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2012

sheloy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:11:16 +0000

By tomorrow we’ll be done with the first week of school, we’ll technically it is the second week since classes were supposed to start last Friday but it was staff development day ergo pupil-free. I think E is getting used to being back at school again after the long summer break. It is somewhat good that he is still in class with his friends from last year albeit temporary so I think he quickly overcame having to wake up early again. I wonder which class he’ll be in this year, I hope it will be a good bunch of kids and of course a good teacher. I guess we’ll see by tomorrow or early next week.

How fast has time gone, in the blink of an eye January is done. I will do another post on some of what we’ve done during the holidays. Looking forward to what 2012 will bring and of course seeing family at the end of the year.

journey into digital perming

sheloy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:29:33 +0000

After quite some time of wanting to do this (hmm probably thinking about it on and off since last yea) I finally rustled up enough courage to book an appointment and go through with it. It being getting a digital perm. I wanted a change in hairstyle for a while now. For the most part of the past few years I would just end up getting a short haircut, growing it out, have it styled a bit then back to a short hairstyle, it was a cycle indeed. I initially planned to get the digiperm last winter when my mum was here so I can someone take care of the kids while I was at the salon but the schedule somehow didn’t work out.

Anyhoo, I had a morning appointment at a nearby Asian (Korean) salon and was ready for the roughly 2.5 hrs I will stay there. They started with washing my hair and then put some treatment for about 20mins. Then the stylist checked my hair, I think to see if it was ready for perming, and added a little more treatment for 5-10 more minutes. After that they rinsed it out and then she started the perming process, attaching big chunks of hair to the rollers in the machine, it was pretty tight, you can feel the tension of the hair so no real big movements as you sit there under the machine for 30-40 minutes. After that, we transferred to the washing station and the stylist put some treatment in my hair again and I sat/lay there for 15 minutes before the final rinse and wash. I wasn’t too sure initially when I saw the curls but eventually it was just right because I didn’t really want tight curls or ringlets.

Overall I’m pretty happy with the result, now how long it will last I’m not sure. Based on what I read on the net, it’s basically anywhere from 3 to 6 months depending on how you take care of your hair. I did have to buy shampoo and conditioner for curly hair and some styling products to aid the curls. I’ll post pics over time on how my hair is holding up. For now, here are pics of when I was getting the perm done.

Last shot with straight hair, this was after the first treatment

“strapped” to the machine

Just took the curlers out

This is what my hair looked like about half an hour after I left the salon

daddy and me

sheloy — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:37:46 +0000

E loves the beach, two weekends ago we went to Wollongong for the weekend to celebrate I’s birthday. During one of our pitstops we stumbled upon this beach and father and son couldn’t resist exploring among the rocks.

Credits: Plentiful Kit by Shabby Princess. Ticket from Daditude by Peppermint Creative. Font – Myriad Pro.

a love note

sheloy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:07:49 +0000

… not for me though

Our conversation last night:

E: Can I have some of your paper?

Me: here ..

(E goes to the table)

E: Mommy, how do you spell Ellie?

Me: E-L-L-I-E

After a while ..

E: Mommy, can you sticky tape this? (another piece of paper)

Me: What is this for?

E: I’ll show you later, and can you make a cover for that?

Me: Are you going to give this to Ellie?

E: No. This one here but you can’t see it. I’m going to put it in my bag.

Me: Can I just take a look?

E: (laughs) I wrote I love you!

Now to find out later if he gave it to her.

mid-autumn festival

sheloy — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:55:54 +0000

Growing up, we’ve always celebrated the mid-autumn festival (15th day of the eight month on the Chinese calendar which usually falls either in August or September) in Manila with a dice game. I think it might have originated in the southern Fujian province in China (where most of Fil-Chi ancestors came from) and is commonly played among the Filipino-Chinese in Manila, I haven’t heard of it being played in other countries though. It is a very fun game where you throw 6 dice in a bowl and depending on the resulting combination win a prize. (Here’s a link to how the game is played : Mooncake Dice game)

So it was a welcome treat that when S celebrated his first birthday his parents decided to host a dice game. For Ichi and my turns we had E throw the dice for us and we were completely happy with the prizes that we were getting but lo and behold after a few rounds who would turn out to grab the top prize? (too bad for the dad’s friend who had thrown a combination for first prize – E’s was much higher) And he was so proud that he won it for me!

kindy bbq

sheloy — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:24:20 +0000

Last Sunday we went to the kindy BBQ over at E’s school. It was organised by the school parents for all the kindy and new families this school year. In an effort to make the families at least be “familiar” with each other, after all we will be going through the same journey for the next7 years. The RSVP was due a little more than a week before the BBQ with the class parents also organising an order for the BBQ lunch. A few days before the event though, we got a note back saying that with the number of RSVPs that was received it would now be a BYO picnic and they returned the monies for the BBQ order. As it turns out only 11 out of the 80 kindy families expressed interest in coming to the get together. I mean, how low a turn out is that?! Most of the families that went were those of E’s class (KR) and KP (kindy purple). There were a few from the other class too. It was good though, we got to meet some of the other parents of E’s classmates and got to chat. It is just sad that not a lot really took the time for it. Granted that it was a Sunday but still. Anyways, it was a good afternoon.

happy birthday siobs

sheloy — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:30:56 +0000

A dear friend is celebrating her birthday today and what a wonderful day for her as she just gave birth a few weeks ago to a beautiful baby girl – baby Mya. Really just in time to make Mother’s day and her birthday wonderful.

Happy birthday Marie! Enjoy your special day. We love you!

Credits: Papers from Olivia by Leah Riordan.
Fonts: Mutlu, Folio BK BT, FO-Giggles Small Caps

right to suffrage

sheloy — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:50:43 +0000

Yesterday, millions of Filipinos trooped to the polling places to exercise their right to suffrage. With us presently being in a another country, sadly we were not able to do so. A lot has been written about this particular election from the different candidates to it being the first automated polls of the country. But one thing is for sure, we need change. Our generation may not feel the change now but if there really is, our kids and their kids would be the recipients so I really hope it’s a positive one. And that the country doesn’t go from worse to really worse. Ooh, one good thing about this election is that we’ve heard and read lots of news that even though there were kinks in the automated polling process with some machines bogged down very early in the morning, you can see the people’s desire for the change, they waited in looong queues for hours just to be able to vote. Mabuhay!

Ok, back to regular programming now …