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Shirley how many weeks you usually stay in Edmonton? Make it longer so we can drive around town and shop at West Ed Mall. And of course coffee morning too. Actually there's no coffee morning here in Canada not like in Middle East kasi puro busy ang mga tao dito. Ingat, Cora

2a.

Re: Bagong Taon na !

Posted by: "shirley townley-Smith"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 10:12 am (PST)

Cora..maraming salamat, I read thru the recipe, sige I will let you know how it turns out, I will surprise my son as he loves, siopao with " mami".

Today is first day back at college 2nd semester, Criminology, gustong making CSI daw siya.

Shirley

2b.

Re: Bagong Taon na !

Posted by: "corazon guico"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 3:32 pm (PST)

Shirley ilan ang anak mo? Magugustuhan nya yan dahil yon anak kong bunso 16 years old pag nagsabi ng siopao at ipinag luto ko nakaka apat in one sitting. Enjoy cooking.

take a look

Posted by: "Teresita Pasalo"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 3:59 pm (PST)

Everyone! See the new addition on the photos. Edna thanks for the pics, very festive in Bahrain! It seems there is a filipino gathering bec. of the native costumes. Nice flowers , well taken. picture so clear and I like green. Lily with her family. Thanks for sharing

Teresita Pasalo!!!

4a.

Halamanan..

Posted by: "shirley jane mercurio"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 4:07 pm (PST)

Emma: Like you I also enjoy gardening when the weather permits. I can get lost and forget all

my worried when I am working in the garden, my hands touching the good earth. I get a lot

of pleasure in spring waiting to see what will come up and what have survived the winter.

I have a lot of perennials that come up every year and hibernate in the winter. My neighbors

and friends have fun coming over to see my garden as they always live with something from

my garden. I cannot pass by a garden nursery without stopping and checking out what is

new. I went to the biggest garden show in England, the Chelsea Gaarden Show , and I tell you

I was hyperventilating, my sisters had to calm me down as I was so excited tosee all the

beautiful flowers and varieties that I have seen before, for example there was a pavillion for

each type of flower, hundreds of different lilies, fuchia, etc...

Vancouver's weather is very similar to Sydney so we have a lot of the same flora.

Happy gardening and I look forward to sharing with you some gardening tips.

Shirley

4b.

Re: Halamanan..

Posted by: "corazon guico"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 7:09 pm (PST)

Shirley you are lucky staying in a very mild climate of Canada. No wonder your garden is like in Eden. My perinnial nor annual plants just give me pleasure for just few months and then by end of August started to turn the leaves yellow and then frosty clime again. I content myself planting indoor but Dad said our house is like a jungle. What else can I do? Enjoy gardening...............in spring and summer.

4c.

Re: Halamanan..

Posted by: "prima aguila barclay"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 10:21 pm (PST)

hello shirley.ang ganda naman ng garden mo. nakakakatulo ng laway.sa

akin eh halo halong kalamay.siguro eh kung ako ikaw eh diyan ko na

lang dadalhin ang bed at matutulog ako surrounded by plants.there;s

something about plants that makes you feel good when you are lonely or

depressed'just to look at them really lift my spirit .i told my friend

one day we will tour the english garden....when we retire..he.he.he..

madaling ng sundan ang pag gawa ng siopaw.step by step photo ang

ginawa ni shirley.mabuti na lang dito eh may nabibili ng steam bun

flour.just add water and sugar.one tip..when you steam them, put

vinegar in the water.it makes the siopaw white.

try this filling.lasang siopaw ng intsik.instead of chicken, use mince

pork plus chinese sausag.masarap din ito.

who would have thought when were in high school we will be good cook

and gardener.cheers.

FW: Enmax

Posted by: "corazon guico"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 7:21 pm (PST)

Chit and to all batchmates, heto ang isang agency na nagpapalakad ng mga contract worker pa Canada. One of Efren nephew just arrive last November nandito na sa Calgary Alberta. He used to work as a lineman in Meralco before. Hiningi ko sa asawa nya ang address at name ng agency. Ipa try mo sa anak mo baka makalusot. Good luck to all who want to apply.

Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:36:13 -0800From: erlinda_guico2001@yahoo.comSubject: Re: Fwd: EnmaxTo: cguico@hotmail.com

ate Cora,

skyworld po pangalan ng agency nila ross heto po ang address dito.

SKYWORLD BUSINESS MERGER

UNIT 101 ELENA V BLDG.,1038 J. NAKPIL ST

CORNER.F. BENITEZ MALATE MANILA

PHILIPPINES

erlinda guico <erlinda_guico2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

Note: forwarded message attached.

Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:04:03 -0800 (PST)From: noli <nolialmenanza@yahoo.com>Subject: Fwd: EnmaxTo: erlinda_guico2001@yahoo.comCC: romanmayrena@yahoo.comNote: forwarded message attached.

Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:55:49 -0800 (PST)From: lynnette dupuis <miss_u5254@yahoo.com>Subject: EnmaxTo: nolialmenanza@yahoo.comCC: rosauro_guico@yahoo.com, chap_chap03@yahoo.com

Overseas hiring eases Enmax linemen shortage

High living costs hinder efforts to lure workers to Calgary

Norma Greenaway, CanWest News ServicePublished: Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Joe Marshall had reached the end of his rope.

He had travelled far and wide in Canada in search of skilled tradesmen for the Calgary power company he managed, pumped tens of thousands of dollars into advertising and hired a headhunting firm only to come up empty in his quest to hire the skilled bodies the company desperately needed to build, maintain and operate power lines.

Enmax Power Corp., which distributes electricity to Calgary residences and businesses, had been around for more than 100 years, and never before had it encountered such a problem hiring new talent. The company was getting increasingly nervous, knowing it could lose one-quarter of its 250-strong force of linemen to retirement over the next five to 10 years. It also was fighting a losing battle to lure workers to a city where the high cost of living, especially the cost of housing, was a turnoff.

"We were brainstorming all the time, trying to think what can we do," Marshall said. "We were advertising across the country, advertising in Toronto where it cost $40,000 for a weekend ad."

That was thousands of foreign kilometres ago, and before Marshall and senior company executives decided to act on a suggestion -- offered by a Filipino lineman working in the United States who had seen the company's ad on the Internet -- to tap into the pool of skilled labour in the Philippines.

Today, eight Filipinos, all certified power linemen in their home country, are settling into their new digs in Calgary under the Temporary Foreign Worker program. They arrived last Thursday after accepting job offers Marshall, Enmax's manager of electrical work, made in Manila last February where he and Shannon Robinson, his colleague from human resources, interviewed 66 applicants.

Getting their eight picks to Canada was not fast, and took months longer than expected to go through the medical clearance hoops and to get the work permits.

"We had all the paperwork done by the end of May, and then five months went by and we were just waiting and waiting and waiting," said Robinson. "It was extremely frustrating."

But Marshall and Robinson are breathing easier now, and ooze optimism the new linemen, who used the long wait to work on their English language skills in the Philippines, will work out.

The company has organized orientation sessions, arranged for housing, and will help prepare the newcomers for a provincial certification exam they must pass within a year. If all goes well, Marshall said, the company has offered to sponsor them, and their immediate families still in the Philippines, for residency in Canada.

Enmax is neither the first, nor will it be the last company forced to recruit overseas in a bid to navigate specific labour shortages across the country, shortages that are predicted to grow as aging baby boomers begin retiring en masse.

The robust economies of Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. are feeling the biggest pinch, but other provinces too are struggling with shortages of everything from tradesmen and construction workers to engineers, doctors and nurses.

The federal government, working with the provinces and businesses, has taken several steps to make it easier to bring people to Canada under the Foreign Workers Program if no residents of Canada are available to fill the position. There were almost 172,000 temporary foreign workers in 2006, an increase of 122 per cent over 10 years.

Cora's siopao

Posted by: "shirley jane mercurio"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 8:14 pm (PST)

Cora: I made your Siopao recipe tonight for supper and nagustuhan ng pamilya ko.

Naka 2 servings kami, I also made pansit "Mami", favorite ng son ko.

Ang dami kong naluto, you were right the recipe made 25 pieces, so I will go around the

neighborhood and give some to my Pinay friends on my street. Thanks again for the recipe.

7a.

Re: Fwd: FW: Describe ME in one word...

Posted by: "emma barclay"

Mon Jan 7, 2008 11:59 pm (PST)

hello dory.matagal tagal na rin tayong hindi nakakapag chat..siguro eh very busy ka sa tindahan.do you know what is nice..some of us were never classmates.we just passed by one another on our way to our class room.and shirley she left before we graduated.but with in almost everyday contact with our email, by the time, we see each other again parang kay tagal tagal na nating magkakakailala na para bang the 35 years eh hindi tayo nawalan ng contact..we were able to forged our friendship again and get to know one another again.so when we see each other again para bang hindi tayo nawalan ng contact sa isat isa.wala ng hiyaan because we were able to establish it again.does it make any sense.i think shirley is planning to visit the philippines again.some of you ther might be able to have a mini reunion.kita ko sa picture ang garden ni shirley ang ganda naman.kung maliit lang ang garden ko i can look after it.kaso eh malaki.i can build another house sa backyard ko.isa pa eh water restriction.sayng lang ang halaman kung mamamatay dahil hindi madidiligan.kaya nga puro cactus na lang ako.very resilient sa hot weather.i"d kill for a graden like that.maniwala ka ang garden ko eh may kahalo pang green beans at kamatis.halo halong kalamay nga sila eh.but i like it.anyway i hope to see online again so we can chat.see you..

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