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Random New Year Ramblings

Ha! It’s already the 5th day of the first month of 2012 and here I am just greeting everyone a Happy New Year! But then…were still on the first week, right? So I’m sure its ok. Hahaha. As much as I love blogging, I have more important priorities. I’ve been beat and tired so I figured I needed a few days rest from being ‘online’. It was a good call coz now I feel energized, motivated and ready to give blogging for 2012 a big go!

I have tons of plans. And I think its high time I move to other things aside from blogging. I manage multiple blogs, mostly personal blogs with niche topics like fashion and beauty (where I write about fashion finds, things I find pretty etc). I also have a thrift shopping blog, a ‘mom blog’, and a few more. And of course this one, my personal-lifestyle-living in Cambodia blog. And these blogs had been a great journey and a fabulous past time for me (not to mention the shopping money it earns me lol!) and I’ll carry on updating them.

But I’ll be implementing a teeny weeny bit of change here. I’m adding in some recommended products you guys might be interested in. I know I already have a few ads scattered on the blog, but I’m hoping this would make a good addition and would add some more value to each posting. You’ll be seeing ‘featured products’ at the bottom of each post. At least it could help me earn my hosting and domain fees.

I’m also doing a category clean-up on this site. It’s driving me nuts that a few years of disorganized posting habit made this site an almost mess. I need to streamline my categories and re-organize the posts, so if you see something weird around here in the next few days, please bear with me. I intend to come up with a better looking Pinaywifespeaks.

Since its a new year, I’ve decided to pursue another ‘project’. This time I’ll be building niche websites and experimenting with it, trying out different monetizing strategies. Hmm, its going to be a trial and error project, I know the big probability of me failing but I also know its gonna keep me occupied and I’m really really excited since I know this time I’ll be learning more. But whatever the outcome, I don’t intend to quit until I discover what works for me.

Hmm, see I’m pretty much motivated. I must have eaten something really good during the New Years. Lol. Have a great weekend everyone!

Three Things..

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Chinks has been watching a Bratz episode where the girls met a girl genie and she gave each of the Bratz wishes. After watching that she asked me, if I meet a genie and she gives me 3 wishes. What will my wishes be? I asked her what are the kind of wishes allowed. She said in the movie, cannot ask for a lot of money, eternal life or more wishes.

So we settled on three material things I wouldn’t mind having for free. I asked her first what she wants and here’s her list:

(1) a pet dog (hayyy, sowee baby, mommy the genie cannot give you this one..)

(2) a mobile phone (maybe when she’s old enough..)

(3) a ‘real’ laptop (huh!?! kids of today..)

Here’s mine..

(1) a purple camera – I know I can buy this but I’m holding out because of the weight-loss bargain I made myself. But I wouldn’t mind if a genie gave it to me..

(2) a new blogging notebook – I’m getting one soon but if I could get it free why not? In case a benevolent soul is reading this, I want the Lenovo Ideapad S10-3Premium Mini..

(3) one year supply of lotions, creams, and body scrub – I’m not exceedingly vain but I do take care of my skin very well. I drink lots of fluid, eat veggies,cleanse, tone and moisturize regularly. And I’ve also been reading some wrinkle cream reviews just so I could get ahead and prepare for the inevitable.. lol!

Living in Phnom Penh: Yesterday and Today..

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I’ve been in a foul mood since yesterday. No reason at all, I’m just so moody. I spent a good part of yesterday cleaning the house which is really weird because I don’t like doing this when its so hot. I also did the laundry and even stripped all beds of sheets so I could just have some more to wash. I feel so weird, Chinks keep asking me if I’m going to have her little brother now.

I don’t think so. It’s just my hormones acting up I think. This morning I woke up late, which is again weird considering that I’m always up early even if there’s no classes or work. But at around 8 am I was already in the market buying our food for next week and I also bought ingredients for ginataan. When I got home I cooked that and also made tinola for lunch then promptly fell asleep at around 11 am.

Around 2 pm I was hungry so I had some lunch. The I showered again, then dragged Hi-ace and Chinks to Sovanna Mall to look for some weird movie in DVD to watch tonight. I found nothing but Chinks found ‘Happy Feet’ in DVD so that’s our entertainment for tonight. I’ll just be scouring torrents again for some movies tomorrow.

We dropped by the grocery coz I wanted to have some eye cream but found nothing that would suit me. I’ll probably be heading over to U-care to look for it tomorrow.

We were about to go home when Chinks announced that she’s starving. I asked her what she wanted to eat, she said spaghetti. Then she pointed at Lucky Seven fast food, a local chain that we haven’t tried yet. I must admit I was a bit turned off by the ambiance like its old but since she wanted it we gave in. She had her spaghetti, which tasted good but a little on the hot side so she didn’t finish it all. I had a ‘Kong Sandwich with drinks and fries’, I liked the bread and it turned out quite tasty. Hi-ace had rice, which he said was just fine.

That’s how the past two days was for me. Now I’m just finishing this up, then I’m waiting for Rafael Nadal’s game..

