im not a plastic bag

Does this bag look familiar?

For me, it does. I’ve seen it every where I go around the city. In my mind, I thought it was some product from China that is again being mass produced. Indeed, it was. Only that it was faux. I was browsing the net and known that it was a limited edition bag by Anya Hindmarch and was originally sold for $15, but now it goes for $205, but don’t fret, you can only buy it for P300 or less, anywhere where there are “tiangges.” I feel for the one who has created this bag, her rights towards originality and creativity were not served. I hope people won’t patronize this knock-offs. Coz if this will continue, people will just be copying some other person’s creation and their ability to initiate an individualized craft would slowly diminish.

my claim

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what can you live without?

For us to pursue our day to day life, we have our little treasures that we can’t live without, things that we must have in order to carry out our tasks, things that makes us who we are and things that are stuck to us.

As for me, the most valuable thing that I can’t live without is my glasses. I am myopic or near-sighted (in lay man’s term), without my glasses everything are mere speck of a blur. I can’t identify objects or persons 30m beyond me. Sadly, I am often mistaken to as a snob. How can I be a snob? I’m never a snob. It’s just that I have a visual problem and I have to get closer to you in order to identify you. It’s that bad. I’ve sworn to have my eyes lasered when I get abroad. I envy those who have 20/20 vision; they don’t need to be tangled up with this nerdy item just for them to visualize things. Glasses are truly a fashion NO-NO, but as for me, it’s either I’d succumb into the trend or suck up to my eye impairment in order to see. I’m caught from choosing to be fashionably blind or a geek with vision. It’s not big of a problem. After all it won’t cause another world war whatever number, to happen. It’s no biggy, it’s just a matter of me choosing luxury over necessity or necessity over luxury.  

A number of people tend to or most often unknowingly disregard the value of their sight. Most often they try to strain it by reading in the dark or while they are on the road. How can they stand that? I have done that before and it made me regretful.

When I was in my preschool years, I really wanted to have eyeglasses, because during that time, I thought having one would make every one assume that I am smart. I’ve done everything for me to have one, until I really had one, not because I just want to sport it for me to look smart, but because I need it because things became blurry. At first it was gratifying, because I am spared from all of the excuses I have to make for me to own an eyeglass. But later on, I’ve learned about stuffs like geek, nerd, drip and bore. And these words are all related to having glasses. Slowly, my fondness for my precious eyeglasses became a dislike then eventually turned into bête-noir. It was a horror! I’d really like to be detached from this spell but unfortunately I can’t. Cautions like, “be careful on what you wish for,” are indeed factual. I should’ve yearned for something better. Anyway, thanks to contact lenses, I still can get away from being a fashion dupe. But contact lenses can’t bring you further than an eyeglass can. Wearing contact lenses is tedious; you have to have at least a 15-minute ritual before you can wear one. Aside from that, you can’t stare anyone on the eye for a longer period because your contacts will dry up. Also, you can’t face a windy spot, or else it will be blown away with it. So having contact lenses will just materialize for a short period, after that I would need to have my glasses on.

On the contrary, I am not whining about having an eye glasses on. In fact, I am grateful to the person who was able to invent this wondrous item, without it, I would’ve remained with in the restrictions of my visual capacity, which is not much. So don’t you dare say that I am a snob, I just have to wear my “spectacles” on so that I can merely decipher you.

crashed crush

Everyone in this world has been infatuated with someone, or I’d assume everyone is. Ever had that feeling of uneasiness whenever that person is around? Or mixed emotions maybe? We’ll that’s crushing, or again, I’m assuming. How would you feel when the object of your affection ends up with another person? Will you wallow? Will sulk in furiousness or sadness? As for me, neither. I’m just merely soliciting your thoughts.  

me and CS

I was browsing the net and found a “HIRING” sign being highlighted. I clicked on it, thinking that they were searching for a blogger that would post something about them. Instead, I found a job vacancy for computer programmers and one qualification states that the aspirant should be good at C++. I’ve known that program before. I’ve had a year on computer programming but unfortunately being a programmer was not my thing. I just can’t make a decent or working program. It was tough. I’ve memorized the book and yet I always end up with twisted outputs. I was brought back to my CS years. Way back, we were just few among all who were brave enough to desire a profession that’s daunting (at least for me). We’re trying to figure out mathematical stuffs, from the numbers that we have to equate on college algebra, to integral calculus and up to the highest level of mathematical bewildering equations for programs to be existent. It was tough, often times I have to edit a classmate’s program just for me to comply with the assignment. It was demoralizing. It’s as if you’re brain was non-existent. I did not know then, what part of my brain to shake for my mathematical proficiency to awake. I did try to awaken it nonetheless; it remained dormant and limited upon the simple mathematical know-how that I have to delve in. So I decided to end up my dilemma and opted for something that frees me from my incapacity. My profession doesn’t totally liberate me from equations, I still encounter numbers, but they are the type that I can handle. Most often, these numbers are directly related to life. As a programmer numbers can be edited, but as a nurse, a number would mean life, which can’t be subjected to any editing.

