We talked about enrolling in a tech school in the previous posts.  Now we go down to a little bit more specific task:  the ultrasound technician.  Being an ultrasound tech is no easy job, but you can learn it if you really want to become one.  Again, there are a lot of ultrasound tech school out there, you just have to choose the one that fits you best.  Happy studying!  =)

Hi guys! I apologize for the lack of updates these past few days. As always, I’ve been pretty much caught up with a lot of real-life stuff that I tend to neglect this blog of mine. In any case, to make up for the lost days of blogging, I decided to dip my toes in seemingly unchartered territory this time–video blogging.

Coy aka Cokskiblue has been encouraging bloggers to VLOG quite persistently, and I told him I’d try it out soon. Well, this is it! My video-editing skills were getting rusty but I managed to pull it off. Sorry if the video shots are quite amateurish, I’m not used to taping myself and shooting stuff. I’m more of a model than a… uhmmm… host. Hehe. I’m that camera-shy.

So without further ado, I’m proud to present… Blue Pencil VLOGS Episode 1 entitled “Joaqs”. Oh and by the way, please do excuse my twang. Hahaha. =P

And yes, in case you’re wondering, those are my geeky glasses. =P

And you know what that means. It’s time to head to the beach! The scorching heat of the sun will once again be appreciated because of its tanning powers… But wait, do you have those sexy abs in check? Those to-die-for hips and nasty curves that always tend to make other people look your direction? Goodness! It’s that time of the year to lose those inches again. It’s that time of the year when bare is definitely not a scare. So go shed those unneeded pounds with pills containing Rimonabant to assure you of that drop dead body that’s perfect for summertime!

Just like I mentioned in my first-ever weekend wrap-up, we scoured my hometown last Sunday in search of survey respondents for this semester’s Extension Program of the Communication Research Department of the UP College of Mass Communication. Every semester they perform studies on topics relating to communication and media, and this semester’s study focused on the Filipinos’ Reception of TV News.

The recent word-war and mudslinging between the two giant TV networks proved to be quite a blessing in disguise for us CommRes 101 students who were tasked to perform the data gathering part of the study. I’m not really keen on doing this data gathering thing, especially that my people skills seem to dwindle as I grow older. Thankfully all our neighbors were cooperative and in fact were very enthusiastic to be surveyed.

Whenever people would see us with our survey forms and the moment we ask them if they are willing to be interviewed about the local TV News Programs they watch, they would quickly retort, “Is this AGB?” in Filipino. If there’s anything positive that this recent controversy has wrought, it’s probably the fact that people became more aware of the workings behind these media companies. Read More

I don’t know about you, but I never tried drugs.  I have, however, taken drugs–the prescription kind.  The one you buy from your friendly neighborhood pharmacy technician.  Speaking of pharmacy tech, don’t you think that’s an interesting job?  I wonder how high a pharmacy technician salary is?  It must be a tough job.

I graduated from a part-academic part-technical school in high school.  I learned a lot of stuff from there that made me consider going for an IT school for more it training, especially because said IT school gave me a scholarship.  I didn’t push through, however.  But you can!  There are a lot of tech schools out there, you just have to look.  And most of them are good.  Good luck with the search!  =)

So yeah, since weekend wrap-ups, round-ups and syntheses are the latest fad online, I jump in the bandwagon and provide you with my own version of a weekend recap. And this being a personal blog, I intend to do this in the old-fashioned, journalese, web-log kind of way, the one we got used to when blogging was just in its nurturing stage.

To tell you honestly I missed blogging by just simply narrating what transpired in my day, so that’s why I’m doing this. I don’t know why I keep on trying to be profound in coming up with “articles” instead of just “entries” for this blog. So suffice to say, this segment will attempt to fill that void.

Let’s do this, guys! Read More

If you want to have your own business, you need to have good sales leads. And I know just the place where you can get good business sales lead that will surely turn to sales anytime.  All you need is an inquiring mind and a persevering spirit to make sure you get those sales every single time.  A businessman must have a mind focused on profiting from everything, and a good sales lead can help in doing just that.  So try it now!

Note: This is the Third part of a Three-part series on the Trinoma Bloggers’ Food Tour. Part 2 is here. Part 1 is here.

Our tummies were filled and we have a lot of restaurants to thank for that. However, the tour didn’t come with only the good stuff, because we experienced certain disappointments and frustrations as well.

Thank God our group wasn’t part of the bunch who went to Cabalen and got a mouthful from the manager. Come to think of it, even if my group insisted on going to Cabalen I think I know better because I’ve had some dining horrors with them before, plus I’ve had enough of Filipino food and would like to try something new for the tour. I love their Crispy Kangkong, though, simply one for the curious taste buds.

I enjoyed the Food Tour experience a lot therefore there weren’t much blunders. Here’re the restos that didn’t quite make an impression on me: Read More

No, I’m not talking about heart problems of the emotional kind. I’m talking about real heart problems, the one that concerns that pumping vessel in the left side of your chest. Just a few days back a friend of mine experienced heart burn while we were doing work, and it really made his heart ache so much. We almost panicked, thank God it wasn’t that much of an emergency. I think he should cut back on his food intake, lest he needs an ICD Implant real soon.