Idol David Archuleta Imagine

I always....always watch American Idol from the audition up to the final night. Last night, this was my favorite performance. This is a really good performance of David Archuleta! He has awesome voice, amazing talent and charm. Handsome kid too. I kinda like how he change the tones of the song to make it sound like his own. I think he can win the title. I love his version of this beautiful John Lennon song entitled Imagine

All Four

Edith forwarded this tag to me.

4 Jobs I’ve Had (in order)
- Cashier (back in the Philippines)
- Businesswoman (had small business with my best friend)(back in the Philippines)
- Math Teacher (back in the Philippines)
- Math Tutor/ Online Enterpreneur

4 Movies Watched Over and Over
- The Notebook
- On Golden Pond
- Madea's Family Reunion
- The Fighting Temptations

4 Shows I Watch
- American Idol
- Ellen Degeneres
- O'reilly Factor
- Cops

4 Favorite Things To Eat
- Always Rice (Hehehe), Filipino Foods
- Vegetables
- Chocolate with Almond (I'm not fond of other chocolates)
- Chinese Foods

4 Places I Would Rather Be
- Canada
- Philippines
- Japan
- Europe

4 Things I Look Forward To This Year
- Finish Home Improvement
- Visit Philippines/Hopefully see my bestfriend Marie
- More Success Work and Online Business
- New Car

Now I wanna share this tags to my friends

I love Oysters

Are you among the many people that loves to eat oysters? Oysters are one of my favorite among exotic foods. I like Gulf oysters those that have the highest quality and safest oysters. Oysters are not only delicious, but they're also very nutritious and well balanced. Your excellent source of zinc, protein, carbohydrates and lipids, vitamin B-12, and omega-3 fatty acids. Oysters are an excellent source of vitamins, that's why oysters are sometimes expensive especially to places where they are not harvested. A lot of people eat oysters in different ways. Some eat oysters raw, others love it smoked, boiled, baked, fried or cooked depending on their personal preference. Precautions should be taken when consuming them because like any other foods especially raw, oysters may carry bacteria. Consumption of raw or undercooked oysters by diabetic or individuals with weak immune system or with liver disease may cause serious illness or even death from Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, bacteria that occurs naturally in a warm, unpolluted seawater. One must be aware of the potential hazard associated with eating raw oysters. Be Informed. Be Cautious. Prevention is always better than cure. Learn more about Oyster and the thorough background on Vibrio vulnificus and the health conditions that place you and your love ones in the at-risk category at Beoysteraware.com and enjoy their variety of different and eclectic oyster recipes. Be Smart and Be Sure. Be Oyster Aware.

Why I love Oysters Video:

Raymond Gutierrez is grilled by his twin brother Richard

I had fun watching this video by GMA7 so I thought I'd share it here. Hope you'll have fun too. They are twin brothers Richard and Raymond Gutierrez. I saw them both in person when they were so little and so cute, I think they were 5 years old, and I was 7. I remember they had a tour to our elementary school and was promoting something, I just could not remember the product. It's either milk or toothpaste. I think it was Nestle Twin. I'm not sure, it's been so long. I was surprised the next time I saw them on television. Both of them are grown up (still so handsome though!) and both are really doing great in their respective careers and crafts.

Fantastic

Thanks to Madel for this cool award. I would like to share this one to my blogger friends Edith, Chubby, Sasha, Butchay, Norm, SexyMom, Tipsy, Just, and Dang.

HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!

Typing Speed

Norm tagged me with this speed typing test. I was curious about my typing speed too. So I took this speed typing test and here's my result.

67 words

The test can be a good practice test anyone can do anytime to attain better speed in typing. I'm tagging Edith, Just, Angel, Madel, and Tipsy

sweet vacation

It has been very busy lately at work and at home. Yes! even at home, I bring work along with me, keeping me still occupied and essentially still in the work mindset. Especially now that we are currently having the privacy fence project at the house and we're not even half done with it. I got the stress I'm trying to escape. I feel that I and my husband really need a sweet vacation for myself to relax and recover from work burn out. I am sure a good vacation will help us rest and enjoy good times, have fun, away from all the busy schedules and fast pace work. I know after a good vacation, we can gather all our creativity and productivity again and return to our lives refreshed and more competent in our fields. Just like batteries, our body needs rest to recharge and give its best performance. I and my husband has been talking about taking a good vacation soon when this fence project is over. We've been working so hard and we deserved to have a great vacation. We've talked about great places that we'll probably visit and checked some flights to New Zealand, we've never been there yet. We know we can get cheap flights from Dialaflight.com and they can help us create the perfect all-inclusive trip to any worldwide destination. We already browse their website and learned that they offer great savings for the dream holiday we've been longing for. It's still a plan but I am already excited for it. Who would not be? It's vacation.

Rodney Atkins---Cleaning this Gun (Come on in Boy)

When I first heard this song, I can't help but laugh but I like it right away. Hubby and I like it right away. We were on the road when we first heard this playing. The lyrics cracks me up. It's kinda funny but it's true. I am sure most fathers can relate to this song. Even my husband told me, he'd probably feel the same and do the same if and when we have a daughter going out for her date. He'll probably scare the crap out of the boy.

