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My nose is itching like hell today. I do not know. I think it needs rhinoplasty. Just kiddin. Scratch scratch scartch!







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I can’t believe how much stuff we have accumulated as a family in over just a year’s time. With a growing family such as ours, I think it is inevitable that things just can’t just seem to stop from pouring in, especially with a young baby in tow. We really need to seriously consider purchasing some garage storage to get our belongings organized. Otherwise, it’s going to be mayhem at our place.

Things are starting to look up at home now. I think Erin is starting to sleep well once again at night time. I suppose it helped that we brought her to the mall twice this weekend. But I'm not getting my hopes up just yet. :P

I also think things are more manageable of late because I was able to pick up David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Curdoroy and Denim yesterday after six long months. Can you imagine six months?! Anyway, good thing it was the anecdotal type so I did not have to read from the start.

This has somehow sparked my former obsession once again of hoarding books! These past two weekends, I've already bought two books from Beakys. Currently, I am watching a few more on eBay. Oh dear, I think I know now where all those paid-post earnings will go to. Haha! :P

I know that Thalia has millions of Filipino fans, so I just wanted to notify you all of the great news that while we're all watching the reincarnation of Marimar on Philippine TV, 35-year-old Thalia has her own rebirth coming in the form of her first baby which she'll be giving birth to very soon. The father is of course her husband, Sony Music exec Tommy Mottola.


Thalía had a virtual baby shower yesterday with her fans, but the gifts weren’t for the daughter she’s expecting. The Mexican singer instead asked the online attendants to donate to a noble cause.

As a spokesperson for the March of Dimes foundation, organization whose mission is to prevent birth defects, preterm labor and infant mortality, she requested that all of her admirers donate to this honorable cause. “Nine months of a healthy pregnancy is the best gift you can give your future baby. In giving to the March of Dimes, my fans can help support vital research and programs to help babies and their families,” the artist expressed.

Thalia joined the organization in 2005 with the hopes of educating women about how to maintain a healthy pregnancy and avoid premature births. As part of the campaign I Want My 9 Months, the vocalist encourages women to take action pre-pregnancy by speaking to a doctor about the risks of preterm labor.

The March of Dimes foundation will use donations collected at the virtual baby shower to fund education programs, research, community service and advocacy.

You can make your donations here.

Marian Rivera, the 23-year-old star of GMA7's hit TV series Marimar graces the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine for the month of October 2007.

Pick up your copy today at your local magazine stand or National Bookstores nationwide!

A picture says a million words.

Most Filipinos have the false belief that Spanish mestizos are supposed to look ... well, Spanish, light skin, brown hair, aquiline noses, there's a stereotype that a Spanish mestizo is supposed to look like Enrique Iglesias or Pilita Corrales and be extremely rich, but a look at historic pictures of real Spanish mestizos show really how much of a false belief that is, because Spanish mestizos look like "normal" Filipinos. Spanish mestizos are normal Filipinos, although that's something that most Filipinos don't even realize because of an "us" and "them" mentality. Many Filipinos are mestizos, but they don't even realize it. You're a Filipino mestizo, and you don't even realize it.

Many Filipinos are mestizos and have Spanish blood, most times even without realizing that they're mestizo because the thing is that some Filipinos have more European blood than others, and often, only those Filipinos are referred to as mestizos, although in traditional Spanish speaking society, they would be referred to as castizos or criollos, while those with less European blood, although are mestizos, are never perceived as mestizos by Filipinos because of that social perception that equates being mestizo with having strong European looks, which is never always the case as most mestizos, just by looking at historic pictures of the first mestizos in the Philippines, real mestizos look like today's normal Filipino, meaning that many Filipinos are mestizos without even realizing it because of the social perception, and also because of the historical stigma associated with having Spanish blood out of marriage (las queridas), which happened a lot in Spanish colonies, and also in the Philippines, which would've urged many Filipinos to hide their Spanish ancestry in the past to avoid the social stigma of being la querida (mistress) or hijos de la querida (children of the mistress). It's usually only the officially recognized marriages between Spanish and Malay women that are officially recognized as mestizos, because the difference is, the official marriages had the wedding documents historically to prove it, the out of wedlock mestizos born from queridas didn't, although the Spanish blood in their future children and grandchildren are just as valid and real in those Filipinos, even though those future generations wouldn't even know about their Spanish ancestry if they're not informed about it even when it's very prominent in their facial features, or wouldn't believe their grandparents when they tell them about their Spanish great great-grandfather, which to young Filipino kids who look in the mirror and see that their brown faces don't match the PERCEIVED facial type of a Spanish mestizo, they believe what they're being told is a myth. But of course it's not.

