July 2008

June 2008 Nursing Board Exam Result

This year’s June 1 and 2 Nursing Licensure Exam produced 27, 765 registered nurses out of the 64,459 hopefuls. For the complete list of the successful examinees, click here. I am happy to note that one of the successful examinees is Nai’s sister MARY ELLEN OPADA GREGORIO (Seq. No. 12580). For the guidance of the [...]

The things that matter

These past few years, I have been witness to some of our family friends who have lost their valuables to foreclosure. I am talking of items such as motorcycles, appliances, to more important things like their homes. I guess we have fallen into tough times indeed. The prices of basic commodities are steadily rising. Rice, [...]

Travel Bug

As I had mentioned in a previous post in here, my parents had left for USA last month. They had been there from June 16 and they arrived here July 17th. As for me, I was out of Dumaguete since before they left, and wasn’t back until after they arrived. Oh well, the training for [...]

Hibernating

I guess you could say that is what we’ve been up to lately where blogging is concerned. I didn’t think we’d be this busy but I guess we have been these past few weeks. It has been compounded by a lot of things. Firstly, Borski’s laptop got down with a virus and she had to [...]

The Living Room

When you spend at least 8 hours a day in your house, this gives you approximately 2,922 house hours a year spent either indolently or productively busy. Alternatively, these hours make an occupant of the house have a favourite part (or parts for that matter) of a house. Mine is the living room. When I [...]

Unique, stylish faucets

Water conservation has become a global challenge. Plumbing manufacturing companies are meeting that challenge with both awareness and action by encouraging their customers to understand how they use water in their homes and business. Faucet.com offers an enormous selection of kitchen and bathroom faucets from major brands. But what catches my interest the most is [...]

Help in Dieting

I have recently read an article published in Medline Plus, which states that, “People with metabolic syndrome run four times the risk of heart disease and seven times the risk of diabetes”. It further reports that a person may have metabolic syndrome if he exhibits three of the following symptoms: abdominal obesity, high blood triglyceride [...]

Insomniac Nights

There would be nights that I lay wakeful. I would then have left the bed and sat outside the veranda, looking at the sky. On those nights, I tried to run my thoughts of the things I have so far done and did not do, whether I felt good or bad about myself by acting [...]