Phobias? —snakes, riding roller coasters
Q. Quotes? — Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Eleanor Roosevelt
R. Reasons to smile? — children’s laughter
S. Season of choice? — Spring
T. Tag 5 people – Bingkee, Cathy,Rolly Ocampo, Mel,Juliet
U. Unknown fact about me? – Guess !
V. Vegetable ? —Saluyot,kangkong,talbos ng kamote, kalabasa and the rest of the vegetables in the “bahay kubo”
W. Worst habit? — sleeping late
X. X-ray or ultrasound? – ultra sound
Y. Your favorite food(s)? – Adobo, paella,roast beef,caldereta,pancit and many more
Z. Zodiac sign — Aquarious

The Rule is simple just link who tagged you and answer the Alphabet question and inform them that they’ve been tag.

Have a good weekend!

I thank you all my visitors and readers. I really appreciate your comments and visits it inspires me and somehow feel I exist in this world. No one can beat the happiness and excitement when you see who visiting especially blogger friends who always stops by post comments.

To those new here I’m a Filipina who happened to found my soul mate and my true love here in the North far away from my motherland, the Philippines. I love my life here and almost fully integrated to the new culture but I still long for my own culture and heritage . I miss my family, friends, my colleagues, my clients, my workers, my books, my mango trees, my coconut trees, my music, jeepneys, the people, and many things. When I was new here they ask me what is our culture then I started to think of the things I took for granted when I was still in the Philippines now I am proud to share to the world what I am and where I came from and will not be forgotten because I will pass it on  to my son.

That’s why, I thank you my dear readers through my blog I can share and get to know other bloggers, their thoughts, advocacies, their problems, their families, their cities and their cultures and somehow quench my thirst about news and events in my motherland and around the world. It’s also became an instrument to spread the advocacies like this Blog Reader Appreciation Day.Through your visits and comments my dear readers I slowly finding my self again, my self confidence and be appreciated .

Thank you Rolly for posting a comment and for appreciating me and for that I put your link on the Save the monumento badge in my side bar which I overlooked.

I also thank Robin Reagler for creating this event in Bloggers unite. You can visit by clicking the link there there are bloggers who gives free E- BOOKS and other goodies I downloaded from veryheaven .

I’m flattered of course and surprised that he knows me my family and my background. That’s the reason why I see him once in a while here and he is actually reading my blog and getting to know me.

I’m a little bit hesitant to blog because I don’t know what I have to write about. I don’t want just to write about my life because it might be boring but I just let be myself and write about my experiences about parenting, being an child of ofw and now a migrant who’s longing to find my Filipinoness despite integrating to a new society, of course womens issue and my concerns about the environment. Rated 10 for the contents makes me more aware to post relevant issues and check my post before I hit the publish buttons now that I have at least 70 visits per day. I think after blogging seriously for almost a year I have found my niche and slowly improving.

As per a technical I can say that its fair judgment. There’s a lot I want to do in this site but I been trying to find the right template and tinkered with it a little bit but sometime actually twice my just freezes it does not load. Thanks that this site is being hosted at http://www.hotel.inweb.dk/ which is owned and operated by my friend and fellow kababaylanes she’s always ready to fix the mess I always caught myself into. But its so hard when at the same time I’m also trying to learn how to use REvit, Autocad and 3d modelling which takes most of my time but soon I will find to get to learn how to make my own Wordpress Design. What I will do in the Easter vacation is to recategorized so its easier to find my post and at the same looks more professional.

I joined the Filipinos Unite which is the founder and was able to get to know fellow Pinoys who share the same passion the love of our Motherland despite its all the negative aspects we still hopes for the best.

Thanks Mel and God Bless always.

If you received an email that is supposedly send by Mel asking for donation it is a scam. He’s account had been hacked and send all his contacts about this SCAM.

And there’s a lot reason why:

• Suddenly I forgot my pin code even my email where I keep it I can not access. It’s just my mind suddenly went on holiday/vacation mode. Well the culprit is the tools which makes life easier but makes your memory dull just let the computer remember all  my accounts pin code. I’m using Flock as a web browser which is a fantastic browser but when I cleared all the cookies because I got some spams and so as my codes vanish.  I reset most of the passwords almost a uniform for all my accounts somewhere somehow my I can’t my email what ever I do I can not recover.
• I was down with a flu 2 days before our flight back home in Denmark then when we arrived went to school right away and next day cooked some foods to sell in our both in the International Day in Copenhagen.  Then next day totally exhausted and down with the flu-high fever, terrible headache and sore throat. Went to the doctor who prescribe penicillin because obviously I got throat and ear infections.  I’m was a little hesitant to go tot he doctor because they will not give any antobiotic if you just got a viral infection but this time it’s bacterial so they gave me penicillin 800mg 3x a day.  I was bedridden 4 days I think I had some bedsores.

So next time

• I will log in manually and try to more mind exercises. Actually I introduce some mind exercise in my class like name that city in a certain continent or name that country and many more and my class was wild with it now they mane all countries in Africa.  Some nice mind exercise is puzzle and sudoko but I’m not fond of it and I hate numbers (and I’m an engineer hahahaha ).  I remember most mobile and phone numbers of my friends and family because you can not rely on your phones memory once it lost your contacts are lost.  It’s very important to memorize important numbers in case of emergency.
• Try to eat healthy food and eat my vitamins especially Vitamin C and fish oil or my multi vitamins even during vacations.  Juggling between school works and  house chore and  minding an active pre schooler is tiring.  Remember we aren’t getting younger.
• Try to finish all the postings I save on my draft and post it.