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Free Rice!

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I noticed an image that wasn’t rendering properly on my sidebar so I clicked on it to follow the link. It was the banner for FreeRice. The banner probably stopped working when they relaunched the site recently and I never noticed. Goes to show that I don’t regularly visit the advocacy sites that I sport on my sidebar 🙁

So Free Rice is a game site launched by the UN World Food Programme where you can enhance your vocabulary and every correct answer is matched with a donation of a hundred grains of rice. So tonight, I’ve donated 1000 grains for answering 100 questions in a row. Funny how the words I learned today (as in I wasn’t sure what they meant at first) all start with ‘cr.’

crone = hag
cretin = imbecile
crotchety = irritable

Explore around the site and you can see that there’s an option to switch subjects too, I have yet to try that.

I tried looking for the new location of the banners but couldn’t find them, not even from the main WFP website. So I emailed the people behind the website about it. I hope the banners come back soon because it’s one tool we can use to spread the word.

Speaking of spreading the word…

The Breast Cancer Site

October, apart from being the Children’s Month supposedly, is also known as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So pink is hip this month. Click this badge daily to help fund free mammograms. All it costs for you is one click per day 🙂

After clicking at the Breast Cancer site, check out the other links at the top of that page and show your support for other causes too such as Hunger, Child Health, Literacy, and also Rain Forest and Animal Rescue.

I’ve shopped at those stores in the past too and wish I still had the baller IDs I purchased from them years ago.

I’ve spent a few minutes this evening planning my newest blog, a health-themed one. I’ve got a few post topics already but I haven’t gone round to actually writing them and tweaking the template. I definitely have to launch in October though. For that new blog, I’m thinking of just scheduling posts so it would be low maintenance but still get updated regularly. That should have been my strategy for the Newbie Photographer from the beginning too.

So although you’ll be expecting a lot of weight loss related posts on the new blog (maybe even info on the different methods like hCG shots Austin), I’ll also be talking about other things that promote good health and this includes environmental issues and concerns. I’m really excited for this new project and hope it takes off soon. 🙂

Join Nicquee’s Giveaway!

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Nicquee of Pop Ups of My Mind is giving this away:

When I first heard about it, my reaction was to commend her for a brilliant idea. PC safety and security is everyone’s concern and having a firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware software is essential these days.

The giveaway is in celebration of Nicquee’s birthday and is open internationally. If the winner turns out to be local (Pinoy) s/he will receive the CD with the license. If not, then the download link and the license will be emailed to the lucky winner.

She’s made it very easy to join, the mechanics are in her giveaway post. Although I have McAfee and my PC/laptops have been protected by it for the past five years (I get a free subscription with my MSN Premium account), I’m still joining this giveaway!

Afternoon Nap

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That’s why I’ve been offline for the most part of this week. I’d been getting too-long naps in the afternoon. It all started on Tuesday, after a session at the gym. Yes, I’ve been to the gym twice this week. But that’s a story for a whole other blog (yes, I’ve got some material for my new blog that’s taking eons to launch!).

Anyhoo… The world celebrated Teachers’ Day a few days ago and I just wanted to shout out that I have had some amazing teachers in my student life. They have all (mostly) enriched my life, and encouraged me to continue wondering and discovering the world around me. Although I can’t say I have a favorite teacher, some of them just stand out in my mind as I write this. She wasn’t my teacher in any class (not that I can remember), but she was the adviser for our grade school paper. She taught me a lot, and when she left us, and later when I moved up to highschool, I missed her. YTV was not quite the same after she left.

In highschool… wala lang ako maisip ngayon, but I had some awesome teachers too. A lot of them really cared for their students. At the UP, who could ever forget one of the pillars of the Psych Dept? I remembered him on this post when he passed on. There were other professors from other colleges and departments too. Ones who really challenged me to think out of the box, and challenge my own beliefs. Most of them were very encouraging.

Before I left UP, I had wondered about writing each of my former professors a note to say thank you. I never got around to it, but someday, I still might do it. Teaching isn’t a lucrative career, but I can see how it can be the most rewarding.

Kudos to all the Teachers of the world! Keep on inspiring young minds and leading the way for a brighter tomorrow. 🙂

7 days to cure an infection?

