Interesting topic for me because weight is one of the most talked about topics among women friends, next to makeup and beauty tips, love life for the singles and kids for the moms, the hunt for the best progesterone cream for those who are within the age range, home management tips for the married ones and the best hip places to hang out for those who want to relax. Topics are in no particular order of importance.
What about my thoughts on the article?
I think I am in denial too. I am guilty of giving myself a “reward” because I burned calories when I go to my Zumba class and/or when I get home from a tiring day of work. Yep, the reward brings back the calories I’ve burned when I should have been rewarding myself hooping time instead because it makes me happy too. Gah!
I don’t know how much I weigh, I haven’t stepped on a scale for a long time.
I hope not. Though the children enjoyed a two-week vacation with my parents and were able to spend a day or two at the beach, it seems that they have not truly enjoyed their summer vacation yet. And yes, it’s almost over with barely a month to go before school starts.
It would have been fun to go some place where they can enjoy and do what they like to like swim to their hearts’ desire or even ride on an ATV (and I heard RZR XP Accessories are selling fast) on a trail.
They still hope they could go to their other grandma’s place but I think that would be next to impossible now.
We’ll probably just plan weekend trips so that they can still enjoy their vacation. I don’t know what’s with Sundays, the bed’s attraction seem stronger than having fun elsewhere.
Gadgets like a netbook, a tablet, smartphones, iphones and cameras are product must-haves people dream to own. But the question is, how many gadgets can one really handle? How many gadgets does one really NEED?
Let’s see some hypothetical situations:
There is a lady who just can’t wait to get her hands on this certain camera even though she still has a new point and shoot camera and an even newer dlsr.
There is another one who misses the android phone because this person now has a new iphone.
Then there’s this man who totes a netbook and not satisfied with it, opens his tablet while taking a photo of himself with his android phone all the while his other smartphone is ringing.
What I’d like to see is the first person bring along the newer dslr, the almost new point and shoot and the newly purchased camera while she takes photos with her iphone. Oh-la-la!
Really now. I think it is not really a matter whether one can afford these things because the more one wants to have these things they think they need, one becomes more greedy, more materialistic in this already materialistic world.
Once again, Bravehearts is launching The Tour of Hope 2011. Bravehearts in its effort to raise awareness on cervical cancer prevention through this annual fundraising event. TTOH aims to conduct lectures for cervical cancer prevention programs in the municipalities and cities covered in the tour.
What is The Tour of Hope 2011?
The Tour of Hope or TTOH is a biking event spearheaded by GlaxoSmithKline Philipines and the UP Cancer Institute Foundation’s Cervical Cancer Prevention in partnership with Team David’s Salon, an all woman sports team.
The Tour of Hope is an annual fund raising event of Bravehearts, a non-profit organization initially led by the Cervical Cancer Prevention Network (CECAP) for the Cancer Institute Foundation (CIF).
The Tour of Hope is the largest anti-cervical cancer biking tour in the country. Supporters from the public and private sectors help fund the program to be able to provide free cervical cancer vaccinations in different provinces in the Philippines.
The Tour of Hope 2011 itinerary will start from TriNoma in Quezon City on May 28, 2011 and will include these following provinces:
First stop: Tarlac City, Tarlac.
San Fernando, La Union
Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
Laoag City, Ilocos Norte
Laoag to Paoay
Abbygale Arenas-de Leon, president of Bravehearts said “I’d like to encourage everyone to help save Filipinas from cervical cancer by supporting and being a part of The Tour of Hope. Not only is it great for your health, your participation will help prevent this disease from claiming more lives.”
For The Tour of Hope 2011 – 500: Going the eXtra Mile Against Cervical Cancer, Bravehearts worked with the following companies: Philippine Seven Corporation (7-Eleven), Mcdonald’s, Columbia, Primer Group of Companies, Sweet Bella, TriNoma Mall, Gatorade, Pioneer Insurance and EON Stakeholder Relations Firm.
The organization has held successful seminars and projects with the help of its partner organizations and companies. Bravehearts is also a proud partner of the following public and private organizations – Cervical Cancer Prevention Network of the Philippines (CECAP), The Cancer Institute Foundation Inc. (CIF), GlaxoSmithKline, David’s Salon, The 3000 Club of the Philippines, Francis Magalona Clothing Company (FMCC), Maldita, Loalde, Fitflops, Personi-fi Image Studio, Islands Souvenirs, Belle De Jour (BDJ), Bisaya Ispesyal, Quota International, Medical Observer, Josiah’s Catering and GeiserMaclang.
Laptop has a pop-up message for me: Low Disk Space. Oh no! I’ve got extra space in Picasa for 5usd/year but I haven’t put most of the recent photos there. Blog photos are mostly in Flickr.
I also made my Facebook page a storage of recent photos, saved in original size, just in case I may need to rely on data backup solutions, at least I have some of these online. I just hope Facebook won’t have a big viral infection and sneeze and cough out all these data.
And I hope Facebook won’t ask subscribers to pay for extra disk space used in photos.
We don’t just clean because we want our homes to look nice. We clean because we don’t want to get sick from diseases from unsanitary and ewww dirty sources.
According to a USAID 2008 data, 77.8 billion pesos are lot every year due to poor sanitation. Not only that, if only we have a clean and sanitized surroundings, 1 life for every 20 seconds can be saved.
“I clean. I save.” This is what the Philippine Spring Cleaning Day aims: clean and sanitized homes to prevent an outbreak of infectious diseases.
