“Remember Me” is my first encounter with Sophie Kinsella, famed author of the Shopaholic series. I didn’t have second thoughts about buying this because I knew for a fact that the Shopaholic books are certified bestsellers. This book kept me company on the very late nights of (Good) Friday and (Black)Saturday before Easter. I did finish the book in two nights, not counting the few minutes I was able to steal while inside a moving car.

Unfortunately, the book didn’t quite excite me as I hoped and thought it would. I could hardly be considered a book critic because my reading repertoire during my younger years were limited to romance novels…and of late, children’s book, cookbooks and a few metaphysical ones. Hee hee! But I do think I know my way around romances. I specially like them to give me tickles, goosebumps, butterflies in my stomach and everything else associated with sappy love stories. Hee hee!

While I did manage to finish the book in two sittings, it was out of an urgent need to get it over and done with and to get myself out of my misery as quickly as possible. Next time, I’ll probably just stick to the best sellers…at least, where Sophie is concerned.

Have a great week, everyone! Oh yeah, I have another WS entry here.

This tag is courtesy of Rachel…

We all know that we need to get more links from one another. So join this linker chain!

* To get more more traffic.
* To increase technorati authority.
* To get more back links.
* To gain more friends around the world.

Here are the Rules:

* First copy and paste the list below.
* Do not remove any content from the linker list.
* Just add One LUCKY NUMBER to your blogs.
* If you don’t like the concept…say no. :-/*

The main goal here is we are going to circulate our number of friends.

* The more people who will join the “LINKER CHAIN”, the more links we can
generate.
* Lastly, write only ONE LUCKY NUMBER for your blogs…
* Keep
it simple and short, I know some of you have more than one blog.
* The color
for the link should be only black, gray, or white, depending on your blog’s
theme. Please avoid using any color, ok ?
* Hundreds and thousands and millions only no more trillions …ok lets get started.

1.) 6966
2.) 609
3.) 066
4.) 066
5.) 606
6.) 669
7.) 699
8.) 5354
9.) 777
10.)737
11.) 214
12.)1229
13.)7173
14.) 1969
15.) 8
16.) 888
17.) 8888
18.) 88888
19.) Your lucky number here.

I’m tagging MrsWorkingGirl, Meeya’s Purses, Em, Em’s Detour, and Thess

Here are two viral links, which pro bloggers are sure to enjoy.

#1 The Longest Line

This tag is from my favorite tagger, my good friend, Meeya. (You might all be familiar with her by now. Hee hee!)

You must have played the game the longest line at some point in your life. How about if we play the cyber edition of this game? Are you with me? Let’s start.

Rule: Copy the entire list and add your name below the person who tagged you. Then tag at least 5 friends (But you can tag as many as you like) and visit their blog to let them know you tagged them.

Abie - Journey to Life
Abie- MyPlanetPurple
Bela
Kaptyurb by Howell
Vannie
Vannie2
Aggie
Apols
Apple
Thea
Jacqui
Jane
Jody
Joy
Kelly
Mich
Peachy
Vien
Nick
Teacher Julie
Greenbucks
Meeya
Meeya’s Memes
Meeya’s Parties
Munchkin Mommy
Mapped Memories
Cafe Munchkin
*Here’s your spot!*

#2 To All Ye Pro-Bloggers

Here’s another viral link from Meeya and Julie…

Cut and paste the following starting here:

I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!) It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially!

The benefits of Viral Linking:- One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!- Increase your Google PageRank fast- Attract large volume of new traffic to your site- Build your community- Make new friends!

Here are the links (a consolidation of Meeya’s and Julie’s):

The Strategist Notebook, Link Addiction, Ardour of the Heart, When Life Becomes a Book, The Malaysian Life, Yogatta.com, What goes under the sun Roshidan’s Cyber Station,Sasha says,Arts of Physics,And the legend lives,My View, My Life,A Simple Life,Juliana RW,The Callalily Space,Petra,Summer in Blue,Confessions of an Army Wife,Bless’ Sanctuary,Happy Life,http://bless519.bravejournal.com/,La Place de Cherie,Chez Francine,Le bric a brac de Cherie Little Peanut, Pea in a Pod, The Creative In Me,Me and Mine,Pinay Mommy,Expressions from the Heart, Teacher Julie, Sweetbites by Bang, Paul, Toni and Lance - Bridging the Distance, Our Growing Family, The Uncensored life of me, My Untamed World, Yan-Ple’s Party Shop, Childstar Band, My Scrappy Side, BLOGGERHAPPY.COM, Fun.Fierce.Fabulous, Nap Time Rocks!, Juls Random Thoughts, Working It, CODPG, MyParty.Finds.A.Home, Me and my Two Boys, My Life is Peachy, Chat, My Happy Place, Raising Sandy, I am Dzoi, Snapshots of Life, My BIG Picture, Welcome To My World, Hannah, Michellie, Lisa, Ris, Scotty’s Princess, REPAH, Misyel, Rhapsody, joanjoyce, read my mind, TeacherJulie, GreenBucks, LuckyCharms, Heart of Rachel, Soulful Thoughts of Rachel, A Reality Bite, Mapped Memories, Munchkin Mommy, Cafe Munchkin, *add your site/s here*

These viral links have been going around the blogosphere for some time now and the people in my blogroll may have done these already. Nevertheless, I’m tagging the following:

Gracie, Rachel, Jen (Cellulitic Bliss), Jen (I Digress), Eileen, Happy, Julie (again, if you haven’t done the first one yet!) and Feng.

