The Journey. It’s Mine. [My personal take on love, life, parenting and blogging.]

If the label says diet pills that work, that usually don’t work. Don’t be fooled by celebrities endorsing slimming pills. Getting to your ideal weight has no short cuts. You need the proper diet and regular exercise. We just have to sweat it out. Losing weight isn’t as easy as what you see in the TV ads.

Imagine, even those that work hard and really sweat it out so to keep their ideal weights, still have a hard time. You can’t just a pop a pill for that.  If you insist on the shortcuts (diet pills, cosmetic and bariatric surgery), there are medical consequences that you have to face which can mostly be scarier than the  procedure itself.

That one in the title? Is something I do not know before. I just knew that a 1GB RAM is a lot better than a 254 MB RAM computer. Ha ha ha!

Well that was just what my brother did to this 2-year old crappy PC, upgraded the ram to 1GB. This will do for now, I know I need a whole better box with really, really nice specs. I have to keep that in mind for my next project. After all, this one weathered two major typhoons.

I hope today is the end of my technical-problem-series. A bunch of sulky moods from my brother, he finally fixed this by doing his “stuff”! Well,  at least I have a computer technician for free.  Actually I have two of those for free. But the other one cannot just fix everything by remote. Great, no?

I remember when my father had to install cell phone amplifiers so that he’ll get a decent cellphone signal inside our house– the old Nokia 5110 was fixed in one spot, attached to an outdoor antenna up the roof.

Before he came up with that solution, when I came home one Christmas break I had to sit on his jeep’s roof so that text messages and calls from my friends could come in. No kidding!

Two years before that, my Nokia 909 didn’t have a signal here. I had to go 1-2 kilometers from this spot just so I could get a signal.

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Finally, here comes scientific evidence.

From Science Daily:

Whether a young man’s mother earned a college degree and whether she worked outside the home while he was growing up seems to have an effect years later when he considers his ideal wife, according to a study by University of Iowa sociologist Christine Whelan.

High-achieving men — those who earn salaries in the top 10 percent for their age and/or have a graduate degree — are highly likely to marry a woman whose education level mirrors their mom’s.

Could this explain why the wife and the mother-in-law never see eye-to-eye, because they are too the same? You tell me, I don’t have a MIL! Ha ha ha. And I think I will never have one.

Okay, I guess that much has been given all along. Only that there are still too many men in the world who get more blinded by a woman’s pair of legs instead of her brain and personality.

It would be interesting though, to see what eventually happened to those guys who married a pair of legs. Well, as a friend of mine always say: such guys only get that, a pair of legs!

Hmmm…it’s nice to know that men are now learning that brain+personality definitely trump a va-va-boom body.

Who needs portable oxygen concentrators? Well, aside from people suffering from COPD, I think also those situated in Manila and in other places equally polluted or more.

Hmmm. That’s really interesting. Making me go back to the oxygen and carbon dioxide cycle — the most reason I never really considered being based in Manila. People there might be immune to the ever-worsening air pollution, but I can never really take it. Every time I go there, it’s like my lungs have to work triple time. You easily get tired (almost passing out!) and maybe explains why people inside public transpos often can sleep right away upon sitting down. That’s carbon monoxide at work!

Not to mention the icky blackish dirt that makes a layer of your skin. I remember each time I made it home to LB before, I have to take a bath right away and fully scrub my skin as if I am going to surgery. He he he.

Well, we have green plants and trees around us here. Too many of them in fact. Thank God for plants and trees, indeed!

I am all for a brain research that could maybe cure or prevent Alzheimer’s disease and most especially one that could fine tune stupid behaviors like Britney’s (and maybe her family’s).

However, there is this tiny-tiny part in me that would like to keep the brain (and how it works) a little mysterious.

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Is tinkering with your cellphone the last thing you do before going to sleep? I am worse because I most often sleep with my cellphone under my pillow (under the pillow’s edge).

That’s actually a bad habit, as reported by The Mobile Technology Weblog.

If the last thing you do before going to sleep is play with your mobile phone, you might need to change that habit.

According to a study sponsored by Mobile Manufacturers Forum, radiation emitted by mobile phones can cause headaches and damage sleep.

Even before my pre-mobile phone days, I always have a headache at the end of the anyway. That headache will actually put me to sleep early. He he.