Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures
I can almost hear my sons going “Butt Mo-o-o-om that’s been around for aaaagez!” They be referring to ICanHasCheezburger.com which actually has been around for the past couple of years. Simply put, Lolcats is a combination of a cute cat picture with a caption—usually huge—done in misspelled English. (This has also been expanded to include a walrus—a lolrus, get it?—and a bukkit (bucket)). While there be other places where you can get a kitty-up ICanHasCheezBurger.com actually lets you make your own Lolcats with your own captions, good enough for putting in picture frames.
Whatzit good for? A laugh. Maybe two laughs. Lotta laughs if your sense of humor is anything like mine and my sons’.
Ya rly.
Saturday at the Manila Zoo
The last time we were here was in 2002, and we were a bit wary today before walking through its gates. The Manila Zoo is a landmark from Sam’s and my childhood, in much the same way as the Nayong Pilipino.
It was a very pleasant surprise to find the Manila Zoo in such a revitalized state. To anyone whose last visit to the zoo was more than five years ago, I urge you to go there again.
Here are some photos from our trip today. Click on any of the pictures on this post and you will be transported to my flickr account where you can see more photos of the Manila Zoo.
Four the Birthday Girl
Upper left: Maia at a month and a half; Upper right: Maia @ 1;
Lower left: Maia @ 2; Lower right: Maia @ 3
Born on Valentine’s Day 2004, Himaya Amarantha. We call her Maia (or Maya-Maya, Maiakot, Kotikot, Kotiw, Miss Papot, Big Girl, Little Girl, Baby, Sweetie, Hoy Maldita, Antang, Amarantang, Miss Gaerlan, Oi Himaya! Chi-ken! That last one’s what her Kuya Maui calls her sometimes.)
She’s 4 years old today, still the baby of the family, still the apple of her Ama’s eye, still her Mommy’s little girl.
She wakes up in the morning, comes out of her room, plods downstairs in her bare feet and reaches up to flick off the light switches. Then she goes “Hmmmph!” and walks back to her room to put her slippers on.
With one hand on her hip she fiddles with the unplugged printer and when the machine does not produce a printout, she declares “It’s broken!”
In her cat-hating period, she saw one asleep at a corner outside the window and she said “Alis cat! (Go away, cat!)” trying several variations “Cat, alis!” “Alis, cat, alis!” And when the cat wouldn’t budge, she said “Alis, cat, please?”
She is looking forward to starting school in June. She is our princess.
Happy birthday, Maia!
Horn-tooting :)
We interrupt this series of serious blogging for some serious horn-blowing.
In the recently concluded Private Schools Association of Parañaque scholastic competitions held on February 11-12, 2008, the winners are:
Olivarez College - Secondary Education Department
Extemporaneous Speech - Xavier Lourenco Kapauan Cortes - 1st Place
Spelling - Xavier Lourenco K. Cortes and Wilfred Dave Gonzales (Team) - 1st Place
General Information - Xavier Lourenco K. Cortes and Wilfred Dave Gonzales (Team) - 1st Place
His topic for Extemporaneous Speech was “Between books and the media/internet, which do you think can help you more in your quest for academic excellence?”
Have I mentioned he was also Boy Scout of the Year for SY 2006-2007? I’m sure his teachers are very proud of him, because I sure am.
Congratulations, Kuya Maui!
This is your Nanay (a.k.a. Gloating Mom) signing off.
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