Rodney Atkins---Cleaning this Gun (Come on in Boy)


The song reminds me of my dad. I remember when I was a teenager, he scares the hell out of my boyfriend(s). Hahaha. I love my dad .... very much!

place your art for sale

Are you a student artist? Place your art for sale at an online art gallery.
There's Ugallery.com, a social networking / eCommerce site that enables student artists to place their arts. You as an artists can post a list of their exhibitions, personal statement and of course, original artwork for people to see their works. You don't have to worry of all the shipping because Ugallery takes care of them. It makes the process easy for you to sell your art.

If you're not an artist and just interested in checking out cool and less expensive art works, check their gallery for beautiful arts for sale. This a nice networking because buyers and artists can interact by leaving comments on the Ulog section of the site. Aside from that, there is also a cool feature on the site that allows you, buyer to see what a piece of art will look like on your wall before you hang it. This will give you a better way to picture out the art in your own home or office, whereever you may want the piece of art displayed.

Ready For Marriage

I found this quiz link from my dear friend's blog (Edith) and I was messing with her. I took the short quiz just for fun and here's my result.

You Are 91% Ready for Marriage

This doesn't mean you should rush out and get married... But if you did tie the knot, it would probably work out great!

The result sounds nice. Hehehe. Answering the short quiz was just for fun. Curious lang for the result. I'm already Married.

How about you? Are You Ready for Marriage?

How To Capture a Screen Shot

Do you know how to capture a screen shot? Taking a screen shot is helpful especially to people doing website reviews and for people interested of adding a screen shot for a better presentation. In case you are wondering what a screen shot is, here's a sample I created below.

Some of my blogger friends were asking me how to capture a screen shot of a computer's screen so I thought I'll post it here. There are various programs that would capture a picture of your screen but the one I use the most is the Print Screen button of my computer keyboard and the Paint Program. I then just crop the picture using Microsoft photo program. So, here's the steps:

How To Capture A Screen Shot.

Step 1. Make sure that the active window is the page you're wanting to take a picture of.

Step 2. Click on the Print Screen key. This will supposedly copy the active window in your desktop onto the clipboard. After clicking the Print Screen key, you are then ready to paste it into any graphics program. (In some computers, you need to click the print screen and Alt key at the same time.) The screen print button is usually on the top row of your computer's keyboard. The key is usually marked PrtSc or PrtScn.


3. In your computer's Paint Program, follow the instructions on the picture.

If you don't know how to find your paint program, simply Click Start at the bottom left side of your computer screen, Click All Programs, Click Accessories and look for Paint.


Step 4. After saving your file, you can edit the picture, crop out unnecessary portions of the screen shot or resize, whatever you want to do with it, using an image editor. I use Microsoft Digital Image program to crop images.

Step 5. Your screen shot is ready to use.

Play Game

Do you play baseball? I know many people love baseball. I do too. I think it's a fun game. I used to play baseball when I was younger. In my wildest dreams, I was wishing to own a baseball team. I am not sure if this dream would be possible in real life but at least online, I could make it real. Yes! I could make it real in fantasy baseball management simulation webgame. Simyard.com gives anyone their chance to own a baseball team. SimYard is a new fantasy baseball management game. Unlike most fantasy baseball games, the players on your team do not represent real players in the major leagues. All of your players are fictitious, and they are yours to play, dismiss, and train, as you see fit. This is so awesome, Isn't it? Also, know that each month brings a new season and a new chance to take the pennant. It brings a new opportunity for you to train your players how you want to train them and you choose your opponents, your pitcher and your lineup and just like any games, you play to win. If you interested in this awesome game, you can register for free at their website. You just have to have a valid e-mail address to sign up. Then you can create a user name and choose a password, create a team, and start playing in minutes! Once you signed in, created a team. It is so cool because when you create a team, you will need to punch in the team location and the nickname of your team, then you select 3 colors and 3 letter ticker for your logo, just like a real baseball team, you have your own logo. You can also have your own stadium. Like a real baseball owners, you should review your lineups and pitching setup and then head to the public fields and find an opponent.

I signed up already. Maybe we can play sometime soon. Just let me know or find me there. My user name is precious185. I enjoyed the chatroom and oh! I love the design and the color of the site. I enjoyed watching the live game with other teams playing too and was monitoring the score board. It's really I cool site, you will love it.

Triple Awards

I got these cool from Norm.

Thanks sis!

Yay! I feel sexy already. Hehehe. Feeling lang.
Thanks again.

Ahhh..I love this cute doggie.
Thanks for this award.

Passing this on to Just Saying, Different Angles, Tipsy Tips and Super Maria!

HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!

Broker Skills

I always like people with broker skills. Good brokers makes good money. In fact some of them especially commercial broker make a six figure income. Yes! that big. I wish to be one of them. I learned that brokerskills.com offers a great opportunity for everyone to become a commercial loan originator, broker from home or office. Anyone interested can work on a full or part-time basis. It's a nice program that don't need any prior experience. It's a great program because they will teach everything an aspiring broker need to know. Aside from that, they also offer their on-going support.

What makes this more interesting for me is that, this business can be done from the comfort of my own home or the aspiring brokers home. The Broker Skills program will teach everyone how to find those businesses and commercial real estate investors who need money for their business or investments. It's great to know that they are now offering this very helpful products to everyone at a special discounted price. Learning successfully earn additional monthly income has never been easier.

