2010 Barangay Elections

Another election day. Another headache... disappointment with the government. If only not for my dad I would not waste my time with this election. Supposedly it would start at 7am but due to COMELEC negligence it started at 1pm. Wow! what a delay. Corruption is so much in our country. Due to greed of power and money politicians are killing each other. Truly money and power can be root of evil. I would like to believe that there is still hope but with what is happening every election day, I'm already losing hope. I know we can help our country  even if we are not in the position. In our own little ways we can do something towards the betterment of our place. I will try to do my best to be a good citizen and hope... one day... our world would be a better place to live.

Getting Fit - 60 Day Conditioning Program

Since I give birth losing weigh is one of my problems. My friend's keeps on telling me do some workout to be able to lose weight. I guess working out at home would be better rather than going to the gym. Aside from it being free, I will have more privacy and I can do it when my kid is asleep or at school. I have freedom of time when to do it. I can also choose the music that I want depending on my mood.

I guess the Insanity 60 Day Conditioning Program would be a good choice for me. It's a cardio workout program in a DVD. It requires no weights, no need to go the gym and you only need to spend less than an hour a day. The Insanity Workout comes with 10 discs. The first CD is for fitness test.  The other five discs are for different workout rotation good for the first month which would require about 30mins of your time a day. The last four cds is a maxed out worked outs that would consume 45mins of your time. The package also includes Insanity Wall Calendar which would assist you on what work out to do each day, an elite nutrition guide to help you on what food to eat and an insanity fitness guide for you to know how to get the best shape.

One thing I really like about this program is that it requires no equipment. The workout features cardio, plyometrics and sports drills. If done and followed right you can actually burn up to 1000 calories. This is really exciting.

If you want to see proof on how this program changed the life of other people you can read some Insanity Workout Review. You would see a lot of good testimonials.

Frontierville - The Adobe Plugin has crashed

Since our computer got broken I only have time to play frontierville when my sister-in-law brings her laptop. But what disappoints me is that aside from it loading to slow is the game crashing due to adobe plugin. After waiting for a few minutes for it to load will only end up on nothing. I would try reloading it several times and getting the same thing. I am playing this in google chrome but encountering the same thing also in mozilla. I found a fix online for mozilla. It did remove that error but the bad thing is it did not fix the internet blast lost connection thing. Haayss. 

For mozilla users follow the instruction below:
1. On your address bar type about:config. You will see the screen below.

2. Just click on I'll be careful, I promise!
3. In the filter box type dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs (it is easier to just copy and paste this)
4. Double click dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs and change number to -1.

4 Seater Dining Table

Yesterday Ate Joan told me that our neighbor who is planing to move is having a garage sale. She actually purchase a small red orocan cabinet for only P200. There are books, shoes, clothings, appliances, furnitures on sale. One of my neighbor suggested us to get the 4 seater dining table set. It looks somewhat similar to the picture below. The table has glass and still looks very clear. I was not able to check the chairs if they have foam. The owner is giving it to us for only P4500. I think its a good deal but problem is I don't have money yet. Robin asked the owner to reserve it for us. I am not sure if we will be able to get since we did not give her any down payment. I would have the money probably by November. I hope we will be able to get it. Its going to be a good dining set for a new house.

 

A Simple Game During Idle Time

I was blog hopping trying to do something during my idle time. It's only half of my shift and I am getting bored. But its better rather than having lots of phone calls. I read on a blog that they play this game and was able to play it during their whole shift. hehehe. The game is very simple mouse game. You just need to drive the helicopter without crashing. The only control is to move the helicopter up (by holding down the left button of your mouse) and to go down is to release the left button of the mouse. They got a highscore of 2477. Well I just played it for a few minutes and got 836. I will try to play it more so that I can make a post on her blog and be proud that I beat them hehehe.

