Profile

My Family and Friends call me YOLLY. I was born in the year 1971 in the Philippines (Manila). I got 3 brothers and a beautiful sister, and i'm the eldest among them. I've been residing here in Germany since 1990, i was Au pair Girl (see description below) for one year in a German Family. I am now happily married to Michael, whom I shared two adorable kids. Being in this stage of motherhood, it challenges and yet, fascinates my entire life. A reason for me to be proud of.

I'm a friendly type of person, with a touch of good sense of humor. I love to meet various kind of people, especially my kababayan (Pinoy/Pinay) all over the world. I do love to share advices to close friends who needs it. In short, i'm someone whom to count on when moments get rough.

You can search me in the following internet websites: in a trivia section and chat channel of mIRC undernet, Friendster, and Myspace.com, which is a useful network for meeting and gathering friends globally.
 
What is an Au Pair?
A single male or female aged between 17 - 27 years, inclusive with no dependants, normally with basic English, who helps a host family with childcare and/or housework while staying as a guest with a host family and generally receiving a monthly allowance (or pocket money).

Au pair comes to live as part of the family, being treated as a family member. They have their own bedroom, eat with the family and take part in the occasional family outing or possibly holidays.

Becoming an au pair is a very exciting challenge, you experience and learn a different culture, another language, but you must be trustworthy, sociable, responsible, independence, fun, loving and willing to make new friends.

 
Hobbies

I absolutely love watching TV, dancing, reading books, singing, sewing, Drawing and learning different languages. I do speak Tagalog (my mother language), English, and German of course. Other than that, I could also say some words in Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese, which my friends and classmate taught me for few years. I also keep myself busy by doing beautiful craft works. I'm having more marvelous time spending it for hours together with my kids. Despite its time consuming, they really like it. Well, once you accomplished one, it's worth it anyway!

I collect Postcards (the one that I received from Friends/Relatives and buy some when I was in that place. I also collect Telephone Cards (especially from my favorite Cartoons).

Cooking? Yeah, I love it!! Infact, I have been collecting interesting recipies from various countries through helpful sources such as; local newspapers and magazines, TV shows, and internet links. Baking is not really my cup of coffee. But i'm still trying to do my best to be successful in this field. One person that I know that could definitely bake is my loving mother-in-Law. She's simply terrific! I always enjoy eating eat her delicious cake and not to mention it's for free! Hahaha.LOL

Lastly, I also indulged myself into gardening. On our cute backyard, I got fruits, vegetable and some special kind of herbs. Planting is fun!!!
 
Favorite Music

Well, i'm very flexible. I almost listen to all sort of music, may it be R&B, Ballad, Disco, Reggae, or Rap music. However here are few lists of chosen artists and songs that I really love to hear:

International:
John Lord, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Black Eyed Peas, Gorillaz, Pink, Lenny Kravitz, N.E.R.D, Hoobastank, 3 Doors Down, Vertical Horizon, The Calling, Bon Jovi, Destiny's Child, Beyoncé, Maroon 5 and Rob Thomas.
 
German Artist:
Jeanette, Sarah Connor, Sasha, No Angels, Söhne Mannheim, Fanta 4, Juli and more....
 
Philippine Artist:
Regine Velasquez, Randy Santiago, Louie Heredia, Ariel Rivera, Gary V., Raymond Lauchengco, Gino Padilla and more....
 
Favorite Cartoons
Snoopy, Garfield, Fido Dido, Sitting Ducks, The Simpsons, Donald Duck and
Hello Kitty
I love this cat. I remember during my elementary years (grade 3), my parents and I are often visiting our Bank. As a Happy saver's club member, they giving out varieties of gifts. Hello Kitty stuffs were always been my first choice and I was always happy with it. Until now, I still treasure this wonderful childhood memory. I have Hello Kitty empty Telephone Cards and Bags.
 
Raggedy Ann
The story began as my Dad gave me a complete Raggedy Ann Album with its dresses and accessories. Unfortunately, it was stolen by a classmate of mine in school and never return it back to me. That was really a sad thing. But thanks to the modern technique. I have been able to find some Raggedy Ann Images again through the power of internet. And that's after 20 long years! yuhuuu.
 
Favorite Sport

skiing, ice skating, tennis, swimming, ski-jumping, bob sledge, Formula 1 and

Paris-Dakar
I wish to be a Rallye driver or just a co-pilot someday. Well, together with my hubby, I was already been as his co-pilot in an Italian Rallyer in Gradisca, near Yugoslavia. It was fun but it caused me terrible headache. Because during the whole tour, I was reading Italian streetmap and translating at the same time. As we joined for the first time in 1996, we won a trophy, although i did not really understand what we won, nyahahahaha!!!. We drove Toyota Land Cruiser HDJ-80.....
 
.....then Land Rover Discovery
 
.....and presently, we are driving Land Rover Defender. Amazing isn't it??
 
Both Pictures from Toyota Land Cruiser and Land Rover Defender was taken during our Italian 4WD Rallye.
 
Favorite Games

My favorite online games in Shockwave.com are Bookworm, Scrabble, Wild Wild Word, Word Mojo, Wordsense Challenge, Word Up, Toss Words, and Qbeez. I play Literati and Word Racer in Yahoo Games. And I also play different games in Myspace.com.

I also enjoy playing sketch. It is a sort of a guessing game. To play this, one has to choose a room which has always 10 players on it. A certain player draws something and the other 9 must guess what it is. Of course, the higher the score , the greater chance of winning it.

These games are also interesting for me: Siedler (it is like civilization, i think), War Craft, Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, Capital, Sim City, Theme Park and a whole lot more....