The best place for you to keep your toothbrush is not in the bathroom. You see, every time you flush your toilet, droplets spring out for about 6 feet; contaminating everything in your bathroom- including your toothbrush that you put in your mouth and your toilet paper. One remedy for this is have your toothbrush and toilet paper covered. Also, the bacterial mist usually float in the air for around two hours after flushing! So, think before you breathe while you are in the bathroom! What you can do is cover the toilet before you flush.

Another item that you have to keep out of your bathroom , especially when you take a bath with hot water, is your medicine because some medicines need to be maintained within a certain temperature range and should not be stored in a humid environment.

June 8 is declared National Best Friend’s Day so at least send an sms to your BFF’s and tell him/ her how you feel.

June 1, 2010 is my Lola Choleng’s 40th day of her death. My uncle was able to find this prayer that she wrote. This shows how loving, caring, grateful, happy, and God-trusting she was, even during her sick times. She will be truly missed.
This is her prayer.

Prayer of a Sick Person
By Ursula Urian

Lord, I am sick more than ever before
I wish I could do my daily work
Especially now I realize what it means to be healthy
What it means to be able to do simplest and monotonous work

Lord, now that I am sick, I feel sometimes discouraged
It pains me that I am so dependent on others
That I cannot be of any service
It pains me that I have to suffer
It pains me that I have to deny myself of a lot of things

And yet, Lord, I experience happiness and contentment
Those who take care of me and visit me bring me consolation and courage
I thank you for all of this
And I ask you for gentleness and patience with myself
That I may never discourage those people with all their kindness

Lord, you have restored the health of so many sick people
The blind, the lepers, the lame, and the deaf

Give me my health back
Give me through the skill and dedication of all the people who take care of me
In the meantime, strengthen me that in my sickness I may not be discouraged

Help me that in the silence of my sickroom I may still live in love

Lord, you have said to those who visit the sick and take care of them
When I was sick, you visited me
You say in those words Lord that whatever is done for the sick is done for you

Lord, is it true then that when I am sick I am to others a source of grace?
Is it true lord, that when I am sick I belong more that ever to you?

Teach me to have more faith in this
Of course my sickness will remain painful but my happiness will remain healthy
Accept then, my suffering Lord, for those who are too sick or too poor
For those who are discouraged or too care free
In one word, Lord, for all who have a hard time to recognize you

Amen.

This year’s election was obviously more peaceful than the past ones. But, was it more reliable? More honest? I am watching the hearing of the congress on the elections, gives me some doubts about it…. The manual audit was not 100% accurate, tsk tsk..Also, visiting juanvote’s website. Seems a lot of people did not stop on being vigilant after voting. They are still interested on the dependability of the automated elections.

Smartmatic was not able to answer certain questions regarding its inconsistencies. Made Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin shout “son of a &*%$#” on national TV and radio!

Before popping a pill, here are several misconceptions about your well-trusted vitamins.

Myth: A multivitamin can make up for a bad diet

Last year, researchers published new findings from the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-term study of more than 160,000 midlife women. The data showed that multivitamin-takers are no healthier than those who don’t pop the pills, at least when it comes to the big diseases—cancer, heart disease, stroke. “Even women with poor diets weren’t helped by taking a multivitamin,” says study author Marian Neuhouser, PhD, in the cancer prevention program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle.

That said, there is one group that probably ought to keep taking a multi-vitamin: women of reproductive age. The supplement is insurance in case of pregnancy. A woman who gets adequate amounts of the B vitamin folate is much less likely to have a baby with a birth defect affecting the spinal cord. Since the spinal cord starts to develop extremely early—before a woman may know she’s pregnant—the safest course is for her to take 400 micrograms of folic acid (the synthetic form of folate) daily. And a multi is an easy way to get it.

Myth: Vitamin C is a cold fighter

In the 1970s, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling popularized the idea that vitamin C could prevent colds. Today, drugstores are full of vitamin C–based remedies. Studies say: Buyer, beware.

In 2007, researchers analyzed a raft of studies going back several decades and involving more than 11,000 subjects to arrive at a disappointing conclusion: Vitamin C didn’t ward off colds, except among marathoners, skiers, and soldiers on subarctic exercises.

