Season's Greetings

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,

for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away

like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf,

The good you do for others is good you do yourself...

~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Warning: Children are not allowed to play firecrackers

Merry Christmas to my reader.  Everyone is busy for Christmas celebration, few hours more and its Christmas day!!!  And after Christmas we are looking forward for the New Year. The Bureau of Fire protection 6 has warned children against playing firecrackers.   Let’s celebrate New Year in a peaceful way.  Hope there will be no children who will lose their fingers or hurt their body.  It is better if the children will light fireworks, they should be closely supervised by an adult.  Parents are responsible to educate their kids about the bad effects of firecrackers once it is mishandled.  Or it is better not to buy any single firecrackers if you have children below 12 years old.

The selling of firecrackers in designated area will last till December 31, 2011 only.  Vendors are also ordered to follows the guidelines for safety measures to avoid fire. Our mayor announces to have no smoking around the area of firecrackers zones.

Happy Holidays!!!

         

                           

It's Christmas Time

It’s been long times I haven’t update my blog because of my work!  Now Christmas is here, everybody is busy shopping for their presents for their love ones. Other are busy for the coming of reunions, getting together of friends and relatives.  But most important we have to be prepared for the coming of our baby Jesus.  Let’s sing and rejoice for HIM! Let our heart filled with joy and happiness.It is time for giving and sharing to everyone.

You can see Christmas lights and lantern in every house.  One of the parks of our city is fully decorated with lights.

 molo park

                                                                 

My Christmas decoration:

Are you prepared for your holidays?

                                                

Deadley dengue: prevention, treatment and tawa tawa

Dengue attacks even its not rainy season.  Each year, thousands of Filipinos get sick from dengue, and many die. Symptoms will have high fever for 2 to 5 days, which may follow by bleeding, shock and even death! Dengue is fatal! 

First thing to prevent dengue, we have to hunt down those killer mosquitoes, but that is easier said than done!

There is simple way to prevent dengue:

Clean the surroundings: Mosquitoes love to stay in dark and damp places. Clean  your garage, if there are empty boxes, clean up your clutter.

Dengue carrying mosquitoes breed in stagnant water.  Change your flower vase as often.  Empty cans, water containers, tires, etc.  Clean those muddy areas.

Close the doors and windows. If you don’t like to close, place a screen door that keeps out the flies and mosquitoes.

Spray insecticides:  You can spray insecticides every few days to get rid mosquitoes, cockroaches,  and flies. Be sure to spray the dark corner, crevices and cabinets.  

Wear long pants, pajamas, long sleeves shirts and socks if you don’t have screen door.  Mosquitoes are attracted to our breath as we exhale so they can reach us even in the dark.  Mosquitoes love bare, plump skin, especially on kids who do not shoo them away and let them suck as much blood as they want.

Use insect repellents lotion or mosquitoes net when kids will have camping or hiking. Kids love to play outdoors and they are the prime target of mosquitoes.

There is no specific drug to kill the dengue virus.  Physician can only give various supportive measures to strengthen the body immune system, to fight the virus!

Patients are encouraged to drink lots of water to keep the body hydrated at an optimum level.

Monitor the blood count.  Doctor checks the hematocrit and platelet count regularly.

Diet is monitor, don’t let the patient eat dark colored foods, because the stool should monitor.  Black stool means there is blood.

Tawa tawa might help.  There are many people are using tawa tawa plants to treat dengue.  And I agree with it, because it is tested and proven by my nephew who has dengue.

The people of department of health still studying of the effectiveness of these plants.

Some doctor permit to let the patient drink the tawa tawa.

How to prepare Tawa tawa:

Take five whole tawa tawa plants, cut off the roots, then wash and clean it, Boil tawa tawa plants in a pot of clean water, pour the liquid in a clean glass and let it cool!  Sip slowly one glass of tawa tawa for 3 times to 5 times a day.

Always consult your doctor before undergoing any treatment. Take care.

Lofty Ideals 1st Online contest

Lofty Ideals is having it's first giveaway, you can have this beautiful original canvas painting!

For more details about the contest, please visit her blog.  This giveaway will end till December 2, 2011. Yo have still the time to join! 

This contest is open to Philippine resident only!!

