Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Feb 6, 2012, 2:25 pm
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 ve...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Feb 3, 2012, 8:56 am
When it’s intensely cold like now I always think of having a hot chocolate drink. I thought winter this time would be mild and dry but I didn’t count on the coldest month to be always the coldest month, lol! I have known that February is the month when winter is the most cruel here. Snow is fin...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 30, 2012, 4:59 pm
So they say that the Louvre Museum is a must-visit place once you’re in Paris. It’s definitely true and for the art lovers it must be a sublime experience. It’s also a lovely experience for the not so art enthusiasts for it might be a memorable once in a lifetime opportunity. I was excited t...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 26, 2012, 5:51 pm
Believe it or not, this is the first time I have a digital camera that’s hard to get rid of. I used to fancy small digicams but after having problems with the battery-life I have stopped hunting for new ones in the market. This Canon PowerShot G7 is my fourth digicam and it was hubby (as alway...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 23, 2012, 3:14 pm
There is no such thing as blue snow but why do I make the snow blue in my pictures? In the world of failed photography I think I succeeded in this. I often get blue snow even if it’s clearly white in reality. I’ve read before that it’s not a good picture of a snow at all. When this failure rep...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 20, 2012, 5:52 pm
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 ad...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 17, 2012, 5:21 pm
There used to be a few bloggers’ communities that I joined when I started blogging. I remember the first community that I actively engaged in was MyBlogLog but sad to say, this community was terminated (by Yahoo) in the spring of last year. I met quite a number of bloggers on the said site and mos...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 14, 2012, 1:58 pm
This unpleasant moment when headaches attack without cautions. If only I knew when it would come I would make a shield against it. Worse is when it stays for days and no aspirin can take it away. I’ve had this headache since yesterday, thought I caught colds but I found out later that I didn’t. ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 11, 2012, 11:29 am
Is this a tea or sake set? My Thai colleague gave me this set as a gift last Christmas. It seems she knows that I am fond of small things. I don’t know if I can call it a tea set but I’d say it’s for sake. Hubby and I are not sure about it. He said it’s for tea but I disagreed because t...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 9, 2012, 12:31 pm
After the long-holiday break, I went back to work this morning not with a heavy mind and heart but in a somewhat perky mood. It seemed as though I’ve slept tight the night before but I haven’t. I managed to get up early despite a hard sleepless night. I planned to be in bed at half past ten but ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 6, 2012, 10:20 am
While browsing the old images folder in my other computer I found pictures from our previous travels apparently taken with a film camera. I couldn’t help but admire the architectures I captured while in the car with hubby driving around the place. I remember we stopped by and stayed in a hotel in ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Jan 2, 2012, 7:17 pm
This obelisk in Paris did not really catch my attention until I saw the movie, The Da Vinci Code. It looked startling in the movie though it was briefly shown in the background. I started wondering what’s significant about it and why it was built in some cities in the world. If I were to descri...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Dec 31, 2011, 6:34 pm
Peace and goodwill in 2012 Boxing Day Holiday! (4) I bet some of you are going back to work today with reluctance. I, on the other hand, being a teacher, am having a holiday break for about three weeks. It's ind...No Thriller Night (9) I'm sure my family and relatives in Davao have been busy p...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Dec 31, 2011, 8:15 am
Year 2011 is about to end and instead of pondering over some New Year’s resolutions for the year to come, I look back on the events I remember that took place in 2011. I asked myself if there were things worth telling to the growing youngs of the future. I might not have recalled all but these wer...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 30, 2011, 1:05 pm
Beware! Nothing and no one escapes from the eyes of Skansen Lejonet. This fort is watching the city day and night, witnessing decent or disturbing moves of anyone in the vicinity. If only it can speak and reveal what it has been seeing. But it can’t, for it stands there alone and its reason for be...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 26, 2011, 12:52 pm
