Thank you message

It is now 12:04 in the midnight, therefore in about 24 hours, it's a brand new year that I face. So before 2012 comes, allow me to thank God for all the fruitful things that happened into my life in year 2011. Simple or big things, good or bad, I heartily thank you almighty father for giving me the courage, strength, patience, knowledge, wisdom and love. Without those, I may not be able to face the bumpy road that I passed by.

I hope in the new year that comes, 2012, I will be more productive to pursue my dreams in life *wink*.

Hubby is sick

Our evening seems so quiet, well, at least that's what I notice. Hubby is sick. He has a bad cold and cough but he is stubborn to take a cough medication. I guess he likes to have cough hmmm. Anyway, I hope he feel better soon, I miss our evening bonding like watching tv, movies, playing some games or just stupid things that we normally do. As of now, he is sick, so mostly he came home from his work, he is tired. Not in the mood to talk about stupid things and just want to take a nap. So all evening, I feel I'm alone. Well he is physically present but totally "knockout", LOL.

Kerspakket (Christmas presents)

Hubby's kerstpakket

Same as in the Philippines, not every company will give a kerspakket or Christmas presents to their employee. So we just feel happy and thankful that hubby and bro-in-law got their kerspakket this year. Well, I took some pictures of the kerspaket they got. Bro-in-law came home with a heavy big box while hubby came home with a heavy big basket with full of stuff on it.

bro-in-law kerstpakket

My Christmas celebration in NL

(eerste kersdag dinner)

Celebrating Christmas here in NL is not new to me. I guess this is my third times that I celebrate Christmas here. Well, I never experience white Christmas this time unlike last year, pheww that's really a wonderful Christmas experience for me. It felt so nice that while celebrating the Christmas season, then outside you can see the snow that fell down. I know for some people they find it stupid that I wish to have a snow this year but haaa I can't help it, I just find them so nice to see. And we don't have those in the Philippines, so it's so nice to experience it once in a while *wink*.

(tweede kersdag dinner)

Anyway, here in NL, they have Eerste Kersdag (first Christmas) and tweede kersdag (second Christmas) and that will be on the 25th and 26th of December. Well, I don't get it why they have two Christmas celebration, as we all know, Jesus Christ was born once only and that was on the 25th of December. But anyway, we had two days of yummy foods on the table haaa. On the Eerste kersdag, we had a cozy family dinner including my mother-in-law sister and her mother. We ate some yummy foods that start from the appetizer, to soup, to normal menu and of course the dessert. While on the tweede Kersdag we did the gourmet dinner.

My favorite Christmas song

Funny to remember

I was in the store two days ago and I saw an eyelashes curler. It flashback me the time that my niece used that eyelashes curler and all her eyelashes were gone haaaa. I can't help it but laugh when I saw that on her right eye, no more eyelashes left. She felt so embarrassed that it happened to her and promised it to herself that she won't use that curler anymore. I guess she did something wrong in using the curler and she end up of losing her eyelashes. Well, it took her for months to let it grow her eyelashes. But in case you encountered same problem as niece, then no worry because I just stumble the best eyelash growth product. Never tried this product yet but reading their review seems like it's very interesting.

Christmas Greetings!

We never tried yet

A few years ago when hubby and bro-in-law visited the Philippines, we did something adventure. I'm not adventurous type of person but my guest loves to do some fun activity such as water rafting, zip-line, cable car, shooting range, go carts, rope adventure, island hopping, snorkeling, jetski, walking in the forest and many more. Well, most of those activities I join because it was really fun. But one activity that we never tried to do is the horse riding. We don't dare to ride but we enjoy watching some people that ride on the horse, then, I notice that when they do the horse riding they also need to wear an equestrian helmets for security for their head in case they fall. It looks fun watching but I don't know if in the future we try to do that, either maybe or maybe not.

Party time tomorrow

Tomorrow is the Christmas party of my husband at his work. I'm a bit nervous because I'm going to mingle some stranger people that I didn't know. Actually, it's the second time that I joined their Christmas party but still I feel awkward to meet his bos and colleagues together with their partner. Aside from that, the company will be celebrating their 40th year anniversary, so they have a big party this time. They invite about 500 people but of course it's understandable that it not 100% will join the party. Well, being involve in this kind of event has advantage also, it enhanced our social life. However, to mingle with other has no problem with me as long I can cope the subject and the language. My concern here is when they start talking their own language, such as DUTCH, then I guess I want to be invisible haaa. Mijn Nederlands taal is niet goed haaa ( My dutch language is not good).

I arrived early but still I'm late in my class

I'm sure you wonder with the title of my post. Actually, it's almost 2 weeks now that I did my dutch course and my first day of school was funny. Well, at least for me I find it funny because I was so excited that I can start the course. In fact, I woke up early in the morning to make sure that I won't be late on my first day of school. Yeah, I arrived early at school but I'm late in my class haa because I went to a wrong classroom. I'm surprised already that they are at the page 90 and everyone had a book aside me. After few minutes of sitting, talking to my classmates and teacher, I kept doubting that I guess I'm in a wrong class. So without any hesitation, I asked the teacher and yeah, she told me I'm in a wrong class, LOL. My classroom was next to the room where I stayed for few minutes. So I transfered in my normal classroom and there I arrived late.

