Archive for March, 2008

The Goji Fad – What’s In It?

One of the most popular health foods right now is the goji berry. You can buy dried goji berries, goji juice, and other products. While there are lots of stories and hype floating around about goji, many people are not sure what the nutrients in goji actually are. Goji has some vitamins and minerals, but [...]

Low back pain

I am presently working as a registered nurse here in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for almost six months now and was assigned in an Orthopedic Clinic. My duty last night supposed to be ended at 10pm but a lot of patients were at the clinic last night so my working hours had to extend up [...]

Wipes it all

Hi! I am Shem and since Ate Jean is busy right now so I will be the one to take care of her blogs for the mean time. Anyway…  I just wanna share something about me… I have two sisters and one brother. As an eldest sibling, I used to take care of my youngest [...]

massage therapy

I’ve heard that massage therapist as well as physical therapist were in demand in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As a physical therapist, I want to enhance my knowledge and skill in massage therapy and reflexology. There are many massage therapy school in the Philippines and I am planning to enroll someday. Attending in any [...]

Setting Boundaries with Loved Ones

It is so hard sometimes as a father of three and husband to not offend people. We have two sets of in-laws who are always eager to have us visit on holidays. The trouble begins when they both expect us to be there. Since they live 80 miles apart, it makes going both places nearly [...]

Three truths I know about God that I didn’t learn in Religion class

As a kid, I imagined God to be a gigantic bearded old man with a deep angry voice. In his hand is a thunderbolt ready to strike anytime we do something bad. My very first ideas about God sparingly came from two things- my Religion class in school and Saturday mornings of the cartoon “Superbook.” [...]

Neighbor in the house

For the past few days my neighbor “Dondon” was here in my house because he helped me in adding new songs to my Music and Lyrics site. To share internet connection to my desktop PC that he will be using, I need another CAT5e cable to be connected to my router. But the problem was [...]

We Were Soldiers

Fathers, Brothers, Husbands & Sons.
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film that dramatized the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965, the first major engagement of United States military forces [...]

Debt settlement services

I worked as a registered nurse in a public hospital. I was hired while my license was in the process before it was release. As usual the salary was not that high compared to the registered and with lots of experienced nurses. It was hard for me to budget my salary. I was paying half [...]