A Show You'll Love: Bella on Lifestyle Network

A beautiful lifestyle is everyone's cup of tea. At least to consider our instinctive desire to live a life surrounded by the people we love  and, um,  the things we like to take joy in. All of us are steadily searching for things that make us feel better inside. And it's hog heaven when we find something or someone that perfectly echoes what we are searching for. 

I should know that the fine line between having a beautiful lifestyle like this is a sheer acceptance of the past, a little appreciation of the present, and an amount of enthusiasm to discover what we can do or how good we can still get in the future, by learning from ourselves or from other people. You and I deserve to know how to infuse this creativity to spice up our lives. 

Raise your hand if you want to start your life again with light and optimism. Ok, what I mean is that it doesn't have to be new year to let ourselves jump-start a life beautiful-- like how this newest show on Lifestyle Network is named-- Bella (which means beautiful in Italian). 

Confessions be made, I had one of the blissful-est of privileges to interview Bella (by a private message). Her modesty and thoughtfulness made me realize that she is,  indeed, beautiful. I feel overjoyed. 

Who is Bella?

Bella is a girl who loves everything beautiful in a sense that she believes in the beauty of life and she always tries to see the beauty in everyone. She is adventurous and loves trying new things and writing about her experiences. Her mission is to make every woman realize her true beauty-- inside and out.

Julia, Bella's friend who you'll be seeing in the episodes

What makes it unusual and relatively exciting is that the host of the show (Bella) is being kept a mystery all through out the season as she does the talking on a voice over. It's like a sort of blogging on TV, she says. It offers a fresh and utterly unique concept that no show has yet done in the past.  She also notes that her team is constantly working hard to improve every episode.

What you can expect from the show?

It was love at first sight when I watched the show premiered last July 19. And why not? Bella talked about tons of creative juices to doll up ourselves, throw a delightful party, and stay fit at home even on the rainy days.

She reveals that the show will have more interesting content and adventures on its next episodes-- fashion, beauty, fitness, travel, and lifestyle picks. Won't you love to watch a show that can fill your thoughts with new and creative ways to revamp? She is a good source for all things beautiful that you could possibly apply to yourself. Just believe in your capacity to make them happen. 

Know more about Bella in this video:

Here's a sneak peek of what (else) you can see on Bella:

Get bella-ful updates about her and the show on:
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You can also log on to her blog/ website: www.mynameisbella.com 

"I hope you'll love it!"~ Wink, wink, Bella

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Top 5 Sweet Flicks for Valentine's Day

If only my website had a way of speaking directly to me, I would have ended heartbroken. I left it for a bit long while to juggle three other jobs. I knew I screw for having that said as a reason but I am definitely on to making a good start to recompense for the damage.

It's Valentine's day and it's always nicer to spread love than bad vibes. 

I saw fair ladies and gents carrying roses and chocolates with them down town. And while a romantic dinner set by the beach makes for a perfect activity, I suggest taking the rather less expensive but thoughtful way of spicing up the evening with your loved ones.

I have picked 5 romantic movies singles, couples, and families can take joy in watching at home:

1. Valentine's Day

Don't you think the title is very high time? It's a 2010 romantic comedy movie about couples and singles in Los Angeles breaking-up and making-up based on the pressures and everyday anticipation of Valentine's Day.

The movie depicts relationships in different stages and points of view, from childhood crushes and puppy loves, to hormone-driven teen-playing-adult relationships, to mature and stable adult relationships. 

The downside is that there are few scenes and lewd conversations that couples, especially parents need to get ready for in explaining and guiding their children.

Watch Valentine's Day here.

2. Serendipity

This movie aired in 2001. It's about a couple who reunited years after they first met and opted to trust in fate, chance, or destiny to decide whether they are truly meant for each other or not.

You might somehow find a predictable script but the actors, music, and the plot will give you a light heart. 

Watch Serendipity here.

3. 50 First Dates

It's a 2004 romantic comedy movie about a man who used to have no interest in having a serious relationship but met a local pretty young woman in Hukilau Cafe'.

The good part was that the man untiringly loved and cared for the woman even if she had Goldfield Syndrome, a kind of anterograde amnesia that makes her memory last for only a day. 

On another note, you'll love to see walruses flying a kiss.

Watch 50 First Dates here.

4. Letters to Juliet

It's a romantic film in 2010. It's mainly about a couple who separated for many years but suddenly found each other in Italy through the help of an aspiring writer who replied back to a love letter sent in Juliet's House in Verona, Italy. 

The place exists in real life and the movie clearly shows that true love doesn't age.

Watch Letters to Juliet here.

5. A Walk to Remember

This movie is a tear-jerker, but the story is love. It's a 2002 romantic drama film based from the novel of the very good Nicholas Sparks. 

