Millennium Park

Hey,



Have you heard about the Millennium Park? You should go there......It is a very nice indoor place to spend with your family during weekends and holidays. They have a very nice pool, a very big ice skating rink, and a recreation center. The address is:

2100 Premier Way
Sherwood Park, Alberta
T8H 2G4

The Chocolate Hills

Chocolate Hills is one of the featured famous attraction in my home town-Bohol, Philippines. You might wonder if how its made and are they eatable?:)

Well, Chocolate Hills is the unusual geological formation. It composed of around, 1,268 cone shape hills of about the same size, spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers. They are covered in green grass that turns brown during dry season and that's how their name derived.

Legend has it that the hills came into existence when two giants threw stones and sand at each other in a fight that lasted for days. When they were finally exhausted, they made friends and left the island, but left behind the mess they made. For the tale of Arogo, a young and very strong giant who fell in love with an ordinary mortal girl called Aloya. After she died, the giant Arogo cried bitterly. His tears then turned into hills as a lasting proof

My Lovely Cockatiels

Just want to share with you my two lovely cockatiels, Daisy(left) and Chicko(right). They a very amazing pet and its very easy to care with. The food they mainly eat are seeds, but they also like fresh vegetable such as lettuce, carrots, green peas and corn. They're favorite treat is hard boiled egg yolk.

Happy New Year!

Wish you all the best for 2009......!

Breakfast with Santa

Hi everyone,

So excited to share with you my first picture with Santa....lol......:)

This was taken last Sunday when I volunteered at Kara Family Resources. The sponsor of the fund raising event called " Breakfast with Santa" which was held at the Fantasy Land Hotel at West Edmonton Mall. Although I didn't have had a chance eating my breakfast with Santa at the long table, at least I was able to meet with him in person...;). I really enjoyed on that day. I spent most of my time helping with kids decorating their cookies, selling tickets for the raffle draws and distributing prizes to the winners. It was really a great experience especially meeting new faces from different cultures.

Happy Remembrance Day Everyone!

Why the "Poppy" is the symbol of Remembrance Day and what do Canadians remember on this day?

Each November, Poppies blossom on the lapels and collars of over half of Canada’s entire population. Since 1921, the Poppy has stood as a symbol of Remembrance, our visual pledge to never forget all those Canadians who have fallen in war and military operations. The Poppy also stands internationally as a “symbol of collective reminiscence”, as other countries have also adopted its image to honour those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
This significance of the Poppy can be traced to international origins.
The association of the Poppy to those who had been killed in war has existed since the Napoleonic Wars in the 19th century, over 110 years before being adopted in Canada. There exists a record from that time of how thickly Poppies grew over the graves of soldiers in the area of Flanders, France. This early connection between the Poppy and battlefield deaths described how fields that were barren before the battles exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended.
Just prior to the First World War, few Poppies grew in Flanders. During the tremendous bombardments of that war, the chalk soils became rich in lime from rubble, allowing “popaver rhoes” to thrive. When the war ended, the lime was quickly absorbed and the Poppy began to disappear again.
The person who was responsible more than any other for the adoption of the Poppy as a symbol of Remembrance in Canada and the Commonwealth was Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian Medical Officer during the First World War.