A Girl’s Notebook :)

Honey is in Palawan right now but we’ll see each other this week. It his birthday and hey, we have not seen each other for more than a month now. Their family is a Contractor. They have a project in Palawan and he was sent there to supervise.

Well, what do Palawan has to offer to this man?

Palawan is located in the western part of the country. It is an island bounded by South China Sea in the northwest and Sulu Sea in the southwest. Puerto Princessa is its capital(where ney and his men stay) and it is the largest province of the Philippines in terms of Land Area.

Palawan is proud of its beach resorts such as El Nido(El Nido), Club Noah Isabelle, Coco Island Resort(Roxas), Amanpulo(Cuyo), Dos Palmas(Central Palawan),  and Club Paradise(Taytay).

El Nido

Club Noah Isabelle

Coco Island Resort

Amanpulo

Dos Palmas

Club Paradise

Palawan’s pride is currently a nominee for the New Seven Wonders of the Nature. It is Subterranean River National Park in Puerto Princessa.

Subterranean River Park

Hey have you cast your votes already? Click here to vote.

Since honey will visit us this weekend, maybe Nonet and I will go to Palawan anytime this year. Need to earn money for our fare. On the second thought, just ask ney to give us.. hoping!

Pretty Chilling - read to the bottom. Try it out.
If you are a sceptical person - still read on as it’s actually very interesting! !
This is actually really freaky!! (Mainly the end part, but read it all first)

1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3) Ramsin Yuseb has 11 letters. (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993)
4) George W Bush has 11 letters.

This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets interesting:
1) New York is the 11th state.
2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6 + 5 = 11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 =11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911.

Sheer coincidence. .?

Read on and make up your own mind:

1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254.
2 + 5 + 4 = 11
2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year.
3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.

Now this is where things get totally eerie:

The most recognized symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Koran, the Islamic holy book:

“For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace.”

That verse is number 9.11 of the Koran.

Unconvinced about all of this still ..?

Try this and see how you feel afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:

Please do the following:

1. Highlight the Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
2. Change the font size to 48.
4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS…

What do you think now????

Love this dresses that’s why I posted them here. Found them on an online store and just love it!

The actual reason why I posted is to motivate myself.. hehehe!

Oh yes, we study history since elementary but do we really know our history? Here are some  interesting things to add up to the what we have:

