Sharing our GK 88 Pics

Our cluster had a Gawad Kalinga (GK) activity last Saturday, January 23, 2010.
Gawad Kalinga 88 was SGV's gift to Mr. Washington SyCip on his 88th birthday last year. Our HR and the different clusters have scheduled our staff to contribute a few hours to help out the GK village during our free time.
We got our hands dirty in the demolition and build tasks, with tans and sunburns gained in the process :) It was tiring and fun. I realized that giving your own little time to help a community -- like the GK village at Camarin -- makes you feel you rightly soo deserve the reward you get after (in our case, it's lunch at Bulalo Fiesta c/o our good boss WRB).

Here are some pics with me in my sunbasked glory hehe:

You can access more of this at http://www.pbase.com/shashintaker/gk2010.

Shakespeare Turns 10 (Before and After)

Hopefully, this post wouldn't show up when Literature students look up Sir William Shakepeare's biography in the net :)

This post is about my beloved Shakespeare, who just turned 10 months last Saturday (Jan 23). I retrieved my doggie's pics from my older posts for comparison.

I now realized how big and chubby he has grown!! Haha

(Shakespeare and me on my Iloilo visit last May 2009 -

He was barely over two months then)

And now, here he is (pic taken last Dec 2009 on my Iloilo vacation; see previous post)

--- spoiled rotten by his four doggie friends

He seems to get what he wants with just a whimper.

Lucky dog...=)

The Loves of My Life

The Christmas pets (clockwise Top-Right to Left: Shakespeare, Tiger, Love-Love, and Hope; Faith - the camera-shy and the only female doggie is here hiding somewhere.)

Shakespeare, now a fully grown nine-month pup, with his favorite playstuff --- flower petals...this time, bougainvillea petals.

One of Faith's lovely four pups --- we call him B-I-G, since he's unusually big for a pup under two months. You can check out the SM Bonus Puppy Dogfood model --- looks a lot like BIG! As my christmas present to my godmother, we gave her all of Faith's four pups (BIG, Brown, Chihuahua and Kulot - to be renamed, ofcourse).

This is Hope, my prince. He's always prim and proper...and camera-ready! His fave spots are the sofas and table tops where he sits very still like a dog mannequin.

Hope, in his fave sleeping position --- the "S".

Love-Love. We love him, and he has only grown much younger-looking after 6 years or so. Must be his fondness for puppy dogfood, hmm.

Faith: "Excuse my out-of-bed curls". After Mama leaves the bed (since she wakes up really early), Faith takes over her position and sleeps with me till I wake up.

Tiger and I are friends now :) He no longer flashes his jealousy streak on me (only with his fellow doggies, unfortunately).

His head's top curls have grown thicker now while his belt grows shorter (as he secretly gnaws this when his moodiness sets in or when he has nothing better to do, haha).

Tiger and his favorite boss - my Mama. He's a tamed "tiger" with her.

Hope you enjoyed the pics of the loves of my life. Till next time! =)

Welcome Back to Me!

Hello dears. Just got back from my Iloilo vacation that ended last Sunday night.

Haay, I miss Iloilo already. As always, my vacation is bitin. I don't think any duration or length will ever be enough. There's no place like home, indeed.

This will be short dears. I'm reflecting and praying for divine guidance on the most appropriate action plans this 2010. The Almighty Father bless us all.

Cheers to the Year of the Tiger!