Mommy Edna

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Ang Trip ni Rizal Arts and Gallery Tour- Only the beautiful, the truth and the good of Philippines' Arts

5:37 AM

Mommy Edna Reyes

A contestant in one network talent search program lamented that his own mother prevented him from pursuing his artistic talent for the reasons that most artists in the Philippines starve. But his persistence and love for his arts proved his mother wrong and now he's reaping all kinds of accolade for his art works.

Parents should be the first persons to encourage their children to pursue their chosen field as children find inspiration with them. Rizal has his mother for inspiration and her persistent guidance had great influence on his arts and other pursued interest. Parents' obligations are not only to provide the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter but most of all to nourish their God-given talent or skills. Preventing them to pursue their interest is like cutting off a budding flower from its stem depriving us the existence of beautiful creations.

A Botong Francisco masterpiece

One great way to encourage a child with artistic inclination is to provide him access to his arts. It does not mean only providing him the tools he needs but to have a personal glimpse of works of arts that will inspire him more. Ang Trip Ni Rizal, a local tour group focused on making Rizal province as one of Philippines tourist destinations has a tour package that explains why Rizal is the art capital of the Philippines.

The tour includes visits to different towns of Rizal that showcase works of known Filipino masters including Carlo “Botong” Francisco, Nemi Miranda and other famous artist sons of Rizal. A budding interest in art will find nourishment in seeing these masterpieces and notes of how these artists live for their art will inspire an innocent love for the arts. The tour also makes it possible for the budding artist to have a face-to-face encounter with the artists themselves and witness how their innovative arts style made them famous around the world. The tour includes trips in arts galleries and interaction with a famous wood furniture maker to milestones interest in this field. The trip is not only artistic but in a way cultivates aesthetic sense in our daily living. Parents and children will surely love this amazing Ang Trip ni Rizal Arts and Gallery tour.

As a popular First lady had once said, arts is nothing but the beautiful, the truth and the good, let us all embrace this and share with our children nothing but the beautiful, the truth and the good of Philippines’ Arts.

This article is my official entry to "Ang Trip Ni Rizal-Trip Ko' 'To blog contest. To avail the trip visit www.angtripnirizal.com for more details.

Love through a Mother’s Eyes

4:09 AM

Mommy Edna Reyes

This is the picture of my cat Koko who’s still nourishing her two grow-up Toms. It seems odd as her two dear Toms are big enough to fend for themselves but for Koko, there’s nothing unusual to it. Koko is a mother who will never deny her kitten the love and care she unconditionally gives them. No matter how old her kitten is, it will always be her precious little baby. All mothers in the world are familiar and akin to this feeling. This is love through a mother’s eyes.A love that’s unconditional, unending, always nourishing and overflowing.

This is my entry to “Love as I see it". A project of www.islandrose.net flowers Philippines.

Fight Dengue-Do the 4 o'clock Habit

1:07 AM

Mommy Edna Reyes

With Dengue fast spreading all over the country, it's time for us parents to protect our family by simply doing our little share of eradicating this dreadful DENGUE. Yes, by doing our daily tasks of keeping our surrounding clean and free of mosquitos breeding places we can kick out this deadly mosquitoes.
DO THE 4 O'CLOCK HABIT
A special species of mosquitoes is said to be the carrier of this Dengue Virus. One deadly bite from a female Aedes mosquito can transmit 3 or 4 Dengue Virus. Symptoms include onset of high fever, extreme headache, joints pain and stomach. Days after patient may have red patches in skin and when already in danger stage, may have bleeding gums and nose. When not ACTED IMMEDIATELY, it may cause blood platelets to fall and cause shock and then death. It is deadly but when detected early can be prevented and treated.
Since it is caused by virus, there's no specific drug treatment and only fluid flushing is the immediately treatment plus symptomatic drugs like paracetamol for fever and pain.

Health authorities say that the only way to eradicate this Dengue Virus is to keep out Aedes mosquitoes in the environment and destroy its breeding places.
This Aedes mosquitoes bite only during daytime and found to be active between 6 am to 10 am and 2 pm to 4 pm or until the last daylight which is before 6 pm.
To destroy its breeding places, everybody must practice the 4 o'clock habit.

