Triple Birthday Celebration 🎂🎂🎂

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!

(Dez, Kia, Larra)

I wish for more birthdays to come, good health, more blessings and happiness in everything we do :D

Cheers! 🍻🎉

25 ❤

Hey, guys! So, it’s my birthday today and I just want to express how grateful I am to everyone who has been there for me and for all the blessings I’ve received up until now. Can you believe I’m quarter of a decade old now? Wow, that’s old! And I’m really happy to have had 24 years of good and fruitful life. I just wish that my 25th year would be as amazing and blessed as my previous years.

I celebrated with my sisters and had a really fun day! 

Yana's 21st Birthday!

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 Had a simple celebration for Yana's 21st birthday! My sisters and I prepared dinner and of course, there was a DIY photobooth which we really enjoyed! :D

 

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 Wishing you all the best Yan, good health, more birthdays to come and of course good luck on your career, whatever you decided to take. :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! ❤

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To all the Mommy, Mama, Ma, Nanay, Nay, Mamay, Mom, Mie, Mamsie... HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY po!

Always know that we thank you for the time, support, care, love and every single thing you give us.

And of course to my beautiful mom, I miss you already! See you in two months! Love you. :D

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Summer 2017 🌞

HELLO, SUMMER! 🌞

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Last May 1 we had a get together with our relatives in Bulacan and decided to beat the heat by hitting Malamig Park Resort. It is located in Bustos, Bulacan, just a couple of hours away from the busy metropolis. The resort has kiddie pools, adult pools, private pools and a wave pool which you will surely enjoy.

It was a whole day of fun, just swimming, eating and of course catching up with our cousins. Our mom and dad were also with us so we really had a great time since it'd been a while since the last time we had a trip out of town. 

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Movie: Beauty and the Beast 2017

Like everyone else, I love Beauty and the Beast and since I was young I always wanted to be Belle! Who doesn't, anyway? Growing up, I've watched the animated movie a hundred times and finally watching the live-action movie, I adooooore it! My sisters and I went to see it last week and Emma Watson as Belle is perfect! We loved her, the other characters and the singing, oh the singing! Since my friends already have kids, we're used to playing Beauty and the Beast on tv everytime we meet to keep the kids occupied while we talk. 

“Love doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be true.”

 Everything about the movie is perfect from the very beginning. The songs are all amazing and the ones added are also beautiful! The characters are all endearing especially Mrs. Potts and Chip. And since my youngest sister is not familiar with the movie (unbelievable, right?) she had questions and I had to explain her things. I guess she's not just into Disney films unlike me and our other sister, Yana. But nonetheless she enjoyed it and was actually in love with Belle at the end! 

Have you seen the film? Hope you loved it as much as we did!

Happy Valentine's Day! (belated)

I know it’s late but just want to greet everyone a belated  

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!

No, I didn’t have a date yesterday but I’m happy for everyone who had! Hope you enjoyed it. And to those who are single like me, hey, there’s always next year!

I also want to share these Valentine’s cards I made for my beautiful sisters. It’s a DIY card and I’m really glad they loved it.

It’s  really simple but they’re from my heart so they’re special! ❤

Weekend Getaway: Tagaytay 2017

Marga, Dez, Kia, Kim

 It's been forever since our friend Marga went to the States and last Christmas she and her family came back here in the Philippines to visit some relatives and friends and we were lucky enough to have had some quality time together (despite our busy work schedule) since we really missed her so much! They stayed here for about three weeks and during those times we were able to see each other twice!

 

Marga went to the same University with us but during our third year her family migrated to Reno, Nevada so she wasn't able to finish her degree with us. It's been years but now we're just happy we were able to spend some time together again. 

She had to squeeze her schedule meeting everyone she wanted to see during her stay here and right before they flew back we already planned on having a weekend getaway. So there we were at Tagaytay one weekend, having fun and catching up on everything (though we regularly talk in Facebook!).

 

 We went to People's Park, Picnic Grove, Pink Sisters' Convent and had late lunch at LZM Restaurant. There were a lot of people as usual and the weather was so good we wished we could stay longer. Picnic Grove was a tiring one since we had to walk the trail but it was fun! We also planned on visiting the Korean Temple we passed by on our way to People's Park but we were short in time and we had to come back to Manila by 7pm. 

It was really a day well spent with them and how I wished time would slow down so we could spend more time together. But of course, time is a bitch. 

Now Marga and her family is back in Reno and we will surely miss her again! But she promised to visit again sooooooon. :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D

Hello, guys!

