The BRAIN TRAIN Family Anva-yeah Getaway Part 2 (Baby Perks)

June 30, 2012 By 8 Comments

continued from The BRAIN TRAIN Family Anva-yeah Getaway Part 1

Though I was lethargic, I was restless and can’t really sleep on the beachfront lounge chair, comfy as it may be.  So I dragged myself to change into my swimwear and swam in the pool.  While walking to and from the pool, I saw a disparate pool for babies and toddlers tucked near the main pools.  I got excited for Raviv and called him and his Tatay to go swimming there.

Nanay Dew and Krabito

Raviv really loved the balls, plus the pool was really shallow.

with Yaya Isay

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The BRAIN TRAIN Family Anva-yeah Getaway Part 1

June 29, 2012 By 8 Comments

On the 5th of June 2012, our BRAIN TRAIN family went to Anvaya Cove, an exclusive, members-and-guests only resort located in Morong, Bataan, all thanks to the sponsorship of my friend Light Manuel’s dad, Engr. Bienvenido Manuel.

Our three vehicles (an L300 FB, a pick-up, and an SUV)  left Los Banos at 4:45 a.m. and carried 26 BRAIN TRAIN teachers, office assistants, drivers, house help, and of course Raviv.  I was with Randy (driver), Raviv (of course on his car seat), Yaya Isay, and Raviv’s Ninong Irvin.

Because we were much faster, we arrived in Morong way ahead of the others.  Instead of proceeding to Anvaya Cove right away, we decided to look for nearby beach houses that will be cheaper (there were almost 30 of us, and renting a beach house within Anvaya for all of us will be soooo expensive).  We visited about 3-4 houses until we settled on this:

The beach house where we spent the night in; sorry for the blurry photo–it was raining when I took it.

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Wardrobe Diary #15: Truly Lovely! (Guest Fashionista)

June 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

To make me feel even older (and better, because I KNOW I still look fab after all these years!), I am featuring Lovely Angelica Nagpala, another fashionable lass who has been my BRAIN TRAIN student twice (both in high school entrance and college entrance reviews) like Christmas Astronomo.  Both reviews seemed to have worked really well, as she got into the Philippine Science High School and UP Manila.  And take note, she did not just pass the UPCAT–she was an Oblation Scholar (Top 50 out of about 70,000 examinees) and an INTARMED Qualifier.

As if her reviewing at BRAIN TRAIN twice (plus summer enrichment workshops) was not enough, she furthered her loyalty by becoming a BRAIN TRAIN UPCAT Review teacher herself!  And because she learned from the best (ehem, ehem), she was an A-1 teacher!  Despite teaching for the first time this summer, she taught excellently.  Well, I kinda expected that from her.  With  her sheer, natural intelligence; amiable personality (nope, she’s not nerdy); and excellent work ethics, she is really a BRAIN TRAIN teacher material.  But what surprised me is her flair for fashion!  When we taught together, I always praise her choice of clothes (which she said is a real compliment coming from me)! [Read more...]

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My Ever After Promise (10th Anniversary Week-long Series of Posts)

June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is the second installment to my 10th Anniversary Week-long Series of Posts.  This time, I’ll be posting the words I promised to Randy when we got married almost four years ago.  It took me a long time to say the right words.  And when inspiration hit me, I knew this was it.  I saw several people dabbing their eyes with their hankies when I uttered these words*:

Reading my wedding vow

Once upon a time, I was a little girl obsessed with fairy tales.  I used to dream of a handsome and intelligent prince whose mere sight would make my heart melt, and with whom I will share my feelings, hopes, and dreams.  [Read more...]

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Our Ever After (10th Anniversary Week-long Series of Posts)

June 20, 2012 By 3 Comments

This year, Randy and I have been together for a decade.  A decade, imagine that!  That’s six years of being boyfriend-girlfriend and four years of being Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Randy Ladaga.  This June 28, we are going to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary and tenth year of being together… and guess where!  Sirit?  At a pre-trial mediation “hearing” at the Intellectual Property Office in Taguig.  See, we filed a case against another review center (whose name I won’t mention YET) that infringed BRAIN TRAIN review materials.  I am supposed to be pissed off that we are to be at this hearing on our anniversary, right?  But I honestly am not.  I even feel that it’s a really good gift for us–I feel that we are about to get the justice that we have been waiting for for so long.

Anyway, I’ve been receiving so many requests for me to blog our love story when I started blogging.  I honestly want to, because our love story is very “worth-blogging-about”.  Had you seen my husband when he was courting me and in our early months, naku, talo pa ang mga leading man sa mga teeny-bopper TV shows na ubod ng ka-cheesy-han!  You would not believe he was able to do all those things for my matamis na oo. :)

However, I still feel lazy to do it.  Moreover, my blogging it might also ruffle some feathers.  Actually, I could edit them out, but still, I really feel lazy to do it.  I can’t tell our love story briefly–that would be an injustice to it.  But because our anniversary is fast impending, I feel compelled to write/share something about us in the next seven days–parang countdown to our 10th year celebration.  So in lieu of our detailed, I-swear-to-you-nakakakilig-love-story-novel, let me share instead our love story in a gist through this video. [Read more...]

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