Organic Skin Care

With the increasing demands for work, financial stability, and health among others, experts are looking for ways to improve health conditions of the society. However, our lifestyle and media dictate that we have to be always on fast food to beat the rush. We tend to ignore our need for healthy diet, exercise and good rest. All these actually contribute to fast skin aging.

I have read articles of those who have outlived the many that their primary secret is simply eating healthy. Consequently, this affirms that when we say "healthy," it means going for natural food. I researched right away what could contribute to healthy diet. What came out is the increasing need for organic food. Studies show that organic food brings more mineral levels in fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy compared to conventional food.

With these researches, experts of Emerge Labs had created Emerge Organic Skin Care solutions that fight aging. They make use of Stem Cell Serum from organically produced Swiss Apples that can protect skin cells by its capacity for self-renewal, thus, combating aging. These rare apples generate an organic ingredient called PhytoCellTec Malus Domsestica which boosts the production of human skin stem cells and protects human skin stem cells from stress. This is indeed a great breakthrough.

The Emerge Labs has wide choices of Organic Skin Care solutions that complement science and beauty without worrying on health issues.

Chicken Pox in the House

My partner had grown chicken pox and he had been complaining about his painful stomach and and fever the other night. We thought it was just simple change of weather and food, but, yesterday, he had grown blisters. Yikes!

So, everyone agreed it is indeed chicken pox. We were just anxious since there are kids in the family. So, I immediately bought some anti-virus and anti-bacterial spray just to neutralize the air. I asked my mother if my siblings and I had our chicken pox before. I had my kid immunize of chicken pox. Consequently, I don't worry much.

We now isolated him in a separate room and asked him to put on a mask. However, we had to ask him to still work on the shirt printings because of pending job orders. We only hope, no one gets infected and he would get well soon!

Canceled Mountain Climb

We are supposed to join MSU-Gensan in their outreach program to a community in Mt. Parker, Lake Sebu and instead of just taking the usual route of riding. They decided to just traverse the lands from Gensan City to this great place.

We were quite excited and I set my mind to be absent from classes so we could join the group. My bags and tent are all set. Unfortunately, the climb will take three days and I couldn't bring my kid as the trail will be difficult and stiff. So, we have to give up on this supposed-to-be exciting adventure. Sigh!

I couldn't leave my kid alone with my family as he will drive everyone mad. So, I guess I shall just wait for that next climb in Summer. Perhaps, by then, I can bring my kid and have fun all together!

How Do You Rate Your Country?

I am a graduate of Masters in Public Administration and I am supposed to find root causes of our country's problems and suggest solutions. We have the brightest in the government but we are quite dull in terms of implementation. Do I still see hope for Filipino? Yes, I do but we have to at least change our value system to really move forward and prosper. What other recommendations and solutions do you see fit for us, Filipinos?

Soccsksargen Bloggers Hang Out in Genee's

Last Thursday morning, our community's Guru, Bariles, texted us to join him in a rendezvous in GenSan's new resto right in the very corner of where usual city gatherings are held. We right away, confirmed our attendance.

Busy picture taking and surfing!

I still had my classes until 7 pm, so my sister, Tammy and partner, waited for me to finish my work, and we headed straight to this new place. The resto was so welcoming with its very wide reception area. We spotted the group and the stories were endless. We missed their previous gathering in Grab a Crab, but, we enjoyed the night with the sumptous meals of Genee's.

The Soccsksargen Blogger Cast at Genee's

We wondered where they got the name from "Generals," referring to the people of Gensan. But, since the word connotes a masculine tone, they named the place Genee to sound sweet and relaxing. They hold beautiful pictures of the Generals, and I felt like I was in a museaum! The place has WIFI services, so we had the chance to dine and surf the net.COOL!!!

We got to meet other bloggers who unfortunately missed the MBS2. Our beloved Bariles laid the possible gatherings for the community and we were all that enthusiastic to hung out again in different occasions! We sure had great fun at Genee's and will surely come back and ask our friends and family to check this new place! This resto makes us even more proud of our city! CONGRATULATIONS to the staff and management of GENEE!

David Pomeranz: Songs That Serenade the Soul

My husband and I have been lovers when I was only at Grade 6, and he was on his junior high school when we were still in Zamboanga City. I was all pretty shy then, but he indeed pursued me well. But, when my parents knew this, I was cut from his life and was fully guarded to-and-from school. I only had the songs of yesteryears, particularly of David Pomeranz, to reminisce the happy moments we had together. Every day I would wish that I would bump into him. That wish was granted when we were back together when I was already on my sophomore secondary schooling. But fate indeed tricked us again and we were parted by distance since my family had to relocate for good in Gen. Santos City. For four years, we lived through distant relationships until we separated our ways again and fall for someone else.