Just want to greet you a Merry Merry Christmas!! :D Hope everyone’s enjoying the day and God bless us all! :)

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#9 Chirstmas Tradition "Simbang Gabi"

“9 Things I Love About Christmas”

I know this has nothing to do with books but since Christmas is only 9 days away, I decided to do “9 Things I Love About Christmas” starting today. Each day I will be posting something that makes Christmas extra special for me and today I will be telling you all about a Christmas Tradition called “Simbang Gabi” that we Filipinos very much practiced.

Simbang Gabi is a nine-day/night series of Masses we attend to in anticipation of Christmas Day. It starts from the 15th to 23rd of December at four o’clock in the morning but those who can’t attend this can attend the nine o’clock in the evening mass from the 16th to 24th which is called the Anticipated Mass. My sisters and I have started the Simbang Gabi today, we attended the four a.m. mass, and it’s been a yearly tradition to us to attend and never miss a day for they say that if you complete these nine days of masses, then one of your wishes will come true this Christmas Day.

We’ve been attending Simbang Gabi for 11 years and we used to attend with our Grandmother but now that she’s gone, it’s just me and my two sisters. And I always love attending Simbang Gabi because completing it is like an accomplishment and the excitement of counting down the days until Christmas is fun! With these masses, we also get to become closer with God and his words.

They also say that attending the Simbang Gabi is like a sacrifice for you get up early for nine days just so you can celebrate with everybody else and with them you anticipate the coming of Jesus Christ.

That’s it for my favorite Christmas Tradition and tomorrow I will be back to tell you another thing I love about Christmas!🎄🎄🎄

SEPTEMBER! :)

Hello, September! :D

It's my birth month so I'm really really excited! Not that I'm planning something big on my birthday, just, you know, I love receiving birthday greetings. Haha :D Also hoping for more blessings and a lot more happiness! ♥

September Goals:

1. Be happier

2. Live healthier

3. Read more books

4. Forgive someone

5. Earn!!!

6. Finish all my pending kdramas

7. Fall in love?

Anyway, it's also the start of BER months meaning we're only four months away from 2017! Time does fly so fast! So let me be the first to greet you a Merry Christmas! :D

 

"All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time."

David Walliams

Hi, Dad! :)

Tatay, Daddy, Papa, Pops, Itay, Pa, Tay, Dad, Happy Father's Day po. We love you and always know that you'll forever be our hero. 

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To all the handsome, hardworking and loving dads out there, thank you and we love you all!

Book: Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan

★★★/★★★★★

"Relationships are tricky. You need to speak the same language. Or learn each other's, but that doesn't always work."

Initially, I thought I won't be liking Josie that much. And true enough, I was halfway done and she still irritated me for being too smart and stubborn! The fact that she needed to analyze and know EVERYTHING made me dislike her more. 

The book follows Josie's story and her struggle to understand why her sister, Kate, is marrying a man named Geoff. Josie hates Geoff because he's a 'know-it-all' kind of guy and despite Kate's effort on bringing her sister and her fiancé close, she miserably fails. And so begins Josie's quest on understanding what Love really means that Kate insists that she and Geoff are in love with each other. With the help of her family and friends, Josie tries to navigate different languages just to understand what the language of love really is.

“I can speak the languages of lots of groups and learn others with some ease, but no matter how fluent I am, when I'm not speaking Josie, I am merely acting. We all are when we interact outside of our natural cultures. It is inevitable, because it is impossible to be fully yourself in a foreign language.”

Ugh! Did I mention that I hate Kate? She's just too impossible to like and I give it to her parents for being so patient to her. I didn't connect with her at all! And I don't understand why it was so hard for her to just accept the fact that Kate loved Geoff no matter how different they were. Maybe it was the romantic in me but didn't she know that 'opposites attract' and 'love conquers all'? 

What I did like in the book were her relationship with her sisters and Stu. I liked that Josie was close to her sisters and they shared everything with each other because that's what I do with my sisters. We share everything EVERYTHING with each other! And I related when they fought but then forgave each other and even those little threats they give each other when they fought felt normal. I also understand why Kate wanted Josie to like Geoff but Josie was just too stubborn to accept him. It was like once she made up her mind on something, nothing could change it anymore. And Stu? He's probably the only character I liked in the book. The moment he was introduced in the book, I knew what the ending would be. Tsk! 

“Stu, you’re my best friend in the world. I don’t want to lose that.” 
“You’re the person I see myself with forever. I don’t want to lose that.”

