superstar baby and stage momma

ripping of our wedding dvd is not yet done. i'm on the reception coverage already but i'm too sleepy now. i'd sleep with djuan na. the daddy's still on the laptop playing dota as usual so i'd go ahead and sleep beside chukoy chukoy. hehehe. for the meantime, i'd leave you guys with this one. i've been seeing this everywhere in the blogosphere. no one's tagging me so i'm just snagging it. hahaha! happy weekend everyone! :)

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djuan's baptism photo album is here!

yey, it's already here! i got djuan's baptism photo album yesterday lunchtime. was supposed to get it thursday but jt photoworld said i could only get it by 2pm. and i couldn't coz i have a team meeting at 2pm so i just decided to get it the following day. it's so beautiful! i've been browsing the pages N times. hahaha! i am just so happy that after months of trying to squeeze in to my time editing the pictures and correcting the layouts, it's finally a tangible album. hooray! i am so happy to see the fruit of my labor, much more a document of my son's special day. :) btw, i got to convince donar to have it done in an 8x8 album. probably i was just too pretty that day that i convinced my hubby. hehehe. mind you, he used up his piggy bank savings on this one. and my mom had to count the coins so we could exchange it for bills in my dad's shop. hehehe. told him i have another album to make (djuan's monthly pictures). and he said he has another piggy bank waiting. yehey! wife so happy. hehehe. i love you daddy yo! mwah =*

djuan's bedtime book

i'm still ripping our wedding dvd so i'd be having 2 or 3 more posts before i go to bed. speaking of bed, i've been meaning to share this bedtime story book that i just bought for djuan. i've been looking for a story book with lots of short stories in it. as in i only wanted one up to at most three-paragraph stories. when i was still pregnant with djuan i didn't find one so donar suggested to buy the 101 book of parables. well it was all worth it. i think it only costed 150 pesos and we finished halfway of the book. syempre me tamad factor na. hehe. we've been reading that book since i was 5 months preggy with djuan. when djuan was born, we rarely had the chance to read it to him coz of the countless sleepless nights. since we are already establishing a bedtime routine for him, i wanted to incorporate bedtime book before he finally dozes off. so i bought this 365 bedtime stories book. i found this one in natl bookstore shangri-la. was supposed to buy this in megamall but not available there so i went back to shang. price tag says 475 pesos but when i was charged in my atm, it was only 380. discount, kewl! hehe. at first i thought it was really one story per day. some stories are good for one day. but some stories are spread out into 2-3 days. still met my requirement of at most 3 paragraphs. and amazingly i saw that the story on feb 23rd is about a birthday. what a coincidence! today is feb 23rd and it's djuan's 10-month bday. kewl! :)

one month anniversary

yesterday officially marked my one month in the new office. so how am i doing? well, i have no close friends/colleagues to call with at the moment. but that doesn't make me sad at all. i just thought maybe it's in work that i would get the me time. you know, just me alone, no one bothering me(or no one caring for me hehe). i'm really an optimistic person and i so hate the pessimists. i don't like being surrounded with negative aura so i really do my best to always look at things at the brighter side. right now, i think there are a lot of advantages that i'm not close to anyone at work. for one, i could religiously do my diet as i really wanted to lose weight. 5lbs to go and i should be happy (i'm just targeting 125lbs, too ambitious to go for 120lbs haha). secondly, that means less visitors for djuan's birthday bash. hahaha! i'd probably be inviting my team and some of the people i get to chat with from time to time. but not the whole office this time. lastly, without the usual chit-chat i get to seriously work. as in work. although sometimes i sneak blogging esp the paid ones. hahaha! well, seriously speaking, i'm so happy with my new work. i'm a developer once more and i'm beginning to brush up my tech skills again. and i really waved goodbye to project management. and i so love our working hours. i'm back to reporting at 10am. everyday i still get to have bonding time with djuan: pick him up when he cries just before getting up on bed, bathe him, breakfast together, play, watch playhouse disney (thomas and friends, make way for noddy) and also make him sleep before i leave home. same thing when i get back home at night. djuan's still awake and he usually eats dinner with me (few bites on his cookies hehe). we play, play and play until he gets tired. most of the times it's mommy who gets tired hehe. amazingly when we watch disney playhouse again, it's thomas and friends and make way for noddy again. grabe, super kabisado ko na yata lahat ng episodes nun. hahaha. then i let him drink his milk and i put him to sleep na. super duper quality time with my son. that makes me forget i want to be a sahm or a wahm coz i believe the current setup works for both of us. on average i'm only out of the house for 11 hours or less. that's 9hours of work (break included), and 2 hours (or less) of driving roundtrip. when i was still in makati, i believe my average time outside home was like 12-14hrs. so it was really a big improvement when i moved to a new office. i really believe that i'm loving my work again because right now if you'd notice, i blog less. and i bloghop less often too. i missed the blogosphere so much. but not being active in it means that my work is keeping me busy for real and that i'm again enjoying it. :)

2008 holidays

grabe na to. yesterday i couldn't concentrate that much in my work when i saw the partial listing of the 2008 regular and special non-working holidays. mega panic ang lola nyo! hahaha. so multitasking again. while waiting for the application server to start up, i was browsing for flights in cebupac and pal. i was also checking out the room rate in disney hotel. argh. di ako mapakali. until now. hahaha! i would like to go to sg on my 30th bday on july which is a good timing. it's the great singapore sale from may to july. then between july and december, i'd like to go to bora just in case cebupac would offer its annual piso promo sale first thing this march. probably sometime in october. djuan would be 18mos then and i'm pretty sure he'd enjoy the beach trip already. on december i'd definitely schedule a trip for us. i wanted hk sana kaya lang when i checked out disney hotel yesterday it was peak season from Christmas onwards. uber mahal! i'm planning to have the trip sana by dec 25-28 or 26-29. super long vacation kaya yun. and no need to use up any leave credits. if ever, we might go to bohol na lang. then side trip to cebu again. hehe. hopefully donar approves this itinerary and schedule. hirap ng doctor ang asawa. hirap ayusin ng sked. grrr. as for the hk trip, i might push it before djuan's 2nd bday. i really wanted to have a lot of trips before he reaches 2 coz he's still free in the airplane. i'm just bent on going in hk by april next year coz it might be too hot to go around. but i'm not so sure yet of this. so let's see. for the meantime, i'm sharing you the partial listing of the holidays. if you're a holiday and travel addict like me, you should definitely keep this in file. :))

imelda strikes back!

