Keep On Spinning Spinners

 I just couldn't believe that some bloggers or blogwriters never run out of stories to blog. Good for you guys! At least I can read your day to day entry to blogging. If you cannot blog then read other people's blogs. If you can blog have fun to read yours and others blogs, it's vice versa.

The 29th of December 2020. I can't wait the end of the Year and the new beginning of the Year 2021.

More bad news being aired in the News Network but that's their problem. I mean that's their work of broadcasting BAD NEWS.  Without bad news they wont have jobs. Life would be very boring for them.

GOOD NEWS? We are still living on planet Earth. We are not on Mars nor in Saturn although the spin is quite amazing on Earth. How could that be? The SUN doesn't spin so the planet spins and must rotate and revolve around the sun. What if it's the sun who revolves around the Earth? Ha ha!

Yeah, everyone's a spinner! That's why don't like wearing my Windriver shoes. Know why? Coincidentally, every time I wore that pair of shoes the wind gets so unruly and it gets windy with the speed of 100 km/hr. I'm glad there's no hurricane or tornado in this part of the island. Something to be thankful about. Americans are probably grateful for having to receive U$2,000/person or per family? as stimulus package to help the needy. What about Canadians? I think the recipients received from $500 to C$1,000/family. Be thankful! What about in Philippines?

What about having a YEAR IN REVIEW? Better not.

According to Dr. Fauci, January would be deadlier than December. Know what? Every year after December, people around the world are penny less. Too much spending  from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Day to Boxing Day add the New Year's spending and poverty arises after December even if there's no pandemic. Normal way of life by humans who believe that spending extravagantly during the Holidays lead to expected outcome. With the pandemic and the mutation of that variant virus only God knows what will happen eh? The immunization is too slow. How many healthcare workers per country to country and the vaccination process is very, very slow. The spin of the Earth is much faster you know.

With Or Without Photos

 It's now the 27th of December 2020, Sunday. I haven't post our Christmas celebration yet but I will in the next few minutes. I wonder sometimes whether have to post the photos. lol.

Let's have all words this time.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Our Christmas Eve Dinner Menu:

APPETIZERS: Scallops wrapped in bacon + Portabella mushrooms with crab flakes/cream cheese stuffing + Prawns in ring plate

MAIN COURSE DINNER: Butterball Turkey + Stuffing + Gravy + Steamed potatoes + Brussellsprout + Rice (steamed)

SIDE DISHES: Pancit + Primo Penne Rigate beef pasta with tomato sauce+ Smoked salmon

DESSERTS: Assorted Cakeries (4 different flavours: chocolate, lemon vanilla, mint, nut filled cake) + Cheesecake (2 flavours: cherry and strawberry) + Breyers Ice cream 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Everyone enjoyed the turkey and appetizers! I don't eat turkey, so the appetizers were much better. I had a bite of the lemon vanilla cake and a small portion of the cheesecake. My children don't really like those cake and cheesecake so my son bought two different flavour of ice cream. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

No matter what, I am thankful, forever grateful that we have enough food to satisfy everyone even if we have different choices. Unwrapping of gifts: My children received what they wished for Christmas and happy and glad that their wishes come true to life.

THE NEXT DAY:  We had too much leftovers: Turkey stew + Fresh pan fried ham + Noodles (Pancit & Pasta)

The cheesecakes & cake are still sitting in the fridge.  

ENOUGH OF THE DRAMA. I hate all the pandemic news. I hate all the bad news and to eradicate bad news better not mention any bad news. 

Let us rejoice and praise and pray for the better NEW YEAR ahead. 

GOD BLESS EVERYBODY!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

P.S. So true that BLOGS are better seen with pictures in it.

Cooking Up A Storm?

 For whatever reason my computer laptop is acting up. There's no virus, just that my connection is getting haywire. Maybe lines are busy during the Holidays that's why. 

Anyway, I'm back to blogging. There's no stopping me just because those hackers want to get in the way. Hackers don't really have established connection and they don't pay internet provider. Colorum! Shame! Shame and how dare they. The good thing about blogging is not really a show off unlike in FB. 

So, I've been busy cooking up a storm. The crabs that we order (10 crabs) arrived earlier than anticipated. Supposedly that's for Christmas but it arrived last Saturday. We boiled and cleaned the crabs right immediately.

RL said that I might as well cook the crabs for my favourite dish.

Why not? I love crabs with coconut milk. I like it too with eggplants and gaylan. Yes, gaylan the green leafy vegetables can also be cooked with coconut milk or cream.

