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Add Joy to the Holidays with Holiday Greetings

Greetings are the best means to express your feelings. Where greeting cards express your feeling with the help of images and quotations and custom text, these also are an excellent means to be present with someone even if you are away from him or her. It is also the best means to convey your emotions and make aware the other persons how you feel about him or her. Holiday greetings are also in vogue these days following Christmas holidays.

Greetings have though evolved over a period of time and now people have started preferring online greetings rather than paper greeting. Where paper greetings were popular in the past years, there is a sudden shower of online greetings options these days. The greatest advantage about online greetings is that it can be customized at will of the presenter. A person can customize the greetings with respect to the overall theme, size, cover image as well as the text inside the greeting. Besides, the online greetings also gives you the advantage to send it on a designated date or time, so it is like you can customize a greeting and the online greetings provider will make sure that it is delivered to your friend or the loved one on the required date eve if your forget to send it.

Apart from this the online holiday greetings gives you the advantage that you can order a greeting by choosing from a range of greetings available online and the greeting will be delivered giving a surprise to the recipient. So order one today.

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Indeed, the start of the year hasn't been so good for me and my family. After battling with the so excruciatingly painful illness for months, yesterday morning my brother-in-law, Jimmy has to cast out his final breath with the presence of his whole family inside the car, mobiling while on their way to the hospital yesterday.

I don't live near my family so I only know bits and pieces about his condition, though I know he'd been going in and out of the hospital since late of last year. It was only a couple weeks ago when his doctor finally disclosed about him having a liver cancer along with several complications. Not even once that I've seen him on his condition. The last time we've seen each other was August of last year and and I just heard from my sister that he was confined to the hospital just few days right after we left Davao for Cebu.

I was preparing and were about to take lunch along with my younger sister and my nieces when I got the text message my sister, Joyce (his wife) has sent me yesterday. I was totally stunned! While reading the message, my mind was trying to grasp something I am not certain about. I have to call my sister right away. I need to hear her voice. She was trembling while trying to gather altogether what she has to say. I can feel her pain while I was so helpless. All she asked is for us to come home.

After my father's death 5 years ago, this is just but another major struggle my family has to go through especially for my sister. Its gonna be a long healing process that awaits for her ahead, and I know it's not gonna be easy and for us to be there for her is I think the most important thing we could do for now. We (my sister, Thea and I) are considering of getting a possible way to get home tomorrow either via air or a sea trip...I may not be visible here for several days but when I get a chance, I'll try to stop by to check here once in a while.

A little time to say a little prayer for the soul of my brother-in-law, Jimmy will be greatly appreciated.

GOD BLESS US ALL!

promises: your way out to addiction

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For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities. However, we need to remember that alcohol is a drug and is addictive. If taken excessively, it is dangerous and a life threatening habit. According to study, Ethyl alcohol or Ethanol found in alcoholic beverages is a central nervous system depressant that affects regions in the brain that control behavior, so naturally people feel more outgoing and talkative.

Heavy drinking can increase the risk for certain cancers and it also affects every system in the body including the nervous, digestive, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and endocrine systems. But we can fight it before it gets to the edge with promises that surely won't fail.

Know more about it here.

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When was the last time you had a good laugh?

I just had mine a few minutes ago and actually still while writing this post.

LOL! Can't help it!

Well, in case you're interested to know how to keep computer privacy and secrets, check it out here. And I mean, NOW!

Thanks Lynn! It really made my day, LOL!

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how far would you go to look beautiful

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Once I was invited by my friend to come along with her to visit a skin care clinic during one of her facial treatment sessions. While waiting for her, the attendants was so kind to tour me around the clinic and I was so amazed upon staring at each beauty equipments I saw inside.In one of the rooms, I've thrown an inquisitive look at a cylinder-shaped cubicles with bulbs attached to its walls. "Those are the vertical tanning beds" pointing at the equipments, the lady says before I could even open my mouth to ask. This bed is designed to achieve a more even and much faster tanning result.

At the other side of the clinic I got to see a Microdermabrasion equipment. Microdermabrasion treatments are a gentle and painless method of exfoliating the skin on the face or body that has rapidly become widely utilized for a variety of cosmetic objectives,
including the improvement of photoaging, hyperpigmentation, acne, scars and stretch marks.

Amazing! I've heard about all of these treatments and surgical procedures to meet one's desired look but that was the only time I've ever came across with such real technology-driven and a truly state-of-the art beauty equipments.