omg, i haven't been myself, err, correction, i have been so like myself because in just two purchases i got the mommy and the baby two new pair of shoes. :))


one time when i was shopping for new office wardrobes i passed by the shoe section for kids and there i saw some cute walking shoes for djuan. since i wasn't so sure of djuan's exact shoe size i just came back the following day. i was supposed to buy only one walking shoes for djuan but i just couldn't help buying two when i saw the winnie the pooh walking shoes. hehehe. you see the brown one will be the daily walking shoes of my baby. and the winnie the pooh will be used whenever we go out. not every time we go out coz djuan has many shoes like mommy din. hehe.


as for my shoes naman, i've been meaning to get myself a red pair. initially i wanted a red alice crocs. but when i saw it in rustan's i just didn't fall in love with it. you see when i buy a shoe there should be a kilig factor. hahaha. as in i should be raving for it when i leave the store and i must be definitely coming back for it. probably i just couldn't justify the price of the alice crocs so i didn't go for it. if ever, that's gonna be my most expensive pair of shoes ever. i can go for shoes ranging from 2k-3k but not more than that. but when i saw sketcher's cali, omg, i fell in love with the style. as in! i love the red, i love the blue, oh i just love them all! and mind you, it's not as pricey as the alice crocs. and i was thinking i could buy two calis with one alice. hahaha. good thing that i bought the red vivacci wedge sandals first before i bought my sketcher's cali. if not, i'm pretty sure i would have ended buying the red and the brown. ngyahahaha. so much for being an imelda for the past two weeks. i should seriously get back to preparing djuan's 1st bday party now. will post some updates soon. :)

yey, bespren's coming home

she's coming home. back to the place where she belongs. yikes, baduy! hahaha. i just heard the good news today from bespren jen that she's coming home by the end of march. it was a quick decision coz her i-926 something (forgot the exact paper thingy number hehe) is expiring together with her passport on march 31st. and that she has to come here in the phils to arrange the papers (renew her passport, etc.). too bad she's only staying for 3 weeks that she would miss both djuan's actual bday and the big bash. she tried to schedule her trip a bit later but it was too risky to fly near her passport's expiration. she was only allowed a 3-week vacation coz april's really a toxic month for tax filing (she's working on finance application systems). well, i just told her we'd make the most out of it. even if we have to celebrate djuan's bday earlier (not the big bash though hehe). she was already asking me what i want her to buy for me in the US. hmm, syempre esep esep naman ako. at first i want a choco fountain (donar's so adik with choco fountain hehe) but i backed out coz i realize i don't want to buy things that i would badly need a warranty. later this afternoon, a clever idea came to me amidst debugging some codes. hehe. i'd ask bespren to buy me books again. last year i already asked her to buy me some books about photography and she sent those to me through my good friend liza boiye. those were her bday gifts to me. bday's coming again so not bad. hehehe. here are the books that i've been raving for.





i can't justify the price here in the phils that's why i haven't bought these books myself. maybe it was really meant for bespren to buy me some books again. hehehe. thanks in advance, bespren! miss you na. super chika to the max tayo when you come home. and you have to see chukoy na or else baka binata na to pag nagkita kayo. hehehe. ciao! :)

love (radio) thy neighbor

last week i was supposed to write about this neighbor of ours who's known for not being a good neighbor. i remember when i was still a little kid (ok fine, that was a looong time ago hahaha), the old maid would go out of her house to shoo away anyone who would park in front of their house, as if she owned the road herself. tsk tsk. i can still remember up to this point what she did to the visitor of my mom's kumare (who was then living just beside the old lady's house). the visitor parked his car with the back bumper going over just a little bit on the old lady's so called territory. you know what the witch did? she threw one arinola-full of urine on the poor man's car. grabe talaga. and i really thought that we won't have to deal with her because her house is two houses away from us and we're living across the street. but just last week my mom told me that the old lady confronted her (as in nag-iskandalo na sya) coz our dog's been shitting in front of her house daw. well, our dogs really stupid so my mom didn't argue with her anymore. from then on everytime that i come home and they have to open the garage where the dogs are, my brother and my two nephews would ran after our dogs to shoo them away from that witch's house. apparently when i came home one night, she was really waiting for the dogs to pass by in front of her house. we were surprised when she came out of nowhere throwing some metals on our dogs. then she was swearing. it really pissed me off coz she was calling names to my mom. and i really didn't like that. who does anyway. i almost went after her but my mom and my husband stopped me and told me i shouldn't be going down the level of that crazy woman. and i so agree with them. instead of swearing too, i just yelled a sarcastic "i love you!" to her, remembering the ten commandments. curious about this post's title? well, for the longest time this old lady has been pestering the neighborhood with her non-stop and uber duper loud broadcast of 90.7 love radio. i have nothing against the radio station. but you know, all of us wants to have a peaceful neighborhood and everyone is entitled to privacy. i really pity those who live beside her house. i just hope she gets featured in xxx or imbestigador one day. then her house gets raided. and then she rots in jail. and we all live happily ever after. the end.

on debt consolidation

last week my credit card customer support has been calling me and i had not been answering on purpose. i think i don't have to mention here which credit card provider because there's only one here in our country that has very insistent customer service representatives. actually i was having a hard (and bad) time organizing my cash flow. i've been calling up my friend who borrowed $500 from me months ago but he wasn't answering my call (talk about quick karma hehehe). you see, i have debts everywhere and there are also some people who have debts with me. i wonder at what point in time i could have debt consolidation. most of the times it's disturbing from work and from my personal time if i get calls from the customer service following up my payments. it's really ok if it's just a reminder call about the payment deadline. what makes me sick is the endless marketing calls i get. like offer to have an insurance, instant cash and a whole lot more that would just add up to your debts. i think i should get help from web sites doing consolidation of debts like that of offered by nodebttoday.com. i think in this way i could get rid of the unsolicited marketing calls from almost every credit card provider you could ever think of.

djuan's preview class in the little gym

it's bring a friend week in the little gym and i was so lucky to get the free voucher from abie. thanks, sis! we had the preview class yesterday afternoon. saw fellow n@wie and blogging buddy toni. hi, sis! hehe. her uber cute and likot baby lance was accompanied by his dad inside the gym. :)

so how's our trial class in the little gym? well, i'd say it was too bad that the daddy didn't come with us. he said i should have told him earlier so he could have taken an off from duty. :( and since my drama is a full-time yaya (although i have a couple of assistants that time: my cousin, my ate and my nephews), i got so excited that i forgot to ask my sister to leave her camera with us. no pics. *sigh*.