Heartbreaking news of my city

Saturday morning when I woke up, I saw some wall post at facebook about the typhoon "Sendong" that hits in the city where I came from such as Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. I was a bit in panic because most of my family live in the center of the city. Directly I called my sister and niece but no one answered my call. I started to get worried, wondering if my family were okay in that time. I check the news via online and there they mention which area of Cagayan de Oro affected so much. Though they didn't mention the barangay where my family live but still I'm worried. So I called my other sister who live in the other barangay, then she told me that her family was okay. And explaining to me that maybe my other sister and niece got low bat because all night it's brownout. So I waited for hours to call again my sister and finally she answered. I'm just glad that they were all okay and no one was hurt. Thank you Lord for the guidance and for the safety of my family. I felt pity for those family's who lost their loved ones, children, parents, relatives or friends. To those people who died for this unexpected calamity, may they rest in peace. Let's all pray for their souls.

Yummy Sunday

Sorry guys for the late posting of my Yummy Sunday entry. Actually last weekend I'm not in the mood to do some blogging due to what happened in the Philippines. Anyway, here's my entry for yummy Sunday meme. I know it's late but I'm still willing to post it. These were the foods that we ate during the first pinoy Christmas party that I attend here in NL. It was all yummy foods.

First Pinoy Xmas party I've join

First and foremost, I would like to thank my fellow blogger Faye, the owner of "Me in the Dutch Society" for inviting me the Christmas party last Saturday. Actually, at first I thought we can't join the party because it's the birthday of my mother-in-law's sister but luckily we settled the time and it went all okay. I felt so excited to join the Christmas party because it's my first time to attend a pinoy event here in NL. So I'm a bit curious how it goes, though I know already the pinoy party style but I'm curious to meet some other pinoy that live here in NL. And through this party, I was given a chance to meet some pinoy together with their partner and their children. It was nice meeting them, of course many talks during the party and foods were very delicious. It was a short meeting but it was fun and great. I had a wonderful time meeting them all.

Truck gps tracking

The GPS or the Global Positioning System tracking is really a powerful and innovative tool used by a lot of people nowadays. It impressively determines the exact location of a certain person, asset, vehicle and location. And through truck gps tracking device it helps you to traced through google map the information of the place. It's really useful and handy. That's how powerful our technology now *wink*. The advantage in this device is it reduce call response time, reduce fuel and labor costs, recover assets quickly in the event of theft, lower insurance costs, prevent equipment damage, and positively influence driver behavior.

I'm busy lately

Phewww... I feel that for the past few days I neglected my blog haaa.. Well, I was just busy so temporarily blogging is off. However, I did so many interesting activities which I love to share soon. It's many that I don't remember where I start in writing haaa. Well, I just see which come first. I feel so happy lately because I start getting busy already, I miss that busy feeling. But now I'm back in track, seems everything goes smooth to me. No more feeling of boredom and feel like I want to go home. I just feel like this is really a new journey of my life here in NL. And I hope you can bear with me in my ups and down journey in this foreign land.

Saturday bonding with 2 men

Mostly Saturday, I spend my time bonding with two men at home. It's like part of our weekly routine that hubby and I together with bro-in-law will visit the centrum to do some men's window shopping. Yeah, I called it men's window shopping because we visit mostly some men's store and I only can do that when I'm with them. If I do my own shopping, then I end up mostly at the shoe stores, lingerie store or at the clothing store haaaa.

Well, a few weeks ago, we visit one of the electronic stores here in the centrum and there hubby was fascinated to AV receiver. The av receiver or audio-video receivers are one of the many consumer electronics components typically found within a home theatre system. Their primary purpose is to amplify sound from a multitude of possible audio sources as well as route video signals to your TV from various source.

Racing game

This is the game that sometimes hubby and bro-in-law played together, the racing game. I'm not avid fan of this game because it makes me feel dizzy, probably because of the fast movement.Well I tried to race too, but I'm so bad, LOL. Just nice to see those two men racing each other and like always, they are very noisy and keep saying to each other "cheaters" haaaa. Well the loser has the big mouth to complain *wink*.

Advance development of technology

Nowadays, we notice that technology change fast. Just imagine for the latest TV we saw in every electronic store. I remembered when I was a kid, we still used an old fashion black and white TV with a big cover around it. Years passed by it change into colored and of course people gets more excited because we can view it better than the old one. After that, TV cover becomes thinner than before. And now we are into LCD/LED flat screen TV with such a clear view of the movie that we watch. In addition to the latest technology, we have now 3D TV, did you see how fast it changed then?

