100 TIDBITS ABOUT ME 1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed? CLOSED2. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel? NO i bring my own stuff...i have my own brand that i use. 3. Have you ever 'done it' in a hotel room? mostly am on my audit or official trip when i check in, so nothing of those "done it" whatever that means. 4. Have you ever stolen a street sign before? i removed the "beware of dogs" sign on my way to school in high school because the lettering was an eye sore. 5. Do you like to use post-it notes?YES easier to post something at the back of your classmate and officemates...hahaha 6. Do you cut out coupons but then never use them?NO i think it's only a waste 7. Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of bees?Big bear....it will be a news item than with a bees cos there's no bear here except in the zoo. 8. Toilet Paper off the top or the bottom of the roll?TOP 9. Do you always smile for pictures?YES if not a stolen shot cos the photographer always say cheese 10. What is your biggest pet peeve?IGNORANCE 11. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out? TUCKED 12. Do you ever count your steps when you walk? NO 13. Have you ever peed in the woods? YES 14. Do you ever dance even if there's no music playing? YES 15. Do you chew your pens and pencils?No. 16. How many people have you slept with this week? NONE SINCE BIRTH 17. Do you like popcorn from those big tins? NO 18. What is your "song of the week"? Goodbye 19. Is it okay for guys to wear pink? WHY NOT? 20. Do you still watch cartoons?YES 21. What's your favorite scary movie? HOUSE of 1000 CORPSES 22. Where would you bury hidden treasure if you had some? I WILL NOT HIDE IT, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ENJOY A TREASURE WHEN IT'S HIDDEN, USE IT OR DONATE IT TO THE TRUSTED ORGANIZATION HELPING ALLEVIATE THE LIVES OF THE POOR....THEN YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN 23. What do you drink with dinner? COFFEE 24. What do you dip a chicken nugget in? BBQ oe PLUM SAUCES 25. What are your favorite foods/cuisine? FILIPINO 26. What movies could you watch over and over and still love? STARWARS 27. Last person you kissed/kissed you? MY NIECE 28. Were you ever a boy/girl scout? YES and am the master 29. Would you ever strip or pose nude in a magazine? NO 30. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper? YESTERDAY 31. Can you change the oil on a car? YES 32. Ever gotten a speeding ticket?YES... 33. Ran out of gas? NO 34. Favorite kind of sandwich(s)?: TUNA, BLTs, HAM/BACON EGGS on a BAGEL, CHEESE BURGERS!!! 35. Best thing to eat for breakfast? BACON & EGGS, ORANGE JUICE, MILK or CEREAL W/FRUIT 36. What is your usual bedtime?AROUND 12MIDNIGHT TO 1AM 37. Are you lazy?AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF TIME AND DEADLINE 38. When you were a kid, what did you dress up as for Halloween? VAMPIRE 39. Do you remember you first Email Address? YES the same as what am using now 40. How many languages can you speak? TWO English and Tagalog (and ilocano dialect)41. Do you have any magazine subscriptions? YES, times, reader's digest and bulletin 42.Which are better legos or Lincoln logs? LEGOs 43. Are you stubborn? HELL YA! 44. Who is better...Leno or Letterman?Letterman 45. Ever watch soap operas? No time 46. Afraid of heights? NO 47. Sing in the car? YES 48. Dance in the shower? NO 49. Dance in the car? I SWAY EVERY NOW & THEN 50. Ever used a gun?No 51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer? College graduation 52. Do you think musicals are cheesy? Yes they are genius 53. Is Christmas stressful? No...just go out of town and stay alone in the far place like in a beach resort. 54. Ever eat a pierogie? what is that? 55. Favorite fruit pie? Apple , pumpkin, banana cream - lots 56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid? pilot 57. Do you believe in ghosts? no 58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling? yes 59. Take a vitamin daily? never 60. Wear slippers? beach and bathroom slippers 61. Crunchy or Smooth? I love crunchy 62. What do you wear to bed? huge shirt 63. First concert? grade school 64. Wal-Mart, Target or K-Mart? Rustans 65. Nike or Adidas? Adidas 66. Cheetos Or Fritos!Fritos 67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds? Peanuts 68. Ever hear of, "gorp"no 69. Ever take dance lessons? ballet 70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing? YES 71. Can you curl your tongue? YES 72. Ever won a spelling bee? YES 73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy? NO 74. Own any record albums? YES 75. Own a record player? WHAT GOOD WOULD THE ALBUMS BE WITHOUT ONE? 76. Do you burn incense? YES 77. Ever been in love? ONCE or TWICE... 78. Who would you like to see in concert? MARIAH 80. Hot tea or cold tea? HOT 81.Tea or coffee? COFFEE 83. Can you swim well? I CAN SWIM BUT NOT SO WELL 84. Can you hold your breath w/o manually holding your nose? YES 85. Are you patient? YES 86. DJ or band, at a wedding? DJs HAVE MORE SELECTIONS 88. Ever have plastic surgery? NO 89. Which are better black or green olives? GREEN OLIVES 90.Can you knit or crochet? YES 91. Best room for a fireplace? BEDROOM 92. Do you want to get married?? YES 93. If married, how long have you been married? NEVER MARRIED 94. Who was your HS crush? NONE 95. Do you cry and throw a fit to get your own way? NO 96. Do you have kids?NO 97. Do you want kids? YES 98. What’s your favorite color?PASTEL GREEN 99. Do you miss anyone right now? YES 100. Who do you want to see right now?SKIP survey questions 1. What time did you get up this morning? 