poor

Why are people poor?

Poverty is a very melancholic word if being discussed. It will bring about thoughts such as malnutrition, poor sanitation and all forms of inadequacy in terms of food, education, clothing and barely all the basic necessities there is.

But why is poverty existent? Who causes poverty? What causes poverty?

Why?

When one is being given birth, he or she does not have the privilege of choosing his economic status in life. There are a few who are lucky to have been born to parents who are rich. There are some who are fortunate to have an average family who can at least provide them with their basic needs. There are a lot of those who are ill-fated to live a life at the lowest end of the hierarchy. As much as those at the lowest end would want to swap lives with those who are above them, but they can’t. Rarely, only a number of those hapless individuals have successfully made it to the decent peak. But for those who were fruitless, they remain undignified by the bitter truth of poverty.

Who?

Does anyone cause his or her own neediness? In a way, we do. Even if we were born poor, we still have the capacity to work and make a living. If one chooses to utilize the talent that has been given to him, then he will harness the sweet crops of his labor. But if he chooses to lay around waiting for luck to come by, then he’d remain “foodless” and needy.

What?

We govern own lives, if we chose to be contented with whatever we have then we’d remain the same. But if we will yearn for something more, things that are practically achievable and is being worked hard for, then we will live better lives.

UcoZ CMS

  The Internet is a highly efficient tool on our era today. Not only is it used for information purposes but it is also utilized to promote one’s self or one’s product. 

 To do so, one should have a web page that is proficient and competent enough to uphold one’s goal. There are lots of web domains that will allow a web developer to freely express their own objectives but there are only few or maybe rare that allows a web developer to maximize his capacity into full potential. Mostly, some web services limits a client just up to merely posting some documents and pictures and nothing more. No one is able to leave some comments to at least give the individual an idea about his reader’s ideations. Often, it is not an interactive page; everything is just merely one sided and monotonous. But with UcoZ everything is possible and exciting. What is UcoZ? UcoZ is a free Content Management System for website developers and is brand new in the world market. Despite being new to the industry, they are offering highly competitive features and tools that are necessary for creating a modern and feature rich website. These attribute includes module as Blog, Forum, Ad Board, Guestbook, Tag Board (mini chat), Photo Album, Publisher (a catalog of articles), Links Catalog, File Catalog, Site News, Web Polls, Email Forms, Tests, FAQ, and Site Users. Each of these tools can be used separately or in combination with other tools to create a feature-rich website. A site can be built by total beginners and at the same time the functionalities of the UcoZ CMS can turn the heads of professional web designers and businesses.  In addition, UcoZ is a modern free website management system which works according to the principles of Web 2.0 and allows creating of the most complicated projects with extraordinary simplicity and ease. The convenient control panel allows to quickly add/edit/delete the information on a site *, and the flexible system of various options and access management makes it possible to apply any design and to supply it with necessary functionality. System modules can be optimized and adjusted for the concrete project, which allows creating websites of any complexity: a simple business card site, a large Internet representation of the company, a big information portal, etc. UcoZ System does not need to be downloaded and installed, all you need is to register, and the system is completely at your command. Moreover,  among proposed features there are some peculiar to classic web hosting: (1.a)From 200Mb of FREE disk space which can be expanded up (1.b) files can be uploaded through web interface or FTP (1.c)in addition to one free domain name got during registration, any other domain can be attached (it can be purchased at any registrator, e.g. www.godaddy.com)… backup peculiar to large CMS (Content Management Systems): (2.a)database of site users with division into groups (2.b)assignment of different access levels depending on user group (2.c) a quantity of modules realizing (not only) classical web applications (see below) (2.d) full control over the design of web applications by means of HTML templates (2.e) built-in visual HTML editor for those unfamiliar with this markup language (2.f) RSS import and export (2.g)blocking of activity from certain IP-addresses or subnets… and unique, peculiar to UcoZ: (3.a)special template language which allows to check different conditions when generating pages (3.b)templates builder which allows to completely change the design in a very effective way. However, UcoZ is not permitted to use scripts (PHP, CGI etc.) and therefore data bases (MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle etc.), use UcoZ account as file storage, and make "doorways." But as compared to what it can bring, its limit is outnumbered by its wondrous features. 

