Yesterday, September 27, 2007, Julian and Tania joined Julian’s home school provider Catholic Filipino Academy’s field trip at the Nestle Ice Cream’s Nestle Creamery in Aurora Blvd. Founder of CFA Bro. Bo Sanchez and his family, whose son is also with CFA, was with us. Where exactly is the Nestle Creamery? It is located along Aurora Blvd in Quezon City, here in Metro Manila, Philippines. Nestle Creamery is home to Nestle Ice Cream which is one of the leading ice cream brands in the Philippines. Nestle Philippines bought this company from Magnolia Ice Cream which used to be a subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation. Magnolia Ice Cream is now back in the market but that is another story.

Julian and Pio, Wenchie’s son, also enrolled at CFA.

Tania (in white headband) with Bea, Wenchie’s youngest child. They tagged along even if they were not enrolled

Julian and Tania, along with a lot of children gathered at the Nestle Creamery’s lobby for the field trip. We even had home schooled Americans living in the Philippines with us.The children, along with us parents were given a presentation about the company and about the ice cream making process and about the different products. Even Kimy, a frozen delight mascot appeared to entertain the children. A very, very good marketing strategy indeed.

After the slide presentation, we then proceeded to observe the Nestle Creamery. We saw a very clean workplace with a few people manning the machines. It seems that the Popsicle stick machine was broken and some are fixing the problem. We saw Nestle and Chuckie ice cream in containers moving on a conveyor belt.

After we looked at the observation windows, we then went to the freezer located at the exit to get free Nestle Ice Cream frozen delights. Julian got for himself a Kimy Jelly Tongue, Tania got a Milo Stick and I got a Pinipig Crunch. Hubby did not go with us inside the Nestle Creamery as he had to go to a computer shop to have a computer device repaired in the nearby computer hub a street away.

Prostate cancer which is also called adenocarcinoma is one of the leading causes of deaths caused by cancer among men. Prostate cancer can slowly grow but others grow very and spread quickly. It is important to know the prostate cancer symptoms as early as possible to be able to get the necessary help because even with the latest research, it is very hard for doctors to tell which prostate cancer will grow slowly or quickly. One of the advance methods that can pinpoint with accuracy the treatment of prostate cancer is through HIFU or High Intensity Focused Ultrasound. This is a state-of-the-art technology ablation technique that destroys deep-seated tissue in the treatment of prostate cancer through the use of the power of ultrasound.

Short Term Memory is a skill about processing and holding information in awareness and then manipulating it within a few seconds.

Have you had some problems like these? You are about to say something and you stop in mid-sentence, completely forgetting the word or thought or idea that you are about to say? My children tease me about this, having “memory gap”, teehee, :D. If these happen at times, rest assured, nothing serious is the matter. Especially for those who are moving up the age brackets, you know what I mean.

But if these happen with children? Then there is an underlying problem. Some of the “symptoms” for short term memory problems can be:

• poor memory about physical/action sequences (tendency to forget activities in school, steps on how to do a project, dance steps)
• inconsistent visual memory (tendency to forget what has been seen or watched)
• inconsistent auditory memory (tendency to not being able to listen to or hear words spoken, having difficulty memorizing song lyrics)
• disrupted flow of ideas when speaking and writing (happens when words, or images or thoughts were forgotten)
• repetitions numbering more than the required number of times to be taught, in other words, drills will be taught, retaught, over and over again but there are still parts or bits that would be forgotten.

Who wouldn’t love to look at fine pieces of fine arts? People have different tastes when it comes to fine arts, especially the visual arts. For those with deep pockets, they go to great lengths to be able to acquire fine pieces of fine art. Where would they turn to if they want to do just that? To the Park West Gallery. Park West Art Gallery is home to the largest collection of fine art in the world which conducts fine art auctions throughout the United States and Canada. Not living in these places? They have an affiliate company called Park West at Sea which conducts art cruise auctions around the world.