coffee’s influence
After few minutes of sips, now I know why some people go for coffee.”
My perception on coffee seven years ago was so different that I used to describe coffee as purely caffeine, which could slowly ruin one’s nervous system. I’ve heard a lot of medical advice on the avoidance of coffee as a first step in the treatment of nervous breakdown. My cousin who used to have nervous breakdown said that he avoids coffee because it triggers a negative response of his nerve. If I have not mistaken, I only started taking coffee once in a while in the year 2001 when most of my associates in the organization would invite me for some meetings in coffee shops.
I could not forget my co-participant in one of the seminars I’ve attended in 2006 when she was asked what makes her energetic in a day. “Coffee makes me feel mentally and physically alert the whole day long. I become more productive when I drink coffee. I am addicted to it.â€, she added. There is no single day that she could not drink coffee. She is a Human Resource Practitioner in one of the hospitals in Cebu.
On that day, I’ve learned a lot about coffee. I get to know her not only that she is beautiful (my wife is not a jealous type) but I discover and understand why coffee is important to her. When she feels down and weary, coffee awakens her. Coffee adds also “spices†to her conversation with chronic complainers. That is what coffee means to her.
This is also the main reason why coffee shops bring in lots of customers in a day! When I started drinking coffee this year, I tripled my intake in a day where I usually taste different brands of coffee. Coffee shop is another option. I seldom go to coffee shops to cut down cost but I never miss a sachet of coffee wherever I go. Last week, I bought coffee recipes e-book online so that I can also experience how these Alexander expresso, Canadian coffee, Amaretto coffee, Black forest coffee, Café Au Lait Luziane and others would spark me off.
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Bloggers Exposed! Uno
This is one of the most fun weekends I had since summer. It’s Joe’s and Irvin’s birthday! And now for another exclusive video. The country’s most popular bloggers(don’t give me that look) in live motion picture! Caught in the act! Yes, bloggers do party. And they do it gooood.
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Vision
I’m sure you experience having a vision during your silent moments. It happens to me a lot of times too, specially I’m typically quiet, and tends to be swallowed in my own world.
While riding the fx on my way home the other day, I had a vision about one of my big ambitions. It’s still rather vague so I guess the universe still has a difficulty helping create an easy path for me. The good thing is it that my vision is not merely thinking of wanting to change the world one person at a time (come to think of it, this has been one of my mantras, my driving force why I’m pursuing my current career). Read more
Two weeks and a hundred thousand pesos
Of course, not another Father’s Day post. I’ve greeted my Dad already, and he’s contented with that. Lol I know a lot of you kept on coming back for this long-awaited geeky testimonial. (I thought I promised to rant about it 10 hours after fleeing from Slumberhouse.) Though (uber)lame as I see it, here’s my long post about a bizarre unlucky boy who ended up paying all his parents’ bills for the past two years.
Imagine, you are standing in the middle of a growling crowd filled with good-looking (and not so good-looking) people whose eyes are all glued to your wide forehead. You are palpitating, nauseated, and severely exhausted because you’re afraid to spend the remaining 200 pesos for food since you just borrowed it from your kapitbahay just to reach Quezon City. You haven’t slept a bit, eaten a bit, flossed a bit–all for that one hundred peso jackpot question and a special package you’ll never expect to be that freaking awesome. And then you realized… Read more
Value Adding Blogs = Empowered Readers
After I conclude my “How to lose your job†series (hopefully this week), I will embark on another journey and this time to feature blogs around the world that more or less share my interest– that is to add and/or create value to readers– corporate citizens and entrepreneurs alike in particular.In business and economic term, one may easily understand what value adding means, but heck, how does value adding apply to blogs?
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Airline Food Adventure
We often hear people say bad things about airline food. If you ask me, they are just like any other food – some are so so and some are good. What’s unique about airline food is how they compress everything to fit in the the food tray in front of you. Let me give you a peek of what airline food looks like.
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Bloggers Blood
It’s breakfast time! Juicy hotdogs and fried rice are set on the table. And everybody are on the rush! Why? Because its Sean’s first day of school.
