Spectro Magic Parade Part 1

One of my dream once I enter the United States is to visit New York City, which I did because I lived in New Rochelle which is 30 minutes away from the City, Richmond, Virginia because I want to meet my Uncle- father's youngest brother; which we did last year infact we celebrate the New Year together with them and some members of the Filipino Community there. This year when we plan for vacation on top of my list was to go to Orlando, Florida to see its famous tourist destination Walt Disney World. So we fly to Florida. The first park that we visited was Magic kingdom park. We explore some of attractions which i already post days ago. I heard from hubby that there is a parade held at 9 pm. I ask him if we could see the parade and when he said yes, I was happy and excited. I thought that the parade is just an ordinary parade that we could always see but alas! there were lots of people from old to younger that lined up on both sides of the main street facing the Cinderella's castle waiting for the parade to begin.And when it starts the you could see the kids - in their faces you could witness that they are happy and excited to see their favorite characters participating the parade. I was amazed at the lights and floats. The song played is the theme of Disney's dream come true. It was really merry and so much fun. I am posting here some of the shots which I took at the said parade.Actually I was not paying much attention on the parade, I am very busy taking pictures of the characters that pass by our place. I am lucky I get a good spot so I could take a lot of pictures. Here it is enjoy watching!!!









Who would think that this country is in crisis. How could you feel the recession looking at this people in many parks.Hope you enjoy looking at the pictures. I still have some to post but I am sleepy now, will have work tomorrow. See you next post...
Goodnight everyone.....

Jesus on the Beach - This is Awesome!

Pictures below are have seen at beach at Ocean City, Maryland. Isn't the artwork awesome? According to the one who take this photo's the man who created this always make new one, when its high tide the work is swept into the sea.
As I look at this picture of how the man work I marvel at his talent and fortitude because it is true that his works get washed away with the tide and he does them again.

This is a testimony that he loves Jesus Christ and he believed in Him, imagine he can make other artwork but he chose Jesus as one of his masterpiece. I believe that he has a message to everyone, the reason why he showed this artwork to thousands of people. He is generous enough let everyone view his work and watch as he crafts his treasures.

My friend Rose is kind enough to send this email to me. I know her purpose to sent this. She wants to share it with me and I in return post this to show this to everyone.....I hope you enjoy it. It is incredible!

At Magic Kingdon of Walt Disney World-Orlando,Florida

My Florida trip is what I considered as the most exciting and wonderful travel of my life. We were in Orlando for 5 days. It was such a beautiful place. The weather was so supportive because it didn’t rain for 3-days of our stay but on the 4th day there was a rainshower in the afternoon. Gee, we go home earlier. We stayed at Port Orleans, French Quarter.The accomodation was good and our rooms is nearest to everything-- like the pool, the dining area, the shopping store, the dock if you want to travel by the water and near the entrance of the hotel if you want something from the information area and also when you take the Disney bus that would take you to the parks. This is the entrance of Magic Kingdom. Anyone could be a kid even if you are old when you go to Walt Disney World. The place is big and you could see a lot of places that you could only imagine.

This is Cinderella's castle. I just read this on the book when I was a kid. I could never imagine that I would see the place one day and I really admire it. When the light was already open in the evening before the parade of Disney characters I was fascinated with the changing of colors in the posts of the castle.

Here you will experience a chilling, thrilling romp around a happy haunting ground of startling special effects. You will be walking past the entrance foyer and into the ghostly portrait chamber, the air cools and the sense of dread begins to grow. Suddenly, you realize that you are in a room with no windows and no doors! Moving along, you board a "Doom Buggy" and you begin your supernatural journey. Your Ghost Host takes you through several dusty rooms, where you can see eerie signs of ethereal awakening.

Here you can fly with Peter Pan in an indoor fastasy adventure and past the second star to the right on your journey to Neverland. Your pirate galleon soars past mermaids, Indians, and other characters from the Disney animated film Peter Pan. This attraction features a unique ride system that suspends the vehicles from above creating the sensation of flight.

Here is "Mickey’s PhilharMagic its a theater-type attraction employing Disney’s 3-D technology. Guests are invited into the theater for an orchestra concert, but Donald Duck causes a commotion, taking the Guests into a musical whirlwind through popular Disney films. It’s a fun-filled philharmonic concert featuring some characters of the magical world like with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other Disney characters popping out of the screen to just an arm’s reach away from the Guests."

