I have not considered myself a techno guy for now as I’m not sure how updated I am about the latest laptops available in the market right now. Although every time I buy electronics and gadgets, I always read reviews and comments about certain brands first. This time, I have a hard time choosing what will be the best laptops in the market since my cousin wanted to buy a new one.

He is torn between a Mac or Sony VAIO, HP or those local brands. It would be for internet use only. I joked when one of the computer technicians asked us on what possible use is the purchase. I told him just for harvesting his crops in Farmville. Hopefully I could solicit advise from laptop experts on what will be the best laptops today considering the price range from P30,000-40,000.

After two months of long suffering since my Canon DSLR camera had trouble, and after I have brought it to Canon service, I finally had it repaired. It took me more than 30 times of follow up from their call agents.

I am a Canon lover ever since but with this kind of service, sometimes it makes me think about shifting. Imagine the first couple times of follow up. They told me that they are just waiting for the part to come. Then after those follow ups they told me that parts already arrived and they were just waiting for the service man’s feed back. After that I made another couple of follow ups then they told me again that parts are arriving but they were not sure if the needed parts of my camera was one of those. Another call agent told me after a month that my camera was already fixed but it was under observation and calibration and maybe I could have it in a week.

But after a week I followed up again the agent told me that it was still under repair. I told her what the call agent told me a week before that it was already fixed and it was only under observation. But she told me that she will confirmed it first to the service center but because according to her lines are busy she will just log it and told me to inform me as long as she has the latest update after a week.

I made a couple of follow ups again and same reason were given as to why they could not contact the service center because the line was so busy. But what I was asking was if they could call me about the status. Two weeks had passed and I have never heard of them. It seemed like they don’t make any extra effort to contact or make follow up, too.

Many of the photographers prefer Canon because of the availability of their service centers anywhere but if they have this kind of service, sometimes you can’t avoid thinking how to throw your camera away and buy a new brand of camera. Hope they can solved this problem. I already read lots of complaints against their service centers. Hope they can improve this.

In the past two weeks, a couple of houses near my uncle’s place in Taguig were attacked by thieves “Akyat Bahay” . The first victim was amenable saying that he really didn’t notice those people who got inside his house because he was really drank that night. The last victim really couldn’t explain why they didn’t feel or hear anything inside during the sneaking in of these people. They were just there inside the house sleeping that night. The thieves managed to open the cabinet and were able to get the most valued one. The thieves also managed to get their big television set and other appliances.

According to some stories they believed that this people are spraying something where victims got to sleep tight and will not be able to feel anything. What’s sad is that these victims are also ordinary people and not like the wealthy ones whose houses are equipped with home security systems. They are people who just earn enough and are able to save just to buy this appliances and yet they were still victimized.

I hope the police not only those barangay volunteers in the area will do their share in patrolling their assigned area so that safety, peace and order will be maintained and the stealing will stop.

I noticed that my uncle who is only in his early 40’s is already using eye glasses when reading. My grand parents and my parents also have this kind of problem. I know that during their time there is no computers nor television set yet. Otherwise the TV was in black and white and I remember when I was a little tot we were scolded if we were watching near the TV but yet we still end up wearing glasses eventually.

It disturbed me because I remember my father and my grandfather always reminding me every time that they’d see me wearing their eyeglasses before that it is hard to live with eyeglasses and I should not even dream of wearing it someday even those discount prescription glasses. I am still lucky because until now I can still read the Bible verse even with a small amount of light and I can still manage to drive at night. Even though I do not take proper eye care since I take more than eight hours being in front of the computer and TV. I hope and pray that I will not really reach the time that I will also use one.

I pass by Mc Kinley road almost everyday since it is my usual route when I drop off my son to his school. That’s why I always know if there are upcoming weekend events in Piazza Venice in Mc Kinley Hill because of their scattered banners all over the street lights of McKinley. The reason why I learned about Gabby Concepcion’s album launch this Feb 20, 2010 was because of the banners.

I am not a big fan but I just remembered my sister in-law who was a huge fan of Sharon and Gabby love team but now resides in Belgium.