Join now and win this painting.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween to all!!!

personalised necklace

My daughter birthday is fast approaching; I wanted her to be happy on that day.  I am planning to give her simple, yet unique gifts.  Since she loves personalised gifts, a necklace would be a great gift for her.  She would be happy to have a necklace with her name engraves on the pendant.  Personalised gifts is not only for birthday but for all occasions, such as wedding, baby shower, debut,  valentines day, mothers day, fathers day and  more.  Christmas is coming and for sure every one is looking for  gift for their love ones, personalised gifts has all kind to choose from, Message on the Necklace is the place to be .

Personalized Notepads

Last August was the blogversary of Sharing my Thoughts, Pearl held a giveaway  to celebrate her blogversary in the world of blogosphere ,  luckily I am one of the winner :D 

Heres what I got from her :)

They are lovely, my kids like it,  with their name in print!:D

if you are interested please visit here:

Oneline Store

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her blog

Thank you very much Pearl :)

Great deal

Shopping online is very popular nowadays; you don’t have to go to the mall. Using internet at home, you can already access around the globe, with one click of the mouse, you can visit your favorite shop. The good of shopping online is, you can compare first the price before buying it. Smart shoppers find some ways to get a discount in every item, using coupons to get a reasonable discount.  We still seek to get a cheaper item online, auction site online is now well known  to all shopper online. Dealfun.com scam is an online auction that every bidders enjoy bidding every item they like.  Items are in good quality that every one who gets it or win it will not regret to have, because of its quality. Bidders are very active to bid, just to get what they want.  There are a lot of items to choose to bid, from gadget, dresses, bags, shoes, appliances and a lot more. You can get up to 95% discount to new brand name products. The site got always a promotion to all bidders, they just launched the Friday Free Shipping, where all auction items won on that day, is free to ship.  This is a great deal!  With DealFun, you can save and you are enjoying with its promotion and some discounts!

Frugal tips for busy Homemaker

Stay Home Mother needs smart ways to accomplish their tasks and manage their time effectively. Sometimes if you have small baby, you can’t work efficiently. One way or another you want your home to be well arrange despite having a small baby at home.

 We should be creative with the family income. Between paying bills, attending school activities of the children, buying groceries and household chores. We are looking always for new ways to stretch a dollar. I got some tips and ideas being a frugal mom. 

Moisturize as you clean, when using rubber gloves to clean, wash etc, put your favourite hand lotion or moisturizer, it will help slip hands easily into the rubber gloves. And while you are cleaning it will moisturize your hands especially if you handle warm water.

Using a lost sock you can use it applying furniture polish, floor wax and other types of cleaning.

Make a paste of lemon juice and salt (or substitute baking soda or cream of tartar for the salt) and coat the affected area.  Let it stay on for five minutes.  Then wash in warm water, rinse and dry. You can still use the same mixture to clean metal kitchen sink too.

Baby bottles inevitably pick up a sour milk smell. Toothpaste will remove the odor in a jiffy.  Just put some on your bottle brush and scrub away.  Be sure to rinse it thoroughly.

Use charcoal to get rid of musty odor on old books.  If your bookcase has glass doors, it may provide a damp environment that can cause a moist and molds.

Instead of personal organizer, you can share your to do list to your family, each member of the household becomes more involved and excited in planning family activities.  They can also get to share ideas, thoughts and opinions about themselves and their homes.s.

My winning package

Wow, it’s been a long time I haven’t update my blog! I have been away because of my internet connection.

Beside, I’m so busy with my offline work.  Last week I got a package from my winning prize from pasko sa Agosto from LEVYousa. I’m so sorry sis Levy for not answering your mail. Here's now my package:) I love it!

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Top Dropper of August

Thank you to all my dropper :D I'm so sorry if I was not able to visit you back. This few weeks ago, I am busy with my real life, that I can't even open my lappy. Pardon my friends. I hope this month I will be back to be active again. Thank you again! Dropper # of drops Business And Marketing 29 Transafric Blog 28 The Ad Master 28 the way I see it 28 Business and Money 28 Online Investing Comparison 27 National Car Rental 26 US Metric Network 26 Slightly Sarcastic 25 Let Me Review 25

Desktop Background

My online friend will always tell me to download Linux.  He is Linux fanatic. He will blog about it and even got forum. He always invites me to visit him on his group.  He explains about this operating system that can be installed now in mobile phones.  I tell him frankly that I have no knowledge about this Linux as operating system. As I stumbled on internet, I have found out that, there are many people like Linux. I just amazed with there wall papers too.  There are thousand of wall papers in net, but linux wallpapers is stunning. They have a good quality pictures when you try to upload it. It is free to download its wallpapers and desktop background.  You can choose what you like.  They have vague variety of wall papers.  I have creative designs on my desktop.