Feeling nostalgic "aki"when I remember that I was just the only one from my family who reach the place and see this beautiful scenery. I feel sense of regret that my family is not with us. But, what can I do, I just hope one day we would be together and again I would long for that day that I could go back and show them the beauty of the place. HHmmnn, I still have lots of pictures and stories that I want to post but I am already exhausted..... Good night everyone....

FLOWER DESIGN

I love flowers. Looking at it made me happy and stress free. Designing is one of my frustration. I am not a Fine Arts graduate--drawing is my frustration too. I love designing, but designs don't like me huh.I am trying venture in designing by doing it in my own way. Like this flowers that is in the picture the designer really had a good imagination of how it looks like and what would be the outcome. Ha ha ha, doing it myself is an accomplishment I would say. It takes me a week thinking the lay-out and doing it the experiment is hours and hours. Afterwhich I took a picture of my project. I took this picture way way back-- did this back in the Philippines. We do not have flower farm just buy it at the flower shop and I try to do my own design. I just pick the big and cheapest flowers so i will not spend much. I do it in my spare time. I like to gave this as gift to friends during occassions like birthdays, graduations, etc and a good home decoration too.

Trip to Orlando, Florida

I take this picture at the La Guardia Airport- while waiting for our flight schedule.
While on board on the plane I saw this man guiding our plane to the runway.
Up on the air I was tempted take picture when see over the window the spectacular view this part of New York.
What an amazing view the clouds are clear and the sky are blue, very calm- no signs of bad weather
we are lucky, thank God.


the stewardess is preparing to give us our snacks and while she is on her cart
I slip a shot on while on our seat on the plane, don't bother what the others are doing as long as I can take a souvenir. Picture lover, Lol.... Look at the picture down I took a picture of our snacks...."ibuko ba?"

UPDATE RE THE WIDOW OF MR. HUNT

JANELAZE Hunt could end up losing her green card if proven that she lied to US authorities about her having a daughter when she applied for a visa and subsequently, a permanant resident status.Bureau of Immigration director for northern Mindanao Florentino Diputado said the US government ‘‘is very strict when it comes to immigration laws.’’He said lying to US immigration authorities about not having a child could mean serious consequences on one’s status as a green card holder.‘‘If it can be proven that Janelaze violated their law, then there’s a chance she would be deported,’’ Diputado said.A message posted by Mrs. Hunt on a ‘‘Yahoo Answers’’ page a year ago suggests that she denied that she had a daughter and lied to her husband, the late Thomas J. Hunt, about it apparently just to be able to go and stay in the US.Diputado said he believed that the Hunt affair was an ‘‘isolated case.’’‘‘Filipino women are generally very caring and loving to their husbands, be they foreigner or not,’’ said Diputado. ‘‘Filipino women are good wives.”Diputado said there were also times when Filipino wives complained to the bureau about alleged abuses. He said there were actual cases Filipino wives who went to the immigration bureau here to complain because they were handled roughly by their expat-husbands.The ‘‘usual reason,’’ according to Diputado, for the alleged abuses: jealousy. He said he advised the complaining wives to press charges.‘‘But things got patched up right away... Complaining wives normally do not come back to the office,’’ said Diputado. But generally, expatriates here have good relationships with their Filipino wives, he said.


JANELAZE Hunt's question in YAHOO ANSWER...

Is there any chance to get my daughter even i denied her in USCIS..Im stillgreencard holder?Hello Mr. Garfunkil,i came her in US for fiancee visa last2005 of Dec.10th..Right now i already pass my removal of status to become agreencard.My big problems is i denied in immigration that i have daughter soright now my husband know already everything about my past which he accept mewith all his heart ,so right now ?Our problems is do we have a chance topetition my daughter to come here in US shes still 4 years old right isimmigration wont bother this case?Can u help me for this case or can u give me aadvice what we gonna supposed to do,while right now im still waiting for mygreencard coz i just file last Feb.19,2008 this year?please can u give meadvaice what can we do for this situation hoping for ur good help & what canwe do for this status which i denied my daughter..Is there any chance that shecan still come her with us? Janelaze R. Hunt fromYuma ,Arizona.