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beauty or brains?

Beauty or Brain?

Would you want to have a beauty that could launch a thousand ships yet a brain as small as a pea? Or rather have a brain as efficient as Einstein’s but a face resembling like that of undeveloped homo-erectus specie? Will you choose beauty against intelligence or vice-versa?

If one chose beauty, then here are the advantages that I can think of. Most persons with beauty without brains tend to invest on their looks. More often they engage into pageants, modeling and other professions that would entail a pretty face but would require less of the sensible talks, they just have to shed some smiles or strut their stuff in order to earn a living. There are also those who set their sails off towards a rich man’s shore, those of the D.O.M type. They just have to flip their hair, sway their hips and bat their lashes to be able to hook a catch and in just a snap of a finger they then become Mrs. JOHN DOE the wife of a gazillionaire.

On the other hand, if you chose to be Ms. Brains then here are the advantages of being a BRANIAC. You can be a president, politician, leader, manager, doctor, lawyer or even an over achiever. At most, you can have multi professions, considering that 100% of your brain is being put to use. You can easily squeeze your way towards the success ladder because you can calmly think of ways and means to get through things.

Conversely, let’s put Ms. Beauty and Ms. Brain alongside. For example, they are both scheduled for an interview. Would you decide on having Ms. Brains for your company or Ms. Beauty instead? Ms. Brain has all of the ideas you need to improve your company but never in your wildest dreams would you want an undeveloped mammal to represent your company, so you’d turn to Ms. Beauty to entice people. For them not to doubt, for them to prefer whatever your company likes to promote, for the greater beneficence of your company. But then you just have to choose between the two of them, its either beauty or brain? Would you want your company to have over flowing ideas and concepts or would you relatively like to have an appealing company drawn by Beauty’s charisma?

As for me, it’s hard to choose amongst one of them because in any way or so they should have to be unified. Beauty can only get you as far as charming people but in terms of giving out ideas you have to have brains to bring out decent thoughts. Never the less, beauty should undoubtedly be linked with brains or else, everything will be a total wreck. Wrecked in a sense that every one will be walking around like a “Steford’s Wife,” unable to decide on oneself but oh so hands down stunning. While, a brainiac without having a decent personality is relatively like an alien in “Mar’s Attack,” striding around with their humongous exposed brains.

Lastly, beauty and brain should be placed in conjunction. If that happens then there will be a complete harmony amongst all of us. After all it’s nice to have beautiful people with exceptional brains.

hate love?

Do I Really Hate Love?

Most of my friends ACCUSE me to be a MAN-HATER, but am I? How could they judge me to be that person, when in fact I love MAN! How? I have been loving all of the chaps in my life, from those who are a member of my family to my relatives and up to my friends. There was never that,” hating a guy action.” Maybe they are the one who’s defining LOVE WRONG. I would assume that they are always relating LOVE with an intimate relationship towards the opposite sex. Right?! That reason always alienates me with their narrow definition towards love. For me LOVE can be defined in many ways. Love can be expressed in different ways. When you say you LOVE… LOVE, then you can say that you are willing to sacrifice and submit yourself to pain. When I have friends that hurt me and I willingly forgive and LOVE back, does that qualify with the general description about LOVE? So I’d say that I don’t hate LOVE. When there are random individual who needs my help, I freely reach out to them to help. Is that not an expression of LOVE? ADORE, FOND, WORSHIP, CARE, LIKE, DEVOTE… whatever synonym there is to relate with LOVE should be freely given expression to. So will you still say I HATE LOVE?

some needs

Some Needs

All along our wee lives we’ve been fed with different things that we should have, as influenced by the media. As infants, the media’s influence merely reflects on our parents yearning towards the “MUST HAVES” for their tot. She should have a stroller, with matching baby outfit, branded baby bottles etc. As she grows old and her preference towards things has been developed, she then yearns for something that she thinks or induced to need. From signature tops, shoes, bags and everything that’s trendy. Furthermore, the prevalence of newly introduced gizmos redirects that individual’s idea towards her needs. And now she will opt to have a laptop, palm top, blackberry, ipod, psp and all sorts of gadgets ever made to wear us off with cash.

