Jakie and the Beadstalk

Astronomy has always awed me.  I have a minimum tolerance for Science in general, except for astronomy, which never cease to amaze me.  I might not have the patience to remember the difference between and meteor and a meteorite, or even an asteroid, but I am always overwhelmed with the grandeur of the entire universe.   So while browsing the internet this morning, I chanced upon this website featuring 12 gorgeous images from space (see  here ) by Katherine Gray.  The pictures there were taken from the NASA website (check it out  here ).   My four-year-old kid was looking at my monitor when I was browsing this, and he seemed genuinely interested when he saw the pics.  I then explained about stars, about the earth's rotation, and the outer space, and I'm sure that even if he only understood bits of what I told him,  he would remember them and ask me again about it some other time when his neurons are able to comprehend these concepts mor...

I was browsing thru blogs the other day, looking out for giveaways/contests for February, when I saw a twit giving a link to this  site .  I immediately clicked the link and was brought to a page in multiply that offers accessories/trinkets for sale.  These accessories are made by fashion blogger, Ana Gonzales. Her creations are unique and really elegant. As an accessories designer myself, I know quality work when I see one and Ana's creations sure are quality stuff. Here are a few items that she made: Very Crafty Love Bracelet for Php200 Aren't these to-die-for? Wire Collar Necklace for Php380 Bracelet for a very luck girl named Trisha. See the wirework? Love Love Love this!!!Php100 only So if you want really artsy, crafty and very original accessories, browse thru Ana Gonzales' blog  here  and make sure to check out her collections at  http://anagoncollection.multiply.com .   Happy online shopping! (Photos are from Ana's mult...

Mich will be giving away a set of Forever 21's Love & Beauty Lip Gloss Set. To join, make sure that you go to her Facebook page  here .  Follow the steps in her FB link and you're good to go. The giveaway is open til March 10, 2012. So, join now. Ooops, make sure that you read your blog post  here . Good luck to all of us!

Since I posted some of my amateurish pics of clouds recently (please see  here  and  here ), I thought, I might as well post some of the pics in our garden, that I attempted to capture in camera (though pitifully), Since flowers are beautiful per se, I don't really care that they are not as beautiful in the pics, I just wanted to share them.   So please check them out, if you have time and maybe you can identify them.  If you do, please let me know. Thanks in advance! sing - sing pari - what are you doing? from the gladiola family? wild flower ang makahiya, bow! they call this gabi-gabi (a relative of the gabi plant) from down here looking up there bromeliad a view from outside wild flower a relative  of fortune plant?    Okra Flower Ampalaya flower don't know what this is -from a hanging plant wild flower  Sili flower wild flower Kangkong flower Alugbati shoots? Isn't nature beau...

Leading the prayer I was hesitant to enrol my baby to preschool. (He’s in nursery, his first try at school, and in two months, he will be able to finish his first school year!yey!!) It was my papa who is soooo eager to send him to school already. Thinking and believing that he is ready for school – he can communicate well enough, his speech is straight, he completes his sentences and he knows a lot of stuff already – I enrolled him because I think school would really help his development.   To my surprise, he can read now! Well, not the difficult sounds, but he can read words now (vowel sounds, and some consonants), and his teacher told me he is a good reader (but he often refuses to write).  He can count too, write a part of his name, and some other things.  Wow, he really is learning a lot! And I thought all he did there was play. Haha. My baby started school at 3 ½. Before enrolment, he was really, really snobbish.  He still is a bit of a snob when he i...

So, there was I, taking pictures of the clouds while on the plane. (Please see my previous post here . When I got home, I tried tinkering with the pictures, using only Windows Photo Gallery (haha) and Microsoft Paint (for my signature on the photos). And here are my experiments! (Note: I only adjusted the brightness, contrast, tint, saturation and color. Some photos I cropped to emphasize the parts I like.  Hope you like them.) colors were inverted thru Paint I know, I know, it's very amateurish, but they're not so bad for a point-and-shoot camera, right? And don't they remind you to look up and check out the sky right now and see for yourself their "often overlooked" beauty?

I have always been mesmerized by clouds.  No day passes by that I don't look at the sky and marvel at whatever cloud formation is up there for me to see.  A recent trip to Cebu all by myself made me focus all my attention to the clouds as we were traversing the sky. Pretending that I was a photographer (with a point and shoot camera-haha), I clicked and clicked on my camera until I drained its battery.   Here are some of my pictures. (Note: Some of the pictures were fixed using the edit feature in windows feature gallery.  Only the colors, the size, brightness and contrast were edited.  Some were just autofixed.) Looks like im taking a shot from a plane that's flying higher than that other plane, huh! Shot from the plane's window Looks like the clouds parted in the middle to let someone pass by my baby asked me, "mommy, is that snow?" So tranquil I wonder how the birds manage not to get dizzy while they are turning mid-air looks like...