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A way to hasten weight loss
I had been on aerobics and weight lifting for nearly eight uninterrupted years now. And my regimen has given me acceptable results and enough boost of confidence.
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Beat the summer heat
Summer is here again and along with the upcoming school vacation, people will be trooping to the provinces again where there are lots of beaches and fresh air.
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A mother in distress
I have seen it countless times in my practice as a physician - mothers in distress when their children fell ill.
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Our unattended garden
There is a garden in our backyard where my mom used to frequent. She would spend hours in the place tending to her precious orchids, ferns, and other kinds of plants during weekends, while working as a nurse in the Rural Health Unit in our town on weekdays.
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Celebrating Love Day
Today is Valentine’s Day, indeed. I’m just too glad it fell on a weekend. It meant that I have enough time to prepare a good meal to be shared by my entire family.
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Did you know that?: On Dengue
Dengue fever used to be known only as a disease during the rainy season. When the rains come, people are advised to clean their backyards, throw water collecting from old tires and cans left undisturbed and where the culprit of the disease may thrive.
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Field Trip 2009
In my kids’ school, field trip is being held every two years. This arrangement makes the kids to look forward to it with more eagerness.
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Should we force the kids to love books?
I was in National Bookstore one day trying to find a good book for a seven-year-old birthday boy when I overheard a mother arguing with her two sons, a teenager and a tween.
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Celebrating 13 happy years
Thirteen happy years of married life. Of being together. Not a few friends and close relatives had asked why we are still here in the Philippines when lots of our counterparts have found life in different places abroad.
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From paper guns to bakugans
Weeks before Christmas vacation 2008 began, my kids were busy on weekends making paper guns. They do this after they finish their assignments and after studying for their exams.
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New Year’s Day Traditions: Do they make sense?
Growing up as a child, I was able to observe New Year’s Day traditions from my mom and dad. Early morning on the 31st, my mom would go to the market and buy loads of fruits of all kinds.
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Spaghetti with a twist
Creamy Spaghetti Spaghetti, my kids’ all-time favorite, was one of the many meals I served on Christmas eve. I was just planning for a cake and chicken macaroni salad which I had readied the day before.
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Giving Gifts
December 2008 Christmas gift giving I give gifts to children every year, often before Christmas. It used to be in the form of medical mission done in my clinic and scheduled at least a month before the date.
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It came…
…on December 8 …as planned And we had it blessed that very day in Manaoag church, Manaoag, Pangasinan. I couldn’t ask for more…
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Dinner at Isdaan
The hectic days of December started with the 3rd mid-quarter exams of my kids. As their all-time tutor, which I am able to perform only on week-ends, I had to set aside some of my activities to give way to this very important role as a mother.
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Fallacies on Hypertension
Within the several years of my practice as a doctor (15 years) and as a professor (10 years), I have encountered countless fallacies regarding hypertension.
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Not just any ampalaya
I was talking to my Tia Rose some days back when she mentioned to me that she buys loads of ampalaya on market days and pickles them so they can have it any time of the day, any day of the week.
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Medicine Night 2008
The annual celebration of the Medicine Night in LNU College of Medicine came early this year. The second year students, being the hosts, decided to hold it earlier than usual (December or January in past years), as they were anticipating the exams that would be coming before the Christmas break, leaving them no time to prepare for the occasion.
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LMA: on its 10th Year
I couldn’t help to be curious on what my kids were into during the almost two-month-long preparation for the culminating activity of their school’s foundation celebration.
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Raymund on Chess
Raymund in green shirt Playing chess is one thing that I have not done in my whole life. Not that I don’t want to but I simply failed to learn it.