Tallest Man Meets The Smallest Man

Ever wonder what will happen when the tallest man in the world meets the smallest man? Well, camera lights are all over them. Check out this video.

romantic get away

When was the last time you went to vacation? Did you have a romantic get away? Away from your busy world? I love having sweet vacation and every now and then, I read to get more vacation ideas and tips. Which vacation in the past would you consider a romantic experience? Mine, would be my past vacation to Florida. Me and my sweetheart spent fun time together, away from our hectic schedules. I enjoyed the place so much and the many things I and my sweetheart have done while in there. I love the city attractions and the theme parks. The excitement of rides, the sweet dinner attractions and the beauty of the gardens were awesome. The Hot Air Balloon Rides in the Disney area of Orlando, Florida was something I will never forget. I know there are a lot more of things to do in Orlando. I am sure you will love it there too, in case you haven't visited the place yet.

If you are planning to have a relaxing, fun, or romantic vacation soon, buy discount tickets for the best sightseeing tours, attractions and museums at Trusted Tours & Attractions. I am sure you want to make sure you spend your time and money wisely. Sign up for their newsletter to get ideas on your next vacation and things to do. Plus, you will have a chance of winning a Canon PowerShot digital camera like the one shown in the picture below.

Isn't this awesome?

car insurance

Do you have car insurance? Some car owners especially the new ones, may consider car insurance a pain in the neck having to pay premiums but for most drivers that have been driving on the road for a long time knows how and why car insurance is very important. Should you be involved in a car accident, your car insurance protects you from personal liability . This will save you from spending much more amount of money paying them off. Plus, vehicle repairs and medical bills can be very expensive. Car insurance don't have to be expensive. Cost-U-Less car insurance is cheap. Many of their stores are located in Northern California, but they are expanding all over the State. They also have san jose car insurance. Check their website for more information. Save yourself from troubles. Get your affordable car insurance in San Jose today.

Happy Valentines Day

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.

The above quote is from Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise). Let me say Happy Valentine's Day! dear readers. It's for all lovers and for everyone whose heart beats to rapturous love. I hope you'll have a great Valentine's day celebration. For all singles out there: Watch out for that short, chubby toddler with a weapon. He or she might just hit you in an instant.

Ramiele Malubay in American Idol

Nineteen year-old Filipina, Ramiele Malubay, made it to the top 24 of this season's American Idol (Season 7). Below is a video of her singing during the Hollywood elimination.

Ramiele Malubay- American Idol Hollywood Elimination



Wishing Her The Best of Luck!

Home Remodelling

We are currently building fences around the house. I am not sure what our next project will be but I am hoping the next project would be less expensive than what we spent on our fencing project. I know home remodeling can be so expensive. Are you planning to remodel your home? I found the leading company for home remodeling. K-Designers has the best selection of home windows and patio doors. They have the best resource for vinyl siding. Aside from that, the most qualified and experienced professionals are there to install for you. The best part with them, is you won't pay anything until the work is done and you're 100% satisfied. Sounds great, right?

You can use the form on their website to start planning and calculating your possible expenses and the big savings you can get.

What's Up?

Check out these pictures of Trixie, our Pekingese.


Wazz Up! Wazz Up!


She don't like to share her Toys

She's getting use of having her picture taken, she'll just look straight to camera lens. This little Samukan loves the camera. She used to be so scared of the camera light, but after sometime she realize that her mommy won't stop taking pictures of her. LOL.

digital scales

Scalesetc.com has launch their new line of digital scales that provides plenty of convenient functionality. It weighs in pounds/ounces, grams, or ounces, aside from that, it can give a readout in fractions of an ounce, as well! Pretty cool! You don't have to calculate and convert decimals into fractions! It is in small sizes, good for office or hobby use, as well as being a great digital kitchen scale or diet scale! Modern and eye-catching, and are great in the kitchen, and any other room that needs a small scale. They also have a scale that has its own frosted-glass bowl,making it dishwasher safe.

Awesome Beautiful Blogger

I want to thank my dear friend Norm for extending these awards to me.

Truly appreciated sis. Thanks a lot.

I'd like to pass these awards to Julie, Edith, Gamay, SExyMom, Summer, AnoKamo, and TipsyTips.

cost less

Are you looking for a better and cheap auto insurance? Or maybe more information about it? The student's specialists in car insurance, Cost-U-Less will help you understand the basics of car insurance, what you can do now to get the best rates and how you can plan for your future to lower the cost of your rates. They have a list of great resources for you where you can get more information about student drivers, auto insurance, and related topics. If you or anyone you know is getting ready to get
learners permit or drivers license, their practice test can help you a lot. Learn the information you need to know to successfully pass your written driver test on the first try without spending hours studying the DMV handbook. Check their website today at costulessstudent.com

Getting to Know Each Other

I got this tag from my blogger friend WildCatLady...

---

Copy this entire list of questions and change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then tag and pass it along to other blogging friends. Let’s see how well we can get to know one another!

