The Giver. The Receiver.

Bad News:

You cannot make people like, love

understand, validate, accept or be nice to you.

You can't control them either.

Can you?

Good News:

IT

Doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter

Be Kind to yourself

Love and respect your own family

Family matters first in the eyes of God

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!

Another day of giving thanks

Gratitude for the many blessings.

Note:

Everyday is thanksgiving day.

Cheers!

Oh my God! It's also the Wedding Anniversary of my Parents-in-Law. Wherever you are  Mom and Dad hope you are in heaven and having a grand wedding anniversary celebration up there with God.

Above picture is with my family and in-laws (my husband's parents) including my husband's aunt and sister. Hmmm... I'm so glad that I have a picture with them here because you know most of the time in every occasion, most of the time I was the photographer taking photographs of  the whole family.

You bet it right I love photography because golden memories are hard to come by. I love people smiling or having a good time. A good laugh and all what we cherish right there at the moment of awe and grandeur. I missed them, missed how we get together, drink Vodka and had those unforgettable stories (of their childhood days, the year of Depression WWII, etc, etc.) then end up with the Norwegian sweet cake for dessert. Of course the dinner is hearty, the vegetables are fresh from the garden, if there is turkey Mom always have crabs on my plate. But most of the time Mom would rather have big roast beef as the main course dinner.

Happy Wedding Anniversary! Cheers! Skohl!!

It's About Family

26 YEARS AGO here we are on this unforgettable event of my life, with my husband Lorne on our wedding day reception at Via Mare. It was an awesome, amazing reception actually, very classy, beautiful and organized. It was well planned in a short period of time plan however it turned out what we expected...it was beyond me. Anyway, after 26 years reminiscing the good ol' days and after all what I heard that I should had a simple wedding and should had plan about buying a house and just got married in a simple wedding ceremony without all the pompous lavish wedding entourage and classy reception. You know the kind of simple wedding ceremony in front of a judge with two wedding sponsors and a simple reception at the restaurant with just two sponsors and that's it.

What? That's weird right? I arranged my brother's wedding and paid for half of his wedding to my sister- in- law and I will have a simple ceremony wedding of my own? Wow! Who am I? I mean have to sacrifice my own happiness so that somebody can have a beautiful wedding paid by me? My husband paid for all the wedding expenses: Church, Reception, Honeymoon expenses. We had 100 invited guests. We had a judge, lawyer, soldiers and General for wedding sponsors. I think only 55 to 65 people attended our wedding instead of 100's but we had wedding gate crashers at the reception, some people we don't even know. LOL. How ridiculous eh? Sure that's product of your imagination ha ha ha! The wedding feast at my parents home was financed by my parents and me. It was a double reception so that the whole family and clan can be together in one place sort of family-together. The neighbors were able to share the feast  and that's what sharing happiness is. My wedding reception at Via Mare was kind of very formal and some of our invited guests are too shy to attend and the reception at my family's house helped them feel at ease and feel at home. That's one so great thing about Filipino families are the close-ties the close-relationship of the whole entire clan, the relatives and good friends who would like to share memories with us. After all, wedding is about unity, binding ties with the people who are there through thick and thin. It's about FAMILY.  You are getting married because you also want to have a family of your own.

Anyway, I should not inform everyone about that eh? Okay, 26 years ago it was the happiest day of my life and I hope my husband felt the same way. After 26 years I had three children, actually they are young adults now: Ty age 24 and the twins are age 23.

Marrying the man, the man that you love and be with that man for the rest of your life... isn't that what every woman wants? You are getting married with the man that you love for eternity and hopefully the man has that set of mind that he is marrying the woman he loves and will stay with her for the rest of his life... for eternity.

Marriage is not about convenience, for money, status quo, companionship or because you get married because the woman is pregnant. Or you get married because of fear. Marrying the person because everybody's talking about you and the whole town is gossiping about you is a total disgrace.

Always marry for LOVE. And make sure that you both want to get married because you want to have a FAMILY of your own, from your own DNA and RNA.

Honor, Prestige, Virtue, Conscience

Why strategists have to do everything in advance? Simply because they are advance planner. As a matter of fact it's through their visions, important plans are patterned so that there could be Plan A to Plan B if it failed then try another plan. So many plans and so many trials.

The art of war, the art of positive thinking. Everyday is  an art of war for self defense especially if you work for the Department of Defense.

All games have  a masterplan. Who is the decision maker and who follows all the actions, every action is crucial and whether your team wins or loses then IT DOESN'T MATTER!

It doesn't matter because in every game and the most valuable game there is on planet Earth only requires your "participation." 

No cheating is the one and only honor that is truly honorable by which virtue and prestige, valor and the love of sports that matter. HONOR, VIRTUE, PRESTIGE the most important asset in winning.

You won but you had cheated your way in that game then you are a loser!

In everything you do there is that CONSCIENCE that matters.
It's just a game but it's also a plan and a good strategy.

Interesting TV Series

Do you really want NUMBERS or NUMB3RS's return to your tele-viewing night of fun? How many times you change channels at night while watching these shows/series: TBBT and other TV Shows on the same time slot. On Monday night, how many of you will change channels because CTV has THE GIFTED and at the same time another Channel has THE VOICE. Or another series compete with the brand new series THE GOOD DOCTOR.

We can forgive you if somehow you were able to watch THE GIFTED instead of watching the "BLIND Audition." Obviously, in "The voice" they are truly concerned about the voice without perceiving who are the singers and what personality that goes with the owner of the "voice." What if the singers are lip-synching on the blind audition? Whatever! It's not my problem.

In AMERICAN IDOL, you can see the person individually as each one contestant represent their talent in singing, their mannerism, behaviour and attitude all at once in their "first screen audition." First thing first, you can SEE THE FACE of the singer. We are truly from the race of THOMAS the Apostle whose motto and principle is TO SEE IS TO BELIEVE.

Worse of these contests when the winner who must compete thousands of other contestants and then end up with just a cheap price of a brand new car unlike in the AMAZING RACE,  the winners receive MILLION OF DOLLARS. In AMAZING RACE CANADA the winners win $250,000 + the all expense paid trip around the world, gas, 2 brand new vehicles. I think the judges and producer of these talent shows should provide better prizes worthy of the singer's talent.

I know too many tele-series now on TV Channels and viewers suffer from channel-changing in between commercials to find out what's happening in another series.

So what's happening in QUANTICO? When the FBI Agents would rather become CIA? How about DESIGNATED SURVIVOR? Who will last or booted off from the White House where Pres. Kirkland is the designated survivor?

Anyway, we enjoyed watching Freddie Highmore as the smart autistic surgeon who was seconds to doing his first surgery until one surgeon disappointed him from performing his first operation. The Hospital surgeons are not only egoists or arrogant but simply they thought they are well experienced and they worked in that hospital for such a long time than Dr. Shaun Murphy although taking credit from the genius of an autistic surgeon Murphy is somewhat a matter of envy, jealousy and narcissistic attitude of those 3 older surgeons. What happened if the old President of the Hospital is away or not present or not knowledgeable in the "hospital situation" in and out of the operating room. It could be chaos. It could be chaotic and the victims? Poor innocent victims, the patients.