Tuesday 31 May 2011

RANDOM THOUGHTS #1 - LOOKING THROUGH THE HOURGLASS OF LIFE

Turf: in my nest
Dash: preparing chai


Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake
some to everlasting life, some to
shame and everlasting,
contempt.


Life is so surprising that we doesn't even know what next to come after yesterday, it always teaching us to live for today and live as if we are giving out the best to extend our deepest love, appreciation, smiles, hugs, etc., to someone who is just next beside us even we knew the person or not. To enjoy the moment that is given to us in each every second that we had, and forget about the word "complain", "suffering", "pain", but just live as if there is no better tomorrow than today.


appreciate life, don't waste it

spread your wings and fly, don't doubt yourself; you can make it!


The context of life is so meaningful that we couldn't even define nor we should but the best thing is to live the best out of it, just simply smile when the sun shine in the morning and give thanks to the Lord for the brand new day, or sing along when the birds sing, or just dance in the rain when it pours, life is so amazing in which sometimes we forget to appreciate it existence. We are too busy enough in doing errands, thinking 'bout tomorrow, making things complicated, shall not waste every second of it rather make it more meaningful each in every second that we live for ourselves and for other people.


Quotes♥
If God created shadows, 
it was to better emphasize the light.
Pope John XXIII


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Monday 30 May 2011

WHAT HAPPEN NOW WITH NANCY DREW?

Turf: bed
Dash: listening to mozart again


2 Peter 1:8
If these things are yours and
abound, you will be neither
barren nor unfruitful in the
knowldege our Lord Jesus
Christ.






Well, for somebody who doesn't know about Nancy Drew she is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. I was in elementary then when I first read a book about Nancy Drew mysteries it's a novel that I particularly says that almost affect my future in a better way.

I become more fascinated with her novel day by day as every page getting more interesting and stories getting more twists and I am getting more eager to finish the book. As I myself emulated her strong persona, her witty character and even thought that someday I would be like her a famous young detective who solve every mystery with wittiness and never had any single amount of fear. She boldly faces every mystery and find every solution to know the detailed of every story behind it. Voila! Every mystery has been solved, she is like my hero when I was growing up, but never come to my senses that her character is only drawn by the creative mind of the writer of the book.

As I've finished reading all the book of Nancy Drew her characters has been carved in my thoughts, but slowly fading it away as the day goes by as I met many more character other than Nancy Drew, a character of my classmates, my friends etc., as I become more of myself with my own aspiration and dreams other than become a certified detective like Nancy Drew.

 Now, I wonder what happen now with Nancy Drew?


Quotes♥
To learn the secret of right relations, 
look only for the divine in people and things, 
and leave all the rest to God.
J. Allen Boone


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Saturday 28 May 2011

WHOSE TENNIS ERA NOW?

Turf: in front of my laptop
Dash: writing blogs


Psalm 119:133
Direct my steps by Your Word.


It's been a long year since I was fascinated in tennis it was introduced to me by accident non other than by my late father I was then a ?Teener's and my father was a self-confess sports fanatic from boxing, basketball, tennis, golf, or even hard sport like wrestling I adopted watching all of them but I wasn't confused of my gender..err..know I'm certified straight. Nobody can turn the knob on the TV or hold a remote control when my father is watching so definitely I'm glued to whatever he is watching on, so I'm very much updated who won the grand slam of the so and so sports per se.

It was at the heights of Agassi and Graf tennis career then which both end up being husband and wife. Agassi was then taking all the glory - the long hair wham look, the headband, and has been called the best service returner in the history of the game. He won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments in 15 Major finals and he was the first male player to win all four Majors on three different surfaces (Hard, Clay and Grass). 2nd male to receive the Career Grand Slam and also 17 ATP Master Title Series. Agassi is the last American to win the French Open (1999) and the Australian Open (2003). He retired at the age of 36 on September 3, 2006 after suffering from sciatica caused by two bulging discs in his back, a spondylolisthesis (vertebral displacement) and a bone spur that interfered with the nerve.



