"Kuya" Mik first visit....

A little snow (about 4 cm.) just to show 'kuya' mik what it is all about.




Let me drive this machine, we don't have this in California !!!










Niagara Falls, Ontario




CN Tower, Toronto..














Rockefeller Centre, New York, N.Y.

and another child to carry on... 1st birthday

Well, It was a very Good Year, my first and looking forward for many, many, many more. thank you all... Emily...



Party Guests





Birthday girl Emily with mom, sis Chin Chin with Dad. My brother's grand daugthers, PA, USA

Lest We Forget...

Lest We Forget:

11th hour, 11th day of the 11th month...WE REMEMBER



take a tour in flanders fields museum here
the Maple Leaf museum, Belgium


If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep....

-John McCrae-In Flanders Fields




WE SHALL KEEP THE FAITH

Oh! You who sleep in “Flanders Fields,”
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the Torch you threw
And, holding high we keep the Faith.
With all who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led:
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
But lends a lustre to the red

Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught
In Flanders Fields.

A poem by:
Moina Michael (November 1918)

A liesurely night at the Range

Saturday nights and the "Boys" don't have much to do, bring out the "toys" and head to the range and have some fun. Someone brings some decent digicams next time around. These cell cams do not do justice to the 'good' looks of the "pistoleros"(pistols..hehehe).

Hockey Night in Canada New Anthem - Canada Gold...

Hockey Night in Canada has a new theme song. After a National Search, soliciting more than 1500 entries from fans and all members of the Canadian Public and the attraction of the $100,000 prize money to the winner, the winner which was decided by votes of the member of Public through Texts, emails and phones is Canadian Gold, composed by an Albertan Elementary School Teacher, beating Sticks to the Ice by a 13-year Toronto Boy.. But why the search and the dropping of the 40 year-theme song that besides from the O’Canada, the National Anthem, is the only other Canadian song that are distinctively recognizable all over the world? Also known as Canada’s second National Anthem...to find out how it all started you may start here, Iconic song sparks Hockey fight in Canada

Sticks to the Ice-- by Robert Fraser Burke--Runner Up


The Winner--Canada Gold--by Colin Oberst


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And the Iconic 40-year-old Hockey Theme Song (a.k.a.the second Canada National Anthem) now the property of TSN (Toronto Sports Network) as re-recorded by the 54- member Toronto Symphony Orhestra for TSN.


If you are wondering about the announcer sign-on at the beginning of the videos, it was the voice of Foster Hewitt, Canada’s Premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster and the mentioned of Newfoundland was before the Colony joined Canada in 1949...

Election Day - Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Go Out and Vote!!!

For your Riding and Candidates go to this ridings and candidates

For where each major party stands in every issue from war in Afghanistan, Economy, crime, poverty, foreign affairs you may check the complete and latest update of the Party's stands on Today's issues

The Parties:

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Conservative Party of Canada --- Leader - Stephen Harper
Mar. 04, 2008

Liberal Party of Canada --- Leader Stéphane Dion
Mar. 04, 2008

New Democratic Party of Canada --- Leader - Jack Layton
Mar. 04, 2008

Bloc Quebecois --- Leader Gilles Duceppe
Mar. 04, 2008

Green Party of Canada --- Leader Elizabeth May
Mar. 04, 2008

Libertarian Party of Canada
Sep. 21, 2008

Progressive Canadian Party
Sept. 2l, 2008

Christian Heritage Party
Sep. 21, 2008

Communist Party of Canada
Sep. 21, 2008


First Peoples National Party of Canada
Sep. 21, 2008

Canadian Action Party
Sep. 21, 2008

Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party ...
Sep. 21, 2008

Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
Sep. 21, 2008*

*date of filing with Election Canada.