off we go

our li'l family is off to munich for a two-week holiday.this will be baby's first ever plane ride and our first holiday as a family.can't wait for her to meet mr t's friends and relatives.can't wait for her to experience a nice bavarian summer.can't wait for a lot of things, actually.am so excited for her.right now, she's on her playmat doing all sorts of vocal exercise.lol.she's also blowing bubbles now, and turning to her side quite a lot of times.

nanny is coming as well, and this is really a blessing as we always need an extra pair of hands to help.

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yay,team germany! yay, team japan!

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meanwhile, i leave you with this:



(sorry, i forgot where i got this from)

happy father's day!

happy father's day to my husband, and to my beloved daddy and manoy as well!

it's mr t's first ever father's day so as a surprise, i dressed up baby with a romper that says "my heart belongs to daddy."

aww.

to my husband: i keep on repeating myself, but i just have to say this again: you are one super-duper amazing dad.you are so hands-on to baby that you almost deserve a best mommy award.yep, you do.

happy father's day to the best dad in the world, from baby and me.

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i wish i can speak a lot of languages.it's really one of my frustrations.i can still remember when i can converse in japanese.what happened? where did all my nihonggo words go?

here in dubai, you will meet a lot of people who are conversant not just in two languages, but in three or four more.i've met taxi drivers who can speak spanish, arabic and french apart from english and some of my colleagues can speak/read/write urdu, farsi, hindi, english and arabic.c'mon, wouldn't you get jealous also?

a foreign language is a gift that you can give to your child.and like this french politician said, the two modern languages now are chinese and arabic.let's see, for sure baby will be able to speak english, tagalog and german.why not throw in a bit of arabic and chinese, too?

warning: daydreaming mother on the loose!

let's make keanu happy...please!

we can also thank him at thankyoukeanu.com

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world cup!

I have to thank crushwitheyeliner.blogspot.com for this link: kickette.com. Haha. Perfect for the season.Wee.

So, which team do I support? Of course, for the love of mr t (and jogi, and mario, and basti...heheee), i fully support germany.i'm also for two asian teams - japan (i have a minor in japanese studies, after all) and south korea (my friends adore koreans). or probably, i will support the team with the hottest players.hmm... have to browse kickette.com to look for and validate the cutest players.

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my husband and i went on two impromptu dates this week.as usual, i get "kilig" when this happens.

we went to barasti at le royal meridien to meet his friend, l.






as l had to stay only for an hour, we just went ahead to have dinner and to go to the barasti stadium that the hotel constructed only for world cup viewings.there are lots of these viewing places in dubai.

then last night after work we met up at marina mall in abu dhabi.i was just initially planning to window shop, but lo and behold, mango was on sale! heee.we were also able to get some clothes for baby.

we went to the yas hotel for dinner, but the restaurant that we wanted to go to was under renovation.ok...

we just walked around outside the hotel since it is in the yas marina circuit after all (where they have formula one races).







we decided to go to amerigo's, a mexican restaurant in park inn hotel.we did not expect much 'cos honestly the place looked like it did not have much to offer.but we were pleasantly surprised that the food tasted nice.

Babies!

i wanna watch this film called "Babies" (also known as Bebe). See link. Oprah has endorsed it, and anything that Oprah endorses, I follow.Yes, I'm gullible that way.Anyway, this is a French documentary film that follows four infants from birth until they are about a year old.They follow babies from Namibia, Japan, Mongolia and the U.S. How cool is that?

If I were not a mom myself, I don't think I would bother.But I think this is just so cute, and it would be a nice DVD gift to a new mom or mom-to-be.

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Twenty-five years of Goonies - The National Newspaper

Twenty-five years of Goonies - The National Newspaper

Goonies!

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the world cup fever is hitting the t household.look what's posted on the door in the boiler room.and yes, that's a very filipino "walis" (broom) hanging there.haha. mr t still insists that we vacuum at least two times a week, though.



so almost everyone here seems to be feverish with the world cup bug.it's not really surprising as every country seems to be represented here. all the bars are promoting their own special shows.some are building tents to accommodate thousands of fans who want to watch the action live on gigantic screens.here in our area, some organizers have built a huge tent for fans.so yeah, this is a whole month of football mania.

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i really dislike my hair now.it's so long, it's so dry, it's overly rebonded, it's so boring.i wanna chop it all off and copy katie h's hair, but i'm a little scared to do it.i might do it slowly.for now, i might try to copy jennifer a's hair, but mr t said it looks like any american girl hairstyle.hmm...

Wonder of the World 3 (cont.): Amazing Jordan - Amman

our last day in jordan :-(

after breakfast, we drove going to amman, the capital of jordan, to return the rental car.goodbye, nice hotel.goodbye, dead sea.

we thought it would be the perfect time to visit the baptism site as it was on the way.

not really.

Wonder of the World 3 (cont.): Amazing Jordan - Petra

And finally, our destination.

PETRA.