Sponsoring Thoughts

It is clearly defined in the book "Communications With God" by Neale Donald Walsch that it is the secret thought behind the thought or simply the controlling thought. In connection to my previous topic about prayer it is somewhat if somebody pray to God by means of begging and supplication, there seems much smaller chance that they will experience what they think they are choosing or aiming it's because the sponsoring thought behind every supplication is that they do not have now what they wish. Meaning to say that the thing or things whatever they are praying to God does not or did not never ever existed or happend at all in any aspect or to anyone's life in the entire history of the humanity. For that the Sponsoring Thought will become the reality.

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BSBT's Touch Therapy

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Got the Experience
BSBT's passion for massage therapy is becoming matured while some of the students working on their way to perfectness. Making their clients feel better is the focus of their work; not the clock, assuring a generous and thorough therapeutic treatment. The perfect opportunity arose at a private studio conveniently located in the heart of BSBT school campus along Halsema high way and near the beautiful Bell Church area. For them to expand their practice and focus on giving clients a thorough treatment. A great care and concern for clients and that comes through in their attention to each individuals' specific needs as well as therapeutic touch of some beautiful students. Karera wa tottemo kerei desu yo!!!

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Okay! I have a bad back I also have a bad neck, bad arms bad hands and headaches. But it could be worse! I attribute all the above mostly to overuse syndrome that I have achieved by working 4 straight years in the field of Import and Export as well as in Real Estate in Arab world. It is an unforgiving kind of job and the more you use, it seems ‘the more you lose'. Add to that a few athletic blunders (shocking considering I'm so buff) and I have always been a set up for painful muscles, headache and back. All this said, over the years though, I’ve been fortunate I try and keep things on an even keel by exercise, diet, braces if need be, and therapy. Surgeries have been recommended to me several times which I have politely declined. In my quest for obtaining relief, however, I found myself at one point being referred to a chiropractor which is out of reach on my budget. I wasn’t too keen on this recommendation because I have never embraced the idea of purposefully letting someone well – embrace me – and squeeze the living crap out of me while calling it an adjustment! It took many people a long time to convince me but I finally succumbed – and surprisingly I found my chiropractor to be a Godsend at a time when I could barely turn my head! If anyone out there has never had a massage before, check it out before you go – make sure someone can vouche for the massage therapist and that they are not able to bench press your weight – 50 times. Make sure that have has not grown up on a farm lifting veggies onto a lorry to load them! Make sure that they are not a woman on testosterone! Seriously – just check it out – and bring flash cards or aids with you to the initial interview and quiz them as to what the big X means - so that if you don’t want a certain part of your body massaged they’ll actually cease and desist! Well - they say your first time is special – wow – what an understatement! Unfortunately, BSBT therapeutic massage last for only one day.. Thanks and kudos to you ladies….

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Mr. & Miss BSBT

Miss Aquino

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BSBT

On my Student mode...

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For Sale: Canon SX20 IS Power Shot

Specifications
IMAGE SENSOR
Type - 1/2.3” CCD
Effective Pixels - Approx.12.1M
Colour Filter Type - Primary Colour
IMAGE PROCESSOR
Type DIGIC 4 with iSAPS technology
LENS
Focal Length 5.0 - 100.0 mm (35mm equivalent: 28-560mm)
Zoom Optical 20x. Digital approx. 4x (with Digital Tele-Converter approx. 1.5x or 2.0x and Safety Zoom¹)². Combined approx. 80x
Maximum f/number f/2.8-f/5.7
Construction 13 elements in 11 groups (1 UD and 1 single-sided UA element)
Image Stabilisation Yes (shift-type)
Ultrasonic Motor (USM) Yes, zoom

FOCUSING
Type TTL
AF System/ Points Face Detection, 1-point AF (Any position is available, fixed to centre or Face Select and Track)
AF Modes Single, Continuous, Servo AF/AE¹
AF Point Selection Manual selection using FlexiZone AF/AE, Size (Normal, Small)
AF Lock On/Off Selectable
AF Assist Beam Yes
Manual Focus Yes
Focus Bracketing Yes
Closest Focusing Distance 0cm (W) from front of lens in Super Macro
EXPOSURE CONTROL
Metering modes Evaluative (linked to Face Detection AF frame), Centre-weighted average, Spot (centre or linked to Face Detection AF or FlexiZone AF frame)
AE Lock Yes
Exposure Compensation +/- 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments Enhanced i-Contrast for automatic dynamic range correction
AEB 1/3 - 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments
ISO sensitivity* AUTO, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
SHUTTER
Speed 1 - 1/3200 sec (factory default) 15 - 1/3200 sec (total range - varies by shooting mode)
WHITE BALANCE
Type TTL
Settings Auto (including Face Detection WB), Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash, Custom
VIEWFINDER
Viewfinder EVF (0.44" type), approx. 235,000 dots
Dioptre Correction Yes
LCD MONITOR
Monitor Vari-angle 2.5” PureColor VA (TFT), approx. 230,000 dots
Coverage 100%
Brightness Adjustable to one of five levels. Quick-bright LCD
FLASH
Modes Auto, Manual Flash On / Off
Slow Sync Speed Yes. Fastest speed 1/500 sec
Red-Eye Reduction Yes
Flash Exposure Compensation +/- 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments. Face Detection FE. Safety FE.
Flash Exposure Lock Yes
Manual Power Adjustment 3 levels with internal flash (up to 19 levels with external EX Speedlites 270EX and 430EX II. 22 levels with 580EX II¹)
Second Curtain Synchronisation Yes
Built-in Flash Range 50cm-6.8m (W) / 1.0m-3.7m (T)
External Flash E-TTL with EX series Speedlites¹, Canon High Power Flash HF-DC1
SHOOTING
Modes Auto*, Program AE, Shutter priority AE, Aperture priority AE, Manual, Portrait, Landscape, Night Snapshot, Sports, SCN (Indoor, Sunset, Night Scene, Fireworks, Beach, Aquarium, Foliage, Snow, ISO 3200¹, Color Accent, Color Swap), Stitch Assist, Movie *with Scene Detection Technology and Motion Detection Technology
Photo Effects My Colors (My Colors Off, Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Custom Color)
Drive modes Single, Continuous, Self-Timer, FaceSelf-Timer
Continuous Shooting Approx. 1.0 shots/sec.¹, AF: Approx. 0.7 shots/sec.¹, LV: Approx. 0.7 shots/sec.¹ (until memory card becomes full)²
RECORDING PIXELS / COMPRESSION
Image Size (L) 4000 x 3000, (M1) 3264 x 2448, (M2) 2592 x 1944, (M3) 1600 x 1200, (S) 640 x 480, (W) 3840 x 2160. Resize in playback (M3, S, 320 x 240)
Compression Fine, Normal
Movies (HD) 1280 x 720, 30fps, (L)640 x 480, 30fps, (M)320 x 240, 30fps
Movie Length Up to 4GB or 29 min. 59 sec (HD)¹ Up to 4GB or 1 hour (L, M)²
FILE TYPES
Still Image Type JPEG compression, (Exif 2.2 [Exif Print] compliant) / Design rule for Camera File system, Digital Print Order Format [DPOF] Version 1.1 compliant
Movies MOV [H.264 + Linear PCM (monaural / stereo)]
DIRECT PRINT
Canon Printers Canon SELPHY Compact Photo Printers and Canon Inkjet Printers supporting PictBridge (ID Photo Print, Fixed Size Print and Movie Print supported on SELPHY CP & ES printers only)
PictBridge Yes
OTHER FEATURES
Red-Eye Correction Yes, during shooting and playback
My Camera / My Menu Start-up image and camera sounds customisation. Menu customisation
My Category Image tagging feature
Intelligent Orientation Sensor Yes
Histogram Yes, live histogram
Playback Zoom Approx. 2x – 10x
Self Timer Approx. 2 or 10 sec., Custom or FaceSelf-Timer
Menu Languages English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Chinese (traditional), Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Thai, Arabic, Ukrainian, Romanian, Farsi
INTERFACE
Computer Hi-Speed USB (Mini-B, MTP, PTP)
Other HDMI Mini Connector. A/V output (PAL/NTSC)
MEMORY CARD
Type SD, SDHC, MMC, MMCplus, HC MMCplus.
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEM
PC & Macintosh Windows XP SP2-3 / Vista (including SP1-2) Mac OS X v10.4 - 10.5
SOFTWARE
Browsing & Printing ZoomBrowser EX / ImageBrowser
Other PhotoStitch
POWER SOURCE
Batteries 4x Size-AA Alkaline or NiMH Batteries(NB4-300) (Alkalines supplied)
Battery life Approx. 340 shots (with supplied batteries)¹ Approx. 600 shots (with optional Canon NB4-300 batteries)¹ Approx. 720 min. playback (with supplied batteries)¹ Approx. 840 min. playback (with Canon NB4-300 batteries)¹
A/C Power Supply Optional, Power adapter CA-PS700
ACCESSORIES
Cases / Straps Soft Case DCC-800
Flash Canon Speedlites (including 270EX, 430EX II, 580EX, 580EX II¹), Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2, Off-Camera Shoe Cord OC-E3 High Power Flash HF-DC1
Power Supply & Battery Chargers Compact AC power adapter CA-PS700, Battery Charger Kit CBK4-300, Ni-MH Batteries NB4-300
Other Canon HDMI Cable HTC-100
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Operating Environment 0 – 40 °C¹, 10 – 90% humidity
Dimensions (WxHxD, excl. protrusions) 124.0 x 88.3 x 86.9 mm
Weight (body only) Approx. 560g
Zoom Depending on the image size selected. Digital zoom available for still image and standard movie modes only. Optical zoom may not be available during movie recording.
AF Modes Some settings limit availability
Manual Power Adjustment Not all functions of the flash are supported.
External Flash Not all functions of the flash are supported.
Modes Recording pixels fixed at 1600 x 1200 (ISO 3200 Mode) and 1824 x 1368 (Low Light Mode).
Continuous Shooting Under conditions where the flash does not fire. Depending on memory card speed / capacity / compression setting.
Movie Length The following Speed Class memory cards are required for maximum record time: 1280 x 720, 30fps Speed Class 4 or above. 1920 x 1080, 30fps Speed Class 6 Depending on memory card speed / capacity / compression setting.
Battery life Using the batteries and memory card format supplied with the camera (where included), except where indicated.
Flash Not all functions of the flash are supported.
Operating Environment 0 – 35 °C when NB-3AH is used


