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I know. We can’t always feature food, we got to drink too, right?

So I am offering two choices for this FF post: Iced Tea or Coca Cola?

That is what we always have to decide on whenever we eat out. Iced tea or Coca cola?

Do these have the same amount of sugar? Even fruit juices served in restaurants are too sweet. Someone told me before that a bottle or a can of fruit juice has only a tablespoon of real fruit juice and the rest is just water and sugar. Ugh.

So would a glass of water be a better choice?

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It has been ten years since we moved in this house where we are living. We moved before a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse happened on a Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon, and finished everything on a triple 8 date, August 08, 1998.

We also had the usual custom of bringing in salt, rice, cotton, monggo seeds and water with us when we moved in.

We even had a dog with us when we moved.

We did not have moving trucks though these would have been helpful to help us bring whatever we had, though these were very few. We just used the car and an aunt’s AUV/pick-up to bring our things and we had to travel a few times to be able to complete the moving tasks.

The adjustments were very difficult at first because my work was only a few steps away from our place before (in fact I just had to climb two sets of stairs) but we managed to adjust. I am still adjusting, especially during times when I get irritated by neighbors.

So many things have changed since we moved, all for the better, I guess. Our family have grown bigger. My eldest daughter who turned three a few days after we moved is now 13 years old and we now have a 7 year old boy and a 5 year old girl.

The dog has been long gone and we have two other dogs now.

All in all, ten years had been blessed, despite glitches and small inconveniences.

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Yesterday as I was waiting for my daughter’s school program to start, I saw her classmate wearing a shirt that said something like this:

“I look like 20, I act like 30, I think like 60, I must be 40”

I chuckled when I read this and realized that messages can come across strongly on funny t shirts with messages that were written for fun or for getting a strong message across.

Some of the funny shirt one-liners that I have seen are:

“Beer Factor” for “Fear Factor”

“Inutil (Filipino word for stupid) Inside” for “Intel Inside”

“Goat Milk” for “Got Milk”

What is your favorite funny one-liners on shirts?

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With Christmas around the corner, people prepare so many things to welcome the season.

Shopping for gifts, preparing food to be shared by family and friends at gatherings, decorating the house with holiday trimmings, we definitely do not scrimp when this time of the year is here.

After the season is over, what then?

Would people look back and spend time mulling what went right and what did not?

Can people think that perhaps they shouldn’t have eaten that much so they look much better in greeting the new year?

Would Trimspa help them in getting their shapes back?

We promise ourselves to do better next year.

I remember a favorite childhood song, “When Christmas time is over and presents are away, don’t be sad. There’ll be so much to treasure about this Christmas Eve and the fun we had…”

Whatever will transpire during this coming special holiday, it is important that people recognize the reason for the season: the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

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My maternal side relatives are mostly farmers. They live near the farm land that they till, getting fresh produce for lunch or supper.

I remember as a child I used to go to my maternal grandparents home to spend weekend with them. During summers we would sit in my grandfather’s carabao-drawn cart to go to where the fresh produce can be had. We would get the sweet potatoes, gather vegetables like string beans, radishes, onions, garlic and other that I can’t remember what.

My grandfather had several carabaos then. I see other farmers have horses and cows but it was a mystery why my grandfather didn’t have them. Perhaps the upkeep is more expensive like having some horse supplements or maybe milking machine for the cows.

He didn’t also have pigs, although there were a number of chickens that are just left roaming around in the compound.

I miss those simple times when having a good run in the field and eating cold turnips were some of the thngs I looked forward to.

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