This may sound cheesy, but I’m really sad to know that one of my previous team mates is resigning from work… He told me yesterday that he’s about to hand over his resignation letter and he even posted in YM while we were chatting what he’ll be writing in his resignation letter, and what saddens me is that he’ll be resigning on the 24th, one day before Christmas. The main reason (maybe) why I am really sad when I found out that he’s about to resign is that he’s one of the fewest person that I can connect with, someone I can talk to, someone that I usually joke around with, someone who I always ask about technical terms, a “walking Dell’s wikipedia”, a person who I go to for anime songs, games, and almost everything that I love. Although I know that he doesn’t feel the same way about me (naks, drama), I will surely miss him when he officially resigns.

Do I sound like I like him? Guess I do… As a friend. Seriously…

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a powerful Genie Princess named Mariuca who was known throughout the land as the friendliest, most popular blogger in the blogosphere kingdom. Adored and admired by international visitors and commentators from around the world, the Genie Princess travels the blogosphere on her magical flying carpet, always looking for ways to share her good fortune with others.

Over the past two years of blogging, Mariuca has met so many new people, from all walks of life and all over the world, each one bringing a little of their culture and lifestyle when they visit and comment on Mariuca’s two sites. So on her 2nd Blog Anniversary, Mariuca wanted to celebrate with all of her international blogosphere buddies by hosting a bear-naming contests at Wishing On A Falling Star and Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery and to pass her two lucky, cuddly teddy bears along to the winners who came up with the best names.

On the opposite side of the world, from the moment Roxy (the prolific Roxiticus Desperate Housewives blogger and her sweet daughters London and Maddie saw the teddy in his personalized t-shirt and blue muffler at Wishing On A Falling Star, they knew that he needed to come to live with their family in Mendham, NJ. The three New Jersey girls named him immediately and burst into a wonderful song for BEAR-iuca:

BEAR-iuca, BEAR-iuca, amazing teddy cheer.
BEAR-iuca, BEAR-iuca, we’d love you to come live here!

Mariuca received 16 possible names for the Mariuca Teddy Bear, making it hard for the Genie Princess to choose just one…then Alakazam! A bolt of lightning delivered the perfect way to share BEAR-iuca’s good fortune to bloggers around the globe. While the soft, stuffed, cuddly BEAR-iuca is on his way to live with Roxy, London, Maddie and Rex in the Roxiticus Valley, the Spirit of BEAR-iuca is racing through the blogosphere to bring happiness, holiday cheer, and beary best wishes to everyone who welcomes him into their online home and passes along the BEAR-iuca good luck charm to ten friends.

Please play along with us by following a few important rules:

1. Add your site(s) to the list once you have received the Spirit of BEAR-iuca badge of teddy bear cheer.
2. Pass along the Spirit of BEAR-iuca and his cheery badge to as many people as you like.
3. Leave a comment HERE once you’ve passed on the Spirit of BEAR-iuca.
4. Once Roxy and the Genie Princess have visited your site to make sure your links are complete and proper, you will then be added to the Master List.
4. To ensure everyone receives equal link benefit, please UPDATE your list regularly!

BEAR-iuca LOVES

1. Mariuca 2. Roxiticus Desperate Housewives 3. Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery 4. Roxy’s Best Of… 5. Bay Head Blog 6. Roxiticus Best Blogs 7. Emila’s Illustrated Blog 8. Metz – Empty Streets 9. The Spirit of Blogging 10. Speedcat Hollydale Page 11. Snapshot 12. purplefrogcat 13. Turn-u-Off 14. Simple Life 15. A Little Girl Talk 16. Life in the Lapadula House 17. Spicybugz World 18. The Mom With Brownies 19. Our High School Homeschool 20. Our Five Dangerous Boys 21. The Big Dog 22. LadyJava’s Lounge 23. Moments of My Life 24. Life is too short to be ordinary 25. A Great Pleasure 26. Time Goes By 27. Life According To Me 28. Laketrees 29. This is a miracle 30. Porcelain Doll 31. Moms…CheckNyo 32. Wonderful Things In Life 33. Sweet Nothings 34. Hot Shit Form Here 35. Not Just a Mom Site 36. The Life of a Mom 37. Wiehanne Lounge 38. The Painted Veil 39. My Crossroads 40. Little Mermaid 41. LOVE’s Haven 42. Also Mommy 43. The Journey 44. Comedy Plus 45. Making sense…(somehow) 46. The Modern Mom 47. Stay At Home Mom 48. Picture Clusters 49. Maiylah’s Snippets 50. Sweety tots 51. My Discoveries 52. A Life to Remember 53. Rekha 54. Crissy’s Haven 55. Crissy’s Library 56. Crissy’s Zone 57. Shopping Blog 58. Crafts and cooking 59. Asian Mutt International 60. A Simple Life 61. I AM KCAT 62. A Girl For All Status 63. Berry Blog 64. Carnation 65. Pinaymama’s Diary 66. Life’s sweets and spices 67. The Callalily Space 68. Butchay 69. Blessings in Life 70. Pinay Mommy Online 71. The Ruby Posts 72. Day Break 73. R…E…B…E…L?!? 74. VDAY CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY 75. Just the Tip of the Iceberg 76. Honeysweet Learning Center 77. Vsk8shop 78. A Diva’s Hammer 79. Arlene – Joys in Life 80. Listening..Learning..Living 81. Mommy’s Little Corner 82. Momhood Moments 83. You’re next!

Every Friday morning (it’s my day off), I make sure that I cook some food for the family. Last Friday I cooked my mom’s signature dish bean sprout Ukoy, it’s a Filipino food wherein bean sprouts or togue is mixed with batter, shrimp, and spring onion, and then fried to look like a patty. It’s really yummy especially with vinegar.

Anyways, today, I made Lumpiang Togue, or Bean Sprout Roll. Here are the ingredients:

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to have a big house of my own with my family and parents with me. A house with a big living room where there’s a home theater seating with a large screen high definition TV, 4 high end computers on another room (1 for me, 1 for my hubby, 1 for baby Julie, and 1 for my little brother Joshua), then 3 big rooms (1 for my family, 1 for my parents and Joshua, and 1 for our maid), and I want to have a one-floor house to prevent accidents caused by stairs, and also becausemy parents are starting to have a hard time climbing up and down the stairs especially my mom. I also want to have a small swimming pool as well for exercise and family fun. =)

I know that this is just a wishful thinking, but someday, I will attain this goal, slowly but surely…