i have a new pendot pendot, farewell xpressMusic

i have a new pendot pendot.

i traded my Nokia 5300 for a 2nd hand china pendot pendot (touch screen tv fone)

so far so good.

may ebook reader siya! yaaayy (na ang tagal tagal ko nang gusto hahaha)

nakakapag browse din naman ng internet.

ok din ang video, and cam.

may hand writing recognition din..

astig ng speakers, dinaig ung original nokia music phone ko!!!

and may TV siya! hahahaha.

bluetooth capable and so far nagkakasundo naman sila ni Viv (my lapto)i, so no problem.

I'm looking for a usb cable though. pero ok lang may bluetooth naman.

nakakatuwa

US Citizenship For Sale?

A lot of people dream "The American Dream", and yearn for the "American Household", but most of all want to be an "American Citizen".

Interestingly, there has been a proposition to allow the trade of US Citizenship.
In this way, those non-US citizens would just have to pay up and viola, they become a family member of Uncle Sam's!

There's also this proposition in which current US Citizens could sell their citizenship, in exchange, they have to emmigrate somewhere else.

Pretty soon you'll be seeing ads like:

"3 day sale, Citizenships, Lives, and More!"

20 in 1: Cleaning Up And Adrenal Fatigue

No work for me today!

I took a day off to study for my neuro exam on thursday.
(as usual, i still can't get my butt off my bed and start studying)

I feel so relieved right now, yesterday, my work load was CRAZY!!!

Apparently, there's this oh-so-responsible writer who screwed up.
I mean, totally screwed up big time! And since I haven't got a
working assignment from my boss yesterday, guess what..

I ended up cleaning his mess.

I actually had to edit 20 articles, all about adrenal fatigue.

Well, to be specific, I edited 19 and made 1 article.
(since there was a missing file in the zip folder)

And to be even more specific, I ended up
REWRITING 19!!! and creating one article.

It turned out to be that the oh-so-genius writer
had plagiarized majority of his work. (Thank God for Copyscape!)
I mean like full copy paste of whole paragraph blocks!!!
Copyscape was very colorful indeed.

So, I had to clean up the dirty work all in one day (14 hours to be exact).

20 articles all in one sitting.

I need a life.

***interesting facts i learned from the adrenal fatigue project***

- our adrenal glands get tired too!

- when you keep on having the same stress stimulus (heartbreak, family problems,school stress etc.) for a very long time, your adrenal glands have been secreting hormones for depression/stress for that long too..and time comes that it simply gets tired.

-give yourself (or atleast your adrenal glands) a favor, be happy for one day (at least, if you can), so that it won't get tired.

- if your glands do get tired, it ends up breaking out. -> adrenal fatigue

-your ad glands poduce "cortisol", -> the one responsible for your lower belly fat.

-> the more depressed/stressed you are, the more cortisol it produces.

->the more cortisol you've got, the more you get big.

-> then you live the sedentary life.

-> sedentary as in...BUHAY BABOY.

->you get problems waking up in the morning

-> you get insomnia

-> you keep on relying on caffeine and other stimulants just to get you through the day. (*caching! B-I-N-G-O!!!)

->you get depressed, moody.

-> you get BRAIN FOG a.k.a. MEMORY BLOCK. a.k.a the feeling you get when taking your NEURO exam.

-> you feel so energetic during evenings

-> methinks me is positive for adrenal fatigue.

-> methinks i have to study for neuro now.

->me needs to get a life.

BAWAL ANG...

sa bus na nasakyan ko...


BAWAL ANG ITLOG AT MAIS. TNX


eh pano naman ang mani?

Mouse Land (No this has nothing to do with Mickey)

My mom bought this 'mouse trap' fly paper style from some thrift store.
Of course, just like all other items that you could find in stores nowadays,
it is made from CHinA.

Welcome to MOUSE LAND.

"Romantic rat night life
The charming dashing
habit is many
The on the way fortune
upons the strange monster
Miserably and miserably
and miserably!die"

"A THE CONTACT NAMELY GLUE ROUND UP ALL AT ONE FELL SWOOP"


Mouse Land Is A Happy Place. Don't you think so?

Disney And Me

If you have no idea of what I do besides being a pseudo bum and a pseudo student;
then I should tell you that I am a web content writer.

