Every Saturday members post photos based on a theme. The theme for June 30, 2007 is SWEET. Visit the BLOG ROLL.

There is sweet. And there is sweet. Yeah, I know my front torso is not really a sight to behold. Blame it on one of my comfort food:

How I love this chocolate bar, ever since I was young. Brings back memories of my father bringing this home to me. You see, back in the 70’s when I was a young girl, there are very few stores selling these goods here in the Philippines. Because my father works in a US Naval Facility, he is able to bring these chocolate bars for me.

One of the children’s favorite treat.

Caramel popcorn. Not so sweet but it would definitely satisfy one’s sweet tooth.

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There is a blogger meet-up on July 3, 2007 at 7:30pm. This is going to be at the Taste Asia near SM Hypermarket at the SM Mall of Asia. Over 100 bloggers have signed up. Dine or SexyMom helped me sign up for the event. To those who are wondering about SM Mall of Asia or MOA, it is said to be the 7th largest shopping mall in the world in terms of gross floor size.

I admit I’m a bit shy to approach people I don’t know in order to strike a conversation. Plus I am a bit conscious about my physique. You see, not only am I a little on the heavy side (heavy front more likely, ) but I am not a fashionable gal. Maybe if I can afford it, I would be wearing designer clothes to events like this to boost my ego a little bit. But then, that wouldn’t be me at all coz I like casual dressing. No matter, still, I’m excited to go to this event.

SM Mall of Asia at dusk.

A lot has been reported in the news about school violence. In fact, I have written a post about it. Click here to read the post. Lives have been lost, spirits have been broken. Am I talking about grave incidents like shooting and killing students and teachers alike? Partly. The school violence I am pondering about are those seemingly trivial and common place events like bullying, petty theft, teasing, gang-related activities, and a whole lot more. We perhaps have at one time, or maybe have not experienced these, or maybe our younger children haven’t experienced these yet but who’s to say they won’t? Now, I am not being negative here but then again, it is best to observe a trend about school violence.

Several decades ago, the behavior problems that besiege school systems seem petty: littering, cutting classes, swearing, not following instructions, hitting (punching, kicking), graffiti writing, pulling fire alarm, teasing and a host of other behavior not exactly acceptable in a school setting.

Several decades ago, the discipline problems that schools had to deal with are mostly running in the halls, talking aloud, cutting classes, not doing required school workload, gum chewing, cutting in lines, cheating during test and chewing gums. These violations seem a lot more manageable.

These days though, the offenses are bigger, stronger and more frightening. Those mentioned above still happen but a lot more has changed. How? School violence now include assault, not only to fellow students, teachers, school authority but even innocent bystanders are affected. School violence now includes carrying lethal weapons like knives and guns. School violence now also includes rape. School violence also includes verbal as well as physical fights.

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I think I have already written a post about this wonderful site: Project Gutenberg. Do check out the site and enjoy countless titles which, according to an article I have read a few months back, are slowly being removed from public libraries. Why? Simply because these timeless classics have not been borrowed and have been gathering dust in their shelves. How sad. Click here for the catalog.
Let’s see how many titles you can download and read…

I have posted some photos about TriNoma in this entry a few weeks back. When we went there last Saturday, it was still under construction since many shops are still not open. Now, why would we want to go back again? Because Ate needs to get a headset for school use (they were required to bring one for hygienic purposes) so we decided to go there after dropping my mother, my aunt and Bunso at a bus station. They will go back to the province after the burial of my grandaunt (or grandmother). Mother decided to bring Bunso to her house after she got sick so she can “fatten” her for a month or so. We are going to miss our baby girl in the house. Sigh.

Here are a few photos that we took in TriNoma but this time we concentrated on the gardens and the water formations. Here are some of them:

The view of Mindanao Avenue corner North Avenue from inside TriNoMa.

From where we were standing looking at the streets outside, the other view was this. This looks like a garden has grown inside a concrete structure. Very refreshing.

This again is on the wing where one can see the streets outside. Those open spaces in the background are like view decks where one can see the inside of the mall as well as the streets outside.

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Every Saturday, members post photos based on a theme. The theme for June 23, 2007 is SHINY. Visit the BLOG ROLL.

One of the things that came to mind about this week’s SHINY theme is cars. For me, a shiny car means a lot of care has been given. I browsed through our collection of different car brands and make taken from car shows to look for these shiny photos. I also looked for different parts of different cars that show something shiny. Here goes:

The front grille of a Mercedes

A shiny prancing horse emblem (sorry taken with unsteady hands) of a Ferrari

Shiny bling-bling mag wheels of a Hummer H2

Shiny rear body part of a Bimmer