Bookstore... books! books! books!

I was in a bookstore the other day, and today or later on for that matter I'm talking to myself "WHAT THE HELL am I doing in there??" It's not my typical hang-out place when I have nothing to do and roaming the city for unwinding sessions. Ok so enough of the rudeness in me. I happened to ask the saleslady for a reviewbook about a certain concept in the field I am in to. I did a quick look and I was surprised! The questions were sooooo similar to our major exam questions the other year, the situations, the choices, the drugs almost everything!. In the midst of the shock I got (yes I was shocked, I'll tell you why), I immediately purchased that book. Went home and tried to finish reading it which later was in vain. It ended up in a corner of my room left to collect dust for eternity! Bwahahaha (Ok that was being sarcastic in a sick way).

Ok, to be serious. I almost did finish reading it until I got caught up trying to meet deadlines with requirements. I said I was shocked because I never knew about it in the first place or no good soul bothered to tell about it. It could have helped me bigtime back then. I then bought a another review book about another concept and after having a fixed time of reading these books everyday, I find myself understanding things better than I did before. Now I have set my mind to buy another book this weekend if I manage to save more money from my allowance.

The moral of this incident is. "Reading a lousy-looking book is not soo bad until you get the message it was intended to relay" and "It pays to invest in study material"

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Incident reports! What a semester!!

When I went in the nursing study, I told myself not to get an incident report even though my grades aren't that high. I aim for character rather than intellectual superiority. You can be smart and don't have the right attitude is a no-no for me. There are several reasons established why you can earn an incident report. Our beloved clinical instructors told us every generakl orientation that incident reports can either be a way of compliment a students outstanding performance or discipline in any shortcoming along this endeavor.

Going along my 2nd and 3rd year, I was happy that I didn't have any. It made me happy. The worst time is this semester. On my senior year. I was absent for 2 clinical days because I was sick which earns me 16 hours of make-up duty another 400 pesos for me to spend. Then my clinical intructor gave me an incident report for another 16 hours for neglecting my bedside duties of regulating my patient's IV fluid. Today, I just have earned another one for behavioral sanction. Eating along the national road wearing our clinical uniform and on duty hours. My day coudn't get any worst!

Its giving me rebellious intentions, "so its my last year huh? might as well do some crazy things!" Damn it, it hurts my ego this much.

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Skype simply amazing!

I'm sure all of us are using several Instant messengers. Windows messenger, yahoo messenger, skype and a lot more. Yahoo IM is quite popular and I am using it too. But I want to blog about Skype. I had to use it when I need to call someone abroad. I must say it made me save a lot of money for international calls. Here are the reasons why.



1. Skype has better quality when it comes to calls.
2. The interface opens up in quickly in old computers like mine.
3. Has lower calling rates when compared to Yahoo! Messenger IM - Landlin or CP calls.
4. And last but not least, they support Paypal if you don't have a credit card to buy their skype credits this would make it convenient.

I'm here in the Philippines. Often times I communicate with my aunt, uncles and cousins in America. It would be very money-wise if a lot of them knows how to use an IM. But my aunt and uncles don't. So they had to use a phone card to call us. First time I scrolled over the call rates of skype I was amazed! It's very cheap when you are going to call someone in the states! For as low as $ 0.021 cents! OMG, I liked it when I can use my Paypal funds to buy their credits unlike with YM which doesn't have this feature. When I had enough bucks in my Paypal account I bought $10 and guess what?! I was able to call them hours longer compared with buying cellphone load here or them buying phone cards there. But I'm a bit sad because my skype credit is almost out of funds and I am going to try to earn some more bucks online to get more credits in Skype.

Click here to download skype
Click here to see their calling rates in USD

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Shopping online

I've been keeping in touch with one of my cousins. We seldom talk lately because everyone seems to be busy. Every time I had a chance to chat with her she's at work. Yesterday we managed to chat though and she's been talking about her little angel (my niece). She told me that she's planning to buy her new clothes and also a little something as a reward for being a good little girl. Busy as she is with work and tired when at home, she plans to buy things online. We found an online shop where she had a lot of selections for girls clothing categorized for specific ages.

As for the "little something" she mentioned, she browsed the pets and toys category but she hasn't made up her mind yet. She finds the selections interesting and the site gives a lot of merchants to select from. Browsing some more categories lead her into window shopping for prices and other things that she would be interested in buying such as school supplies, cosmetics and beverages for herself. She can't believe that all of the things that she could think of buying are found in one place online!

It was getting late for her and she needs to wake up early for work the following day. She's going to show and browse the site again with her boyfriend so they can decide what to get for their daughter and check out more offers and prices. If you like to shop online visit shop and do some shopping! :D

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Medical Transcription a demanding job

This is the common setting when a medical trancriptionist is working. Looks very simple right? Sitting all day facing the computer and transcribing. But its not so simple if you ask me.