Sad News from the Philippines-Tragic Story of Thomas J. Hunt

By HERBIE GOMEZ - Editor in chief and MARK FRANCISCO - Staff member Updated May 8, 2009 12:00 AM
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Thomas J. Hunt in this undated photo. There was a time only a few people in Cagayan de Oro knew he existed. -PHOTO COURTESY OF ELMER ZINK.

These are the videos while he is in the hospital

Left penniless and stranded in Oro, American was alone even in death.

THE poor American septuagenarian was alone even in death.

Thomas J. Hunt’s body has been at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes since April 27, and the people running the place say they do not know what to do with his remains.

Inside one of Cosmopolitan’s ‘‘chapels’’ on Capistrano Street is Hunt’s white casket. The coffin is a bit expensive but the ‘‘chapel’’ where Hunt’s body lies in state is considered the cheapest facility Cosmopolitan can offer.

The dead American, who lost a lot of weight judging from his loose skin, is clad in a cheap white office Barong. Around the Baptist’s hands, ironically, is a Catholic rosary.
Yesterday morning, the seats were all empty; there was literally no living thing inside that ‘‘chapel.’’

‘‘They say the interment will be on Saturday,’’ said a Cosmopolitan executive as he pointed to a whiteboard that showed that workers were supposed to bring Mr. Hunt’s body to a cemetery tomorrow. ‘‘But quite frankly, I really don’t know. Until now, no payment has been made... not a single centavo. And the wife is not here.’’

Workers at Cosmopolitan said the facility where the body of the American lies in state has been unattended most of the time.

‘‘It’s like he was abandoned, technically speaking,’’ said one executive.

Just outside the ‘‘chapel,’’ a woman who identified herself only as Inday was playing solitaire.
‘‘I’m their neighbor and I was just asked to watch,’’ Inday told The Gold Star Daily in the vernacular. ‘‘They just went out to buy something.’’

Asked if she knew where Hunt’s widow was, Inday replied: ‘‘She was here last night.’’
For some reason, the widow, unknown to Inday, is still in the US. Inday bumbled when she was asked if she knew that.

‘‘It’s because they know me but I don’t know them that well, really,’’ she spoke haltingly.
Hunt, 72, was married to the former Janelaze Songcuya, a woman who could have passed off as his granddaughter.

Elmer Zink, who claims to be living about 30 miles from where the widow is living right now, said the Hunts had decided to move to Cagayan de Oro in May last year, a month after the American retired from an establishment called Hoppstetter’s Office Products.

Zink said the Hunts went bankrupt and lost their home in Yuma, Arizona. Without elaborating, Zink blamed the woman for the bankruptcy.

‘‘In May 2008, she convinced him to go on ahead of her to Cagayan de Oro, and she would follow as soon as she received her permanent green card or extension on her two-year green card,’’ said Zink.

Mr. Hunt flew to Cagayan de Oro but his wife never came. Instead, according to Zink, Mrs. Hunt went to live in Fairfax, Virginia––allegedly with a boyfriend.

Hunt’s widow, said to be working as a saleslady at a Macy’s branch in Virginia, could not be reached for comment at presstime. But she told YumaSun.com earlier that she did not follow her husband here because ‘‘they could not afford two round trip tickets.’’

When YumaSun pressed for further explanation, she said the reason was between her and her husband. She also said she wanted to bring her husband back to the US but she had no money.
Expat Mike Farrell told The Gold Star Daily Hunt and Janelaze stumbled on each other via the Internet.

In 2005, the American brought his then fiancee, to Yuma, Arizona, said a relative of the widow’s.
Janelaze’s aunt, Grace Songcuya, said the couple had planned to settle here for good. “Thomas realized that he was only getting a pension that’s a meager amount in the States so he decided to come here ahead of his wife.”

Songcuya said Hunt stayed with her family in Barangay Consolacion for almost a year.
“We treated him like he was a member of the family. He told us, smiling, that he was very satisfied here unlike in Yuma where he had no family,” Songcuya said.

While in Cagayan de Oro, Hunt had very little money because he entrusted his monthly social security pension of US$1 thousand to Janelaze, Farrell said. ‘‘He was that in love with her.’’

Zink, who lives south of Baltimore, Maryland, corroborated this in an e-mail: ‘‘Mr. Hunt’s (social security pension of) $1000/month [was] deposited to his American bank account monthly... The wife had debit card and used some of his SS money for her while he was in Cagayan de Oro. She denies this, but he had very little money... and she has also never showed me the bank statements.’’

