Michael Phelps On The Cover

When I first saw this cover on Inside Edition, my mind immediately thought that I am gonna post an entry about it. So here it is, Michael showing-off his 8 gold medals. Incidentally, this pose was somewhat copied from Mike Spitz's when he won 7 gold medals in the 1972 Olympics. Somehow it's like a nice tribute to him. :)

Mark Spitz posing with his seven gold medals Photo by: Terry O'Neill / Getty

Note: Photos are from www.people.com

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Michael Phelps Made History !!! (Eight For Eight)

Michael Phelps, an american swimmer, went to the Beijing Olympics with one goal in mind; to win 8 gold medals in a single Games. Tonight, he just made history! He was able to accomplish his mission. He surpasses Mark Spitz, also an American swimmer (retired) who is best known for winning 7 gold medals in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

showing off his 8th gold

Berens, Lochte, Phelps; winning his 5th gold (abs! abs! and more abs!) :D

I was watching Michael as if I am his mother. Cheered and held my breath till I saw the result on the t.v. screen. Wew! I got to hand it to his three teammates too; coz Michael’s last swim is the medley relay. It was an amazing race. Eight for Eight! Yey! Lucky number eh ;)

I Finally Went!

My friend Sharon from Rockford has invited me to a lot of events but unfortunately, I never get the chance to go to any of it until Sunday. I finally went! It is supposed to be a kite festival in Chicago Botanic Garden, however, we came kinda late so the festival is almost over. The only good thing is that I met some of Shawie's friends in Rockford and I get to see her again (last time we saw each other was December 2007). Here are some of our photos:

Shawie and myself with our kuletz (rose garden)

The gang (under the apple tree)

Shawie and yours truly (enabling garden)

english garden

japanese garden

We arrived in the garden at past 3 p.m. and went home around 6:30 p.m. On our way home, hubby was giving me tips in safe driving and stuff...we are in the expressway by the way...at that time he said something about yielding for cars that's getting on the expressway...I said, I don't have problems yielding for cars getting on the expressway, my problem is that I'm scared to GET ON the expressway coz I feel like the cars, trucks and other vehicles are so freaking fast that I feel like they're gonna hit me or something...After making that comment, we stopped at the rest area, got some burger for Kuletz... when we're getting ready to leave, he asked me to get into the driver's seat! Oh geez! My heart was beating so fast that I feel like I'm gonna faint. Why? Coz I knew he's gonna let me drive on the freaking expressway! Men! I told myself, I shouldn't have made that comment!

So I drove...halfway, I was doing pretty well, however, I took the wrong exit!!! That's when I started panicking and messed up my driving... To make it short, I messed up in exiting but finally got back on track, I did make mistakes here and there (so I got some good screaming from hubby eehehehe).. some are bigtime mistakes that he said he would have flunked me if it was a test... But hey! That was a good practice :) We made it home safely around 9:45pm :D.... If you would like to know how far Chicago Botanic Garden is from our house, it's only an hour and two minutes drive :D

8.8.08 Olympics

I watched the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and it was unbelievably awesome! The Chinese did a wonderful job on every production. It was well thought of. Wish I was there to witness it personally. It was truly breathtaking. I wonder how London (2012) can surpass that nor the next host in 2016 (hopefully Chicago...yey!).

Anyways, I watched the entire ceremony from 7 pm (CST) to 11 pm, just to see who's the flag bearer of the Philippines. It was Manny Pacquiao, they said not because he's in the olympic team, but because he's one of the most popular athlete in the country.

I am gonna be monitoring all the events in the olympics, specially the swimming event. I would like to see how Dara Torres would do this time. She is a 5th time olympian who has won 8 olympic golds and the most amazing thing is that she's 40 years old. Oh actually she's already 41 :) Can you believe that!? She's awesome! Also, I am looking forward to see Michael Phelps (gorgeous!) in the swimming category. He won 8 medals in the Athens Olympics last 2004, 6 of which were gold.

Lost & Found !

I was upset for almost two days. The other day I gave my son a shower and when I was ready to put on his clothes, I noticed that my wedding rings (2 of 'em) and wedding anniversary band was not on my fingers. I panicked coz I rarely take those rings off of my fingers. I looked everywhere (even in our trash dumpster in the backyard) but to my dismay, I couldn't find it. I asked my hubby if he saw it, he said no...I looked and looked but it's nowhere to be found.

I have no recollection whatsoever on when I took it off or where I put it. As in nothing! I can't remember anything. All I know is that on the 30th of July (the day we went to the zoo, its's still on my ring finger coz I checked some of the pictures). So it went missing just this August. I was so upset! Not only because of how much it cost, but most of all, the sentimental value of it. It's been with me for 8 long years. It's something I can pass on to my son (for him to give to his future wife) naks! :)

Anyways, to make my story a bit longer :), late this evening, I asked my son to pick up all his toys, books, dvds and put it in his toy box... he did, and after a while I noticed that there's a gold thing on the carpet... so I checked it out and I was so ecstatic coz it's my anniversary band!!! I checked again and found my two other rings!!! yey!!! I guess my son found it when I took it off, played with it and put it in one of his dvd cases... Thank God! I thought I accidentally threw it in the garbage. :) Wew!

Believe It Or Not!

I was just got to checking this blog's archive and I can't believe my eyes that today, August 5th, is the date of my very first post here. It was just in 2007... My! My! My! has it been a year already? That quick? Hmmm... interesting... I checked my other blog too and the very first post was on June 6th of 2007... Yeah I guess it has been a year... I have been blogging for over a year now.. Wow! How time really flies when you are having fun :)

Few Pics

Just wanted to share with you some of the pictures that kuletz took while we were on our way to the Lincoln Park Zoo here in Chicago (last Wednesday). He loves buildings and water so when we passed by it, he took some snapshots.

Downtown Chicago

Lake Michigan (he's aiming for the boats, but they are hid behind those trees)

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Another Tag

I am pretty much in a good mood to do these tags :) I actually missed doing it. Anyways, here's another one from C.A. "tque" and Jhona. So sweet of them to tag me with this. C.A. and Jhona thanks much!

Now, I am tagging Aling Tikya, Red, Juliana and all you my dear friends... Just grab it when you get the chance :)