anyway, djuan did enjoy the first 30mins of the class (it was only a 45-min session). he was crawling so fast, he was even laughing at teacher maan. hehe. the teacher was so amazed with djuan's grip by the bar (*ahem*, proud momma here hehe) the session started with all of the big birds (babies 10-18 mos) and their parents and the teacher around a circle. each baby was asked to get a bell. the two babies (lance and anika) were happily playing the bells while djuan was so busy tasting his bell. hehehe. next was walking/running around the play area. djuan, of course, couldn't walk yet so it was a guided walk for him. when the teacher said jump, i made djuan jump and he jumped happily. he really loves jumping. he was even shouting yey while jumping. hehe. next was rolling over with baby and the daddy/mommy. teacher maan said this should teach the babies the concept of space. kewl! next we played with the parachute while singing some nursery songs that i already forgot the lyrics of. hihi. djuan enjoyed this. he went on the center of the parachute together with baby anika. i was just so quick to move djuan away with the other baby coz djuan still doesn't have a concept of a baby. he still considers babies as stuff toys. he usually wants to grab and taste the baby. hehehe. then we had the forward rollover for the babies. i was actually a bit moved that we were actually doing it. it was djuan's first time and i wasn't so sure if it's already right for his age. oh i just told myself the teacher should know it better. na-oc ako dun ha. hehe. then we had the low balance beam for the guided walk. i was so proud that even if djuan and i had a hard time, we were able to finish walking down the beam end to end. after this, djuan was already cranky. he doesn't want to crawl anymore and he began being clingy to mommy again. i knew he was starving. it made him even hungrier when we tried to make him pull up by the bar. when we moved to the bigger balance beam, he was no longer paying attention. he justed wanted his food! hahaha. but when teacher maan brought out the balls he already forgot about being hungry. he was again happy and so eager crawling, going after the balls. when he caught one ball he tasted it! hahaha. wawa naman baby ko. gutom na talaga. the teacher also noticed djuan was getting weary already. i told her gutom na nga. she told me we were almost done naman na. sure enough, after the bubbles, the ending circle, djuan had his stamp on the arm and the class was already finished. when we went out of the play area, i asked my cousin to give djuan a biscuit. and he munched it so fast that the biscuit didn't last for a minute. hahaha! before we left tlg, i let djuan eat his lunch first (carrots and rice cereal). then i asked the teacher for the enrollment fees and schedule. we then went to megamall to have merienda in jollibee before going home. i was supposed to let djuan eat fries but when we got to jollibee he just finished his milk and he dozed off na. napagod ang baby ko. wawa naman. after that, we just dropped my ate and her kids at the badminton gym then we headed straight home already.

so are we enrolling djuan to the little gym? not sure yet coz i still want to have a trial class with gymboree. i was trying to call their glorietta branch but i couldn't get hold of the teacher. we're scratching off trinoma branch from our list coz they don't have saturday classes. i told donar i won't go for a sunday unless he's driving us to the class. i don't want to go out anymore with djuan with me as the driver. he's getting cranky everytime coz he wants to cling to mommy. *sigh*. if ever the sked doesn't work out with glorietta, we might just have the trial class in gymboree shang. tlg is now open for enrollment of its summer classes (apr 24-may 27). they're having 2x a week, 4-week summer class. donar didn't approve of the 2x a week sked for djuan so we might take the june-aug sem if ever we go for tlg instead of gymboree. it means more time for me to save up for the tuition fee (more paid opps puhleaassee). mind you, it's really expensive ha. grabe, can't believe i'm doing this. laking public schools lang kami ni donar and we're not used to paying sky high tuition fees. yun nga lang we came from the cream of the crops. ;) oh well, let's just see how it goes. i'm not in a hurry right now. i just wanted to check out what's in there for us. on a side, i wanted djuan to be really sociable na sana before his 1st bday comes. but donar told me that at djuan's age he's really into playing alone. oh well. it looks like we're enrolling him after his first bday na nga. will just share here. :)

easyonlinepaydayloan.com

it was payday time once again yesterday. and i was just wondering why my cash looked like it slipped only through my hands. it's just a day after payday and cash is almost depleted already. *sigh*. let' think about it. i have to pay the dslr from my brother. ok, that's already a 6-figure thing. tsk tsk. then i have to pay a couple of credit cards too. argh. then i have to pay my son's part-time yaya and our part-time house helper. i need to pay the our land line phone and cable tv bills too. too many expenses! i'm so bent on borrowing money but if worse comes to worst, i might avail myself payday cash loans like the one being offered by easyonlinepaydayloan.com. the money i'd get there should get me by until the next payday comes. i have a regular and well paying job and an active savings and checking account. i am of legal age too so i don't think there would be problems if avail of cash loan. i just really hope i won't resort to this kind of thing. but it's really good to know that i have a fall back if in case i really need to shout for sos. hehe.

busy weekend

it's gonna be a very busy weekend for me and my family. i have to wake up very early this morning (it's only 6:45am as of this writing) coz first i wasn't able to clean up myself last night (eww!). i dozed off right after i tried to rest for a while. i felt like throwing up and i was so dizzy when i watched heroes over donar's pda while we were driving home. secondly i have a deadline today for the sideline. you know what i mean. hehe. next, i need to be in dfa by 8am for the personal appearance for djuan's passport. and then there's my nephew's confirmation by 8am as well. i might not make it there coz i'm going to dfa nga. donar and djuan will be there anyway. i hope i can catch them later. the dfa thingy shouldn't be that long anyway. to make our morning a lot more busier, we have a baptism to attend at 11am. luis, my colleague from ssip, will have his baby baptized today. i think this is the first baptism that i'm not a ninang for the longest time. hehe. in the afternoon, we might have djuan's baptism album finally printed. yipee! i finally got to convince donar (did i? hehe) to have it printed on an 8x8. i think he's going to pay for the printing. let's see how it goes. if he doesn't, for sure it's gonna be a rant post later. hahaha. and as usual, we're going to my in-law's place. we might leave djuan there for a while so we could go grocery shopping in the newly opened puregold in monumento. i think that's all of it. i was trying to squeeze in a trial class in gymboree for djuan today but trinoma has no saturday preview class. maybe we'd try next week at shang or glorietta. haven't checked glorietta's sked though. let's see how that goes too. tomorrow's busy as well. in the morning, i'd go to divi with my ate. hope donar would give me some moolah for djuan's birthday souvenirs. hehe. and then around 1pm djuan and i should be in the little gym in el pueblo for the trial class, courtesy of abie. thanks, sis! i'll just keep you folks updated if i still have the time and energy to post about our busy weekend tomorrow night. ciao! happy weekend to all!!! :)

