A Mother’s Stuff

Now that the world is continually experiencing an economic turmoil, businesses left and right are going through the tough time of surviving. Many are unfortunate to meet their end at the very start of the crisis while others are still moving and fighting. For a business to survive at this point in time is to have the best possible strategy ever to be visible on the consuming public, maintain or increase sales and keep the business going.

Internet is not only a means for travel concerns, social networking, research works, latest world issues, etc. but it is a powerful tool too for businesses to be visible, reach their target market, introduce their products and services, and others that will enable and help them achieve their objective. The use of a business web directory will give benefits to online stores to get even when it comes to online marketing campaign. Creating online awareness will help reach the target market and eventually achieve increase in sales and that means money for the business. By using it your business sails on the same boat with other competitors who are taking advantage of online exposures.

In choosing a business web directory, authenticity and popularity counts plus listing the business on the right category will eventually give you the results you have ever wanted. Be careful with online scam directories who just want to get your information or web directories who give nothing but broken promises. For that matter, Yahoo! Directory is one of the best places to expose your business to your market. It is trusted and most commonly used by other business around the world.

Keeping a business at this point in time is really a very tough job but hardships must not stop the business from moving and soaring. The answer lies on a strong online marketing campaign that will expose your products and services to the world.

Yesterday was the feast of St. John the Baptist (Joannes Baptista, John the Baptizer, John the Forerunner, Juan Bautista, Yahya the Baptizer). I have known this feast when my grandparents and parents got a stall in San Juan City almost 2 decades ago. The celebration has always been fun and people are all in the streets to greet everyone with water. Aside from that, the city held their annual street dancing.

But not all the cities and towns celebrate it that way. Some have the traditional procession while others lined up many dressed lechon to commemorate the birth of their patron saint. Among some of the places that celebrate the feast aside from San Juan are Negros Occidental, Silay City, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija and Balayan, Batangas.

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Sinait, Ilocos Sur is known as the Garlic Center of the North. In that regard, the Garlic Festival is being held annually during the 1st to 3rd of May. It aims to showcase the talent, ingenuity and hard work of the Ilocano farmers. Also, it aims to encourage the farmers to mass high quality garlic using modern technology.

When Governor Savellana and Mayor Yabes witnessed the Garlic Festival in Gilgory, California, USA (Garlic Capital of the World) in 2000 it gave birth to the celebration of Sinait Bawang Festival. This festival gives recognition to garlic farmers and educate people on the importance of the garlic industry to Philippine economy.

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The family had just attended a birthday party of one of my nieces. It was held at McDonald’s SM Bacoor branch at around 3:30pm. Unfortunately the celebrant got ill before her party. She had measles and she was hospitalized for several days already due to fever. It was sad not having the celebrant around but the party went fun together with our relatives and friends of the celebrant. We had some games and then after that eating time. Yours truly participated in 2 games: Bring Me (see the video) and the group game (sort of Basketball Cups). I both won in the games. Yipee!!! After the tiring games we had our snacks and ended the party well.

The family did not go home immediately. We went in a computer school to buy a new printer to replace our troubled EPSON Stylus C20SX, hehehe. After some canvassing made we decided to buy the CANON Pimax iP1980. Since we had a multi-functional Brother we bought this one for printing purposes only. The printing procedure is very easy and they have great promo on the warranty. It costs Php2,195.00 with inks (black & colored) already. Right after that we went home coz we’re all tired already.
The host told us to get anything that starts with letter “P” (tagalog or English word). As you can see, I almost searched and exposed all the things in my bag to search for the items. Fortunately with the help of my kids, sisters, niece and nephews I got 14 items that starts with letter “P” and I won the game. See video here.

The Ilocano word “dulang” means table and this event features table foods every month of February (10th) in the city of Laoag. It uncovers the culinary skills of the Laoagueños and revives the typically-Ilocano cuisine like the “pinakbet, bagnet, tinodok,” including the famous Ilocano wine or “basi”.

Laoag, to many people, is almost synonymous with good tasting native cuisines uniquely cooked according to old traditional Ilocano culinary procedures. Tourists and guests can have good samplings of these during the Dulang Food Festival. These special food are prepared and cooked with strange looking utensils with names as strangely sounding—banag, silyasi, and dalikan, among others. In earlier times, all households in town would cook their unique specialties and guests could just go from house to house and eat all they wanted. With the cheer that goes with all festivals in Laoag, Dulang makes every home celebrate mini-fiestas.