Standards of beauty and practices had truly changed. A lot of people especially women are attempting to modify their physical appearances to conform cultural ideals of beauty. That is why the growth of beauty industry is evident nowadays. When you go to major cities and large malls in your places, there lies the sophisticated and distinctively designed beauty clinics as well as salon and spa centers.

What about you? How far would you go to look “beautiful” and what is your concept for beauty?

new year's misfortunes (spot the bad lucks II)

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start reading here...

... so I made up my mind and headed my way back to the WU where I first transacted from inside the Mall. I queued myself again. While standing in front of the counter when my name was called, I spotted the exchange rate board that says: 46.97 to 1USD from 47.02 an hour ago.

Oh well, what can I do? I just would rather sign the papers or get nothing at all. After counting the money, I headed to SWC right away to pay my internet bill via the electronic machine. Forget about lunch! I need to get my errands done that day.

I stopped at the grocery... quick! Payed and left.

At a fast food chain, I grabbed a food and drink which I think of munching inside the van while sitting on my way home. So I ate while the car was running. It was only until then that I realize how hungry I was. Felt a bit relax after filling my tummy up... laid my back and fall asleep.

Finally, I'm home! Dropped everything in place... sat a while and took a sigh of relief. It's already around 5:00 in the afternoon. I still have to wake JK up and let him know I made it safe home. I turned on my PC on. I thought the hard lucks were through.

OH NOOO!

My internet was disconnected!

I hurriedly call SMART's hotline and the agent at the other end confirmed that my internet connection was temporarily disconnected due to unpaid balance. WHAT?!

Calm down, Nancy...calm down... Can't believe it! What a funny joke! I need to go back to the city AGAIN to settle the issue and yeah... they're right... so I have no reason to argue. I unintentionally missed paying my bill for the month of August last year.

Two days after, Saturday (24th) while talking to JK online, I smelled something familiar around my room. A burn-like smell. He then instructed me to check on all the wirings around the house. Can't find any. Few minutes later, the smell is no longer tolerable. It gets stronger and wanting to suffocate me this time. While I'm busy looking around trying to find out where it could possibly came from, I noticed that my PC suddenly went all blank. "Oh my"... was all I could utter. Worried about what might had happened, JK called me on my cellphone to check if everything were ok. We talked a while, I pulled all the plugs off and after the terrible smell was gone, I then went to bed to sleep.

25th. First thing I did in the morning was to clean my CPU. Know what I saw as I unplug all the cords attached at the back? Believe it or not... a burned power supply cord! Good thing the damage wasn't that bad, but I have to live a day without being online.

SIGH! I wonder what on earth have I done to get penalized this way... and I wonder what's gonna be the next.

Please... I have enough of these misfortunes for the brand new month of this brand new year!

ENOUGH!!!

getting rid of your garage stuffs

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spot the bad lucks

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Enough with the salty coffee! Here... let me share another taste of life.

Have you ever experience a month-long real bad luck? I did! It started with a "HELP" that turns into a series of terrible days.

Around the second week of the month.. for the first time I tried withdrawing my money from Paypal through my local bank. Like it says, I have to wait for 5-7 days so from then on I started counting. On the 8th day, I received a confirmation from Paypal that says:

An electronic funds transfer from your PayPal account to your bank account was rejected today for this reason:

Invalid Bank Account Information

Well prior to this, I already was facing some personal issues so when I got this message from Paypal, I was just a bit stunned and finally sobbed out of dismay and disappointment. Who would be happy when you're charged to close to $20 for an invalid bank account information? So I left with no choice but to make another withdrawal transaction again... with a lesser amount this time...

Saturday, last week (17th) my sister asked if I could help her meet the amount she needs to cover their hospital bill. I had a thousand and a few hundreds left in my wallet. I knew a thousand wasn't enough but I still wired it anyway just as to help her some. The following days became so tight until I finally run out of cash in my pocket.

RESCUE ME!

On Wednesday (13th), JK did. He wired me a few dollars through the Western Union. I was a bit relieved... When I have to claim the money, the local money transferring outlet (HLhuillier: WU affiliate) went offline! and there was nowhere else to possibly get the money from.

WHEW! What the ****!

The following day, Thursday (14th), I headed to the city. At least there, there are numbers of WU outlets. In one of the malls, I tried. I'm a bit happy with the exchange rate. 47.02 to 1USD. I filled out a form, handed it to the lady and waited for my turn. Finally my name was called.