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I’m just about to run out of Antibiotics, which means when I take the last one tomorrow morning, I’d have completed the 7-day cycle. So has the infection been cured?

Not sure. I’m still coughing. It isn’t as bad as it was in the beginning, but it’s still there. I asked the doctor last week about the cough medicine that the Humana doctor prescribed for me. He was quick to explain that sometimes, they just don’t work. What was important, according to him, is to treat the infection. So stick with the antibiotics, and you should be good. I did, but I’m not sure of the results…

Maybe whatever’s hit me (and the boyfriend, and so many others at work) still lingers in the air. Makes me think about the benefits of having a dehumidifier.  I wonder how much one costs? I think that would be a good investment for companies like ours where people are prone to catch whatever the other person has.

If not that, maybe they could flush out the vents or something? We don’t have windows that could be opened to let air in/out, see. So it’s like we’re breathing recycled air for the most part of our days. Oh well.

I’m just thankful I did not get conjunctivitis! Two of the TMs in my shift got them, Liza to my right, and Phillip behind me. One a week after the other. :S

Re-runs, shopping, and Oreo Truffles

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I don’t remember how many times I’ve seen it, maybe at least three or four times, yet when I saw it on cable yesterday I just could not walk away from Reese Witherspoon on Sweet Home Alabama. I just love watching that movie.

It’s the same way with A Knight’s Tale. I’d seen it so many times that I know exactly what will happen in most scenes. Yet when I see it on TV, I drop everything to watch. Well, okay, maybe not everything. But I do watch.

What is it with me and watching movies over and over and over again? Oh well. It’s my time I’m wasting anyway…

October is gearing up to be a wonderful month. We opened it by doing some shopping! Haha. SmileI had not been to the Megamall in quite a while (possibly in a year!) so I was itching to go checkout the new stores, specifically Forever 21 and Payless. I had no intention to shop really, I just wanted to checkout the merchandise. Well, we shopped anyway. (Pictures to be added tomorrow). I got these fashion earrings (there’s another pair that the boyfriend and I agreed on, but I’d save that for another day of shopping):

A scarf like this one, but of a solid purplish gray color:

And this black ribbed knit skirt:

I kept telling the boyfriend that it would look good with the pair of plain boots/wedges also from Forever 21, but he wouldn’t hear any of it! Haha 🙂 I couldn’t find a photo of it from their website, but Alfred also picked up a nice knit sweater for himself. He shopped too! 🙂

There was this particular pair of Comfort Shoes Plus flats at Payless that I contemplated on getting. It has a 945 pesos price tag (just right) and it was very comfortable and would have been sensible shoes to wear for work AND shopping. But I decided against buying it.

I don’t regret that decision, specially since seeing the uber comfy ballet flats from Gap. They don’t look anything special really, I’d probably have passed them without so much as a second look if I wasn’t already looking for them. Celebrity Mom Pia Magalona tweeted a few months ago about finding the most comfortable flats at Gap and I’d just been curious since then.

So I tried on a pair, and immediately understood why. It felt like walking on carpeted flooring, but with the assurance that you can use it on a real road too. It’s foldable and even comes in its own little tote. I want one. The only downside is the huge price tag. It’s hard to justify the expense. There’s this other pair of shoes that’s in the same price range that I’m eyeing to buy from an online seller that’s well known for her very stylish shoes. This other one is a pair of high-heeled pumps with embellishments (sparkly). I can totally use that at work, or hopefully even to the next wedding I’m attending. Although I’m still reluctant in shelling out the cash for it, it feels more justifiable to spend such an amount on those, than on the Gap flats. Sigh.

On happy news though, we’re back in oreo truffles business! Orders are coming in pretty steady. I do prefer to bake cake and cupcakes but am too lazy to do the costing for those so I haven’t been able to offer them up. Seriously, when I try to do costing, I fall asleep. It’s happened twice already! My plan to sell at the payday bazaar was foiled too as there were no food stalls last weekend, and for the rest of this month. What a bummer.

Ooohh, have you been Between the Covers lately? I received two new books for review from BookSneeze! (I also just finished a book so a new post will be up soon!)

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