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All The Man That I Need

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Whitney Houston
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I’ve always been so musically romantic on Valentine’s Day and I’ve presented some songs that give meaning to the celebration. This time I want to play this song of Whitney Houston not for the sake of the heart’s day but to give tribute to her undying contributions to the music industry. All The Man That I Need is the only music of her that I have in my PC and mobile phone playlist. I played this song the day before she died while I was trying the lyrics app I downloaded in my phone. The next day I learned from Twitter that she has died. I though it was another celebrity death hoax but it was not. So sad that it was so true.

I don’t want to recall the last few years of her life prior to death. Instead, I want to reminisce her early life as a singer when she captured everyone’s heart with her songs of love performed and her amazing voice. The one true artist who could sing, dance and act. But her voice was the most distinguished that no one could ever sing like her. This song, All The Man That I Need, is just one of Whitney Houston’s songs I like. It’s quite right to sing this to someone we love, especially on Valentine’s Day. Listen to it and to Whitney’s once spectacular voice.

All The Man That I Need (Whitney Houston)

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Filipino Vegetable Recipes I Love The Most

Philippines is rich in natural resources. Aside from breath-taking sceneries and highly entertaining and relaxing white sand beaches, Philippines do offer good foods that only Filipinos can perfectly make. Filipinos specialize in cooking different kind of recipes, may it be chicken, pork, meat or vegetable recipes.

Vegetable menus and recipes is where Filipino recipes, dishes and delicacy excels the most. The very common Filipino vegetable recipes I love the most are listed below in no particular order.

Pinakbet
Pinakbet or pakbet is a popular Ilocano dish of the Philippines. Pinakbet is the contracted form of the Ilocano word pinakebbet, meaning “shrunk” or “shriveled”. The basic vegetables used in this dish include native bitter melon, eggplant, tomato, ginger, okra, string beans, lima beans, chili peppers , parda and winged beans. A Tagalog version usually includes calabaza.

Chopsuey Filipino Vegetable RecipeChopsuey
Chopsuey is a very popular vegetable dish. Filipinos have come up with their own individual variation that suits individual taste and the availability of ingredients. There are no exact measurements of ingredients. You could always adjust the ingredients base on what ever available or base on your preference.

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Is it Too Late to Learn to Swim?

It’s shocking to hear that a cruise ship so huge ran aground despite the high-tech navigation system that most ships like this have these days. Although the incident was caused by human error it doesn’t keep me from thinking that untoward situations while traveling can happen no matter how advanced technology has contributed to the safety of the individual. It’s no use reiterirating the said news for I’m sure you know about it, too. When hubby and I are doing a road trip it’s somehow tempting to take a ferry to avoid a long drive to cross the lands.  

Stena Baltica from Karlskrona

aboard Stena Baltica from Karlskrona to Gdynia

I’ve been on a ship many times since I came here. Sometimes I cross the border with my friends by sea. But the truth is if anything happens, I mean really bad happens aboard a ship, I will be in real disaster of my life because I can’t swim. When I heard the news of that cruise ship gradually sinking I told hubby I wanted to learn to swim. He laughed at my statement and I knew he didn’t believe that I meant it. Swimming for most of us in the Philippines is just for fun while Sweden offers a lesson in swimming in all schools requiring the students to pass.

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