Swimmer dog. Cupcakes. Plugins!

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I woke up Tuesday to a very cool morning, and the first thing I noticed was the pitter patter of the raindrops. Last thing I remembered before dozing off was the sound of the wind outside. No, it wasn’t a howling wind, but you could definitely hear it.

A friend was supposed to come over before lunch and when he called to ask if the creek had already overflown, I said no without batting an eyelash. A few minutes later, I went down to take out the wet garbage and was shocked to see that I was so wrong. The flood waters had risen calf deep on the street and was just outside our gate. I had to stop my friend from coming over!

While I was chatting with my cousin who was standing watch, this man passed by with his dog. I thought they would surely turn back but they didn’t.

The dog was happily swimming in the flood! They didn’t walk the length of the road though, because it was getting deeper as they went farther from us. The guy led his dog towards the riprap alongside the creek and the mongrel walked from then on.

I’d have taken a picture if I had a camera with me at the time. I hadn’t anticipated a spectacle.

Cupcake charms!

I have new charms for my phone – cupcakes in a muffin pan!

These girls from work sell stuff over at Multiply but this one wasn’t even uploaded to the site yet. Isn’t it cute?

It was supposed to be a pendant but I don’t usually wear necklaces, so the girls offered to customize the chain for whatever purpose I was going to use the charm for.

The shell accessory you see there was from Alfred’s Boracay trip; the tiny purple rubber slipper is a freebie from Havaianas.

Worpress Improvements?

I wasn’t receiving new comment notifications in my WP admin email so I installed a plugin that would do just that. It doesn’t seem to be working though.

Chris, my first official commenter here, suggested a follow up comment notifier plugin so I got one too. But alas, it doesn’t seem to be working yet either.

I don’t have time to work on these anymore though so the improvements have got to wait til tomorrow.

My first ever post on my non-free blog!

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Blog number five. Yes, I am the same verabear from Blogger, moon$hyn, the moon shines on me, and vera’s moon.

I am still getting to know my server, and feeling my way through WordPress. I feel like I am on a real-life adventure. I was really excited to post tonight; imagine how downtrodden I felt when, as I got off the cab from work, I realized there was a power outage. I was ecstatic though when the light posts came to life just as I approached our gate!

Having this new exciting thing in my life has had at least one positive effect: I actually did real work in the office on my first day from off. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve always felt like the first day was my petiks or slack-off day. I do work, but nothing substantial. Today, I actually did stuff that would set me off to an awesome pace for the rest of the week.

I’ll keep this short though, and work on some other stuff before I turn in for the night. Tomorrow will be another long day.

New blog: http://verabear.net

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Earlier today I pulbished my new blog http://verabear.net/

I have decided to use that as my everyday blog and I hope you’d come over and visit me there too. Soon I will hide my posts here, but keep links to my archives/categories, which are all hosted on my new blog too.

It is still a work in progress, and I am using a pre-made free template rather than one I had hoped to have designed on my own.

See you there!

FitRight = Green tea extracts + L Carnitine + Ampalaya extracts

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My friend Raech introduced me to this product, FitRight, that her mom is selling. It’s supposed to aid weight loss. I got a box (which I haven’t paid for) of 60 capsules, to be consumed twice daily before meals.

I took it for about four days, stopping for the past two because I’ve been having migraine headaches. I’m sure it was not the food supplement that caused the migraines, but I stopped taking them nonetheless. I also wanted to research on what these three naturally occurring substances could really do to my body. No matter what I learn though, I’m pretty sure I’d be popping those again.

Green Tea extracts
The Chinese have been drinking tea for centuries and it has been said that tea can remedy many ills, as well as prevent others. There are claims that Green Tea can help cure/prevent cancer, and there is also interest now in how Green Tea can be helpful in AIDS research.

I also remember that Body Shop has a product line with green tea as the main/active ingredient. Of course drinking it may not have the same effect as applying it on your skin.

The Wikipedia article also mentioned lab tests that showed positive results for preventing rheumatoid arthritis with regular intake of green tea. That’s one good reason for my mom to drink up on green tea I guess.

Specific to weight loss, here’s what I read:

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial done by Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 240 adults were given either theaflavin-enriched green tea extract in form of 375mg capsule daily or a placebo. After 12 weeks, patients in the tea extract group had significantly less low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and total cholesterol (16.4% and 11.3% lower than baseline, p<0.01)> A study published in the January, 2005 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded “Daily consumption of tea containing 690 mg catechins for 12 wk reduced body fat, which suggests that the ingestion of catechins might be useful in the prevention and improvement of lifestyle-related diseases, mainly obesity

It seems that Green Tea extracts may aid the body in burning/oxidizing fat.

L-Carnitine
Filipinos are very familiar to this by now, thanks to Fit &Right, and Juday’s Fitrum. Those two products are being marketed as weight-loss products and they use L-Carnitine as the main ingredient that makes them effective.

Apparently, there is no scientific proof to these claims. I guess, there’s no published/accepted study yet that proves that it’s the L-carnitine that directly causes the weight loss. What it really does though, is help the body convert fatty acids to usable energy.

I guess with L-carnitine pumped into your body, one’s energy could be boosted enough to go through a regimen of exercises.

Amapalaya
Food supplements rich in Amapalaya have been around in the Philippines longer than L-Carnitine. Usually though, the target market for those products are diabetics and their families who may have the predisposition for the condition too.

It is most noted for its role in lowering blood sugar levels.

I didn’t find (or I probably didn’t look hard enough) any article showing Ampalaya’s role in weight loss though.

I guess I can’t go wrong with these three ingredients active in one capsule. Even if I don’t lose weight in the end, at least I won’t have high blood sugar and energized. I’ll be at less risk for heart conditions too.

Still, I do hope it helps me shed off weight.

FitRight = Green tea extracts + L Carnitine + Ampalaya extracts

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My friend Raech introduced me to this product, FitRight, that her mom is selling. It’s supposed to aid weight loss. I got a box (which I haven’t paid for) of 60 capsules, to be consumed twice daily before meals.

I took it for about four days, stopping for the past two because I’ve been having migraine headaches. I’m sure it was not the food supplement that caused the migraines, but I stopped taking them nonetheless. I also wanted to research on what these three naturally occurring substances could really do to my body. No matter what I learn though, I’m pretty sure I’d be popping those again.

Green Tea extracts
The Chinese have been drinking tea for centuries and it has been said that tea can remedy many ills, as well as prevent others. There are claims that Green Tea can help cure/prevent cancer, and there is also interest now in how Green Tea can be helpful in AIDS research.

I also remember that Body Shop has a product line with green tea as the main/active ingredient. Of course drinking it may not have the same effect as applying it on your skin.

The Wikipedia article also mentioned lab tests that showed positive results for preventing rheumatoid arthritis with regular intake of green tea. That’s one good reason for my mom to drink up on green tea I guess.

Specific to weight loss, here’s what I read:

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial done by Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 240 adults were given either theaflavin-enriched green tea extract in form of 375mg capsule daily or a placebo. After 12 weeks, patients in the tea extract group had significantly less low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and total cholesterol (16.4% and 11.3% lower than baseline, p<0.01)> A study published in the January, 2005 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded “Daily consumption of tea containing 690 mg catechins for 12 wk reduced body fat, which suggests that the ingestion of catechins might be useful in the prevention and improvement of lifestyle-related diseases, mainly obesity

It seems that Green Tea extracts may aid the body in burning/oxidizing fat.

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