Daily Happy Thoughts

My escapades and Island-hopping getaways are now equated to a grade. Yey! Thanks to Kerslyn for this tag. I’m hoping there will be more to visiting additional locations in the Philippines with Nai. This early, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nai as well (LOL).

I definitely would like to know how much Queenz, Debbie of Dana, Pharaoh, Shimumsy, Utah Mommy and Lutchi have traveled our very own country before you settled to where you are now.

My Lakbayan grade is C+!

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A minute in your lips, forever in your hips.

I think I am in need of diet pills that work. I have heard that line mentioned about warning me before of the pitfalls of not controlling my diet. That was around 10 years ago. That time, I was still a size 26, so naturally I scoffed at that friend of mine who told me that. I was eating anything I liked, and still I didn’t gain any weight.

I could just remember how my dad would buy all sorts of food supplements and any additives that would increase our appetite while we were still growing up because we were so thin, you would have been able to say that perhaps were hard up on cash. LOL.

Fast forward to today. Just to give you an idea of our situation, my mother’s co-teachers would ask her whenever they saw my brothers, “What have you been feeding your kids, they look so healthy?” Come to think of it, only my dad has been able to maintain his waistline, which now is at 32. All of us are above that measurement.

Anybody wanna guess mine?

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Just last March, there were 3 graduates from our house. Remember that post about the lechon (roasted pig)? Yeah. That one. Hehe.

Well, now that they have graduated, it’s on to more serious decisions as to that course to take up in college. My brother Andrew I think has already made up his mind on his decision to take up Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM). Well, regarding that career track, I don’t know a lot of things, so it’d be probably best not to ask me about that one. LOL.

So far, in our brood of 6, I have graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Ray has an Accountancy Degree, Ellen has her Nursing degree, while Clyde is still at work with his Bachelor of Arts degree (hopefully to pursue a Law degree after..hopefully). Then there’s Andrew with his preferred HRM course, and Anthony, well….I still don’t know what his inclination is towards. Anyway, he still has a year to think about it as he will still be in his final year in high school come June.

I remember when it was my time to decide on what career path to take, I had apprehensions then too. Questions like, “What if I don’t like my chosen course?” or “What if I make a wrong decision?” certainly have bothered me during those times. In my high school batch where there were only a total of 20 of us who were males, certainly no one would have brought up the career choice of being an ultrasound technician. Heck, we didn’t even know where to find ultrasound schools or sonography schools at that time. Those words were not yet in our vocabulary during that time. LOL.

Anyway, out of the 20 males, 15 of us took up mechanical engineering and graduated. Talk about joining the bandwagon. Well, it may appear that way, but I knew early on what my inclination was towards, and what got my brain all worked up. It has been many years since I have graduated, and I have never regretted having made that decision.

For me, it was just simply a matter of “knowing what you want and going for it.”

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Recently, I signed up for SocialSpark, which was launched by Izea to create yet another way for advertisers and bloggers to connect and do business. Apart from being an opportunity to make money through blogging, SocialSpark is also about community.

Once you are signed up, you can be free to interact with fellow bloggers and give them props or drops whenever you feel like doing so. You can also make friends with other bloggers. So you see, it isn’t at all pure business. What’s more, they are pretty serious about their code of ethics which is:

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Buzz is going around in the cosmetic surgery community of the Philippines after an American named Louem Martinez aka. Louem Boschuk filed a criminal complaint against popular cosmetic surgeons in the country.

The complainant filed this complaint asking for PhP 26 million against Doctors Manny V. Calayan and Pie Calayan due to a penile enlargement operation gone wrong. This operation was said to have cost around PhP 145,000 (roughly $3,450). Martinez claimed that after the operation his penis became “badly deformed, sagged and bumped,” and that he was feeling pain. Despite assurances by both doctors that the pain will go away, still the pain persisted and the appearance of his penis did not change.

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Hearing of this news, I just think that the complainant would have been better off researching first on the other alternative ways to get a penile enlargement. For one, there are products such as maxoderm.

On the internet, he could have easily researched on maxoderm review to be more informed as to what the best course of action would be. If he had, he might have discovered that there are already maxoderm pills, which is a far cry from the physical risk he undertook on the surgical procedure that went wrong.

If you ask me, I think it can be likened to jumping without looking. Too bad it didn’t work out for Mr. Martinez as planned.

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If you are a fan of the supernatural action-mystery manga, you should do well to check out the movie DeathNote, which is coming to select theatres nationwide for 2 nights only on May 20 and 21. This feature is courtesy of NCM Fathom and Viz Pictures, and is English dubbed.

Death Note follows the story of Light Yagami, an ace student who finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals mysteriously begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective “L” to investigate, and he is soon hot on the trail of Light, who must now reevaluate his noble goal. Both Light and L believe themselves to be on the side of justice, and the two match wits as they attempt to prove which one of them is “good” and which one of them is “evil.”

If you are a fan of this particular genre, why don’t you check it out.

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