Computer Glitches..

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I swear I would just be cool about this. The weather is hot enough and I don’t wanna add to my stress levels and be mad about what happened to my desktop computer. When we came back from our weekend in Siem Reap, my desktop just refuses to turn on. Yesterday, we had it checked out and they recommended to have it reformatted. I don’t understand why it happened but since its like that there’s not much I can do about it.

I'm seriously considering doing this.. But I don't own a gun haha!

Good thing I backed-up the whole thing and I’ll just be losing a week’s worth of work and data. But still!! I don’t have time to install programs I need, transfer files etc. Though I think this will be forcing me too to get organized, get that project management software I’ve been planning on installing, and delete files I don’t need.

I should get down to it this afternoon coz I have loads to do this morning plus Hi-ace asked me to do some urgent lesson writing. Hayy! I wanna tear my hair out already but well I’ll just take everything in stride. Lol! I don’t want to have wrinkles just because of this..

The only good thing to come out of it is that, Hi-ace offered to buy me a blogging laptop hehe. I’m using his computer right now and it disrupts his work sched too but I declined coz really I prefer working with my desktop..

On with the work..

Just Back..

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Got home last night and to be honest, I didn’t want to go online. I kinda got into the nice unhurried schedule of the past three days that I didn’t want to break the status quo and get to work again.

We’ve been to Siem Reap, Cambodia since Thursday. We really just had a bit of temple hopping, eating, massages, walking and eating again. It was good to be away and we also had fun showing Ouwie, the major temples of the Angkor Archeological Park. We just did the mini-tour of Angkor since it was soooo hot and all the other out of the way temples we’ll just visit again next time. Anyway, I’ll be posting more about the trip soon.

I had also been in a ‘pissed off’ mood because while we were not here our neighbors started drilling a foundation for their house renovation. Their lot is very adjacent to ours so the drilling tremors shook the house pretty badly. Nothing really happened except that my desktop PC I think has been shaken so badly coz its located near the wall where they are drilling. And my desktop is where I blog and I keep a lot of my files coz well its fast and has a lot of disk space. But now it won’t turn on!!

I wanted to scream my frustration but I don’t think this will accomplish me anything. So were having some technicians to check it out. Meanwhile, I’m confined to blogging with a laptop and I don’t really like it, for some reason I’ve gotten used to the tornado-speed of my desktop. Anyway, I hope something could be done to make it work without me needing to reformat it, coz whhhaaa! I really don’t want to lose any data. I have a backup but the photos for our last Kep trip was in there and I don’t have other copies. And also some more files for some web design projects.

I really don’t wanna get mad about the computer thing coz no one is at fault so I’m treating myself to a little office furniture shopping this afternoon. I wanna buy myself a nice swivel chair to go with my desk. Shopping is really the best way for me to cool off and calm down hehe..

Desktop glitches aside, I’m glad to be back. Hmmm, I think I am staying put for the whole month of May since I’m already badly sunburned and Chinks too. Though I can’t say the same for Hi-ace coz he’s already excitedly researching Ratanakiri tours..

Anxious and Tense..

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I’ve been trying to tell myself I don’t give a hoot, that I don’t really mind who’s going to be the next Philippine president. In fact, I’ve managed to convince everyone around me that I don’t care, that I’m so ‘sawa na‘ of Philippine politics.

So how come I had been feeling nauseous and anxious since this morning? And no its not an effect of prenatalvitamins or too much caffeine. I guess I had just been deluding myself that I don’t give a damn about who gets to lead my country anymore. The truth is, I am concerned. I am a Filipino, my daughter is a Filipino. No matter how many times I tell myself, I’ve stopped caring already, but I really do care about what happens to my country. So, here I am so tense and anxiously waiting..

I promised myself before I won’t write about politics, because I know next to nothing about it. So I’m not going to talk about personalities here. This is simply about my feelings about the fate of my country.

Today is election day in the Philippines, where Filipinos have the chance to be heard by the ballots that they cast. Do I have faith that this would turn out to be an honest election? I have severe doubts. Politics in the Philippines can be dirty. Automated? I want to believe the voice of the Filipinos will be heard, I want to believe that this will happen. But is that really possible? When everyone wants to be in power, everyone wants a share of the spotlight.

And I think its not just the politicians who are corrupt. Corruption and greed has established a culture of some people waiting for which candidate will give the biggest dole out and selling their votes to them. Of course, those who win the election would want to recoup what they invested, so it turns into a cycle. A vicious cycle of corruption..

Some Pinoys also have this belief that only one person is needed to turn around and give them a better future. Some even have this fanatical faith in some politicians and they go on yakking that they are the only hope of the country. Yes, we need a leader but I think what’s most important is that we do something to help and to do it together.

I think going with what Henry Ford have said will do us a great deal of good..

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Is there any hope for the Philippines and the Filipinos? I want to believe that there is indeed hope.

You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. – author unknown

Lui in Penh

living in Phnom Penh & getting to know Cambodia