1. What is your occupation? Math Tutor, Blogger

2. What color are your socks right now? light green with dots

3. What are you listening to right now? Original Philippine Music

4. What was the last thing that you ate? roast

5. Can you drive a stick shift? nope

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? orange

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? my dear4ever (bestfriend Marie)

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? a lot

9. Favorite drink? soft drinks, green tea, water, juice

10. What is your favorite sport to watch? football, basketball

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? Nope

12. Pets? dog
13. Favorite food? Chinese food

14. Last movie you watched? the new Rambo

15. Favorite Day of the year? Christmas

16. What do you do to vent anger? listen to music

17. What was your favorite toy as a child? dolls

18. What is your favorite, fall or spring? spring

19. Hugs or kisses? both

20. What kind of pie? no fave pie

21. Do you want your friends to email you back? sure

22. Who is most likely to respond? friends who are not currently busy

23. Who is least likely to respond? those that are so busy with work right now

24. Living arrangements? I wake up everyday and try to make it a happy day

25. When was the last time you cried? can't remember...been a while

26. What is on the floor of your closet? floor..LOL

27. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? - Marie

28. The friend you have known the shortest amount of time that you are sending this to? I'll have to look it up on my list

29. Favorite smell? Sweetheart's natural body scent..yay!

30. What inspires you? family and friends

31. What are you afraid of? losing the love and respect of the people I love the most. Losing the people that matters.

32. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? Cheese

33. Favorite car? BMW

34. Favorite cat breed? cat's alright..but I would prefer dog more.

35. Number of keys on your key ring? quite a few

36. How many years at your current job? I've been a math tutor since college, blogging for 2 years.

37. Favorite day of the week? Friday, Saturday, Sunday...(these 3)

38. How many provinces have you lived in? 2

39. How many countries have you been to? 3

Now I wanna tag this to my blogger friends on my list...

---

Your Eyeglasses

Have you checked on the most stylish prescription glasses online yet? Great Discovery: Zenni Optical $8 Glasses. Check it out.

Best Thing found: Zenni Optical $8 Glasses

They have huge selection of frames with single vision lens, sun-sensor lens, tinted sunglasses lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens available. These eyeglasses have great styles, not to mention them being affordable and of high quality. I am sure you would love Zenni Optical $8 Rx Eyeglasses. They're cost are low because they sell their own manufactured frames direct to the customers.

New Book

I got a free book today courtesy of Readers Digest. It's a thick paper back book and I wonder if I can read this 575 pages book. This is my second free book, the first one was a pocket book. A very nice inspirational book but I still have not finish reading it. I have been very busy lately. My schedule has been real tight and I have not been in touch with my friends lately. I'll make it up to all of them soon, once this current project that I'm in will be over.

Furniture From Home

I like the Furniturefromhome.com site. Pretty colors and the design is so neat and elegant . It's very readable and the navigation is very easy. Aside from that, the furnitures they are selling are absolutely beautiful. You can shop for furnitures by room set, to where you're gonna use the
Furniture, colors and style. They got gorgeous captains bed, and I found the Bed furniture I like a lot too. One thing I really like is their neat presentation of prices, like if you like to have a Living Room Furniture, you will see the entire set and the individual prices and you just have to click add on quantity if you want to purchase a matching furniture. High quality products.

How Open Minded Are You?

Jalal ad-Din Rumi , a Persian Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273, once said,

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

My blogger friend Norm, send me this Tag Quiz entitled "How Open Minded Are You?. I took the quiz and here's my result. Read On...

You Are 72% Open Minded

You are a very open minded person, but you're also well grounded. Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints. But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line. You're open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself.

How About You?

How Open Minded Are You?

I'm passing this tag to WildcatLady, Jerlalou and LOvellegen.

secret to being happy

Do You Know the Secret to Being Happy? I am sure everyone wants to know the secret. I know several people suffering from depression. Problems with works, family, and peer pressures does lower a persons ability to be happier. Good news is, there's Sedona. It gives you ideas about the essence of mind by beingness presence awareness. People sometimes find it so hard to rely on their ability to deal with adversity and the ability to create and sustain joy. The Sedona Method is a key to happiness and is part of a wave of happiness sweeping the planet. Allow yourself to feel the warmth and liking toward others and be sensitive to how others are feeling. It is important that you feel confident and express yourself without being scared about what people would say. Learn how to be happy for no reason. The Sedona Method leads the happiness wave. Discover the secret to mastering the secret and being truly happy with your life. If you know actress Mariel Hemingway and the author Marci Shimoff, you should know that both of them love The Sedona Method. Why? Mariel Hemingway overcame emotional pain & fear with The Sedona Method . She has a very touching story of success using the method on how she avoids the depression and avoids the low self esteem that plagued her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, with The Sedona Method.. She tells all on how The Sedona Method has changed her life in the book Happy For No Reason. She's only one among the many people that have been helped by the method. The Sedona Method can help you become truly happy now. It is an extremely powerful tool for emotional freedom and wellness.

Raise your happiness set point with The Sedona Method and discover the happiness that you are. Use this release technique to let go of negative thoughts and feelings . Get your Free DVD and CD now...and spread happiness.

Funniest Super Bowl Commercials of 2008

I love the Super bowl and I love the commercials as well. This is the time when Sponsors air their best commercials during the Super Bowl, and I must admit that I am always looking forward to watching the different commercials. I found this video at youtube uploaded by one member. I thought I'll post it here. If I were to ranked the commercial, I am sure this my pick will be "close" to his pick of Top 10.

Here's the funniest 2008 Super Bowl Commercials.

Return Address Labels

I love using self adhesive address labels at home or office. I'm talking about the easy peel and stick return . It sure make things a lot easier and faster like when you're in a hurry and you need to send letters, greeting cards, invitation cards an other important papers, you just peel it and stick to your envelop and you're done! mail is ready to send off. I found this website selling affordable, with various colors return address labels and excellent quality rubber stamps at Affordableaddresslabels.com. I love the site because it is so easy to navigate. Customers don't need to register and can enjoy the different variety of designs available. Another thing is, you can personalized & order Designer full color address labels. They also have easy and secure ordering, fast shipping and great customer service.