Difficulty of sleeping

My auntie got insomnia because of stress in her life. She has difficulty in her sleeping pattern. Sometimes she only sleeps for 4 hours. And, woke up with heavy headache. She went to her physician for medical check up. The doctor prescribed her Ambien.  One of the largest prescribed drugs to help patient with insomnia.  My Aunty sleeps 7 hours for the first day, and she is so happy about the outcome of her medication.  Until now, if she has problem with her sleeping, she always has Ambien in her medicine cabinet.  Her life has changed a lot.

Pasko sa Agosto

Christmas on August, is already in the world of blogsphere! There are many giveaways to be part of it. This giveaway will last till end of the month. So join now and be a winner. You can visit here for more entries:

List of Giveaways:

1. SAHM Writes: Plants vs Zombies Plush Toys Giveaway
2. My Painted Lips: Maybelline Products Giveaway
3. Proud Mommy of Three: Kung Fu Panda Stuff Toy Giveaway
4. Maldita.us – Maxi Dress Giveaway
5. I Heart Contest: Kawaii Kiddie Stuff Giveaway
6. Pink Fortune: Accessories Giveaway
7. Diva Fabulosa: Black-Gray Pearl Necklace & Earrings Set Giveaway
8. Life of a Filipina Blogger: Ivory Necklace Giveaway
9. Second Hand Philosophy: Tsumori Chisato Giveaway
10. LEVYousa: Human Heart Nature Items Giveaway
11. The Working Mom: Organic Soap Giveaway
12. Hot Fun Stuff: Hot Bag Giveaway
13. The Oblepias Family Blog: Baylis & Harding Giveaway
14. Brown Pinay: $15 Paypal Cash Giveaway
15. Late Bloomer Blog: Kikay Starter Kit Giveaway
16. Certified Foodies: Sharon Maya Mixes Gift Pack Giveaway
17. Just Another Pixel: Yahoo! Wall Clock Giveaway
18. Ken Avenue: Yahoo! Wall Clock Giveaway
19. The Smart Shopper: Faith Hill Collection Giveaway
20. ZoWanderer: Fairy Minnie Disney Bag Giveaway
21. Mom’s Ups and Downs: Beauty Products and Coin Purse Giveaway
22. Women’s Central: Health is Wealth Giveaway
23. Pinay in Germany: 15 Euros Giveaway
24. Shygirl’s Own: All About Love CD Giveaway
25. The Life Encounters: $15 Paypal Cash Giveaway

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1st International Seafarers Convention

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are the among the major problems among overseas Filipino workers and the seaman.

There is a recent report from Department of Health , 178 cases as of this June, 2011. There are 22 found to be from OFWs with 18 of them males and most of them are seaman or sea based personnel.

They acquired the diseases through heterosexual intercourse, bisexual and homosexual intimacy.  New cases has been reported of 1,016 Filipino HIV victims and 18 full blown AIDS cases in the first five months of 2011.

Because of this concern, HIV/AIDS has been listed  among the priority topics to be discussed on the 1st International Seafarers Family Convention and Exhibit Today at the Philippine International Convention Center at Pasay City.

Guest speaker is Dr.Asif Atat, AIDS advisor of the ITF Seafarers Trust in the United Kingdom, was invited to speak the subject topic. It has the theme of The Bonds of Families, the success of the World.  Interested party can contact the International Seafarers Family Convention at 02 8325422 or email at: isfcpetco@gmail.com.  Hope this convention will be successful. And Filipino workers will realized the effects to their family and to the world.

