Posts Tagged ‘life in london’

2010 could be the coldest and hottest year on record

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Last year’s Christmas weather around my neck of the woods disappointed me. I was looking forward to a colder weather dropping to 23 degrees, like the way it was 2 years ago. It was sad to find that it didn’t, and we were stuck to a warmer daytime the rest of the holiday season. Even up to this moment.

There were already talks about the resurgence of El Nino happening. That would mean prolonged dry spell and a very warm summer this year. Even if it doesn’t really look like it is about to take place any time sooner up there near the North Pole. My nieces in the UK are having snowball fights, while most parts of the country are facing power and food crises. To those in the Arctic, this year’s winter happens to be the coldest in years.

For Manila denizens, end of January cold spell (not that cold though) would mean the coming of a hot and humid summer. This insane weather pattern does not exempt anyone, and it knows no country. All you need to do is to prepare. By the way, there are free insurance quotes should you want to secure yourselves from impending disasters.

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Nieces and pieces

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

The two girls from Hogwarts (a.k.a. London) are still in town. We had a fun time together during lunch at CPK more than a week ago. I haven’t seen them for more than two years. My niece, Clara, has already grown her hair long. The last time I saw her she was this adorable one-year-old baby who crawled her way around the house. Now, she knows how to play football.

I had a chance to see them again today in Alabang. I wasn’t expecting the entire family would take their lunch in the resto. Apparently, Kuya seemed to have gone addicted to CPK food. He will sure to miss the food when they go back to London next week, together with my other cousin who will soon attend classes in a medical assistant training school. I will miss the girls, but I am happy in knowing that I was able to spend time with them, no matter how short it was. It was something Bianca would remember. She’d probably tell everyone in her class how she spent her summer going to the beach, shopping in SM Mall of Asia and making her own pizza.

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Sunday kids tour

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

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I just got off the phone with a dozen of things swimming inside my head, like the Colonix review I still have to check. My cousin from London is in town with her two little girls and will stay until the second week of August. There is a lot of catching up to do from the time I left London in 2007. I certainly did miss on Clara’s “walk” years.

Here’s what I think a grand idea to entertain these pretty girls this weekend without leaving the metro:

1. Take them to Manila Ocean Park in the morning.
2. Treat the girls out to lunch at CPK Greenbelt 5. Aside from kids pizza, pasta and sundae, they will enjoy the CPKids activity book.
3. Timezone.
4. Mall shows for kids. I hope there’s one.
5. Buy them something. I just don’t know what.

Any suggestions?

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