We Are YOUNG Concert Aftermath

The concert was a blast! Half of my class was talking about it the next morning. And I think I was the only one who came (tsktsktsk, I actually invited a few but they regressed to psychosomatic illnesses. sigh).  Anyway, I went alone, I saw my sisters but they were staffing, so did alot of my other churchmates. I was supposed to sit with a friend (Kevin) but I couldn't find him and I didn't have his number (fail on my part). But I saw a friend from school and ended up sitting with her friends. (YAY!) It was a great concert, not what I expected, but great nonetheless. I hope many were blessed.

I wasn't able to take any pictures save the one a lady took of me, my pastor, his wife and my mother. But I don't know how on earth I could find it since I'm not really THAT socially able. (Ha)  So to make up for it, I'm going to grab this pic from facebook (thanks to my friend Angelica)

 Anyway I forced my friend Jason for this writband despite it being his birthday :D

My churchmate who was in crowd control made it her (yes, it's a she) mission to go ahead and take pictures, memorize names and groupie to the group afterwards. Now I know there's a Nick and... yeah, that's pretty much what I remember from her story. Anywho, I need to get ready. It's Sunday and it's our 26th Thanksgiving celebration at church today!

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We Are YOUNG Concert in Cagayan de Oro City!

Oh yeah~ Love Overkill is having a concert in our area and the tickets are absolutely FREE! Yeah, that's right! Free! (incase you missed the caps) It starts 4pm on Friday (Tomorrow!) and happens at the Atrium at Lim Ket Kai Center, Cagayan de Oro City. So bring your friends, your friends' friends, even your friends' friends' friends! And get a chance to meet me maximize your youth by attending a concert experience something great!

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Awesome things to do in blogger (for Begginers?)

I intended this post for my friend Ezzy because she's starting to blog. YAY! But if you leechers want to read along, go on, I dare you. Muahahah.

Aside from actually blogging/posting/writing, I suggest you add widgets. What in the world are widgets? Ahhh.. they're the little things on the side bar that are awesome. I suggest you activate the Followers widget so I can follow you (and in return you can follow me! MUAHAHAH) How do you do that? How do you activate widgets? Well go to your dashboard, then click on your site. You'll spot the sidebar with the words 'Overview, Posts, Pages...' click on Layout. When you're there, click on Add a Gadget . You'll have great gadgets you can put on and you can rearrange them simply by dragging them under/above the other.

Like so. Visual Effects.

Okay. So what next? I suppose you'll want to change your layout. For me, I had to borrow backgrounds from ShabbyBlogs and customize the Simple Layout on Template. But I've also tried borrowing full layouts (like the one in Bambook Reviews) from different people who allow others to use it for free. These are the godfairies: Nymfont, Cutest Blog on The Block, Hot Bliggity Blog, Leelou Blogs and others more (just google them). So yeah. Layout done.

Well, when you post, I suggest you add pictures, quotes, other things to beautify them up. Hmm. Well this is it for now. I hope you found this the least helpful!

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Black is beautiful!

After nearly a decade--okay, too exaggerated, let me try that again. After four beautiful years of staying a fake brunette, I've decided to quit putting on a fake look (I'm not quoting Jeff Bethke, mind you) and go back to being asian. Yes, hello black hair and glasses. The stereotypical itself.

Parting with something dear to you is no piece of cake. Especially when its a big part of your life. Some of you feminists and most of you gentlemen might think of my predicament as a joke, but to most women in the world, hair signifies a deep and emotional stature in their lives. Symbolic, even. Normally girls in films change it to be hotter and attract half of the male population. Women in films find the alteration necessary just because it signifies a closure to something. A relationship, for example. But its none of the above for me. I'm actually buying my teacher's happiness or else it's extensions

Anywho.. I moustache you a question...

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Book diet.

Its two weeks shy the end of classes and I'd vow to myself I would be going the extra mile to study. I would be book dieting for two whole weeks (but expect reviews still, for I'd be reviewing my previous reads) and blog dieting on the actual week of the exams.

