Scenic Sunday

Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota

My Favorite Wedding Songs

Well, what can I do? I got tagged by my sisi, so here I go...

5 of my favorite wedding songs:

1. All in His own sweet time (I don't know who the song writer and artist are, but that's on top of my list because in my wedding story, that song speaks it all!)

2. The Lord's prayer (That song was sung by P's best man who is an opera singer in New York on our wedding day. It was awesome!)

3. You are my song (by Regine Velasquez only)

4. How did you know (by Gary V... makes me cry! so touching)

5. Love is stronger than anything (Cathy Maliza)

Now, I don't think there's anyone left not being tagged of this one. I'll just end here, if you don't mind.

Scenic Sunday

I took this photo from the boarding area at Narita Int'l Airport on January 27, 2009. For more scenic photos, check out...

Yummy Sunday

Our neighbors invited us for dinner at their house last week, she served us this fruit cake for our dessert. Paul was very happy... he is a fruit guy!

Scenic Sunday

Aerial view of Davao City. I took this one on our trip to the Philippines a couple months ago. For more scenic photos visit Scenic Sunda...

Yummy Sunday

Steamed ripe Saba banana! It's so yummy!

Scenic Sunday

Maragusan Valley, Davao. This is where I spent my first 15 years of life.

Scenic Sunday

Hmmm... I am not really sure if that is considered scenic. Anyway, I took this photo at my hubby's parents' neighborhood. That's P pulling the sleigh with Izzy and her cousin!

Yummy Sunday

When minii duu (my little sister in Mongolian language), Chuka was with us, she made us my favorite Mongolian food. Oh, the food sure brought a lot of memories to me. I was telling them how I loved Mongolian food on my first year in that country. On my second year, I just couldn't stomach it! The reality of the difference between the Filipino food and Mongolian food struck me that year. I didn't want to eat anything but Filipino food. So I went home and stayed for a year. When I went back to Mongolia my appetite for Mongolian food was resurrected and I have retained that appetite until now. So it was so nice of Chuka to make me my favorite Mongolian food.

"Mutton Soup" It was yummy!!!

The famous "mantoo"

Authentic Mongolian Milk Tea

Contemporary Portrait Contest

Isabelle has learned to enjoy posing for the camera. This is one of the photos I took of her recently. To see other photos for Contemporary Portrait Contest, go here!

This Blog has a page rank of 2!

A blogger friend of mine wrote about page ranks this morning and I got curious and checked what this blog's rank. It used to be 1 for many months. When I checked it at Rank Widget a while ago, it went up to 2!!! I don't really know what advantage I would get from having given that rank because I haven't been grabbing opportunities to earn money from blogging yet. But I am glad I got that rank. I don't know what that page ranks mean and what the requirements to get higher ranks are, but somehow I feel happy.

Contemporary Portrait Contest

I almost forgot that I want to join the Contemporary Portrait Contest hosted by Aisha. Well, I hope this one will win. It was taken the night before Christmas eve when two of my Mongolian girl friends came to visit us. Our little girl entertained them with her goofiness! It was fun to take pictures of them that night. They all were in the mood for posing for the camera. For the series of photos taken that night, check them out here... In the mood for picture taking!

And to view other entries, visit this site... http://www.imincultureshock.com/2008/12/contemporary-portrait.html

Scenic Sunday

The Sugar Loaf of Winona, Minnesota. It's not really a loaf of sugar on top of the bluff, its a piece of big stone. I can't remember why it's called Sugar Loaf. Sorry.

Scenic Sunday

I took this photo in Duluth, MN.

Scenic Sunday

I took this photo of the water falls in Tettegouche Park on our trip to Two Harbors, MN

Yummy Sunday

For our 3rd anniversary dinner 3 days ago, we went to Red Lobster Restaurant. I always ordered this meal of wood-grill lobster, shrimp and scallop. The said meal comes with steamed broccoli and rice pilaf.

Yummy Sunday

Chips and Homemade Salsa at our friends' house. The salsa was super yummy! They used wild roasted chili instead of a regular crushed chili. It made a great difference! And definitely the healthy way to eat chips.

1000 at 8:30 am

Just wanted to let you all know that yesterday (Sunday) at 8:30 am, my blog visitors count reached to 1000 since the day I installed that counter. It was kind of fun to see that. I haven't really worked on increasing my blog's traffic yet but I'm glad that the people I know exchanged links with me. Janet has been really helpful in teaching me how to increase traffic and I'm planning on working on it soon. I notice that my political opinion entries in this blog have attracted a lot of readers. I didn't really intend to open this blog to the entire public but I guess it's fine. I created this blog for my family back in the Philippines and my friends around the world but it looks like it is okay for other visitors to come and read my blogs too. Well, I think that's all I wanted to say.

Have a blessed week, everyone!

Scenic Sunday

I took this photo on our trip to San Diego, CA.

Scenic Sunday

Sunset at a Crystal Lake, Lakeville, MN. This is probably my second sunset photo at Scenic Sunday. I just love the beauty of it.