What a perfect day to go to school. The weather is fine, the sun is bright and gentle breeze blowing in the air. While Sean is at the shower, his mom is having a tremendous adrenalin preparing all that Sean would be needing at school , from his uniform, to his shoes, his bag down to his lunchbox. She seems to be tireless. (And the most excited!)
As for me, I have already forecasted this moment and my idea since I’m a blogger is to capture the moment. As of last night my batteries are fully charged and my Samsung digicam is locked and loaded. Ready to shoot anyone on sight with its 512MB ammo! lol 
Sean was really enjoying every minute of his time at the school. While other kids were crying, Sean was busy putting up his puzzle. He listens while his teacher does a story telling, he even raises his hand when the teacher asked for a volunteer to paste a card on the whiteboard. Everything went on nice and smooth that first day of school, except for one big problem, when the class was finished SEAN DON’T WANNA GO HOME! Wahhhhh!
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What My Previous Blogs Have Taught Me: Ang Tall Tale Ko
This is second part of the “What My Previous Blogs Have Taught Me†series here in Pinoy Blogero. This series recounts the different blogs that I have made in the past while sharing the many things that I have learned through them. You can read the about what my other previous blog has taught me here.
“Mr. Licudine, kanina ka pa nakangiti, a? May dumi ba ako sa mukha?
Ang Tall Tale Ko (http://namre.blogspot.com)
The first time I have heard about blogging in 2006, I immediately left my friendster account and headed straight to blogger to sign up. Why blogger? I don’t know of any blogging sites at that time and blogger was on top of google’s list. I found blogging to be fascinating because it gives ordinary people a way to express all their thoughts easily through the net.
Ang Tall Tale Ko is my very firt blog which features a collection of “tall tales†taken from the different points of my life. A tall tale is an account of an event that is true yet greatly exaggerated. A more loose translation of the word would be “Kwentong Barbero†in Tagalog. It features true to life events from Karlo Licudine’s life that are slightly altered to make it more interesting.
Compared to my first site, Ang Tall Tale Ko had a slightly higher hit rate. This may be because of the network of blogger friends that I have accumulated during my first blogging days.
As the weeks passed, visits from other bloggers became less and less frequent. It seems that reading “made up†stories weren’t really as interesting as I thought it would be. There was even a time that someone told me that my blog should have a more focused topic if I wanted more people to visit my site. I ignored the advice and continued what I was doing.
Vacuum-Packed Foods Aren’t Bacteria-Free
I think this is bad news for those who like eating cold cuts. Food being kept in sealed plastic bag containers or even vacuum-packed and stored in refrigerators does not mean that it is free from bacteria, like Listeria monocytogenes. Worst, even depriving them of oxygen by storing in vacuum-packed containers does not deter bacteria growth. Researchers of Technical University of Denmark, through experiments with guinea pigs, even discovered that these bacteria can be up to 100 times more invasive if grown oxygen-deprived.
Read the LiveScience article here.
Listeriae are aerobic (oxygen-loving) or facultatively anaerobic (can survive without oxygen). They are gram-positive, non-spore producing bacilli that grow at 1 degree – 45 degrees Celsius. It also has a predilection for causing severe illness in persons with weak immune systems (diabetics, hemolytic disorders, malignant diseases, etcetera), though it can also be found as part of the gastrointestinal flora in healthy persons, which could lead to an acute episode of febrile gastroenteritis. Lack of gastric acidity and abnormal gastrointestinal functioning may increase risk of invasive disease. Due to this, persons taking H2-Receptor blockers like Ranitidine (Brand names: Raxide and Zantac) or Proton Pump Inhibitors like Esomeprazole (Brand name: Nexium) or Omeprazole (Brand names: Losec, Mepracid, OMZ 20) are advised to refrain from eating raw foods.
Pregnant women are also at increased risk of listeriosis due to local immunosuppression at the maternal-fetal interface of placenta which facilitates intrauterine infection following spread of infection through the mother’s circulation (transient maternal bacteremia). Women with perinatal listeriosis experience mild illness characterized by fever, myalgias, malaise, and backaches which are sometimes accompanied by diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and or vomiting. Intrauterine infection can lead to premature labor, intrauterine fetal demise (stillbirth), or early-onset disease of newborn.
