Just wanted to share my labor of love for my mom on Mother’s Day:

Her bibletreasures.net website is now hosted on our server and now it is a Wordpress blog

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

I am very thrilled to share the photos I took from my leisurely trip yesterday to Brugge, Belgium. The photos are not technically perfect due to the fact that I was too lazy to bring my DSLR and just used my point and shoot/digicam Sanyo X-Acti. I feel that I did not do justice to my subject by making less than perfect images. Oh well, there will be other chances again I hope and next opportunity to see a city with rave reviews I should bring the DSLR.

I planned this day trip more than a week ago after finding out that my husband will have his boys night out. I grabbed the chance immediately to fulfill my now deprived wanderlust. Read more…

When I was living in South Jersey, it was a pleasant surprise for me to find out that I don’t have to go to the Midwest to see and learn about Native American culture. Within 20 minutes drive of where I live, there were several powwow events that happen regularly each year. Powwow’s as I observed, are regular social and culture events for the Native American community. The formal ceremony starts with a parade of participant tribes. It would be then followed by speakers, dance performances and  musical performances. It was the first time I’ve ever seen such a cultural event and indeed attending it was all worth it. I was fortunate to be able to attend two of these events during my stay in the U.S.
To find the next Native American cultural event in your neighborhood just visit Powwows.com.

Recently, MrC (the husband) found this news article from the Misset Horeca website, a food and dining online newspaper. It mentions that a recipe for a chicken snack was won by a guy named Michael Pors and they claimed it was a Filipino recipe. Michael Pors acknowledges that the winning “Filippijnse kippenlollies” recipe is influenced by his grandmother’s recipe. His name doesn’t sound Filipino but when I looked at his photo he does seem to look Filipino. I looked at the photo of the chicken dish and it doesn’t seem to look Filipino to me. I wonder what makes it Filipino. Maybe it tastes like Jollibee chickenjoy?

Read about it here.

Just this afternoon, I got this report from someone I know that the Amsterdam World Fashion Center has told everyone to go out of the building because of a reported bomb threat.

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Holland is the more popular name that refers to The Netherlands but actually it is only one of its provinces. I chose these photos as an introduction because this is what the world sees as typical Holland — and that is so true. Once you are outside of the major cities, this is what you would see everyday — hectares and hectares of flat lands with cows and sheep grazing. Oh yes, maybe I have missed the cows but in the future I will include a photo with cows in the background.

The windmills have also been here for maybe hundreds of years as they provide an economical means of power and help control the flow of water in the fields.

Cheese and milk. This is what Dutch people can’t live without. Their typical lunch (and sometimes breakfast) will always include a cheese (kaas) sandwich with sometimes ham (boterham) and on the side they will have milk or even sometimes buttermilk (karnemilk) which is the sour kind. I don’t know why but they just love it. They also like to put cheese toppings on almost every meal.

Sorry folks, I am not talking about being a medical doctor or a physician or even close to this but about matters of the heart. M.D. Stands for “Matandang Dalaga” in Tagalog and that means a spinster in English. Have you heard of someone saying that he or she is a member of the Samahan ng mga Malulungkot at Nag iisa or maybe you have heard of the Samahan ng Malalamig ang Pasko? These are just a few of the acronyms lonely singles living abroad have made up to laugh at their situation inspite of the actual seriousness of it.
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Hello friends, this is Mixxy also known as SpyPinay (PinaySpy 2.0). With my acquisition of a self-hosted Wordpress blog.

PinaySpy.blogspot.com will stop continuing but will now merge with my other blog My Daily Wish. As of now the old posts are still there until I get indexed by google. Google is still ignoring my blog because my domain is quite new. I will backup the pages of that site then I will request deletion of all the posts from the Google webmaster tools. This actually worked for my other blog that Google actually removed the pages within 48 hours! I wanted to do this to make sure I do not get duplicate posts which might penalize the site later on. I know there are other more sophisticated ways but the old site has relatively few posts to worry about anyways. After then I will bring over the posts here.

“Anything is possible to those who believe”

This blog will be a combination of personal, photo blog, news and even a tech blog. I wanted to save some time and effort on maintaining blogs plus I get the bonus of a full-featured and highly customizable platform.

From now on, I am going to include header graphics in my postings. To start with, postings that are in the “My Daily Wish” category will have the same header. In the future I will also include graphics for my major categories.

Happy Reading!

Roads are part of our everyday life. They lead us to where we want to go. Without roads there is no progress. Roads connect us to the world.

Country roads, city roads, muddy roads. I like them all.

• Note: These photos were taken during our recent road trip in the West Coast of USA, and some were from a visit to Canada, the rest are from here locally (Netherlands).

The following was a review I submitted at Epinions 5 years ago:This is my third digital camera. I started with a point and shoot Kodak and then last year although I was already drooling for a digital SLR I could not justify the price but now, with this $1499 price who can resist?

Comment: Grrr… Today I could probably buy 3 Canon Digital Rebels at that price! The Canon EOS 30D is now only 899 at Amazon! A Canon EOS 40D sells at roughly the same price.

I ordered the camera first from Ritz with its free shipping and all but lost my patience after a week of waiting. To my surprise, I accidentally found one at the CalumetPhoto website. I received the camera after a week’s worth of anticipation.

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