djuan's baptism album

hooray! i finally got the chance to finish djuan's baptism album. actually it was only the front and back cover of the album that kept me from completing it. finally it's done. the only thing now is we don't have the budget yet to have this printed. i really wanted to have an 8x8 album but the initially agreed planned budget was only for a 6x6 album. argh. printing could wait. for the meantime, i just uploaded the pics in our multiply site. click the picture (back and front cover) below to go directly to this album's view in multiply.

pro360.com - reviewing online casinos

it''s friday once more and since i got married (and had a baby) i rarely go out on a friday night. not that i'm complaining because you know spending time with my baby is more fun to me now. but sometimes i just feel that i need some time to unwind too. for me it's not practical to go out anymore. i'd rather stay at home, surf the net while my son is sleeping beside me. hmm, good idea. i think i could still have some fun without leaving the comfort of my home. multitasking. i could go and have a good time with an online casino while i'm looking after my sleeping son. i should definitely check online casino reviews like the ones presented in pro360.com. i could check the ratings of the pro360.com's editors or the ratings of the real players. i could also check from this site if the online casino web site only allows US players because i'm no american you know. and the best of all from this site is i have a great comparison of the maximum bonus each online casino has to offer. because you know the best things in life are bonus. cool! now i have another thing to look forward to when i come home on a friday. ;)

hapi balentayms

before i sign off for the day, i'd like to share here the flowers i received from my hubby last night. *blushing*. hihihi.




don't mind my mane coz djuan and i were about to sleep already when the daddy came home with the flowers. we just had to take some pics so i could have a remembrance of the yearly valentine flowers. i really thought i wasn't receiving one last night coz donar didn't get his usual wednesday off-duty. he had to work yesterday coz he said he has a very important meeting on friday so he swapped his friday duty with his wed off-duty. i think he's going to meet a couple of doctors within the camanava area to talk about the inter hospital referral system. well, he's been complaining about the process not being in place so he'd better attend that meeting and raise all his issues. ok going back to the flowers (hehe), i really thought i wouldn't get one coz when i called him at 9pm he was still in the clinic. and for the nth time, i asked him to come home early (even without the flowers!). well, i'm not really expecting to receive flowers (yep, di talaga. pero syempre mas ok kung meron. hehe). but when donar came home at 11pm (late na naman umuwi haaay), there it was. the flowers! hehehe. he went straight to dangwa from the clinic (even if i instructed him to come home straight ha, tigas talaga ng ulo hehehe). even if he knew that the traffic was terrible that time in dimasalang, he still went there and got me some flowers. awww, sweet! syempre di na ko nagalit na late sya umuwi. ngyehehehe. picture picture na lang with djuan. too bad i don't have pictures with donar coz he was the one taking the picture. i'd just remember to take another picture on friday. hopefully the flowers are not yet wilted then. happy hearts day everyone! as they say it all over pinas, hapi balentayms!!! :))

the color of the day

look what i have for accessories today!


all red. ngyahahaha. i'm so happy that my fave color is so in today that i exagged a bit my accessories. well actually these have been my accessories since yesterday. hehehe. don't worry coz my outfit's not in full red. i'm wearing a regular black slacks and a pink blouse (which is the only thing i could think of that would match the red stuff). giving credits to my accessories today (wow! artistahin!!! hahahaha)...
- wedge shoes - vivacci, i just bought this one two nights ago at megamall (will have a separate post about the return of the attack of my shoe addiction hehehe)
- wallet - nine & co., Christmas gift of my kumareng lisa, all the way from uncle sam's
- coin purse - Christmas gift of my previous ofcmate shelay
- bag - esprit, bday gift to myself when we went to hk last year

painting the town red today! :))

origin of valentine's day

i got this one from roselyn this morning. haven't googled to check if this is really true. hehehe. but i want to share it to everyone nevertheless.

origin of valentines day dates back to the times of roman empire during the reign of claudius ii. claudius was under the impression that single men turned out to be better soldiers because marriage hinders a man's progress. it was during those days when the emperor got to know that saint valentine was secretly helping young men and women in getting married so he awarded saint valentine with death sentence. while in jail he gave his heart to the daughter of jailor and he wrote her a love note and ended it by writing " from your valentine". happy valentines day!

celebrate the hearts day the online casino way

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happy birthday kuya boy

i'd like to take this opportunity to greet my one and only kuya. happy birthday kuya boy! he's now 40 years old. yep, that old. hahaha. yep, we have that great big age difference. our eldest, ate jean, is now 40 years old and my other sister, ate yet, who i came after with, is turning 36 this march. that makes me a spoiled little sister to them. hihihi. happy birthday kuya! here's to more fruitful years to you. :) mwah =*

on body, mind and spirit

last year marked the most challenging year for me ever. it finally came to me that i'm really married and that i was finally having a baby of my own. most of you mommies out there would agree with me that it is not so easy being a mom especially if you have a full-time work to worry aside. juggling between being a mommy and an IT consultant, i felt really need to have personal development. that was the time i enrolled myself in a photography class. aside from having that interest in photography, i wanted to have my attention move away (just a little bit) from the stress of work and having to take care of my baby. thinking of things how to have self improvement (and making them real, of course) is a great way to freshen up your mind. just this morning i came across a site that offers a lot of nice articles. dietmindspirit.org has a wide range of topics. i personally like its articles about fitness, health, herbal medicine (that i would like to go into once my diet plan doesn't work out), and travel (definitely!). the articles written in this site are really something that would lift up your body mind spirit.

daddy, baby and a cd (?)