Conversely, as that individual age, all of those “TECHY” stuffs turns into a “real must have,” in the sense that, instead of wanting an IPOD, she now needs a hearing aid for her to at least appreciate the sound around her. Instead of wanting to have a laptop, she would want to have her eyes repaired or at least have high quality eyeglasses. Instead of wanting a car, she would care to have crutches, cane or even a wheelchair. There are also things that they should save for, some of these things are: (1) glucometer with lancet, for those who are diabetic (2) portable nebulizer, for those who are asthmatic (3) subclavian shunt, for those who have nephrotic problems and those whose creatinine is sky high (4) jacksonprat or penrose drain, for those who are suffering from hemorrhages and whose bleeding needs to be drained (5) oxygen tank with oxygen mask, for those whose lungs are not working well etc…

Lastly, what we need in life is often times influenced by our age. When we are still young, we tend to get obsessed with shallow entities, but as we grow older we tend to dig deeper to what really is a necessity in order to prolong our lives.

nursing

NURSING ON MY OWN ASPECT

Nursing nowadays, most especially in the Philippines, is the most prevalent course ever since it has been known to every Pinoy that it can bring anyone abroad and that it is a good means to get rich.

In many ways it can. I for one could attest to the GOOD POSSIBILITIES that nursing could bring because I am a nurse. Despite these alluring details, one should have to undergo tedious and expensive exams for them to be able to work abroad. At first, one should take the NLE exam. It is not that costly. It will only cost a nurse-aspirant P900 to take the exam. NLE Review can cause up to P10, 000 and complying for the COMPLETION FORMS and filing the papers is laborious and tedious. After successfully passing the NLE, then you’ll find your self, reviewing again for CGFNS/NCLEX. As what I’ve learned from my friends who reviewed for these exams, it cost them P18, 000 for a 3-6mo review. CGFNS alone costs more or less P30, 000 exclusive of expenses that you have to shoulder for mailing and filing the papers. Though, some states do not require CGFNS. After that comes NCLEX, the cost of taking this exam depends upon what state you want to be licensed to. As for me, I am licensed at Florida, and I’ve learned that it cost $480 or more… filing fee, mailing fee and document fee are excluded. Then when you get passed these 3 critical exams you have to pass the IELTS. The cost of taking IELTS is almost P9000. IELTS review can cost up to P4000. Finally, when you’re done with all of these exams then you’re ready to apply for the U.S. but wait, just when you thought that everything is fine, nah, you still have to undergo trainings for you to qualify as a COMPETETIVE NURSE. And for some employers, training alone won’t suffice their criteria; there are those who seek for nurses who have at least 2 YEARS WORK EXPERIENCE. And before I forget, you still have to apply for VISA SCREEN, which costs $440, exclusive of the mailing fees and document fees.

On the other hand, if you’re not opting for the US then you can apply for New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Based from what I have known from my friend who has just started working in NZ, it cost her P500, 000 to get there. And before she could work, she has to undergo a bridging program which lasts for 6weeks. If NZ is not your place, then maybe AUS is? In AUS, it can cost you more or less P400, 000 for you to get there. And you have to undergo their bridging program for 2mo. While in CAN, I think it will cost you P200, 000 more or less and you have to take the CRNE to qualify. I am just limiting my knowledge upon these countries because these has been the popular place-to-be amongst my friends and these are the only places where I’ve tried to research and applied.

Lastly, I am not posting this to scare any one of you about this PROMISING COURSE. I just want to give out information for you to at least have an idea. I hope you have learned something from this. After all, if we get pass all of the exams, expenses and work experiences and when we get to where we want to work, nursing will be more rewarding (financially speaking).  

A Tribute to My Friends

A Tribute to My Friends

At the start of my life, from just merely a concurrence of an egg and a sperm, to a zygote, embryo and finally into a fetus, I have never learned about friendship. All I’m focused at is my physiological needs to live, for me to be able to be healthily brought out to earth. Deep in my mom’s womb, I could say that I am independent, considering that I have no idea that there is a bigger world outside. I am merely confined in a gloomy and murky world, filled with everything that I need.  No other individual exists than me. So I can dare say that it’s my world. But when I was due to be expelled and has been expelled out of “MY OWN WORLD,” I then realized that there are other persons than me and that it is never a gloomy and murky world at all. I came across faces that are unfamiliar but considerately adorable. From then on, “MY WORLD” became “OUR WORLD.”