Free:
Tripod, Battery and Charger

Price:
AED 1900/ Negotiable

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Witness the fountain from Dubai Mall with Julie

To cost cut the consumption of electricity, Dubai government opens to the public 3 minutes & 47 seconds of live entertainment once everyday between 7 - 8 pm...

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UAE Cordillera (Igorot Org.) Dance & Sports Fest

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Boku no Kazouko

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King Size Bed For Sale

Has been used for a short period of time but condition is like new.
Slats included and in perfect condition (sold separately at IKEA).
All assembly parts accounted for.
Currently in storage and is flat-packed.

Buyer to pick up from Al Quoz Industrial Area.

Contact:
Email - admin@cavendish.ae
Phone - +971 4 345 2851
Mobile - +971 55 397 6499

And on the News...

Oh! la!la!

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Discover Grand Hyatt Dubai

Located in the Bur Dubai district, Grand Hyatt Dubai hotel towers majestically the edge of Dubai's historic creek. The hotel is close to financial and entertainment districts, the Dubai Creek, Dubai WTC and Wafi City Shopping Mall, while Dubai International Airport is only 7 km away.

Set within 37 acres of landscaped gardens, our Dubai hotel is an outstanding combination of resort facilities, luxury hotel rooms & suites, residential apartments and one of the most advanced conference hotels in the United Arab Emirates and Middle East.

The hotel hosts a wide array of restaurants, bars and cafés, most of them located around the tropical garden of the atrium. Favourite outlets include Awtar Restaurant, Manhattan Grill, iZ Indian Restaurant, Singaporean Peppercrab, The Market Café and Cooz Bar.

The Grand Spa is a comprehensive wellness centre with a wide offering in spa treatments complemented by saunas, steam rooms, indoor & outdoor pools, squash & tennis courts and fitness centre.

