Suspend-It

Not a lot of interesting things happened this week. Oh, I heard from old friend Jesus. He was looking at Saint Louis homes for sale. He’s been there a few times on business trips and simply fell in love with the area. I’m actually quite surprised he’s settling down. He’s always been travelling for as long as I’ve known him.

Still, it seems like a good idea to have some place stable. And he told me that he’s considering getting a nice, small house by one of the many bridges in the city. I think he’s got a thing for bridges. When we went to Prague he used to stay up till dawn pacing around on bridges and gathering his thoughts.
Anyway, I wish him the best of luck. GOOD LUCK, JESUS!

I was sitting by the electric fireplace after an intense yoga session last week when Junnie came over to hang out with me. I made some hot cocoa and toasted wheat bread cause I was getting hungry. Then I went back to the couch where I was lounging. Junnie was my friend of 8 years. I’ve only seen her single during the first 2 years so I kinda identified her as 2 people always, Junnie and Kristian. They have been like the power couple in our circle.

Kristian was a yogi, spending 4 hours every day in intense meditation and jogs in the evening. He can afford to do this, well basically he owns his time because he has his own businesses. Junnine on the other hand loves to row for dragon boat in the mornings with my sister and swims right after. Both have strong businesses and are infact earning big bucks. By the looks of it, the only thing missing is them getting married.
Now that’s the main reason why Junnie was hanging out at home, she was getting worried. She’s not getting any younger. She wants to start a family and also make their relationship legal. She loves him and all but she has to be smart. They are not married and has no legal right to anything that they built together.

What she didn’t know was, Kristian has been planning their wedding all along. He was fixing everything for Junnie that the moment she says YES, they will be wed.

Two days ago, it finally happened, what a supposed lunch date became their wedding day. The moment he proposed to her and said yes, the big curtain opened and revealed the wedding guests and the garden set up. She was finally getting married.
It was definitely one of a kind and very interesting, imagine having a surprise wedding. Congratulations Kristian and Junnie!

It’s such a big hassle for me every time I leave my laptop at home because I have no way of retrieving my picture files from my camera and cellular phone. My desktop PC at the office has no built-in card reader so it’s basically useless for me. Oh just when I really need to upload some pictures… crap! Due to this small emergency, I was forced to  get a card reader for myself.I got an all-in-one card reader from an online shop which sells quality accessories for notebooks.The great thing about the one I bought is it already supports popular memory card types like micro sd, XD, memory stick, and even memory stick micro. I tested it and it works great on my desktop. Plus, it can be used as a keychain so it is very portable and convenient to use.Now I won’t need to bring my laptop to the office just to upload pictures from my camera. Anyhow, I have to go now. I need to upload these pics fast!

Crap. my family wants to go and do ski vacation. I hate the cold cold cold weather. I’ve always loved the tropics and the beach. The cold weather is just something I dread. And now, they wanna do and dump their faces in ice.

I don’t know a shit about skiing which would most likely mean that my face would really end up on the snow most of the time, so, no, you won’t catch me playing with ice.

My sister said that it’s easy as me surfing the beach except, it’s NOT a beach. I don’t agree to her. First there’s no sun shining on my body, 2nd I’m not almost naked in fact, I’ll pack in more weight making it hard for me to move around with the supposedly ” ice-surfing”, and last but not the least, it’s ICE…it’s freaking cold ice that my face will fall into not gorgeous waves that glistens under the sun. Seriously man, it’s not even close to surfing, not at all.

But it’s six against me, and I simply have no choice the only good thing about it is I’m with the whole family and I can sip hot cocoa while everybody is getting face down first in the snow.

Then again, since I’m already there, might as well make the most out of it. I’ll see if I can somehow finish the beginner’s skiing trail… and maybe avoid hitting snow face down. Could still end up being fun.

My netbook crashed last week, so I had to buy memory and other netbook parts I have been postponing on replacing. My computer crash gave me a good excuse to start moving around. I was running again after so long. My muscles have weakened after being in desk- hibernation for so long. If before I could run for hours, after a few blocks I was panting for breath. Not good, definitely not a good sign.

So after my computer gets fixed I promised to get back into shape. I’m sure it won’t be long till I get back simply because I’ve managed to eat healthy over the years, I just couldn’t go and exercise- my excuse? I simply have none.
“So training shoes….good seeing you again!”

