Should my title be “Wazzup, Philippines?” I can’t help but react to the present situation. Juan dela Cruz symbolizes filipinos, same as John Doe of US.
The basic commodity prices continues to increase, a regular filipino hardly bought food for the family. How about the less fortunate pinoys, their situation became worst. The skyrocketing price of rice added to their dilemma. Its in the news everyday, price increase of gasoline, rice, raw materials of canned goods etc which naturally the finish product price will follow to increase. There are times that I don’t want to watch news, its always bad news except when Manny Pacquiao wins against Juan Manuel Marquez. The crime rate are also expected to rise because of the terrible cost of living.
A friend living in US, once told me that together with his family, they’ve decided to move from Escondido, California to Texas. The reason is they can’t cope uo with the cost of living in California, they are better now in Texas. I hope, filipinos can apply the same strategy in the Philippines. Nah, enough with the wishful thinking.
Economic sabotage? I hardly heard of ZTE-NBN case witness Jun Lozada except that former President Cory Aquino has colon cancer and her chemotheraphy. I pray and wish her fast recovery. The people now are more focused on how to cope with the cost of living.
A colleague campaining for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last election told me that her “only” reason why she supports GMA was she is an economist. Economist? Why thinking of rice importation when Philippines is a agricultural country? The reality that she neglected many things and concentrated on other “economy”, proved my collegue wrong on her choice. Where was my collegue now? She migrated to US and plan to go back in the Philippines when the economy becomes better. Whew!
Summer in a tropical country should be full of outdoor activities such as swimming, wakeboarding, kiteboarding, surfing, cycling and many more. There should be lots of fun with these activities. Summer is also considered as kidney stone season when people have the highest risk of obtaining a kidney stone during this season.
Kidney stones are made of salts and minerals in the urine that stick together to form small “pebbles.” They can be as small as grains of sand or as large as golf balls. Sounds simple but the “profound degree of pain” can radiate down the side and belly and can be accompanied by excessive sweating, nausea and vomiting. The pain will stop and starts again, its a cycle of pain. Normally, when you felt these symptoms, you have no choice but to rush to a nearby hospital. The pain is unbearable and can be compared to labor pains.
Its summer, studies showed that summer is kidney stone season. Here are the tips I want to share, I will update this if I remember additional tips.
- Dehydration is the primary culprit during this hot weather. This is the time of the year that we have to drink more than we usually have. Drinking 8 glasses of water daily is fine but if you are engaged in outdoor activity or any activity that will make you sweat, the more water you drink, the better. I drink 3 liters of water daily.
- Filipino loves patis (fish sauce), toyo (soy sauce), bagoong and other salty food, if not eaten with moderation will give us health problems. Actually, there’s no food to avoid but always eat a proper diet and always in moderation.
- Don’t drink supplements such as calcium unless prescribed by your doctor especially if you are a “stone former”. Drink milk in moderation as natural source of calcium. Calcium nutrient is also present to other food we eat.
- A large percentage of people have kidney stone in their kidneys they never know about. Patients who already have kidney stone history tend to get it again. Prevention is the key, a regular annual check-up of your kidney will help.
Its okay to have fun during summer but don’t forget your water!
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The Autralian blogger Brian Gorrel is on national television for 2 days already. Brian Gorrel wants to take his money back from filipino boyfriend DJ Montano. According to his tale to his blog, DJ Montano bilked him a sum of $70,000. Its sad that a filipino was involved to this controversy, considering that Brian Gorrel used blog as his tool to demand the retun of his money from DJ Montano.
A blackmail? What do you think? ABS-CBN managed to interview Brian Gorrel in Australia, I’m sure they are capable interviewing of DJ Montano. But I haven’t watch any DJ Montano clearing his name in the public. Brian Gorrel’s tale includes gucci gang, his ex’s well to do friends. Brian claimed that he had evidences on his misfortune. He should bring this to court and file charges. Is there such law? I dunno, but seeing the blog somehow made me sad as a Pinoy, this is additional negative impression among filipinos in the Philippines. What a shame.
Through blogging, Brian Gorrel shared dirty filipino secrets that he came to know when they’re still in good terms. Brian deserves my sympathy, I hope that after he get what he wants from DJ Montano, he will come back and visit Philippines again and see that not all filipinos are like DJ Montano. On the other hand, DJ Montano is now a star not in pinoy blog community but to the entire blogospehere.
I like to hear the comments from my highest entrecard dropper Pandora Casket and from my highest received drop to the advert I place at Eyespi20 for the month of March.
A playful six year old boy came out of comfort room, jumped and landed his feet to the wet doormat, he slided and fell down. The back of his head hit the corner of the concrete stair. He instantly looked pale and burst into tears. He didn’t have wound but his mom brought him to a nearby doctor immediately, afraid for internal hemorrhage. The boy was under observation for 24 hours.
The same boy at four years old chew a blade incidentally, mistaken it for a toy. The good thing was, her mother was around and made him spit the pieces of blades. Thank God that there was no blood or cuts on his tongue, lip and other parts of his mouth.
His teachers were fond of him for his scent that almost like a baby compared to other boys his age during his elementary years.
Time flies too fast… the little boy had grown up… the “kuya” of my darlings. I often teased him by calling him “Nitoyo” (Nicolo) or “Tuya” (Kuya or big brother). Yep, he can’t talked straight during childhood or we call it “bulol” in the Philippines. I used to accompany him on his taekwondo and swimming lessons during elementary. Whew! Those were the days… This morning, we attended his baccalaureate mass… Tomorrow is his Graduation Day. I was teary eyed when he gave me a white rose with a letter. A letter of a young man for his mom.
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The opening of the 3rd World Pyro Olympics is supposed to be tonight. My kids are asking me if we will be going to SM Mall of Asia last night, having experienced the last time we went there without 3rd World Pyro Olympics made us tired already of the event. I thought, I haven’t noticed any advertisements and announcements unlike the previous World Pyro Olympics events. Just to make sure, I’ve called up La Mancha Productions this morning.
Its confirmed. The new and final schedule of 3rd World Pyro Olympics will start on May 3, a Saturday and the succeeding Saturdays of May. The official website of World Pyro Olympics is still down for maintenance, the management told me that their site will be available next week or the other week.
They’re still finalizing the participants and schedule, if that’s the case, there could be changes with previous given schedule and participants. Its guaranteed that it will be on May 3, I hope. Personally, its a good schedule considering people are getting ready for the start of school year, they could watch the event after they went shopping at SM MOA. Good luck to them on the later part of May since its also the start of rainy season in the Philippines.
3rd World Pyro olympics Schedule:
May 3, 2008 -China and Germany
May 10,2008 – Canada and France
May 17, 2008 – Italy and Venezuela
May 24, 2008 – Fellowship of Fire – Collaboration of all countries with the Philippines
- La Mancha Pyro Productions representing the Philippines – Pyromusical show exihibition
I’ll be posting here the final schedule as soon I have it. For the meantime, you may read my previous World Pyro Olympics articles.