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Uncovering the rich history of Iraq’s past

The buried antiquities of Ur, Biblical birthplace of Abraham and one of the cradles of civilisation, could one day outshine those of ancient Egypt, archaeologists and workers on the site believe. With Iraq ravaged by war and strife since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Baghdad’s struggling government has had greater priorities than funding large-scale digs at Ur, where only small teams have been working since 2005. “When the (large-scale) excavations restart, tonnes of antiquities will see the light of day, filling entire museum wings,” enthused Dhaif Moussin, who is in charge of protecting a site that has been prone to looting. “This site will become perhaps more important than Giza,” he added, referring to the plateau outside the Egyptian capital of Cairo where some of mankind’s most treasured antiquities have been unearthed, including the Sphinx and several notable pyramids. That may not be just an idle boast. In the early 1900s, American archaeologist Charles Leonard Woolley made some stunning finds when he unearthed 16 tombs of Ur’s elite. Inside he found some of the greatest treasures of antiquity, including a golden dagger encrusted with lapis lazuli, an intricately carved golden statue of a ram caught in a thicket, a lyre decorated with a bull’s head and the gold headdress of a Sumerian queen. Those treasures have been compared to the riches from the tomb of the Egyptian boy-king, Tutankhamun, but they excite archaeologists even more because the graves at Ur are more than 1,000 years older. To date, hardly 20 per cent of the site has been excavated, mainly by American and British archaeologists. “Some archaeologists estimate it will take more than 30 years to dig out the entire city,” said Moussin. Ur lies near a US airbase just outside of Nasiriyah, a major battle ground of the American invasion. “It is certain that much more material remains to be discovered,” said Steve Tinney, professor of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania which, together with the British Museum, sponsored Woolley’s excavations between 1922 and 1934. Ur of the Chaldees, as it is mentioned in the Bible, was one of the great urban centres of the Sumerian civilisation of southern Iraq. The kingdom was governed by a real administration and code of laws. Sumerian script, called cuneiform, is the earliest known writing system in the world. Tinney said he hoped for the discovery of texts that would shed light on the culture and polytheistic religion of the Sumerians. The site would be unequalled in the world if it proves to be the birthplace of Abraham, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, said Moussin. But for all of its former glory, Ur is likely to remain buried under the site that is protected by a fragile barrier and some guards, lost in a country rocked by violence and more worried about rebuilding its present capital. “Much remains to be done, and an endeavour must be authorised together with the central government if Iraq wants to benefit from its enormous potential as a Mecca of tourism,” said Anna Prouse, an Italian diplomat in charge of a regional rebuilding team in the Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. In addition to Ur, the province has 47 other sites “of great archaeological value”, she added. The provincial authorities do not have the budget to start titanic archaeological excavations because they are focusing on restoring electricity, sewerage systems, schools, roads and drinking water for their war-ravaged population, Prouse said.

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Holy Smoke!!

I smoke. Yes, I know how bad it is and what it does to me to my poor dear pair of lungs. I've been smoking for 14 years. I can't even believe I've been ALIVE that long.

Well, the time has come. I am going to totally quit. Julie is not smoker. She does really concern very much about on how I will stop it.

Julie and I are planning to take a home vacation at the beginning of April. We will end up being on 4 planes total for the entire vacation. I brought up quitting because of the hectic schedules like she will be having her 2nd DOH examination most probably in the mid or end of March. Now in my case, at work we received a memo containing about all the details on our consignment this coming March. So meaning to say that the opening of the company's 2nd garments shop will be soon. And according to the info after the board meeting the maturity date will fall in the month of April.

Oh! no... how about our itinerary. We already planned for that thing since last year. Please naman walang ganyanan... !!

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The Second In the World After China

"You know Prajith if the government put doors on these thing we could all sit inside" (India on its booming population season)

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Mind Thoughts

No. I'm not dead. But I did take an extended internet break. Still kinda on break, especially from friendster and that evil nasty craptastic site called FaceBook. I rarely if ever get on there anyway, so that was no biggie not an issue, I'm not addicted to pc slowing application FARMVILLE. I do miss messenger, but I'll be back on that soon.

Why? I needed to regroup.

But now, I think it's time for an update. Let some know what's going on, how its been, etc.


Picture irrelevant to the post - Day when Batawa is still with us wandering around Dubai for good times

Last year was a kick in the NUT. Yes, considering we're down one nut, it was a kick in the one NUT we have left between the two of us.

