Diwatang Byaning

Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean’s Bahia de Banderas. It is rapidly becoming the next “can’t miss” destination for college spring breakers. This up and coming destination in the heart of the Mexican Riviera offers everything you need for the perfect spring break experience. At night, Puerto Vallarta offers a thriving club scene or more traditional bars. During the day, work on your tan under the Pacific sun, take a fishing excursion, ride jet skis in the Bahia, or simply get your night started early at the bars! Be part of one of the first groups to experience Puerto Vallarta, a destination with popularity and mystique that are exponentially increasing!

But wait… There is another side of Puerto Vallarta.

In 2000, an Alaskan Airlines flight from Puerto Vallarta to Seattle, Washington went down off the coast of California with no survivors. On board was a missionary couple from Seattle, Joe and Linda Knight. They had been helping Perdon y Amistad and the children living in the dump in Puerto Vallarta. They had recently installed a shower in the middle of the dump for the use of the children…

Before Linda’s death, she had raised hundreds of dollars and had put up a shower. She envisioned a community center. Linda told everyone who would listen about the children living in filth on the mountain of trash that overlooks Puerto Vallarta that what those really needed more than anything was clean water to drink and to wash away the diseases and infections that haunt the dump.

Progress has been made, but there are still hundreds of children in need of food and health care.

You can sponsor a child at $25 each month and that will provide him or her with food, education, and medical attention.

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I dedicate this entry for my friend and family that is suffering from a heart disease.

Tomorrow, February 1, is the fifth anniversary of National Wear Red Day. It’s the day to wear your favorite red clothes or accessory - a red blouse, a red dress pin, a fabulous red handbag - put on red lipstick, or sport a red tie and red socks. Go red in your own fashion to show your support for women and the fight against heart disease.

Macy’s, is a proud national sponsor of Go Red For Women, tomorrow Friday, February 1, Macy’s will offer an all-day savings pass for customers wearing red. For those who forget their red, Macy’s is offering an all-day savings pass to those who make a $2 donation in the store to the American Heart Association. All contributions received will benefit the Go Red For Women movement.

Now, what am going to do is find a *red socks, red pants, red shirt, red shoes, red scarf, red lipstick, red make-up, red hat and am ready to go shopping at Macy’s and take advantage of this All-Day shopping pass for an extra 15% off* I am going to paint the town red tomorrow! :::wheeee:::

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A cleft is a gap in a body structure that results from incomplete closing of a specific structure during development. Clefts that occur in the lip and palate (roof of the mouth) are called oral-facial clefts. There are two main types of oral-facial clefts: cleft lip/palate and isolated cleft palate.

Some babies have only a cleft lip. However, many babies with cleft lip have a cleft palate as well. These are called cleft lip/palate. Cleft palate also can occur by itself without cleft lip. This is called isolated cleft palate. Cleft lip/palate and isolated cleft palate are considered separate birth defects.

Here in the United States, clefts occur in 1 in 700 to 1,000 births, making it the one of the most common major birth defects.

The good news is that both cleft lip and cleft palate are treatable birth defects. Most kids who are born with these conditions can have reconstructive surgery within the first 12 to 18 months of life to correct the defect and significantly improve facial appearance.

There are some unfortunate children born with cleft/lip palate who are suffering., Not because they were born with a cleft/lip palate, but because they were born too poor to ever afford a surgery. Being born with a cleft in a developing country is truly a curse. You can help a desperate child not just with a new smile, but a new life.

Make a donation today at your favorite cleft lip/palate organizations.

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Continuation…

Do you know that you are very fortunate? Cause in the other side of the world there are people who are starving! Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the most disadvantaged in the world. Seventy-six per cent of the population lives on less than $2.25 a day, and 55 per cent live on less than $1.13 a day.

Mud cookies are now becoming a favorite for most Haitians. It is made from DIRT, salt and vegetable shortening. It is becoming popular among Haitians, desperate to stave off hunger. These cookies is occasionally eaten by pregnant women and children as an antacid and source of calcium, but it is becoming a regular meal for most Haitians.

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~P.J. O’Rourke, A Parliament of Whores

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Have you tried eating dust or mud? Well, I myself have tried eating dust whenever I have nothing to munch, and besides it’s not that fattening at all. As all of would know, I have weight issues/problems, that even I eat nothing it is not that obvious that I didn’t. I still have the tendency to gain weight.

I remember, when I was a little girl… From a far-far-far away remote area…

We are so poor that we don’t have anything to eat, there are times that we would eat once a day and we call it al-tang-hap (almusal, tanghalian at hapunan - breakfast, lunch and dinner in one). Even I eat once a day I still tend to gain weight… So, what I do at times is, I pray hard that I catch Malaria, Dysentery and or Typhoid it’s easier that way to lose weight isn’t?

There are times that we would have little and my Mother would ask me to go to the market and get some meat. All my money could afford is chicken feet, I have to add more money to be able to afford chicken head and to be able to do that I have to sell my finger (the pinkie).

To be continued…

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1. I like cheeseburger without the cheese.

2. I can’t count. But I have an Accounting degree. (double masters and triple phd)

3. I have very sensitive skin. (no sticky stuffs for me)

4. I can live just by eating oysters. (i love see-food!)

5. I am allergic to most animals including people! (nah, really.)

6. I get bored easily. (like right now, *sigh*)

7. I have tons of shoes. (now that is Imeldefic! innit?)

I stole this from Rebecca ahiiiiiiihiiiihihihih…

Are you weird enough? Norms, Reyns, Malen, Ambo, Dr. Joy, Pia, Agnes and Pretty

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Brazil’s Carnival is going to be crazy as it is, always. It is a riot of drinking, dancing and partying, symbolized worldwide by the nearly naked Carnival queens who strut their stuff in the samba parades.

