Suspend-It

My cousin has recently passed the medical board exam. She’s now a doctor, acting as a substitute for doctors on their leave on various hospitals.

She has been intending to start her own clinic, but she doesn’t have the capital yet. She’s lately been so uninspired and unmotivated to do anything, so I want to help her out in my own little ways.

I plan on buying one of the medical carts at Howard-Medical.com. Hopefully when she sees it she’ll remember why she wanted to start her own clinic and start being motivated again.

When you see a friend who’s starting to lose hope, it’s our job to cheer them up and get them back on track. Don’t ignore them, and remember to help in your own little ways! No man is an island, after all. Don’t you agree?

Uh oh, February is just around the corner, and you know what that means! Valentine’s Day is about to come around, and well, Desperation Day is there for single men and women like myself. Haha! (If you must know, Desperation day is on the 13th of February, and if you want to know why, well… Google is your friend!)

If you are one of those lucky ladies who were able to find their true love and are still with the man, I suggest you to send your boyfriend this valentine or at least start looking for gifts. You wouldn’t want your man to feel like he’s not appreciated, would you? Don’t give him a gift that’s half-assed (pardon the french). If you have found your true love, I suggest you never let go, so you wouldn’t be drowning in regret later on.

Enjoy the little things, because they are the things that will keep you sane. Live your life with no regrets, take risks and learn from your mistakes!

For a month now, it has been a debate among us sisters whether to let Mom have a business of her own. Mom is already retired. At age 60, she is financially stable from my Dad’s insurance plus she gets her children’s support too. All of us sisters have very good businesses and careers already so in terms of financial reasons, an additional business is just plain greedy.

My sisters preferred that Mom just relax, enjoy her life and just do whatever she wants. They do not want Mom to get stressed with some business that her friends just suggested. In my point of view however, having a business gives a sense of challenge and fulfillment. Yes, I agree that businesses can be stressful but then again it could also be fun. Imagine being 60 and doing nothing. It is just letting your life pass by for nothing right?

Anyhow, good thing my sisters considered my opinion and they finally agreed to support Mom on her business. By the way, my Mom decided to set up an internet cafe. Since I am the IT professional in the family, I will take care of helping mom purchase cheap desktop computers for her cafe. My sisters, as always, are the capitalists, because they are already filthy rich and their husbands do not really care about spending money that much.

I’m currently torn between my need to buy ps3 games or graphic novels and books. I know people would consider this first world problems, but I have been seriously wanting to buy the God of War PS3 remake for their PSP games! It’s just brilliant, really, I’ve always had this weird fascination for mythologies, and this game just feels like it was made for me.

The main reason why I bought a PS3 was to play that game in the first place. It’s just amazing. Imagine how disheartened I was that the third game in their franchise was exclusive for the PS3. I was hoping that they’d release it for the PSP, too, since I don’t really want to spend money on buying consoles, I just borrow my friend’s PSP and play there.

Thank god my eyesight hasn’t suffered yet, I have been in front of computer and television screens ever since I could remember.

My friend Louise has been collecting various kinds of wristwatches ever since I met her. We’ve been friends for four years and I am looking at citizen watches and picking out a perfect birthday gift for her.

I noticed she doesn’t have a citizen watch yet because most of her watches have jelly or leather straps. I thought maybe a citizen watch would be good for her collection. It was either that or five handkerchiefs, and, well, since I have a job now I don’t want to be a cheapskate. We’re good friends, afterall. Haha!

She literally has a watch in almost every colour for almost every outfit, but I haven’t seen her wear a citizen watch yet, and she mentioned saving up for one, so I figured it would be a good present for her upcoming birthday.

Do you guys have any specific designs or brands to recommend? I’m not really a watch person myself, so I don’t know what’s good and what isn’t.

I was window shopping earlier when I came across this Banner stand with a very familiar face on it. The man on the advertisement, I know I knew him from somewhere. He was not an actor, definitely not a singer. Hmm… I definitely know him, but I cannot seem to figure out who he actually is.

