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Today, I’m feeling Christmas. I think that I sorely miss home. Home is the Philippines, my country of birth. At this time of the year, especially in the suburbs of Manila ( I lived in Makati for twenty seven years) I can now imagine the change of landscape. It’s now November, and it is . . . → Read More: Christmas Is On My Mind

Yesterday was my third round of sclerotherapy. My doctor thought that two sessions was good enough but when she examined the result of the second session, she deemed fit that we proceeded with one more treatment. She originally predicted that I would need four sessions anyway but because of the very good outcome after . . . → Read More: I Needed Three Sessions After All

Have you given up on your search for the cheapest car insurance? I haven’t! But honestly, sometimes I just want to shrug off the whole thing and keep paying the prohibitive cost of  our current car insurance.

Come March we are about to renew our car insurance again. And while I know that I . . . → Read More: On The Hunt For A Lower Premium

To many of us, we have made our digital cameras our constant companion wherever we go. They have become like our cell phones; we are inseparable!

I was probably one of the last few that held on to the conventional film camera for the longest time. I thought, since my Olympus film camera was . . . → Read More: Going Digital; SLR perhaps

While I have been dishing out slim down tricks right here, here I am feeling bloated and heavy because I love baking my cake and eating it too. It’s just the start of a new week, and I feel this way every time after a weekend of eating cake. If I don’t get a . . . → Read More: To Bake Or Not To Bake?

What is more stressful? Buying a car or searching for a cheap health insurance?

I’m asking, because here in the US, as we all know by now, health insurance does not come cheap. Insurance premiums increase every year. What’s worse, if you have a pre-existing condition, you are not certain if you can avail . . . → Read More: Unlikely Comparison