this morning i was so pissed with donar's sleepy act. last night before he went home from work he told me he's gonna take care of djuan the whole night coz he has no work today anyway. i was really counting on that coz as you know i'm a full-time yaya during the weekend and i really wanted to have a break before the first day of the work week comes in again. it was good thing that djuan slept early (around 9:30pm). the next time he woke up was almost 5am already. of course, it was milk time. djuan is sleeping in between us and i'm sleeping by the wall side to support my back (i have scoliosis). the bedside table, where the bottle and the milk containers are, is near donar so i woke him up and asked him to prepare djuan's milk. it took him so long but i didn't complain coz i know he was still sleepy (me too). after a few mins and to my surprise, he handed me a bunch of cds. huwat?! djuan was already yelling at us and he was already sitting, wide awake crying. what on earth would djuan do with the compact discs? hay naku. when i asked donar this morning, he was really laughing coz he said he didn't know what he was doing. and that he didn't know that djuan was already crying. *sigh*. i told him i won't let djuan sleep with him alone. my baby's gonna starve with his daddy. well, i think i should teach djuan na how to slap his daddy's face to wake him up. whatchathink? hehe.

lifelock review

there are a lot of sites now offering identity theft protection program. online shopping is very much in these days and so does identity theft. i heard about one program that's offering great identity theft protection. i checked lifelock reviews and indeed it offers much more than any other programs you know out there. based on the lifelock review, it has $1,000,000.00 service guarantee and legal assistance to recover stolen identities. these are services not being offered by the other popular identity theft protection programs. check out the life lock review if you are interested to have your identity protected from online theft.

lost only 2lbs

january has passed and mid-feb is almost here and yet i only lost 2lbs. argh. from 132 lbs, i am now 130 lbs. still heavy. i don't know if it's just psychological but i think i feel much lighter now. although i still feel some unexplainable pains on different parts of my body. last week i had a terrible stiff neck and until now i still feel slight pain on my neck. haay. from time to time i also have leg cramps. i badly need to shed off those extra pounds. right now, i'm trying the fit 'n right juice, an alternative to juday's fitrum. thanks to n@w for the great idea. hehehe. if this still doesn't work for me by the end of this month (even after religiously doing 100 sit ups, 70 leg raises and 50 air bicycles everyday), i might try herbalife products. i hope i won't get to that point. hehehe. keeping my fingers crossed (and keeping up with the diet). :))

preggy notes: stretchmarks

whenever i meet friends who also just had a baby, i normally exchange notes with them. from the pregnancy up to the struggle with the challenging mommyhood, i really enjoy chatting because not only i am able to share my experience, i am also learning a lot of new things. learning is fun you know. one of the most common topics i encounter during this exchange of notes is stretch marks and how do you prevent it from happening ever. my friends would get amazed when i tell them i didn't have stretch marks at all when i was pregnant with djuan. of course, they asked me if i used a stretch mark cream but no i didn't. actually i do have stretch marks now. these only came out a little over a month after giving birth. but they are very few, tolerable and almost unnoticeable. well i think at some point you really couldn't prevent stretch marks from coming out. i think i read somewhere that having stretch marks is really genetics. if your mom had it, it's likely that you'll have it too. my mom didn't have stretch marks at all, probably that's why i only had a few. but i don't think it hurts to prevent these from coming by using some products like revitol stretch mark cream. as the doctors always say, prevention is way much better than cure. and i so agree with that. maybe next time when i get pregnant again i'd try a stretch mark cream like that of revitol. hopefully no stretch marks at all by then.

biggest heart award

i got another award from abie. thanks, sis!


i'm sharing these to all of my blogging buddies especially those who frequently visit this site. happy hearts day everyone! fill the air with love. :)

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payday loans review

it's already february and yet i still have a couple of bills to pay. some are still my expenses over the past holidays (Christmas and our trip to cebu). it's almost a week before payday comes and i'm a bit worried that i'd run out of cash before that day comes. i was thinking about getting cash advance from the office i'm currently working on but i'm not so sure if we do have that privilege in the company. well, i'm hesitant to do it anyway if in case the company do offer cash advance. you know i just moved in to this company three weeks ago and i just don't think it's an appropriate thing for me to do. maybe if i'd really need to avail of payday loan soon, i should just get it from other companies offering payday loans. but the thing is i need to make sure that the company is reliable and trustworthy. these days, whenever we'd like to avail of something, a gadget, a service or whatever we have in mind, it's almost an instinct that we need to check the review of the providing company. trustsource.org is one web site that i just came across with that does collate the reviews and rankings of the people who availed of payday loans and/or cash advance loans from certain sites. this is a great idea because you could check the review and rank of the site that you want to avail of the cash advance with. i'd definitely check out the reviews in trustsource.org when the time comes i really need to apply for a payday loan.

i love chris daughtry

grabe, i just fell in love with chris daughtry tonight. i'm currently trying the ipod shuffle that came free with our new laptop. amazingly i'm not doing paid opps tonight. hehehe. i'm downloading some mp3s and i remembered daughtry's home song. got so intrigued with the other songs from the album so i downloaded them as well. omg! i so love chris daughtry. i almost forgot i'm married to donar. hahaha! you know what, my ideal man is a rocker. oh well there's no such thing as ideal so i got married to a doctor. hehehe. i really love chris daughtry's voice. haay. i hope he comes here in the philippines for a concert. or did he already? oh i just hope the ticket price won't be as pricey as that of maroon 5's. as far as i could remember the most expensive ticket costs around 7k. expensive talaga. sobra. lab yu chris! rock 'n roll!!!

bad day yesterday, bad luck today

*sigh*. after months of not being apprehended of color coding violations in makati, i was finally caught here in ortigas by the mandaluyong officers. argh. it's the first time i brought my car here on a color coding day. and boy i was so damn unlucky because when i was about to reach megamall where i regularly park these days, there they were standing right in the middle of buildings a and b. grrr. of course, i made excuses like i just moved to ortigas (which is true) and i came all the way from caloocan (which i think didn't matter to the officer, i should have told him malabon instead) and that it was my first time to bring the car on a color coding day (which is true again). when i realized the officer won't forgive me anyway, i just let him prepare the ticket. i didn't bother bribing him coz the penalty is only 300 pesos and the smallest bills i have in my wallet are 3 20-peso bills and the next one is 500 pesos already. as if i could get pass on him with just 60 pesos, di ba. oh well, i need to learn from this. to make things worse, when i got to megamall the parking building was still closed. the guard said it opens at 9:30am. i should have gone straight to the parking lot near our building where there was no one to apprehend me. haaaay, learning a lesson the hard way.

