Pesto Love

My love affair with pesto almost didn't happen.  I was born and raised on "red" spaghetti -- the kind dripping with tomato sauce and overflowing with meatballs and cheese.  Every special occasion in my life, in my friends' lives and everyone else I know has red spaghetti as a staple attraction. A spaghetti pesto meal from Joey Pepperoni Pizzeria When I first saw this green monstrosity -- heaps and heaps of oily green gobs, with tiny...

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Traveling with Kids

In my younger days, I was pretty much a wanderlust.  I guess that came from having a vivid imagination and a love for books.  Books open your mind to different places that you won't otherwise get to visit.  From fairy tale books with castles and forests, to various book genres.  I think all books I ever read painted such beautiful settings that made me look forward to traveling, with the high hopes that at every place...

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Does God Really Listen and Answer Prayers?

I came across a blog once where the topic of the post is how can one be sure that God really listens to our prayers.  I did a double-take on that because it has been my long-held belief that God ALWAYS listens and answers our prayers. There are many reasons why I believe God is always listening to our prayers, and here they are: God, in all His omnipotence, has the power to listen to everyone in this planet. ...

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What is Single?

Single is a marital or relationship status.  You know, one of the choices that we need to answer in many forms that we fill-up, like credit cards, censuses, job applications, and the like.   The only possible answers to the question of marital status are really just "single" or "married".  But these days, we tend to complicate this with more options (seeing that the world is not really just black and white, so do "married"...

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My Fitness Adventure - the Beginning

After years of having children, working on a pressure-filled career in the I.T. industry which involves sitting on my backside the entire day, and having a social life that pretty much involved frequent drinking, over-eating and late-night partying, you can say that I'm one of those modern-day women that won't ever grace a cover of a magazine -- fat, overweight, sedentary, stressed. Those days, I sometimes caught myself at the mirror and asked...

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Where is the Followers Gadget in Blogger?

For those of you who are used to publishing your blogs through Google's Blogger platform, you may be familiar with that nifty little gadget known as the Followers gadget.  This gadget displays the list of users that love to follow your blog posts.  What's more, it allows blog readers to choose to become followers and add themselves to your followers' list. Well, following Google's spring cleaning in 2011, and to push more of its...

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Hydroponic Systems: Grow a Garden Without Soil

We all know that most plants need soil to grow.  But did you know that what plants actually need are the nutrients in the soil, not the soil itself, for them to grow?  This has been found out by researchers way back in the 18th century. It's the nutrients carried by water that are absorbed by the plants, and soil is just a rich reservoir of these nutrients. A Light Bulb Moment This discovery led researchers into thinking that there...

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Why Prayer is the Best Stress Reliever

We are biological organisms, albeit in a most advanced stage. As such, we are subject to the physical laws of biology. We are born, we grow, we die, and in between birth and death, we live. In the process of living, we encounter conditions in our environment that either hamper or promote our living. We can call these encountered conditions as stress. Whenever conditions change, our body is built to react, and that is where the stress comes...

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