I think Josie was just too much for me that's why I didn't enjoy this book that much. She was fifteen, okay, sixteen and smart but she acted so childish at times. And for me, being smart and childish are not really a combo. So 2.75 stars for this book!

Movie: Captain America: Civil War 2016

★★★★★/★★★★★

Main Characters:
#TeamCap

   

Steve Rogers (Captain America) - Bucky Barnes (Winter Soldier) - Sam Wilson (Falcon)

   

Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) - Clint Barton (Hawkeye) - Scott Lang (Ant-Man)

#TeamIronMan

  

Tony Stark (Iron Man)  - James Rhodes (War Machine) - Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)

  

Vision - T'Challa (Black Panther) - Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

Funny. Entertaining. Action-packed. 

Captain America is probably my favorite film this year! 

 Captain America: Civil War picks up where Avengers: Age of Ultron left off as Steve and the other Avengers continue to save humanity. But as one incident in Lagos leads to a collateral damage, people start to show distrust towards them and the United Nations decide to pass the Sokovia Accords which will put a leash around the Avengers, meaning they only get to work if the government wants them too. Steve strongly disagrees on signing the accords, believing that the Avengers should remain free to act on their own. On the other hand, Tony Stark and some others like Natasha and Rhodey, agree to sign the accords. 

The disagreement and conflict among the Avengers continue to mount as Bucky Barnes, Steve's bestfriend, is wanted for bombing and killing King T'Chaka of Wakanda when a ratification is held in Vienna. The King's son, Prince T'Challa vows to kill the bomber himself so he goes after Barnes. And despite Romanoff's objections, Steve and Sam still track down Barnes in Bucharest. In a police chase, Barnes tries to get away but T'Challa, now Black Panther, shows up. Steve, Sam, Barnes and T'Challa are captured and taken to a facility where Barnes is questioned by Colonel Helmut Zemo, posing to be someone else. Zemo uses Hydra's trigger words on Barnes asking about the 1991 mission and sending Barnes into a rampage. Steve and Sam stop him and together they escape. When Barnes regains consciousness, he explains everything to Steve and Sam, that Zemo is behind what happened and is probably going to Siberia where Barnes was held and is going to unfreeze the other Winter Soldiers that were created.

What happens next is my favorite part of the movie where Steve calls for back up and Stark, with a mission to bring Steve, Sam and Barnes in, also forms his own team. So then we have Sam, Wanda, Clint and Scott Lang on #TeamCap and Rhodey, Romanoff, Vision, T'Challa and Peter Parker on #TeamIronMan. 

After their small talk and fight which, by the way, is intense, nerve-wreaking and hilarious, Romanoff lets Steve and Barnes escape so they can go after Zemo. The rest of Steve's team is captured while Rhodey has broken a leg after Vision has unintentionally shot him down. Romanoff' then informs Stark that Barnes has been framed by Zemo.

Steve and Barnes reach the Siberian Hydra facility and contrary to what they thought, Zemo hasn't activated the other Winter Soldiers but killed them instead. Stark also follows, now knowing the truth that Zemo has planned everything. And with the three of them as audience, Zemo plays a tape showing what really happened in the 1991 mission of Barnes. It turns out Barnes killed Stark's parents. This new evidence enrages Stark and gives him enough reason to kill Barnes. But Steve couldn't let him kill his bestfriend so the three of them engage in yet another intense fight. It ends when Steve pins Stark down and smashes that thing on Stark's chest with his shield. Steve walks away with Barnes but Stark stops him by saying that his shield was made by his father. Steve drops it down before disappearing. On the other hand, believing that he has avenged his family's death in the Sokovia attack by creating a conflict within the Avengers, Zemo tries to attempt suicide but is stopped by T'Challa.

In the aftermath, Rhodey is given leg braces by Stark. Steve has fled with Barnes to Wakanda where T'Challa gives them a place to stay. But before that, Steve breaks his team out of detainment with a narration while Stark reads the letter Steve sent him. It says that whenever Stark needs their help, he knows he can always count on them.

I really enjoyed this movie so it's a perfect 5 star for me. I watched it with my sisters and I'm sure they loved it too. Oh, we love Captain America! :") But one of my sisters, Yana, is #TeamIronMan. 

 

 

We hope you enjoy the movie as much as we did!
And here's a bonus for you  girls out there. Hihi :")

And oh, in the post-credits scene, of course there's a post-credits scene, we see Peter Parker recovering and accidentally touches his web-shooters projecting something on his bedroom ceiling. And he will return!
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