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Birthday

The theme for this week’s Lasang Pinoy Sunday is Birthday! The event hostess, Ces, says she chose this theme this week because it’s her birthday week, so let me start off by greeting her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

It’s my birthday week too as it is for another fellow Leo and blogger friend, so all over the world, this week is an auspicious week. This is a lucky year for my birthday too as in the Chinese culture, the number 8 is very lucky and that is one reason why the Olympic games will be starting on 08-08-08. So I’m crossing my fingers that good things will happen this year although, as luck would have it, my girls will not be with me this year for the first time.

Birthdays for me has always been a celebration that requires kids. I love celebrating birthdays with children because of the wonder and innocence that remains in them. It’s contagious and I love being in the same air as that wonder. The photo, was taken on my birthday last year when we were in Los Angeles, surrounded by my daughters, my nieces, sisters, cousins, parents, grandma and more of my large and extended family. The cake was from one our favorite bakery in Chinatown, Phoenix. It’s the famous sponge cake filled with strawberries and cream and frosted with whipped cream. This year, it will just me and my husband celebrating, but I’m sure good food will be involved and definitely the Olympics opening ceremonies is in line instead of a movie.

Since I didn’t have a good birthday themed food photo, I decided to post this entry here instead.

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I had another one of those serendipitous moments again where one thing just leads to another and somehow they all are interconnected one way or another. First, I found the YouTube video above quite by accident as I was checking my YouTube account. I love art and I love the song Bayan Ko which is the background music. That song always brings tears to my eyes and combined with the beautiful images from the famed Filipino artist, Fernando Amorsolo, it just filled my heart with pride. Yes, I am Filipino through and through.

I know I am Filipino all the way through without even taking this little quiz that I found on Francesca’s blog which asks, Are You a True Filipino? But I thought it would be a fun exercise to do this meme anyway. So here it goes…
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I just found out about this recently via email (thanks Ting :) ). The band, Journey, has a new lead singer in the ultra talented Arnel Pineda from Quezon City, Philippines. Read the press release here.

How awesome is that? Check him out.

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The Pinoy Moms Network had just been made over and it is now an emagazine! PMN, for short, still aggregates blogs of Filipino moms but now it also features original articles about parenting, lifestyle and fashion, food and cooking, home and garden, bringing up mom, and travel.

If you are a Filipino mom and are interested in joining this community, or even better yet, are interested in writing original articles for the ezine, sign up at Pinoy Moms Network.

The new ezine format just started this week, and I have two contributions to the launch:
Under Food and Cooking – Kitchen Basics: Knives and Boards
Under Bringing Up Mom – Expectations, High and Low

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