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this blog is officially closed.

so i am now officially closing this blog. i know that in a few days from now xanga will downgrade my premium subscription into a free account but i'm not shutting this down.

goodbye xanga,

hello blogger!

click this link to be redirected to my new blog.

see yah there!

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last post

3rd gave me flowers when he came home last night. 

flowers for me!

of course i was surprised. wala namang okasyon eh. trip lang nya siguro. .

then last wednesday, we celebrated anok & beth's 9th wedding anniversary at bronson & susan'r place. we ate pizzas and chicken. grabe kainan na naman!

group pic namin

this coming sunday, we are planning another potluck picnic at cedar park. i just hope the weather is good that day. i still haven't decided yet what food 3rd and i will bring. bahala na si batman.

by the way, my tita celia who suffered a mild stroke recently was rushed to the hospital again by her friends last monday 'cause she felt numbness on her left hand. it was another 24 hours of emotional torture for me and for her family back in pinas. thank God, it was nothing serious and she was discharged the next day. but because of that, we decided to let her daughter, my cousin kay to immediately fly to the US to be with her na. she'll arrive tomorrow, saturday at 2:17 pm central time. she's scheduled to go here in the US on october pa when the semester's over but due to her mom's unstable condition, she filed for a leave of absence at her school (she's in her second year of college taking up nursing) indefinitely.

and lastly, today is the last day of my premium subscription here at xanga. so maybe this will be my last official post.

i'll be moving to a new site and i'll announce it shortly.

happy weekend guys!

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scary spinach

this delicious green has been hogging the headlines since the other day. it's been linked  to the e.coli outbreak in 20 states. one person already died and a hundred others got sick.

scary eh?

so let's be careful and avoid eating fresh spinach or any other product/food that contains fresh spinach until further notice.

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don't quit

this poem is for my brother irvin...

Don't Quit

by anonymous

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must; but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow;
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late, when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit;
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

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