I ran again as promised. I decided to run around the park this time. It felt good hitting the grass and tile flooring at the park. I even saw a few familiar faces. Most of them remembered me. Said my hi’s and hello’s and even hanged out with Audric after by a bench.

I met Audric at a Christmas party 4 years ago. He was a sweet charming man. He got divorced a few years before. His wife cheated on him and didn’t want him back. He was heartbroken and his wife was never seen again leaving him with 2 children to take care of. In his depression he knew he needed an outlet, he has after all two kids whom he has to love and care for. This was when he found out about running. It first started out as a way to tire himself to sleep instead of crying all night. After a few weeks of running, he started feeling better, he started feeling light and he was more energetic and concentrated. You can say that he got hooked. It is definitely a better choice to get hooked on running than alcohol.

When I met him again he seems more happy and contented. Apparently he met a woman a year ago and he’s planning on proposing this month. I was so happy for him it is definitely good to hear about stories like this.

Saw Audric and his fiancé last night, Yes they are engaged! Congratulations mister! I’ll be there at your wedding!

I have been wanting to try professional teeth whitening since last year, but until now it’s still too expensive for me. It may seem like a luxury for others but for me, I consider it a necessity. As a project manager, my work involves directly interacting with clients and their big bosses so I must be confident about myself. Otherwise, I’ll have lesser deals.

I used to have very white teeth. Back when I was in college, I used to be one of the students with the whitest teeth. However, when I started working in this company, I got addicted to the free coffee and Iced tea. This made my teeth so yellow in just a year. I was already wishing for my fairy godmother to come when my tooth fairy came to the rescue!

One of my good friends, Linda, gave me an IM and proudly told me that she had already opened up her clinic in Texas. She is a Plano dentist and she had been practicing dentistry for a couple of years now. When I told her about my situation, she laughed and told me “why didn’t you tell me earlier?”. She told me that she would love to whiten my teeth for free. Of course, this is an opportunity I couldn’t resist. So I plan to visit her in Texas this summer to catch up with her and also for my free teeth whitening! Oh I’m so grateful to have a good friend like Linda.

Life can be soooo good. I have so much to thank for compared to the last two years wherein our family suffered financially making everything else suffer like our daily needs to the point wherein we couldn’t even afford to exercise or eat right.

Right now, my parents are enjoying their senior years by jogging, swimming walking around the parks and even watching movies because they have nothing to worry about now financially since their life insurance has been taken care of. My siblings Ruth and Anne have been doing Yoga lately. Well Anne has been doing it for years since but Ruth finally agreed to do it… she needed it because of her scoliosis.

And now my brother being overweight for several years has finally started looking into good diet as well. Everything is as calm as the sea and it feels good to wake up to the daylight shining on your face. Like I told you, life can be soooo good!

I just heard from Ruth, a good friend of mine, that her salary was tripled by her employer because of some strategy she learned from a career seminar. Most of employees believe that it is better to start their career in the bottom and earn their way up to the top. They think that eventually, while they are being promoted, they will gain a higher salary with the higher position. This is an idealistic approach to career according to Ruth.From what Ruth shared with me, if you want to earn more the first thing you need to do is become an indispensable asset of the company. By then you can demand more. What she did, she looked into Atlanta job search then applied in a company with a better offer. She showed her job offer to her boss and told him that she is planning to take it because of the fair salary. Her boss, realizing that it is hard to find another employee as better that Ruth, gave a counter offer. Of course, Ruth took the counter offer because she was already happy with her job and her only issue is the salary.As this does not apply to everyone, we must realize that Ruth did all her best to become an expert in her line of work. If she did not, her boss would probably just let her go or she might not have gotten a good job offer in the first place. The point here is, do your best in your work. If you think you have done your best already, better make your boss realize it.

The race to immortality goes on… Since medical science discovered the effects of human growth hormones, we get closer and closer to discovering the real fountain of youth.

Before, growth hormones were used to treat children with certain abnormalities caused by hgh deficiency. Recently, they have discovered that human growth hormones can be synthesized and reintroduced into the body to achieve anti aging effects. hgh supplements are now available in the market and are advertised as anti aging pills. I’ve read a lot of good reviews about this kinds of supplements but I’d rather consult experts first. The pills basically makes you feel in your 20’s during your 40’s. Sound too good to be true? ask your doctors then. Feel free to comment on this.