Side by side of Agassi's glory is Steffi Graf she won 22 grand slam titles second among female and male players, became the only tennis player who (male or female) to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. She also holds the open era record for finishing as the year-end World No. 1 the most times, having done so on eight occasions. She won 107 singles titles. Her versatility across all playing surfaces, having won each of the four Grand Slams at least four times, the only player to do so. She won six French Open singles titles (second to Evert) and seven Wimbledon singles title.



She is the only singles player to have achieved a Calendar Year Grand Slam while playing on all three major types of tennis courts (grass courts, clay courts and hard courts). She reached thirteen consecutive Grand Slam singles finals, from the 1987 French Open through to the 1990 French Open winning nine of them. She played in 36 Grand Slam singles tournaments and winning 22 titles. She reached a total of 31 Grand Slam singles finals. Graf is considered by some to be the greatest female player. Billy Jean King also said in 1999, "Steffi is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time". She retired in 1999 with the rank of a World No. 3. When she was 13-year-old Graf was ranked World No. 124. She won no titles during the next three years, but her ranking climbed steadily until World No. 98 in 1983, No. 22 in 1984, and No. 6 in 1985. 

Before the two former world no. 1 tennis player fades away in the scene, my passion in tennis is gradually fading too until I finished school and had my own bread and butter. Since then I never knew who was then taking all the glory in the tennis world, until last year 2010 of May when I accidentally open the Television set and it was Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer playing on that moment, the style of Rafa was caught me unattended that he took my attention of watching the tennis again after a long time of missing it little did I know that it was also the heights of his comeback who was then won 9 grand slam singles title and also been called as the "King of Clay". I saw in him the Agassi Era and it was Rafa who brings back my passion for tennis until then I'd never failed a single match to watch especially his match.

But before the end of 2010 a few times Rafa lost in the final and when 2011 has begun things got better to him when he won 2 times in clay in Monte Carlo and Barcelona everybody is eyeing on him that he is going to win on the Madrid Open his homeland but Nole won instead, they face again in the final in Rome, Italy but then it was Nole again who won. Now both are playing in Roland Garros, will Rafa stay as World No. 1 or Nole will as the year end.

The question is who's tennis era now, will it be Rafa again or Nole?









Quotes♥
My Bible is a guidebook true
That points for me the way,
That gives me courage, hope, and cheer,
And guidance for each day. --Anon



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Thursday 26 May 2011

VANITY CORNER #2 - ZITS

Turf: bedroom
Dash: grilling myself on hot summer


Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just
as Christ also loved the church
and gave Himself for her.





When I was teenage buff like 13ish or something I do have a little problem with zits, but I never let it ruin my face. So, what I did seeks for the solution, tried, tried, and tried all products selling on beauty product shelves, or drugstores reading lots of lots of magazine to know the remedy. Well, luckily I'm over it.

I thought zits are just a common problem for a tropical country like Philippines since we only had dry and rainy seasons, which is when it is dry it is what you called "summer" a "hot grilling days" for a few more months starting on march onwards till august or if fate allows in between months there is rains. So, basically people sweats out more than the other cold countries which is sometimes breakouts face skin and tend it to be a lot more oily that causes pimples, but I find myself wrong in my own myths and there is other main reasons or cause of it.


Last time my sisters, her husband along with her children came last January for a short stint vacation in the Philippines (they had beautiful, handsome lovely kids) not because she is my sisters. Anyway, 2 of her kids had suffered zits actually it's acne problem I am surprised about this then I found out that they had a lack of sleep that tend their skin to breakout and its give bad acne. So, what is the cause of their sleep deprivation nonetheless their computer gaming addiction.

I had quoted here a few important information regarding sleep and inflammation.

Sleep and inflammation
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports
A lack of sleep increases inflammatory cytokines. This helps explain why pain flare-up occurs in response to sleep deprivation in various disorders. Even modest sleep restriction adversely affects inflammatory cytokine levels. In a carefully controlled study, sleep deprivation caused a 40-60% average increase in the inflammatory marker IL-6 in men and women, while men alone showed a 20-30% increase in TNF-a. Both IL-6 and TNF-a are potent pro-inflammatory cytokines that induce systemic inflammation.Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2002 Mar;31(1): pp.15-36

So, if you love your skin, might as well love yourself don't deprive yourself from a good sleep, don't exchange sleep with some bad habits like computer gaming, internet addiction, partying late, vices (like smoking, drinking alcohols) or some stuffs that tends you to sleep very late, only if it's very important matters that require you to sleep late.