Throw away all possible breeding places like empty bottle (without caps), old tires, plastic containers

Replace water in flower vases daily and drain water from dishwashers,refrigerators, air conditioners

Drain all stagnant rain water around and near your houses

Cover all drums of water and treat them with disinfectants

Keep your surrounding clean and dry as possible.

It is with joint efforts of parents and the community that this deadly Dengue can be eradicated Join the efforts and let's have a Dengue- free community!

2nd Blogger Fiesta Manila 2011

4:31 PM

Mommy Edna Reyes

What: 2nd Blogger Fiesta Manila 2011
When: August 20, 2011, Saturday
11am-6pm
Where: SM Cyberzone, SM North EdsaFree Entrance

Event Updates:
235 is the magic number
We have already around 235 bloggers who registered for this event and we will be closing the online registration later at 7:00pm, but if you have friends and co-bloggers that would like to join to the event and forgot to sign up online, inform them that the registration will close in a few hours , if they missed it, its okay because we will still be accepting walk in participants.

Raffle giveaways
If you noticed that we have already sponsors coming in for the event, expect a raffle game draw for all registered participants. We have cool swags from our sponsors - Eurotel, Multiply.com, Bloggermanila.com, Megaworld Corp, Yoshinoya, Turfsiteph.net, Norton Antivirus, Digits Trading, Thunderbird Resorts Rizal, SM Cyberzone, Sony Ericsson and Blogger.com. And if you want to donate in our hourly raffle, pls inform us so that we can include it in our grand giveaway, plus promotion of your blogsite on stage.

Food
I have to deliver this message early to you that food and beverages are not provided for our event, I'm having some problems getting food sponsors that can feed us all, but I like to inform everyone that you can bring your own food, or buy your food in a nearby resto or fast food in SM North EDSA. But wait...we have Fruitas Ice Candies for everyone, just grab an ice candy at their kart inside our event.

Laptops and wifi
SM Cyberzone in SM North EDSA is a wifi zone, feel free to bring your wifi enabled devices and gadgets, but make sure that you keep your gadgets safe and never leave your things unattended. ME, my staff, the mall are not accountable for any damage or loss of your personal property, so let's be responsible. If you spotted something fishy or suspicious, then report it to our staff so that we can police it and have a fun and safe event.

Camera
Yes! camera, video cams and etc are allowed inside our event venue, but you can use your camera only within the venue. Photo taking or video recording outside the venue is not allowed, security guards wearing blue and white uniform will approach you to tell you to stop taking pics or video. Just follow the mall's rules whenever you are inside and in our event. And take many pics and videos as you want in our Blogger Fiesta event. Don't forget to tag me ha!

Twitter hashtag #bloggerfiesta
The title says it all

Program schedules
here are our guest speakers time slot
(tentative schedule)
10am – event opens
11am – networking hour with bloggers
12nn – presentation of speakers
1pm – Azrael Coladilla and Juned Sonido
2pm – Jhong Medina and Jonel Uy
3pm – Eurotel and Multiply
4pm – Carlo Ople and David Angelo
5pm – Jenny Manongdo and Bob Reyes
6pm – Marlon Guzman and Marnell Delos Reyes

Blogger Fiesta Marshals
Our event marshals will be there always for you to help, guide and assist you. If you encounter some problems or some concerns, just report it to them so that they can record and report it to me right away and solve the problems that was encountered. Dont be shy in approaching us

Networking
Don't be shy in introducing your self and meet other bloggers, meeting new people offline is the most great thing to do in order to have a successful blog site and meeting with them is an additional tip if you want to learn more about blogging. I'm not kidding! So grab a pen, ask nicely to your seat mate and write down their names and blog url. Then blog hop later. Just do this during our recess time and networking hour 11am-12nn and 3pm, and not during the time when our speaker is on stage. You can also approach our speakers during the networking hour if you want to consult something for your blog.

Facebook Like this pls.
SM North EDSA is inviting you to visit their Facebook Page, click and LIKE it. you can post your blog url there and mention that you are in the Blogger Fiesta
visit www.facebook.com/smnedsa

How to go to our venue
1. SM Cyberzone is located inside SM North EDSA Annex
2. Ask the mall guard for directions going to the annex building
3. SM Cyberzone event center is located at the 4th floor of the annex building

SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!!
An event for bloggers and bloggers to be. See you! :)

Registration is now closed. However walk-in registrants will be accepted at the event.