Valentines Decor

Few more days, the world will once again celebrate Valentines Day. Do you decorate for the day? I do. I already finished cutting up some heart formed red and pink special papers and pretty colorful ribbons.

I just have to finish the special paper flowers that I intend to use as center table for the day and for the sides of some furnitures. I am planning to surprise my sweetheart of this decoration this year. Last year, I didn't put up some Valentine's day decorations.

make money facebook

Do you have a Facebook account? I remember I signed up for it couple of months ago but I have not updated it or it's not as active as I would like it to be. I learned that there's CashPoint, a "get paid to" Facebook AppA Facebook app that allows you to make money online. This is cool! I'd love to have fun and at the same time earn some bucks. Don't you?

So here's what CashPoint is about. It lets you earn money by completing offers and surveys in your free time. That easy. I'm sure you'll love it too. They offer the highest payouts in the industry and a powerful 3 tier referral program. Awesome! We won't have to worry about anything because they have the best customer service with Live Chat and even a telephone number. Do you have a Paypal account? You need one if you want to join this because they're using the PayPal service for pay. I heard that soon they'll gonna pay by check too.

In order to use this application you must have a Facebook account! Join CashPoint - Make Money on Facebook now. Let's have some more fun, make more friends and make more money.

I am your brother...

I was surprised upon learning that, that guy singing "Were Brothers Forever" during the American Idol Audition is Filipino. I wasn't paying attention to the contestants name, I must be doing other important stuff that time. When I saw him, he does look like Filipino but I thought he's Chinese. If I have heard his name, I would have guess right away. I was searching Youtube videos earlier trying to find a video of that Filipina that passed the audition. I was not able to watch the show that night, I fell asleep early. In case your wondering what I am talking about, here are the videos of 2 Filipinos from this season of American Idol audition.

American Idol - Renaldo Lapuz (Filipino)

Funny Guy!

Filipina Ramiele Malubay - American Idol [HD QUALITY]

She's cute. Isn't she? I love how she pronounced her family name. Pinoy na Pinoy! I wish to see her win and by the way, I'd love to see more of her dad too. Mabuhayy!

online pharmacy

Do you purchase medicines or brand name prescriptions online? I found the lowest prices for FDA-Approved Online Prescriptions at Edrugstore.md online pharmacy. You can get safe, secure, private, and convenient way to buy your online prescriptions and get your order fast and at a price that saves you money. Edrugstore.md has been online for 8 years, and only sells name brand prescription drugs. They don't sell generics. If you have some questions, you can ask their pharmacists and physicians because they offer free medical consultations, plus their customer service is available 24/7. You don't have to worry about the informations you get because their pharmacists and physicians are reliable and US-licensed and and their online pharmacy store only dispenses FDA-approved prescription medications. Isn't this great? We all want to safeguard our health. I love their product pricing section because they have the product information too, it's precautions, how it works, drug interactions and the possible side effect. You'll learn more about the product itself. They even have a unique health forum that serves as a one stop support community for diseases, conditions and health topics. You can register for free and join the discussions about influenza, gastro-intestinal, pain relief, sexual health, skin care, weight loss, womens health and other important health topics. Or you can enjoy their important and very helpful health articles.

Relationship Help

I am currently reading "Relationships" written by my favorite married authors, Dr. Les and Leslie Parrott, a clinical psychology professor and a family therapist respectively. Their book speaks about the twist and turns of our complex relationships. It's a great book. It helps the reader to let go of the past and move forward. Reading it helps you to be emotionally healthy human being.

Car Prices

We are seriously thinking of buying a new car, so we are currently sight seeing some cars and comparing Car Prices. Tom's truck is almost 10 years old and need repainting so, we're deciding to get a new one soon. I'm glad to know that we can get a quote on our next car at CarsBlvd.com. This will help us find the best deal available in terms of affordability, efficiency, compact styling and other important stuffs to consider. Best of all, we hope for the right car at its right price too.

Guide to Life

I am currently reading the book entitled, O's Guide to Life, the best of O, The Oprah Magazine. It has more than 100 of great articles culled from the pages of O, The Oprah Magazine. It's a nice book. I'm not even in the middle pages yet but I love the articles. It's inspiring, empowering and very entertaining.

I just borrowed this book from our local library. I am thinking of getting a copy for myself but I wish they'll publish a paper back cover because the hard cover book is sure heavy.

Girl Mogul

Are you or anyone you know a Girl Mogul? GirlMogul is an attitude, a way of approaching life that says you can be and do what you dream.

There's a website that sells cool apparel
for all you chick geeks out there. They have Go GirlPower - Shirts and gear expressing your inner power and telling the world who you are and who you want to be! Their cool merchandise on display defies convention and stereotyping and is inspiring and encouraging. It reinforce and sustain these positive values among females.

Express yourself using your basic for every wardrobe, your T-shirts! Remember how kids go crazy over t-shirt's with different graphic arts? Kids love beautiful and colorful designed clothes. When I was a kid, I love clothes with pretty graphics. Now that I am a bit older, I still love pretty and beautifully colored graphics in my shirts , sometimes even funny expressions and sayings.

Now you and I can expand our world with tees saying thoughts about the clever, sweet and interesting us – what makes us and what inspires us. It’s a commitment to be being smart and independent, to having fun and to helping others, to dreaming and to building and growing those dreams. That's what a Girl Mogul is about.

Hello My Friend!

I got a tag from Jerlalou, my new friend in blogging world. (Thanks sis!). I am passing this tag on to Edith, Butchay, Lady Norms and Janet Vicy.