Low testosterone

At age forty men hormone usually change without notice, but when the age of 50 to 70 they have lower than normal levels of testosterone.  Men gain weight because they don’t bother to do some everyday routine; they just stuck in one corner.  They have mood swings, such as feeling of irritability and depression. They have difficulty in sleeping.  In some people they are in the stage of andropause or male menopause.  But now days, there are medicine that will help men’s testosterone level will increase.  There are many treatments that your doctor will prescribe.  This treatment will be explained thoroughly that every one can understand well. Low testosterone treatment gives us understanding about the treatment that every male suffer from low testosterone. This will be a big help to them. 

good tips

Living to this life is very hard.  You need to be productive in order to survive from poverty. Life is easy if you think it positive. Reading some tips from www.5-tips.com will to guide you in some worries we have. There are some tips in some area that really will enlighten your problems. Take time to read the site and you will learn from it.

Thank you Mr G

It’s been a long time I haven’t update this blog.  I am busy with giveaways: P Who knows I will be picked again as winner. Hehehe!  I am busy with my real world.

Anyway I try again to see my pagerank.  Violah!! My pagerank is back. Last time, way back June it is pr n/a! L  After a month its  back to PR2.. yay!! Thanks Mr G.

Food supplements enhance the healthy diet.

Many people especially picky eaters, think that they can eat junk foods and still be healthy by taking supplements.  They take supplements instead of eating the foods that are rich in vitamins, they believed that they can get the nutrients that are missing from junk foods.

Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals are necessary for good health.  We can get these benefits from supplements, but it is not reason enough to skip on meat, fish vegetables and fruits that provide better nutrition.  These foods are still the best source of vitamins and minerals.

our health needs change over time and different people have different health needs.  Some supplements may work better for others while some don't. We cant rely on the supplements alone, unless it is prescribed by the doctor.

Food supplements are called supplements for a reason. They are meant to enhance not to replace a healthy diet.  When you eat healthy and balanced diet and you are healthy too, you don't need to take some food supplements.

Well, as a  matter of fact we are blinded by some commercials and advertisements, of any pill that state single pill contains more benefits that the foods we eat. Many people testimonials about the food pills on TV, we should not replace actual foods with supplements.

I won!

I am so thankful that I am the lucky winner of The AdMaster giveaway.

I am so happy today. I got a blessing! Yeheyyyyyyy! Thank you Sheila.

You can visit to her interesting blog:

Join Pinay WAHMS’ $800 Birthday Giveaway!

This is a blast giveaway!! The Three WAHMs are celebrating their birthday.  They are giving away lots of prizes at stake!

generous  contest sponsors:

Expressions and Thoughts · Delight My Appetite · Me, Myself and Jes · Fishy Talks · Oh Gosh Gulay · Mommy's InfoDose · Advocating Breastfeeding · The Oblepias Family Blog · Gowns and Heels · Nshima Servings · transforMAYtion · Pinay Mama · The Bloggers Journal · A Network of Entertainment · ZoWanderer · LEVYousa · {cherry} everyday · Dreamworld Traveler · Samut Sari Etsy Store · Her and History · Beauty and Fashion Diva · Mye de Leon · I Embrace Life · From Asia and Beyond · Jared's Little Corner · My Tots Exactly · Barbie Dress Up Games · Written by Mys · Hands Full of Life · The Life Encounters

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Healthy Lips

Wind or air conditioning and the sun's heat can cause major dryness, especially for lips.  You can prevent chapping by applying lipstick and lip balms for protection.  However if your lips are already damaged, you need treatments that will moisturize and heal more that surface of your lips.

You need to removed dry dead skin.  Then focus on treating and protecting and delicate lip area.  To smoothen the texture of the lips, apply lots of lip balm or petroleum jelly on lips over night.

In the morning use a flannel or a soft toothbrush to gently, brush and roll away the surface dead skin cells along with the lip balm or petroleum jelly.  It should not pull or snag but should roll easily to reveal  smooth, healthy  looking lips.  Use some product that has it's protection against the sun.

Giveaway: Beauty Gift Set Bath & Body Works and More

Chic & Sassy Homemaker is having a Beauty Gift Set giveaway, in honor to her first blogversary.The mechanics are so simple.. Just visit her blog.
This giveaway will end on July 30, 2011.
Join now!!

Top ten dropper of June

Whew! It’s another month had pass.  The days are so fast.  I would like to thanks again to all my friends who keep visiting me and leave some beautiful comments.  I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

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