Sponsors and Partners:

Otto Waterless Urinals- Help Reduce Water Usage

5:34 AM

Mommy Edna Reyes

Waterless urinals are coming to town. Arrow home improvements, a leading company for home improvements with its Otto waterless urinals is introducing to the Filipinos a new concept in home bathrooms and toilets.

Waterless urinals concept is something that is new to most parents and homeowners. It had some bad feedback several years ago when it was introduced in other countries. But the good thing is; the Philippines is being introduced to the WATERLESS concept with a product that has a lot of innovative designs said to have eliminated the past problems of waterless urinals. The stinking smell, the clogging and the hazardous materials are now thing of the past with Otto waterless urinals. But are we ready for this big shift in our toilet and bathroom supplies?

Otto waterless urinals claim to have designs that can match any bathroom interiors. This means the design will not ruin your stylish bathroom accessories and in fact can complement bathroom accessories and bathroom supplies without compromising toilet purpose. An Otto waterless urinal is also Eco-friendly because it’s made from non-toxic and non-hazardous materials. It also uses re-usable cartridges thus saving money on its simple maintenance.But this money-saving feature is not enough to convince a homeowner to shift to this waterless urinals. Now, take a look on this. It is also said that a single Otto male urinal when install in your bathroom will reduce water usage from 20% to 30% of total site water consumption. That's what we need; reduced water usage.

According to the Handbook of Water and Conservation, if all Filipinos will install water conservation features in their toilet, water usage would decrease by 30%, saving an estimated 5.4 billion per day. This will result in dollar volume savings of 11.3 million per day or 4 billion per year. This will not only save our water resources but give new lease of life to our dying water sources. A Filipino household which has a water usage of 350 gallon per day and if it uses an Otto waterless urinal, its daily usage will reduced to estimated 240 gallon. If every household will have reduced daily water usage, in a month, an estimated of 450 million gallons of water will be saved. It is no doubt that Otto waterless urinals can help save our water resources.It is more than money-saving. It is saving our future generation.

Now, if waterless urinals can make water savings of 30%, it is time for us to rethink and reconsider changing our views about these waterless toilets. If water free urinals will be used in many homes and establishments, water conservation will be collective actions among its users. We can all participate in our little own ways in this noble cause of saving our water resources thus letting our children enjoy the benefits of its abundance in the near future.. WE as parents, have this primary role to lead our children in accepting new challenges and innovations for the betterment of our life and community. With waterless urinals, getting ready for them is just a matter of decision. Think. Decide. Help reduce water usage. Have waterless urinals in your homes.

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Social Network crimes

1:44 AM

Mommy Edna Reyes

You can read them on newspapers, see and watch on TV and radio, social network crimes are now getting the headlines.

Facebooks, myspace 5, twitter and friendster are only few of the many social networks that offer virtual friendship and let their users connect to different people around the world. With technology, distance is not a problem anymore. Anywhere in the world, one can communicate easily and send thoughts, ideas across , personal , business or official with just some clicks at the computer's mouse. This is the reason why more and more people are getting hooked in these social networks and our children are among these.
There's nothing bad with these social networks since it is part of progress and developments. Progress and developments have no intentions to destroy but failure to cope positively with them can bring about many disastrous things not only on properties but also in people's live, directly and indirectly.

There are a lot of crimes now involving the use of these socail networks such as facebook, twitter, etc and most of the victims are young girls and boys who are naive and disoriented with the proper guidance of the use of these social networks. It is now the role of the parents to take actions to protect their children with these crimes involving the net. Parents should personally take considerate actions to guide and orient their children with the proper use of these social networks. They can do this if they, themselves are computer literate and are well-oriented with these social networks.

Unfortunately, most parents themselves fall prey to these net crimes and became victims themselves. It is now the government duty to step in and make laws that will protect and give proper guidance with the use of these social networks. With new laws and implementing these laws will not only save people's lives but also make them, become more responsible cyber community member

The government must act now and fast. Progress and development could not wait long.

Watch Despicable Me Online Free

5:51 AM

Mommy Edna Reyes

Searching the internet for free online streaming of movies can be difficult and tiring since a lot of sites require surveys, tasks, sign ups and other tedious things to be able to watch the movie online. After a long time of searching and frustration, finally a good copy of the film Despicable Me is available to watch online without going through sign ups or surveys etc.

So here's the link to the movie. Enjoy watching it with your kids!