Basketball photos

PBAM stands for the Philippines basketball Association of Montreal. Mike and Pete convinced me to join their team, 45 years old and over division.


Tito Lits before start of the game.


Playing defense


Going after loose ball


Stretching legs after a bad sprain during the first half. Still managed to finish the game and scoring the most points.

How Fast, How Far, How Steep, How, How?

Uncle Pilo's maiden voyage with his new riding companion, his all new Garmin Edge 305









Upper two photos - Garmin cycling computer

Bottom two photos - Ice on the water, Lachine Canal, near Rene Levesque Park, Lachine, QC

Sig File

Tito Lits redesigned Sig File. Nice eh?!

Really?

Warm weather just around the corner.

Relived memories of our 2006 summer vacation at Disneyworld , Orlando, Florida as I was going through my Picassa Albums.

I will be posting a photo or two just as a reminder of that wonderful vacation with loved ones.

To my right is the famous couple from Manotick, ON, Len and Marv.

Nick's Mello Yellow

Nick's Mello Yellow, originally uploaded by airpurifiers_r_us.

Calling all riders, calling all riders - get back into shape ride will be starting at the Lachine Canal bike path sooooooon.

Huddle

Huddle, originally uploaded by airpurifiers_r_us.

minor incident as we were crossing the railroad tracks

Sir Strawberry Shortcake, Knight of the Dessert Table

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo slices a giant strawberry shaped shortcake that won the Guiness World Record's record for the largest fruit shortcake during her visit to La Trinidad in Benguet Province north of Manila March19, 2007. REUTERS/Malacanang Palace/ Benjamin Basug/ Handout (PHILIPPINES). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.

Pam celebrates her birthday, March 3

Blowing the cake candle, dessert at their apartment.



Dinner at Bocaccinos, Pam and Allen, joined by Paul, Lalaine, Trish, Dad and Mom.

Trish celebrates her 19th Bday

February 12 - Trish's Birthday

God is good! He's blessed us with a sweet, sweet, sweet daughter named Patricia!!

Go ahead, make my day

Meet my new friends, Smith & Wesson.

Vivian Westerman holds her new .38 revolver in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Sixty-four-year-old Vivian Westerman rode out Hurricane Katrina in her 19th-century house. So terrible was the experience that she wanted two things before the 2006 season arrived: a backup power source and a gun. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ancient Chinese feet binding

A graphic explaining the ancient Chinese tradition of feet binding. Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are increasingly rare but the millennium-old practice nevertheless took almost four decades to eradicate after it was initially banned in 1911.(AFP Graphic)

Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in China's southern Yunnan Province, February 2007. Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are increasingly rare but the millennium-old practice nevertheless took almost four decades to eradicate after it was initially banned in 1911.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)

Hands Up Baby Hands Up

Hands up, baby hands up, give me your love!! :))

Lost and found cellphone

Hello everyone, don't know where I left my other cellphone, yeah, the Old Nokia one, has anyone seen it??? I love this phone so much. It looks exactly like this one - see below.

Courtesy of Vertu

Vertu Signature

$81,000

Vertu, a subsidiary of Nokia, boasts that it takes expert craftsmen some three years of training to learn how to make its phones. This device, a Vertu Signature, contains 943 diamonds on its bezel and 48 more on its keypad, each set in place by hand in Switzerland.

Recon along the Lasalle / Lachine Bike Path

Tita Nil and I drove along Lasalle Blvd (Lasalle) and St. Joseph Blvd (Lachine) to check out the progress of the snow clearing along the bike path.

We were very pleasantly surprised- crews were working to remove snow, clearing the bike path of the white, icy stuff.

Here are some photos I took with my Treo (Mercier Bridge in the background).

Coffee break, Second Cup, Fairview Center, Pointe Claire

Tita Nil, Pam, and Allen

Lunch after Sunday Service at church - had sushi from Sushi Japango at the Marche De L'Ouest.

Walk about, Fairview Shopping Center, Pointe Claire. Met Ging-Ging, Uncle Phillip, Ian, and Neil there. Had coffee and muffin at the Second Cup cafe.

Winter Wonderland in March

Stopped by the factory last week, on the Friday Montreal was visited by Old Man Winter (blowing snow, strong winds and cold temperatures). Took this picture with my Palm Treo 700wx camera.

That's Wayne's Infiniti 35GS covered up with snow.

Late Lunch at Jack Astor's

Tita Nil and I treated ourselves to a late lunch / snack at Jack Astor's the other day. We each ordered our own meal but when the time came for the server to deliver our order we were overwhelmed by the size of the sandwiches we ordered.

