Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Feb 6, 2012, 11:57 pm
This is another challenging topic at Marriage Monday but because I missed a couple of topics already, I can no longer skip this one. So I must face it and be able to come up with something worth sharing here with my marriage of 15 years. I think even the best of all marriages experiences boredom an...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Dec 24, 2011, 4:55 am
 Time flies so fast. I didn't notice that the year is now about to end yet I haven't posted almost the whole month of December. It really shows how busy I am. It's good I'm not into paid blogging, otherwise my sponsors would have cut me from any sponsorship. Well, it's Christmas season and I don't ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Nov 21, 2011, 3:27 am
It's open topic today at Marriage Monday so let me repost my previous article which I haven't shared to MM yet. I and hubby got an unplanned child but we always tell everyone, "unplanned but never unwanted!".  When I learned that I was having that late pregnancy, I was not ready to accept the re...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Nov 7, 2011, 8:06 am
To ease the growing tension while waiting for the flood to come to our area when a 3-day holiday was declared in Bangkok last week, I and my SIL (sister-in-law) did enjoy movie marathons including Monster-in-Law, a comedy. Mother-in-law-to-be, Viola (played by Jane Fonda) turns the life of Charlotte...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 20, 2011, 6:00 am
 So much damages, tensions and anxieties have been brought by the flood here in Thailand. It made a lot of people in Bangkok including us to hoard food supplies as there have been rumors that Bangkok, even if flood-walled, will still be inundated with waters coming from the provinces especially dur...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 17, 2011, 12:48 pm
... up well, can become great individuals and, therefore, be beneficial to the ... adoption to an accountant mother and a machinist father, Paul Jobs ... significantly molded Mandela to become a famous charismatic leader himself. Although ... common denominators of all these three iconic leader...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 4, 2011, 4:30 am
With the kids growing fast, which means growing needs, too, we have to be more proactive by planning ahead well. We don't have to wait for the new year to make resolutions. Now, that our kids have already planned what to take up in college, hubby and I have become more pressured for the projected ed...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Sep 26, 2011, 6:39 am
As parents, our children's education is one of our biggest responsibilities. And it is every parent's wish to give the best education to his/her children. It has been a challenge for me and hubby to decide which school to send our children especially when we relocated here in Bangkok, where interna...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Sep 12, 2011, 7:28 am
           Today's topic at Marriage Monday is one key factor in making a relationship work (or ruining it) - COMMUNICATION. Communicating effectively in whatever kind of relationship, especially with someone you want to spend the rest of your life, takes a great deal of practice and eff...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Sep 8, 2011, 5:31 am
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant",  says Robert Louis Stevenson while Mikhael Dominico says, "strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds".  I need such inspiring quotes at this moment as I have tasks get...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Aug 30, 2011, 10:40 pm
Since I got back from Korea for an international conference last week of July, I got so much piled up work to do. Oh, deadlines, deadlines, deadlines! But life is full of them. How can we get away from the reality of meeting due dates in the household, in the workplace or even in the community we li...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jul 14, 2011, 2:01 am
I and hubby got an unplanned child but we always tell everyone, "unplanned but never unwanted!". It's true, although I was unhappy upon knowing that I got pregnant. When I learned that I was having that late pregnancy, I was not ready to accept the reality because I had closed my mind to have only 2...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jul 1, 2011, 5:59 am
Life is indeed a constant change. And I'm very glad that my kids are living up to this reality of constant change. I grew up moving from one school to another which now I can say I have benefited a lot as it made me more sociable and, at least, flexible with any changes and surprises. Having moved t...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jun 27, 2011, 12:29 am
I was out of track in blogging for some time. It was just that I didn't want to pressure myself when the going got so tough. I was so overwhelmed lately with piling up major tasks in my job and challenges bouncing off each other such as deciding about the kids' schooling as well as considering abo...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 14, 2011, 10:06 pm
Look at how these kids bond even if they meet each other only after many years. They used to be very intimate playmates when they were toddlers yet now that they can already communicate well, they just go with the current trend around - under the spell and control of technology. Oh, I so dread the...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Apr 19, 2011, 1:40 am
In any team, company or even in a relationship, there is always a leader to make it run smoothly and successfully. If there is a leader, there is also a follower. In my case being a leader-type and hubby as someone who wants to stay out of the limelight, there might seem to be a power-clash consider...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Mar 7, 2011, 3:46 am
Trust is a key element in marriage. When mistrust clouds the marriage, the marital journey will become shaky. A woman I know has just left her husband to have a space for breathing and to seek herself in a far away country for a while.  She related that she has felt being choked by the ways her hus...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Mar 2, 2011, 2:46 am
