Timeless Beauty

This weekend me and my friends are going to the beach to unwind. We will be visiting the Sandbar Beach in the town of Concepcion. The beach is found in one of the islands located off the town's coast. It's about 3 hrs from the city befor we reach the town of Concepcion. I'm already excited to see the white sandy beach and the clear bluish waters. I'm looking forward to swimming and playing ball with my mates. We already have done our grocery shopping and we definitely have loads of tummy fuel to keep us full for two days. I'm planning on bringing home some nice smooth stones to decorate our garden at home. Sometimes I'd find stones that aren't shaped the way I wanted them to be, so what I do is use a rock tumbler to smooth out the edges. Rock tumblers are just machines where you can shave off parts of a rock without breaking it up into pieces. Machines like Lortone rock tumblers can be found in your local rock and sand shop. If you don't have one in...

Las Vegas hotels and Nevada brothels - those are the places where scenes in the Love For Sale series of BBC at Joost.com, a video site where one can watch music videos, tv shows and movies in high-def quality for free. Lately that is where I've been hanging out. Entertainment is so easy to be had these days, but the quality of sites that provide that is often disappointingly mediocre. It is nice that we have sites such as Joost or Jango where you can be entertained by good music and great videos for free. But don't get me wrong. YouTube and others like it are good video sites who are always making sure spam and copyright violators are kept out of their archives. However, some people just want to enjoy good stuff on the Net and the over-saturated YouTube may not be the best place to find that. So why not try Joost and Jango now?

Mesothelioma of the left lower lung. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Some people ignorantly refer to a certain kind of cancer as "mesothalamia." However, for those who took the time to research and read about it, "mesothalamia" is correctly referred to as "mesothelioma." Mesothelioma is actually a type of cancer that is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. This disease attacks the cells in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs. I am discussing mesothelioma because I am currently being reminded by the ephemeral quality of life on earth. This Holy Week's stories on TV reflect on the quality of spiritual life we all have led. Most of the people we encounter exulting the importance and value of living in the Lord are those that are given second chances, or those that are currently suffering from cancer. During these times, whenever I listen to these men and women about the challenges and pain th...

It's the Holy Week omce again. It's a good time to reflect and hold back on the excesses. I know I should stop the binges and bad habits. It's not enough that I pop a diet pill in my mouth. I really should stop eating so much. My stomach is already distended and I know it's time I start tightening the muscles in that area. The fat is actually minimal. It just looks big because my stomach muscles have loosened due to age. Fasting is one way of regulating one's diet. Often people would stop eating for several days when "dieting," but this practice is just another form of fasting. The right way to fast is to undergo a cleansing process first. We must expel as many bad toxins from the body as possible. Then during the fasting we should maintain this condition until we have achieved balance with our body's functions. Through fasting we get rid of excesses from our bodies and cleanse ourselves, improving the way our bodies function. In effect, we avoid ...

In the Philippines, the flea market is popularly called the Ukay-Ukay because of what buyers needed to do ("ukay" which means dig) to find what they wanted or needed and buy the items at low, low prices. The merchandise may vary from clothes, shoes, bags, and even pillows and curtains. Many of them are secondhand or discarded merchandise from famous stores. What's really great about these flea markets is that buyers get to buy branded and often genuine merchandise at really low prices (some as low as 5 pesos or 1/10 of a dollar if you know how to haggle well). Here are some tips on digging up that perfect blouse or a genuine label from the pile of ukay-ukay clothing: 1. Look for labels or tags and check whether the logos or insignias look genuine. You must acquaint yourself with both genuine and counterfeit branding. 2. Some tags may be genuine but were torn. So the next best thing to do is check the threads whether they were sewn professionally and efficiently. R...