Remember what Harriet Goldhor Lerner said,

"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others."

HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!

Special Valentines Day Fonts

Valentines Day is near coming. Do you have plans for that day already? Special dinner with special someone? How about romantic and cards? If you're planning to make a card for your love ones instead of buying them, I found a great site that offers special valentine's day fonts. You can find them at FontMarketplace. Make your card as personalize and as special as the people that you care the most.




FontMarketplace.com introduces Valentine's Day fonts
Specially-priced set of fonts with matching Microsoft Word templates for St. Valentine’s Day cards, invitations and other projects

Elk Grove Village, IL – January 29, 2008 – Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced a new collection of Valentine fonts available exclusively from its FontMarketplace.com website. The Ascender Valentine's Kit contains five Valentine-themed fonts matched with five expertly-designed Microsoft Word templates. The software package is available as a convenient digital download with a special price of $9.99 at http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/ascender-valentines-kit.aspx?ilbcode=679

"Valentine's Day is an important holiday to express love and friendship, and it's important to use the right font to project the image or personality that best captures your sentiments.” said Bill Davis, Vice President of Ascender Corp. "The Ascender Valentine's Kit contains a fresh set of distinctive fonts and unique templates that can be used to make attractive Valentine cards, invitations, flyers, scrapbooks and many other projects."

The Ascender Valentine's Kit contains five TrueType fonts that are well-suited for Valentine's Day and all year-round. They are matched with an original set of professionally-designed Microsoft Word templates for a variety of Valentine's Day projects including cards, flyer, postcard and invitation.

The Ascender Valentine's Kit is priced at $9.99 with a single user license and is available for immediate download from http://www.fontmarketplace.com. The price represents a savings of almost 60% compared to buying all five fonts individually. The Valentine's Kit is available with an automatic installer for Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, or as a compressed .zip file for Mac OS or other systems.

FontMarketplace.com features affordably-priced professional-quality fonts packaged individually and in sets. The website offers a wide variety of popular type styles from text and display to script fonts, and an assortment of multilingual fonts, all displayed in creative ways to showcase the fonts in use. The FontMarketplace.com website was designed to make it easy for first time font buyers and creative enthusiasts to browse, download and install fonts. All of the fonts are Certified TrueType fonts, developed and tested by the font experts at Ascender Corp.

About Ascender
Ascender Corporation is a leading provider of advanced font products. Ascender's founders are font industry experts and have been involved in developing many of the most important and influential fonts used in computers and mobile devices. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development for a wide range of customers including creative professionals, enterprises and hardware & software developers. Ascender also provides fonts for download to graphic designers and consumers through its font websites and mobile phone software with ringtones, wallpapers & themes.

Contact:
Bill Davis
Ascender Corporation
25 Northwest Point Blvd, Suite 225, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA
Phone: (847) 357 0730
http://www.ascendercorp.com
http://www.fontmarketplace.com

Oscar's Coming

In two more weeks, the one and only Oscars awards night will be shown live. I heard that the show will go on even the midst of writer's strike. There's some optimism that the strike is about to end but it is still not sure. In case the labor strike isn't resolve, the show will still go on because the organizers of Oscars are planning an alternative program. This years Oscars awards night will be hosted by Jon Stewart.

Blog Ranks

A lot of bloggers and website owners have been hurt by their page ranks drop down. I noticed many other blogs and forums I read are experiencing a drop too even the ones that are way much established and use a lot of intra linking have been hit hard. What about you? have you noticed or experienced a drop in PageRank?

IZEARanks.com recently launched a tool that calculate Blog Ranks . RealRank is the first site ranking service that focuses exclusively on measuring the traffic and influence of individual blogs throughout the blogosphere.

You, as blog owner embed code on their blog and this piece of javascript collect data and report a rank based on actual traffic. You can choose whether you want to display pageviews and visitors or just your RealRank. What's nice is that, unlike other ranking systems, the RealRank scoring algorithm is public. The system weights blogs 70% on daily unique visitors, 20% by daily active inbound links and 10% by daily page views as reported by ITK. Check out the site and sign up for the service. Registration is free!

Relationships 101

I would love to read this book by Dr. Parrott. I am sight seeing this one in a local bookstore. I'm just wondering if this is something similar to the other books. I read several books by her and her busband and they're all great an helpful. I haven't heard any reviews yet.

rugby games

If you are a big fan of rugby games, you would love rbs6nations.com. It is RBS 6 Nations Official Website. The six nations being England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. You will find the latest news about rugby games, RBS Six Nations Match Previews and Reports. They have fixtures and results, photo gallery showcasing great pictures of your favorite players and the exciting game, post game schedules and venue and some video to watch. If you'd love to learn more about this game, you can always read the history section of the site. They even have a fan zone where rugby game fans can download free high definition wallpapers of the different players and the legends of the game and learn more about 'Kick for an RBS 6 Nations Ticket'. It is a rugby roadshow that tours cities across the UK. It has proved hugely popular. Participants can win a range of rugby-related prizes, including tickets and travel packages to away matches. Rugby stars and celebrities will be on hand to help - and maybe even have a go themselves! kick for a ticket, and learn about their club linking program. You can sign up for their newsletter to get more updates about rugby games.