Of course, prevention isn’t the only game in town. Can the vitamin cut the length of colds? Yes and no. Taking the vitamin daily does seem to reduce the time you’ll spend sniffling—but not enough to notice. Adults typically have cold symptoms for 12 days a year; a daily pill could cut that to 11 days. Kids might go from 28 days of runny noses to 24 per year. The researchers conclude that minor reductions like these don’t justify the expense and bother of year-round pill-popping (taking C only after symptoms crop up doesn’t help).

Myth: Vitamin pills can prevent heart disease
An analysis of seven vitamin E trials concluded that it didn’t cut the risk of stroke or of death from heart disease. The study also scrutinized eight beta-carotene studies and determined that, rather than prevent heart disease, those supplements produced a slight increase in the risk of death. Other big studies have shown vitamin C failing to deliver. As for B vitamins, research shows that yes, these do cut homocysteine levels …but no, that doesn’t make a dent in heart danger.

Don’t take these pills, the American Heart Association says. Instead, the AHA offers some familiar advice: Eat a varied diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Myth: Taking vitamins can protect against cancer
Researchers know that unstable molecules called free radicals can damage your cells’ DNA, upping the risk of cancer. They also know that antioxidants can stabilize free radicals, theoretically making them much less dangerous. So why not take some extra antioxidants to protect yourself against cancer? Because research so far has shown no good comes from popping such pills.

A number of studies have tried and failed to find a benefit, like a recent one that randomly assigned 5,442 women to take either a placebo or a B-vitamin combo. Over the course of more than seven years, all the women experienced similar rates of cancers and cancer deaths. In Neuhouser’s enormous multivitamin study, that pill didn’t offer any protection against cancer either. Nor did C, E, or beta-carotene in research done at Harvard Medical School.

Myth: Hey, it can’t hurt
The old thinking went something like this—sure, vitamin pills might not help you, but they can’t hurt either. However, a series of large-scale studies has turned this thinking on its head, says Demetrius Albanes, MD, a nutritional epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute.

The shift started with a big study of beta-carotene pills. It was meant to test whether the antioxidant could prevent lung cancer, but researchers instead detected surprising increases in lung cancer and deaths among male smokers who took the supplement. No one knew what to make of the result at first, but further studies have shown it wasn’t a fluke—there’s a real possibility that in some circumstances, antioxidant pills could actually promote cancer (in women as well as in men). Other studies have raised concerns that taking high doses of folic acid could raise the risk of colon cancer. Still others suggest a connection between high doses of some vitamins and heart disease.

Vitamins are safe when you get them in food, but in pill form, they can act more like a drug, Albanes says—with the potential for unexpected and sometimes dangerous effects.

Truth: A pill that’s worth taking
As studies have eroded the hopes placed in most vitamin supplements, one pill is looking better and better. Research suggests that vitamin D protects against a long list of ills: Men with adequate levels of D have about half the risk of heart attack as men who are deficient. And getting enough D appears to lower the risk of at least half a dozen cancers; indeed, epidemiologist Cedric Garland, MD, at the University of California, San Diego, believes that if Americans got sufficient amounts of vitamin D, 50,000 cases of colorectal cancer could be prevented each year.

But many—perhaps most—Americans fall short, according to research by epidemiologist Adit Ginde, MD, at the University of Colorado, Denver. Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin: You make it when sunlight hits your skin. Yet thanks to sunscreen and workaholic (or TV-aholic) habits, most people don’t make enough.

How much do you need? The Institute of Medicine is reassessing that right now; most experts expect a big boost from the current levels (200 to 600 IU daily). It’s safe to take 1,000 IU per day, says Ginde. “We think most people need at least that much.”
Got this article  from Reader’s Digest, hoping that this can help you decide on taking your well trusted pill or not.

A lot of focus has been made on who won the elections. Now that it is done, which candidate do you will have the initiative to take down their huge billboards or remove their pasted posters from our streets? Who do you think would recycle or reuse, and clean up their mess?!  The Comelec was never strict on implementing the rules on postering.  I never heard any single candidate who have been punished because of this. I hope a conscious sector in our government would start disciplining these somehow “nuisance” candidates.