as for yesterday, i really had a very bad day. first, donar pissed me again because for the nth time he was late again (what's new pa ba?) and he didn't call/text me again to let me know he's gonna be late. i have to call him to know his whereabouts. kainis talaga! before that, i was already having a bad time coz pilipinas teleserv contacted me about djuan's passport application. when i called their hotline they told me i should have submitted the original and the photocopy of my passport. eh haller it wasn't stated as a requirement in dfa's site, not even in their web site. kumukulo dugo ko. they have to charge me 50 pesos for that (they already charged me 1300 pesos). of course i complained that they should have told me i need to give those papers coz i already have those with me when djuan's papers were picked up. i even asked the courier rep if there's anything else i need to give to him but he told me suffice na raw yung application form, passport ids at bc photocopy ni djuan. bwisit talaga. then the csr i was talking to told me that i couldn't have the personal appearance this saturday. i told her it was alright as long as i could have it on any of the following saturdays. nde na raw pwede, i have to re-apply daw again on their web site. what?! this time i was already bitching around. i told her that it wasn't my fault that i wasn't able to submit the additional requirement because it is not stated anywhere. if i had known about the additional requirement i would have accepted it was my fault. and it wasn't my fault either that they were not able to process the application because of the incomplete requirement. and they should not make it hard for me to grant my preference (the saturday personal appearance). i'm not going to be charged another 1300 naman daw. ang gulo di ba? the csr then told me she would check daw muna what should be done. after a while she told me we could have the personal appearance next saturday. haay, pwede naman palang ganun. talk about bad customer service. and this wasn't the first time i had encountered a bad customer support like this one. and lahat dito pa si pinas where we are all so proud that we have the best customer service all over the world. how ironic. this is not the end of my bad day story. there's one more about my lukaret na neighbor. but this is a long post already so i will just share it later in a separate post. oh i just hope the bad days and the bad luck won't last the whole year round. tatanda ako kagad nito. *sigh*.

plastic surgery for my scars

i have a very ugly scar on my knee that i wanted to get rid off for a long time. it prevented me from wearing mini skirts and short shorts before. maybe i just got used to it that eventually i don't mind exposing it at all. i have another scar which is on my chin. but unlike my scar on my knee, it is tolerable because it's not so visible. the scar on my knee looked like a keloid, although it's really not one. given the time (and the money), i would love to have these scars vanish. as in poof, gone! and i know for a fact that only plastic surgery can do the tricks.

with this in mind, i surfed the internet for some clinics offering plastic or cosmetic surgery. i came across lipodoc.com which i think is quite popular with breast augmentation chicago. it offers wide selection of cosmetic and surgical procedures like eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty), breast lift, brow lift, face lift, laser hair removal (which i would love to have done on my armpit =)), hair restoration (which my husband would eventually need haha), mesotherapy lipolysis (which i hope i won't need anytime soon), scar removal (the one i would love to have soon), tattoo removal, tummy tuck, just to name a few. what i only need right now is consult the chicago plastic surgeon. it's free consultation anyway and it goes with a 15% discount on the first procedure. so would you like to have your scar removed too just like me? check out lipodoc.com and consult a chicago cosmetic surgeon.

no pork for the pig's last day

it's ash wednesday today. that means the season of lent has officially started. funny but i was thinking that since it's a holy day today eating pork is prohibited. poor pig, it's his last day (coz tomorrow's already the start of the rat's year) yet he is banned today! hehehe. corny! oh well, donar and i will just go attend a mass later and then have our foreheads crossed with the ash. i'm also planning to post something about the chinese new year later. well, that's when i get lucky i still have time to blog tonight. keeping my fingers crossed. =p

jumpstart for my nephew and for djuan too!

jan salvador, my sister jeanette's first born child, is the first kid that i took care of. i babysat him when he was still an infant. probably that's why it wasn't difficult for me to take care of djuan when he was born because i have experience with baby care with my nephews and nieces. when jan became a toddler, my sister allowed her to sometimes play with her laptop. but the games inside my sister's laptop were not suitable for jan who was a toddler then. i told my sister that i would go to the computer shop and buy jan some cds that would fit his age. i found then jumpstart learning system, a software brand that offers toddler learning games. i think that time i bought my nephew 2-3 cds to start off with. jumpstart was really a good find because even i enjoyed playing the learning games. my nephew was able to learn how to count, identify objects, name animals, and learn new words in a very interactive and very fun way. i would definitely use the same software to djuan when the time comes he's into computers. i believe it's a great way of making kids learn things. it's fun, just like when you're playing adventure games.

djuan's name is pronounced as dwan

yes, you read it right. my baby's name is pronounced as dwan. it's similar to dwayne and dwight so please don't get tongue-tied.

here are some of the NOT acceptable variations of djuan's name pronunciation. they make me frown, if not making me raise my eyebrows.

- dee-wan
- doo-wan
- joo-an

the only acceptable pronunciation for me apart from dwan is juan (wan). that's anyway the origin of his name and it's just his temaarts na daddy that added letter d so he could include the first letter of his name (donar). when time comes djuan complains to me about his name, i'd ask him to question his dad instead. ok, para wala na lang gulo at away, chukoy na lang. period.

progressive lens for my niece

my sister-in-law was complaining to me the other day because my niece's eyeglasses will be replaced again. it's quite expensive because her eyeglasses has progressive lens, a type of corrective lens used to correct presbyopia (a condition wherein the eye has difficulty to focus on close objects). so i shared her this great deal i came across the internet just a few days ago. zenni optical: sell rx glasses $8 with case! zenni optical manufactures and sells its products directly to its customers. that means, no additional costs. it also sells internationally so no problem for us buying here from asia. it offers a wide selection of frames which could come with single vision lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens (the one my niece needs). and the best of all, the eyeglass comes free with anti scratch coating, uv protection and lens edge polishing and beveling. here's a sample of the eyeglass i chose for my niece. nice, isn't it?