I told my wife about it and she finds his album to be the best gift for her especially if this will come with Gabby’s autograph. I am sure she will be happy.

Watching Gabby’s concert was all worth it since we have let the album signed by Gabby and hopefully we can send it through a friend who is going back to Belgium. It’s worth our time and money. My wife skipped reading slimquick reviews so she could make it to the album launching.

I am sure this will again a biggest blow to the authority and will even give them a muscle builder task after one of the Maguindanao massacre suspects disappeared from the provincial jail of Sultan Kudarat. A retired police superintendent Piang Adam was reported missing from his detention cell.

According to reports Adam is charged with malversation of public funds or property and other related cases before the Department of Justice with regard to the recovery vehicles, firearms and ammunition from the three provinces including Maguindanao. We just don’t know if this firearm and ammunition is the same firearm use in the worse killings in Maguindanao?

A couple of years ago my sister in-law gave us free consultations, spa, massage beauty and facial service coupons and we had fun of using them one by one not knowing that one of the coupons given to us was a free health consultation and a free colon cleansing therapy. We thought it was just a common medical consultation where after a medical examination the doctor will explain to you the possible problem and will just prescribe you medicines. We were just shocked that the doctor attendant prepared a colon cleanser colon cleanser intended to remove fecal waste and unidentified toxins from the colon and intestinal tract.

Although I am a nurse and I know what enema, that’s the first time I learned about the therapy. I know the feeling of someone who gets enema in the hospital since I my self performed it to my patients as a surgical preparation. I refused to be cleansed at that time giving the reason that we will just come back for it because we had other transactions to settle.

I know this is a process of clearing toxins from the body or neutralizing or transforming them, and clearing excess mucus and congestion but I just want to know if this is good or bad?

It is not new anymore to hear or read some reports about boxers who did not have a better life at the end of their career. Some are suffering from disability or even die in the ring. Like what happened to Z Gorres for example. He is now recovering after a life threatening operation due to suffering a subdural hematoma. Gorres collapsed in the ring at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada November 13, 2009 although he won his bantam weight bout against Luis Melendez but he will never come out again in the ring to fight.

The worse thing is that he accumulated thousands of dollars in debt for his hospital bills that even his insurance is not enough. Adding to the lifetime medicines and therapy he will be taking for life. His maintenance medicine is not like acne medicine. I am sure this is expensive and who will shoulder these expenses? He is lucky if his manager and our government can shoulder them.

Wherever you go right now, politicians’ banners and posters are all over and I don’t know if the COMELEC in their local and national branches are really doing their jobs to police possible violations? Or does its people need more testosterone booster so that they could perform their job well? In my 35 years of life where I had four presidential elections experienced and involved with local and even barangay elections, I never heard that anyone had been put to jail or even brought to court in the relation to this kind of election violation.

This is just a simple violation, putting banners and other campaign posters outside COMELEC posting designated area. This is a simple violation simple rule and yet how can politicians who wish to be a leader be a role model if they could not follow this simple rule? What more if they are already in power?  Hopefully the COMELEC will straighten up their power on this. Please show us that there is one candidate disqualified from running because of this.

I don’t know what is going happen to the weather bureau of the country as well as the government department who is responsible for this. I am sure they will blame it on their lack of apparatus, budget, weatherization training among others. Imagine the DOE (Department of Energy) announces that there will be a possibility of rotating brown out that will be experienced in the country? This is reportedly due to some power plant that has been undergoing repairs and maintenance in addition to the El Nino phenomenon that the country is experiencing today. If the water level in the dam is on its critical level, it could not produce enough power to generate the current electric demands of the country.

I know PAGASA already predicted this EL Nino thing but what does the government do in the preparation of this? Or does this imply that the country will need additional independent power producers? Yet corruption could be behind this thing. We hope not. We are tired of corruption. My unsolicited advice to the next president of the Philippines on his first year of service is that he should take emphases on eradicating corruption in all branches of the government and impose the maximum penalty to the abusers.