The Weekend Weather

The weather really is unpredictable. Its raining the whole day last saturday, yesterday was foggy and today its sunny. This climate change is the greatest environmental challenge the world is facing today. Its hard to drive when its foggy and its also hard to shop when its raining.

The causes of climate change can be attributed to the natural causes and those that are created by man. I'm anticipating that that there will be a very hot summer this year. Business are affected when its raining, instead of shopping, people chose to stay within the comfort zone of their homes.

Few shoppers and empty coffee shops

Apple Trees

It's fascinating to look at apple trees near our home, they all blossomed with white/gray flowers in between small leaves. While i'm used to see leaves first then the fruits, apple trees is different. During spring, the flowers comes first, then the leaves and then the apples.

Beside the apple trees plantation is Kaechelen, a mini version of our very own national bookstore where we bought some office supplies. Here you can have a combination of nature and business in one place.

The Salts of Life

According to Wikipedia, salt is a dietary mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride that is essential for animal life but toxic to most land plants. At home, we use four kinds of salts.


The table salt or iodized salt which i use for cooking, which is also a preservative and a popular food seasoning. The one in the middle is a special powder salt which we use in the dishwashing machine to prevent it from clogging.

Above is the regeneration salt in cubes for our water purifying machine to remove the calcium in water to prevent the water pipe from clogging


This is our ice melting salt in small grains of stone to melt the snow and ice during winter season. So salt is really very important in every household.

LP 53- Hardin or Garden

Ito naman ang aking entry sa Litratong Pinoy sa temang hardin para sa huwebes na ito. Happy LP sa lahat.


Sa isa kong blog cool mom an2nette aking inilahok ang aming winter garden. Ito naman ang garden ng aming kapitbahay na masipag magtanim ng mga bulaklak, ang aming garden ay wala pang tanim dahil katatapos pa lang ng winter. (I use the photo of our winter garden in my other blog, we still dont have plants in our garden because the winter just ended, and in this blog i take a photo of our neighbor's garden)
Ito naman ang larawan ng hardin ng Rebstock hotel na malapit sa aming lugar.


Itong hardin na ito ay matatagpuan sa mission hills, ang pinakamalaking golf course sa buong mundo

Dirk's Incredible Driving

Last week, a family friend from Kempten, a largest city in Allgäu, a region in the south-west of bavaria, germany visited us. Maundy thursday, he decided to drive around freiburg in his convertible BMW car. It was in Kozingen that the engine of the car got kaputt. Its good that a BMW service center is just nearby so they pick up the car.

The repair will cost him more than 2 thousand euro so he search for a more cheaper repair service. He found a cheaper one but still not within his affordable budget. Together with my better half, they just decided to rent a trailer, pick up the car and drive to Kempten. Dirk was so tired, imagine the more than 800 kilometer non-stop driving in one day. He just paused for coffee and cake, then proceed driving. He started at 11 in the morning and returned at 10 in the evening.

Inner Awareness

In observance of the lenten season, we need a moral and spiritual renewal to help us meet the many problems we face. The present global economic crisis is a wake up call for everybody. Let us do something worthwhile and change for the better. Let's pray, meditate and do some soul searching. Reform should start in our inner selves, forgive others and let bygones, be bygones.

Let's move on, life is too short and the future is now. I want to share with you my favorite song, what a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong with Kenny G. There are so many things we should be thankful for. Let's thank GOD for all the things he had given us.

Bracing for the Hard Times

The course of hard times prevails everywhere. The global recession is leading to job losses and wage cuts. For us filipinos, there is no doubt that Philippines was hardly hit. Its good that our country is one of the world's biggest labor-exporting countries and steady remittances from migrant workers also help boost our economy. Living a simple life and do some cost-cutting will help us a lot in this difficult times.

The present location of our washing machine here in germany is near the central heating room. We want to relocate it to the other room and an elektro company make a quotation for 2000 euro just for the transfer. To save money, my better half just bought the materials at Obi and he will try to do it by himself.