5 star blog award

i got this award from eds. thanks, sis! really appreciated this one.


now i'm sharing this to abie, ela, jody, joey, kathy, mec and toni.

ashop commerce for your shopping cart software needs

from time to time when some people learn that i am a graduate of computer engineering and i'm into software development stuff, i would get inquiries if i could help them put up their own web site. my usual answer, sorry but no. for most IT practitioners like me, this is one sideline that you should never let pass. but sorry, not to me. you see, i would love to have extra earnings aside from the usual monthly salary i am receiving from my regular work. it's just that i really don't do one-man show you know. i believe that i could pull it off at some point and be merry with the instant money. but thinking on long term, this would be a nightmare to me. software development doesn't start with the business requirements gathering and end with the programming itself. what others don't see most of the time is what we call the maintenance and support period. this is the time when programmers fix the reported bugs. and if the contract for the project wasn't drafted that good, this period could go on forever. seriously. recently, i came across ashop commerce. i think this is the best internet find i have at the moment because this would be my answer now to that occasional inquiries i get especially if the business requires an ecommerce software. ashop commerce offers a shopping cart software that comes with a lot of cool features. for one, it has a 10-day trial period so you could assess the features and the performance of the shopping cart. secondly, you could easily customize or re-brand the software to suit that design that you've been envisioning about your ecommerce web site. and best of all, ashop commerce offers a live chat support tool for that much needed instant support. if you're into a lookout of a great shopping cart software, please don't ask me to program it for you. better yet, check out ashop commerce.

no mobile passport service for us

i just called the coordinator for the pasig city mobile passport service this morning and found out that the service is only available to pasig residents. argh. too bad. i wanted to have djuan's passport na sana and i wanted to renew mine and donar's too. i would really love to avail of this mobile passport service coz it's not that pricey compared to what pilipinas teleserv offers. mps only costs 750 while pilipinas teleserv costs 1300, making a 550 peso difference per passport. if we really want to get the passports cheap we have to do it the regular way. it only costs 500 pesos in dfa but que horror. according to the news a few weeks back, the queue in dfa these days is so terrible. it looks like everybody really wants to get out of the country. *sigh*. for the meantime, i'll just get djuan's passport muna through pilipinas teleserv. mine and donar's would have to wait. besides, i don't like our new passport ids coz we really looked like hoodlums. i'm afraid that the immigration officers might think djuan's not our son. hehehe. and i want to lose some more weight so i could shed off some fat under my chin and on my cheeks. besides looking like a hoodlum in my passport id, i also look like somebody who's always been hanging out in the kitchen. bad trip! really need to seriously undergo a strict diet. and do my exercises religiously daily. ha-ha!

no concert date for us on valentine's day

well, it looks like we're really not having a concert date for valentine's day. the concert tickets that i checked out are too pricey! i think when you become a mommy it's inevitable that you get tight on the money. hehe. but really, when i saw the ticket price, i was already counting the number of cans of milk and packs of diapers that we could buy with that amount. well, i wasn't really seriously planning to have a concert date for me and donar. when we went to moa yesterday, i saw this billboard of nina's concert near esplanade. just made me reminisce that last year we went to nina's valentine concert in manila pavillion. we were invited then by our kumpareng dominic when he was still working in that hotel. so out of curiosity, i checked out the valentine concerts for this year. i looked for feb 13 concerts coz donar's on duty at the hospital on the 14th. of course, we're not having another nina concert so i didn't bother checking it out. i actually looked first for jose mari chan's concert coz i read from the newspaper last week that it's gonna be shown on the 13th and 14th. much to my dismay, the most expensive ticket is 3400 and the cheapest is 1300. i think no food pa yata yan. when we went to nina's concert last year, we only spent 2500, dinner and concert for the two of us na. then i saw joey albert in the valentine concerts list. was thinking maybe this is cheaper because she's no longer that active in the music industry. err, the price was much higher pa! the most expensive is 3600. i didn't bother remembering the cheapest one coz it's not really cheap anyway. i think it was too pricey because the concert's gonna be held in a 5-star hotel. mandarin yata yun. haaay. i believe it's just enough that i bought donar a valentine dozen of krispy kreme last saturday in moa. hehehe. 6 heart-shaped donuts and 6 original glazed donuts. yummy! sweet naman di ba?! :))

debix: on identity theft protection

online shopping is very much in nowadays. with just the use of an internet connection and your credit card, you won't have to leave the comforts of your home just to make a purchase of whatever you want or need to buy. but beware, oftentimes when a thing gets popular and it's usually involved with lots and lots of money, thieves think of many ways how to steal. and identity theft is one of the most rampant strategies of a thief these days.

if you're into online shopping or you wanted to go and try online shopping, you need to make sure that you protect your identity, particularly those of the credit cards you are using. debix.com is one great internet find that i recently came across with. it protects their subscribers from having unauthorized credits. what's more is that they also protect their subscribers from having pre-approved credit cards. even better is that debix could eliminate the unwanted telemarketing calls their subscribers receive. i believe that is really great especially to me who gets to receive telemarketing calls daily. it is really annoying. how i wish i have known this kind of identity theft protection earlier. so are you a victim of identity theft or do you want to avoid identity theft? go check out the debix identity protection.

Christmas family picture and djuan's passport id

no, this is not a late post. but the Christmas portrait pictorial is does late. hehehe. but as i've said in my weekend plans that i wrote yesterday, it's better late than never. so the oc me have to have this as part of my planned annual Christmas picture (special thanks to kumareng lisa for the idea =)). since we're on a tight budget because we haven't really recovered yet from the holiday expenses (Christmas and the cebu trip), we had to find an affordable photo studio. we can't afford another bub session eh. hehe. so we went to moa yesterday and chose photoline after checking out two other studios (great image and another one which i already forgot the name). we got the option 3 star shot package. and would you believe it's only 99 pesos? yep, for one 8R and 4 wallet size pictures, this was really a good deal. i just have to add 20 pesos so i could get the soft copy (our id pictures included). kewl! here's our 'Christmas' family pictures.



we also availed of their option 3 id package which consists of 4 1x1 and 6 passport-sized ids. and we only got it for 65 pesos each package. ok di bah. hehe. here's djuan passport id picture.


i won't share mine and donar's coz we look like hoodlums. bawal na kasi ngumiti ngayon sa passport id. hehehe.

great discovery: zenni optical

since djuan started to learn to grab things, he already broken a couple of eyeglasses of some people in our house and that included my cousin who's currently his part-time yaya. donar gave her his old eyeglasses so she could use the frame and just have the lens made custom for her. now donar wants to have a spare eyeglasses because the one she gave to my cousin was the only extra he has. since i'm into online shopping, i surfed the net and came across this great discovery: zenni optical. this site has a wide selection of eyeglasses. it offers single vision, bifocal and progressive eyeglasses. it also offers the very affordable zenni optical $8 rx glasses. what's more is that you could avail of anti scratch coating, uv protection and lens edge polishing and beveling gratis. yes, free of charge! great deal, isn't it? so check out the best thing found: zenni optical. here's a sample of zenni optical's eyeglass frame that i chose for donar. by the way, they do sell internationally. and they don't have middlemen, meaning, they deal directly with their customers so you really get the value for your money.