At first, I came across different developmental milestones and tasks that I have to achieve to become a better person. As an infant, it was mostly about sufficing my “ID,” it’s more like being back in my “murky and gloomy world,” only now it has been illuminated by the outside world. But currently, I have outgrown all of that selfishness. I have met persons that made me who I am. I am not perfect. I can be irritating, annoying, selfish, stubborn, boastful, stupid, lazy, clumsy, hateful, ill-hearted, pessimistic, dull, unreasonable and maybe EVIL. But who cares? Sometimes most of us are. At least, I acknowledge that I rarely have those “maddened moments.” Despite those traits, my friends still stood up for me. When I put my self to shame, instead of booing me, they boost my confidence, telling me that I can make it. When I do stupid decisions, instead of blaming me for deciding it, they comfort me and tell me that there is still another chance. When I have enemies, instead of telling me to hate them, they try to tell me to get over that person because that hateful person is good for nothing. When I’m “super-beneath-down-the-earth’s-core” they cheer me up. When I am in my “self-pity mode,” they make me laugh, throwing jokes like “it is merely hormonal.”  There are lots of things that they have done that I may have forgotten to mention. But deep inside me, I cherish everything that they have done for me. From the simple smiles and hellos that we’ve shared to the greater things that we have sworn to be kept secret, those things I treasure. Person’s that are more than chocolates, shopping’s, world tours and spas. One of the reasons why I can let go of my little luxuries in life. Cheers to all my friends. Thank you for the friendship. As much as I want to mention every one of you, but I don’t want to live out a name and make that one person upset. I’d rather acknowledge all of you in general, for I know deep in your hearts that you know who are. THANK YOU!!!

life

Life is how we make it.

What we have become, has been the person that we have been in the past. Some blame it with destiny, some with misfortunes and some just reluctantly crosses the bridges of their lives.

No one knows, what life would offer him in the future. But undeniably, the things that we are doing today will reflect on our succeeding lives. A college student who works on his studies well and achieves academic excellence would have greater edge against those who are uneducated. There is a brighter path being paved for his future because of the qualifications that he has been banking early on his life. However, life surprises us with things and shortcomings that are unexpected. Suddenly, this achiever has faced bewildering obstacles of some sort and in just a jiffy all of the credentials that he had reserved will be put to nothing. Unexpected events such as accidents, takes away all of our chances for the future, in fact, most often, it takes away our chance to LIVE. And without life, no one could strike on the opportunities that are being brought to the table neither could a lifeless person engage into a mortal’s way of dealing with life. As one stops to breath, everything that he sets for the future die down. All the ambitions, outlooks, hardships and everything that he has thought about what his life ought to be, will be brought along with his deceased body beneath the earth’s core. Beyond that, no one would know what you want your life to be. And that’s for those who live through misfortunes.

On the other hand, some people would merely depend on destiny, that if one thing is never meant to become, then it will never be, no matter how hard one tries to achieve it. Fate, is unexplainable, no one knows why and how it happens. But sometimes, some persons try to relate it with coincidence. But how is COINCIDENCE different from FATE? Personally, I’d say it’s merely COINCIDENCE when it just happened once or twice and that things can be explainable. While FATE, knocks us off of our feet and we will be relentlessly submitted to a period of uncertainties. So when one says, maybe its destiny? Then unexpectedly that thing had happened. For some, let’s live it to our destiny. Then they are just merely waiting for the apple to fall down the apple tree. Personally, waiting for destiny can be dull; it reduces one person’s capability to nothing. We are given the ability to try things that can bring us to where we want to be, rather than dithering on the raw opportunities we’ve been given, we must try to reach for the apple because freshly picked apples are much sweeter than those grubby and over-ripped apples that have fallen on the ground. Life is sweeter when we have exerted some efforts than merely hitching on to some other people’s luck.  

Lastly, life is life. No one knows what our future will bring us. The only thing that is certain is that, for as long as one is still breathing, then he still has the chance to improve his own existence.

about me

At first you’d assume that I’m a SNOB, “definiteabsopositivulutely” W-R-O-N-G! I just don’t want to ward off people by pretentiously acting close. Infact, I’m insanely COOL (self-proclaimed) (ayaw na palag) (*wink*)

CIAO!!!