For parents and future parents, this might interest you. Some may think that it is too much for a baby. For others, it could be helpful for their learning. Check out this site and tell me what you think.

My mom said it happens almost every decade, that a strong typhoon, bringing huge floods come to the Philippines. Yeah, maybe. But this was the first time that I really experienced it, that it affected our family. Being stranded from the high waters in the highway was not unusual for us back then. But our house, for the first time, was reached by flood waters. It even entered the house and made damage to the flooring, wooden and electrical items, and our cars.

I know we were the lucky ones who did not loose any loved ones, had trauma from waters getting higher than us, or loosing our source of income. And for that, I am very grateful.

I pray for those who were gravely affected. As Filipinos, I know we will pick up the pieces and move on.

Several weeks ago I have posted here that it has been months since my last post, obviously it was. Now, I get this news that some freek is accusing me of commenting bad things on him and whose been stalking me for hours in the net- searching all of my links tirelessly. He even gave away my private links and pictures through his blog. His name is Tim Cumper. If he had visited your site, one way or another, I suggest you BAN him for he is a loser with nothing to do but to investigate without investigating and accusing without evidence, just blah blah blah trying to get some freeking attention! Kind of gay-ish if you ask me!

Firstly, I never use Jen or Jenny. If you know me personally, you would know that I do not respond to those names. Even in my links, never did I use those. If I would comment of somebody’s page, I would never use an alias- especially if I would want to comment on MY opinion. So what if I’m friends with Jepoy, Mark, Rocky and Glen?

Secondly, I suggest to this nutcase that he should have tried to reach me first to confront me of my supposedly comment before attacking me on the web. Sorry for him that I have real friends who defended me on my behalf when I didn’t have the chance to.

Thirdly, Tim Cumper should have investigated real hard before accusing me of anything. I have not been active for several months and now I get this. I assume that he just tried to look at Jepoy’s page seeing my name there, then concluding that the Jen who commented on his page was me. Kind of a mentally retarded thing to do, especially when you are accusing someone of something- you should get your facts straight. Obviously, I am not the only Jennifer in the world, perhaps there are millions. I suppose that I am not the only girl with that name that Jepoy knows.

Fourth, the links on my blogs are part of the template. I don’t know jack about HTML and codes that’s why I asked the help of my friend to do them for me. If you don’t know, it is normal for blog template creators to place their links on the templates they make, in my case, Jepoy. Try downloading custom-made WordPress or Blogger templates and see for yourself. So before you start accusing me of spreading “propaganda”, do your homework first.

Fifth, I am the one who posts contents here on my blog even though Jepoy’s the one who have access to my site logs, templates, and codes. So don’t go accusing my friend of manipulating my posts. And don’t you have a life? Spending 7 hours on my blog?? Unbelievable!

Now, Tim Cumper, you have changed your post about me and also removed my personal pictures there. Now do you realize with all the evidence, in your face, that it was not me?! Or maybe you are scared of getting bombarded with all the bad comments that you deserve. With your kind of attitude, I have this feeling that the accusations about you and your being irresponsible is very much possible. You do not even have the balls to ask me for my forgiveness?! Or even a retraction of your accusation?! Are you a man or just a bonehead?!

The amount of time & energy that Jepoy is spending – in defending his friend Pepper – would seem to indicate that the comments were actually left by himself (the coward that he is – using her name.) So much for honour . . . blah! blah! blah!

As everybody can see, my posts are all neutral. I never asked for negative attention and never picked a fight through my links, especially to people I do not know. If this guy is trying to get a fight with a girl like me, then what do you call him?! Some #&$-hole I presume!

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• Mayen’s Story on Alleged Scam
• Reyna Elena: Was there a scam? – Part 2
• Official Statement from Mr. Francis Jalbuena
• Now What Cat?: Reader from Hell
• hospitalscams.blogspot.com + Severe Case of Psychosis = entertainment!
• I was Stalked by a Stalker Named Tim Cumper

Now, who’s the scammer, stalker and coward? If my friends and the other people who blogged about you are all there just for contempt on foreigners, then, care to explain these non Filipinos on the Internet Love Scams Forum and The World of Filipinas.

I’m so lucky to have true friends, sorry for Tim Cumper that he doesn’t!