Walking in my Tsinilas

Yes it’s the Beijing Olympics!

In 2001, China won the bidding for the Summer Olympics. As we all know the symbol of number eight means luck and fortune to Chinese. It was intense and very emotional. And indeed, favor landed onto their hands. It’s now their turn to impress the world what they’ve got. But it wasn’t that easy. There were Chinese people who were not in favor of it. There were some negative things happened before reaching to this point. One of which, was the major earthquake that shook China as well as the world.

The Opening of the China Olympics was modern, yet very friendly; depicting friendship and unity to the world. “One World, One Dream” is the slogan. There were series of performances as part of the opening of the Olympics; all of them were awe- inspiring and breathtaking. Even kids who performed were also precise in their movements. The spirit of the China Olympics was more concentrated on the youth of the next generation. It was indeed moving for a viewer like me to witness a changed China in front of my eyes. God Bless us all!

Just random videos that I watch in my free time. Funny!

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I have the best Lolo in the world!

He was always accommodating and warm but that was it. There was never a real conversation with him not until I graduated from college. Growing up, he is always been that old guy who likes reading books, has few things to say but the moment he opens his mouth everybody listens. Every time we visit my grand parents it’s my grandmother who is the first one to greet us, always loud yet loving. I’ve always known my lolo as an opposite of my lola in many ways yet they compliment each other. When I started looking for a job, I remember my lolo reaching out to me as his own way of sense of support. Until this very day he never ceases to amaze me. Now I realize he has become my friend. He loves to know everything about what I’ve been doing. He appreciates a simple text message. He is very thoughtful in many ways. He values relationships and is still very sports minded even at the age of 80.

God Bless you Lolo!

I always find interesting video clips on youtube. It’s something I can do all day. For me, they are both amusing and just randomly boring. Other than that, they are time fillers. Most video clips are from people who seeks attention, it can be about general issues or it can be about a showcase of talents (with or without). They are videos about everything and anything that you can think of depending on your preference. Personally, I like watching re-run shows. Taped shows that I missed and you can watch them for free on youtube. Thats it!

Here again as I always do, I found videos of these hilarious kids’ statements.
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Yay! It looks like they will be celebrating more and more wedding anniversaries!

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” It’s a golden rule. Every time I read or hear this line it strikes me not because I don’t try to do good it’s because most of the time I fail to do so. I was watching this t.v. show called, “Extreme Makeover Home Edition”. Their show offers goodwill through building a new home for a family that has been a victim of violence, calamities, or any tragic event in their lives. I like the show because they are making a difference in the primetime television. Maybe not all viewers embraced the concept but it seems the show is doing good as they were celebrating their 100th home makeover. For this particular show that I am watching, they invited families who were part of the show from their previous episodes. They were the families that were given a new home and mind you, it’s not just an ordinary home, they gave these families their dream home. It is the show’s idea to help these people build their lives once again and hopefully help others in return in any way. What I like about the show is that they bring back people together as a family and become a new person for themselves. There was one particular father that was interviewed. He has a family of his own yet he keeps on helping kids that were abandoned in his community. He helps by feeding, counseling, and just be available to them in any way along with his family. In the later part, I found out that he was the 33rd family that was given a new home. The interviewer asked him, “Why are you doing this?” and he tearfully answered, “…because you gave me a house to do it”.

God is good. It’s good to be alive.

Different countries are distinct by their culture, weather, laws, and many more. What is common to one country will be authentic to another country. Asians can’t live without rice while other ethnicity can.

“Do you dance ti-nik-ling?” An american friend once asked me. For me that was a surprise. If I say ” I do” my answer will not help her understand. I thought even giving her a simple nod wasn’t enough. I know her inquiry was plain out of curiosity but to me I feel like it was a good question that needs to have a good answer. I remember last year I took a vocational course in San Diego. Half of my classmates were hispanic. Most of them introduced me to tacos, asada, nachos, tortilla, relleno, jalapeno, and to cilantro. In a month’s time I fell in love with the food. In that 6 months being with them I gained a lot of ‘new’ friends and I gained some weight too. I had fun with them truly I cannot forget. One time I asked my mexican friend if she can show me some steps of their traditional dance hoping she can teach me. When she heard that she was a little embarassed as her face turned a little bit red then I heard her laugh. She explained to me that it doesn’t mean that she is mexican she should know their traditional dance. She was born in Tijuana, Mexico but migrated to the U.S. with her family at the age of 4. She said that most of her life was exposed to the culture here in the states than practicing their own culture. If you still remember that american friend of mine who once asked me, that was the answer I have for her.

 

 

Four words. I love the show! It’s always good news to know that you are pregnant and prepared but I think it’s overwhelming to know that you will have 6 babies on the way and unprepared. I can’t even imagine myself having twins and sextuplet after that, it’s too much. If you want to see how it is, watch the show. It caught my attention right away because of my curiosity, I want to know how their life is doing from day to day. God is amazing indeed. I like the fact that Jon and Kate (parents) resembles a typical relationship of every married couple. They fight, they laugh and they have the same problems as much as we do. They wake up every morning facing a variety of challenges. Potty training, feeding, budgeting and, disciplining. I think their family is no different to any other families. The only difference is that they have 8 kids. Whew!

This show taught me two things. One is to appreciate what God has given us.  Although it’s normal to get scared at first, just look to God and trust him, there you will find his answer.

If you feel down and you think you have too much things going on well maybe watching this show will change that. God is good all the time and all the time God is good. *winks*

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