• Founded in 1595 by Spaniard, the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City, Philippines is older than Harvard and is the oldest university in Asia.
• University of Santo Tomas in Manila, established in 1611, is Asia’s second oldest.
• In the Philippines, Filipinos were introduced to the English language in 1762 by British invaders, not Americans.
• What is the world’s 3rd largest English-speaking nation, next to the U.S.A. and the UK? The Philippines.
• The USA bought the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam from Spain in 1898. The Filipino-American Independence War from 1898 to 1902 ensued, killing 4,234 Americans and how many Filipinos? 16,000 were killed in action and 200,000 died from famine and pestilence. (The Philippines lost and was colonized until 1946.)
• Los Angeles, California was co-founded in 1781 by a Filipino namedAntonio Miranda Rodriguez, along with 43 Latinos from Mexico sent by the Spanish government.
• What antibiotic did Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar co-discover? Hint: Brand is Ilosone, named after Iloilo. Erythromycin.
• The one-chip video camera was first made by Marc Loinaz, a Filipino inventor from New Jersey.
• The first ever international Grandmaster from Asia was Eugenio Torre, a Filipino, who won at the Chess Olympiad in Nice, France in 1974.
• This son of two Filipino physicians scored over 700 on the verbalportion of the Standardized Achievement Test (SAT) before age 13 is Kiwi Danao Camara of Punahou School, Hawaii.
• Edward Sanchez, a Mensa member, bagged the grand prize in the first Philippines Search for Product Excellence in Information Technology.
• Who was the Filipino-American dancer who scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT? Joyce Monteverde of California.
• Who invented the fluorescent lamp? Thomas Edison discovered the electric light and the fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the fluorescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores (a Cebu man named Benigno Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer), a Filipino scientist.
• Americans helped, then, President leader Ramon Magsaysay to develop for worldwide commerce. (Yes! Many foreigners have noted that the Filipino population has Asia’s highest rates of inventors and international beauty queens.)
• Two Filipina beauties, Gloria Diaz and Margie Morgan, chosen as Miss Universe in 1969 and 1973.
• Pure or part-Filipino celebrities in American show biz include VonFlores, Tia Carere, Paolo Montalban, Lea Salonga, Ernie Reyes Jr., Nia Peeples, Julio Iglesias Jr., Lou Diamond Phillips, Phoebe Cates and Rob Schneider.
• The first Filipino act to land a top hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 1960 was a group Rocky Fellers of Manila. Sugar Pie deSanto (father was from the Philippines), The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (according to the October, 1984 article “Prince in Exile” by Scott Isler in magazine Musician), Foxy Brown and Enrique Iglesias followed.
• Pure Filipinos who made success in minor charts were Jocelyn Enriquez, aka: Oriental Madonna, Buffry, Pinay and (Ella May) Saison.
• Latina-American pop star Christina Aguilar lost to Filipina Josephine Roberto aka Banig during the International Star Search years ago. In a mid-1999 MTV chat, she said that competing against someone of Banig’s age was “not fair”.
• Besides gracing fashion magazine covers, this international super model from Manila had walked the runways since the 1970s for all the major designers, like Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan, Gianni Versace and Yves Saint Larent - Anne Bayle.
• Who is the personal physician of United States President William Clinton? Eleanor “Connie” Conception Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest Captain in the US Navy.
• The first Filipino-American in US Congress was Virginia Rep. Robert Cortez-Scott, a Harvard alumnus.
• Distinguished British traveler-writer A. Henry Savage Landor, thrilled upon seeing a Bicol landmark in 1903 wrote: “Mayon is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen, the world-renowned Fujiyama (Mt. Fuji) of Japan sinking into perfect insignificance by comparison. “Mayon has the world’s most perfect cone.”
• Filipinos had their first taste of Mexican chili and corn during the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade (1564-1815). In return, Mexico’s people had their initial taste of tamarind, Manila mango and a Filipino banana called racatan or lakatan.
• The first female president of the Philippines sworn into office in 1986 was Corazon Cojuangco Aquino. Her maiden name is chinese.
• On March 31, 1997 article, The New York Times reported that the CIA manipulated elections: “(CIA operative Col. Edward Lansdale essentially ran the successful presidential campaign of Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay in the Philippines in 1953.”
• Who was the first Asian and/or Filipino to snatch America’s Pulitzer Prize? Philippines Herald war journalist Carlos P. Romulo in 1941. (He was also the first Asian to become UN President.) The first two Filipino-Americans to garner the same award 56 years later were Seattle Times’ Alex Tizon and Byron Acohido, who was part-Korean.
• Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2, and grew up to speak more than 20 languages, including Latin, Greek, German, French and Chinese. What were his last words? “Consummatum est!” (”It is done!”).
• “What’s still impressive to me about the Philippines is the friendliness of the people, their sense of humor…” wrote Honolulu journalist John Griffin in a 1998 visit to Manila. Although, I lived in America longeryears than my birth place Bohol, I still have plenty of bagoong left in my body that can energize and catapulted me all the way to Maribojoc, Bohol, Philippines.

BE PROUD YOUR A FILIPINO!

Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:19,20 NASB

It’s Sunday let’s to go to the church and satiate the hunger in our soul! J

God’s Love will carry you through in everyday’s life..

No one is more SECURED than those who are in

God’s HANDS

May your life be as beautiful as your HEART!

It’s Sunday let’s to go to the church and satiate the hunger in our soul!