In spite of our individual relationships, I could only recall his vivid face on my memory and the songs we both loved. After five years and our third separation, he went to see me in GenSantos City and asked me to marry him, I just said YES without second thoughts! One of the songs we both love that bound me and my hubby through separations was Pomeranz' OLD SONGS which I luckily grabbed from Youtube.com.



And, now through the blog contest of Bariles, I had known that David Pomeranz will be holding a concert on Lover's Day and one of their cool sponsors is Grab a Crab, where we happened to hold get-togethers with very great food with melodramatic and elegant ambiance at unbelievable prices.


I really hope to be in his concert and relive every piercing love song he had written and sung and personally thank him of how he inspired us couple to live through and found one another again. I always appreciate his songs. His lyrics speaks truly of love, hope, and dreams that I can't help but reflect on how a man's songs could actually speak through your heart and dig into your soul without an effort. This concert is indeed a worth-giving gift to a loved one on a very very special day. I only wish it could be my very gift to my husband.

TGIF Again!

Tomorrow is Friday and it means, I can lay low with my lectures and works and prepare instead for my masteral classes during the weekend. Do I call this rest? Hahhahaha, this is indeed rest already.

I just consumed my late afternoon earlier watching a kid's movie with my son, and just enjoyed my snacks with my family. This is indeed one of the things I crave lately, fun, family and rest!!!!

We shall however consume our day tomorrow in school for a research talk. Hmnnnn, I rather wish I shall be somewhere else but there.hahahhahah!

But, thank God it is Friday again!Yepey!

Exciting Unique Digital Frames for Everyone

Who does not take pictures in occasions like birthdays, weddings, births and even deaths? We seem to bring our cameras everywhere we go.

My family and friends, here and abroad have large bulks of pictures from their old cameras of films and digital cameras. I can see stack of albums in every room for special occasions or otherwise just to capture that happy moments with family and friends. I can see even very old pictures whose papers have been dilapidated by time and use. Some good pictures are actually torn if not scraped or tampered. My family had to scan their old family pictures of 1940's and 1960's since they were worn out already. I could feel their sentiments as the pictures could not really be fully restored. I wish that digital cameras have come as early as those years.Then, it would be more fun!

But with technology's pace and advancement, we have digital cameras at very affordable prices. But the thing is, we just keep the pictures in their storage disks or print them. We have to skim over the pictures through our cameras and shift between storage media just to see the older pictures. I then asked my family if we could find a way to keep our digital pictures intact and for posterity.

I right away checked what are the latest media for digital pictures. There I saw Ceiva digital photo frames where I can upload pictures through emails or phones and cameras. I can then share all these wonderful pictures anywhere in the world with so much ease. More importantly, they have this PicturePlan where I can store all my limitless pictures and my family's and see them through a slide show. I can even customize these pictures and send them as post cards to to distant friends and relatives. Further, my friends can send through these great frames their pictures for free! These frames provide security that only my friends and family can send through the pictures. So, pranks and unwanted senders are actually blocked. All I have to do is set my security feature on and connect the digital frames through phone line or WIFI connection should I go out from the house and bring this special frame with me.

With this frame, I can wake up each day and reminisce all the special moments from yesteryears. How much is this unique frame? The company has a new special offer of $29.99 with one year subscription of PicturePlan and they offer free ground shipping. Now this is worth every penny. I shall indeed recommend this to my friends and family.

Hardened Life in the Philippines

Before 2008 ended, I had been hearing global financial crisis. But, here in the Philippines, that seems to be so natural since we have been crisis since time memorial. Is this comforting enough for the government or even for us, Filipinos?

Now that 2009 has started, we are bombarded with more discouraging and dismal news of job unemployment like from Intel's closure where 20,000 Filipinos are sure to be unemployed. Then, to add some salt to injury, our government is telling us that there are jobs for these unemployed and for the coming graduates. Then, how come, we are considered 5th hungriest nation in the world?

I could only feel sorry for other Filipinos who are jobless and hopeless. Now, we can only hear more aggravating news like more bank and company closures, Ebola virus, pre-need insurance scams, politicians' bickering and extended- but- compromised college education.

It is really devastating. Our store is now struggling with low- to- zero sales. I have to think of ways how we can generate income in spite all these

I wish the politicians and Filipinos will really unite so we can rise up fully from all sorts of crises.

Sleepless Days

I have been working late on EC dropping, checking of students' papers and Java programming. And, after all these short-in-sleeps nights, I have to wake up very early so I can go attend to my classes on time. These are now my routine works since I chose to continue my masteral schooling this second semester.

We don't have our Sunday classes anymore, so at least, I have a day's rest to recharge for a long week again. Tsk!Tsk!Tsk!

