Saw this somewhere on the net.  Just thought I’d spread the word :-) 

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

• Throw out non-essential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.
• Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
• Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 
• Enjoy the simple things. 
• Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
• The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 
• Surround yourself with what you love , whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 
• Cherish your health.  If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 
• Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, or to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
• Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. 

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There are times in your life that you feel that people are gaining ground from you, by stepping on you.  There are times that you just can’t help but feel that other people have deprived something from you.  We are all humans, thereby we have that excuse to rant when we feel that we have been wronged.  I guess that’s the way our psyche has been trained by society itself - the rat race.

But I say to everyone, this is not the best way to abundance.  The best way to our own betterment is to acknowledge how much we have in our life rather that how much we don’t have.  In my recent realizations, I found that the best way to acknowledge abundance is to not only think of how much we have, but also to think of how much more we can give to others.  You see, if we just say that we wait for the surplus in our possessions for us to start giving, then that’s what our lives become - the waiting.  If we give now, even with what little we have, then our lives will start to become what we do - to be an overflowing vessel of God’s graces.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Deep down inside you think you are small and that you have nothing to give. And if you don’t give, you don’t receive. - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

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Now this looks good enough to buy hehe

Hot off Steve Job’s keynote - The iPad

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So I wore my foodie hat today and brought my nephew Jude to one of my fave restaurants, Red Kimono.

Studying in a Japanese university, I think he really appreciated the experience.

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I making this bold move (for me) and challenging myself to my very own project 365.

(Yes, I collected all of McDonald’s Coke glasses hehe)

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Wow!  This is still giving me goosebumps

I subscribe to Bo Sanchez’s God Whispers.  This evening I opened my home computer and read this

January 26, 2010

Dear Angelo,

Adventure. Is that what your life is about now? That’s my desire for you.
To climb hills. To run in the rain. To serve others. To laugh with friends…

Stretch, Angelo. When you feel too comfortable, check your
dreams. It may be time for another adventure.

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My blog entries are SO getting more gloomy by the day, I tell you.  I seriously need more varied content!!!  Heck I need to travel and go outside more, for starters.  The plan I wrote on the Delta Effect entry has to fly ASAP, hahaaaays…  I’m sure it will sometime soon.  It always does.

Anyway, commercial muna…

Saw this on Yugatech and I think I found just the notebook that I want hehe

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Less words, more action…

That is what I repeatedly say every morning, as soon as I drag my weak body into my meditative stance.  This new mantra I made for myself was a product of Friday’s trials and tribulations, so to speak.  Yes, while still nursing a body that’s fresh out of being sick (or in the midst of being sick), I also had to deal with some BS in the workplace…  After losing my voice, literally, it hit me that I would be better off acting to solve these issues rather than talk about them (in any case, I couldn’t talk anymore).

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we are limited by our own past.  Hardships and traumatic experiences cause a weaker or a jaded version of ourselves in the present that we in turn fail to move on.  We fail to succeed in the present because of the ghosts of our past.

On the other hand, sometimes what hinders our success is the seemingly insurmountable path that is laid before us.  We feel discouraged just looking at the mountain we have to climb.

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The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it. - Sir William Temple

I think I’ve got the list down to number 2 hehe.

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All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence

There is nothing more precious than a man working towards his dreams.  That I believe.  But it ceases to become just a dream when you work towards it while you are awake.  It becomes something more.  It becomes Hope.

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Treating today as “Me” day, I got to thinking about the past few weeks that have gone by.  I think I now know why I’ve been feeling a bit discontented and frustrated about my work.  I mean, sure there are lots of setbacks in my job and the firm, but these things didn’t always get to me.  Well, before I used to obsess about my work a lot but that feeling went away and I was content for a time.  Now that feeling is back.

Then it hit me.  For the past few months, I have not been doing anything else but work, or be at work.  On my free days, I just stay home or go to the local mall.  I have not traveled or attended any productive activity.  If I was a river I would be this steady force, focused on one path.  I know that I’m the type of person who needs to be well-rounded.  I’m a person who needs to be multitasking different productive activities, else I get burnt out.  I just forgot about these thing, I guess.

A few days ago I have been toying with the idea of getting into business.  Not the passive income yielding stuff, a more of a semi-active endeavor.  I am actually setting this up with a business partner, a relative.  So, that’s going to be exciting.  I’m excited, enthusiastic and optimistic about this.  This is going to push through.

It didn’t end there…

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My daily astrology reading says it again:

Solar Eclipses seem to affect the Sun-Signs for around 6 months, and this one has a very interesting effect on your solar chart. This is one of two in your career sector, Aries, and is aligned with Venus, which can sweep you into the circle of the favored few, and even allow you to move up in rank or responsibility. These two Eclipses (the other being in June) could trigger a promotion or a big boost in income. Mercury’s change of direction could prevent a clash with your partner over work issues: it may have started already.

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I found these old photos on the web.  Comparing it with my latest pics… hehehe

Anyway, you be the judge…

2006 and 2009 side by side

2006:

2009:

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Stole this from my friend Arlene’s Instant Message status

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.

This hit a nerve when I read it today.

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