It's about two teens who have shown important elements in love-- sincerity, care, trust, forgiveness, hope, and sacrifice along their relationship. 

Personally, it's a movie grown-ups and growing ups need to see.

Watch A Walk to Remember here.

Some of you might prefer watching Editors' picks romantic classics like Pride and Prejudice, Breakfast at Tiffany's or the famous When Harry Met Sally. But the above choices will spur you with cheerfulness, resilience, and hope about love. 

You might have or have not watched them yet but another suggestion is for you to read the more elaborate book version of the movie (if any). It's as if you need telling twice, only that it's fulfilling to know the story without its other significant parts cut.

You can also look for more romantic comedy sweet flicks here. The list actually goes on.

More importantly, let me remind you what the Bible says about love:

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud or rude. It is not self-seeking.  It is not easily angered. Love keeps no record of wrongs. It does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. ~ 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! God bless your heart! 

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What to Expect When You're Expecting

It's not another mom-to-mom coffee klatch on pregnancy tips and tricks. First is that I'm yet far from being a mom as far as civil status is concerned. But being a nurse and having few friends and relatives trying to ask about things to fear and cheer during pregnancy, it's interesting to gather some thoughts to give for thought.

Most mothers would agree that pregnancy is not entirely fascinating. When the baby bump starts to grow, other   manifestations seem to go with it-- tender breasts, lower backaches, swollen feet, morning sickness, frequent urination. You know they are quite disturbing.

Parents take offs from work but never in babying. So it's good to sometimes divvy up the sentiments with other people who will one way or another understand exactly how a parent feel or would likely feel.

Lionsgate and Alcon Entertainment is offering a romantic-comedy movie for the present and hopeful mom and dads this May 18th. The star-studded movie casts Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker, Anna Kendrick and others.

The movie is a film adaptation of the worldwide bestselling book by Heidi Murkoff. It is directed by Kirk Jones of Walking Ned Devine and Nanny McPhee.

Watch Trailers below:

Titanic: Mystery Solved 100th

What actually made Titanic sink? What errors caused the lives of over 1500 people? Who was to blame? Was the story of Jack Dawson & Rose Dewitt Bukater just a fiction that only depicted the lives of the first class society during that time, as stated in books and reviews?

I asked those questions myself after hearing about the coming back of the James Cameron movie in 3D last April this year to celebrate its 100 years. 

I had to go looking over websites to hopefully get latest discoveries to the largest ship ever fared in 1912. It's no doubt that I still hold spellbound with every details and facts about the ship and the movie. And I have satisfied myself enough from watching the movie again in 3D. 

If I only had more time and resources I could have also brought myself into the Titanic Artifact Exhibition that was held in the Art Science Museum in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore that started last October, 2011 until the 29th of April, 2012. 

Scads of attempts were already made about the epic tragedy that happened to the ship that only remained in pretext for many years. The supposedly irenic voyage of the unsinkable White Star Line fragmented in the frozen seabed of North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. What we mostly know is that an iceberg caused its doom.

Recently, the History channel gathered a team of scientists, engineers, and top underwater experts for another expedition that would map out in detailed portions, the wreck site and where actually  the error is found. This time it's no romantic-suspense kind of film but a new documentary to the never-before-seen findings about Titanic.

Salamin ng Panata: Hiraya Manawari

I have three days before I get to live with forceps, clamps, and laboring mothers in the delivery room for one month. What I am mostly excited about during free days like this is that I get to look 
 around the internet for online reads and videos, or TV shows at random that I could at least consider as productive, or is it?

Image taken from a video added by rhisoler via youtube.com

Today I decided to go Filipino; to talk something about this Juan country, more specifically its television media. 

One thing I have noticed is that Philippine’s local morning programs have changed abundantly through the years. Most children today find their alternatives on computers, PSPs, and other gadgets.

Mr.Bean and Spongebob are the ones who usually greet the tele-viewers every morning. Maybe, most of the cartoon shows today have their own brand of teaching their audience with morals. But I have myself confident to defy modern day skeptics in saying that the novelty worth of today’s shows is nothing compared to the shows before. Hiraya Manawari is but one of the many valuable programs the television of the 90s has offered.

Hiraya Manawari, a highfalutin tagalog phrase which means “reach your dreams” has elaborated good morals and life’s greatest lessons about love, family, respect, honesty, discipline and other values. The stories of each episode were simple and easy to understand yet made a great impact on its viewers (myself included).  

Those lucky few who were able to watch programs like it would agree that producing the same shows nowadays would serve up so much values especially on children.

And for those who miss singing along with Hiraya Manawari’s famous intro, here’s a video with the lyrics below: