My dad the cook

I’ve been craving for grilled food lately. I would ask my brother to buy grilled fish being sold in a nearby eatery. My dad said that instead of always buying grilled food, he can do it at home if I just buy one of those electric grills we saw. Since my dad offered, who am I to refuse? Ha-ha!

I think my dad found his calling. He loves to cook now. We all used to rely on my mom’s cooking abilities. She was a good cook! But when she passed away, my sister took over. Now that my sister is busy with teaching, my dad took over. I must say that my dad’s dishes are always a hit at home and even at family gatherings. He is that good!

A friendly reminder

This is just a friendly reminder to all of us using Entrecard: not every site, especially those without proper widgets, is a good one. What I mean is that, you might find a site offering downloads and other free stuff. And because it’s in the Entrecard network, you’d think it’s legitimate. Don’t! It can be a site that will give you a big headache. Think of malware. You don’t want that in your computer, trust me.

You also don’t want to be dropping on sites that offers hacking advices. It could be the site that will hack your own site. I’ve encountered that and it gave me so much headache I swore off dropping for a while.

If you see any suspicious loading scripts from a site you are dropping on, better alert the owner of the blog right away and click on the X button as fast as you can. I got a hacking script from a popular blog I dropped on a couple of months ago. It hacked almost all my blogs I opened and I ended up creating new databases for each of my blogs that got hacked.

I am not saying that each and every site without proper widget images or the ones that seem to be aggregators only are illegal sites or something like that. All I am saying is be careful in dropping. That’s it.

No classes in Metro Manila!

There will be no classes in pre-school, elementary and high school in Metro Manila tomorrow, July 14, 2010 due to tropical storm Basyang. Signal No. 2 has been hoisted over Metro Manila.

Follow ABS-CBN Breaking News (@ABSCBNBreaking) on Twitter more updates on Basyang.

My old classmate the hero!

The atv riding man turned out to be someone I know… he is my classmate in sophomore high!

My sister and I were watching a tv show where a man riding an atv helped save an old person who was almost run over by a speeding car. He was riding his atv in his farm when he heard the screeching tires of a car and a woman screaming for help. He ran to where the woman’s voice came from and saw the car speeding away. The old woman was crying but with only a sprained ankle, thank God. He rushed her to the nearest clinic just in case.

The woman turned out to be a celebrity’s mom who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and was lost. He was interviewed in a tv show and a reenactment of the incident was shown.

Who knew I had a classmate who’s a hero, right?

IT issues

I rely on my cousin when it comes to IT issues. He is working abroad but as he is always online, I can talk to him easily and ask him the IT issues I need to address. Like for example, a couple of days ago I bought desktop speakers. For some reason, when I set it up, background music was the only sound you could hear. You couldn’t hear the voice of the singers. I knew I just need to do something in my desktop to adjust the sounds but I didn’t know where.

While waiting for my cousin to go online, I read diet pill reviews. While reading it, I thought of tinkering with my desktop’s audio manager. There I found the karaoke option ticked! I turned it off and there goes the voice of the singer of song! Thank goodness I thought of reading a review. It made me think of tinkering with the audio manager and now I didn’t need my cousin’s help with something as simple as audio problems.

Procrastination

Procrastination is one of my biggest problems right now. It’s so hard to shake it off my system. Just the other night, even though I know I had a lot of tasks to finish, I still watched the ab workouts video that my friend sent to me. She wanted me to show it to my brother who’s into body building. I ended up not only watching that video but other videos I found in my archives as well.

I need to stop procrastinating. I have so many plans I need to put into action the soonest possible time but if I procrastinate, I think I won’t be able to achieve all of my goals.

Nagging problem

A nagging problem can be as effective as a quicktrim. You lose your appetite to eat. You lose weight because you can’t eat. That’s the good side of a problem. Losing your appetite. You also get to strengthen your faith. And you discover who your true friends are.

Of course we all prefer not to have any problem at all. Who wants one, anyway? But because we all have problems, we need to find something positive in it. We can’t focus on the negative all the time or it will defeat us in the long run.

I was snobbed.

I saw a blogger I was friends with in the past. She ignored me when she saw me. I know she recognized me because there’s a spark of recognition on her face. I recognized her, too and would have greeted her had she didn’t sped up the escalator with her family. She might be reading this now and it’s the truth, girl.

Anyway, I didn’t lose anything with the snob. I didn’t lose sleep over it enough to use the best eye cream for dark circles. I just shrugged my shoulders and moved on. I told my friend who’s with me about it. We both laughed about the fact that she might be thinking I will initiate small talk when in fact all I had in mind was to just acknowledge her, nod and say that we’re in a hurry.

Wrinkled and gray

If I keep on noticing all the negative things around me, I will end up wrinkled and gray early in life. In fact, I am already gray. My hair, that is. Wrinkled? Not yet. But I don’t want to know how I would look like wrinkled. I will stop being overly sensitive about so many things so I won’t have to make use of the prototype 37c review I read the other day. Who would want to be battling wrinkles anyway?

Not me.

From now on, I will work hard and will just focus on my goals that I want to achieve before the year ends. That’s it.

Dear Entrecard Droppers…

If your blog is about hacking accounts or downloading illegal files, please don’t drop here anymore. I won’t return it. I don’t support such blogs or sites.

The same goes for those blogs or sites using women scantily clad or posing inappropriately and it has nothing to do with the blog or site’s theme. I understand blogs about undies or bikinis will use a widget with a woman wearing such. That is fine with me. But for the widgets using women, or men for that matter, which has nothing to do with their blog/site, stop dropping here also. Again, I won’t return it.

I am not being a prude or self-righteous. I just think there’s a better way to attract droppers/visitors to your site without using inappropriate or misleading images.

Thank you.

Kamag-anak Inc.

Comedienne Mae Paner a.k.a. Juana Change and the spokesperson of the new administration are having a tiff right now. And all because the former publicly noted the participation of the Abads in the Aquino administration. I am talking about Butch Abad his daughter. Because Juana Change posted it in her Facebook account, Atty. Edwin Lacierda fired back that she was just envious of the Abads.

I would like to say that I’ve been noticing how Lacierda is always frowning when being shown on tv. He is the president’s spokesperson. Shouldn’t he be projecting a good image because he represents the president? Another thing, I believe Juana Change has a point. Why the Abads in different government posts? Isn’t Butch Abad enough and he still need to put each and every one he owes gratitude to including Abad’s daughter?

If Noynoy wants a good and controversy-free 6-year term, he should get rid of people who will give him a bad image. Stop the Kamag-anak Inc. Stop putting friends in government posts and instead put competent people who will do good in office. Stop putting people he owes something to. Abad, Mar Roxas, and other persons prominent during his campaign.

Imposing on relatives

A good motorhome insurance is needed especially if you use your motorhome a lot. A family that lives a block away would always go to the province using their motorhome. Instead of imposing on the kindness of relatives, they use the motorhome to spend the night in.

I don’t like imposing relatives. I don’t like it when they assume they can spend the night at home. We are not use to having overnight guests. We really appreciate it if they ask first before coming over. I think that’s the polite way of doing things.