A sleepy day in the office

I love the weather. It’s so cold. All I can think about is burrowing under my blanket at home, my new book Train Man and a hot cup of coffee… hay…

Or I can stay under the blanket and doze off for hours.

Wishful thinking.

I have to finish a report by this afternoon. Sucks! Oh well…

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I just love Him. He knows when I need help and He responds immediately.

Some people think I have lotsa money with me. I earn more than the average employee. I even earn extra income from my sponsored posts. But I am the breadwinner in our family and I support my grandparents. I have mouths to feed. And I am the type of person who can’t say no to relatives. So there comes a time at least once every two months that I go ‘broke’. But you know what, I don’t really worry that much anymore unlike before. Because time and again, I have proven that help comes when I least expect it.

Like today, my budget is close to nil yet when I opened my email a few hours ago, I saw an email from BTOP telling me that they deposited money to my bank account for some referrals. Yey! May pera na uli ako

What I want to say here is that trust in Him and He will surely provide.

Happy Thursday everyone!

Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline, French researchers said on Monday, giving women more reason to love the world’s most popular stimulant.

Men did not enjoy the same benefit, they said.

“The more coffee one drank, the better the effects seemed to be on (women’s) memory functioning in particular,” said Karen Ritchie at the French National Institute of Medical Research, whose work appears in the journal Neurology.

The researchers followed more than 7,000 men and women in three French cities, checking their health and mental function and asking them about their current and past eating and drinking habits, their friends, and their daily activities.

They used this information to sort out the specific role caffeine played in these women’s lives.

They found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, retained more of their verbal and — to a lesser extent — visual memories over four years.

These women had a 33 percent lower odds of having verbal memory declines and 18 percent lower odds of having visual and spatial memory declines, compared to women who drank one cup or fewer per day.

The effect also depended on age, with women over 80 reaping more benefits from these beverages than those who were 10 to 15 years younger, Ritchie’s team wrote. It was unclear whether current or former coffee consumption made the difference.

Some studies in mice have suggested that caffeine might block the buildup of proteins that lead to mental decline.

Ritchie is not sure why only women benefited in her study.

“Our best guess is that women don’t metabolize coffee in the same way (as men),” she said in a telephone interview.

Ritchie plans to follow the women longer to see if caffeine delays the onset of dementia — the mental confusion that signals Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders.

She said people should weigh any brain gains derived from caffeine against other effects of the stimulant, including raised blood pressure.

The average American drinks one to two cups of coffee a day, according to the National Coffee Association.

Source: Yahoo News

Happy Monday!

It’s Monday once again. For some reason, I always feel rushed, down and a bit tired on Mondays. I fight the feeling, of course. I want to start my Monday right. But today is one of those days.

My bunso, Hazel/Etey, is sick. She has sore eyes. Kainis kasi parents nya masyadong pabaya sa anak. This little kid would always knock at our gate early in the morning. She’d go directly to my room to sleep beside me again. She’d stay with my dad the whole day and would wait for me and my sisters to come home at night. When she gets sleepy, that’s the time she’ll look for her mom and go home. Ampon ko na nga halos. And I love that kid so much. She’s already a part of the family and I treat her like my own kid. She’s so sweet and would always ask for me to pick her up and go somewhere. She’s a Trinoma kid. Ask her who’s going to Trinoma and she would raise her hand. Hahaha…

She has a fever when I left her this morning. I asked her mom to take her to a pediatrician so that we know what medicine to give her. She smiled at me this morning and I was so touched because eventhough she’s not feeling well, she still managed a sweet smile for me.

My sister, Grace, has sore eyes as well. Hazel poked her in the eye yesterday and when she woke up today, her left eye is swollen already. She went to school (she’s teaching English in Sienna College) and asked the school nurse to issue a health certificate that she cannot teach today. I was late today because she made lambing pa that I cook some breakfast for her.

I just wish I don’t get sick this week.

Happy Monday everyone! Stay healthy!

Richest man in the world

How can one be this rich??

Microsoft founder Bill Gates looks to have lost his title as the world’s richest man, toppled from top spot by the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim.

Three months ago the cigar-chomping Mr Slim quietly slipped past legendary US investor Warren Buffett to take second place in the global wealth league.

Now, thanks to a surge in the shares of his America Movil group, Mr Slim has claimed pole position, according to the Mexican online financial publication, Sentido Común.

…following a surge in America Movil’s shares over the second quarter.

This is estimated to have boosted his fortune to an estimated $67.8bn (£33.6bn) - equivalent to 8% of Mexico’s gross domestic product - compared with $59.2bn for the Microsoft mogul, putting him in the lead by a decisive $8.6bn.

-excerpt taken from Mexican tycoon overtakes Bill Gates as world’s richest man

I bet George Lindemann Jr would like to know how Mr Slim became that rich as well.

I’d be happy to get even a tenth of his fortune

For Nona…

I miss you, sis!!!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Nahuli na ang bati ko. Almost a month ago pa pala Anyway, may you have many more birthdays to come. And good health, more wealth and a happy family always.

Happy birthday, Nona my dear! I miss our girltalks na! Ang overlooking na laging witness sa ating mga chikahan galore hehehe… At ang kulitan natin nina tendon, este, Tiendesitas girl Rho Especially the celebrity gossip during our chikahans hehe

Be safe always, sis and I appreciate you keeping in touch talaga. Basta bawi ako pag-uwi mo hehe Luvyah sistah!

For Nona…

I miss you, sis!!!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Nahuli na ang bati ko. Almost a month ago pa pala Anyway, may you have many more birthdays to come. And good health, more wealth and a happy family always.

Happy birthday, Nona my dear! I miss our girltalks na! Ang overlooking na laging witness sa ating mga chikahan galore hehehe… At ang kulitan natin nina tendon, este, Tiendesitas girl Rho

Be safe always, sis and I appreciate you keeping in touch talaga. Basta bawi ako pag-uwi mo hehe Luvyah sistah!