I personally dont think I 'd survive (books are partially my life). But then again I NEED to redeem myself (not to mention my grades). So yeah, here I come!

P.s
I just kind of realized that by not reading any book at all I wouldn't be book dieting but book fasting without spiritual ties. Hm, well whatever we call it so long as we mean it.

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Bangs and Buzz

Okay, so I not-so-recently gave myself bangs by following this Youtube tutorial and poof! I have bangs! I initially didn't think it would attract all that attention (cuz I've had bangs 2-3 years back) but my, was I surprised! My friends were looking at me like I was a different person, our pastor even mentioned something about it during his exhortation. I don't know what I did wrong... or right. I just had bangs and everybody's thinking it's some kind of coming of age insignia (which is hilarious because I just came of age last March--okay, not so hilarious). But anyway, while some people might enjoy the attention, I certainly don't! (okay fine, so maybe a little *wink*)
I don't know what to think. What do you think? (Who am I talking to, exactly?)

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To which way?

The thing I really like about my family is that we're a really close and very open family (pun intended!) So what I did, just after having dinner, is that I sat down with my mother... and went there. I couldn't think about it and yet not tell my mom. It's just like hiding from her that I got an F in midterms. It's against me to let them suffer even more that they will be suffering. I'm not making sense. I swear to nothing that in my head all these things are making perfect sense. Except you and I don't share the same heads. How unfortunate. Either for you or for me. But it's unfortunate.

Anywho. I went ahead and told her that I'm having a premature--twenty years too early--lady midlife crisis. Then she started freaking out that I'm going to shift courses. And then I internally cried and externally sighed because she wasn't getting my point. You see blog, I'm failing on alot of things and this isn't how I imagined rebolutionizing my life. Although I'm done with my frustrations, I have been questioning my abilities in relevance to nursing. I hate to admit it because I believe I chose this path with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I'm a soph and we've already invested alot of time, money and mental capacity on this. I hate to be reconsidering but I am... partially. I'm confused because although I've imagined myself to be doing different things in my entire course of life (teacher, writer, traveler, astronaut), I did not expect to actually be imagining to be something other than a nurse. So when my mom asked me what I was going to shift to if I don't continue nursing, I was even more confused and frustrated and something else entirely because I don't know.

Sounds family? Yes, it's midlife crisis judging by the symptoms. I've been praying hard about this. It's not easy to have synthesized some epic plan since you were young and lived it out, only to be disrupted by some crazy phenomena of hormones called... midlife crisis (nothing else is close enough).

But in life, there's always going to be an up and a down. And judging by the looks and feel of it, I'm on a down. I'm praying for God's wisdom and carrying in the hope that all this will come to pass quickly. But who knows what the Big Guy up there is planning? This might be something really bad right now but maybe--just maybe--this is actually something really, really good in the making. I have nothing but hope.

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First home birth ever!

This was thursday. Back at Camaman-an Health Center for my last rotation. I'd miss the place! I was there early making up for my duty the day before. I'd worn my type A and brought my CHN bag, crossing my fingers that someone would give birth in the lying-in clinic that day. I doubted it though, not many people give birth to this particular lying-in clinic (I can tell by the other group's experience) and thought the day would go on uneventful and boring even. So we took this shot before our clinical instructor got there and almost everbody had.

But little did I know, God had planned for something to happen. When my C.I finally came, a BHW went to her and asked her if we could assist in a home birth. And we were like O_O, as far as we know, home births are being eradicated, erased and maybe even illegalized in our country. So imagine my shock when I got my CHN bag and headed to the client's house.

I think people need an explanation to why we said yes. The mother was already late in the stage of birth and she wasn't registered in the lying in clinic yet because as I later assessed, she shouldn't have given birth until the first week of October. So yeah, premature everybody. Next, it would be so immorally wrong to risk the life of both the child and mother by being stubborn. Oh yeah, the midwife, whom they appealed to, wasn't there yet and wasn't reachable. (Wut happened to phones?)