We ended up sharing Tita Nil's, forgot what it's called, gigantic hamburger and took home my Chicken Club Sandwich order. :-)

Thousands of Montreal homes have lead water pipes but few ill effects likely

Your In-house Bottled Water System

IT'S YOUR OWN IN-HOME BOTTLED WATER SYSTEM

If you own a water cooler, there's no need to run to your neighborhood grocery store or call your bottled water company for water delivery whenever you run out of bottled water.

Simply, REFILL YOUR WATER BOTTLE from your Countertop Water Filter System.

If you own a Brita Filter, no need to throw away your water pitcher. Simply, REFILL YOUR WATER PITCHER.

Uses and Application

Drinking Water - Better Tasting Coffee and Tea - Fruit Juice Concentrate - Fruit and Vegetable Preparation - Soup Preparation - Crystal Clear, Sparkling Ice Cubes - Pasta and Rice Dishes - Pets and Aquariums - Formula Preparation For Infants (GREAT FOR YOUR HOME OR DAY CARE) - Plants and Fresh Flowers (love clean water too)

Order your Countertop Water Filter and your Shower Water Filter from Tita Nil, Call 1-888-395-0330 or call or text message Tito Lits.

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Ready, Set, Ride

Ready, set, ride!!

Coming soon to a bike path near you!!

Cycling 'Do

Counting the days, weeks when we can be out on the road on a warm, sunny day.

Pam's Birthday

Celebrated Pam's birthday with dinner at Boccacinos, followed by dessert courtesy of Rockaberry's at Pam and Allen's flat.


Allen, Pam, Trish, Tita Nil, Tito Lits, Paul and Lalaine


Pam, Trish, Paul, Lalaine, Tita Nil, Tito Lits

The rest of the photos

3 of the Top 10 World's Largest Shopping Mall Is In The Philippines

Courtesy of SM Mall of Asia

SM Mall of Asia

Location: Pasay City, Philippines

Year Opened: 2006

Gross Leasable Area: 4.2 million square feet

Includes the first Olympic-sized swimming pool and first IMAX theater in the Philippines. Spread over four buildings, customers can get around on a 20-seat tram.

Courtesy of SM Megamall

SM Megamall

Location: Mandaluyong City, Philippines

Year Opened: 1991

Gross Leasable Area: 3.6 million square feet

Fun stuff includes bowling, ice skating and a 12-cinema movie theater, along with traditional mall fare like arcade games. Customers can also get a haircut or see a doctor at the Manila clinic.


Courtesy of SM City North Edsa

SM City North Edsa

Location: Quezon City, Philippines

Year Opened: 1985

Gross Leasable Area: 3 million square feet

The first major "mega mall" built by SM Prime Holdings, which now claims three of the largest 10 in the world. It's a five-story complex that boasts over 100 retail outlets and restaurants, along with 12 cinemas, a bowling alley and skating rink. An IMAX theater could be added soon.

We love to shop 'til we drop :-)

The Sisters

Tita Nene must have taken this picture. This was taken a few Sundays ago when Tita B and Tita E came into town to drive Tita Nene home from Ottawa after a visit with Kuya and Tito D. The entourage also paid a visit to Malu's Spa for a beauty break :-)

Kaya, eto, ma-beauty pa rin sila, after all these years!! :-)

Laughter is the best medicine

Watch the video - it's very contagious. You may even feel much better :-)

Love is in the air or should I say water

A pair of Kissing Gourami fish kiss at the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium on Valentine's Day in Shanghai February 14, 2007. REUTERS/Nir Elias

We are family, I've got some of my sisters with me

We Are Family by Sister Sledge

CHORUS
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!

Everyone can see we're together
as we walk on by.
And we fly just like birds of a feather
and we'll tell no lie.
All of the people around us they say
can they be that close.
Just let me state for the record
we're giving lovin a family dose

CHORUS
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!

Living life is fun and we've just begun to get our share
of this world's delights
High hopes we had for the future
and our goals in sight
No we don't get depressed here's what we call our golden rules
have faith in you and the things you do
you won't got wrong oh no
this is our family view

CHORUS 2X
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!

We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!
We are family
I've got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing!