It was like a splinter in my brain. It took me a while before I was able to figure out who he is. After a whole day I realized, the man was my previous boss! Never in my life that I thought he could someday be a model for a diet pill. He used to be a fat, flabby hairy boss. But now, he looked like one of the fitness models in the gym.

Of course, I still had friends from my previous company. When I told them about the ad, they were pretty surprised too. Unfortunately, he was not the boss in that company anymore. He probably quit his job for a modeling career or something. No one knows exactly what could have happened.

Do you know what a Kris Kringle is?

It’s more commonly known as Secret Santa, where people are encouraged to list down their Christmas wishlist and are assigned to someone else in a group. On Christmas day (or whichever day these groups choose to celebrate their Christmas party) they give gifts to one another and be surprised at the person who gives it to them. Fun huh?

Well at my office we have “themed” Secret Santas. This year’s theme is funny t shirts! I got my friend who’s a gamer a shirt that says “Just one more level. Just one more level. Just one more level!!!!” Hahaha. He loved it!

I got a shirt that says “I love MATH. Meryenda Almusal Tanghalian Hapunan.” Basically the abbreviation says that I love all the meals of the day. Haha! How appropriate. I’m a foodie!

I now have a new witty shirt to add to my collection! Best. Christmas. Ever.

Last week, my friends and I exchanged Christmas gifts and I got something interesting – a complete set of yogitoes branded Yoga accessories. My friend gave this to me because for several times I mentioned that I wanted to do Yoga but I did not have the accessories for it. It was an excuse actually because I was too shy to go in a class and show off a lot of skin. I heard that Yoga requires you to wear bikinis.

However because of this, I had no excuse anymore.

Yesterday I looked into some other Yogitoes accessories and found out how much my gift costs. It was terribly expensive because of the very high quality materials used. I never realized that I recieved a very elite brand of Yoga accessories and I thought that it will be such a waste to just hide all of them in my cabinet. Besides, it was a huge bragging right for me using those accessories in class. Having all the tools got me excited into doing yoga. So earlier, I enrolled in a one month trial class. Unfortunately, classes will start on January because of the holidays. Oh I am so much into yoga right now. I do not know what has gotten into me.

I have been so busy with work lately that I was not able to prepare for Christmas gifts for my friends. So today, I left early at work and ran to the nearest shopping mall to find the best gifts possible.

Cuff links – the moment I saw these accessories, I bought them. They are cute and comes in different shapes to match your friend’s personality. I bought two pairs. One with puppy designs, the other pair – cupcakes. They are so nice that I even bought some for myself.

Flashdrives – for all your gadget loving friends. I know they are very common nowadays but admit it, you can’t get enough of these things. Even if you have a hundred of these you will still appreciate another 10 right?

Christmas Cups – these are for my office mates. Cute cups are best given to employees because they usually have coffee in the office.

Shaver – a gillette mach 3 will definitely be appreciated by your guy friends who has quite a thick beard.

So there, the list of things I bought for my friends. It took me just a couple of hours to get them. Next thing to do now is wrap them up then I’m all set for the party later.

Hi everyone! I would like to ask for some help regarding a problem I have with my kitchen. My kitchen is well lit and well ventilated. It is an outdoor kitchen and kitchen windows are facing the morning sun so it is really bright in the morning. The problem is the kitchen sink my tiled kitchen sink gets full of algae and the only way to remove the algae is to scrub the sink every day – which is pretty stressful. Is there a way to algae proof your tiled sink?

A friend of mine suggested some things that may slow down algae growth. One is to add curtains in the window to cut the light coming in. Unfortunately, the algae growth did not slow down that significantly. Another is to use stainless steel sink which is too costly because I would have to rebuild my kitchen top. Please guys, if there is any detergent or chemical that I can use to get rid of these algae please do let me know.