That's the same thing as our road map, before we used a manual map but now we have navigation system or GPS system that will guide us to every destination that we want. However, I still prefer the best handheld gps because I find it more handy and not so expensive. Anyway, the advantage of being advance to our technology, it seems like everything goes smooth and easy.

Bonding time with my bro-in-law

My brother-in-law or I sometimes called him my kuya J is free for 4 weeks from his job. So nice that in that weeks he can relax and do something fun without any stress from his work. Sometimes I think, wish hubby can take that weeks of free but at this moment, it's impossible. Most of his days off, he spent in Philippines months ago, so now only 2 days left.

Anyway, back to my kuya J, this week is his last week of free. He sometimes said to me that days goes fast because his vacation is almost over. In his weeks of free, I enjoy it because I have someone to hang out haaa. Our age gap is not that far from each other, so probably that's the reason that I'm comfortable with him. Aside from that he is also a bit crazy like me, so we have something in common, LOL.

Well goodluck for both of us bro..Monday you're back to work, while me my dutch course will begin. I have a mix feeling, it's like I'm excited at the same time feel sad. I'm excited in a sense that I can start the course that I've been waiting for almost three months, phewww. Feel sad that when I'm back home, I have no one to hang out with.

Sinterklaas presents

December 5, 2011 was officially the feast of Sinterklaas. And as I posted before, we did an advanced celebration and that was last Sunday afternoon, Dec. 4, 20011. The picture below shows some of our presents. Mostly its wrap with a big package and the inside was more on fun things that made of cartoon box, then add some colored paper or paint to create something nice or fun things. But in that package, there's a normal present that were hidden. So need to break the fun presents to search for the normal gifts.

Have fun watching our Sinterklaas presents that we made:

Blogging mode

Pheww... I took a power nap this afternoon, so now it's late already and still I'm awake. This is the disadvantage of me if I take afternoon nap, then I'm having a hard time going to bed in the evening. Well, hubby was sleeping so sweetly already and here I am still in my blogging mode, still fully awake and fully charge haaa. I wonder what time I feel like I'm lowbat then I can directly lay on bed and relax until I reach in the land of my dreams *wink*. For now so difficult to lay and try to get some sleep because once I'm fully awake, then my mind keeps working. In other words, many thoughts, ideas, questions, plans and wishes that goes into my mind. So better to blog then my mind will be busy thinking on what topic I can share here. Well, too many blogs to maintain, so it's time to update it all.

We cook together

My bro-in-law and I did our cooking last Friday and it was a big success. We cook chicken adobo aloha during dinner time while in the morning we bake banana cake. It was our first time to cook and to bake this foods and luckily it was a big success. I'm not a good cook but luckily bro in law was there to help me. As our vegis for the dinner, bro-in-law made some cucumber with some sauce on it. I find it yummy but hubby doesn't like it much because he finds it too spicy haaa.

Advance Sinterklaas celebration

Our advance Sinterklaas celebration just finished hours ago and it was a lot of fun. The exact date for the Sinterklaas feast will be tomorrow, December 5th but most people have some work, so we prefer to celebrate it one day in advance.

Anyway, hubby and I did a great job in combining our creativity skills *wink*. Therefore our creation was a big success, grandma was laughing so loud from the presents he got from hubby. And my bro-in-law laugh loud too from the presents I made. It was all funny things that happened to him in the past and it's nice to reminisced it again during the feast. Some things I made was the thing he wishes to have haaa. A thing that you can't buy, so I customized it to grant his wish. Well, if next year I get his name again, then I have idea already what to make haaa.

Well, I just post some pictures some other time.

I will be cooking tomorrow

Yup! you read it right, tomorrow I will be cooking something for the family. Well, like I always said I'm not really a good cook but aslong there's a recipe with me, then I can make something. I'm the one who prepared for our dinner tomorrow and I will cook chicken adobo aloha with some plain rice I think. I just hope that the food I cook tomorrow is tasteful. Actually, it's my first time to make it, so I cross my fingers that it will be okay.

Anyway, aside in cooking for our dinner, I also want to bake banana cake too. Actually, I'm fond of baking cakes but depends on what kind of cake. I'm so picky when it comes to cake haaa so I prefer to bake only the cakes that I like *wink*. I'm done baking my favorite moist chocolate cake and it was a big success, so I'm move to the next, which is banana cake. Just funny because I don't like much banana fruit or banana shake but I like banana cake haaa.

Well, tomorrow my bro-in-law will help me in my cooking task. I grab this chance that he can help me while he's still free from his work haaa.

I miss attending church mass

This coming December 9 is officially my five months stay here in NL. And within that five months, I have never been to church to attend Sunday mass. I miss going to church to attend the mass, to listen to gospel from the priest and to say my heart-warming prayer. I'm not so religious type of person but it's like I got used to it already when I was in Philippines that mostly every Sunday I attend mass in our church. Although sometimes I visit the chapel here in the centrum but still I find it so different if I compared it in attending a normal mass. Well, there's a church closed by but the mass is dutch or latin language and I can't understand those two languages. Well, hope someday hubby and I can attend the English mass.