Oodles of Kudos! - things that made me smile this year: change of work, change of pace commencing my Blog-O-Rama column Blog interviewees who reply promptly to my emails the twins going to kindergarten school (and loving it!) Paolo's joining the Boy Scouts, wearing his BS uniform and going on his first camping trip i baked my first cheesecake (yummy!) my first trip to Japan:) my dream vacation to Palawan realized male and female lanes in the LRT blog comments (thank you, you make my day) eyeballs with the Blogkada SkyDSL Skype, Yahoo Voice Chat, Google ... Continue Reading...

Kids can be the cutest during their most candid moments. A group of primary schoolers were told: "if you were to come face to face with God, what would you tell him?" Here's what they said they would ask: "Dear God, did you mean for giraffe to look like that or was it just an accident?" ''God, instead of letting people die and haveing to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you got now?" "I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that ok?" "Thank you for the baby brother but what what I prayed for was a ... Continue Reading...

1. Bugger! :( I missed my Blog-O-Rama deadline for the first time. It's a mortal sin for any writer and I finally succumbed to the pressure. I wish I could blame my damn new DSL connection for having all these spyware, or the fact that am being smug because am getting all these Xmas bonuses, or because I simply lack the time. I am only being human, and being irresponsible. Period. 2. On the other hand, the reason why I am in a daze and don't have the energy for the past few days is that I just lost $100 - one hundred friggin' dollars - to a ragin' kleptomaniac. ... Continue Reading...

The travel bug will hit me for the next two weeks. I am truly excited and will promise to blog about the nice sights here despite my uber-crazy, juggling-everything schedule. In the meantime, I've been getting these persistent emails for the past few days: " The domain annalyn.net (anna) has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible." Huh? I'd like to know what makes one reach the bandwidth limit. Does 1,000 hits a day count? Hehe. So if I'll be off the air anytime soon while am on vacation, you know the reason. ... Continue Reading...

First of all, I'd like to apologize to some peeps if I haven't been able to answer the memes they sent me, like Yuga for the books and Minette, Celia K , Toni for my choice of cookbooks. I realized that my reading list these days can fit the Hall of Shame as it is limited to internet sites and no-brainer page-turners. But I promise to answer your tags soon, as soon as I organize my bookshelf and get reading once again. In the meantime, my high school buddies Lei and Anna Lyn sent me an email this morning which I couldn't resist answering (not all though!) You're right ... Continue Reading...