My request for dropping my subject load didn't go through since there is no available teacher to take my post.waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! I could only pray for insanity!

What is Your Barbie Moment?

When my sister and I were kids, we were never really given Barbie dolls instead, we were given robots and other boy stuffs. Seldom that my parents would buy us, or me particularly some good dolls. But my friends in the neighborhood would play with us and their Barbie dolls. I could only envy them. So, I asked my parents to buy us too but with harder life at that time, Barbie dolls seemed only for the well-off. I only cried out loud since I could not have it!

But, when I grew up and started working, my passion for Barbie dolls was unabated. I would always go to the mall and Barbie's section and wonder and praise the beautiful collections of dresses and Barbie doll varieties. I wish to have one and play it with my kid. But since I have a son, I could not at all buy him these. So, I played with my little sister in-law, and dressed up the Barbie dolls she had. It was a great time with her but I still wish to finally have my own Barbie doll for collection!



I could only be happier to see this widget through Social Media Network. You can get your own widget here and view it yourself. I praised the talented girls the CosmoTV featured. The girls can indeed inspire everyone to follow their dreams. I enjoyed watching Amy Poehler and the ladies interviewing the young ones. They indeed enjoyed every minute with them. The show is a great avenue for these youngsters to be exposed and to be inspired to go on with their love for music! For sure, the other youngsters would be inspired to make their talents exposed and harnessed.

Barbie should be complimented too for putting up this show. Their need to showcase these talented and smart girls is a big plus! Barbie inspires not only the young kids but even adults like me! Kids and adults should not be wealthy to chase their dreams! These talented girls are proofs that anything is possible when you just believe in yourself.

Wordless Wednesday!

This is one happy time with my kid, wordless but having him by my side makes my day recharged and fulfilled!

Having a Big Family in a Small House

We are just sisters in the family with my parents. We seemed to be the average-sized family, and when we started leaving the house for school and work, the house has become quite lonely. There was a time, only my parents and my youngest sibling were left at home,as the elder siblings were all out of town.

But, now that we all came back except our third sibling and with my kid and my sister's, and partner, the house has became frantically wild.Each morning has become a yelling time so the kids would move and prepare for schools. Hahahahahahah!

We may have a small house but I would never want it the other way. I love my family and my time with them in spite of everything. Cheers to family and life!

Fun at Grossology Exhibit

I am a teacher for over a decade and one of my problems is to get the attention of my students without the usual disruptions. I normally connect our subjects to real-life situations so they can clearly comprehend and visualize the lessons. I ask them of their good or bad experiences, so the entire class may learn from actual experiences. Some students really show their interest to learn while others are as passive.

This is also the problem I get from my kid and nephew while I guide them through their preschool classes. Their attention span is actually so short that I keep on looking for ways to help them more and to make them appreciate learning at their young age.

Two of my strategies are stories and books filled with funny and interesting pictures. Truly, my kid and nephew remember well the stories and scenarios with them. Thus, I constantly search for materials and ways how I can help them learn more and be ready when they shall enter into formal education.

I never appreciated school before, particularly science, because I got bored. But, when my old school brought us to another school's open house and museum filled with preserved animals and babies, I began to appreciate the subject better and dreamed of wanting to become a doctor and a teacher!!!

Good thing that there is a Grossology Exhibit - Orlando Science Center that can help youngsters and adults to learn more about science, the impolite and funny way. This is a hands-on and a colorful exhibit for everyone about health and biology.

Normally, students find science and health topics boring, but through the exhibit on January 31, 2009, the kids can see, learn, and have fun with animatronics and inventive exhibits that disguise learning through gross stories about colds, body odor, body anatomy and more!

I can already anticipate the unique learning the kids will get from this exhibit. This is in partnership with Science World, Advanced Exhibits and the well-known Grossology author, Silvia Branzei who hosted the successful Animal Grossology in 2006.

The exhibit at Orlando Science Center is guaranteed to bring fun because we can try and test our Grossology knowledge through various trivia activities and games. We can have great time too by climbing the human skin rock wall, moving down through the 30-foot slide, or meeting Nigel Nose-It-All character who teach about allergies, colds and stuffs! Who can say now that science is boring?

Orlando Science Center holds too a lot of learning exhibits, from nature works, dinosaur finds, and laboratory technologies to space experience. This place holds it all. This is indeed a seat of learning where every visit is sure to be fun-filled! I will surely ask my family in Wisconsin to watch this exhibit and I am sure, the kids will remember this great place!

Dropping my Many Works Dead but Hunting

As an IT masteral student,teacher, entrepreneur, writer, adviser, mother, wife, blogger, finally decided to ask my boss to drop one teaching subject I have and my school publication advisory so I can rest a bit. I am indeed missing a lot of fun, sleep and my kid is deprived again!

