I have read the book For One More Day by Mitch Albom. It’s a sad book for me because after reading it, it makes me want to hug my mommy but she’s not here anymore. Last Sunday (Mother’s Day), I kept on looking at her picture and missed her terribly! This book is very inspirational. It makes you realize how much our mother eternally loves us even if we had taken them for granted.

For One More Day is about Charles “Chick” Benetto, the man who gets the chance to spend one more day with his mother, who died 8 years earlier.. It is about how he had taken his mother for granted his whole life then caught up with all the guilt after she died, he became wasted and tried to commit suicide. This is where he get to spend one more day with his mother in a between life and death world.

For One More Day will make you realize the power of a mother’s love. This book is dedicated to all the wonderful moms who never stop loving us and sacrifices so much just to make us happy.

Love you so much mommy! I really wish you’re still here…

I love watching reality series and one of the shows that I like is the Rachel Zoe Project. Rachel Zoe is a celebrity stylists who attempts to balance her professional life with her personal life while dealing with her fighting assistants and her husband-partner Rodger Berman. The Rachel Zoe Project also features Zoe’s longtime assistant Taylor Jacobsen and Brad Goreski, Jacobsen’s newly hired assistant who clash due to conflicting personalities.

The series is always full of drama between Taylor (who doesn’t comb her hair) and Brad. It also shows how Rachel handles all the stress – fashion related or not. I love it when Rachel dresses the celebrities and makes them sooo glamorous it makes you wanna die of envy! That’s bananas!

If I really wanted to make a difference I would…

Keep in touch with my friends

Appreciate the friends who have made a difference in your life, and ask yourself if knowing you made a difference in theirs. Celebrating those relationships will help you see how one life can affect another.

Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao is a Filipino professional boxer. He is the former WBC lightweight world champion, WBC super featherweight world champion, IBF super bantamweight world champion, and WBC flyweight world champion. He has also held the Ring Magazine titles for featherweight, super featherweight, and light welterweight divisions. For his achievements, he became the first Filipino and Asian boxer to win five world titles in five different weight divisions. He is currently the IBO and Ring Magazine Light Welterweight champion and is rated by the Ring Magazine as the #1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world.

Whew! Do I need to say more?

I have been watching the reality series “18 Kids and Counting” on TLC and Discovery Health Channel. It’s about the Duggar family – Jim Bob and Michelle and their 18 children. The eight girls and ten boys all have names starting with the letter “J”. The children’s names are Joshua, Jana and John-David (twins), Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jedidiah and Jeremiah (twins), Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, and Jordyn-Grace. All of them looks like they still live in 1980′s and the girls are “mini me” of the mom and same as the boys to their dad! 18 kids and counting, what is she a pig?

I get so soooo annoyed and felt pretty sorry for the kids everytime I watched the show. Mom is always giddy and lives in a fairytale world, everything is perfect for her. Dad is the leader of the cult, smooth talker and a real sex machine. Their army of slaves children are assigned with all the household tasks that you could think of and even taking care of the newborn. No more chores are left for mom and dad but to make babies! Gggrrr, disgusting!

I’ve been reading the international bestseller novel from Japan “Train Man” by Hitori Nakano. It’s pretty interesting because you’ll find yourself reading an internet chatroom threads, not an ordinary novel for sure. The story goes like this..

Train Man is a geek who is not brave enough but still defends the ladies from an obnoxious drunk on a Tokyo train. The girl that sat next to him sends him a thank-you pair of pricey Hermes teacups. Train Man doesn’t know what to do next so he turns to the world’s largest online message board and asks for help. Their love story is told as a series of Internet chatroom threads:As he unveils his progress and each new crisis-from making conversation to deciding what to wear on a date, and beyond. In return, he receives advices, encouragements, warnings and sympathy from the anonymous netizens. Train Man also discovers that we really do live in a universe where anything can happen.

A simple story that became a multimedia sensation in Japan, generating a smash-hit TV series, a blockbuster film, and multiple manga series. Interesting!

Did you know that engaging your children into sports can give them benefits that they can carry over to their adult life? Through sports, children learn to make friends, become members of a team and play fair. The other benefits of sports are:

1. Sports enhance self-esteem.
2. Sports teach kids self-discipline.
3. Kids learn the value of preparation and planning.
4. Kids learn how to handle disappointments  through sports.
5. Kids learn about leadership.
6. Kids learn the benefits of sacrifice  for long-term goals.

Before sports for me will just give you fame and fortune/ failure and disappointments. Who would have thought that sports can give us life lessons? Amazing, right?