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I Miss the Cold Weather

These past few days have been scorching and to think that it s still February and summer “officially” starts around March.

I miss the cold weather, never mind if I get allergies and some of the students sneeze on me (ugh).

The “cold” weather we experienced for a few weeks during the past two or three months has been intense at times for us who are used to hot and humid weather.

If only our water pressure is not a problem (illegal connections here and there), we would have considered getting an electric tankless water heater then. How wonderful it must be to use warm water for bathing 😀

But now the warm weather is back and we can only say “Ang init-init!” (Translation: It’s scorching hot!”)

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Gising Gising

Gising Gising

Gising Gising is a dish made with vegetables, ground pork and coconut milk. I can’t remember what these green vegetables are (hehe) but this dish is quite unique, I must say.

This may go well with the Fried Tilapia (since these were from the same restaurant called Recipes) for a perfect home-cooked lunch

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126th Tree

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Crispy Tilapia

Crispy Tilapia from Recipes in TriNoma

Now the 1 million dollar question: What would you like to go with your crispy tilapia? I like to have this with soy sauce, onion bits, chili and calamansi juice. OR sliced green mangoes with bagoong, tomatoes and onions.

Yum!

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Red and Yellow Bird of Paradise Flower

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Anawim’s Old and Gray

Our homeschooling children, together with other home schoolers (from the same home school program) went to visit the elderly in a home care facility. The center is called Anawim Lay Mission Center in Rodriguez (Montalban), Rizal.

Prepping the children about what the activity is all about, I was not prepared to see the elderly there, most of them were abandoned. Some of them were found on the streets. Most had stories to tell and these are not happy stories.

They have no medical life insurance, no retirement benefits and some even have no relatives to speak of.

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