Basically the point is, the people who should be most educated about all of the aspects of a culture is the people who come from that culture themselves, but in many Filipinos, unfortunately, that's not always the case. So especially if your kids are growing up outside of the Philippines, educate them about their Filipino culture and involve them in Filipino activities so they feel pride in their own culture, and in themselves, so that they're secure and confident in their beings when they present themselves to the world's society.

The way Philippine history is portrayed in our history books is in desperate need of clarification and renovation to fix the errors and holes in many areas, because it affects everything.

Discovering Philippines: Center for Historic Studies of Public Works and Town Planning Exhibition in Madrid, Spain

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Greetings from Tallahassee! Life's still upside down and sideways and I still haven't landed so I am hardly in front of a computer. When things return to normal, I will be back to my old demi-cybergeek self. Blogging up a storm about my new life...

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Injections of botox in San Diego are becoming famous these days. I tried doing a Google search for that phrase and 189,000 results were returned. I have heard of "botox" a lot of times before. It was even used in one of the cartoon shows that I saw (I forgot what it was) where it was called BatOx.

What is Botox?

A neurotoxin which, when used in very low doses, relaxes or temporarily paralyzes the contractive muscles which cause frown lines. Treatment is non-surgical in the form of injections which smooth deep persistent lines between brows or in the forehead. Botox paralyzes facial muscles, while Puragen fills in the space beneath wrinkles. Each acts in a different way, but may be used to complement each other.

Basically, based on how I understand it, botox eliminates unwated wrinkles for aging people. Is is safe for the patient's health? That, I'm not sure.

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It's got to be one of the most embarassing, if not excruciating experiences you could ever remember. That is, the moment when you ordered strange foods from a foreign restaurant only to find out that you are not used to eating raw, odd-tasting and very much Fear-Factor-like delicacies. (Sorry, pictures are not available to preserve everyone's sanity) And last week this happened to me as some of

What type of bike rack do you want?

Effects of hyponatremia on respiratory system: shallow, ineffective respiratory movements as a late manifestation r/t skeletal muscle weakness Effects of hyponatremia on neuromusclar system: generalized skeletal muscle weakness that is worse in the extremities Effects of hyponatremia on cerebral function: headache, personality changes Effects of hyponatremia on GI system: a.

What is Apgar scoring? Scoring test performed at 1 minute then at 5 minutes. If the score is less than 8, then it is probable that some measure need to be taken Each of the following gets a score of 0 – 2, giving a total score of 0 – 10: Heart Rate, Respiratory effort, Muscle tone, Reflex irritability, Color Describe the newborn sleep cycles. Defined according to duration, length of cycle

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A design I found from the star tattoos gallery.

While browsing the internet, i found this tattoo gallery where they feature different tattoo designs. When I was a kid, I heard that one of my uncle in Mati was scolded because he was discovered having a tattoo on his back. That was the time that "having a tattoo is bad" was instilled on my mind.

Aside from that, I also heard rumors that people with tattoos must
have been from prison. Of course, I don't people to mistake me as an ex-convict. They also say that people with tattoo might not be able to donate blood because they're blood is not good. (Probably because of the ink). Well I'm not sure with that but still, even if I have no tattoos on, I won't be donating blood anyway.

Lastly, they said that the you won't be able to have your VISA (for whatever country you want to go) approved if they find out that you have a tattoo. Of course I don't want to have tattoo as a reason why I can't travel abroad.

I don't know if these rumors are true. Whether it's true or not, I won't be having any permanent tattoo on my body.

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Prostate cancer symptoms often does not show, but locally extensive prostate cancer may produce obstruction of the ureters by the primary tumour, which may lead to kidney failure. Sometimes the cancer may spread to the bones.

Prostate cancer may be detected through routine rectal examination, blood test, biopsy, transrectal ultrasonography and bone scans.

HIFU, which is short for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, is a state-of-the-art technology acoustic ablation technique that utilizes the power of ultrasound to destroy deep-seated tissue with pinpoint accuracy for treatment of prostate cancer. HIFU focuses sound waves in a targeted area which rapidly increases the temperature in the focal zone causing tissue destruction.

The control and precision of HIFU reduces the risk of common side effects such as impotence and incontinence.

HIFU is a 1-3 hour, one-time procedure preformed on an out-patient basis under spinal or epidural anesthesia. Unlike radiation, HIFU is non-ionizing so it can be repeated if necessary without damaging healthy tissue. This means that HIFU can also be used as a salvage technique if other prostate cancer treatments fail.

Marian Rivera, the 23-year-old star of GMA7's hit TV series Marimar graces the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine for the month of October 2007.

Pick up your copy today at your local magazine stand or National Bookstores nationwide!

The star of GMA7's hit TV series Marimar, Dingdong Dantes, graced the cover of the Cosmopolitan 2007 CosmoMen Special with Jake Cuenca, Paolo Paraiso, Derek Ramsay, and Alfred Vargas.

