LOSING WEIGHT

The -ber month has just started. In the air there is already the feeling of Christmas because Christmas songs are played in the radios and in the televisions. Their are television shows that feature Christmas decorations, gifts and Christmas food. Speaking about food, this is the most important thing for me during Christmas. Christmas parties are held here and there and everywhere. People get invited to many Christmas parties and the result is they get to eat foods and drink beverages and alcoholic drinks that make the tummy bulge. The problem now comes in when indigestion is experienced and worst is if hypertension and other ailments are felt as a result of over eating and gaining weight. But now, losing weight is easy. There are exercises that make one lose weight or one can take diet pills. Of course, it is not good to take diet pills, like Lipozene without doctor's prescription. There is even an unfounded scam about the Lipozene drug that it is not effective but it is the doctor who knows best. So, if one wants to lose weight see a doctor before anything else.

SAVINGS COOPERATIVE

My day started so early in the office signing the passbooks we made for the Bayanihan Centers of the Bayanihan Savings Replication Project for authenticity purposes. The project is a flagship program of my office in order to instill the value of saving among community members and as a way to alleviate poverty. I have been roaming around all component barangays with another community organizer in my workplace to organize Bayanihan Centers and we have so far organized 32 Bayanihan Centers. Officers were elected per Bayanihan Center and we will be holding a federation election on September 3. I plan for the federation officers to handle the savings cooperative that I will organize with the help of the Cooperative Development Authority. Hopefully, the savings from each Bayanihan Center will be kept safe in the savings cooperative to be manned by trustworthy and competent staff under the supervision of the Cooperative Development Office, which I will propose to be created in the municipal government I am assigned with . This will be my legacy in this town before I get transferred to another workplace.

SCHOOL PLAYGROUND FACILITY

It is understandable that parents in my workplace are prohibiting their little children from playing in the school playground. Why not? Aside from the fact that there is a high risk of their children being bitten by mosquitoes causing the dengue fever, which a number of children have been reported positive of dengue fever, the school playground facilities are not safe to play at. The slide they have in the school near my office is made up of cement that has a rough finish on the portion of the slide itself. Once a child sits and slides on it, his pants will be damaged by the rough cement on the slide. It poses a high risk, too because once the child falls off from the slide the tendency is for his body to be bumped in the hard cement. If worst comes to worst, the child will get brain hemorrhage or the least is a fracture of his body parts. If the School Playground Equipment will be updated for ones that are safe for children like in the picture the one I post above, then I guess no parent will ever prohibit their children from playing on it.

LINKS CLEANSING

Last night I had a chance to bloghop from my blogroll. I have observed that there were links in my blogroll that were inactive already. Surprisingly, many in the list abandoned blogging for whatever reasons. I deleted them from my list then. In my new wordpress site, I am sure that all the links therein are active because I really started from scratch. I hope to have a clean slate of links from this site, too. That way, my time is not wasted from visiting inactive blogger friends.

CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS

A friend of mine thought that he married a saint who came all the way from the other part of the world to ask her hand for marriage from her parents. I recalled how she said that she is lucky her husband is so kind and nice to her and her family. When she went away with her husband, things changed drastically. After a few months, she called home to narrate how she had been physically beaten by her hubby for no apparent reason, at all. Her husband turned out to be an alcoholic and she had been made the subject of his ire when he got drunk. This is the fear now of many women. But, then I guess this may be only an isolated case. Anyway, if domestic violence is committed against women, there is a legal recourse for them. In Denver, for instance, there is a denver criminal defense lawyer who can provide expert and compassionate criminal defense. This criminal attorney will work with offended women all the way until the resolution of the case. Like the denver criminal lawyer, any criminal lawyer will work hard to protect the clients' rights and will ensure fairness and justice for wrongly accused as well. My friend is safe now because her husband was prosecuted accordingly. May this be a lesson to other women to be so careful in engaging marriage with somebody whom she does not know so well.

GUAVA JAM RECIPE

I have not posted a recipe here but this time, I am going to post a recipe for a friend blogger who asked about guava jam recipe. It is like this:

3 cup guavas, 3 cups water, 1 and one half cup sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar and 1/4 teaspoon of salt

1. Peel off guava skin and chunk into small pieces.

2. In a pot, mix 2 cups of water, 1 and 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tbsp vinegar and salt.

3. Boil the mixture. Reduce heat and bring to boil for another 30 minutes.

4. Remove from stove and Set aside the mixture to cool for 15 minutes.

5. Sift the mixture into another pan to separate the seeds. Use a spoon to force the mixture through the sifter. Sift the mixture twice.

6. In a pot, boil the mixture and the remaining 1 cup of water. Reduce heat when boiling and simmer until thickened.

7. Transfer jam into jars when cool and refrigerate.

I hope I answer your query, imriz.

NEW BEDROOM FURNITURE

My daughter is the one occupying my room upstairs. She feels happy to be liberated from the double decker bed she shares with my niece. Her bed in the room are just the mattresses in her double decker bedroom. She wants to buy a new bedroom furniture for herself and she wants a queen sized bed. I told her that if she would buy a new bedroom furniture to include buying one for me, too. I want a bigger bed so that I can put my laptop in bed and I can work from my bed. She saw the one queen sized bed in the net and it matched her taste. For now, she has not fixed her mind, yet on when she would buy a new bed since she is still planning to take a qualifying exam for police officers. I hope she would be lucky to pass the exam. Becoming a police officer is not my plan for her but she is old enough to decide on her own. I have nothing against police officers but it just did not dawn on me that my daughter will be one. I will support her though, if that is what she wants.

GUAVA JAM

Across our house I saw many ripe guavas that fell down the ground and their aroma could be smelled from our house. I asked my helper to ask the guavas and when we were allowed, we had a plate full of guavas. I plan to make a guava jam tomorrow out of them. My neighbor says we could harvest the guavas if we like since they can not eat all the ripe guavas by themselves. Tomorrow, we will and I will just give them guava jam in return.