Then cooked beef, macaroni with tomato sauce + cheese + vegetable salad with crab flakes.

My very busy stove. Malaysian chicken wings on the upper left simmering pan, hot and spicy.

Panfried tuna + Sautted ground pork with brusselsproutsin oyster sauce + pork sinigang sour broth with choice of veggies.

* Lunch & Dinner*

Repetition: Almost Like A Novena

 When I heard about 1,000 cases of COVID infection in one day? What's that tourists arrival? It seems baloney! Or could be humans with cold and flu symptoms but not really to the point of having that dreaded disease. ((Colds and flu symptoms are most common during winter and they are contagious too)).

The only way to control COVID infection from climbing up is to STOP TRAVEL from one country to another or province to province. The rule of 14 day quarantine from travellers to do after they arrive from the airport whether they have COVID or not. What the hell, that you want to go for a visit to one's country when you have to quarantine for 14 days or 10 days? Is that how you want to spend your holiday?

Where those tourists have to stay at the hospitals for the quarantine? How bad you want to travel and quarantine? Hospitals the new HOTEL? WOW! OMG!

Most hospitals are CLOSED! They had reached OVER CAPACITY LIMIT of patients who are isolated, quarantined and they were there for other ailments aside from those COVID patients.

They might as well open up GYMS and SPORTS ARENA for COVID related and use these facilities as COVID HOSPITALS. Or let RED CROSS build huge tents to accommodate those infected.

Never in this time of pandemic when stories were out of proportion but maybe, maybe those reporters are not liars. Maybe they are reporting about true stories and true news, keeping the newsamkers BUSY ALL THE TIME. The busiest year for the media people.

How you can stop the FLU or INFLUENZA? Every year that's the most common illness and it never goes away. Year after year. You breathe, you inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. When you wear face mask, the oxygen can't hardly get in to your nose and mouth. The carbon gets trapped in your face mask and somehow that's the start of the breathing problems. For those who can breathe even if their face is covered then continue to wear them. Or stay away from the crowds and follow the ordinance of STAYING AT HOME the most safe option. LOCKDOWNS will soon again be in effect in some provinces in Canada especially in Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian stores should sell FACE SHIELDS. In Philippines, people were asked to wear face masks and face shields. The temperature in Philippines is hotter but they have to oblige the protocol especially in very populated areas. 

With the present volcanic activity, volcanic eruption in Hawaii that will cause the emission of toxic volcanic ash AGAIN then that's added bonus to the surge of  infection. More carbon in the air and what's next after? OMG! A repetition again?

Ten Months and COVID Conquest Hasn't Stop

 The frogs are probably happy with the wet ground cause it's raining once again and the misery nurse starts to cause trouble after trouble again. Life's a misery for some miserable humans. Imagine yourself being the source of all bad news and what could be the consequences? Can you still sleep and think right if all what you are doing is to bring all the negativity everyday, every minute of the day? What a great life for you? I don't think so.

In order to be happy you must be the source of all good news.  If it rains and the clouds covered the sky and the sun then good for those who are afraid of the sunlight and the sunshine. Vampires and draculas hate bright light. He he he! 

So, what's in the news today? SAME OLD SH--. As if there is no more tomorrow that will end their long lasting game of games. On and on, on and on bosz scaggs. 

Vaccines given to the most needy in wealthy countries and the developing countries asked for help in the procurement of the much needed vaccines. Expensive vaccines! COSTLY. The first Pfizer vaccines inoculation (immunizations) were only for the first 29,000 recipients in Canada, while the rest of the population will have to wait for their turn.

Wear face masks all the time every time you are out there. Do not gather in groups or avoid social gatherings  or pay the price. Follow the 2 meters distance from one another. Wash your hands frequently with soap and water and use hand sanitizer if needed. Stay calm, stay safe! Over & over again until you are vaccinated. Lockdown in effect in certain demographic areas where higher spike of infections are reported. OMG! When will it end? It's been 10 months of this pandemic news. TEN MONTHS! So shocking already.

 

Celebrate Christmas and New Year with your family in your own home. It's gonna be exclusively for members of your household only. Protect yourself and others. It's the right thing to do.

 

 

Adaptation

 The pandemic and the news of  "It's no longer free to pollute."

LOL. Of course!! Especially here in Canada.

Garbage in Canada is being collected once every week. Additional collection of garden rubbish during summer time. Garbage collection is not free. Thank you garbage collectors, the new engineers! Homeowners have to pay a certain fee for garbage collection. There's a dumpsite for anything recyclable. Anything you throw in the dumpsite has an equivalent payment or fees to pay.