Fake Magazine Cover

Edith, a very good friend of mine, tagged me to post a picture of a Mad Me. I tried looking for some mad pictures to post here but I could not find any. I laugh a lot even when the situation is not funny. Hehehe. I'm just kidding but seriously I laugh a lot. I think I got more funny bones in me. Really, it's hard to find one mad pic of me. I think I have some but I might have toss it somewhere or probably have thrown away. Would you keep a bad picture? hehehe! I normally smile when someone's taking pictures of me unless when it's a stolen shot. Anyways, if I find one, I'll post it here. I found this cool website that create fake magazine covers from Edith's blog. I tried it and here's my pics below.

What do you think? Pwedi na ba panakot sa daga? Hehehe. By the way, the site is MagMyPic.com

FlirtVibes

Are you into online dating? Some people do. In fact, many people are into online dating and I know a few that meet through online dating services and are now happily married. There are people that don’t like bars, clubs and singles hangouts and some are just busy working and do not have time for dating. Online dating is available from home.

I found a totally free dating site that anyone can join. It's a cool site where you can meet and flirt with the thousands of sexy singles online . If you are new to online dating then this site is for you. You don't have to pay. You can post your personals profile for free at FlirtVibes.com and create an account. You can then use their service. You can use their search engine. Browse and upload photos, upload your picture and check out other people's galleries. You can send message to people that catches your attention and start from there, get to know each other, learn more about each other through exchange messages or chatting and who knows what's next. They have the powerful social features not commonly found on dating sites. It is much more than a directory of flat personals ads.You might find the one you've been waiting for.

Are you the typical Filipino?

==================================
I've been tagged by my gwapa friend Edith.
===========================

Over time, the Filipino way of living has changed a lot, thanks to the influence of the western culture. The once-simple living has gone wonderfully sophisticated that it seems we have gradually lost the traits unique us Filipinos. Even so, we can’t and won’t deny the fact that rooted in our spirit and being is the pride that we are indeed Filipinos.
But how Filipino are you? Are the Filipino traits strong in you? Are you the typical Filipino? Take this simple quiz I have fabricated to determine your being Filipino. Read the items below and tell whether or not you do or exhibit them and count the items that are true to you. After evaluating all the items refer to the gauge below with your points. Remember to take seriously the frequencies (at least once, twice…) in the items; if you lack even one frequency, then don’t count the item.

Here it goes:

1. You can speak Filipino (erstwhile Tagalog).
2. Whenever necessary, you take the hand of an elder relative and pat the back of the palm of that hand to your forehead and say “mano po”
3. You know “bayanihan” and had witnessed it personally at least once.
4. You’ve seen a bahay kubo at least once.
5. You’ve ridden on a jeepney at least five times.
6. You have separate clothes for in-house and outside use (pambahay at panglakad)
7. You’ve eaten adobo, dinuguan, kakanin, tuyo, dilis
8. Your meal is incomplete if without rice
9. You hear Sunday masses and attend Misa de Gallo with your family.
10. You can sing “Lupang Hinirang” very well, with no lines missed.
11. You don’t care donning ragged and torn clothes exclusively for use inside home
12. You have bought items in a “sari-sari store” at least ten times
13. You have played patintero, tumbang preso and piko during your childhood.
14. You can sing at least five OPM songs, and know what OPM means
15. You know the Philippine presidents from the year of your birth onwards.
16. You have witnessed “balagtasan” at least thrice.
17. You’ve been recounted with stories involving aswang, tikbalang, manananggal, nuno sa punso.
18. You’ve been read, have read or have heard Filipino legends (Ang Alamat ng…).
19. You’ve lived, stayed or visited Philippine places other than your city or town at least seven times.
20. You’ve visited local (or public) wet market at least five times.
21. You have heard guys trying to sing Englebert Humperdink songs on a karaoke machine.
22. Your main means of expressing anger is tampo.
23. You eat with your hands or use your fork and spoon together.
24. You visit home taking with you a few balikbayan boxes.
25. You use "po" at "opo" when talking to older people.
26. You don't feel comfortable callingpeople older than you bytheir first names.
27. You know what a "karitela" and "balut", "bagoong" are.
28. You packed the rice in Banana leaves.
29. You eat green mangoes with raw shrimp in it.
30. You eat the fried or grilled chicken feet.

Here’s the gauge to tell how Filipino you are: [It increases as you add your own items so adjust your gauge according to your # of items. For those that I tagged...your highest score now is 30 because of the last 3 I added. Make sense? Hopefully...]

----------------

21 - 27 = The Filipino blood, spirit and flame burns intensely in you. You are the typical Filipino, who takes pride of your nationality.
17 - 20 = You are proud of your being Filipino and that the traits unique to most Filipinos live in you.
11 - 16 = You are the Filipino who, even adopting strongly the cultures of other nations, still don’t forget some old ways of the Filipino life.
7 - 10 = The Filipino culture has little by little been forgotten by you. You need to at least try some of the items mentioned.
4 - 6 = The Filipino culture has substantially faded in you, or that you have not been exposed to the true, authentic traits of being a Filipino.
1 - 3 = You’re a Filipino, only that you may have not been born and raised in the Philippines and had not lived up or been accustomed to the ways of Filipino living.
0 = You’re not a Filipino.

----------------
Again, if you are a Filipino reader of mine - please consider yourself tagged! This does not prompt you to repost this quiz, however it would be better if you did. You have to add at least three items to the quiz, and you should tag a dozen people after your post. There are a lot of unique Filipino traits and I don’t see any reason why you can’t think of three of them. Do not copy the listed items; provide/make your own and add them to the list above. Let’s see how long the list can get.

