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August Golden Fiestas 🍻

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Last August 16, 2017 is the fiesta of my hometown Lapasan honoring the Saint San Roque😇 the patron saint for dogs. 🐶 My family used to celebrate BIG during this occasion many many years ago with countlesa visitors flocking into our house mostly my father's and my mother's officemates and my siblings classmates & sometimes mine. My parents used to spend 10k pesos or $200 back then just for the occasion which is worth probably 20k or $400 today! That's alot of money to spend on a single day especially to someone like me who is an absolute epitome of trifty & frugality! In fact jewelries are the only things I splurge with little caution & it's ok coz they're good investments as all jewelries I have bought since have appreciated by at least 200%!  Barangay Lapasan where I live most of my life is the center of Cagayan de Oro and it is safe to say it is the most expensive street address bcoz it is where the BIGgest malls, schools and most expe

Fire! 🔥

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Last August 16, 2016 the day of the feast of Senior San Roque the patron saint of dogs a fire in the neighborhood shocked the small town of Barangay San Roque early morning at around 3 am. The burning house was just one house away from our house. The rest of the town seems to be in panic mode except me. I said to myself I will only panic if the next house will start to burn...  🔥 🔥 🔥 It took over 30 minutes for the first firetruck to arrived... 🔥 🔥 Of course how can the next house burn when I was looking at it saying to myself just spare it and it did not burn at all! So after the firefighters announced they had extinguised the flame of the burning house  I went back to sleep then the neighbors yelled as the next house started to lit up so I went back again just to look at it as if I was the one controlling the flames. 🔥 Sometimes I think my mind is so powerful that almost anything I think of from deep inside of me happens. There's actually scie

Royal Gems 💙🚢

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F inally the package from Bangkok, Thailand containing real precious royal caliber blue gems arrived or should I say picked up!  FROM: The Amazing Thailand 💎 TO: The Islands Of Your Wildest & Deepest Fantasies 🌴🏄🍎🍌🌰💑 This package actually arrived in the post office of my city last July 27 and the lousy post office employees just ignored the scheduled delivery until the shipper told me it is already in my local post office as the tracking number indicates & my mother had to picked it up! I have to report them to 8888 or PDU30 because he insisted if you witness government employees are not doing their job make a scene and  insist on a good service & PDU30 will defend us! 👊 Anyway this is going to be the most exciting jewelry project ever! A tribute to the most influential movie in my life and the most iconic jewelries ever made in history! However it may take awhile for me to set these remarkable fine blue sapphires into jewelries because I don'

Introducing Peridot & Aqua! 💚

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Ladies and gentlemen introducing Valentina's litter's Peridot (ginger) and Aqua (tuxedo) at 19 days old today! Their other siblings Olive & Olivine died a few hours after they were born. Born on August 1st and so I named them after the birthstone for the month of August which is peridot! Except for Aqua because I named him after the late 'Water' the tuxedo kitten of Emerald murdered by Valentina and because they look similar I feel Aqua is a replacement.  When Peridot & Aqua can start eating on their own I might as well separate them from their crazy mother coz today Valentina attacked my disabled kitten Earth so I have no choice but to jail her after giving her so many chances. Though I will only put her in a cage while I'm away from the house coz she still have her rights to freedom or to roam around from time to time even though she's a threat to the safety & security of other kittens & cats & I'm even scared she will eat her

Surigao Treasure: Gintong Pamana

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Gintong Pamana Part 1 of 8 Part 2 of 8 Part 3 of 8 Part 4 of 8 Part 5 of 8 Part 6 of 8 Part 7 of 8 Part 8 of 8 I Have A Perfect Song For This! 💛

Leibish & Co. 30 Days Return Policy

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Collector's Dream... Last August 14 is the end of the 30 days money back guarantee no questions ask return policy of the vivid orange diamond ring I purchased from Leibish last month. American consumers are really protected by their government unlike here in The Philippines there is no refund policy and only 7 days exchange policy.  Well in my case I bought the ring from New York, USA so it is covered by american laws & obviously I didn't return the ring coz I like it! I mean I love it!  So congratulations to Leibish & Co. for a successful sale and for having the fairest of them all as your new customer! 😂 Of course I can't resist the special discount they gave me and to my flattery they even told me they really wanted to have me as their customer and I really wanted to buy from them since 2015 and that special discount just sealed the deal! 👌 This is not going to be my last purchase coz Leibish & Co. excedeed my expectations...

