Dupang (Nettle Rash)

I feel so drowsy this time. Maybe because of the Cetirizin I took earlier. My whole body was itchy since yesterday and I cannot concentrate with what I am doing… besides I haven’t sleep well last night…

Rashes appeared yesterday noon after I cleaned my room. My father told me it’s “dupang” (nettle rash). I think I have allergic reaction with dust. The moment I noticed the red spot in my body, yesterday, I immediately took a bath and put ointment yet the itchiness persist. As much as possible I don’t want to take any medicine but since I’m in the office I do not have any choice but to take cetirizine just to get rid the itchiness.

I am a traveler

Since child, my ultimate dream is to travel around the world. But I will explore first my country where I was born – Philippines.

For Luzon area: I’ve been in the Central Luzon I have worked there for a couple of years, Baguio City where I visited for less than 24 hours, Tagaytay – one of my favorite place and Cavite. For Visayas area: I’ve been in Cebu thrice – It is where my father was born, Bohol, and Iloilo including the Guimaras Island. And of course in Mindanao: Iligan City – where you can find the famous “Marian Kristina Falls”, Bukidnon, Cagayan, and some nearby provinces of Davao del Norte.

These are just few places that I’ve visited. And there are still many in my list! And I’m also planning to go back to my fave places like Bohol. I have read in a travel guide magazine about Bohol and I’ve seen it was really improving a lot. I’ve been there more than a decade ago.

That’s why I’m scouting for cheap airline tickets in the net. I heard that Cebu Pacific offers cheap flights for as low as Php 1.00; I don’t know how true it is. But honestly I’ve seen an offer of one way ticket anywhere in the Philippines for as low as Php 15.00. It was offered last June and the travel is good for October to November 2010. It’s a great bargain actually. Unfortunately, it was already fully booked when I opened the site. Better luck next time for me.

 

Photo from Google

Photos

My sister and I love to collect photos and have it scrapbooked or album. We love to reminisce moments through photos. It’s a great memorabilia that speaks a thousand words. It’s through pictures that your life be documented and can be passed from generation to generation. That’s why it’s important to print it with quality and store it well.

We have two boxes of pictures and hundreds of picture in my hard drive that still need to print, arrange and scrapbook. It was already two years stored in the boxes. And I’m worried; it might be destroyed by the moisture, dusts and some pests inside the cabinet. *sigh* I need to rearrange it and keep it in a safer box. I have to scan first the old pictures so that we’ll have a digital back-up of them and/or we can have printed like photo books.

Sample photo book

 

I have first seen this photo book on my cousin’s wedding last December 2008. It’s an album but I love it more because it looks like a published book, an autobiography, a memorabilia that records events. In photo book, pictures are arranged, designed, and captioned digitally, printed in a quality photo paper and bind just like books.

Burning DVD

With the advent of our information technologies comes along the birth of paperless technology. Every time a seminar is conducted in our office, participants would always ask for a soft copy. They prefer it than the hand outs given. That’s why most of the time when a seminar-training will be conducted the facilitator would always prepare soft copy in disks of the topics to be discussed.

I usually do the burning of DVDs in our office. Burning a DVD can be a tedious and time consuming especially if you are using your desktop computer. It may take several minutes of burning single DVD depending on the size of files. Usually the number of participants in a seminar-training ranges from 30-300. So sometimes it took us one to two days to burn DVDs using one desktop computer. In such case, we need DVD duplication equipment to make the job faster.

Gotmedia.com a site, recommended by my friend, offers a different type of DVD duplication equipment. How I wish our office will purchase one especially that different seminar-training is conducted in our office almost every week.

Speaking of blank DVD I almost forgot I need a dozen or more of it because I need to back up some files or store files that I rarely use but can be used as reference in the future. I have to clean the hard disk of my computer at home because of its low speed performance.

 

(Photo from Google)

Durian

If you hate the smell of durian then don’t make any trip going to Davao these days (Specifically between month of July to September). Because from the moment you step down from airplane you’ll be welcomed with sweet pungent aroma of the king of all fruits - durian. And you can’t get rid from it because wherever you go you can see this thorny fruit along the highway or in every corner especially in the city proper of Davao and other nearby cities.

King of All Fruits

The smell of durian may like hell but I tell you it taste like heaven! My sister hated durian before…. We forced her to taste it and eventually like it. Same with my boyfriend, before, he would just look at us as we enjoyably eat the rich, buttery smooth luscious flesh of durian fruit. Curious of the taste of durian he would just join the group and eat small amount of it… and later became addicted to the fruit.

This may look gross and smell like hell but taste like heaven!

So, before you decide to back-out on your trip going to Davao… why not give your taste bud a new adventure. Try just a little amount of Durian… then try another… and try at least one flesh of whole seeds…. And eventually you’ll fell in love with this bad-odor-OH!-so-yummy-Durian!

Adventurous Sports that I’d Love to Try

A typical Filipino would really say they want to experience snow. That’s why most Filipinos abroad, during their first day of experience with snow, would really go out and feel the fluffy white snow that drops from the sky. Some will just feel it with their bare hands; other will really go out without dress at all. Like what my friend did…LOL

I remember my sister, when she had her first experience with snow, she immediately texted us, took pictures and during our chat using yahoo messenger she toured us outside their flat and shows the snow using the webcam.

Of course I envy her. I also dream to experience snow and do adventurous sports, like skiing, skateboarding, snowboarding, etc….

Snowboarding (photo source)

Hmmm… Can I really do it? Those are risky sports. Watching videos on snowboarding alone would make my palm sweats. But it looks easy and really cool. It’s like flying in the sky. I’m wondering how they did it. It seems to light for them to carry their weight considering that they wear other protective gears like Burton snowboard boots.But I guess these protective gears are lightweight. And I’m really amazed on the way they landed with their snowboards and the way they manage to land and balanced their body and gracefully gliding on the snow.

Well I can only answer my curiosity if I’ll try it myself. When I reach these foreign countries with snows I would really try this exciting activity and experience to glide on snow with Burton snowboards.

Fresh and Green………But not Ripe!

 Soon this cluster of fruits will be ready for harvest. And I can’t wait it!

I’ m so happy to see the lanzones bearing fruits. The last time it bore, early this year, was affected by El Niño. The fruits were small and when it ripens it breaks…

I remember our first harvest of lanzones fruit from our backyard, that was way back August 2008. We’re able to fill more or less two craters of lanzones fruits out from one tree. We do not sell it instead we share our blessings to the entire neighborhood.