I am enthusiastic and passionate with my works, but my body is complaining already. My head drums a lot and the back is consistently with excruciating pain. I know I really have to rest, and do my jogging routines to help my back. But, I can't really have these done, as every minute has its valuable task appointment.waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I really hope my boss can finally find a substitute teacher for my class otherwise, I am left with no choice but to finish this semester with 33 hours of teaching subjects! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

Nasty Colds Again!

The weather is getting cranky again. It indeed shifts to very very hot weather, then we get to have rains on late afternoons or the next day.

Now, my morning allergy becomes difficult as it persists until the end of the day. Sigh!!!!! I don't get to sleep much too because of my works. This has contributed to my dilemma.

My nephews and kid are having cough. Goodness, we seem like carolers and crying babies with all the sniffs and growl.Hahahhahahah!

I hope that we all get better soon.

I Teach Blog!

As an educator, I have to find means to help my students learn, through typical lecture or otherwise. When I started blogging, I was elated that I can meet friends, learn more and earn extra.

So, I taught blogging to my students that they may appreciation what a blog can do. With the lectures we have in the classroom, I get to ask them to use the internet resources to complement the lectures and use their blog to present their works.Hahhahahahha! Some students would just stick to answering their assigned activities while others are that creative to make their blogs presentable. I get to know them more especially, those who spill out their heads and emotions on some issues I normally present or voluntarily they would provide. Hmnnnnn, this is one interesting side of teaching that I will always love!

I wish that I can teach them how to write XML and HTML code so they can improve their blogs. Now, that is one vision, I wish to eventually solve. Perhaps, when I have the time. . . .

Scary Pet You Should Love But Keep Secured

Our Gia, wearing an airsoft vest for her fashion show

Having a home in a remote place with neighbors so distant and unattached, we decided to buy our own guard dog. Our first pet was a dalmatian but when she was one year old, on Christmas Day, we found her dead and bloody. She was a very sweet dog and would always welcome people even strangers. This I think is a typical trait of dalmatians. So, when she died, it indeed scared us a lot. You see, we had our neighbors who were robbed on different occasions. Thus, we wanted to be more vigilant.

We decided to buy a more protective guard dog, and we have a German Shepherd, named Gia. We got her when she was three months old. So she could not eat seafood and trash, we leashed her but that made her so aggressive. As she gets older, her bark gets louder and stronger. Our guests would not at all come near her because, she could jump on anyone easily without warning. She is that scary that she had ripped apart and eaten whole the puppies of our native dogs and her very own puppies when she gave birth. Thank God, that until now, no one had dared to trespass our land, and our home!

So, when I saw this contest for pet pictures, I easily uploaded Gia's picture. The site not only allows me to boost my pet but it allows me also to win as much as $500. I created my account in a flash and easily uploaded the picture. I had the chance to see too other funny pet pictures!

I had the chance too to read some 101 Home Selling and Staging Tips. And since, I am into entrepreneurship and business opportunities, the tips indeed help a lot for any amateur or professional home seller! Energized Seller is a community of home sellers who innovate their homes so they can be sold quickly at higher rate. The community is composed of professional home sellers who give practical advices and insights on how to improve your home and make it marketable. They can help you with any home-selling issue and concern. More importantly, the registration is free! Now, why don't you check it yourself to believe!

Crisis for Blogging Opps!

When I started to receive paid reviews, I would always love to blog and keep on blogging. Somehow, even if this blog doesn't have its own domain name, at least, I get to write paid review once every week or every other week. But, with global financial crisis, waaaaaaaah, opportunities are at dismal rate and frequency.

Tsk!Tsk!Tsk! I really hope things would be better, esp. in USA, where opps would usually come from. I am indeed keeping my fingers and toes closed.hahahahah!

Aging but Enjoying

I am more than 30's already.waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! I love my age anyway but I somehow envy the young ones who seem to enjoy their age and their enthusiasm for life. I never really enjoyed my younger life. So basically that is the reason why I want to do a lot in spite of my age. Late bloomer indeed! Hahahahhaha!

I am into mountain climbing, outdoor sports to include war games, business and parties.Hahahahahha! I can say it is never too late to have fun with friends and family. Unlike years ago, I treat my teaching career as only a secondary passion. I feel more alive when I design accessories and think of ways how the store can do better in spite of economic crisis.

I am enjoying my time too with my kid. He is one of the many areas in my life who lack attention. I am decided already to stop schooling this summer so I can recharge for the next semester. Hehehehe!

Probably, after this rest, I may not continue my masteral schooling anymore and just travel abroad. WOW!!!! Some wishful thinking, huh!