These are the final prints I just received, my friends at Cosmo have finally followed my advice to stop overdoing it with the airbrushing on Photoshop to have a more natural look, and I congratulate them on a successful 2007 Bachelors special issue.

Pick up your copy today at your local magazine outlet or National Bookstores nationwide!

Yes, it's true ladies and gentlemen, Sharon Cuneta has become an overseas Filipino worker in London, England working as a caregiver.

The 41-year old megastar who looks amazing by the way for her age, has started filming her movie, "Caregiver in London," with director Chito Roño before leaving for a US-Canada tour earlier this week. It’s a dream come true for the actress to work with the award winning director.

"Caregiver in London" is a production of Star Cinema and will be filmed in, where else, but the United Kingdom, just like "Milan" and "Dubai", the previous critically-acclaimed productions of the film outfit shot in other countries.

In "Caregiver in London," Sharon plays a school teacher waiting for the petition of her husband who's working as a nurse in London. Playing Sharon’s leading man for the first time is John Estrada, while Makisig Morales is playing her son in the movie. While waiting for the petition of her husband, Sharon takes a course in caregiving. When she gets to London, she immediately finds work as a caregiver through the help of Jodi Sta. Maria.

In the film, Jodi is married to Jhong Hilario. Conflict and trouble arise for Sharon and John while they are in London and they realize that life in a foreign country is not for them.

Before Direk Chito leaves for London to start filming, he is set to wrap up work on the suspense-thriller, "Dagaw," starring Richard Gutierrez and Marvin Agustin for GMA Films.

John, meanwhile, is also busy with his latest TV series. He plays contravida to Vhong Navarro in "Lastikman." He was last seen as a villain in "Flordeluna."

To find out more, just pick up the latest Manila Bulletin.

If I joked in our quizzes or exams in college, I bet I would have been in big trouble. But in high school I always made fun of our seatworks in Christian class. I’m bad.



This came from the Top 10 Most Hilarious Test Answers. Patapete blogged about it days ago.

Now for the live action series/dramas/movies I wanted to blog about. I’m looking forward to most of these (actually all of them as I am curious!). First off is Mahou Sensei Negima! Live Action. A trailer is out. I found the Mahou Sensei Negima video from this blog. I’m not really impressed and I feel like I got excited for NOTHING. Negi’s hair looks bad.

Good news to Kenichi Matsuyama (L of Death and Shin in Nana) fans! Aside from his upcoming movie, L, look forward to the live-action adaptation of Kamui Gaiden. Kamui Gaiden contains the side stories to the original Legend of Kamui manga. Yōichi Sai will direct the movie. He’s best known for his work Chi to Hone. The shooting will start this November and release will be on 2009. (Source: ANN) I didn’t really like him as Shin in Nana though he was good in the Death Note movies. I can’t wait to see him in L and in this movie too. The next movie (I bet some of you will be surprised and won’t be too happy) is Voltron: Defender of the Universe. It’s said that with the success of the Transformers (2007) movie, New Regency Productions’ interest in doing this has increased. Justine Marks is the scriptwriter for this live-action. His plot description — …a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth’s invaders. — I think the movie will be more fun if he stuck with the original plot instead of making up one and just using the lion robots.

City Hunter, after several adaptations, there will be another but a TV series this time. The main actor will be Jung Woo-sung. I think I have the City Hunter anime and manga. I hope I can get around to watching the anime before the series is shown. A movie adaptation for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni will be shown on 2008. It’s a suspense/thriller story which makes me want to see. There are ‘fans’ though who are against this movie. They even have a petition to stop the movie production.

Mousou Shoujo Otaku Kei will have a live-action adaptation! For those who haven’t heard of this title, based on ANN — The romantic comedy manga series centers around an obsessive fujoshi (female fan of manga and novels featuring male-male relationships) who falls in love with a “normal” classmate in their first year in high school. — This will be a fun watch! I hope it’s a series. The news doesn’t say whether this will be a movie or series.

BL FANS! The ff. is major news for you. I got excited when I read about two BL titles being made into live action movies. First is Takumi-kun. Since Takumi-kun is a collection of novels, the movie will be based tentatively on its first story. The second is Ai no Kotodama by Konno Keiko. Here’s a short description of the 2-volume story:

After graduating from high school, Tachibana and Otani have finally confessed their love for each other and are living together. However, their co-habitation is totally ruined when they run into an old high school buddy, Yuki. Otani has always been suspicious of the friendship between Tachibana and Yuki. And honestly, his suspicions may not be that far off… –B-U Manga

Hopefully when they’re released, they’ll be ripped and subbed right away unlike Boys Love. For old news (I say old because I bet I’m the last to know of this among my LJ friends who are fellow fans), China will create a live-action TV series of THE PRINCE OF TENNIS. (Source: ANN)

Other series and movies I want to mention, but won’t go to details anymore are Hataraki Man, Robotech, and Speed Racer (yes, there’s finally news on this!)