The influence of my niece Jelome, whose dad is a health director, is quite strong. She stayed with us for just a month on a vacation but has left to us a remarkable footprint - our becoming a vegetarian. But ours is a flexitarian-type, a new coinage for a category of vegetarian who eats plant-based ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Feb 7, 2011, 12:42 am
This month's theme for Marriage Monday hosted by e-Mom of Chrysalis is on Christian Testimony or any salvation story. I gave this topic a long thought but finally, let me share the heart-warming story of my 13-year old daughter, who is growing with a missionary heart. It's a story of how she shared ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Feb 3, 2011, 11:52 pm
Some blogging friends such as e-Mom of Chrysalis and scribbler notified me of my hijacked blog. No one could read my blog and leave a message for a month. Actually, before they did, I already had noticed it but I was not so sure if the same thing was appearing if my blog is opened in another compute...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jan 17, 2011, 5:02 am
  "We don't have to wait for years to forgive," Dr. Chest Damron appealed to the church congregation. His sermonette to the kids was also about forgiveness. Being the voice behind Your Story Hour, Chest Damron as Uncle Dan told a story about how 2 siblings forgave each other. It was only when a ter...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jan 9, 2011, 11:13 pm
Happy New Year everyone!  After my 3-week vacation with my family, here I am back to reality. With too much traveling from north to south and back to the north with marathon events for my kids over the holidays, the 3 of them got sick. I would say though that too much excitement seeing their cousi...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Dec 19, 2010, 6:22 am
My god-daughter An who is going to be wed a few days from now, one of the reasons I'm flying home, has been such a very nice person inside-out. She is a very good example of giving love not only on Christmas Day. Lately, her dad passed away so suddenly due to cancer, just a few days before her weddi...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Nov 24, 2010, 7:50 pm
We don't want to stress out ourselves even on petty things, do we? If we are affected of things, we pass it on to people around us such as if a teacher gets mad of something, she may show a bad mood in her class (which is unprofessional!). So to get rid of negativity that will suck your energy if...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Nov 17, 2010, 7:52 am
I'm feeling so sad that I'll be missing one important event in my kids' growing years, their annual piano recital this coming weekend. But I make it a point that no matter what, we'll be together to spend the Christmas holidays and the New Year - at a place my kids are not certain if they miss it...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Nov 15, 2010, 7:24 am
Seeing Raissa Laurel, a 23-year old law student who lost both her legs from bombing, inspired not only me but a lot of people to be more optimistic than remorseful even when the worst things inevitably happen in our life.Raissa never blamed anyone for her fate but instead sees some purpose in her li...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Nov 1, 2010, 6:23 am
Christmas is around the corner with the very cold breeze. We've been told that it's the coldest year here in Thailand. Malls and business establishments have started decorating for the highly commercialized Christmas season to attract more customers and therefore, more profits. But for us, we revolu...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 28, 2010, 1:17 am
Everyone wants to make a difference. Yet, it is impossible to influence others if we don't practice what we preach. Just like when we're listening to a sermon in the church and we know that the speaker is not living up what he's saying, we seem not to believe him, right? I want to share to you this ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on Living in Amazing Thailand - Oct 25, 2010, 1:03 am
Here we go! Filled with excitement to see the Royal Pavilion in the cave, we all couldn't imagine what the journey would be. We started off from the beach to take a boat to take us to the foot of the mountain where Phraya Nakhon Cave is.I was asked by my colleagues if my two kids were sure they cou...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 20, 2010, 7:18 am
 I've just finished watching TV Patrol online and I'm so saddened with typhoon Juan's wrath in our country. I can deeply feel how the affected families suffer with their house blown away by strong winds and their livelihood washed out by the typhoon and flood. About this time last year, super typho...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 17, 2010, 12:58 pm
I made my rainy weekend enjoyable as much as I could (apart from reading, playing with my lil angel and just zzzzzleeping a.k.a beauty-resting:). Staying at home with my family is never boring but this week, seeing an inspiring movie spiced everything up. It made me prepare for another tough week ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 15, 2010, 8:52 pm
How was your week, dear friends? Oh, thanks God it's Saturday! For the past two weeks, we in our workplace spent most of our time moving out from our old place to our modern, state-of-the-art, multi-million building. Even if it's every university student's dream to move there the soonest time poss...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Oct 3, 2010, 11:13 pm
(Photo from http://www.getyourexback4girls.com/) Every marriage, even the perfect ones, goes through a period of crisis. But surviving the rough road on the marriage journey makes it challenging for the couples. The rougher the road a couple has passed through, the stronger the relation...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Sep 15, 2010, 7:00 am
I missed joining this meaningful once-a-month meme. Thanks to Jona, a fellow mom from Binan, who paid me a visit here and reminded me of Marriage Monday through her entry as I visited her back. So here I am catching up with this month's topic which I can surely relate with being a mom myself....