Lost Ancient Philippine Goldsmith Technique

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Last June  I blogged  about the lost ancient goldsmithing technique of ancient filipinos that no modern jewelers could replicate that are being displayed at The Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas Museum and Ayala Museum in Makati.  Today there is a revival of that lost jewelry making technique but no matter how hard modern jewelers tried to replicate the old ways of jewelry making they cannot copy an exact replica coz they've been missing something that we no longer have in modern times and I have this feeling that the ancient filipino goldsmiths are using ancient alien technology to make elaborate jewelries.  The granulation technique of the ancient filipino jewelries is the best in the history of mankind! Even better than the Etruscans. The tiny well rounded symmetrical granules must have been made by some laser and anti gravity thingy of some sort of  lost ancient alien technology. The fact that the ancient designs could not be totally copied by even he best of modern

The Number One Selling Gemstone In The World! 💍

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💍 Since all is revealed that I am into   natural color diamonds  still diamonds be it white or col or ed is still is my favorite gemstone and the world would have to agree as white diamonds  still is the most popular and number one selling gemstone. But why? Well most diamond consumers are not connoisseurs, collectors & investors and their number reason why they purchase jewelry is to accessorize or for the sake of their own image. De Beers succesfully marketed diamonds as the ultimate engagement or proposal gift even though throughout the history of the civilized world, diamonds are not really invented as the focal point of engagement rings. Long before De Beers coined the famous phrase 'a diamond is forever' the center stone being used for engagement rings or any engagement presents could be any gems and some even use tooth!  But why did white diamonds  manage to be the most popular of gemstones and the number one selling center stone for engagement rings

Partial Lunar Eclipse 🌔 & Taking My Kittens To The Vet

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🌔 The partial lunar eclipse woke me up in the early hours of morning... Then same day today I brought two of my kittens  to the city vet for check up and vaccinations for their feline distemper and skin disease.  Judging from these pictures Earth needs urgent medical help so before noon we took two to the vet even though 3 are sick in total and one died already but Garnet was left behind coz her condition isn't as worse and that she's older & she'll be taking the same medicine... The city vet services and vaccinations are for FREE now who doesn't like FREE!? If only I knew about it before I would have availed such services to all my pets! This is where our taxes goes and one of the benefits of paying proper taxes coz in private vets the feline distemper vaccine alone costs 800 pesos per shot!  I had fun looking the kittens exploring a new environment and surrounding for the first time and

R.I.P FIRE 🔥

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I am in a depressed mode coz one of the most precious in my life is dead! Unlike most filipinos who thinks their family is the most precious person of their lives... I tend to consider my pets more precious than my jewels and even more precious than most of my family, relatives and friends. So the death of this kitten just made me wanna die for a few second until I instantly come up to my senses and just consider this moment GOD DAMMIT!  Fire is just 6 months old ginger kitten and he is actually the healthiest of 4 so his death is a surprise and I'm not totally sure what caused his death though he got infected by feline distemper as well as the rest of his siblings but I suspect he got allergic reaction to amoxicillin even though his other siblings Earth and Air manage to survived though they are still under careful monitoring. Their adopted elder sister named Garnet also got infected by feline distemper though I didn't give her amoxicillin.  August is indeed

A Time To Be Born & A Time To Die...

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Valentina our neighbor's mean evil cat who is also the one who murdered Water gave birth to 4 litters in my room in the morning of August 1st, 2017 that I named Olive, Olivine, Peridot and Aqua (Water) perhaps a ressurection or reincarnation of Water? I should have never allowed Valentina back into our house but I am very forgiving to cats even for those murderous ones like Valentina. Unfortunately hours later two of the litters died. Nadaganan siguro ng lukaret na pusa. I should have listened to my instinct to move them on a BIGger box.  More than 24 hours later in the afternoon the next day of August 2, 2017 I buried the two baby kittens in desame metal container where I buried Water last Febuary 2017.  "You two will live forever in the spirit of the remaining quadruplets."... 😿 What a sad & remarkable contrast right? The elation I felt seeing the birth of 4 baby kittens and the horror, sadness & regret seeing only two survives just hours aw