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 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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

To go with the automation, a new Epson LX300+II dot matrix printer was bought for easier printing compatibility and to save a big chunk of amount on the printing budget since the ribbon refill only costs Php 68.00 in one of the local computer suppliers here in the city (Brother ink cartridges are just way absurdly charged — Black: Php 995.00–1,050.00, Cyan/Magenta/Yellow: Php 495.00–595.00; same is true with HP but their ink cartridges are a little bit lower in cost than that of the Brother’s). We’ve also placed “to automate receipt generation from manual handwriting” as one of the items in our future plans (perhaps after the accounting computerization system is fully implemented), and a good Epson receipt printer will serve that purpose. Phase by phase, we’re getting nearer to the “real time reports” status, which is crucial in decision-making. The real work this time falls on us, the persons who are  the end-users of the system. I just hope we can master the flow and fully maximize the use of the system as soon as possible.

In my humble opinion, parents prepare us to face the real world but it is our decisions that make us the person we are now. Hence, make the right decisions because when we do, we make God, our parents, and ourselves proud. So for a more meaningful life, seek God, live each day trying the best we could to be pleasing in God’s eyes, learn from failures, and find others with similar values.