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Aug 24, 2010, 2:02 pm
        One of the things we've learned here as OFWs is the value of saving. Hubby  is so amazed in seeing a bank car goes to his school regularly to have school kids' savings deposited into their own bank account. Yes, primary and elementary kids have their own savings growing in the ban...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Aug 22, 2010, 8:56 am
  This Karay-a song "Pangabuhi sa Uma" (Life in the Farm) by Sammy Rubido with its well-made video (by Ulysses Loresto as posted on Youtube and Facebook) captured in a perfect farm setting reminds me of the Self-sufficiency Theory by the longest reigning king of Thailand and in the world. His Maje...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Aug 16, 2010, 9:58 pm
Although my two-week vacation was mainly meant for working on my thesis in Manila and improving our house a little bit in Magandang Gensan, it wouldn't have been more memorable without socializing and going out despite my super tight skeds. One of the highlights of my short vacay in the country's Tu...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jul 27, 2010, 10:22 pm
You're right! I haven't updated here for quite a while. The reason? I've been writing my thesis for my much coveted ADMU degree, which means I need TIME and FOCUS as I'm also quite loaded in my job during the first semester. But what's the urge that distracted my attention? Two very influential blog...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jul 12, 2010, 4:59 am
Like these pencils, I want to be sharpened. No matter how painful the process is, I have to bear the pain of being shaped so that I will be able to write or draw quite well that others may know me through my output. With this, I may be able to reach out and influence others. "No pain, no glory." T...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Jun 6, 2010, 7:22 am
As expressed in this song, I always want my family to give back the glory to God for all the things we have achieved, it may be great or small. I also thank God even for all the storms that have shaken us. All these have made us strong. Were it not for our past troubles, hubby and I should have not ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 31, 2010, 9:38 pm
"Summer has come and passed..." Well, my boy sings this song by Green Day a lot this summer by practicing plucking it on guitar. Indeed, summer has ended and these kinds of fruits we love are going to last pretty soon. Rainy season has begun and I'm warmly welcoming it with the change of temperature...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 25, 2010, 10:09 am
Here's a very interesting story worth sharing from RexBarker@Joke-Of-The-Day.com In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 23, 2010, 4:10 am
Happy Monday, everyone! Thanks God the tension here is finally over. And even if I'm busy,  I don't want to completely miss the fun with you, guys, so I want to keep up as long as I have the time. It's Mellow Yellow Monday time again and I have lots of yellows here on my baby's 1st birthday held re...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on Living in Amazing Thailand - May 16, 2010, 10:26 pm
Happy Monday, everyone! It's been a while since my last post here. Have I been affected by the political unrest here? Not much as I'm on the other side of Bangkok, luckily a bit distant from downtown where the protests are held. Amidst the turmoil suffered isolatedly downtown, Thailand is generally ...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 16, 2010, 9:23 pm
Hello, dear friends! Today is declared an emergency holiday here and I miss MYM so I have the time to post. For those who have been asking about our situation here, no, we are not affected. We're on the other side of Bangkok, a bit far from the chaos suffered downtown. Bicycle has been a popular tr...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 13, 2010, 11:38 pm
MyNiceProfile.com (from the bottom of my heart:) This is the message I received from my dear sweet daughter on Mother's Day. I may be strict with my kids but I also try my best to be their best friend so that they will be open enough in sharing their secrets, their ups and downs, their joys and disa...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 6, 2010, 10:10 pm
Motherly advice is this week's topic at Mommy Moments. I am sharing this very wise poem by Dorothy Nolte to all moms out there. Guess many of you have this at home, too. I bought a hanging poster of this poem before to always remind me of these great pieces of advice for us, moms. Children Learn Wha...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - May 4, 2010, 12:39 am
This month's topic on Marriage Monday, a once a month meme, is so tough - about intimacy and communication - that I'm rather late with my post. For many Asian couples, communicating to each other about s*x is somewhat a very delicate thing to handle. I believe it has something to do with the conserv...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Apr 29, 2010, 11:33 am
Every Friday is a fun day to meet fellow moms at Mommy Moments. BLUE is this week's theme so, like red, we have lots of this color in our archives but I have decided to share our recent family escapades in Eastern Thailand. In this tour, the kids enjoyed lots of new adventures including going to a c...
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Eunice Aclan posted an article on nice thoughts & thrills - Apr 25, 2010, 12:33 pm
Hello there, dear cyber friends! Thanks for your visits when I was away for a couple of days to attend a Thai friend's wedding in the beautiful province of Krabi in the south. As I promised, I'll be posting about the Thai traditional wedding  ceremony I've  attended for the first time all througho...
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