Empty bottles and empty cans must be taken to the recycling depot for a price. I think the recycling depot pays 10 cents for one empty can and empty bottle or depends on its size. ( 1 empty can = 10 cents). Electronics: You buy electronics (TV, computers, laptop, tablets, telephones, cellphones) you have to pay extra fee for its recycling.

When it comes to pollution. CANADA is the cleanest, most organized country in the world. With it vast, wide open spaces, the oxygen here is in abundance because of its forest, billions of trees and vegetation abound. Whatever carbon dioxide in the air are then suck in by those billions of trees and billions of shrubs, bushes, perrenials and annuals. There is so much oxygen. TOO MUCH OXYGEN and that's why sometimes a single spark of light can cause wildfire.

When it comes to bodies of water? 

Have you seen how clean, pristine clear the waters in the ocean, lakes, rivers in Canada? You don't know? Well, compared to bodies of water in other countries the water here are much better but very cold. Who will pollute the bodies of water when the population is very low? There are certain demographic areas or big cities that are over populated because it's the way it is in bigger cities where traffic congestion and industrial trades are in abundance. (Unfortunately, for those who will once again experience the LOCKDOWN today & tomorrow due to the 2nd wave of the pandemic). I hope with the lockdown the population wont double up. j/k

Really, its the other countries in the world who should be reprimanded for their pollution. When it comes to climate change? They should actually look at their own surroundings where they live and hold their rally. For those environmentalists to hold their rally here and ask leaders to be knowledgeable with the climate change and global warming should have to be educated in other countries were global warming and pollution is its number one problem. Canada has 4 climate seasons since it was discovered by Columbus and the Vikings and up to now the four seasons haven't changed. Learn to accept that there is winter, spring, summer and autumn. When it's cold wear a jacket and when it's hot wear summer clothing. FGS!

Learn to adapt. Adaptation is the key. Really, pollution of the mind must be the problem. Stop smoking and vaping. Stop all those stupid nonsense. The GOVERNMENT of CANADA  should impose and implement FREE COLLEGE or FREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION for NATURAL BORN CANADIANS so that they wont be left behind. Yeah, just like in Germany... whoever can speak the German language can go to University and study for free. 

By the way, millions of doses of VACCINES will come from PFIZER, a German Pharmaceutical company. I don't know when the Moderna's vaccines will arrive and which vaccines are better.

Update: Order of VACCINES FROM PFIZER has arrived and the first roll out of inoculation starts today in Quebec, Canada.

Not A Lovely Day

 I like to go shopping but shopping in this time of the pandemic put a hold or restraint on everybody because sadly it is not safe to be being inside a closed building with different people from all walks of life because you don't know what you gonna get. You wished it's chocolate but not really. There is that always the "caution and precaution now to almost anything."

Shopping online is a big no for me especially when it comes to shoes, clothes and other personal items. I have enough clothes to wear and shoes. For gifts? My husband and I were thinking about just gift certificates because they are handy never to worry whether the receiver will like it or not. They have to like it, because they will be the one to decide to order or purchase their own gifts.

I like that kind of gift too. However, depends on where those gift cheques or gift certificates are purchased. If its MARK's then you have to buy items from such specialty store or if its at WALMART then that's good too. HOME DEPOT, WINNERS, STAPLES, SUPERSTORE ? wherever. How about at PEOPLE's JEWELLERS. LOL. Ha ha! Am I dreaming? 

Imagine if you have to order from AMAZON? How long would be the delivery? Then having to feel the products esp. if they are clothes? I love to feel what I'm buying. I like to see first with my own eyes what I want to wear and I want to smell it first. Nowadays, you cannot do that. You cannot return or exchange what you bought already. Quality is no longer the factor in the determining consumer's right.