Lyrics We Are Family Sister Sledge

'Til Death Do Us Part

A pair of human skeletons lie entwined at an Neolithic archaeological dig site near Mantova, Italy, in a photo released February 6, 2007. In a Valentines Day gift to the country, scientists said they are determined to jointly remove and preserve the remains of the couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each other in an enduring embrace. (Enrico Pajello/Handout/Reuters)

Dinner with the Sisters

Taken during dinner at Restaurant Kum Mon on Cote Des Neiges. Tita Nene wasn't in the picture, she was sitting beside me. We took pictures with everyone (including Yves and Trish) later using Tita Nene's camera. I hope to be able to upload those pictures later.

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Took the picture using my Palm Treo 700w (not so great in low light situations, even with the 1.3 mp).

Tita E, Tita B, and Tita Nene paid a visit to Malu's, a local favorite cosmetologist (or esthetician). Mom, Trish, and I met with them right after their appointment and had dinner at Kum Mon's Chinese restaurant.

Tita E and Tita B headed back to Toronto and we drove Tita Nene and Yves home.

Coolio!

Dads
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Debut photos taken by my Palm Treo 700w

Uncle Sam digging into his Salmon platter at the Divino's Restaurant in Ville St. Laurent


My Salmon Platter - yummy delicious.

Frost on my window

Not on my PC Windows desktop fortunately. :)

It's currently -15C here in Montreal but with the windchill factor it feels more like -30C.

My Palm Treo 700 wx, 4 Devices In One

At least three items you'll find inside my portable office (my carry-all purse- no snickering there please): 1) mobile phone, 2) palm pilot, and 3) micro cassette recorder.

And, when the season is here for cycling I also carry along with me a digital camera, to record the beautiful vistas that we come across during our bike rides,- right Uncle Pilo?

This Palm Treo 700wx is truly a blessing, isn't it? :))

You can reach me on the same old Bell Mobility number starting with 219 (last 4 digits, same as home phone #)





Let me know if you'd like to have one too. :))

God is good!!

Super Bowl XLI- Colts' coach more proud of Christ than 'blackness'

SUPER BOWL XLI
Colts' coach more proud of Christ than 'blackness'
When asked about social significance of Dungy's victory, Jesus is answer

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Posted: February 4, 2007
11:35 p.m. Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Colts coach Tony Dungy

Super Bowl XLI had been hyped as a major social milestone in U.S. history, since for the time, the head coaches of both teams were black.

But when the game was over and the Indianapolis Colts had defeated the Chicago Bears 29-17, the winning coach said Jesus Christ was more important than any racial moment.

During the nationally televised post-game show on CBS, coach Tony Dungy was asked specifically about the "social significance."

Jim Nantz of CBS Sports: This is one of those moments, Tony, where there is also social significance in this victory, and to have your hands on the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Tell me what this means to you right now.

Tony Dungy: I'll tell you what. I'm proud to be representing African-American coaches, to be the first African-American to win this. It means an awful lot to our country. But again, more than anything, I've said it before, Lovie Smith and I, not only the first two African-Americans, but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way. And we're more proud of that.

The Associated Press reported Dungy's comments about God in stories it moved on its wire service, but the Bloomberg News Service only published the portion regarding African-Americans, and edited out the mention of Christian coaches.

(Story continues below)

Colts' owner Jim Irsay credited God with the victory as he held the sparkling Vince Lombardi trophy in his hands.

"Now there's an awful lot of shining glory, even more than last time up here," Irsay said. "But we're giving it all to God again because that's what got us here ... sticking together and believing that we could, and I know God has looked after us on this journey and bonded us into such a tight family."

Dungy has had a close relationship with Bears' head coach Lovie Smith since 1996, when Dungy hired Smith to coach linebackers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

"My relationship, first, is with Jesus Christ, and he is the center of my life," said Smith when asked about his faith earlier this week. "I try to live a Christian life. I would like for players to know my faith based on what they see on a day-to-day basis."

CBS anchor James Brown, himself a strong believer in Jesus Christ, told the Baptist Press this year's Super Bowl could be a welcome change in a sport that hasn't had that many Christian players and announcers in the past.

"Personally, I'm gratified to see that change," Brown said. "I think their faith is a wonderful example to see and I think both men are sterling examples of what character coaches should be. That's what we should be promoting."

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Joe Kovacs is executive news editor for WorldNetDaily.com and author of the forthcoming WND Book, "Shocked by the Bible!"

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Great story!!


http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=55&chapter=2&verse=20&version=31&context=verse

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20, New International Version)

Blessings!!

Those Born 1930-1979

Those Born 1930-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO, EVEN IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE--- VERY WELL STATED


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some o f th e best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them congratulations!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"