Sources aside from ANN are this, this, and this.

Dear Yahoo! Mail,

I've been been a registered user of Yahoo since I was in first year high school. I was still an internet newbie back then. I was so amazed how e-mails work and how I could possible send a message to the other part of the world in seconds.

I was also fascinated on how you broke the old ways of sending messages. From hand written letters to plain electronic texts, you introduced multimedia in e-mails. I was one of those Yahoo Greetings fanatics. Everytime I go online, for no particular reason that I can remember, I usually check Yahoo Greetings for new electronic greeting cards. And whenever I find something new, I immediately send it to my few friends who has a Yahoo Email account.

E-mail in those days, as I remember, is usually associated with you. All of my friends use Yahoo mail in e-mails. The storage capacity was not even a problem back then. I was contented with the 6MB e-mail inbox capacity you have provided me. I even thought it was too much. I usually occupy less than 50% of my inbox during those days.

But my attention was driven to Google when GMail was still on its early stage. I was one of those people who were privileged to get an invitation to try GMail. During this time, I already understand how email systems work. I was fascinated with GMail to the point of forgetting you. The features that GMail offer is incomparable to what you already have. The storage was not even 10% of what GMail gives to their users.

I did not leave you yet. I still use you is receiving e-mails. You were my first love. I did not even bother asking other people to forward their emails on my Gmail account. But as time passed by, my fascination for you faded away. You were nothing compared to my Gmail account. But you tried to cope up. You provided us with more storage. You even tried to compete the AJAX powered interface of Gmail.

I am writing this letter to you because I am so disappointed with you. I hate the way you manage SPAM E-mails. A friend once sent me a Gmail invitation and you treated it as a spam because you were mad with gmail. Another friend, who is one of those Sacramento plastic surgeons, sent me a personal e-mail containing his business promotion, you considered it a spam. I have to digg my Bulk folder just to find that business promotion which I asked from them. Up to date, most of the e-mail I receive in your inbox are spam. I got tired of checking you everyday.

Your 'Mark as Spam' feature must be broken because I still receive these annoying spam messages. Ninety percent of my inbox are spam messages. Even if I have marked it as spam, it always keep coming back on my inbox. As of the time I wrote this line, two spam mails have already popped out of my screen.

I can never rely on you again like the way I did few years ago. In fact, you S*CK. Yes Yahoo Mail, you S*CK. Everytime I open your page, what I see is the Yahoo! Mail Loser logo. You are almost out of the scene.

Goodbye my old friend.










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The posse's feelin' groovy though I ain't feelin' fine
Sometimes I get so moody I think i'm outta line
And then I'm always edgy, I think I'm new and done
Could this get any better because I'm getting older

Wait till they come in the nick of time
The beautiful ones to caress my mind
The love they gave was so fittin' and sublime
Why do they tell us its a waste of time

We're playin' so much better, we're climbin' up the road yeah
But still I'm feelin' nowhere, somebody show me how
They tried to tell myself now, somebody showed me how
And get myself together, and find a posse-bility

The posse takes me to the ground to see what goes around
I'm feelin' very heavy, I'm fallin' off the crowd yeah

And so I told my fellas, I found myself again
Looked down, forget and wrecked us, I think we'll won again
I found a posse-bility, and now I cannot be with three
And now we feel so groovy, and then we can uptune

It's a waste of time

We got to try

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This fuckin' guilt torment you
It's only gettin' you reworked
Disgustin' thought caress your head
And you just can't forgive yourself

Don't blink, don't close your eyes
Coz here it comes, a big surprise
There's somethin' fuckin' inside you
Don't close your eyes, just let it catch you
Don't blink, don't blink

Direct me to put out the fire
When you should cross the final line
The feelin' of evil desire
The pleasure make me so divine

I still think you understand
Things are getting out of hand
What's the point of how you even think
I guess no essence until you've worked

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Heto na naman tayo
Paikot-ikot parang trumpo
Tugtugan dito, tugtugan doon
Hindi alam kung san paroroon

Hindi nyo ba alam kami'y nanlilibang
At nililibang lang namin ang aming sarili

Wow, eto na naman
Isang gabi ng tugtugan
Sige pa babanat pa kami
Wag lang sana magkamali

Hindi nyo ba alam kami'y nanlilibang
At nililibang lang namin ang aming sarili

Sige na, sumama na kayo
Sumama na kayo at bumigay na nang todo

Wow, wala yatang pumapalakpak
Tila ito'y nakakaiyak
Okey lang tutugtug pa rin kami
Wag lang sana magkamali

Di nyo ba nalalaman
Ang hirap na aming nararanasan
Di nyo na narama
Ang hirap na aming nararanasan

Sumama na kayo at nang umabot sa buong mundo

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