The WU lady: "I'm sorry miss but I can't seem to locate this transaction. You must have written the wrong control number!

HUH!

She tried encoding the numbers one more time but it still didn't go through. I texted JK to ask and verify the control number for me again. He didn't answered. So I have to find the nearest internet cafe'. It was around 11 O'clock. Good that he's still awake. We talked a while and then I left the cafe. On my way out, I saw another WU outlet. I tried. No, they don't accommodate international transfer.

Urghhh...... how terrible!

I made up my mind and headed my way back to the WU where I first transacted from inside the Mall. I queued myself again. While standing in front of the counter when my name was called, I spotted the exchange rate board that says: 46.97 to 1USD.

Now, how's that for being so unlucky, huh! But wait.... the bad luck didn't end there yet... however this is getting too long to read for just a single post... don't it? So let me just save the rest of the story for my next entry.

Have a fun and safe weekend, everyone!

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the salty coffee

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He met her on a party, she was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her,while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but due to politeness, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please, let me back home. Suddenly he asked the waiter: would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee.

Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but, still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously: why you have this hobby? He replied: when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I like playing in the sea, I could felt the taste of the sea, salty and bite, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I will think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who still living there. Saying that, tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart.

"A man who can tell out his homesick, he must be a man loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home," she thought. Then she also started to talk, talked about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continue to date. She found actually he was a man who meets all her demands: he was kind hearted, warm, careful...he was such a good guy but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee!

Then the story was just like every beautiful love story: the princess married to the prince, then they were living the happy life...And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said: "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you, the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It's hard for me to change so I just go ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything..Now I'm dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste..but I have the salty coffee for my whole life since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life.

If I can live for the second time, I still want to know you and have you as my whole life wife, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again."

Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her: What's the taste of salty coffee?

It's sweet. She replied.

"This sad love story tells of a regret. Not a bad regret if you ask, but a regret about a lie being told because of love. Love is sweet in the end, not salty".

more tear jerker stories here.

raise your hand!

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I blog! And I love doing it since I started to learn how to do it myself and more so, when I learned how to make money out of it. Something I am capable of doing that other computer-adept people don't even know about. For me blogging is still an exceptional opportunity one can ever get and even until now, I still can't thank my friend enough for taking me into this wonderful and productive online community. And since this is what I love to do, I am also proud of sharing it to others. So far, over the last year, I already have convinced and helped several people to get started with blogging. This is of course after a lengthy explanations of the fulfillment and benefits they can get out of doing so.

I never had such a full comprehension on what blog advertising is all about until I joined and started doing paid posts one day. Almost since the dawn of blogging, there has been some form of advertising involved and that is what makes it more engaging to people. Post sponsorship has become the hot topic in blog advertising today wherein advertisers can easily connect to bloggers through advertising network like PayingPost.com. - a newly launched network every blogger should take notice. At first glance, I thought it makes no difference with the other advertising networks I already have joined but as soon as I get to see the whole new look of their website, it made me think again. Unlike other networks, PayingPost.com has everything that both blogger and advertiser needs to know, carefully explained right at their homepage.

PayingPost.com homepage

I don't wanna explain further because I wanted you to see it for yourself what I am talking about here. The bottom line of this post: to advertise on blogs that won't cost you too much effort, look no further... and for people who wants to enjoy the benefit of blogging by writing an honest review, raise your hand if you want to become a legitimate PayingPost blogger. It's absolutely FREE to join!

this year's 2nd delayed post (thanks for tagging!)

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Nisha... thank you so much for this triple award... and again, my apology for posting it a bit delayed.


This second tag here from Eds asked me to write down 10 weird, random thoughts, habits and/or little known facts about myself... You're right sis... I should keep moving now too :D

so let's get it started:
  1. I'm broke! (inside and out)
  2. Would love to start working out again.
  3. Thinking of getting a driving lesson (from last night's thought with a friend)
  4. Miss watching movies.
  5. I worry a lot so this time I'm trying to convince myself not to get too emotional.
  6. Love my sister so much... wish she knew it :-<
  7. A news writer/reporter, turned into a teacher, a USAID foundation correspondent, a car company administration staff, a blogger, a bar tender and now back to being a full time blogger. umm... and being lousy, I guess :-?
  8. Inner Circle: my new favorite group. They play reggae music.
  9. Love the bar tending experience... I know now how to make cocktail drinks, whew!...it's fun... love it!
  10. Still miss playing pool.
There you go... It took me a while to complete it but thanks heaven I did :-)
Thank you so much, ladies. Now I wanna hear from Lynn (sis you may post the triple award to your other sites), G-Anne, Rhea, LingZ and Winnie.

