All About The Memories

Like father like daughter talaga. She’s really close to her dad and I love that eventhough he is at work for the most part of the day they get to bond at night. She sticks to him like glue whenever he’s around I think it is sweet that she is a daddy’s girl.

Now that mother’s day is over naturally father’s day comes next. I know it is next month and I have lots of time left to think of what do give my dear husband on his special day but I want to have as many options as possible. I plan to surprise him with a nice breakfast and a little gift from the little one and me. Of course we’ll have the usual fancy lunch or dinner but it’s the present I worry about. As I’ve said I want to have many options. I could go with the traditional nice watch as his gift. I say traditional because we’ve always gave eacho ther a nice watch when there’s a special occasion like anniversaries and also on our wedding day. I have a lot of watches and I love them all, this is something I like to collect as well. I came a across a particular brand of lovely timepieces, Gerald Genta and I really love what they offer at their website. Right now the collections they have are Arena, Arena Complications, Fantasy, Gefica Biretro, Octo and Solo. I really like the Arena collection although each timepiece is unique and beautiful. I’ve never heard of gerald genta watches until I found their website.

This is a tag from Aggie. Thank goodness I have some scanned photos of me from way back when I was little (used for the avp at our wedding reception).

1982 - Not sure how many months old I am here. Do I look like Iyah here?

1983 - One Year old plus, that’s a torotot on my head…must be taken on New Year’s Eve.

1986 - Again I assume I’m around 4 years old here, I’m not really sure.

1990 - Taken on my first communion. I remember how much I loved the frilly dress I was wearing.

1994 - This was my yearbook photo, ahhh the fly away hair.

1996 - I was a sophomore in highschool.

2000 - Taken in Baguio, we went there during summer. Me, my mom, my sisters and Bong.

2002 - Me, a fresh college graduate.

2003 - Here in Singapore.

2005 - Taken at my co-worker’s wedding dinner

2008 - Latest pic taken yesterday

So that’s me. I think I need to lose a few pounds. Too lazy to do anything about it…

Oh and I also need to do something with my hair, I’ve had the same hairstyle since forever!

Now it’s your turn to show your Now and Then. Post a comment here it you decide to participate so I can have a look.

Blogs who participate:

1. Aggie 2. Yen 3. Glo 4. Jacq - All About The Memories

I hope everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day yesterday, I did. I haven’t downloaded most of the photos yet but I’ll share some of Iyah’s photos…

As you can see she was really involved when it comes to ordering food (lol). Pardon the messy hair, she found her clip earlier and I couldn’t put it back without yanking it off her hair a few seconds later. I think she needs another hair cut. I didn’t do much shopping yesterday because the books I wanted wasn’t in stock (too bad) so I’m saving my shopping money for now. I did get me a cute new mug, I figured I needed a new one. From my LSS I got lots of Prima Flowers and lots of Foof-A-La buttons and the latest issue of Scrapbooks Etc. (note: if you are not a scrapbooker you’ll have no idea what these are).

That’s it for now. I have a lot of tags to answer and I WANT to do some today. Have a great day folks!

To all my friends and mothers out there…

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

This is our special day, have a break…get pampered…we DESERVE it!

I’m going shopping later

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I didn’t feel like cooking dinner so takeout it is tonight. Beef pepper rice, yum!

Things to do:

Blog, blog and blog some more…

Try to organize scrap folders.

Email someone about something (lol I can’t blog about it).

Download pictures from camera, I just took a bunch of photos of Iyah laughing as we play together. She’s just so full of energy.

Sterilize milk bottles before going to bed.

Oh and i’ts mommy’s birthday today (my MIL). Happy Birthday po!

Me not so much, play sports I mean. I used to play tennis with my dad as a child but that was it. I’ve nevered played volleyball in my entire life and I’m fine with that. I can play table tennis,bowling or badminton but only for recreation. This is why I won’t be needing any paintball masks for myself anytime soon or ever for that matter. Anyway a few friends are going to try and play paintball since it’s summer back home. They found good masks at ZephyrPaintball.com, they have Paintball and Airsoft Gear with low Prices and free shipping on Paintball guns, Paintball goggles, Airsoft equipment and gear. I think that’s pretty much all the equipment they need to get started. They carry a complete line of paintball guns, paintball goggles, hats, hoodies, jerseys, paintballs, paintball field gear and accessories for the sport which is great for comparison. I think they check out a few stores first before they make their purchase.

No I don’t need the list of best diet pills to lose the ten pounds I want to lose. No I don’t need to starve myself either, well even if I want to go on a diet I can’t because I get a terrible headache when I don’t eat enough. I know that’s weird but it’s true. I know what I need to do, I need to get my butt off my computer chair and exercise. I know what I need to do, I just don’t want to do it. I want to lose weight but I don’t want to exercise, clearly I don’t know how to reach my goal. I will get there, I will do it, I will get back into shape…when will that happen? That I don’t know yet.

One of my friends is getting married at the end of the year. I hope we could go home to attend her wedding. She must be excited about planning this special day. I wonder what her wedding flowers would be. I’ve chosen roses, calla lilies and tulips for my wedding flowers when I tied the knot a few years ago. I’m not sure she’s a fan of calla lilies though, well I’m not a fan of daisies myself so I told my florist about this early on the preparations. I wanted peonies for my bouquet but unfortunately she didn’t get nice fresh ones on my wedding day so she had to change it, I was happy with what I got anyway. I do hope she gets fresh flowers for her wedding like what FiftyFlowers provides for their customers. You can get premium roses, calla lilies, rose petals, gerbera daisies, hydrangeas, peonies and many other flowers and greens from them at lower prices. Their flowers are delivered at a below wholesale cost and a minimum of fuss and they also carry a variety of bulk flowers for all occasions, including premium bouquets, table arrangements, centerpieces, and wedding flower packages. It is amazing how extremely expensive flowers get when it is for a wedding, I hope she gets a good deal. I know she’s really on a tight budget but I’m sure she’ll find something beautiful for her big day.