Oil Pulling

Have you heard of this new (or maybe not so new) breakthrough?

I've been trying to regularly perform the oil pulling process, and have successfully done so for the past 3 weeks. I'm trying this out mainly because I want to stop serious bouts of migraine that I keep having. It's also supposed to give you better sleeps at night, improve your heart's condition and remove toxins from the body... If it really does work, I'll disseminate the information! :)

Click on the link to find out more about Oil Pulling.

This frustrated photographer may have a future...

... I think! :D

I love taking pictures! Scenery, people, animals, flowers, infrastructures and all else. I have long admired people who could take such wonderful photos even with simple, low-end cameras. I view people's works on deviantart and multiply and flickr, and scan over photos I find breathtaking and beautiful... I then sigh and wish I could take pictures as great as those. :( I had two informal shooting lessons from my friend Ryan, who covers weddings and pre-nups and shoots models as a sideline. It was with him that I was able to first hold and shoot from a DSLR camera. Since then, I've been shooting at every occasion that I get... Only I had to do it using the family camera, a Sony point-and-shoot digicam, or my phone (a 3.2 MP Sony Ericsson). The results were not bad... but they were not good either!hehehe :(

I got a chance to shoot using a DSLR again during last semster's Market Expo, ME/IE International Conference, and during the summer at another photography tag-along in Taoist Temple. I have fallen in love with the DSLR camera, and spent the summer of 2008 trying my best to earn money to save up for my very own DSLR, and the semestral break helping out at home to try and get on my dad's good side so he'll sponsor my dream cam.hahaha When at long last my dad gave in and asked me to canvass for the cheapest price of my desired camera model, I was so excited that I spent the whole day comparing prices on the Internet. However, I found the prices to be too high, and felt guilty at having to ask for something so expensive. So I momentarily abandoned the dream of owning a nice cam.

But YEY of all YEY's! Last Wednesday, abovementioned Ryan was going to buy new lenses from a "suki" store in Manila (that costs PhP82,000...wahhhh!), and told me that if I bought my camera along with his lens, I could probably get it cheaper, and that we could also split the freight cost. To make the long price story short, I got my camera (with accessories) at PhP10,000 lower than the price of the same model sold at SM, and PhP2,000 lower than its price at the cheapest camera store in Cebu! :D Not only that, but I got a FREE camera bag that should have cost me an additional PhP1,900! My cam arrived last Friday ( November 21), and I already got to bring it to the farm to try it out. :) Like any brand new thing that I get, my new cam is getting special care and attention. It is stored safely, carried around carefully, and meticulously guarded... hihihi :D
hehehe OA I know, but give me a break, considering how hard it was to finally acquire it. Give me a couple of months and I may be able to behave a little normally.hehehe :D

I'm hoping school will be a little considerate in the following days so I can get out and have time to try stuff out with it. It hasn't left its case since Sunday...but the manual does not anymore look new!hehehe Anyway, enough of this long introduction. It's time for the climax of this post.hehehe Meet my Nikon D60.... Archibald! :D

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I rarely show myself in YM. I go online but use my stealth settings to appear invisible to all my YM-mates.hehehe :D Oops, secret's out! =p Well, out of desperation in searching for a Feasibility Study to conduct for our, well...Feasibility Study course, I decided to go online with a status message that read:
" Any topics/suggestions for our Feasibility Study?"

Let me share with you the good...and the crazy ideas people had.
Friend 1: Casino La! Feasible man sya!
Friend 2: Disneyland theme park in Cebu! Or if mas nahan mu lower scale sa... Enchanted Kingdom!
Friend 3: Try daw chopsticks na hollow para pwede mahimu ug straw! Chopsticks when eating, then just submerge sa imu drink to sip... hahaha
Friend 4: Drive thru movie, like sa Flintstones!
Friend 5: Try doing a business with a concept like ebay...except for the online part. People leave stuff they want to sell with you, and you just put a markup on the original prices they give.
Friend 6: A mall! A mall!
Friend 7: Customized coffins! Hahahaha
Friend 8: Tshirts that insult other schools!
Friend 9: Vendo machine na RICE!
Friend 10: Reloadable cards na e swipe nalang ig ride sa jeepney La! Suwayi daw...hahaha
Friend 11: Kanang foldable na chair nga naa nay umbrella, cup holder, etc! With all accessories na!
Friend 12: Instant egg! para ma eat anytime...anywhere!

Hahaha! Thank you YM-friends, I had a lot of laughs that night :D

Purple Fiasco!

Our female labrador Debbie has been having flea problems for quite some time now. My mom, ever sensitive to the needs of everyone around her, could not stand Debbie's suffering itches. So she went ahead and bought a medicinal spray that guaranteed the elimination of every single inhabiting flea on a dog's body. After incessant egging from my mother to treat Debbie's fleas, my brother finally gave in and went off to spray the medicine on Debbie. Unknown to us, the spray was not your ordinary odorless, colorless aerosol. It had a color...
PURPLE!

Thus happened Debbie's purple fiasco!hehehe Pictures to follow! :D

Flowers for Algernon

My Japanese teacher made us bring home a book, "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes. It's supposed to be a classic, yet I have never heard of it. With nothing better to do after we got home from church last night, I started reading it. I just finished the book and I have to applaud the storyline. The book is in a journal-entry form that records the author's intellectual progress credited to an experimental surgery. It is so well-written that except for a few momentary lapses, you actually see the world through the eyes of Charlie Gordon. You feel his struggles, his confusion at all his newfound knowledge, and you feel his fear of being laughed at and his fear of regressing back to his original retarded state.

The parts of the story that touched me the most were the parts of the journal when Charlie innocently marked down happy events in his life when he was laughing with the people that he thought were his friends, yet was unknowingly the butt of their jokes. His simple mind did not permit him to see what was really happening, and so he saw only good in everything and everyone in his life. Sadly, attaining intelligence turned Charlie into a suspicious cynic who became angry at the world.

A must-read!