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In lieu with my newly discovered way to relieve back pains, I will try to live a healthy lifestyle starting… NOW. I realized that even though I am still young, I need to start taking care of my body. The Yoga class I attended earlier became some sort of an eye opener for me. The instructor not only taught yoga, but also gave plenty of healthy living tips. Since I was a new student, she suggested some things for me to do so that I can become healthy and fit. One of the things she suggested was to cut on carbs and start munching on veggies and fruits.

In the conversation, I had the chance to really look at my instructor up close. At age 35, her body was so slim and fit and her skin was almost glowing. If not for her certificate framed on the wall, I would have thought that she was my age. I asked how she maintains her youthful appearance and she told me that she just do what is best for the body. This includes exercise, lots of fluids, eating veggies, and staying away from sunlight during noon time. For the face she told me to use an wrinkle cream and always smile.

It’s never too early to start caring for your body. After all, prevention is always better than cure.

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Nothing relieves joint pains faster than Yoga. I’m having back and joint pains since last month (probably because of lack of exercise) so I decided to try out hot flow yoga. A good friend recommended this to me and told me that it really worked for him. He said that it is the one of the best jjoint pain remedies I can try for the least cost.

I enrolled last week and started attending just this morning. The class started at six in the morning and I was early. I was excited to try this new kind of yoga which uses a heated room, much more like a sauna. When the instructor led us to the room, the nightmare started. It was so hot and I actually felt my sweat dripping on the mat. The instructor told us to relax and breathe and try to focus on the postures.

There were 26 postures and I can definitely say that no posture was easy. The mere standing position is painful because of the hot room. The session started with breathing, then the postures, and ended in breathing. After the class, it felt like heaven leaving the room.

Now I am the office, working. The amazing thing is, even after only one yoga session, I do not feel any joint or back pains anymore! Also, I do not even feel tired. So right now I am starting to feel the effects of yoga in my body and how important it is exercise. Right now, I feel that every part of my body is relaxed and energized. Nothing feels stiff unlike before. I’m glad I tried yoga out, and I’ll definitely do it regularly.

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Although treatments like acne pills, cream and lotion are now the common remedy for acne problems, I suggest you still add Vitamin C to your daily consumption – some of the best sources are fruits like orange and calamansi.

It can work wonders, I tell you. Having enough Vitamin C in tandem with your acne treatment will not only enable you to have a pimple free face but also give you a healthy, pinkish-white glow. Something you rarely see nowadays.

For the really skin conscious, I suggest you take conzace since it has Vit A 5,000 iu, vit E 100 iu, vit C 500 mg which are all good for the skin. This was recommended to me by my dermatologist and has been proven very effective. In any case, you can just stick to 500-1,000 grams of ascorbic acid to get your daily Vitamin C needs.

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I just received an email regarding employee purchase discounts of the newest printer models in our company. They are basically giving away fifty units of the newest WiFi enabled printers for a quarter of the price! Of course, I quickly sent my order details in order to get a slot, fortunately I got one. Good thing I regularly check my mail.

Yep, it’s confirmed. The printer will be delivered to my desk this week. I really need a printer right now because I will use it for postcard printing. My friends and I exchange postcards and mail since they studied abroad a year ago. Since then we have been collecting our postcards and posting them in our scrapbook. Every thanksgiving, we get a chance to see each other for a few days because it’s their sem break. Anyway, I bet they’ll love my custom postcards better that the ones bought in stores.

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Two weeks ago, I accepted a job offer from this company and I promptly submitted my resignation letter to my boss. Today is my first day at work… Today I achieved my dream of working for my dream company. A new desk, a new chair, a new company, and a new chance to improve on my career and meet new friends.

Here, everyone seems to work smart (probably because of the smart-casual attire). The managers walk around and they are addressed by their first names. And people seem to be very friendly and enthusiastic. And the company, above all, values its employees’ well being.

Just now, I heard some guys talking about attending company sponsored sports activities and they are very enthusiastic about it. I also received an email about seminars on healthy living and weight loss diet. There are also scheduled technical trainings, team building events and some fun and games.

Basically everything seems so ideal right now. I really hope that this remains the same when I’m deployed to work. For now, I’ll stay in my desk and familiarize myself with the house rules and SBC.

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With majority of my staff resigning and on a venture to finding a new career path and/or better company; with me finding out that the highest position I can ever attain in my company is my current job; and that our CEO’s ultimate goal is to sell this company preferably next year… My considering other options is already a given of course.

I was thinking of actually resigning straight out. But then again, that would be suicidal since I still have bills to pay monthly and I don’t want to end up with a social security disability. I do know that with my job profile I can get a job soon though, or even during the 30-day notice period I need to render for my company. But that’s impractical as well since my negotiating power with my next company will be lower because I’d be almost, if not, unemployed by that time.

During this dilemma phase, Slide, my colleague whose advice I highly value, did not disappoint me. He said something that made sense in my jumbled thoughts, “Save enough money so you can survive a quarter without work. That will put you in a different perspective.” He added, “That way, you won’t have to worry much about anything, so you can concentrate on job hunting or your website.”

Wisely stated isn’t it? ^_^

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Anna, one of my smartest and highly dependable staff, informed me last November 2009 that she’s very unhappy with her work setup and would be resigning. I was able to convince her to stay during that time. But then again, you can only do so much. Anna formally resigned last March 15 and her last day is tomorrow.

Times like these are very paradoxical for me. I feel quite melancholic on losing a great staff. At the same time though, I’m happy for her because she can finally spread her wings and follow her dreams; The look on her delighted face as she talked about her future work is quite envious actually. I want THAT look plastered on MY face.

I’ll be giving Anna a 16gig flash drive as a farewell present for her last day tomorrow. I know she’ll be backing up her files and some of those are definitely going to be personal files accumulated over her more than two years of service in our company. Consequently, she’ll definitely be needing the flash drive to be able to take home those files and ensure that there’s no traces of it on her computer. Hehehe.

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I’ve been in a lot of situations where my patience was tested. Since I’m generally a very patient person, I seldom lose my cool during those situations. However, the day the insurance man visited my home proved to be one such occasion where I not only lost my cool, I began venting about things I didn’t even know I was angry about.

It started innocently enough with an insurance man at the mall approaching me about term life insurance quotes, and the wholesaleinsurance.net website. I simply smiled at him and tried to walk around. To my surprise however, he side-stepped so that I couldn’t get past. He continued asking me more insurance questions and spewing insurance marketing jumbo until I just snapped. I don’t remember what I said but at the end of the outburst, it seemed the entire mall had just come to complete standstill. Eventually a mall cop approached us and asked what the fuss was about. By then, I was bright red with embarrassment.

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If you’re an internet savvy like me, you’ll eventually have the same problem that I have – storing passwords. Your lists of passwords for email accounts, online banking, and social networking accounts will eventually pile up. Sooner of later you will have a hard time remembering all of them.

Right now I have five email accounts, six online banking accounts, one facebook, one multiply, two flicker, five blog accounts, etc. I basically have to remember more than twenty passwords and it is really confusing most of the times. A friend of mine suggested this nifty little program called KeePass. It is a portable application that securely strores all of your passwords in your flashdrive. The passwords are stored in a highly encrypted database for better security. To access your password list, you’ll just have to remeber just one main password and that’s it. So far it worked great for me so suggest you try it. I also suggest you create an online backup of your database, in case you lose your flashdrive.

Of course, you must remember the main password otherwise there’s no way of hacking into your password list anymore.

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