Daily Happy Thoughts

Recently, Tony (in addition to Borski) has made the observation that my beer belly was already increasing in size. This was also evident during my recent thorough medical evaluation in which I was told to try and reach my toes, and in my most serious attempt, I discovered that I couldn’t (sigh) reach my toes, owing to my already bulging stomach (sob…). This was the first time that this happened to me. I mean I did gain weight before, but not to the extent that I couldn’t reach my toes.

And now for the nth time, I have once again vowed to exercise more, and cut back on my food intake. So far, today, I have been successful. I don’t know however, if at dinner I will be as successful. I hope so. Or the alternative would be to get my hand on the best weight loss pills out there.

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I am excited to have made a discovery, thanks to Google! Hehe. I have recently discovered how to play Mafia Wars on mobile, thanks to the Bolt Browser I have downloaded over the internet. Mafia Wars is one of the more popular game applications on the social networking site Facebook.

If any of you are interested, Bolt Browser can be downloaded here.

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Recently, on the recommendation of the doctor who assessed me during a thorough medical exam, I decided to have the warts on my neck removed. All in all, I think I had about 8-10 of those removed, including 2 really humongous ones. :) Borski has been reminding me and egging me on to do something about those since it was only basic hygiene to take care of one’s own skin, which includes, in my case, having my warts removed.

I guess in a way, the title of this post would somehow be in contradiction since, in all practicality, if it were due to hygienic considerations, then I guess you couldn’t call it vanity, right? LoL. Just playing with words here. And now that both Borski and I have crossed the big three-oh, we must be more selective of the food we eat, since especially I am gaining more weight. Also, I think it wouldn’t hurt to look up and compare anti aging products on the market already, or is it too early for that yet?

Weight loss is first and foremost. Vanity can come, when I can already afford it. LoL.

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My brother, Andrew will be leaving tentatively on the 13th of March for his overseas on-the-job (OJT) training in the United States. He was approved for a visa last Wednesday, which is precisely the reason why he was here in Manila last week. He will be headed for Virginia where his OJT training will be. Hopefully, he will have earned enough skills to prepare him for the job hunting that will follow after he graduates. I just hope by that time, there will be a lot of jobs out there, considering the poor state of the economy right now.

On a lighter note, I’m guessing he will be missing home-cooked meals for a while.

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Last Saturday, as I watched my brother Andrew go through the pre-departure area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA 3), I couldn’t help but feel a little a little heavy, especially since considering the present crossroads that I am in this point in my life. Although it was but a trip from Manila to Dumaguete, the meaning was not lost on me as I pondered on the career decision that is before me.

As he made his way inside, some part of me was hoping he’d throw a backward glance my way just to tell me, wordlessly, that everything would be okay. Then I remembered how Ray must have felt as he was leaving for Dubai. Then I felt my chest get even heavier.

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I remember back when I was in elementary, on the place where our 3-door apartment now stands, the home in which I grew up in. Back then, I used to think that the lot was so big, when in fact it was just a mere 200 square meters of lot area, fenced and utilizing the whole area. Throughout my 16+ years of stay in that area, I’ve witnessed the many transformations that the place undertook.

First we had the wooden picket fence, then the garage to accommodate the owner type jeep that we had that time, then to the concrete fence and then the structure being demolished to give way to the modern building that it is now. Throughout the latest remodelling, while the walls of the building were broken down, the marble tile flooring and the fence was retained. Looking back, I wonder how much we have spent on the countless remodelling jobs. But I guess you could say we had to make do with what we had that time, since we just took over the building, and we couldn’t have planned how things would turn out, and you could say we just remodelled as the need arose.

Somehow, in the near future, I guess I could learn from this exercise and devote a considerable time in planning our coming home, and hopefully avoid the costly remodelling jobs that I’d witnessed. With that in mind, I think I’ll seriously consider the option of using stainless steel tile, which I found online.

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On this heart’s day, give your loved ones nothing but the best, good-tasting doughnuts of the highest quality — Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!

I got one box all the way from Taguig!   Thank you, Langga!

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According to Richard Fletcher, the Deputy City Editor of Telegraph.co.uk,

The 3.5in floppy disk, once an icon of the computer age, is to be cleared from the shelves of PC World as demand for disks plummets.

Fletcher’s article PC World announces the end of the floppy disk was published online last 30 Jan 2007.

I cannot remember the last time I used a 3-in floppy disk (a.k.a. diskette). In like manner, I have not seen desktop computers and laptops with built-in floppy disk drives these days except for the CPUs at the Social Security System (SSS), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), and United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) offices. I would have to assume that these offices specifically ordered them from suppliers with such specs because their respective offices require their clients to submit data saved in these diskettes. What happened to the portable, stable thumb drives that replaced these floppy disks? Aptly, these offices should update their computerized system to be compatible with a USB device before the supply of floppy disks ran out in the market.

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