weekend plans

hello everyone! it's 3am in the morning and i'm still here blogging. hehe. i just finished a couple of my online stuff. you know, for the love of the extra moolah in tolerance of the travel addiction. ngyahahaha. so just a few notes before i sign off and finally rest my dead tired body to bed. here's the weekend plans for the family (that means me, donar and chukoy):

saturday
- re-arrange the furniture inside our room so we could allot a space for djuan to practice walking
- go to sm san lazaro and do the rest of the stuff
- have our pictures taken in great image: the Christmas pictorial (better late than never haha), and passport ids
- buy some of the toiletries i forgot the last time we went grocery shopping
- buy rubber mats or customed-size carpet (meron ba nito?) for djuan's new play area.
- buy ingredients for djuan's meals for the week
- attend church mass (pwede rin very early on sunday morning if pressed with time na talaga)
- visit my in-laws
- blog? wish ko lang!

sunday
- divi trip with liza boiye in the morning
- prepare djuan's meals for the week
- spend the rest of the day with chukoy
- blog? i hope so. it's so challenging to be a full-time yaya over the weekend. hehe. but it's so fulfilling nevertheless.

happy weekend to all! :)

shopping cart software for the online business

my sister and her husband has been planning to put up an online business. they wanted to sell philippine-made items that you would rarely see or you won't even be able to purchase in europe. when this business was initially planned, my sister asked me to help them put up their own web site. that meant i need to help them design the web site. it also meant that i need to develop the customized shopping cart software for their online business. during that time, i have no experience with ecommerce software yet so i sought help from my best friend who has great exposure with this kind of software applications. but the business plan didn't push through so the development of the shopping cart was shelved.

a few months back, there has been some discussions in my family on the business plan again. the topic then again died when the holidays came in and everybody became busy once more. recently, i found an interesting site that could help us push through with that business plan. i am actually excited to share this to my sister but for now i'm sharing it here in my blog. ashopcommerce.com is one of my recent and great internet finds. it offers a shopping cart software that i think would definitely complete my sister's online business plan. the site offers a 10-day trial so i could ask my sister to try it out first. it also has fully customizable design so we could make the re-branding according to our taste. it also has live chat support tool that makes warranty and support very promising. there's a lot more features of the software this site offers. i think the best among these features is the software's integration with third party processors including paypal which is used by almost all popular ecommerce sites. i am so convinced now that i am about to email my sister about it. hahaha! are you convinced too? if you have plans in going online selling, go check out the shopping cart software by ashopcommerce.com.

djuan's first teeth

yep, you read it right. djuan's already got his first teeth. not a tooth, but teeth. it was amazing coz the two came out almost at the same time that you won't even notice the difference in the growth progress. it was like twins who came out in this world barely a few minutes apart. here are some great pictures of djuan and his first teeth. these were taken right after we went to the sinulog parade. djuan woke up when we got inside the taxi and started playing around with me and his dad.



right now his third front tooth (upper) is very noticeable already. i think in a few days time it will be fully grown. i hope the fourth one catches up so djuan won't be caught up with three teeth. that would be so strange! hahaha. i think what's more strange is that the fourth tooth coming out is not the last front tooth. it's the incisor, just right beside the upper front tooth that has no signs of coming out yet. weird, isn't it? when this happens, djuan would have two upper teeth that has a gap in between. oh well, djuan's handsome no matter what. love you, baby boy! mwah =*

i'm now a postie!

finally, i'm a postie! a postie is what payperpost calls their registered and approved blogger. after a couple of attempts to have my blog approved, now i'm officially a postie. it has almost been four months ago since i joined the bandwagon of paid blogging. i learned about payperpost.com through fellow n@wie and college schoolmate abie. i really like this site because they have a lot of opportunities to choose from. just like what they say in their site, i will get paid to blog about the things i love. cool, isn't it? i must say it's great. :)

so, do you want to be a postie just like us? well, it's so easy to join. just register a blog that is at least 90 days old with at least 20 posts in it. if you haven't got a blog then it's about time you start creating one now. and then wait for your blog approval. while waiting for that precious approval, blog about yourself so you could practice your writing and at the same time increase the number of posts in your blog. as soon as your blog gets approved, you're now on your way on earning that extra cash for yourself. as for me, i'm planning to use that online earnings on my son's 1st birthday. how about you? what are you going to do with that extra earnings once you get approved? go on and blog about it. unleash your thoughts and let the blogosphere know about them.

bye january, hello love month

one month has already past 2008. i barely noticed it coz i was too occupied with a lot of things lately. if not for the date-related issue i am currently working with at work, i would not have realized it's already february today.

looking back, i would say january has been good to me. and that makes my start of the year very very well. so, what i do have to look back at january?
- my resignation from ssip after almost 5 years of tenure
- my movement to eb2 as a senior java developer. bye management stuff for good!
- our family holiday in cebu
- paid opps pouring in. yey!
- approval from smorty and payperpost. another yey!

now, these are what i look forward to for the month of love, february:
- valentine date with donski. this is not something we religiously do every year. if there's a nice concert or movie that falls near valentine's day, we'd usually go out and consider it as a valentine date. hehe.
- continue preps for djuan's 1st bday party
- polish my java skills. or should i say rustproof my brain? ngyahahaha.
- donar's ielts. take 2 but this time the academic module. repeat, academic module and NOT general training for heaven's sake!
- djuan's first passport. and probably renewal of mine and donar's too so we would all have the new bar coded passports.

wow, this is such a very enriching post. doing some reflections at the start of every month is a very good idea. i should probably do this every month. watchathink? :D

real-time insurance quotes

february is, i would say, the time when i get to deal with a lot of insurances. when i was still paying my life insurance, february 15th is the time when my grace period ends. that means, i need to settle my past due until that day only. sometime 3rd week of february is the time when i need to renew the auto insurance of my honda civic. when that time comes i usually issue three post-dated checks (because i could pay my auto insurance in terms for three months) to pay the auto insurance. with all of these in mind, i was wondering if there's any company or web site that's offering all of these insurances. and indeed, there is.

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