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    "Mother" songs

    for mothers' day or not. Marami pong salamt, Nanay (Many thanks, mom) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jqBCEhFyMQ Aking inay, walang katulad mo (Mom, there's none like you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMmhCUAT4oc Sa aking pagtanda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHui99xeIs This...
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    Giftedness (and gratitude)

    Looking for a thread on gifts and giftedness, i saw mooky's thread on spiritual gifts 6 days ago. But it isnt quite what i had in mind. So i start this, after thinking about other giftedness in people, i mean not just spiritual. There was a seminar i attended recently on parenting gifted...
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    I whistle a happy tune

    Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect And whistle a happy tune So no one will suspect I'm afraid... Read more: The King And I - I Whistle A Happy Tune Lyrics | MetroLyrics DustyRhodes' happy poem reminded me of the song... Simply asking, does anyone here still whistle? We lived near an...
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    Songs on peace

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHOtR-v4yQ
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    16 going on 17

    I would like to reply to sonia's thread, and as a mom i have strived to be as patient as possible with young people here than i am even with my own children. But i also have many questions so i start this. All adults have been teens, so we hope we understand them better, but in truth it is a...
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    Banana Blossom Salad

    Vietnamese Banana Blossom Salad Banana Blossom Salad (adapted from the Saigon Cooking Class) Makes 1 salad that could serve 2 as a starter 1 (300 g) young banana blossom (you can also use white cabbage, red cabbage, kale) 500 ml ice water with 1 tbsp fresh lime juice 1/4 papaya or 1/2 green...
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    Godparents, grandparents...

    This is meant to be a thread on asking abt and sharing how impt godparents and other extended family to you are. Often this may be cultural, and i know many of us still are close to relatives, but how important are they to you, and you to them. When the children were small, we often only had a...
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    Know your idols?

    Ive been thinking on this for a while, and just want to post as a reminder. Personally ive admitted that music, nature, literature, other have been idols in my life... Although doing it is not totally bad, once i found myself repeating lines of a song memorized from long ago. Again and again...
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    Songs/Poems with musical instruments

    Not necessarily in the title. Banjo on my knee I hear the bells Two guitars The guitar man I whistle a happy tune The tambourine Sa pagtuog ng trumpeta (At the sound of the trumpet) Little drummer boy
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    Plant, animal/ Nature poems or songs

    Previously i mentioned appreciating poems as a child, but not much thru high school or later. Now i try to read some, but take a while to search. Are there some nature poems u have studied or just learned about and want to share. Here are some in mind right now. So these arent necessarily your...
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    Please help me understand, and other mothers i believe

    We learned W= F x d or work equals force times distance. Like other posts, this could have been in the women's forum, but guys have many thoughts and ideas too. Please just help explain how cleaning a ref and putting back items, or working at home like getting items from the ref, slicing near...
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    Mispronunciations

    As i am getting drowsy on a day starting to get warm, i try to recall some funny wakeup stuff to wake myself up. Then remember a thread thought to start before. Have you any samples you yourself mispronounced when young, or others you know? Long, long ago a sis was reading aloud, and i suddenly...
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    When youre sleepy and you know it

    I been searching for foods we can take when we cant help the yawns during the day. Instead of putting in Misc. i thought to post here so if some have recipes u have we can make in advance... thanks. Btw, i did check some sites that said 7, 8 or 10 foods to take when youre sleepy, but i chose...
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    Saffrom dishes?

    I've been looking for dishes w/ saffron, and would be glad for suggestions you have actually tried. Thanks. (Found this on an fb page, wc some may be interested in.) Did you know that around 75 % of the world saffron production comes from Spain? If you’re not familiar, Saffron is one of the...
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    Great expectations

    What were some things, people, situations and places your expectations were not quite as reality? Right now i am thinking of fruits like fresh plum, wc i have only had as a dried prune before. I thought it would have been more tasty and juicy, but maybe i got the wrong varieties. And persimmons...
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    Songs on forgiveness

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCmgWn5mcSs Learned from catholic church we went to as children.
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    Fault finding

    I'm sure this has been talked about in other threads, but i find it difficult finding one where it is discussed solely. May i ask how you have dealt with this, whether you personally are the fault finder working on that in your life, or the person being found fault with. Thanks in advance.
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    2016 new species

    This is interesting. https://news.mongabay.com/2016/12/photos-top-20-new-species-of-2016/
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    What you can't have for breakfast

    There is a breakfast thread, but here let me ask what you have found you didnt or couldnt have for breakfast. Once i heard charles stanley said he had ice cream w/ a grandson for breakfast, wc isnt a habit of course, but a special time i believe. Here, contrary to what many have been used to...
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    Thread for national hero: Rizal

    It was Rizal day on Dec. 30, and i wanted to post on this small young man who gave his life for our country 120 yrs ago: Jose Rizal was a man of incredible intellectual power, with amazing artistic talent as well. He excelled at anything that he put his mind to - medicine, poetry, sketching...