Circle of Friends Meme

I got this tag from WildCatLady.

-->Start Here<-- Friends

Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. He, who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend, loses much more; He, who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Friends, you and me...You brought another friend...And then there were 3...We started our group...Our circle of friends...And like that circle...There is no beginning or end...Yesterday is history.Tomorrow is mystery.Today is a gift.

So now, let's see how many circle's of friends we can make by simply adding your link on this Friendship Meme!

1-Catsy Carpe Diem, 2- Catsy Downloads, 3-Out of the Blue, 4- A Day to Savor and Relish 5- A Piece of Idea 6- Write Shy 7- Stupid Wise 8-http://onlinememorylane.blogspot.com/ 9 - http://www.jk-nocargo.blogspot.com/ 10- Pinay Mommy Online 11-Momhood Moments 12- Life Journey 13. Your Blog Here!<--

-->End here<--

Sharing this circle of friends tag to:

Carolyn's Online Diaries, Vicy's Life JOurney, Jerlalou's Blog, BBJane's Sayings &Quotes,Carlson Clan Adventure, Ragid Handsome,Unseal My Lips,CMAQUEST, Musings and Feelings

Election Qlips

America's Election 2008 is near coming and every party is busy campaigning to win. The the race. It is getting hotter! What do you think about the upcoming US Presidential election? Which candidate do you think is the best to lead the USA for the next four years? It's never too early to talk about the 2008 US Presidential election. Suffice it to say, the position that these candidates are racing for to win is a very important one. Did you know that you can make your voice heard on elections 2008? That's right! At ElectionQlips, you can talk about Elections 2008 using Qlip Media’s QlipBoard technology. How? It's easy. Visit their website at electionqlips.com and if you have any campaign stories or talk you heard which you want to share, just pick any Qlippit in any blog post, and click the “Talk About It!” button and leave your comments as video, audio or just point & draw, then share your thoughts with fellow citizens. That easy! Don't worry, if you get lost on the process, they have a video that shows or guides on how to comment on any qlippit online. Below is their press release. Read on.

Press Release:

QlipMedia (http://www.qlipmedia.com) has just launched the public beta version of ElectionQlips (http://www.electionqlips.com), a new destination to discuss all that is Election 2008. Readers can share their comments with the community and leave comments on Presidential Election themed video posts using their recorded voice, free-hand drawing, and images to let everyone know what they think and how they feel about every point in the posted debates, ads, punditry and stump speeches.

As the nation’s attention increasingly focuses on the outcomes of the ongoing primary elections and the general election to follow this November, viewers of ElectionQlips can stayed tuned to all the exciting action, including voice and video comments of their fellow citizens. And anyone can bring their wit and wisdom to bear on the debate of the moment, commenting to their heart’s content with their own voice and images.

The blogosphere has always been about giving a voice to common ‘netizens’, while democratizing the dissemination of the news and opinion. But heretofore that voice has been confined to the two dimensional world of the written word. The broad appeal of video has added a third dimension, a layer of contextual relevancy just not possible with the written word alone. Blog commenting has been similarly constrained by the same technical barriers. ElectionQlips brings multimedia blogging full circle, giving blog commenters the ability to post live, multimedia comments right on the videos they’re viewing in their own voice, using their own doodles and images.

• 100+ million blogs in existence
• 1.5 million blog posts per day
• 1 blog with multimedia commenting capability

ElectionQlips users can take their election debate with them by sharing the link and embedding the player anywhere. On the video timeline, it’s easy to bring out all the facts with every detail of the debate through point-by-point analysis. The density of comments at every point let’s one see what’s hot and what’s not in every debate.

The goal of ElectionQlips is to make it possible for everyone to participate in any debate, discussion and controversy using their own voice. Commenting on blog posts is a common enough, ElectionQlips gives an edge over other contemporary election blogs, especially with respect to sharing your comments and opinions.

About QlipMedia:
QlipMedia makes QlipBoard, a tool that combines videos and images with drawing, highlighting and adds your voice is the easiest way to talk about anything and turn any video into an instant discussion room. ElectionQlips is produced by QlipMedia, Inc. and designed by OuterJoin. For more information, visit www.qlipmedia.com. This post is brought to you by Qlipmedia.com

Extraordinary

I was reading "Being Extraordinary" written by interior designer and self improvement guru Corazon del Mundo. I love it. It's very inspirational and motivational. She encourages people who might have given up life and love. She has a contagious bubbly enthusiasm. Her encouragement is sweet an moving. It makes you think and re assess your life and the things you want to achieve.

Your Taxes

It's the time of the year when millions of taxpayers are busy collecting their tax documents and calculating and getting ready to file their income taxes. Some may even busy calculating their possible tax refund. Have you filed your taxes yet? Filing your taxes online was never easier with Fileyourtaxesnow.com. It is a is a self service online US tax preperation website. You can file your taxes and save time and money with their federal and state tax preparation service. You get a reliable security you expect from a reputable tax service business. There's no software to download. All you got to do is follow their step by step system and guides and fill in the blanks. You don't worry when you get confuse or you have some questions because you can always ask for online help. They have that service available from their experienced tax accountants to ensure need help. Your account information is private and secure because it's password protected and keeps your .Their system is great for electronically filing simple tax returns and also for taxpayers who itemize their deductions. You don't have to use credit card, you can deduct their low filing fee right from your tax refund. Try their online tax filing FREE. This is so nice because you only pay when you complete your tax return.