Quotes♥
A man who finds a godly wife
Is blest beyond compare;
She is his greatest prize in life--
A treasure rich and rare. --D. De Haan


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Monday 23 May 2011

VANITY CORNER #1 - PRESTIGE COLLECTION

Turf: in bed
Dash: thinking



1 Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make you increase
and abound in love to one
another and to all.



What is the common thing in your stash that you won't ever leave at home without it?

As for me I can't go out without this thing, because I always love to be on the go, so I don't like to look dull in any moment I'm outside at home or in the office.





  • Powder - Prestige - Skin Loving Minerals Gentle Finish Mineral Powder Foundation ( love the natural shades)  

  • Prestige Ultimate Brow Definer (cause I don't want my eyebrow to be in a mess, so can't live without it too)

  • Prestige Lipstick Stylo Coutor #05 (I love this lipstick because of anti-age moisture, basically the shades definitely a winner)

  • Prestige Lip liner Silver Pencil Matita Legno (to define my lips especially when I'm wearing light shades or a bit darker shades)

  • Prestige Kabuki Brush (I love this brush because it's very handy you can just put it in your purse, and beside it didn't cause an allergic reaction to my face when I brush it off)

My face is very sensitive that's why I cannot use any product that is not suited to my skin, even if this product is a signature brand it doesn't give me any guarantee that it won't irritate my skin, so if any possible case happen I'll stop using it right away, 'cause I don't want to harm my face more. So I need to be picky with the product I use with my face, even the product says it's hypo-allergenic sometimes it's still irritating my skin. So what I did is buy the product then use it, on the first day I will know if it's had a bad reaction on my face or not, because my face becomes itchy right away, then if not it's the best for my skin that's the only time I continue using it.

So, choose for a product that won't harm or irritate your skin, don't rely on the brand name, but rely on the product that would benefit your skin.

For the meantime this the only few of my favorite stash collection of Prestige products that I can share it with you, though I still have more about my fashion addiction, and that would be a next time.

Do you have any fashion addiction too that you can't live without and you want it to share?


Quotes♥
As you have loved me, let me love
Lost souls in darkness dwelling;
To draw the needy ones to You,
Lord, give a zeal compelling! --Bosch


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    Saturday 21 May 2011

    TECHI #1 - UPGRADE YOUR LIFE

    Turf: inside the room
    Dash: watching info video



    James 1:21
    Lay aside all filthiness and
    overflow of wickedness, and
    receive with meekness the
    implanted Word, which is able to
    save your souls.




    So, as you will know my day started with a prayer at 6ish in the morning and have a little bite to fill my stomach then I would start opening my laptop and browsing the internet then my day started. Anyway, long time before though I had a yahoo email I never paid attention to the Yahoo website news, just only a few months ago when I started ogling on Yahoo news and find it a lot of interesting more to read an information that you can exactly apply or be aware of what’s happening on our planet earth, or maybe an infomercial that you could benefit from it or rather learned from it. Where are the best places, best food, best gadgets etc,. I Just want to share with you this video that I find very interesting to watch from Yahoo news. Hope you enjoy watching it as I’ve really enjoyed because of its cool information that would definitely each one of us learn from it.

    I cannot post the video so, better to give you the link where you can watch it.





     The video is embedded with different tutorial or information that you will learn something about the use of your iPhone, laptop, or any gadgets in your home, or in your laptop that you don't know that you can easily use it or maybe have it that would surely help make your life simply easy. Information that you would surely find interesting, and helpful one. You just need to keep continue watching until the end of the video, then after that it will reload another one.

    So, from now on I would put on my list to browse on Yahoo news each time I delve on the internet for an added knowledge power.


    Quotes♥
    God who formed worlds by the power of His word
    Speaks through the Scriptures His truth to be heard;
    And if we read the will to obey,
    He by His Spirit will show us his way. --D. De Haan


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    Friday 20 May 2011

    FOOD TRIP - CHOLOCATE CHIP & CHOCOLATE COMBINED

    Turf: bedroom
    Dash: listening to music



    Philippians 2:3
    Let nothing be done through
    selfish ambition or conceit.







