Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. (Steve Jobs – American Entrepreneur, Innovator, Apple Co-founder)
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My friends were a tad surprised when I told them that I like going to Mercato Centrale. Not because I don’t like weekend markets (I do, a lot!) but because Mercato Centrale is quite far from my place. The Fort is not that far but it’s still outside of Makati, about a hundred and twenty pesos by cab. I like Salcedo weekend market because it’s very near and convenient but I like the variety of goods that Mercato Centrale has to offer. Mercato Centrale is a wallet killer though, I find that I can’t hold on to cash for long whenever I’m here. There’s so many stuff to try!
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One late afternoon a girl decides to do the window treatments herself. The recent typhoon loosened up the window frames and the banging sound it produced annoyed the girl a lot.
The carpenter was scheduled to drop by the next day but she just couldn’t wait specially when she remembered the diy window treatment she’d read about in apartment therapy. She quickly pulls up the page, checks the photos out, and decides she wants it done now. A voice in her head told her to wait for tomorrow but stubbornness kicked in and she began gathering the materials she needed.
An hour later she was standing on her bed, trying to reach the top of the window so she could tape the insulation pad properly and block the sunlight out. She was almost done when the bed moved and slipped backwards, throwing her off balance. She tried, oh how she tried, to regain her balance and land on her feet gracefully only to land on her back, looking more like a duck than the swan she was aiming for.
She tried to get up and pain shot up her spine. Uh-oh, she thought. My ortho’s not going to like this.
She debated between going to the doctor’s and self treatment thinking that celebrax and a nice cold compress would take care of the pain. Only to realize that there was something different about it. Growing up with scoliosis she was used to feeling pain in the lumbar area but this time the pain stayed near the thoracic region. Definitely a new feeling for her.
“Great. I didn’t get hurt jumping from a 15 meter (approx 50 feet) high cliff in Malapascua but from a bed that’s only 3 feet high. This is so embarrassing. I’m going to buy a bed made of solid wood next time,” she grumbled to herself.
She had to wait at the clinic for the results which she hated, and then she had to wait for the physical therapist for hours which she hated even more. The ultrasound and electric stimulation did feel nice though and she was glad she was asked to come back for 3 more sessions next week.
But this girl has learned her lesson. DIY window treatments, no matter how great it looks in photos, is best left to the professionals.
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The latest updates on Facebook were quite disorienting and I was a bit annoyed when I had to tweak my privacy settings again. But they won me over with the timeline. It’s not a novel idea but it’s definitely a refreshing look for the same old, same old profile page.
My timeline shows that I joined facebook on Dec 27 of 2007. That’s almost four years of facebooking folks. lols.
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Photo by Tiara Mejos
I have a thing for wildflowers and I’ll never get tired of taking pictures of these wild beauties. Often times they’re small and I have to kneel down to get a closer look but I don’t mind. Looking at them evoke childhood memories of me and my cousins playing by the bay, creating sand cakes with wild flowers as decoration. Happy times.
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