The Insightful Path

I was googling if any of the Press Releases I created for work were published online when I accidentally ran into an article I submitted to SunStar Daily last year. I never got to know if they published it in print but they posted it online on January of this year. Anyways...I'm adding the link here if anyone is interested to read it! ;-) http://weekend.sunstar.com.ph/blog/2014/01/10/sinulog-rocks/ I know it is way past Sinulog already but hey, it should be nice to reminisce it every now and then, right? I know I do! ;-) nmed 05/30/14 @4:13pm

I like to read but since my attention span is quite short, I am not fond of reading novels or books with many pages. I tend to just stick to either short stories or compilations instead. I did however, read this book Tethered Twins after I got a free e-book copy from free-ebooks.net and am I glad I had chosen this book as one of my 5 free e-books a month. When I searched for e-books to download, the cover photo of this book really captured my attention and so I read the synopsis and it seemed to have an interesting story so I downloaded it. After reading the very first few lines off of it, I got hooked and wanted to know what would come next. Every page was calling for the next page and so on, that even while riding the jeepney either on my way to work or on my way home, I just had to take my phone out to read the story. The author did great storytelling, and although there were some violent and gruesome scenes (which were needed to paint images of the story in the reader’s h...

Part of my work is to scan the newspapers daily and compile articles that are related to business, consumers, trade and the like but every now and then I cut out stories that really catch my attention. Be it inspiring, motivational or even funny. I cut this one out and scanned it because it was truly inspiring... it made it teary-eyed and still does. Sharing this on my blog to hopefully inspire more people. :-) You don't need to make a difference to many lives, sometimes, you just need to make a difference in one. ;-) nmed 05/07/14

I always like to make something from scratch but there are times when I just want to get something from the grocery aisle, open the package, pour the contents and just whip it up in a jiffy! So when I went to the grocery the other day, I grabbed a box of instant pancakes, cooked it yesterday and here is my review. By the way, I have 2 favorite fast-food pancakes - McDonalds with their regular pancakes and KFC with their chocolate chip pancakes, but in lieu of those good ones, this is a definite must-try! PRODUCT NAME: Magnolia Pancake Plus (with maple syrup) PRICE: 31.80 pesos at Gaisano Capital South The instruction was to add 2/3 cup water but I added 1 cup so I can make more pancakes and it still tasted great, no eggs and no orange juice needed. (perfect for those working under a budget) After adding water to the powder, it mixes easily and not a lot of effort is needed to get the lumps out. (yey, no muscle-creating exercise here!) The package says, “makes 12 m...

I have had this jacket for a while now and everytime I wear it, people always stop to read the writing on it. I don't even understand what it means really but just brought the jacket because I liked the design. One time, an American colleague read it, had a boggled look on his face and asked what it meant; I laughed and said, I really don’t know. On a different occasion, a European boss in the same company I worked for previously read it and asked the same thing, my reply would always be the same. Today, I wore the jacket again and more than three people read the writing on my jacket all aloud. To spare them the trouble of asking, I just told them ahead that I personally don’t understand what it means. This appealed to my curious nature again and I thought maybe someone somewhere out there in the online world can help me decipher what it means. So for this purpose, I had to have someone take a snapshot of the writing on the jacket so I can post it here. Here is the picture...

We went to Barangay Magsaysay in Balamban Cebu earlier today for an office event and this butterfly just kept on tagging along with me and resting on the the DSLR camera I had in tow. I let her crawl on my fingers and hand for a bit and then let her rest on the mantel of a chair but she came back and kept crawling on me again.... I thought maybe she wanted a picture taken so here it is! After a few pictures with my other colleagues... we sent her on her way and then she stopped tagging along. ;-) She really did want a picture taken and she just got herself a spot in my blog as well. Thanks for the memoir little butterfly! ;-) 04/29/14 5:27pm nmed

1. Listen to Music.   Music never fails to enliven me and make my mood better. Of course, the type of music is subjective, but I feel that the 80’s music, reggae, and oldies are better compared to the newer and noisier songs. ;-) 2. Write it out.   For someone like me who prefers to keep (problems and issues) to herself, writing is always an excellent avenue to vent out (exactly why I created this blog in the first place), share and just be in touch with my feelings without getting physically violent. Hehe… 3. Get some Exercise.   It probably is just unreleased sweat wanting to get out of our systems so it might be best to try and sweat it out as well. ( I do have an entry that lists the personal benefits of exercise and its relation to positive mood. ) 4. Read something.   Depression is not a lonely path, I realized that when I googled it – a lot of other normal people go through depression in different levels and some actually have to go through me...