Okay? Recently, the news stated about "you can no longer pollute within the country." SURE. Nobody likes polluters. So, what will happen? AIR, WATER, LAND POLLUTION. Stop all the marine animals, fishes, whales, sea turtles etc to propagate so that there's no more pollution on water. Don't run your boats on water. No ships allowed on water. Stop all airplanes, ground them for not flying so that the air will be free of those unknown debris. Shut down the ISS on its function so that no debris floating in the sky. ? What?!lol.  All factories emitting carbon will be shutdown. Carbon pollutes the air. All transportation will be put on hold. Nobody's allowed to drive because all vehicles wont run anymore. No more gas and oil extractions. Stop all industries that will emit carbon once and for all. Humans are not allowed to exhale carbon dioxides and so as animals will be put to extinction level so that they wont pollute. You are not allowed to poop. Do not eat and drink so that you wont poop. Stop all the games so that no fans will pollute the 40,000 to 50,000 capacity arena that causing poop to explode thus giving the wraths of hell. Family planning is mandatory for all couples. That's what it means by POLLUTION CONTROL. Anything that is noisy will be cut off from the civilized world because noise is also "pollution." No more TV and RADIO causing so much noise pollution. Politicians are not allowed to talk because they are causing too much noise. Shut down of all communications causing NOISE POLLUTION. No talking allowed they are noise pollution,  they are vexatious to one's spirit. No more reporters and newscasters, the media  because they are very, very noisy with their non-stop tirade and almost harassing nonsense of every individual whom they think are against them. Are they communists with communistic ideology?

Texting and blogging is really the most quiet way to an aim in life. 

Life goes on.

Radioactive

 PEOPLE LIE. That's a known fact. But you can hear that again and again from the actor Hugh Laurie who played the role of a doctor in HOUSE medical series. Being a doctor who suffers from chronic leg injury, he lies most of the time. That is his role, his part as an actor given for him to play in that medical series. Because he lied most of the time, he has problem with trust and he doesn't believe his patients or do not believe their reasons when they failed to make the correct diagnosis. He is using a different technique to interrogate, investigate the patients to series of tests. Although the members of the diagnostic test in Plainsboro (Teaching Hospital) were adamant to take his sides, end up sometimes believing in his ways and means to solve medical case by case. That's what it is with MEDICINE, folks. It's like a guessing game for the right diagnosis and the correct, right prescription. It's always a trial and error. The trials are done and finished but it doesn't give you the 100% assurance of efficacy and safety of the products. I think divine intervention is much needed. Prayers. You know, if you believe in GOD.

There are millions of illness, diseases and there are several new ailments that have the same symptoms as ordinary ailment but there are millions of drugs(medicines) and probably thousands of pharmaceuticals with millions of salesmen who are collaborating to sell their medical products. There are millions of medicines in their generic names and of different brand names. Another drug from a laboratory with the same generic name but of different brand name doesn't mean that drug or medicine works for everyone. Or has the same effect with the same generic name from a different pharma. There are several side effects or adverse reaction to every medical product and that's a known fact. Humans maybe humans but they all have different metabolism. Not all humans are the same even if they are identical twins. Not all drugs are the same. Even the light is called drug nowadays, that's why you are using tablets.

Our present and current language is more of highly falutin that confused so many people from all walks of life. Then what hurt the most are the wagging of tongues by those who confused everything from the media. It is true when the US President once said that some news reporters do not adhere to their code of ethics in journalism, true, so true. They are up to something like controversy and scandal. It can make them famous, maybe 15 minutes of fame or could be the talk of the town for an hour or less, maybe a year then fizzled off and gone. No, wont be watching "Gone in 60 Seconds."

I might watch RADIOACTIVE, the movie about Madam Curie. 

Do you know what "radioactive" means?

What is your current radio activity?

True Or False

 OMG!! If I have to listen to the misinformation about the cause of COVID-19 and Coronavirus it will weaken my immunity. lol. 

Stories and information like these: That you have to wear face masks to prevent and control the spread of the virus. TRUE. Even if there's no pandemic,  you have to wear face masks in certain demographic area because of extreme pollution and where the pollens are evidently seen by the naked eyes. Wear face masks because you don't want to compromise your health. Wear face masks if you are using strong chemicals in cleaning any surface of your kitchen counter, sinks and bathrooms. Wear face masks when you are using windex and other heavy duty chemical products. Wear face masks if you are cooking and serving food. Wear face masks and gloves in Hospitals & Clinics because the air you breathe inside could be contaminated with the bacteria and viruses from different patients with different ailments. Hospitals can be a hostile environment depends on how many are infected whether they are symptomatic or asymptomatic.  Wear face masks because your sense of smell is very sensitive and it ruins your day.

TRUE. SO TRUE!

Wearing face mask not only for those viruses because CHEMICALS or any products with chemicals in it can do more harm than bacteria and viruses. TRUE. 

COVID-19 & Coronavirus can be defeated just like any other kind of flu. However, those who got sick from chemical spill eventually suffer  different consequences and to cure them is a  matter of divine intervention. Those who suffered from the volcanic ashes, dengue fever, malaria and other flu-like illness should wear face masks. OKAY that's fine. May gamot sa mga ganyang sakit.