I figured out that last year, one of us has been sick/down/ psychologically since May. No breaks. One health crazy after another. Last year, I decided I was taking charge of my mental capacities, little did I know what a nut so ride that was going to be.
Christmas was very stressful days on every Christian community. We did make it through alive and with reminders that we have lots of freakin amazing families surrounding us and supporting us. It was fun, we went out for a while and played a bunch of memories travelling around Emirates and mountain and wadi ranges of Oman. I got blessed (NO REALLY???) and found my self fell asleep on the nowhere of Wadi Khamees. Yeah, that was me hoggin up the cold morning of fresh, mind touching breeze in a strange place. It was a total blast though and I did have a lot of fun.

Something happened with the New Year though... it was like a weight was down to earth that I even felt my self float like a cloud on the distant mountain peak. 2009 was just so heavy, and I'm glad its gone.

THAT is what changed. I stopped looking at the bad. Nah, I didn't stop. But when it starts to overwhelm me, I remind myself of people that have been there supporting me, us, for the past year, all the GOOD things that did happen, and that helps me change my mindset.

I guess it's time to spill my plans for 2010...

1) 29 for 29. I intend to lose this last 29 lbs before my 29th bday.
2) Quit smoking. Listen, the last fucking thing I want to hear when I quit is "how's it goin?" or "my friend did this and it worked" OR any crap related to ME SMOKING at all. DO NOT need it, that will just drive me back to smoking. Try to remember that when I actually quit. Thoughts sometimes drives me in the warehouse to puff for one stick.
3) Get back to the peeps I love. 3 trips I hope to plan this year. (excluding month vacation to HOME!)

I'm also hoping to be a little more reliable here with posting. Not sure when I'll get that going, I need to change my site up a little bit and that requires work I don't have time for right NOW, but it's on my list. Anyone want to make me a new header??

That's about it. I know, as always I'm soooo exciting...

So until next time I get a hair up my ass to post... (soon I'm sure, I hope), have a great day. Happy New Year (KUNG HEI FAT CHOI)and lets all remember THE LOVE. Cause it's all around us.

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End of month

Well, this has been a pretty good blogging week if I must say so myself! I've been reading a bunch and catching up and have posted here a whole 2 times! (including this post)

Thought I would pop in and let you know I won't be around at all tomorrow. Yeah, I'm usually pretty scarce on Friday anyway, but this coming days will be very special - I'll be drugged.

Something I haven't ever talked about here... I have severe problem and severe addiction. I've been on it for oh!, about 2 years now to control it. Well over the past few months the methods don't seem to be working as well as they have in the past so I am going to have an Intensive Experimental Procedure to help figure out what is going on and how to fix it.

This addiction has a lot to do with my daily life including all people that concerns me especially my love ones, how and what I react and show to them and how I sleep on it(or really don't these thing is very humiliating). So it's a good thing. But they do knock you out for it and you can't drive yourself home.

The addiction is extremely painful and causes nausea every day to me and to somone whom I loved so much. Some days it's really really bad, and some days it's just bad. Other days it's *$%# awful. The thought hits out of nowhere, usually in the morning, and all that happens is well.

Just another health issue to add to my growing list. This getting old stuff sucks ass.

And oh, just a little follow up to this month's event - HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my youngest brother DENVER last 16th

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I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth

The past few weeks I mean months worst even year have been very hectic for me, and as a result this blog has gathered some dust. My bad. I had suddenly become preoccupied with the company responsibility as well as the church, had two choices: work on it or get a negative response from the directors and other goings-on in life. The works finally over with, and things have generally settled down, which means that I can now finally start writing blog posts again! *papaya dance* So, here we go with one of those lengthy write-ups aggregating the entirety of my life and thoughts since my last posting. Brace yourselves.

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A Video Footage of the Tallest Burj Khalifa

The Video is widely distributed around the world courtesy of our friends in the media fields..

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From Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa

Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, has just been renamed to Burj Khalifa on its opening ceremony. Burj Dubai’s change of name is in honor of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi which recently bailed out debt-ridden Dubai in the amount of $10 billion.

Burj Khalifa boasts the most stories and highest occupied floor of any building in the world, and ranks as the world’s tallest structure, beating out a television mast in North Dakota.

Burj Khalifa is more than 50 stories higher than Chicago’s Willis Tower, the tallest building in the U.S. formerly known as the Sears Tower.

In the opening ceremony yesterday January 4 2010, 8:00 pm +4GMT time, Burj Khalifa’s official height is announced at 828 meters.

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