Winter Break

Spent this past few days doing last minute preparations for the winter and the holidays. The gift shopping list is all done thanks. My fall cleanup is now a complete task having cleared the roof gutters with those pesky (helicopter?) maple leaves. Luckily, mother nature gave us a break here in this Eastern part of the country where we have been experiencing some balmy days the past two weeks. Today, it is a mild 54 degrees unusual at this time of the year.

Yesterday, the Denver, Colorado area was socked with it's first snow storm. Blizzard conditions were reported. They had about 2 feet of snow and the Denver International airport had to be shut down. Check out CNN's news account. Brrrrr... nothing of that sort yet here. Tonight will be the start of the winter season here. So, will we be having a white christmas? We shall see. Happy holidays everyone!

"We Have Liftoff"

Last Saturday night i was able to watch the launching of the Space Shuttle Discovery. It was an amazing experience coupled with a night time (8:47 EST)launching was a first for me to watch the event on television. After the live telecast on Fox News cable, I did some surfing of the National Space & Aeronautics Administration and even got to watch another spectacle. That of watching the live feedback of the movements of the Shuttle at the Mission Control in Houston, Texas. Will be following up on the docking of the the Discovery with the International Space Station come Monday.So, what are you waiting for check out NASA and go to their Multimedia Section and watch another wonder of electronics and the WWW..

Tribute to the Beatles

Thanks YOUTUBE! Enjoy the songs.

"A Beatles Die-Hard Fan" - to Ka Uro & Lisa

Are you? Well, i am for one! They came to town during my college days at SLU in Baguio City, Philippines. Nope, they performed at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila for a limited engagement. We drove (yes Lisa, borrowed my father's '62 VW Kombi back then) all the way down from Baguio to watch their 4 PM afternoon show on July 4 ,1966. The first half of the show was started by an all filipino ensemble Ms. Pilita Corrales, the Reycard Duets to name a few. Second half of the show was all about the Mop Topped band performing their 'Hard Day's Night' collection of songs including " I Want TO Hold Your Hand", "Love Me Do", "Yesterday", All My Loving", "Can't Buy Me Love", "From Me To You", "And I Love Her", "Ticket To Ride" etc.. How many people saw the show that afternoon let me say 20,000 to 25,000 by my estimate. Next performance for them was at 8:30 PM and by that time we were on our way back to Baguio. Aaaah NOSTALGIA!

"Lisa's Dilemma on Comments"

Got to surf the net today... first my daily newspapers then some blogs. Went to Watson's blog and read his Nov.28 post about Global Warming. Titled " an inconvenient truth". I say scary thought but that's the way the world is going nowadays. Coincidentally, while watching OPRAH at 4 PM it was Sen Al Gore who was her guest expounding on this . Hoping with her exposure of the problem we'll get to slow down or minmize the process.

I was reading Lisa's blog for dollars and saw that she was a bit in a quandary trying to hack out this code. Read on and i quote " Also, if you notice, there are no comment texts displayed on Blogger for current posts, just a link stating "# comments" but you comment texts are dislayed in full when you go to previous posts. This bugs me about Blogger. I have been trying to find out how I can hack this code for the past 2 days but have been unsuccessful. I really want comment texts of current posts to be visible to all readers, just like in a Word Press blog."

Please .... Go to your SETTINGS, click COMMENTS....there...click YES on the question SHOW COMMENTS IN A POPUP WINDOW? this of course will put comments in a POPUP window for all or everyday comments ...where you in turn can reply to. then all the way down below after all the questionnaires on COMMENTS .... don't forget to your SAVE SETTINGS.

Hope this Helps. Laters.


Photo taken is that of the Camp John Hay Entrance( Circa1961) what used to be main gate near the Nevada Hotel, Military Cut-Off Road, and South Drive in Baguio City, Philippines thru the courtesy of Bill Fabianic's collection.

Sunny, Cold ,Windy Day

Woke up thinking we would have our first snow dusting for the day. It was 25 degrees F good enough to have frost on the windshields of cars. Luckily, the high pressure came up and brought the snow on the east end of Long Island and the New England states. Buffalo and Rochester area of NY will have about 6 to 8 inches of snow because of usual lake effect snow...whew! Snow belt area talaga. Weather forecast says it will be in the low twenties tonite.

Yesterday, we got to play what looks like my last round of golf here in the Dutchess County area at McCann Golf Course with my pinoy friends Alex, Vinny & Ed. Who knows i can still play a few rounds down in the New Jersey area i.e. if my friends and old officemates Eric, Wency and Rod call me. Usually it is warmer down there at this time. NJ has lots of good golf courses like NY and will be putting up some pictures in this blog. Another topic that I can talk about after picking up the game since 1989.

Got to do my house errands...mail,bank, and returned a DVD (movie CLICK) at Blockbuster. Oh yes, shopped for a new pair of snow boots at Modell's ... Smiths was the brand name. Guess where it was made.... China.... ano fi! Got the boots on a 25 % discount for 38 bucks. I'm ready for the snow shoveling on the driveway when it comes. Went to Stop & Shop for some groceries and got some scallions for the Lomein Noodles with chicken broth we are preparing for merienda(snack in Philippine lingo). This soup will be good with pork siopao (pork bun). Bought an 8 " custard egg pie ...yummy! Happy birthday ! Later.

"And So A Blog is Born"

Hello... welcome!

After reading blogs for the past few months now i was encouraged to create one. Dutched Pinay a prudent blogger from asawa.org days is a woman of substance as to her experiences in life. Wats0n a young blogger from Baguio City, Philippines has been a daily read being a Baguioite myself. Wish we had a Ka Uro( a pinoy in nz) in every corner of the globe to help our kababayans on emigrating to a new country. Kudos Ka Uro for blogging about NZ. Thanks to LISA her blogging articles on the ABC's of blogging was instrumental in putting up this blog. Eric(senorenrique) with his musings and photos around Manila and Manhattan,NY salamat.

Photo featured is that of the old Pines Hotel circa 1970's in Baguio City..... what is now SM Baguio thru the courtesy of Engr. V. Pineda's collection of old photos.

So, here's to life. Later.