I hope that this country will have enough of the hospital scandals. For now, let us talk about hospital related matters but focus on what they are supposed to, help people get better. For as far as I can remember, people everywhere have been advising that we all should consume 8 glasses of water per…
Mother's Day is a time when people remember their moms for having given birth and raised them at the cost of great sacrifices. Majority of them had to give up career and business opportunities, advanced schooling and more comfortable lives to be able to nurture us to what we are now. This coming Mother's Day,…
================================================== Last night, I had a couple of dark chocolate bars, had a really good time and this morning, the newspapers gave me an excuse to further indulge in it. A recent study declares that two chocolate bars per day lower blood cholesterol and systolic blood pressure levels. In detail, bad cholesterol declines by 5.3%…
UPDATE:March and April 2008 Hotel Occupancy Rates in Metro Manila, Philippines Despite the stream of bad news hitting the country, all seems to be well in the tourism industry. Hotel occupancy has been relatively steady for the past few years and this year seems to be no different. In Metro Manila, the average occupancy for…
In the medical world, researchers continue to search for new ways to treat disease and reduce pain. At the same time many doctors are embracing a therapy that’s been around for more than 4-thousand years. Acupuncture. It’s used for many conditions including nausea, depression, anxiety and addiction…
I started drinking coffee when I was in high school but it was more of a breakfast ritual that continued until college. Upon joining the corporate world however, my daily consumption rose to noticeable levels that my boss had an item for it in the grocery list JD's coffee! Being largely uninitiated then, I took coffee…
Good news for Filipinos! They can now fly nonstop to Hawaii in a wide body Boeing 767-300ER that can seat up to 267 passengers. The flights will be every Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and will depart Manila at 7:00 pm. Arrival in Hawaii will be at 11:15 am on the same day since the Philippines…
Does your internet connection seem to be unusually slow these days? Mine is. And whenever I call up Manila based friends to share my anguish, I am told that the situation is the same for most of them. Being a battle scarred internet user, I have tried a number of remedies and found some to…
“Here, no one has ever died from hunger but a lot had from overeating.” In a casual conversation, those were the words of China's then Premier Deng Xiaoping to a visiting foreign official. It may be have been hard to believe at that time. China was known as a poor country and a lot people…
If you'll look at your monthly expenses, it is without a doubt that you will find shopping as a major contributor to it. Since we all want to be able to optimize the enjoyment of our hard earned money, let's talk about home economics as often as possible. Here's our shopping advice for today: Seriously…