Do you know that there will be nearly 20 million FREE condoms that will be distributed out to the streets? To tamp down on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases during the said notoriously promiscuous partying that will occur.

Oh well, so much for the Carnival.

Do you know that Rio de Janeiro is Brazil’s most visited destination. The city is located on Brazil’s southeast coast over 1,000 miles south of the equator. Which means that when it is winter here in the United States, it is the middle of summer in Brazil! *Now, I can’t wait to sip that cold Caipirinha*!

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I was reading entries from Ambo’s site Pinoyambisyoso.com and found an entry about Kat Yarza it really touched my heart *Promise*! I may look rough and tough at times but I have a soft heart…

The girl used to be a Fine Arts student and is suffering from Neurofibromatosis. She has brain tumor, half of her body is paralyzed already and starting to get blind. She needs to raise 1.5 Million for her get an operation.

She really inspires me. Having this kind of condition, she still manages to make shirts on her own design which she is selling for Php300.00. You can visit Kat at her blog hearyeah.multiply.com.

I am asking all my dear bloggers/fans/readers/followers and enemies , let’s help Kat, let’s spread the word. This is for a good cause.

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What is Neurofibromatosis?

The neurofibromatoses are genetic disorders of the nervous system that primarily affect the development and growth of neural (nerve) cell tissues. These disorders cause tumors to grow on nerves and produce other abnormalities such as skin changes and bone deformities. Although many affected persons inherit the disorder, between 30 and 50 percent of new cases arise spontaneously through mutation (change) in an individual’s genes. Once this change has taken place, the mutant gene can be passed on to succeeding generations.

Is there any treatment?

Treatments for both NF1 and NF2 are presently aimed at controlling symptoms. Surgery can help some NF1 bone malformations and remove painful or disfiguring tumors; however, there is a chance that the tumors may grow back and in greater numbers. In the rare instances when tumors become malignant (3 to 5 percent of all cases), treatment may include surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. For NF2, improved diagnostic technologies, such as MRI, can reveal tumors as small as a few millimeters in diameter, thus allowing early treatment. Surgery to remove tumors completely is one option but may result in hearing loss. Other options include partial removal of tumors, radiation, and if the tumors are not progressing rapidly, the conservative approach of watchful waiting. Genetic testing is available for families with documented cases of NF1 and NF2. New (spontaneous) mutations cannot be confirmed genetically. Prenatal diagnosis of familial NF1 or NF2 is also possible utilizing amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling procedures.

What is the prognosis?

In most cases, symptoms of NF1 are mild, and patients live normal and productive lives. In some cases, however, NF1 can be severely debilitating. In some cases of NF2, the damage to nearby vital structures, such as other cranial nerves and the brainstem, can be life-threatening.

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Carnival in Rio has been called the world’s most famous party. A million tourists join millions of Rio de Janeiro citizens “cariocas” in enthusiastic revelry spanning several days.

The Brazilian Carnival is an annual festival in Brazil held 40 days before Easter and marks the beginning of Lent. During Lent, Roman Catholics are supposed to abstain from all bodily pleasures, including the consumption of meat. The carnival, celebrated as a profane event and believed to have its origins in the pagan Saturnalia, can thus be considered an act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh.

Carnival is a four-day from celebration, happening from Saturday through Tuesday. It is usually in February, sometimes in March (February 2, 3, 4 and 5) this years carnival.

The highlight is the Sambodromo parade. Close runners-up are the street processions and masquerade balls.

The Sambodromo is a 700-meter (half-mile) long parade strip flanked by spectator stands and luxury boxes. On the last Sunday and Monday nights before Lent, the seats are filled with over 60,000 eager on-lookers. Tickets cost up to hundreds of dollars each and sell out quickly.

The attraction is the sounds and sights of the parading samba schools that goes on from dusk to day break. The samba school has nothing to do with education. It is typically a group from a poor neighborhood organized to produce a lavish Carnival procession - for the fun of it.

The floats are accompanied by marching samba bands numbering up to 300 musicians - their drummers ceaselessly pound the contagious samba beat. All is surrounded by a sea of flamboyantly or scantily clad singer-dancers.

A school can have up to 4,000 participants, so melding the ensemble into an organic whole is no easy task. The preparation requires nearly a year of sewing, building, composing, choreographing and rehearsing.

Samba school participants pay for their own costumes, which costs some of them a sizable slice of their income. They willingly do this because Carnival is a fantasy escape, which helps them forget their hardscrabble lives.

Some samba schools that are not invited to partake in the Sambodromo parade. Many take to the streets. Some parade in their neighborhoods and downtown Rio. Their festivities are free public affairs - passers-by may join the fun by dancing behind (and sometimes with) the group’s samba dancers and marching bands. Here you directly participate while in the Sambodromo seats you mainly observe.

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Cloverfield the worst ever movie I have ever saw in my whole life! If you haven’t seen it, please do yourself a huge favor don’t ever dare see it. - this entry might be too late for that, am really sorry, I was caught up with alot of things.

Well, the movie starts intriguingly, with that shaky video camcorder that carries sinister-looking date and time stamps. The video was shot by a young guy named Buddy.

Long story short, they are being terrorized by a giant monster roaring through Manhattan who’s destroying buildings, knocking down bridges and playing shot put with the Statue of Liberty’s head.

Whenever I would remember or say this movie, I would feel sick. Crowds scream and push each other around. There’s just alot of running around captured with that camcorder. If you’re prone to motion sickness don’t see this movie!

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