Web content writing is fun.
It is. (in a very twisted way)

However, the thing I love most about this 'job' is that I get to learn new things.
And when I say 'new', I do mean 'alien-out-of-this-world' kind of knowledge.

I've written numerous topics ranging from puppy training, subliminal messages, hoodia diet pills, hypertension, speech therapy, foreclosures, identity theft, miami condos, real estate, loan, government grants, scams, tv antennas, seo marketing, business tips, australian hotel accommodations, canadian parks, panic attacks, bedroom designs, landscape lighting, infidelity, big fish gaming, camping outdoors, life coaching, dyslexia and a lot more odd things that I never thought I could write about.

The latest topic I am working on is about Disneyland.

I love it.

I just do.

Darn it. Just give me the G's and I swear I'm gonna have that Disney vacation for a whole month!
Not to mention that I plan on having a Disney Fairytale Wedding (even without a groom! hehe) and get to ride Cinderella's carriage! :P

Seriously, simply reading about Disneyland/World and viewing their site makes me drool about it.

I want it.

Bad!

The Value of THE UP Experience

The Value of THE UP Experience

First published 6 June 2008
The Manila Standard Today
INTEGRATIONS
Maya Baltazar Herrera
Voyage


The value of the UP Experience

There are no children here

This week, I went to a meeting at the UP School of Economics and I came
away with renewed belief in the value of the UP experience.

If you speak to anyone from UP – student, professor, alumnus - you will get
no Latin slogans or apologies about how the school teaches values in spite
of its outward materialism. This is not a student population that thinks
about
basketball games or memorizes school songs. This is not a school that
chooses one statement to drill into the minds of its students.

This is not, of course, to say that UP does not care about values. It is
that
UP, in its own inimitable way, believes that values cannot be force-fed.
The statue of the naked man that guards the entrance to the campus in
Diliman best represents UP's approach to all education and the respect for
students that is the center of its educational philosophy. All who come to
this university, regardless of origin, bring themselves naked, carrying
nothing
but their thirst; like the proverbial empty teacup, making an offering of
self,
waiting to be filled.

Adults

For many students from private schools, the first lesson that is learned
here is that this is a school for adult education. There are no children
here,
and that is why no parents are allowed either at freshman orientation or
during enlistment.

The spirit of the oblation lies not in a mother or a father offering up his
child to the world, it is that of the newly adult, freely offering of his
self.

I remember quite vividly that moment that drove home how different the
UP education continues to be. It was my daughter's first semester in
university and she had invited a group of her high school friends to our
house. One of them asked a classmate whether she had gotten her parents
permission form approved for that weekend's outreach activity. From the
UP population around the table came the mock horrified responses of:
"Permission? " and "Outreach?"

I thought about it and realized that all of these students were, in fact,
legally adults. I thought it interesting that only the UP students appeared
to appreciate this fact.

Even more interesting was the "outreach" comment. I think back to my own
university years and the last three years that my daughter has been in UP
and am certain there is no lack of civic activity. There are medical
missions, house building projects, tree planting, community work and barrio
work and so on. I realize now that the reaction was not to the activity as
much as it was to the use of the word.

One of the most important differences of the UP campus from all the other
campuses my children considered going to is that this campus has no walls.
Many parents fear this. They are afraid their precious children will not be
protected from the ills of society in a campus that is so open to the rest
of
the world.

But UP is open to the world in more ways than just not having the physical
walls.

Community

Being in UP means much more than being a student. This campus is
enmeshed in a community. This community is made up not only of the
transient population of students who go home each night. It includes the
many,
many students who lay their heads on dorm pillows each night, enduring time
away from families in the firm belief that this campus will bring them
closer to
their dreams. This community includes the families of faculty and employees
who live on campus. It also includes the many people who work not for the
University, but nevertheless work on campus. This community includes the
lady who remembers the brand of cigarette you smoke and automatically
hands it to you in the morning. It includes the gentleman who remembers you
like pepper on your egg sandwich or the one who knows you will dip your fish
balls into two of his sauces, who patiently waits for you to eat your three
sticks before being paid. It includes the woman who saw all her children
through college by selling peanuts every day on campus.