5:00am cold water afrer meal Drinking Cold water after meal = Cancer! HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE": (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!) "HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE": 1. .....is realizing that true prosperity comes only from God, 2. .....is committing ourselves to God purposes for money. 3. .....recognizing and rejecting false financial concepts. 4. .....responding to God's reproofs for wrong financial decisions. 5. .....is choosing to serve God rather than money. 6. .....is keeping out of debt. 7. .....is learning how to abound and how to suffer need. 8. .....is having sales resistance. 9. .....is recognizing and rejecting swindlers. 10. .....is getting the best buy. 11. .....is keeping accurate and useful records. 12. .....is refusing to lend or co-sign. 13. .....is developing the full potential of the home. 14. .....is choosing a good name rather than great riches. 15. .....is having the courage to avoid partnership. 16. .....is detecting and conquering slothfulness. 17. .....is listening to the cautions of your wife/husband 18. .....is knowing how to pass on an inheritance which insures Godly and responsible heritage. For the Record.... "More popular than Jesus" controversy =========================== On ... 4th August.... 1966 - In a U.S. radio interview, John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were probably more popular than Jesus Christ Also; 1966 – 4th March — Lennon often spoke his mind freely and the press was used to querying him on a wide range of subjects. On 4th March 1966 in an interview for the London Evening Standard with Maureen Cleave, who was a friend, Lennon made an off-the-cuff remark regarding religion. "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. ... I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me." The article was printed and nothing came of it, until five months later when an American teen magazine called Datebook reprinted part of the quote on the front cover. A firestorm of protest swelled from the southern U.S. Bible Belt area, as conservative groups publicly burned Beatles records and memorabilia. The Beatles looked at this in a wry way, by saying, "They've got to buy them first before they burn 'em." Radio stations banned Beatles music and concert venues cancelled performances. Even the Vatican got involved with a public denunciation of Lennon's comments. On August 11, 1966, the Beatles held a press conference in Chicago, Illinois, in order to address the growing furor. Lennon: "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have got away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a journalist friend, (Maureen Cleave) and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think — as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way." Reporter: "Some teenagers have repeated your statements — "I like The Beatles more than Jesus Christ." What do you think about that?" Lennon: "Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this." Reporter: "But are you prepared to apologise?" Lennon: "I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry." The governing members of the Vatican accepted his apology and the furor eventually died down, but constant Beatlemania, mobs, crazed teenagers, and now a press ready to tear them to pieces over any quote was too much to handle. The Beatles soon decided to stop touring, and never performed a scheduled concert again. A firework was thrown on the stage at one of their last concerts and McCartney later said that the band all looked at Lennon, fearing a gun had been fired at him. The pressure of dealing with incidents like that convinced even McCartney to say that he had had enough. The Beatles then became a "studio band". Freed from the problems of having to compose music they could recreate live on stage, they could explore the technological limits of music and create unique and original sounds. Lennon wrote later "I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days." The "bigger than Jesus" controversy has been referenced (and mocked) several times in pop culture since its creation. In an episode of The Simpsons called "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Homer Simpson tells the story of his failed barbershop quartet career. Son Bart asks if he did something stupid, like "screw up like the Beatles and say you were bigger than Jesus?" Homer replies, "Oh, all the time. It was the title of our second album!" In the 1980s, a "documentary" episode of the cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks (TV series) claimed that the Chipmunks suffered a steep drop in popularity after Alvin publicly boasted "We're bigger than Mickey Mouse!" The Jesus Controversy was also parodied an