Ladies, if you’ve done any or both of the two, please let me know and I’ll just add your links. Is that fair enough? Thanks!

Here’s another tag from Meeya. This was meant for Valentine’s Day, I think. Hee hee. Sorry, Mee! Anyway, here are the rules:

1. Post your photo wearing red, may it be a red top, bottom, the least would be red accessories if you hate wearing red… If you can’t find one, you still have an option…. Either post your Significant Other’s photo or your child’s photo, if you have one. Of course, they should be wearing red.

2. Let us know the reason why you were wearing red that particular day. Was it your birthday? Is red your fave color or was it the shirt that you first saw in your closet that day?

3. Tag 3 people close to your heart. By the way, they have to be in your blogroll. No cheating heart please.

Being the stagemom that I am, I would of course prefer to post photos of my Abby instead. These photos were taken on New Year’s Day, thus, the red outfit. Red is an auspicious color after all. When I first laid eyes on this dress at Macy’s, I thought right away that it’s so perfect for New Year’s. Hee hee.

I just had to add another photo for this tag. This was taken at the Picture Company in December 2004. Abby was only 4 months old when this photo was taken. Since 2003, my side of the family always has our picture taken at a studio around Christmas time. Look at that, I just got homesick on my own doing.

There. Another tag down. Just a few hundred more to go. Feel free to do the this tag if you like red.

This week’s photo hunt theme is “high”. Knowing the themes in advance is such a big help to me. I’m consciously and unconsciously looking for “subjects” (that is so pro sounding! hahaha!) that would be perfect for the themes.

The pictures here were taken at San Antonio Sea World (I have tons and tons of photos from Sea World!) on the first Sunday of March. At first, I was intending these photos for the theme “metal”. But I think they are more of a perfect fit for this week’s theme.

Who wants a rollercoaster ride?

*holds breath at this point in anticipation of a drop*


Wiiiiiiiii!!!

Nope, I didn’t go on the ride and my perfect excuse would be….no one will look after my daughter. Hahaha!

I have another high here. It’s chocolate heaven, I’m telling you!

Have a fab weekend, y’all!

Meeya’s Ninna tagged my little girl, Abby for this meme. Thanks, Ninna and Tita Meeya! We, I in particular, enjoyed doing this.

1. Abby is a certified jetsetter. Her test flight was a trip to Cebu when she was 4 months old and has since been to Singapore (6 months), Malaysia (8 months) and Europe (18 months).

This photo was taken at Roemer in Frankfurt, Germany - 13Feb06

2. She loves to sing and dance. She even makes up her own songs!

3. She’s showing a very keen interest on visual arts as well.

4. She loves staying in hotels.

5. Abby was exactly 2 and a half years old when she first became a flowergirl.

6. Her photos have made it to Smart Parenting magazine…thrice. That’s every year since 2005.

2005 with hubby; photo taken at Sentosa in Singapore (Father’s Day theme)

2006 with hubby and me (Birthday Party theme)

2007 (Artistahin theme)

7. It took three tries before Abby agreed to a haircut here in the US.

8. She was potty-trained in one day. That was in July last year.

Photos aren’t really required to do this meme. I just followed Meeya’s example. Anyway, this is mainly a photoblog so, why not? Hee hee!

And now, to keep the tag rolling, Abby is tagging Ninang Pinky’s Luigi, Rafa and Marga; Tito Keith’s Luigi, Rafa and Marga (Pinky and Keith, I very well know you can come up with 8 each for each of your kids! Hahaha!); Jen’s Erynne and Joy’s Sandy.

This is a fun tag from Nell. I had so much fun doing this that I was not content with just 1 cover. I ended up making 3. It must be my inner cover model. Hahaha! My only regret is that I didn’t do this soon enough. It used to be that the covers available were from real magazines. I suspect the site got into some sort of a run in with the magazines that they had to change the titles, i.e. from Fortune to Riches, Vogue to Vage, Sports Illustrated to Sports Celebrated, and so on. Nevertheless, I still went crazy with the covers. Hee hee!

If you’re into visualization, this magazine cover is perfect. This will really trick your subconscious mind into thinking that you are super rich.

I’ve posted this pic of Abby before but I just had to use it again for this mag cover. Awwww, my daughter is so pretty.

Ok, I do realize the penguin mascot occupied half of the mag cover. We have better family pictures but when I tried them on the different mag covers, the magazine titles end up covering our faces. So I had to settle with this one.

If you ever fantasized about gracing the cover of a magazine, this tag is definitely for you.

ps: Meeya tagged me for this meme as well. Hee hee. Thanks for reminding me, Mee!