To a UP student, the daily heartbeat of the school is never far away from
the realities of the country. The word outreach suggests that civic activity
is
something outside of the normal, something you do once in a while. It must
be
immensely difficult to think of community as a thing apart when your campus
experience brings you face to face with all of the world's realities every
day.

Character

All of this probably explains that unmistakable sense of self that you will
find from students who come from this campus.

Here is a campus where all have the same opportunities to learn. But also,
here is a campus that will give all the same opportunities to fail. There
are no
guidance counselors who will chase after you because you have been skipping
classes. The attitude this university takes is that you must take the
initiative –
for learning, for seeking help, for realizing you need help.

That is not to say that no help exists. But it is help that is not forced
upon you.

This is a university rich in both introspection and conversation. On this
campus,
the student is constantly exposed to people – faculty, administrators,
community
members, other students – who care deeply and passionately about the world.
The conversations are almost never purely cerebral. A single graph can
provoke
comments about government policy and its effects on people.

As a result, UP is home to a student population that looks at the world and
cares.
It is easy to see pictures of protesting students and dismiss it as
radicalism. But
there are few campuses in this country where students go beyond a passing
curiosity
about what is happening in the world beyond their own lives. There are even
fewer
universities where students not only care but also actually believe they
have a
responsibility to make a difference – not in some hazy future – today.

And that, I believe, is what truly forges character. Character is not molded
by
speeches or long classes in ethics or theology. Character grows from within.
It
begins by being handed the keys to your own self and being told you are in
charge;
you now have power over yourself and your own actions – and with that power,
you
take on responsibilities.

Each student in this university goes through his own unique voyage of
discovery.
On his voyage, as he decides what he cares about, what he will fight for and
what
he will sacrifice, he crafts his own personal values. That is what education
is truly about.


---I LOVE THIS LINE:

"The conversations are almost never purely cerebral." -i agree, esp neuro :P

britney and such.

don't you just love britney?


haha. (i know what you're thinking)


to tell you the truth,


I used to love her.

used to.

too bad she's gone gaga now.

But she keeps me entertained anyway.

I wonder what she's up to next?

manila airport review

I was researching for my articles about traveling to Italy when I came across this website sleepinginairports.com. And so, I browsed their site and decided to see their airport reviews. Just for fun I tried to look up Philippines on the list, and there was a link on Manila airport... surprise surprise, this is what they had to say:

This Airport is a
2007 Poopy Airport MANILA, Philippines

"I've been to almost all the airports in the worlds but i just cant compare Manila Airport to those rising 3rd world countries. Seem that NAIA is left out in the DARK age." (TPMAN 199)
"If you find a seat be prepared to defend it at all costs!" (Big Tone)
"Philippines Airport = not very nice (except for the new terminals of PAL). Overnight in a Manila Airport = NO NO NO" (Seb)
"that airport employees are the worst money hustlers around." (Steven)
"Everywhere everyone asks for bribes. Never offer them anything. Act as if you do not know what they are saying and just walk past them. " (Native Filipino)

What you can look forward to:

* unfriendly staff
* boring
* not clean
* hard seats
* corruption, bribery, scams
* overcrowded
* chaos
* keep your bags close
* WiFi in the PAL lounge


*** here's the link if you want to see the real thing

I really don't know to react on this since I was still a kid when I last went to NAIA.
What can you say?

gas prices and rants

Okay, this may seem pretty weird but my first post here would actually be on gas prices.

No, do not fear. I wouldn't be discussing about any political hula-balu here.

You see, I'm a student, and I commute going to school.

The thing is, I live way far from my school.

Laguna (home) - Manila (school)

back in highschool and those spoiledbrat days of mine, I never really thought much about price hikes and such, since of course I was a kid.

Coming from an exclusive school, I was brought to school by car and fetched from school by car; and of course dear kuya eric's school bus!

I really did not care much about gas prices, until the past couple of weeks that it had been boosting way high!

Maybe I wouldn't really care if I'm getting a fare allowance from my parents, but oh well...the brave me decided to venture through this sem alone. --I pay for the tuition, my fare, my everything.

I really had no idea that prices would balloon up like that!

I mean come on, a one way busride from here to manila used to be 48 bucks --> 54 bucks -->68 bucks!!! (take note, those are all student fare rates)

okay, so this is a ranting post.

so sue me.

here's a pretty interesting survey on what people do whenever gas prices go up, up, and away!