episode of The Angry Beavers titled Beaver Fever, in which the titular characters start a popular band. One of them, Daggett, states to reporters that they're "the biggest thing since sliced bread." The scene quickly cuts to a news report of sliced bread lovers burning the Beavers' CDs. Daggett then is interviewed a second time and says that he meant they were physically larger than sliced bread. After hearing that, the sliced bread fans start trying to get their CDs out of the bonfire. More recently it has been mocked on the Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. In a parody of an exploitative pay-per-view Lennon séance, Colbert talks to Lennon's "ghost". John Lennon's Spirit: "I am bigger than Jesus." Stephen Colbert: "Now you got into a lot of trouble the last time you said that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus." John Lennon's Spirit: "No, not the Beatles. I am bigger than Jesus. I've met the man, and I've got to tell you, I've got at least two inches on him." Lennon could also be vicious in his replies to reporters during press conferences. Take this example from a press conference in Indianapolis during the Beatles' 1964 U.S. tour: Reporter: "What's your excuse for that shoulder-length hair?" Lennon: "We don't need an excuse; you need an excuse!" Overweight reporter: "You shouldn't need 1,000 policemen to control these crowds." Lennon: "Well, maybe you wouldn't. You're fatter than we are." Reporter: "What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?" Lennon: "Count the money." =========== Birth name John Winston Lennon Born October 9, 1940 Liverpool, England Died December 8, 1980 New York City, New York, USA ———— Today When Children and Teenagers are asked: "Who is Jesus Christ?" They reply: "The baby born at Christmas", or "The One who died on the Cross", or simply; "God's Son". When Children or Teenagers are asked: "Who is John Lennon?" Many simply say; "I don't know". Too Bad John Lennon did not know too well this verse; "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) Whether John Lennon's heart inferred `exaltation and scorn' or "off-the cuff" quips, only God knows Jesus Christ was never in the business of `popularity'.. John Lennon probably wins "hands down" there but; Jesus was certainly in the business of "Salvation" —John Lennon could not accomplish that feat that which Jesus certainly DID..! "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." (1 John 5:20) — The Watchman You may not realize it, but it's 100% true. back to menu Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine. I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible. How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched Jeopardy on television? I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, "How about going to lunch in a half hour?" She would gas up and stammer, "I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain." She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect! We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college. Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm going to," "I plan on," and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit." Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply? Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over. back to menuHOW TO ELEVATE OATMEAL TO SUPERFOOD Drink a glass of this with your oatmeal to help elevate your breakfast to superfood status: orange juice. BANANA HEALTH BENEFITS Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!! Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet. Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier. PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood. Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia. Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke. Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert. Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives. Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system. Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief. Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness. Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation. Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system. Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady. Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach. Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant >mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan. Smoking & Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal. Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack. Strokes: According to research in "The New England Journal of Medicine, "eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%! Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape! So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!" Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe...polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit. If you've never had grilled bananas you're in for a treat. Just cut the banana in half length wise and grill it on the stove in butter or margerine. Throw in some brown sugar and if you like cinnamon and most of you will love it. Obviously this is not a diet food. |