I'm not feeling well last week. I suffered from colds and severe cough. I try to medicate myself by taking robitussin DM cough syrup, It's an over-the-counter cough suppressant and expectorant in one. Dextromethorphan and Guafenisin are the active ingredients. It is a temporary relief of cough due to throat irritation from common cold, flu and inhaled irritants and It helps loosen phlegm. How can i knew it? I googled it before I use this medicine. I used this when I was in college and I think it was not effective for me today. So, I went to the hospital and look for my Pulmonologist. My Doctor asked some question like how long is my cough persist and what are the medicine that I took on. I said, its Robitussin DM. He advised me to take a antibiotic called Co-trimoxazole (Bactrim) for 7 days. well, it helps alot. The symptoms faded and my cough disappeared in 3 days of continous taking antibiotics but i need to continue it for 7 days. I'm OK now.:) It's
time to go to the gym to lift some weights. :)
Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Yeah! It's Friday! Thank God..
We are in tumultous times. CDs, wiretapped conversations, jueteng, opportunists in lawmakers' clothing. These have been dragging on for a good one month now at least. It's funny how many political scenarios reflect personal events in my life. Lemme see... 1986, at the height of the EDSA I revolt, my family and I were still in Sanfo, contemplating on making the big move to the Philippines. I was about to turn 7 then, just started primary school. My parents weren't quite sure if it was wise bringing back all nine children (yeah, there are nine of us!) to a country whose future was largely in question. Unlike my other siblings, a big move also meant I would have to stop schooling for a year as most of my records would not have been available by the next Philippine school year. Good thing my folks decided to postpone our return to the country until political conditions had stabilized.
1989: the year that my folks again planned on returning to the Philippines, in time for Christmas. We would have finally had our taste of Philippine Christmas after a very long time! Then the bloodiest coup d 'etat broke out in Manila just as my dad was calling the airline company to confirm our ticket reservation. I was 10, struggling as I entered my awkward phase. I was an Amboy, down to the mannerisms and speech. And to top it all, I was also struggling with the physical changes that puberty brought along, from the voice that hovered between tenor and bass and would constantly switch pitch at the most embarrassing moments, to the gangly arms and legs, to the pathetic patch of hair in my pits, and to the sparse growth, uhm, down there (you get my drift), I was a wreck. I didn't belong any where, much less in a country I barely knew. But we finally did get to go back to the land of my parents' birth the following month.
2001: the jueteng controversy and the impeachment trial that ended in a sham and brought down a fledgling presidency. That was the political scene. Academically, I wasn't in a much better position than Estrada's. Fortunately for me, my academic future didn't end up in the calabooze as he did. Haha!
And now: 2012. The whole week, our country has been dodging the "arrows of outrageous fortune" flung by people whose main interests were personal and whose only concern was how to grab what they want at the expense of the gullible people who buy into what they, the shameless politicans, peddle. Friday was the worst day of all politically, with people shifting allegiance and shamelessly calling on the President to resign on moral grounds. I say shamelessly because the pot doesn't have any right whatsoever to call the kettle "black". The President has no moral ascendancy? Gimme a break! You, shameless saboteurs have no moral ascendancy nor intellectual integrity to even ask the sitting president to give up on moral grounds! We have a scarred culture, and cleansing starts from within. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!
Thursday night, I reached out to you. It ended in a stalemate. And Friday wasn't a better day. The opportunists demanded something from the President which she would never accede to. You demanded something from me which I could not give at that time. The President wanted more time. I only asked for a little consideration. The opportunists are now figuratively burning the president at the stake. And you are emotionally flogging me.
In a world of changes and questionable allegiance and shifting loyalties, I shall remain true to you. I am yours and yours alone. Mob rule might make the President give up her seat. Only time will tell. But your stubborness endears you to me more. I will hold on to you. I love you so much...
1989: the year that my folks again planned on returning to the Philippines, in time for Christmas. We would have finally had our taste of Philippine Christmas after a very long time! Then the bloodiest coup d 'etat broke out in Manila just as my dad was calling the airline company to confirm our ticket reservation. I was 10, struggling as I entered my awkward phase. I was an Amboy, down to the mannerisms and speech. And to top it all, I was also struggling with the physical changes that puberty brought along, from the voice that hovered between tenor and bass and would constantly switch pitch at the most embarrassing moments, to the gangly arms and legs, to the pathetic patch of hair in my pits, and to the sparse growth, uhm, down there (you get my drift), I was a wreck. I didn't belong any where, much less in a country I barely knew. But we finally did get to go back to the land of my parents' birth the following month.
2001: the jueteng controversy and the impeachment trial that ended in a sham and brought down a fledgling presidency. That was the political scene. Academically, I wasn't in a much better position than Estrada's. Fortunately for me, my academic future didn't end up in the calabooze as he did. Haha!
And now: 2012. The whole week, our country has been dodging the "arrows of outrageous fortune" flung by people whose main interests were personal and whose only concern was how to grab what they want at the expense of the gullible people who buy into what they, the shameless politicans, peddle. Friday was the worst day of all politically, with people shifting allegiance and shamelessly calling on the President to resign on moral grounds. I say shamelessly because the pot doesn't have any right whatsoever to call the kettle "black". The President has no moral ascendancy? Gimme a break! You, shameless saboteurs have no moral ascendancy nor intellectual integrity to even ask the sitting president to give up on moral grounds! We have a scarred culture, and cleansing starts from within. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!
Thursday night, I reached out to you. It ended in a stalemate. And Friday wasn't a better day. The opportunists demanded something from the President which she would never accede to. You demanded something from me which I could not give at that time. The President wanted more time. I only asked for a little consideration. The opportunists are now figuratively burning the president at the stake. And you are emotionally flogging me.
