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Friday Fun Finds: Quick Picks for Your Next Shopping Trip

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New shoppging finds! I love finding cheap new stuff at the grocery or at the drugstore. My favorite grocery nowadays is Hi-Top at Quezon Avenue which has a massive amount of grocery items inside plus a lot of local and imported brands that I have yet to find in other stores. Another guilty pleasure for me is Watson's. I love going through their personal care aisles looking for things that I can try out without hurting my budget. So here's my shortlist of fun finds: Oreo Double Stuf  Php … [Continue reading]

Love Is…

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I was having a really bad day today and I was stressed. So para kumalma, I went on Facebook and was aimlessly scrolling through my feed. And then I saw this video. And then I clicked play. And then all my stress melted away. Love has no gender Love has no race Love has no religion Love has no disability Post by Upworthy. … [Continue reading]

Monday Musings: Life is a journey, not a destination

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Sometimes I still have to remind myself that what really counts is not the destination but the journey. When I find myself in the midst of 1,001 things, I always wonder if everything that I'm doing are worth it. Sometimes I just want to stay still because I feel that I'm rushing through life and I am forgetting the small things that make living extra special. "Stop and smell the roses" daw. Corny as it may sound but there is truth in that.  It's only when I take my time do I realize how far I've … [Continue reading]

#TeamNoah Walks!

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Sometimes when a pressing issue needs to be heard, people organize themselves to walk the streets arm-in-arm so that their message is unified and amplified. At the very least, awareness is created but the real hope is that we are able to affect change. Last Sunday, we did the very same thing. Every February, the Down Syndrome Association of the Philippines holds a "Happy Walk" for Down Syndrome Consciousness Month. We walked arm-in-arm and hand-in-hand to celebrate our loved ones who rock the … [Continue reading]

A Giveaway from #TeamNoah :)

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I stumbled upon this book accidentally. I was on a lunch break with my teammates at Greenbelt 1 and we all went to the OMF Literature Book Shop to browse. I went to the section where there were children’s books to look for titles for David and Noah. My eyes wandered along the shelves until they stopped at a this one book whose cover had two boys. It was the older boy in the cover who caught my attention. It was this face that I saw peeking from all the other book covers. My head and heart … [Continue reading]