More New Words for Us!

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), accidents remain to be one of the leading causes of death in the Philippines. In fact, drowning is one of the Top 5 major causes of mortality in the country along with assault, transport accidents, intentional self harm and accidental falls.

Sebellino, a veteran journalist in the country stated that children from ages fourteen (14) years old and below are the common victims of drowning. Furthermore, for this age bracket, drowning is the second leading cause of death. Children from zero (0) to seventeen (17) years old are also vulnerable to drowning.

For those who don’t know, the Philippines is an archipelago: it is surrounded by bodies of water. There are a lot of beautiful beaches in the country which are not only summer destinations for locals but also considered to be very effective foreign tourist destinations.

This is probably why it is common for families to celebrate and spend time in pristine bodies of water every now an then. With the Filipinos’ love for water, it is no question why drowning rate is high.

Today’s new word is called “Jacaranda”. What is Jacaranda? This is more of a hisotry lesson for you. By the way, I also have a site called “Jacaranda cafe” and it is somehow related to this one.

I am a big Bealte Fan! I love them! I worship them! I know all abou them from the guitars they use (rickenbacker, hofner, Ludwig) to the places they’ve been.

With that, I want to share with you that Jacaranda is a cafe in liverpool where the young pre-beatles teens use to hang out. It is the cafe of Pete Best’s mom.

If you do not know who Pete Best is, he was the original member of the beatles and he use to play the drums before Ringo came along and made their first Hit with Parlophone.

Hope this is a great trivia for you all.

Portable Document Format or more popularly known simply as ‘PDF’ was developed by Adobe Systems. It has the file extension .pdf and it is the preferred format when documents are shared over the internet especially for the text heavy documents such as word files.

The great thing about converting word files into PDF is that the original layout of the document is retained and it proves to be a very secure and safe means of sharing and publishing information on the web. When we say it retains the layout, it means that the fonts, font size, color, etc. are preserved.

The MS Word program has an add-on which enables users to convert MS word documents into PDF. Viewing PDF documents is also easy with free PDF readers available on the internet such as Foxit. Converting PDF files back to MS word files is also now possible using various softwares which can also be found on the internet.

Gone are the days when we relate the word troll with the little dolls with hair blown up and in ridiculous rainbow colors and pallet covers for the boys. The world ‘troll’ has evolved from its previous meaning and is not being used by people to refer to someone who post inflammatory, extraneous or off-topic posts in an online community. Most people probably have encountered this through 9gag.com. As for me, I learned the word from Mr. Ray William Johnson through his vlog in youtube.

The Urban Dictionary defines ‘trolling’ in three almost similar ways. In its simplest definition, the word means the act of being a prick on the internet because they can. The second meaning of trolling is more elaborate. It means forcing people to respond to you, either through wise-crackery, posting incorrect information, asking blatantly stupid questions, or other foolishness. The third definition states that trolling is the act of purposefully antagonizing other people on the internet, generally on message boards.

A year ago, I watched this really cool and funny movie with friends. It is entitled Fired Up (I do hope you’ve heard of it). It tells a story about two friends who signed for cheerleading camp just to score on cheerleaders. Apparently, the two boys were heartthrobs in their school and they felt like they’d ‘tasted’ every girl on campus and so they grabbed the opportunity to meet girls from other schools through the cheerleading camp.

It was so hilariously ridiculous and light especially when the two friends seem like friends with their hand gestures and reactions. For a person who doesn’t usually watch this kind of movie, I’m proud to say that it really is funny and interesting. If you are a person who likes to have a good laugh, light plot and funny lines, you might just want to try watching this I really recommend this movie. ? Enjoy!

Do you know what is happening in the local showbiz right now? It’s all about rhian mo. Yes, those couple of several years broke up and know these videos are spreading over youtube and Rhian Ramos’ life is destroyed.. well at least her career is in the brink.

Check this latest video of Rhian Mo out on youtube. PLease report this to have it put down.

For almost two months now I have been reading about ERP Jobs and also I’ve been trying to lose some weight because I have just reached the maximum weight allowable relative to my height without being obese. And for weeks, I’m just disappointed because my weight just won’t drop even when I’m doing everything I can to resist all the delicious foods deemed “bad” and “fatty”. And then a friend introduced me to “Eat Right 4 Your Type”.

Eat Right 4 Your Type is a diet, exercise and lifestyle program by Dr. Peter D’Adamo. What made it stood out from other diet and lifestyle programs is its revolutionary concept of eating based on your blood type. It seems that their research significantly shows that a person’s blood type can affect the kinds of food that are beneficial and non-beneficial to you. For some reason, even foods and fruits that are deemed healthy by most experts may not be beneficial to you if you are an O, A, B, or AB.

I’ve just started to try out if this blood type diet would actually work. I hope it does because, oh boy, there are so many restrictions for us As. I couldn’t even eat my favorite of all–meat. Well, except for chicken. But anyway, I really wish this would work.

We have heard about the infamous ‘Couch Potato’ or a person who spends a lot of time watching the television. Do you know what an Aldelo System is? As the computer age has dawned, it is just inevitable that a new word is formed in relation to computer. Couch potato, meet ‘Mouse Potato.’

Much like a couch potato, a mouse potato is a person who spends a lot of his leisure time in from of the computer.

As a compound word, mouse potato can be broken into two different words. Obviously, these words are mouse and potato. The word mouse, of course, refers to the computer device and not the crawly creatures (ew!). But I seldom wonder why people have attached the words couch and mouse to the word potato. If we think about it figuratively, maybe we’ll get the answer. Maybe it’s something about being a vegetable? Well, isn’t it right that people who are deemed unproductive are sometimes referred to as vegetables? Well, I’m just guessing. Its all up to you to decipher this.

It great to have internet access all the time. You can search about disney hotels among other things. You can have information at your fingertips in an instant. For example while commuting to work today, i read about this “Siri”.. Honestly, I did not know what siri is until I read about it on some SEO news website.

Siri apparently is an application bought by Apple and was released and integrated with the iPhone 4S. It was released a day before Steve Jobs passed away.

Anyway, there’s this article about Siri that raised some controversy. Siri is like a virtual assistant and apparently it has some issue or bug with the word Abortion.

Not sure yet, and I dont want ot you give an incorrect information but you may want to check that out also.

Go ahead and Google that one. Search term like ‘siri abortion’ keywords may produce and output in serp of what we are talking about here.

If you’ve been reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, then you must have come across the word ‘portcullis’ more than a couple of times. For those highly intelligent and in high vocabulary skills, congratulations, you might have known what a portcullis is without even consulting a dictionary. But for those of us who are, ahem, average people, a consultation with the dictionary is inevitable just like a snowboard racks is a must if you are a skier.

Barely guessing from the context clues, an average person might have guessed that a portcullis is some sort of a gate. What a wise guess, that is. An online dictionary defines portcullis  as “a strong grating, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.”

Most people know what a portcullis is physically but its name is seldom spoken, especially now that a portcullis type of gate is considered to be outdated.

Anyway, simply put, a portcullis is a gate that moves vertically to allow or prevent passage. It is widely used in castles during the medieval times.