Anyway, We arrive and the baby's been delivered. Shocked as I was, my C.I had to instruct me to get the mama's BP. As I did that, we struggled because of lack of equipment. Thank God that my CHN bag carried forceps that weren't mine and we made use of that. After the cord clampign and cutting, I went ahead and tended to the poor baby, who was having cyanosis. I did my best in trying to warm her but could only do so much. Oh, did I mention I was shaking in shivering? HAHAH. Never have I been so scared for the baby's life. It's so delicate!

At around 10 in the morning, we took her weight with my (miraculously still there even when I should have rid of it after duty) baby weighing scale that we made use of. I also had tape measured the baby and found out that her ht was higher than the ideal of her gestational age. We talked to the mother and father about this and yeah. We left after that in the father's cab, as he was a cab driver and yeah. There goes my first home birthing experience. It's barely legal but think of it? Is it morally right to leave the poor God-given child to the cold?

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Transferring Your Blogger Blog To a Yahoo! Domain

If you didn't already know, Yahoo! Small Business is offering to host your domain for $1.99/yr! Yes, you saw that right! it's $1.99/yr! Check their website if you're still not convinced. It's no gimmick! Oh wait, maybe it is. The CATCH: the recurring charges worth $34.95. But I figured that if I transferred domain hosts before the end of my term, I'll be fine. Google would probably be my best option then, as they only need $10/yr.

Anyway, I had a great time trying to transfer my blog to the new domain. It was quite time consuming because I'm such a noob to domain-relocation, as you've probably guessed by now. But this is for the noobs out there who need all the help they could muster. I admire your efforts to elevate your noob standards, my friends. To all the non-noobs: keep in mind that though this things might be obvious to you, it's clearly not to everybody, so stop being sore winners!

Okay, enough whining from me. Here's what we need to do:

 1   - Register a Y! domain and make sure you pay (like duh).

  *** before you proceed, I think it's worth mentioning that you wont be able to view your domain until .. a while. Y! Small business told me I wouldn't propagate the webiverse until 72 hours but not more than 2 hours later, I got an email saying my domain is active. It's sooner than I expected but hey, who's complaining?

  *** but just in case your domain is still inactive, have two options: (1) bookmark this page and come back later or (2) proceed [you wont see your blog yet, only when it gets activated later] If you choose the latter:

 

 2   - Let the people from Y! Domains know you have a blog somewhere.

1. Go to the Y! Domains Homepage and log-in.
2. Click the button on the right which says 'Access Your Account' or simply click here.
3. Click 'Domain Control Panel' directly under Go To.
4. Click'Manage Advanced DNS Settings'
5. Click 'Add Record'
6. In the Source field, enter only the subdomain you want to use. For example, if you designated www.domain*.com as the address of your blog, enter 'www' in the Source field. Just so you know, you can't host a subdomain on this one.
7. Hit 'Submit'
8. Then make another CNAME with the hostname being "XH2ND7QLCMVP" and destination being "gv-DPCXNNU57UYLIJSOSBASYFF3UTPTDNAY2WUOF5VFPNMXGKMPAC5Q.domainverify.googlehosted.com."

  3   - Let Blogger know you bought a place somewhere.
    *** You need to wait for Y! Domains to update your DNS settings. This may take an hour or so.
         ** this is using the updated Blogger interface **

1.  Go to your Dashboard and click the blog you wish to transfer.
2.  Click 'Settings' on the bottom-left portion.
3.  Go to 'Basic' under Settings.
4.  Under your blog's link, you'll find '+ Add a custom domain' CLICK it.
5.  The drop down menu reveals 'Switch to advance settings' HIT that.
6.  And type in www.domain.com or blog.domain.com or whatever you registered earlier.
7.  Hit 'Save' and voila! 

 

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Yahoo! Small Business: Domains for $1.99/yr!

 Yes, that's got to be the most cheapest domain hosting you can find.

For more information, visit their website.

It's legit. I'm currently on their promo, choosing to stay with them for a year.

If you get $9.99 on the first try, you might need to enter the promo code: YDMCALL.

It expires 06/30/2013. Offer applies to the first year of service for a single Yahoo! Domains purchase only. Only 1 domain per Yahoo! account and PayPal.

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