Among the special Laoag dishes featured in Dulang are Bagnet (Ilocano deep-fried super crunchy pork), Longganisa Ilocos (preserved with all-natural spices and sugarcane vinegar), Dinakdakan (pig’s brain delicacy), Ilocano Dinuguan (pork stewed in pork-blood), Diningding (native veggies in fish preserve and grilled fish), and of course, Pinakbet—a ubiquitous native dish in festivals in Laoag.

See this video for more of Dulang Food Festival.

The Bangus Festival of Dagupan City, Pangasinan is being celebrated annually on April 16 to May 4 for the bountiful harvest of milkfish in the city. This festival form part of Dagupan’s Pista’y Dayat celebration where the highlight of which is the longest Bangus Grill, 101 Ways to Cook Bangus, Bangus Harvest Dance Parade and sports competition/exhibition.

• The “Kalutan ed Dagupan” in 2003 earned a worthy recognition from the Guinness World Records for its “Longest Barbecue.”
• Gilon! Gilon! ed Dalan Street Dancing is a bangus (milkfish) harvest ritual displayed through a well choreographed dance.
• Bangus (milkfish) Rodeo is a fun-filled contest for the fastest bangus deboner, eater and classifier. The biggest, heaviest and sexiest bangus will be selected.
• Chefs from finest restaurants in the city and elsewhere showcase many ways of cooking bangus (milkfish) in different concoctions in the 101 Ways to Cook Bangus.

The Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Metro Manila Chapter and Kasangga Mo Ang Langit Foundation will held a celebration for the 4th year anniversary of 777 Media Forum and commemorates the death anniversary of Reyster Langit. On May 30, deaf and mute children will be treated for a one whole day of water excitement and games in the world class facilities of Splash Island Global Gutz Park Philippines.

This worthy endeavor will be the first and be done yearly as a social responsibility of Splash Island Global Gutz Park Philippines to treat special children for a one whole day of memorable experience. Among the other sponsors for this event are CEBU PACIFIC AIRLINES, JG SUMMIT, DUTY FREE PHILIPPINES, SKAL and MANILA INTERNATIIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY.

Children will be placed inside the Human Bubble to signify the start of the relay games within the white sand harbor of Agos Grandes, the original waving pool. Kids will have the rest of the day to enjoy the pools and the 12 water slides of the resort.

Rome, Italy is for sure a favorite destination among travelers. Personally, I am really interested to see the very famous St. Peter’s Square and the nearby Holy Places. It is such a Holy City well loved by strong Catholic believers that also housed great architectural designs of their history and culture. Plenty of people flanked during religious occasions and observances and I wonder how the city caters those plenty of visitors as I’ve seen it on TV.

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Villasis was a mere barrio of Malasiqui in the early part of the 17th century and was known by its former name, “Pandoyocan.” The place had no fixed boundaries. It was simply a frontier settlement, a thickly forested region covering most of the southeastern parts of the province. Few people lived in this place due to the unavailability of open space for farming. In this thick forest however, was a nesting ground of bees called “oyocan”. The abundance of honey attracted Spaniards and inhabitants of neighboring places to settle in this village. Because of this, the place was called “Pandoyocan”, meaning “colony of bees.”

Today though, its accessibility to all kinds of land transportation has made Villasis a bustling center of trade and commerce. It is intersected by the Manila North Road from north to south; therefore allowing all major bus lines plying the Manila-Region I CAR route to pass through the town 24-hours a day. The main agricultural crops of the town are rice, corn, cassava, cabbage, varieties of vegetables and fruits. Raising livestock is another livelihood of the townspeople who raise poultry, swine, cattle and goats.
There are fifty-six (56) registered small to medium sized industries in Villasis. These include rice mills, metal craft industries, cement production, poultry raising and piggeries and an ice-plant.

Investment potentials (as of 1995), Villasis is an ideal site for investors in agro-industry for the following reasons; it is strategically located and accessible to all points of Luzon. It has well-developed infra-support facilities such as power, water, transportation and communication, a wide agricultural base and availability of skilled and disciplined labor force. It has one of the lowest crime rates in the region as well as having an efficient and traffic-free transport system, relatively low real estate value and strong people and LGU support.

Other potential investment areas include agri-based manufacturing industries due to abundant raw materials; banking; marketing due t available private spaces for shopping malls; and a plant for fertilizers for which there is a high domestic and export demand. Possible projects for the BOT scheme could involve the expansion of the public market or a new slaughterhouse.