I came to hear about medical transcription from a friend online. I searched over the internet and I found that the requirements are very simple for a person who is in any medical related field. So I enrolled myself in a school and this month I would be getting my certificate. I am attracted to this because of a chance to work at home. But lately I realized that this profession is very demanding.
Why? Because it requires knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, medical terminology, laboratory results, and almost everything a doctor should know. Not only that you need to be very good with written English, and a high accuracy rate matched with a fast typing speed. I say it is demanding looking at the requirements. A common knowledge for doctors and a English proficiency of a English college teacher. And for what amount of pay? A few cents per line you transcribed or a few bucks per thousands of words? It looks very underpaid if you ask me. It is difficult to be an MT, especially if you just finished the course and found a job. Your lucky if you find a considerate dictator that speaks clearly and spells out uncommon terms or medicines.

I managed to find a friend who is doing MT homebased. She was able to let her client assess me and hire me on a trial basis. I was very happy. But then the rate is very low. I accepted it though considering I am a new and I am not yet very fast in typing. I just said to myself, there is no such thing as easy money and continued doing this. The doctor used to send me work once a week. But it has been over a week now and I have not heard anything from him although he replies to my email. I'm not sure where this will lead to. It would help if people were open to say things like "your fired" or "I can't send you work anymre" etc. Although I don't think that this is the reason in my case. Geez, I hate suspense. This is making me a little frustrated.

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WARNING: Fake Yahoomail Update!!!

I just woke up! As the usual day for me I go straight in to my computer check my emails. My ecurrency accounts and I found 1 very interesting email. I got a notification about yahoo wanting me to update my account information. I immediately checked who is the sender and it is not from a yahoo service email. Its from Yahoo! Mail Security Centre [verify.account0001@live.com]. Its very odd that this email is in my spam folder and is using a live.com email. I immediately wanted to blog it! LOL! Previously I have recieved scam emails from some foundation claiming that I have won something. Then This month I have recieved a few emails that my eccurrency account has been block and I need to reply to an email with all my log in passes and now they want our email details? What could be so important with our mails? More importantly if any of you get this type of email don't reply to it. Another phising activity.

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Listening to music when stressed..

Oh great another boring day for me! We had our Quiz today at school and after that I have nothing to do. I went back home, clicked in some ptc, made a post in some paid forum and checked some of my hyip investents. After that I have nothing more to do. I remember hearing a song of HIM the other day when I was really tired and stressed. It my first time hearing it and I really LIKED it A LOT!!


Funeral of Hearts (Lyrics)
- HIM
Love's the funeral of hearts
an ode for cruelty
when angels cry blood
on flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

She was the sun
Shining upon
The tomb of your hopes and dreams so frail
He was the moon
Painting you
With it's glow so vulnerable and pale

Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

She was the wind, carrying in
All the troubles and fears you've for years tried to forget
He was the fire, restless and wild
And you were like a moth to that flame

The heretic seal beyond divine
A prayer to a god who's deaf and blind
The last rites for souls on fire
Three little words and a question - why?

Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

I don't know when this was composed and what year it was released (I don't concern myself of this things though) after listening to it I feel much better. A little bit relaxed. I believe anyone would agree that listening to music is a good way of relaxing hen feeling tired and stressed.

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February 2, Yearly Fiesta

Every year we celebrate our annual fiesta in honor of our patron saint Nuestra Señora De la Candilaria (Our Lady of Candles). We never fail to celebrate it. It has been observed way back during the time of my great great grandparents. The image that you see on the left is the picture of our cathedral. A stone image of our patron saint is found there. It has been seen as a very holy artifact. My grandparents used to tell stories that during their time it was very small found by some fishermen on a corner of a river bank. Size was about less than 2 feet. But years and decades have passed it grew in size and now its over 5 feet tall. It made people think that it is very special and holy. People from neighboring towns and cities come here in devotion to her for blessings and a good life ahead. Which is a good thing for us and most residents here in Jaro. Relatives may it be close or distant comes over and celebrate it with us. A lot of my unknown relatives come by every year. It makes my grandparents happy. They would talk for long hours remembering their struggles in the past. I must say it is a good way of strengthening family bonds again. People nowadays are busy with life, work, and studies and only during this occasions we stop and think about our families.

Eight days before February 2 (which is tomorrow) we start our devotion by adding a Novena after our daily rosary. It will continue for 9 days and February being the ninth. A novena is a scared prayer in devotion to any saint. My grandparents take it seriously. But I being schooled in a Protestant school for all of my life fail to give much appreciation to it.

Foods and drinks: A fiesta is not well celebrated without tasty food and a lot of beverages. My aunts and uncles has sent the budget last month and my mom is doing the cooking. She is slicing meat at the moment to be cooked early dawn. About the beverages. I didn't invite my classmates over as I a m not good being a host and plus I can't ride along in drinking session. I have low tolerance for alcohol. But my brother is quite the opposite of me. He has bought a few cases of hard drinks for most of his classmates come every year to "drink and be merry". My family has been strict with us with vices but it is only during this occasion that they become ignorant and allow us to drink and smoke a lot (but of course the next day it is not allowed).

Guests do this "house-to-house eating behavior" during fiestas. You surely need to bring along some digestive medicines. You might end up having a stomach ache for over eating different kinds of food. Not all guests are into stay and drink. Other go to the plaza fair to try their luck with some street gambling. Elders to to cockfights and bet big money! At the en of the day. We have a lot of dishes to clean and some or no more food left (usually grandma gives it to her relatives as a take home give away).

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