In a world of changes and questionable allegiance and shifting loyalties, I shall remain true to you. I am yours and yours alone. Mob rule might make the President give up her seat. Only time will tell. But your stubborness endears you to me more. I will hold on to you. I love you so much...
Nitpicking
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. As of this moment, I am the second mouse...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Upper Body Blast
Build the ultimate upper body with this hight-intensity workout.
Sculpting the perfect V-shape torso is a balancing act:
You need the add size to you chest and shoulders without expanding your waistline. This workout from Nic Tumminello, CPT, owner of the Performance University in Baltimore, does just that. By overloadiong yout upper body with muscle-building reps and eliminating rest periods, it ramps up your metabolism.
Pushup-Posiotion dumbell row
Assume a pushup position, but gripping hex dumbells set on the floor. Raise the right dumbell to the right side of your chest. Pause. Lower it and repeat with the left. That's a rep.
Dumbell pushup
Place a pair of hex dumbells on the floor shoulder-width apart, and hold onto them as you assume a pushup position. Lower your body until your chest nearly touches the floor, pause, and push yourself up.
Kneeling dumbell curl
Kneel on the floor with a dumbell in each hand. Keep your torso upright and turns your arms so your palms face forward. Without moving your upper arms, bend you elbows and curl the dumbells as close to your shoulder as you can. Pause, and lower them.
Kneeling dumbell shoulder press
Kneel holding a pair of dumbells just outside your shoulders with your arms bent and palms facing in towards to each other. Keeping your torso upright, press the weights up, and then slowly lowers them.
Begin with round 1. Do all reps for both exercise in set 1, and then do the same for set 2 and3 without stopping.Rest one minute, and repeat with round 2.
Enjoy the routine. Have fun!
Sculpting the perfect V-shape torso is a balancing act:
You need the add size to you chest and shoulders without expanding your waistline. This workout from Nic Tumminello, CPT, owner of the Performance University in Baltimore, does just that. By overloadiong yout upper body with muscle-building reps and eliminating rest periods, it ramps up your metabolism.
Pushup-Posiotion dumbell row
Assume a pushup position, but gripping hex dumbells set on the floor. Raise the right dumbell to the right side of your chest. Pause. Lower it and repeat with the left. That's a rep.
Dumbell pushup
Place a pair of hex dumbells on the floor shoulder-width apart, and hold onto them as you assume a pushup position. Lower your body until your chest nearly touches the floor, pause, and push yourself up.
Kneeling dumbell curl
Kneel on the floor with a dumbell in each hand. Keep your torso upright and turns your arms so your palms face forward. Without moving your upper arms, bend you elbows and curl the dumbells as close to your shoulder as you can. Pause, and lower them.
Kneeling dumbell shoulder press
Kneel holding a pair of dumbells just outside your shoulders with your arms bent and palms facing in towards to each other. Keeping your torso upright, press the weights up, and then slowly lowers them.
Begin with round 1. Do all reps for both exercise in set 1, and then do the same for set 2 and3 without stopping.Rest one minute, and repeat with round 2.
Enjoy the routine. Have fun!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
I consider myself a food lover.
have a great day everyone! :)
Friday, February 10, 2012
Something to think about...
This has been a crazy month. New job(s), new friends, new things happening in my life. It's amazing how I manage to keep my sanity. Opening my e-mail this afternoon, I was pleased to get a mail from a friend of mine who's now in Sydney. Aside from the usual pleasantries and a lot of stories, she attached something else. I've read it many times before: my e-mail account is definitely not a virgin to forwarded messages. :) But reading it for the nth time, it doesn't lose its luster. And being the occasionally senti person, I figured I'd share it with my friends and those who find themselves lurking in my blogsite. If you've never read it before, I suggest you savor every word of it. If you have, be enlightened again. And Brazil... I love you so much! :)
I dreamed I had an interview with God. "So you would like to interview me?" God asked. "If you have the time", I said. God smiled. "My time is eternity. What questions do you have in mind for me?" "What surprises you most about humankind?" I asked. God answered... "That they get bored with childhood. They rush to grow up and then long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money, and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived."
God's hand took mine and we were silent for a while. And then I asked: "As a parent, what are some of life's lessons you want your children to learn?" God replied with a smile: "To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is let themselves be loved. To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least. To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes many years to heal them. To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness. To learn that there are persons who love them dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings. To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently. To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others. But that they must forgive themselves. And to learn that I am here. Always."
Have a fruitful weekend, friends. And I love you, again, Brazil...
I dreamed I had an interview with God. "So you would like to interview me?" God asked. "If you have the time", I said. God smiled. "My time is eternity. What questions do you have in mind for me?" "What surprises you most about humankind?" I asked. God answered... "That they get bored with childhood. They rush to grow up and then long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money, and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived."
God's hand took mine and we were silent for a while. And then I asked: "As a parent, what are some of life's lessons you want your children to learn?" God replied with a smile: "To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is let themselves be loved. To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least. To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes many years to heal them. To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness. To learn that there are persons who love them dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings. To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently. To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others. But that they must forgive themselves. And to learn that I am here. Always."
Have a fruitful weekend, friends. And I love you, again, Brazil...
Weekend Hedonism
Got my knapsack ready, board shorts in, did a couple hundred crunches... time to adorn the white sands of Boracay with my hunky presence. Hahaha! Tell you guys more about the island paradise and what I did there when I get back. BORACAY... HERE I COME!
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