It is TGIF Again!

Thank God it's Friday!! For all those who don't need to work during the weekend, this is usually what they say!! It's TGIF! and I believed they are happy when Friday comes..but for me it really doesn't matter but of course I am happy too because my husband don't work this weekend!..

How was your day my friends? Hope all went fine! I am quite tired today in spite I really did not do a lot of things. I guess it is normal when sometimes we just feel like that. anyway, I have a lot of things to share and talk in my blogs but sometimes I just don't have enough time. At least I am sharing some ideas, thoughts, opinions and of course my personal experiences sometimes. I am just happy everytime I can do that. This is especially true if I can share some photos of my escapades. I hope you are enjoying it too. If I can't update this blog, just feel free to visit me in my other sites!! I will be very glad to see you there! have a great evening guys!! take care and have a great and blessed weekend!! Tschuss!! Machts gut!!

WW: The Carnival Parade

One of the participants during the carnival parade in Velburg, Germany

My Sister Passed the Nursing Board Exam

CONGRATULATIONS FOR PASSING THE NURSING BOARD EXAM!!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS!!!

I am very happy after I received an instant messenger last Friday that my dear Sister Luv, just passed the Nursing Board Exam..God is really great!! Our prayers are answered..I am proud of you dear beautiful Sistah. Oh yes, she's the most beautiful of all!!...second ra ko...wink!!!I know how you also did your best. Your efforts and hard works are being answered and reciprocated. But most of all, great thanks to God for all the blessings and graces that He always poured on us. God bless our family and more blessings to come!!

I also wish you dear Sistah all the best in life and good luck to all your undertakings. You have been a good girl and you deserved all the good things in life!! Special thanks to all sponsors like me and Ate Aking (who is also a Nurse) and family from Las Vegas..God's miracles really work even in very simply things!!! Let's celebrate!! hope to see you all this year!! I miss you all!! God bless!!

Feeling Beautiful Inside and Out

Good afternoon everyone! I am finally done with my household chores including grocery shopping, cooking and some cleaning. here I am now in front of my PC. I am thankful that my husband did the general cleaning in the house today. He got vacation for 4 days because we want to watch the Carnival in Berching on Sunday. We already watched a Chinese Carnival in Dietfurt yesterday which was very awesome. I wish to share some photos here later or tomorrow. I believed this post I will tackle today is quite interesting for women. This is about women and beauty. Isn't it a very nice feeling when you always feel beautiful inside and out? Anyway have you heard about Advanced Aesthetics Associates?

If you have to ask me guys if I am feeling beautiful inside and out? Of course, I do and I always try to feel the same. How lucky are those women who have self-confidence and always feel beautiful inside and out. I guess I am lucky too.....lol! You might probably know some models, artists and other prominent women like Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Kate Moss, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and a lot more. Do you think these ladies don't have Facial Rejuvenation from time to time to look always attractive, beautiful and young. I will even do the same if I have enough resources. Why not when it makes you look fabulous and gorgeous.

You might probably Schedule a Consultation if you want. If you want to have the out most cosmetic surgery with proven best results, why not try to visit this great site. All women out there, make it happen especially if you have the dream!! Just always remember, the beauty inside is still the greatest thing!

WW: Disneyland, CA

Disneyland in California during my 2 months vacation in the US

Are You Wasting Money on Multivitamins?

I guess this is a good start for the week. I just got this post in the Bulletin Board Posted by one of my friends in friendsters. Thanks a lot Merz for sharing this. This only serves as General Information. ...Continue to read if you want to know more. Who knows this might cause you to save some money and avoiding the side effects of taking vitamins...Have a great day to all!!

Date: Monday, 16 February, 2009 3:35 PM
Subject: Multivitamins....a waste??? Important , pls. read...
Message: Are You Wasting Money on Multivitamins?

Advertisements with tantalizing promises of improved health, prevention of cancer and heart disease, and greater energy have lured millions of Americans to spend billions of dollars on the purchase of multivitamins.

An article in the February 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine reported that multivitamin use did not protect the 161,808 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative Study from common forms of cancer, heart attacks, or strokes. And the numbers of deaths during the 8 years of the study were the same in vitamin users as in non-users. Still, it is important to recognize that this was an observational study, not a more meaningful clinical trial. Although these findings apply only to women, other studies have failed to show benefits of multivitamins in older men.

These results are not at all surprising for several reasons. No large study has shown that multivitamins significantly benefit healthy men and women. In addition, for some years physicians prescribed folic acid and vitamins B12 and B6 in the hopes of preventing heart attacks and strokes by lowering blood levels of homocysteine. (High blood levels of homocysteine are associated with an increased risk of coronary and other vascular diseases.) A number of recent studies, however, have shown that, while these vitamins do lower homocysteine levels, they do not prevent heart attacks or strokes.

Many doctors have also prescribed the antioxidants vitamin E and beta-carotene to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Alas, studies have now proven that these supplements are not protective--and may even be harmful.

No one denies that an adequate intake of vitamins is essential; however, vitamins can and should be obtained from eating enough healthy foods rather than from swallowing vitamin supplements.
Then what about vitamins being a great source of energy? Some multivitamin ads do indeed claim that their supplements boost energy; and some professional athletes gobble handfuls of vitamin pills to increase their energy and strength. But researchers proved long ago that energy comes from calories, not vitamins. The highly touted cholesterol-lowering effects of substances added to some multivitamin supplements? Still unproven.

All this is not to say that specific vitamins supplements are never desirable. Vitamins can be valuable in certain situations:

* Folic acid supplements in women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant can help to prevent serious neural-tube defects that affect the baby's brain and spine.
* Supplements that contain more vitamin D and calcium than is present in regular multivitamin pills can help older men, and especially women, avoid osteoporosis and bone fractures.
* Supplements of vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, zinc, and copper may slow the progression of vision loss in people with early macular degeneration.
And multivitamins are beneficial for some entire groups of people:
* those on a very-low-calorie weight-loss diet
* strict vegetarians
* heavy alcohol drinkers
* individuals who are not getting an adequate diet because they are too sick or too poor--or live by themselves and are unable to prepare proper meals for themselves
I also agree with a comment made by one of the coauthors of the Archives of Internal Medicine article about postmenopausal women mentioned above. An 8-year follow-up period may not be long enough to show that multivitamins protect against cancers that take many years to develop.
All the same, the results of the studies on vitamins so far point to one conclusion: Healthy people who eat enough calories from a varied diet do not benefit from multivitamin supplements.

Have a great Valentine's day

Enjoy your Valentine's Day!! this is my greetings to each and everyone!!

(Saint) Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The day was originally a pagan festival that was renamed after two Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th-century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend in average twice as much money as women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day