It's good to know that the vaccination in other countries will begin on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 and from there on forward, the roll out begins in different countries around the world. Who will be given the priority is of course a matter of  pandemic protocol that was set upon not as privilege but because who need it the most to prevent the spread. The super spreader first.

To protect the NOSE first and foremost! Because the COVID-19 gets to the nose first. ? Who the hell told you that? Maybe, because some of those people clip their hairs inside their nose and the nose's hair were inhaled into the throat down to the lungs and that's the cause of uncontrollable cough and suddenly you have COVID? I don't think so. Maybe, you are smoking and vaping non-stop. Or you are smoking moldy weeds. ? Just an ordinary cigarettes and tobacco can cause cancer and what you think of harmful weeds? That's double-triple cancer effect. 

Why that swab test of noses & mouth & tongues? Maybe an experiment on who are smokers? You get positive result (+) from smoking it and negative (-) if you are non-smokers. Darn it! Why don't you clean your own noses FGS! Brush your teeth, gum lines, cheeks, and tongues. Regular checking on your dental and oral care should be priority. It's not Bill Gates who spread the news on virus. Maybe the correct news is USE COLGATE toothpaste with CLEAN MINT and freshen your breath. Maybe your romantic life will improve and you wont be envious about other people kissing each other. MagLISTERINE ka. MagCOLGATE ka. MALIGO ka na rin.

So what about those billions of dollars vaccines about? ANTIVIRAL vaccines or BOOSTER?

Russia finally had their vaccines rolled out with their volunteers long time ago and to name such vaccines as SPUTNIK V? Wow! That could be booster. How intelligent you want to be? You want to be intelligent or smart? Einstein's IQ is just 150 and his mentality functions like God. Well, so many Physicists and smart people praised him up to heavens so he is god-like in the sense that nobody can be just like Einstein in our time.

The super spreader of anything BAD NEWS mauna sa pila ng VACCINES. lol.

Birds

Do you like LOVE NATURE? It's a new program on our TV Channel and features mostly about nature, habitat for animals and birds, the jungles, forest, bodies of water, etc, it's almost like the National Geographic magazine but it's on TV.

In that particular program, they featured magnificent winged creatures such as the quetzal. It was a resplendent quetzal that is native to Costa Rica. 

Para syang ibong adarna. The bird's eating a green berry (looks like an olive). How that radiant bird managed to have that big berry on his beak down to his throat is unbelievably incredible.
 

The rest of the scenes were focus on hummingbirds. Tiny bird creatures everywhere in that particular jungle and the photographers and cameramen are having so much fun and that includes me of course watching those birds from the comforts of our television screen.

Can you see the wings? Hummingbird flaps its wings 50 beats per second. Hummingbirds are similar to "helicopter" did you know that?

Sure, the hummingbirds in Costa Rica are prettier and colorful than hummingbirds in other countries. Why? It's probably something to do with their source of food or whatever is there in their environment.

Some of the hummingbird species tend to camouflage themselves with what they eat and where they are nesting.

Breaking News!

 

We all knew that this gonna happen. Yup, the most awaited VACCINES against COVID-19 & CORONA VIRUS are available courtesy of PFIZER.

It's not 100% guarantee but 95% efficacy and safety as it was approved for emergency used in U.K.

There's no denying the facts that the first group of people to be in line for vaccinations are the health care workers. They knew this all along. Next in queue, depends on who are in their list, as in highly risk and of course the patients in their hospitals. Next after that, and next...it's up to them. 

How about in Canada? It's up for the Prime Minister of Canada, the Canadian FDA and Head of the Ministry of Health to approve and order those vaccines.

Just like any other kind of medicines, even the Over The Counter medicines (OTC) have adverse reactions or side effects and vaccines are just like that. 

To think about how many millions of people had immunizations from childbirth to being adults and vaccines after vaccines had touched their arms through injections. Vaccines against measles, malaria, polio, flu (bird flu, swine flu, HANA, Norwalk, etc)  diptheria, rabies, so what to worry about this latest vaccines? If those health care workers are willing to take those vaccines for themselves then maybe it is safe for millions to billions of people.

No what? Are you having anxiety? 

ANXIETY is just the new normal now. BE BRAVE!

New episodes of SEAL Team will air soon on HISTORY CHANNEL.

New episodes after episodes for THE GOOD DOCTOR.

The AMAZING RACE 2020 hosted by PHIL KEOUGHAN continues tonight on CTV.