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Eye Glasses

I just recently purchased my second pair of eye glasses. And yes I know that it is a sign of my eyes getting tired and also a show of my age! I don’t particularly like wearing glasses, but my eyes tire out too easily without em. Even if the glasses offered the zoom capabilities of a binocular, I would rather have a perfect vision. Of course we can’t have everything so for now, you can call me four eyes, at least when I’m in front of the TV, computer or when I’m driving. I can immediately feel the effect and my eyes are hurting less now. I just hope that I take care of this new eye glasses to make it last for more than a year.

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Good morning sunshine!

After more than a year of working the night shift – I’m finally back to saying hello to the sunshine. Nothing really beats working the day shift! It’s like being alive all over again. I still go to work to early to be stuck with the rush hour but at least I can see the daytime working citizens when I go home in the afternoon. Usually I get 4 and am happy with 6 hours of sleep, but now I get to sleep soundly for even 8 hours. I even considered getting some natural sleeping pills, good thing it’s now in the past. Another plus is I get to do more of my extra curicular activities in the afternoon and early evening. And lastly I get to enjoy my restdays better because everyone sleeps and wakes up as I do, albeit not as early as I do, but still the same. Now I just have to focus on getting back in shape… Thank you Lord!

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Memories and Repairs

Lately my son and I have been travelling by ourselves to and from the house that we will be moving into. Since this is also the same house that I grew up with, I have been monitoring the progress of the repairs and repainting being done to our home. It has also become a good bonding moment for me and my son where we can talk and listen to music on the radio. The repairs are almost done, and the paint is also almost finished. In just a few days time, we will be ready to move in. Looking at some of our old furnitures reminded me of my first encounter with Acne, it was the first day of my grade 6 class then and I was shocked to find a huge pimple on my face! I wish they had information like exposed acne treatment reviews available back then to help out clueless teenagers, well, I made it through the day alive so still no complaints. My son Z will hopefully have less issues with acne, and we will make sure that we are there when he sees his first pimple to help him out. Moving into this house will definitely bring back memories, and hopefully it can help me in guiding my son properly.

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Moving out work out

This will be the 3rd time that we will be moving out so I have a fairly good idea of what it entails – sweat and back breaking lifting of boxes, furniture and appliances! As the years go by, we incurr a few more furnitures and fixtures which become additional burden on moving out days. Maybe I should check out alli reviews or hit the Time Works excercise machine to prepare my self for the hard work to come in this coming weekend. Our apartment is already filled with boxes and I have instructed our helper to not fillup the boxes too much so it can be carried easily and so that the box won’t break. Come that day I pray that the Lord will give us the strength to carry the things out and the strength to carry on in our new home.

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Moving far away

Since we currently live around 15 minutes of drive time away from work or (equivalent to 1 trike and 1 jeepney ride), my wife and son would from time to time go to my office and we would go out and eat or they would hang out with me at the ending hours of my shift.  Yesterday we did just that, I helped my wife do some errands during my break and introduced my son to some of my co-workers.   When I logged out, we even watched Shrek Forever After (I reviewed the movie here).  Since we are moving, I realized that the next time this will happen, my wife and son will be travelling a longer distance. It will probably take a while before they can fetch me from work again. While looking at term life insurance quotes I wonder, is the property really worth the hassle and inconvenience? I hope – yes.

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Finally got my Guitar.

After waiting for almost a month, the time has come to finally meet with my friend that brought the guitar from US.  I was too excited that day, like a kid I couldn’t sleep at all.  J and Z tagged along, it was at a gig by Muffin band, in Cubao Expo.  We got there early.  When they arrived immediately he handed over the guitar case and told me to check out the guitar, and when I opened – it was even better than the pictures.  It had some blemishes – but all in all – she was a beauty.  Now that I’ve played with it for a while, I am beginning to understand that with great sound comes fragility.  The solid sitka spruce top looks easily scratchable, which led me to think are there cheap insurance for guitars?  In any case – I’m now a proud owner of a handmade Martin & Co dreadnought.  Here’s a pic of the guitar side by side with my son’s classical practice guitar.

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Health is Wealth Part 2

I have been doing semi-reglar excercises these past days. I am commited to getting in shape within this year. I know that if I want my son to be physically active, I have to model the behavior, and I won’t be able to do that with my current state of health. After summer, I am thinking of going to the gym, but before I do, I want to at least have excercised at home for at least a month or so straight – so that my body won’t be surprised by the change. As soon as I get rid of belly fat, I can finally move forward into toning and shaping. I know I’m a long way from my goal – but here’s hoping for the best.

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Busy Weekend

This will be the start of a very busy weekend for me. Tonight I will be attending a practice / jam session with JJ and her band. I’ll be sitting in as her guitar player for Monday night’s gig. In fact while writing this blog post, I am listening to the songs that is on her lineup. After that practice, I will go straight to work until morning, and that won’t be a walk in the park either because Fridays are hectically toxic in the office. After that I’ll be going home to have a few hours of sleep and hop on my Time works for some excercise – which reminds me to look for a treadmill, and then right after that I’ll be on my way to another jam in the afternoon – this time with highschool friends who lives in the far south. That reminds me that I still have to practice the songs they want to jam on! When you think Sunday is gonna be free – you are definitely wrong, 3 major activities still await. We will go to church in the morning as we regularly do, and in the afternoon, we will have a “street jam” at a popular park. After that street jam, we will probably be attending Gospel Jam as well… Yep, there goes my weekend – so much for my restday. I’ll probably start my work week really tired, and yeah I have a gig on Monday night, right before my shift .

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eBay Experience

I spent almost 2 days reading reviews and scouring through the countless items on eBay. I had to swim through an ocean of unrelated items at first, like the no extenze side effects products and cars, kitchenware and many more before I was finally able to narrow it down to the guitars I wanted. Even then eBay has a funny way of not recognizing priority in key words, so when I searched for Martin Acoustic Guitar, the first results were pages and pages of Martin Acoustic Guitar “Strings”. So when I finally found the right models, I was thrilled. I always encourage people to try guitars FIRST before buying, so this will be against my philosophy. This is my first time to buy a guitar based on reviews, impression, word of mouth, brand and pictures alone. Made a lot of mistakes and was really surprised at the last minute bidding that is common. Prices even double in the last 2 minutes! Anyway with the help of my friend, I was finally able to decide on what Martin I will buy, and I will review it on my other site once it gets here. Can’t wait!

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Hunting for a Martin & Co. guitar

I have been spending a lot of time researching and looking for a good Martin Guitar that I can finally call my own. After a lot of research, checking supplement reviews, and with budget limitation in mind, I have come up with a list of Martin guitars that I will have my friend bid on. I mostly based it off on reviews and on the sound that I heard on Youtube. The downside of doing this type of purchase is you’ll never know what you’ll get till you get it. That is why I hope and pray that God will guide that guitar with the perfect wood and construction to this humble home. Anyway here are the models I liked:

- Martin OMC-1E
- Martin DCX-1E
- Martin 000C-16GTE
- MARTIN XC1T Ellipse

My first priority would be the OMC and then the XC1T. I sincerely hope and pray that on May 12, I’ll have my new Martin!!! If it’s for me, it’s for me!

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