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Also, Site update! Sorry for being lame and not posting. 

My exams are coming up. (But so is my birthday!)

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Movie: Silver Lining Playbook

My mom and sisters decided to watch Silver Linings Playbook last week while I was editing our NCP on my/Deb's laptop. I thought they were going to watch 'Mama' so I didn't bother joining in (officially sworn off horror movies - 2013 resolution) but then I heard Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro talking and I immediately marooned myself over the carpet and the NCP was remembered no more (until very much later).

I start the movie with Pat (Cooper) getting out of mental rehab, he and his OCD father (DeNiro) were discussing Brad's peculiar fashion choices. I seriously cannot imagine having an OCD husband and a bipolar son. I would be mad to tears. Anyway, Pat got in for murdering his colleague after catching him cheating with his wife. Months after, Pat gets invited by his friend to dinner where he meets nymphomaniac Tiffany (Lawrence). Their characters develop as they learn more about each other, all the while learning to let go and accept new things easing their way in in their lives.

This is so amazing. A hilarious romantic comedy priding itself with slightly disturbed leads, trashbin jogging attires, football superstitions and dancing second only to Dancing With The Stars. It's sure to give you a good laugh. The characters were played well and critically thought of. The dialogues witty and en point (although all the football superstition jargon got me scratching my belly-I must interrogate dad about what it all means) and the pacing, the climax, the ending couldn't have been better. Would recommend you to watch it with your families. I did and it lead to sporadic LOLing around the house for at least another day. Warning for language though. Gah, really one of the best RomComs I've wasted time on. And I can't believe some people haven't seen this yet! JLaw even got an Oscar for it!

Check out the trailer!

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Starting A Blog: My Experience

When I first started a blog, I had good intentions, so I guess that's what you need. Whether we do it for our readers, ourselves, or both, it's what we need to get a blog up and about and going. I started writing too and some people commended me of my writing style, which I thought was very weird. I've been blogging on Ohpenda.com since September 2012. I've also been trying to climb the social intricacies of the webosphere by creating for myself a Twitter, a Facebook page and even as far as a Linkedin page. I've only just Google Analytics-ed my blog and submitted it to various Search Engines for uhh.. maximum popularity? Anyway, I'm a self-learning, self-wounding blogger when it comes to these things. Google Search is my best friend and bloggers are friends of my best friend whom I like to acquaint myself with (or rather because I rely on them for making everything possible).

I'm obviously a healthcare-inclined person because I'm a nursing student and didn't go to the School for Web Savvies in order to achieve my so-called "web success" of FINALLY learning what SEO is, knowing what in the world 3pl benefits are, and tweaking with my layouts. I don't even buy books for this because :

   (1) I only read Young Adult, YA Fantasy and the likes 

   (2) I'm broke 

   (3) I know I'll get bored to the bones 

   (4) An internal  hemorrhage will occur since I don't know the internet jargon 

   (5) I'm busy [reading the Bible, my nursing textbooks, YA, and YA Fantasy books].

But I'm a living proof that even a person who's internet-knowledge deficit can still survive the bewildering savages of the webosphere. So take heart, my dear internet noob friends!  A 24,000 mile journey begins with a single step (though we're not literally going anywhere because we're glued to this chair).

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A Penny For Your Thoughts

I could ask you that but Obama doesn't think I should do so. In fact, he's planning to obliterate the possibility of the American posterity from ever laying eyes on the penny (and people still wonder why I'm Republican, haha). The penny holds such a big influence on the American people. I'm saying this and I'm not even American! But I wanna be able to use a penny when I finally get there. I practically whined to dad to save all his pennies earlier this morning. That is, before I read this article which turned me into a anti-penny-er. Haha.

Well, I dont know if its as big of a deal to you than it is to me. But I'm really a cultural sentimental kind of person. In fact, I've long acquired a 5 peso bill and wishlisited a Canadian Penny, Greecian Drachma and other currencies European countries lost to the unified Euro. I hate seeing even the tiniest part of culture lost but I seem so helpless in preventing their disposal. Because in the first place, they're creating more cons than pros. But if I had any choice in it, I dont want to say goodbye to Abe Lincoln's profile!

So, as you can see, a non-American is weighing the pros and cons of this. It's a global issue (it's really not). It's funny and I want to eat ice cream.

And thank you John Green for bringing it up. TSK TSK TSK. I'm not sure if I'm happy or not xD

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Vitamins

Vitamins are my new steroids.

But instead of making me muscle-y, they just make me fat.

(LQ pictures AGAIN)

What's in there?

Centrum complete. --> 22 vitamins and minerals.

Nutrilite Fish Oil. --> I need to go fishing.

Ferrous Sulfate. --> Because I went to get my blood donated but they just couldn't extract me precious 450ml worth of blood because my hemoglobin was so low. Not the first time, and yes, it's a bummer. They told me I have to wait a month, but I'll have faith in my RBCs and try again next week... and the week after that if I need to... and the week after, until it's finally a month. This is in partial completion of my bucket list.

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