    Summer. Summer. Summer

    Can you feel the heat of the summer days? I indeed.I wanted to feel fresh everyday on this sweaty day, but I'm not a beach bum, so I'm not going to the beach for a swim, I love the sea and sit on a thousand crushed of Pucca shells and watching the sun rise in the morning and the sun to set on twilight time. I love being near the sea to feel the breezy air, or jog around at 5:30am.

    So, definitely beach is not one of my favorite summer getaway to beat the heat of the sun. I simply run to the nearby grocery store, or mall and binge out my favorite Baskin Robin ice cream Chocolate flavor and combined it with  Chocolate Chip. I love Baskin Robin ice cream for it has a variety of flavors to choose from and combined it with the one you like the most. I'm not worrying about the pounds that would add up to my weight as long as I enjoyed eating my favorite ice cream. Worrying later. Lol. :)

    So do you have any food to binge in?







    Quotes♥
    We have a common enemy
    Who wants to scar the life
    Of Jesus' precious bride, the church,
    Through worldliness and strife. --Sper






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    Wednesday 18 May 2011

    MOON AT 5:30AM

    Turf: Bedroom
    Dash: Surfing the Net



    1 John 3:2
    We shall be like him, for we shall
    see Him as He is.




    Jumeira Beach, Dubai



    I

    just want to share with you this photo that I took during my jogging repertoire with my bf at the open beach. I was amazed by the position of the moon in between this Kiosk, lovely! So, I didn't think twice I took my mobile and take a shot (taken only by mobile). The moon was like hiding between two lovers, and gazing on their sweet moments together. 

    Have you seen anything different that makes you wow and got a chance to take a shot?



    Quotes♥
    Our Savior's life for us was given
    That we might one day bloom in heaven,
    Our mortal bodies changed to be
    Like His through eternity! --Spicer




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    Sunday 15 May 2011

    A DAY BREAK

    Turf: Bedroom
    Dash: Playing the guitar



    1 John 3:10
    Whoever does not practice
    righteousness is not of God.




    One morning it’s like a freshly bake cheese cake, a sweet tooth Mooncake so enticing to wake up your sleepy mood with a freshly brewed aromatic coffee to energize your day.

    Every day is a hard day to wake up when you are not a morning person and a lover of sleeping habit, but it’s a day when you say “All Glory to God” for gazing another beautiful sunrise peeping inside your window and those lovely birds singing in your window pane to harmonize the day to begin with. 

    Your morning buddies are your alarm clock that receives unpleasing response which hardly beaten just to stop its noisy sound which bother your sound sleep -- pity alarm clock not even appreciated for the value it renders to its unpleasant owner.

    I wish it’s always been TGIF and TGIS a day with nothing to do but to lie on my back without a buzzing alarm clock that will spoil my hours of sleep. But no glory without pain everyone needs to work it is one of the necessary things that we need to do to support our practical needs to be able to go on living.

    I want to live my day with rainbow colors on a rainy day. Every day is an exciting one to wake up with knowing life is full of surprises which wrapping up the whole day.

    While sitting on a soft couch, living on a simple but placid home it’s sometimes slipping on my mind that I’m still lucky to be woken up on each day having this thing around me though it’s not explendid but with a home to wake up with knowing not everybody has a life I had, while others had no shelter to live with, doesn’t have a food to feed their empty stomach nor even gaze a lovely sunrise when some of them sleep behind the filthy bars.

    I should be thankful for each day even though there are times when it is hard to wake up and you are tired doing the same routine and not having enough days to beat the stress you had in a week. But the moment I thought of that, I realized that how blessed I am waking up each morning and still doing what I love to do which is facing challenges, and welcome more opportunities that will come my way.

    One of a few reasons why I still live and wake up the next day. It's all for the glory of God.


    Quotes♥
    Oh help us, Lord, to live our lives
    So unsaved people clearly see
    Reflections of your loving heart,
    Your kindness, and Your purity. --Sper




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