I watch Kimora Lee Simmons on her reality show, Life in the Fab Lane. She is the CEO of Baby Phat and a Mom to two daughters: Aoki and Ming Lee. There are a lot of things I like in the show. I like her no nonsense approach to dealing with the business and her [...]

My other blog Bloggityblogs has been on the web almost the same time as this Chocolateword. Just like any property you would purchase, a blog needs TLC. It needs contents, it needs traffic, it needs links and friends. But my focus has been on Chocolateword that I have –let’s say, set it aside for a [...]

How many more days ’til Christmas? I hear Christmas music everywhere. Everywhere in our neighborhood are sprinkles of lights on white. I miss Christmas in the Philippines though. There is nothing like it. The Bibingka welcomes you in early morning church bells, the humblest Parol sparkles brighter than the stars at night, the smell of [...]

My dear husband is the best father and provider for his kids and I. I appreciate his hard work and dedication to our small business, keeping food on the table and a few luxuries like bath soap and hot water. If we lived in the Pioneer days, bath soap was only used during special occasions [...]

With snow on the ground and fingers numbed because of the cold, I felt a sudden urge to put out our artificial tree up and decorate it for the holidays. Christmas, poor or not, would not be complete without a tree or a parol (Philippine star) or even just a small light that symbolizes the [...]

Did you know that the way you enter and walk through a supermarket can save you as much as $2.00 per trip? Studies have shown, women have the tendency to walk to the right most of the time. When a woman is lost, she will most like turn right to navigate her way through any [...]

Have you tried speed reading?
It takes me days to finish a 250 page book because I keep backtracking, making notes and bookmarking. Sometimes I get impatient at the length of time to finish a book that I return it to the library even before it is finished. I did not think that I can train [...]

I have been video editing a Missionary Video for the last few weeks and would like to share with you the introduction to the video. It tickles me to see my son pose for the camera with different walking positions. He asked me what the video was for, I said for the missionaries that go way over on the other side of the world to tell people about Jesus.

He said, “Does Santa live with them too?”

“Why did you say that?” I asked.

“Because if the missionaries live with Santa, they can tell him about Jesus and tell him what I want for gift too.” He said.

Aling Baby thanks for pushing this mobile lemonade stand my way. I have read a lot about lemonade stands in books growing up. Remember Charlie Brown and the Lemonade stand? Is that really about the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans even as young as 7 to 13, or some bald kid having some issues about his baldness? This feels so American. I never even had Lemonade juice before I moved here in the States. And quite frankly my dear, Calamansi juice ranks higher on my juicing scale. And who said kids in the Philippines don’t have their entreprenurial drive? Our Pinoy kids sold iced-candies in little styrofoam boxes with who-knows-what-or-where they got the ingredients from. Check out the murkiness of the popsicle and make a wild guess.

Today, I don’t see lemonade stands here anymore. First, it’s the Fall season, no one wants to thread in snow, freeze their butts off just to earn 50 cents, that’s two glasses, one from the local psycho and the other cup is sold to the dad that that requires some forcible persuasion by throwing a fit before he shells his last 25 cents.

The next bad news for the Lemonade stock market are bad stalkers. Read: Child Predators. With the news of bad news on the 6 o’clock news, no wants their kids trotting along the sidewalks anymore. It’s just to scary to think of the worst when your kids were only distracted by a squirrel down the road. Who will be brave enough to push their products in these findings in the lemonade market research?

Lastly, there are other ways to earn more money for these kids. One time, I got offered with pledges: my dollar to one mile walk. That doesn’t mean this kid will do all the walking. The kid walks half a mile and let Mom and Dad do the 9 and a half miles while carrying them on their backs. Talk about highway robbery. They can even sell you credit cards under the guise of helping their school. Yup, when it’s time for you to pay up, they’ll be looking at you with their cute doe eyes while you slowly drown in the quicksand of debt. Whatever.

There’s this one kid I know, 15 years old mind you, can build a computer from ground up. Sputters technical terms I could not even pronounce.

I am getting old.

I guess i better exercise. Drink more lemonade–There goes my diabetes! Gossip with other people my age. Shop and splurge. I’ve been around kids too long.

Lalaine

Amor

Noodle’s Factory

Sofie

Take it from here.

As promised, I got on the phone and dialed the Nestle’s hotline regarding their recent recall on alternative TV dinners targeted to the health conscious demographic, in Lean Cuisine entrees. I posted the first part of this drama, I did not know TV dinners could be so dramatic, here. It was a relief to get [...]

Have you had any of the Lean Cuisine dinner lately? If the answer is yes, and you still have extra boxes in your freezer please beware. These boxes of food might contain sharp bright blue plastic shards and would be a health risk to you and your family (according to US Department of Food and [...]

Nakita nyo ba yung bagong pabalita ng Telegraph.co.uk? Ay nakow, nakakatakot ang face ng dating pang-model na dalaga na ngayon ay 48 na taong gulang laman. Eto tingnan ninyong mabuti ang kanyang before and after picture:
 O diba ang ganda niya? Eto ang kanyang after, pero bago ninyo tingnan, mag-check muna kayo ng blood pressure at [...]

Up and Ready before the Sun woke up

I slept fitfully during the night of November 3, 2008. I was both excited and nervous at the upcoming elections, not that it was a big deal, I only had one vote. Before our alarm clock bleeped beckoning all the dreams into abyss, I was up and ready. [...]

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