The 24-hour cruise wasn’t long enough to do a quick hop from the ship. Since we didn’t bring the car aboard, we just stayed on the upper deck and looked around the Port of Gdynia. This seaport in Poland operates car ferry service from Gdynia to Karlskrona, Sweden. Anyhow, we were delighted to s...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 22, 2011, 10:01 am
It’s always good to have your camera with you everywhere you go. For a professional photographer, this means carrying heavy camera paraphernalia but for amateurs, a light-weight digicam or mobile phone camera is enough to carry around. In my case, I’ve been using my mobile phone’s 12-megapixel...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 17, 2011, 3:18 pm
I’m trying so hard not to forget leftovers but I think I’m not good at it. Everytime I keep food in the refrigerator hubby tells me that I’m keeping it just to throw later. He knows very well what will happen to leftovers I save. But I’m still trying to do something about it. Though I must s...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 12, 2011, 5:18 pm
My friend and colleague took me to a restaurant that she’d heard had Siomai on the menu a few weeks ago. I don’t want to divulge the name of the restaurant because we were kind of disappointed of the food we got. She said she asked some people about this resto and all she heard was positive ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 8, 2011, 5:49 pm
I was wondering what the oil candles were for when I saw them lighted in broad daylight a week ago. When my friends and I passed by the Domkyrkan, we stopped and looked around the church premises and admired these lights on the ground. A woman approached us and showed us some pink ribbon products. T...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Oct 4, 2011, 3:53 pm
Some have claimed a few weeks ago that fall was upon us. For me, the sign of fall starts with the leaves of the trees turning yellow. But I don’t actually notice right there and then. When they start to fall on the ground, it’s the time I could tell that they’ve changed colors. I can’t ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 30, 2011, 5:28 pm
I wished I could take a break from teaching without compromising my job as a teacher. You might be wondering how on earth could I do it. To quit working would be the only way to make my wish would come true. But it was not the way. Part of my job is tutoring or giving study assistance to Filipino st...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 25, 2011, 5:34 pm
I was enjoying the beauty of these yellow flowers and while I was doing so, I suddenly thought it will not last. In a couple of weeks, they will start to wither and disappear like they have never bloomed. It happens when fall comes around. But I don’t want to think of that now cos the sight of ye...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 21, 2011, 12:30 pm
If there’s a social media site that I consider myself totally hooked on, it’s nothing else but Twitter. I update my status on it a couple of times everyday than my other social media accounts. I find Twitter more engaging and I feel like I know what’s happening in the world by reading other p...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 17, 2011, 5:06 pm
This may not be the first chandelier ever made but it certainly belongs to the past centuries home light fixtures. It was fascinating to see this old chandelier at Torpa Stenhus during our teachers’ trip last year. It seemed to me that it had real candles as lights before but they were replaced ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 13, 2011, 4:48 pm
We were invited to a kid’s birthday party past Sunday, whose parents own a farmland in the countryside. It was our second time to be invited to their garden party and again,  I couldn’t help but admire the place that seemed paradise to me. Though I have not seen the entire land, the garden is...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 8, 2011, 5:54 pm
I had the opportunity to visit this secluded and somewhat uninhabited island on one of our teachers’ trips. It used to be a quarantine place in the 1700′s when epidemics had reached the country. I can’t tell much about the history of the island but what I saw was enough to convince me that it ...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 5, 2011, 4:49 pm
Traveling includes staying in a hotel and finding one is just a click away these days. My travel partner normally takes care of this matter when we plan to go somewhere. He basically has the name of a hotel in mind and finding the location is just a little problem for him. Just like this hotel...
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Marlene L. posted an article on Lemback Blog - Sep 2, 2011, 5:52 pm
Traveling professionals are thoroughly familiar with the power of the blogosphere. Blogging can be an extremely effective vehicle for smooth communications while traveling. Now thanks to smart handheld devices such as the Apple iPhone and the ubiquity of mobile broadband, blogging can be easily acco...
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