Villasis is a second class municipality in the province of Pangasinan and according to the latest census it has a population of 56,668 people in 11,001 households. It is politically subdivided into 21 barangays as follows: Amamperez, Bacag, Barangobong, Barraca, Capulaan, Caramutan, La Paz, Labit, Lipay, Lomboy, Piaz (Plaza), Zone V (Pob.), Zone I (Pob.), Zone II (Pob.), Zone III (Pob.), Zone IV (Pob.), Puelay, San Blas, San Nicolas, Tombod and Unzad.

The living historical masterpiece of the town of Urbiztondo traced itself back to the year 1851 when it was founded by a pioneering man, Fructuso Vistro Sr. and a handful of enterprising and pioneering natives. The town Urbiztindo was christened after the surname of a Spanish Governor General of the Philippines, Gen. Antonio Urbiztondo, once and a conqueror of the Moros of Jolo.

Before the year 1851 however, when the town was already called by its present name, the place was called Vistro in honor of the founder, Fructuso Vistro Sr., and which at that time of the sitio of Vistro was located in Galarin overlooking Aguing. As years rolled by the people were then happy and contented, thus the township of Vistro was changed into her present name, Urbiztondo, with a new location which is the present site of Urbiztondo.

History has it that before and after her founding, Urbiztondo shared a part of that kind and gracious endowment of nature, being gifted and imbued with the historically famed Agno River which flooded the town with its rich inundations thus making the soil fertile. The beauty of nature has been spelled in her name as Urbiztondo at that time was a thick forest where wild animals roamed and few people dared to venture.

The early Christian Missionaries and Spanish conquistadores arrived and they staked the plaza, after which they constructed the church and the presidencia. They later laid the poblacion with the principal streets at the center of the municipality together with the houses of the leading inhabitants, especially the Spaniards. Far beyond the outskirts of the poblacion, they mapped out the agricultural lands, the fishing areas, the grazing lands, and the communal forests. Thus, the town of Urbiztondo was built following the pattern issued by the Spanish Crown.

Urbiztondo is a third class municipality in the province of Pangasinan and according to the latest census, it has a population of 43,430 people in 7,339 households. It has 21 barangays as follows: Angatel, Balangay, Batangcaoa, Baug, Bayaoas, Bituag, Camambugan, Dalangiring, Duplac, Galarin, Gueteb, Malaca, Malayo, Malibong, Pasibi East, Pasibi West, Pisuac, Poblacion, Real, Salavante and Sawat.

Tomorrow is the 9th birthday of my daughter. Time flies so fast that on 12:11pm of May 12, 2000 (Friday) I gave birth to a baby girl who is now a young lady. There were times of arguments and misunderstandings but I hope you understand me and papa that we just wanted you to be a good person inside and out and life is not that easy to take. The road in front of you is still a long way, a long journey to take and I hope you will always remember our words of wisdom as you go on with life.

One day from now it’s MOTHER’S DAY. On TV, I see on teleseryes how they give importance to all the amazing and wonderful mothers out there like me, hehehe. In my favorite “May Bukas Pa” (There’s Still Tomorrow), Lorna Tolentino plays the role of a mother looking for her lost child kidnapped by their family driver 7 years ago. Would really be it Santino??? Well, that’s all we have to find out.

I became a mother 9 years ago. Time really flies so fast but my journey since then and until now keeps lingering in my mind and heart. It was not easy but enriching and fulfilling. Being a mom is truly a tough job. It is a 24/7 job, unending and unselfish.

To all the mothers in the world, the big day is nearing. Have a fun-filled and love-filled day with your love ones.

Being a mom concerns not only of what we can give to our kids but what we have to give up from ourselves in the name of love for them. - Crissy

Cholesterol? Sounds scary, isn’t it? But I understand that it could be good and it can be bad. How? It is normal to have cholesterol in our body and it plays an important part to have a healthy body. Maintaining it at a normal range is an advantage but what if not? Too much cholesterol in our body is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease that can lead to heart attack and stroke.

Balancing our cholesterol is a great counter measure to avoid certain diseases. My mother-in-law has high blood pressure and diabetes that is why having too much cholesterol will be disastrous to her. She is almost 70 years old so she needs maintenance medication to avoid complications. My sister-in-law’s father living in New York regularly sent her medications like PreLipid for maintenance. She takes it once a day to control her cholesterol level.

PreLipid is 100% all natural ingredients, no side effect, effective to reduce cholesterol level and being used by doctors in the US over their thousands of patients. I also learned that it more affordable as compared to others but they are still offering a 100% money back guarantee. Well I think my mother-in-law has no need to that because I think it works perfectly on her. Lower cholesterol with PreLipid from PreEmptive Meds, Inc is the phrase you need to remember in dealing with bad and high cholesterol.