Pork Dinuguan

Ingredients:

1 k. of pork belly, cut into 1″ x 2″ pieces
350 g. of pork liver
4 c. of pig’s blood
3 chili peppers (siling haba)
1 head of garlic, crushed and minced
1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, minced
3 onions, halved and sliced thinly
1 pouch of sinigang mix good for 1 liter of broth
1 bay leaf
salt
pepper (optional)
1 tbsp. of cooking oil

Directions:
1. Refrigerate the pig’s blood until needed.

2. Heat a heavy casserole. Pour in the cooking oil. When the oil starts to smoke, add the garlic and ginger. Saute until fragrant. Add the pork pieces and cook over high heat until the edges of the pork start to brown. Add the onions, chili peppers, bay leaf and sinigang mix and continue cooking until the onions are transparent. Season with salt and pepper, if using. Pour in just enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer for 30-45 minutes or until the pork is very tender. Add more water, a little at a time, if the liquid dries up before the pork is cooked.

3. Meanwhile, minced the liver. Season with a little salt.

4. When the pork is tender and most of the liquid has evaporated, take the pig’s blood out of the refrigerator. Transfer to a clean bowl. With you hands, mash solid masses to a pulp. Pour the mashed blood and the liquid into the casserole. Bring to a boil. Cook over medium heat, stirring, for about 5 minutes. Add the minced liver and cook for another minute or two. Add more salt if necessary.

4. Serve the dinuguan hot with puto (sweet rice cakes) or steamed rice.

The Children

I want to share to you my experiences in dealing with children for seven years that I'm handling grade one and with my three cute kids.I make this poem for those children lovers around the world.

God blessed them and gave them to us
Their lives to shape and mold
To share with us in youthfulness;
To comfort us when old.

They were only lent to us
To be guided on their way;
To be taught to work;
To share in our play.

We cannot expect a miracle,
To teach them when they have grown
If we do not care enough to teach them,
While they are still at home.

If they know that they are loved
And not just in the way;
If they learn the golden rule
By watching us each day.

And if we have done our best
With the children that to us He lent
Our tears will hold no touch of guilt,
When back to Him they are sent.

Children are God's gift to us and we should love them as they are.God has a great purpose in dealing with children. Thank you for reading this blog.

The Value of Discipline

We now live in a very complex society. Teen pregnancies, violence, suicides are increasing. our society has lost touch with what the children need to mold character and competence.
Today's youth need something.And what is it? They constantly need loving training that corrects the heart and mind. Different persons need different kinds of discipline. When motivated by love, discipline often can be conveyed by reasoning.
Teaching children a sense of order and respect is aone great challenge for parents today. Boundaries must be set around personal properties and preferences to imply that it is wrong to love violence or harm one another.

Character Education Seminar

DepEd (Department of Education) holds Character Education Seminar for 2 Saturdays.
DepEd officials see the need of refreshing techniques and strategies in teaching values education to our school children.It is obvious that youngsters nowadays are not keen with the importance of values. They have less respect to parents and elders in the community. Some were indulge in vices thus they really need cares and guidance.
The Deped is trying its best to solve this problem for learning will not take place with undisciplined children to teach with. Even in my case, I'm handling grade class with 43 pupils of different personalities, it's really difficult.
The problem of low moral and lack of discipline affect so much the performance and achievement of children. That's why Philippines ranks at the bottom in leteracy rate percentage.
This delimma needs a concerted efforts of parents, community and the government agencies to have a better result of learning.

ZTE Broandband Project

A week after Erap Estrada's guilty verdict Philippines faces another problem in the government about the ZTE broadband contract.
In the local news ABS-CBN Nueva Viscaya Congressman Carlos Padilla filled a criminal complaint against officials of the Department of Transportation and Communication(DOTC). In connection with the $330 million broadband infrastructure contract between the Philippines and China.
Slapped with a criminal complaint were DOTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza ans Assisistant Secretaries,Lorenzo Formoso and Elmer Soneja.Soneja is the chairman of the Bids and Awards committee and Information and Communication.They were charged with the violation of Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices.
Their co-accused also include Houw Weigui and Yu Young chairman and vice chairman of the ZTE Corporation.
The contract is supposed to connect all government offices via the internet to cut travel c0mmunications expenses.Let's wait and see the updates with some new witness to prove the deal was illegal.