If you have nothing to do, try this and see how time flies. hehehe. http://play.urbangen.com/index.php?act=play&id=28

Getting Another Computer

My husband called me last week and is very excited. He said our neighbor who is going to move abroad is selling their computer that they bought last December for only 10k. I haven't seen the full specs but he said it has an intel dual core processor, it comes with 17" monitor LCD, DVDRW, original OS and a computer table. We are planning to buy a motherboard for our broken computer, my budget is around 4k. We are supposed to buy it after getting my Christmas bonus. Our neighbor will leave I think at the end of this week so they are in hurry selling the computer.  Our Ninang Malou asked Robin to asked the owner if they would give it for 8k. To his surprise the owner agreed. Its been more than a month since our computer got broken and Robin is really excited. Our Ninang Malou said she would lend us the money instead so that we can get the computer. She agreed to get paid once I get my bonus which probably before the end of November. On Thursday or Friday we will find out if Ninang Malou will have the money, Robin told her we would pay her some interest instead. 

I guess its a good deal. Our monitor is still a CRT and buying a new LCD would cost probably 8-10k. I would ask him later to ask for the full specs so that I can verify other details of it and see if its really a good deal.

Normal Work Hours

It is consist of 8-hour workdays that begin at 8:00am and end at 5pm. I've never experience this and is thinking now of shifting to this what they call "normal working hours." I've been a vampire since I started working. Always on the graveyard shift, awake at night and sleeping at the morning. During my days off I try to live normal then transform again to vampire mode. Its been 6 years that I've been doing this routine. I now have two kids and I think I would be able to spend quality time with my family if I will work in normal working hours. I hope I will be able to shift schedule before the end of this year if not it will be my goal for the next year. 

My Google Adsense is now Improving

Aside from sharing my experiences, one other reason of me blogging is to earn money online. I do earn from pay per click ( like NEOBUX and LINKGRAND) and paid post. I do have google adsense when I started my blog but I really don't mind it. I think on my first year of blogging I hardly get $1 for the whole one year. Then recently I noticed that I am getting a lot of readers. I checked my adsense and I am getting few clicks. Last month, September, I was able to get $1.60 for the whole month. And now I already have $1.24 for the first week of October. Wow! it really excites me. Currently my total earning is $7.24. Once I get $10 I will try to do a cash out. I hope I will have more visitors to increase my ranking and more people to click on google ads. 

K-12 Education Good or Bad Idea?

To increase the quality of education in the Philippines DepEd would like to introduce the 12 Year education model.

DepEd's proposed model is the K-6-4-2 Model, which involves:

one year of kindergarten;

six years of elementary school (Grades 1-6);

four years of junior high school (Grades 7-10), and 

two years of senior high school (Grades 11-12)

According to the news we are the only Asian country implementing a 10 year education program. In this proposal the curriculum from kindergarten to Senior High School will be change. The aim is to let Senior High School students improve on their skill and competencies and be legible to work after graduating. The curriculum will provide specialization on whatever course they are interested to pursue. 

I know there will be different reactions on this. Some will think that this is just an extra expense for the parents. But since tertiary education is not a necessity to get a job, we can have more self supporting students. With the change in the curriculum, minor subject will be spread in elementary and senior high school. Junior High School will be start of enhancing the student skill on what major course they want to get. In college, student can focus more on the specialty that they wanted. For me some minor subjects during my 1st year and 2nd year in college is just a waste. The curriculum should take away subjects that are no longer related to the course like El Filibusterismo for Engineering Students. To read more about this news, click here.

I Cannot Sit on the Floor with my Legs Straight & my Back Straight at the Same Time

It is sometimes called the 'L' position. If I sit on the floor with my back straight my legs would bend and vice versa. I guess I am really not that flexible because I am not sporty and I don't do any exercise. Would it do any harm? I don't know. I hope it would not affect my health at all. I am taking injectable quarterly to avoid pregnancy and I think that medicine some what weaken the bones. I was advise by my OB to take caltrate plus. I will try to do some stretching if I have time. 

MMDA Re-implementing Anti-Littering Law

I was watching news last night and was surprised about this. Its been a norm by us to throw candy wrappers and cigarette butt any where. I am guilty of this (the candy wrapper bec. I don't smoke). For so many years its like a normal thing for everyone then all of the sudden MMDA are reinforcing it. It was surprising to most especially those who are caught. The fine cost P500. This is a good law and I am happy its being reinforced by the government. It will help our country lessen the garbage that is causing problem with our drainage system. I just hope that they would do something to spread this news more because lots of people are not aware of it. According to the news it was reimplemented on September 16, 2010.