Janelaze confirmed to the YumaSun that Hunt was receiving a US$1-thousand monthly pension that was deposited to their joint bank account. Because Hunt was ill, she said, her family members in Cagayan de Oro were granted access to the account.

Zink said that when Hunt arrived in the city last year, he stayed at a hotel but later moved in with Janelaze’s parents because he was running out of cash. Subsequently, he said, Hunt lived with the family of Janelaze’s sister ‘‘who had a house with dirt floor.’’

Hunt, according to Zink, became ill when continuous heavy rains battered the city last January. The American was a diabetic and ‘‘[he] didn’t have enough money for his insulin.’’

The YumaSun quoted Hunt’s stepson Ted Hammon of Phoenix as saying that Hunt had brain tumor and suffered from complications due to diabetes.

The American became delirious and was rushed to the Polymedic General Hospital on Velez Street where he was confined since Jan. 29.

Songcuya, Janelaze’s aunt, said the hospital bills reached P570,665.95. No payment has been made at presstime and that means no death certificate can be issued. Without a death certificate, Hunt cannot be laid to rest, legally.

Hunt’s widow also owes Cosmopolitan some P45 thousand for its services, including a five-day use of its facilities. After five days, Cosmopolitan charges ‘‘overstaying customers’’ on a daily basis.
While in the hospital, very little was done for Hunt until a doctor informed expats in the city that
there was an American in Polymedic who had no visitors for a month, according to Zink.

Farrell said the expats met and soon, their wives started raising funds for Hunt. He said the group spent nearly P100 thousand for medicines.

‘‘They were getting small donations. They were not much... some gave $50, others gave $200 ,’’ said Farrell.

But Janelaze’s aunt Grace, who works in a local court, was unhappy with the expats and their wives, said Farrell. He said the women were later accused of using Hunt for unauthorized solicitations, and the women were driven away when they went to Cosmopolitan for the wake.
Songcuya, according to Farrell, threatened to sue the group. He said she also ‘‘ordered’’ one of the expats to see her as if she had the authority.

‘‘They helped a lot and that was what they got,’’ said Farrell.

Now, said Farrell, the widow wants the expats and their wives to shoulder the medical and funeral expenses because ‘‘she says she doesn’t have money.’’

Out of the blue, Songcuya said, came the group of Filipino women in Cagayan de Oro who are married to expats.

“I was surprised [and questioned] the motive of this group. Who are they to interfere with our affairs?” asked Songcuya.

She said the group called ‘‘Expats’ Ladies Charities’’ solicited funds here and abroad supposedly to pay the hospital bills, and wake and burial expenses.

“But we or Polymedic or Cosmopolitan never received a single centavo from this group,” Songcuya said.

She said the group needs to account for the funds.

Happy Birthday

Hello readers! am back, fresh from vacation---my first blog today is my birthday greetings to my dear eldest son. Gosh, i really miss my 2 children. I called them on their Aunt's cellphone and was relieved to hear their voice. My sister told me that my eldest had fever last night but thanks God he is okey now. He is ashamed to tell his Aunt that he is sick my nephew gave him paracetamol and this morning when i call them they said he is okey. Even though my eldest is already 20 years old now I am still alarmed when something happens to him and I feel sad that I am not there to see how he is. Anyway, thats how a mother is. Never-ends supporting their children even if they are already old. For me, my 2 boys are still a kid to me although they were grown up. For my eldest here is our greetings:

Leaving for Anniversary Vacation

I will be away for days next week so I will not be able to blog. We will go on vacation. Hubby planned to treat our anniversary in Florida. I am now excited see Disney World and I am ready to go bringing with me this things. A girl's stuff that we never forget to bring.

I brought with me a complete set of bathing suit and a cover up so if I wish to go on swimming I am ready to wear it. It is sometimes important that you have this on your suit case so that if you need to go on the beach you will not be in a rush buying.

This is another one that i bought at a good price as it was on sale. I know speedo seldom have sale and I am happy that i buy it at a good price of just $20 at Modell's.

I had a lot of stories to post like my kids mother's day present to me, hubby's relative's first communion, and my experience at Disney World. Will do that when I came back. I am already tired, he he he. Anyway, to all the MOther's out there,

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY......