I'm Writing a Story

I'm writing a story. This would be my first attempt in writing a story so I know it would be rough. I posted it on my Wordpress blog, but here's how it goes.

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    Anya frustratedly stared at her monitor for almost an hour now as she waited for the uninspired moment to pass. “Damn writer’s block,” she exclaimed. But no matter what she do, she just can’t find it in her to write the first word to the story she was supposed to be working on.

    She planned on working on a love story. But there’s just one problem. She can’t start writing. Anya can’t seem to find the right words and the right characters to start with. She was so sure it would be so easy to write a love story after emerging from a romance movie marathon, which consisted of 36 hours of romance flicks in preparation for this writing task. And she was also banking on her other sources of knowledge on this topic. She had read hundreds, no, thousands of romance novels since she started reading her first “pocketbook” way back in her first year in high school. And it’s not as if reading romance novels were her only background at love. Anya was in her third year in high school when she got a boyfriend, and now she considers herself an expert in love after being having going through more than 10 of such kind of relationship which she had disappointingly ended one after another.

    “Writing a romance story should be easy for me”, Anya smugly thought when she had first decided on what genre to write on, and she had that thought two days ago. But she still can’t think of something that she can use to start with her story.

    “What should I do? Urgh. This is so frustrating!” For about 5 seconds Anya thought of giving up on writing the story. “Why is it so hard to write a love story! Should I focus on Emery first, or Alex?”

    “Hey, stupid shrimp! Are you madly talking to yourself now?”

    Anya’s heart jumped. Ed’s roughly shaven face interrupted her concentration as he just entered inside her “personal space” without warning...

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You can read the rest of it here.

You can also monitor my attempt at writing this story on my Wordpress blog.

I hope you enjoy this.

JAA NE!

I Sent Myself a Fan Mail

I have just sent a fan mail to myself on Tumblr. It feels so good! :)

Sending a fan mail to yourself will make you feel awesome. Trust me. It' sounds crazy, but it will encourage you to love yourself more.

Just remember Eleanore's (Roosevelt) words, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent".


If you don't give love to yourself, how can you give love to other people? 


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JAA NE!

RULES OF GLENS

I've been fascinated of these "rules of" sites that I decided to create one for myself. I think it's fun to create some kind of a "code of conduct" for yourself, some constant reminder of what you should and should be mindful of. I've recently created my own "rules of" site on Wordpress. Here's one of the posts I've made, and this one's on Facebook post. I would have written "Don't wear your heart on your sleeve. And don't post it on Facebook either", but I'm not really sure what's the best way to phrase it, so it ended up like this. 

I'm not saying that I follow these rules strictly and without fail. I just thought these rules would constantly bug me that I decided to put them into writing.

As Edward Cullen in Midnight Sun would say, "Keep it honest, keep it light". I want it to be honest and entertaining. You can check out the site at RULES OF GLENS.


JAA NE!

Benefits of Ionized Water

Drinking ionized water is not a new fitness fad. This healthy idea has been around ever since the first water ionizer was developed in Japan in the early 1950s. From then on, Japanese agricultural universities have conducted researches on ionized water benefits. It wasn’t very long before people all over the world have started to learn about how drinking ionized water may be good for the health.

There are some who would say that ionized water is merely some sort of “sales fiction”, but there are already a lot of claims about its advantages. Just like many other God-given miracles in the world, science is yet to uncover every truth about it. But here are a few of the ionized water benefits reported by many people all over the world.

First is the fact that it is many times more hydrating than tap water, or any other regular drinking water. If you haven’t tried drinking from any natural sources of ionized water, and if you haven’t drunk ionized water from an ionizer, you probably don’t know the difference. If you have tasted the ionized water, then you know how great it taste compared to the regular drinking water. From the taste itself, you will see that one of the ionized water benefits is that it could quench your thirst better than anything else.

While we can’t see it with the naked eyes, on an infinitesimal perspective the molecule cluster of the ionized water is made smaller and the shape is also changed from the ordinary water molecules to form a hexagonal form which lets it pass easily through the body tissues, and this allows the body to have its enough fluid supply it needs. We might not see it, but we can feel the difference.

Aside from that, it also is a natural antioxidant. As many other natural antioxidants, ionized water is a powerful anti-aging element. It has negative ORP which means it can give electrons. The higher the negative charge, the greater is its capacity to give electrons. And as it produces hydroxyl ions it also helps produce oxygen and eradicates free radicals while hydrating your body tissues. Keeping you from premature aging is definitely of the best ionized water benefits you could get.

In addition to that, it definitely helps take care of your skin and scalp. Your body is naturally full of acidic substances. Ionized water helps balance the acidity or alkalinity of your body by providing alkaline in the water you drink. Many people usually use acidic water for washing their bodies since it could make them look younger. Acidic water can exfoliate the skin and provide you with the youthful glow. You can get acidic (soft) ionized water for that. However, too much usage of it might not be great for your body. Remember that your body needs a good balance. While acidic water may be good, but too much of a good thing may be damaging. You can always have the alkaline (hard) ionized water to keep the balance in the body.

As the overused adage goes, “Health is wealth”. It is never bad to invest for your health. It could be greatly advantageous for you if you would choose to make sure that you can have your family enjoy the benefits of ionized water.

JAA NE!

iPhone 5 Release Date Might Not Be This June, But on October

Previous speculation tells us that Apple will preview iOS 6 and it was also believed that during that time they would release the next iPhone called iPhone 5 during the WWDC. However, this is may not be so, as recent events lead speculators to conclude that the release date for the iPhone 5 may not be during this June at the WWDC, but on October.

Qualcomm has stated that it is struggling to keep up with the iPad’s demand in producing the 28-nanometer chips, which leads us to expect that Apple will be unable to have an earlier debut for its latest iPhone 5. If Qualcomm fails to keep up with the demands for iPads now, then it would be disadvantageous to launch the new iPhone so soon.

After Quallcomm CFO William Kietel has clarified that their production goals are pretty high in the December quarter and that the production would be “more meaningful” in September, most people are deducing that the iPhone release date may be on October.

Aside from that, LTE isn’t generally accepted in areas beyond US and Canada, which means the service is unavailable in the UK, except probably for the bigger cities like London and Manchester. In fact, Apple has offered refunds to Australian buyers since the new iPad does not support 4G LTE network in their state, what with the Telstra Corp, Australia’s only 4G operator, using a different 4G frequency. Apple will have to wait to make sure that iPhone 5 can support LTE networks worldwide.

Moreover, the fact that Apple has not announced its iOS 6 yet indicates that it is not ready to launch iPhone 5. Usually it would release OS upgrade during or before launching a new gadget. Now people are wondering if iOS 6 will be having its debut at the WWDC.

Full article on this could be found here.


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JAA NE!

Wearing Glasses Is Not The Best Solution To Blurry Eyesight

Wearing glasses and contact lenses had apparently grown to be a fashion fad nowadays. A decade ago wearing glasses may be considered to geeky and out of style. But things have changed ever since fashion magazines declared that “geeks are the new sexy”. This may be the reason why more and more individuals would now dare to wear specs even if it is clearly causing a lot of stress on their eyes.

If you are tempted to go to the nearest eye clinic to get your own pair of fashionable artificial lenses, you should know that while these may improve your vision for as long as you are still wearing them, those glasses could not cure your eye problems permanently. In fact, they could keep your eyes from healing themselves.

The longer you wear those lenses, the more you are letting your eyes become too dependent on them. Those pair of glasses you wear might be preventing your eyes from relaxing and working properly on their own.

Why should you depend on some artificial lenses when all you have to do is keep your eyes relaxed and avoid strain? Free your eyes from anything that could cause stress and strain. While this may not be as easy as it sounds, at least it doesn’t aggravate the problem with your eyesight.

If you think that you really need to wear a pair of glasses or contact lenses, you would find that one of the major challenges you would be facing is finding the perfect prescription for your eyes. That is because just like almost every organ of the body, your eyes are subject to change. Your eye prescription won’t always stay the same, and it is subject to the many different factors and aspects that could cause it to change, such as the weather, your health, or any outside stressors that could affect it your eyesight. Your eye prescription on a rainy day and you are in a bad mood would be different from your prescription when you had on a sunny day and in a better mood.

If you are already wearing your own pair of specs and you wanted to try relieving your eyes from the strain it may be causing you, try going without them for a few days, or for a few weeks. You would probably say that everything looks blurry at first. After starting to get used to it, you’ll see that you can see a bit more clearly. Here’s a tip: keep yourself from any high or extreme mental strain, and try to be more relaxed. Keep your eyes from too much stress, and give it a rest when your eyesight starts to become blurry and out of focus.

Not everyone is advised to wear prescription glasses or artificial lenses. Wearing them may not be best for our eyes. Instead of curing your eyesight problem, it can teach our eyes to be too lazy from working properly on their own. The best solution to blurry eyesight is not wearing prescription glasses, but keeping off from too much mental strain.

JAA NE!

A Late Post on Storm Washi, Trauma and Nonsense Rumors

10:56 December 25, 2011

News travels fast these days. But I have to say, rumors definitely travel faster. 

There was this text message going around about a tidal wave in Ozamis, and as much as I am traumatized by the Sendong (Washi) experience, it really doesn't help ease our problems whenever we her about nature troubles.

It's not that I don't want to discredit the spread of news through text message, but most of the useless and uneccessary gossips goes around our phones nowadays and it annoys the hell out of most people. I hope people would think more about the effects of the words they put into text writing.

I am currently having a hard time trying to sleep after hearing such a troubling "news". *sigh

I hope the people are all alright tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and until their time is up.

Never forget to pray and talk to Him who always listens. God bless us all.

JAA NE!