Magnitude 6.1 – MINDORO, PHILIPPINES

Our afternoon nap was disturbed by a 4 something magnitude earthquake. I am just guessing the magnitude but I learned that the epicenter of the earthquake was in Mindoro, Philippines. The earthquake was 6.1 magnitude.

Me and my youngest was lying on our bed when I noticed it was shaking. Since I just finished rocking her to sleep, I thought it was just an aftershock of our rocking moment. When it did not stopped, I look around if someone’s rocking the bed. No, it is a real earthquake. I started to panic when the shake goes stronger and asked hubby if he can feel it. Er, he is so engrossed.. he said no..

If it did not stopped, I would have rushed down and look for someplace where we can be safe. It was really scary. Now I think I will post some article here on what to do when the earth starts to shake.

Biggest Box Ever!

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The latest in my “box” collection and by far the biggest. This one is 130 L box. See? Thousand of mega blocks can fit inside. I just love this humongous storage box. I think I’ll gonna buy another one when our Mega Blocks (which I purchased in ebay) arrives. I got the box for 750 pesos, but when you look into it, it is priced 1500 PhP. It is on sale.. which I doubt and sissy agrees. Anyway, on another mall, I saw this kind of box and the price was 2k.. but also on sale and now it’s only 1k. Yeah, yeah, those boxes are all 50% off.

A Must Have

Purchased this yesterday. I think this is a must have in every house with kids (lot of kids). And for a family of 6 like mine, I am glad we bought it yesterday.

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It’s a Rossmax  nebulizer. Kids are coughing. Although this one is a health stuff, I think homemakers should also invest on things like this.

Boxes Of Clutter

Declutter. That’s my favorite word, and you will notice that I will use that word so often. I hate clutters and so the only way I can survive is to declutter. last Wednesday while I was looking for something on my closet, I realized that the clothes are not folded correctly. To me, correctly means, the clothes are aligned (not necessarily arranged according to color).  Suddenly, I had this compulsion to clean and organize my stuffs. And without thinking, I started rummaging the closet and then the boxes that has been gathering dust, in other words, I started a general cleaning without giving notice to my helpers. That photo above is just an inch of things we needed to organize. We started around 10 AM and ended up at 4. Actually we are not finished yet as there are 3 or more boxes that were left untouched. Those are books and papers and old photos and the likes. I am still looking for a better box for those. From a dozen of boxes, we sized it down to 4. We sorted everything out, big toys goes on one box. Small toys on the other. All bags goes to another box. Some of our clothes that we no longer use or have no plans on wearing for more than 3 months goes into another box. As much as possible, I try to clean at least every 3 months, that’s general cleaning I am talking about.

First Purchase

This is my first house hold purchase of the year. I don’t know, but it seems mosquitoes are having fun roaming around. They are everywhere! I can’t spray insect repellents because it would require us to be outside the house fr 30 minutes. I wish I can have citronella oil, they can scare mosquitoes away and it smells good too, but I don’t where to find it! And so the next best thing is to buy this mosquito catcher. For a first time user, it was fun using it, specially if there a lot of mosquitoes. The mechanism of this house gadget is that the wires are charged with electricity. When the net caught a mosquito, it will experience electric shock and will burn to death. I so hate mosquito so it is fun to hear it the burning sound (zt ztz ztz).

The store personnel said we have to charge it for 16 hours before using. We did and it lasted for 3 days with 1 to 2 hours a day usage. I think this one is very practical to have in your house. It only costs $4. It is mostly available in hardware stores. Go find and have fun catching mosquitoes!