free hosted images for bloggers

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Blog Pictures | acobox.comAdding relevant pictures to blog posts is what makes it more appealing and interesting for other people to read. In my part, I have to google nice images from the major search engines if I can't find one from my personally taken pictures stored in my hard drive. However, in doing so, I have to be very careful on not picking the copyrighted ones or else I have to be accountable for counterfeiting. Good thing I have found a website that hosts quality blog pictures for bloggers all for FREE! By simply registering and becoming a regular user at Acobox.com, you can enjoy a free hotlinked images that you can use in your blog posts. So, now that I am already a legitimate Acobox user, I no longer have to waste my time searching the whole web for just a single image because they can do it for me now. And they can do the same thing for you too. It's all for FREE so you don't have to worry about nothing. Sign-up for your own free account now!

google it... (the fourth edition tag)

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My last post can tell... I've been feeling too lazy to blog lately until I got this tag from Lynn yesterday. Thanks a lot, sis... if not for this, I would have rather just keep myself warm under my blanket in bed all day while our weather here is trying to blow us some ice cold wind since last week . It's getting even more terribly bad now as I am trying to finish this post. (FREEZING!) :-t

Anyway, here are the rules: Answer the following questions through Google pictures and you may add some text if needed.

Here we go...

4 favorite things/foods to munch on:

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SNACK!
(that's why I placed it on top)
It doesn't really have to be potato ridges all the time. I like corn, taco and grain chips as well. For potatoes, I like it plain salted and cheese, bbq, sour cream and onion for the rest. I'm sorry to say this Lynn... but a truckload of chips will work best for me than a truckload of chocolates :-(

NUTTY NUTS!
This what keeps me awake along with my cup(s) of coffee in the absence of course of the chips, LOL!
A proven stimulant for me too.

My all time favorite side dish whenever I dine at the fast food chains.

I just love this one. I don't know why...
Whenever, wherever. I sure don't wanna miss pancit (noodles).

4 favorite places to go. Why?

GREENSBURG, PA
Why?
Ask JK!
:-$

This I think is the nearest shopping centers' site from Greensburg and I wanna explore it someday.

OHIOPYLE falls: Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania.
... for a nature hop. Think this park is so nice...well, from what I've seen from the pictures JK has sent me... I believe it is.

Twin Lake Park: PA
Just the the color of the surroundings alone is more than enough to persuade me to visit this place one day.

4 favorite shops online:

I have tried shopping with these 4 US online stores below and so far none of them works :>
Too bad they cannot ship articles and goods outside the US.
:(




4 things that pops up when you google my name:


Undo? Is there anything I need to? LOL!

I'm an active deneero-ites!

Graph of the annual US budget deficit or surplus something...
:-/

and these turtles... I wonder what they are doing here (?) :D

Hmm..pretty cool tag! I wanna pass this one to Lisa, Brian, Rosa, Mica, Sheryl, Michelle and Vicki.

missing this...

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I'm talking about this pool table below where we (my friends at work and I) used to play. Working on a night shift can be dreary too at times especially when you have to wait long in between hours before the customers starts to fall in. But thanks to this game... it keeps our dull moments away.

"Time to play the game!" was my gag line whenever I spot quite a lengthy silence between us at work particularly after dinner time and all the bar seats are still empty. I'm not a good player yet but during my entire stay, I get to learn new things about it everyday like the different ways and some of its playing strategies. And so far I have tried the most basic 8 Ball, 9 Ball and the popular, Straight Pool. It's pretty challenging... you have to try it yourself.


We, Filipinos perceived billiards as "larong istambay" (bystanders' game) but I was amazed to find out from many of our foreign guests especially Europeans were very much fascinated with it. And I mean they play real good in it. Hmm...do you wonder why?

Read more about it here.

when god takes something away from your grasp...

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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

 When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

Concentrate on this sentence...

"The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you"

I think this message will work well to people who doesn't possess the virtue of PATIENCE like me. True enough! Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.

Have a blessed Sunday to all :-)
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