While planning for 2010, don’t forget to look back at your performance for the past year (2009).
Looking back, I have done better in some areas, and perform badly on others. One area that I performed poorly, among others, is that I blogged less beginning the 3rd Quarter of last year causing the Alexa ranking of this blog to drop. Yes, I successfully opened new blogs but I just don’t have enough time to update all. The demands of daytime job is simply too much. Likewise, I successfully opened a new stream of income by selling online and doing consultancy on web 2.0 marketing. I did well on the Marketing of health products but unable to keep up with customer demands, again, because of the requirements of my daytime job.
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Sonnie Ask Sonnie Self Help
I have been participating in different 5K runs (race) lately and I have to admit, I’m HAVING FUN!
As we age, our metabolism slows down and we are prone to high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, and fatty liver. Not to mention the bulging tummy’s that make us look like walking tadpoles. Thus, aside from diet, I have to engage in physical activity to increase my metabolism as well as good cholesterol .
Why Run?
Running is a good way to burn fat, expand your lungs and exercise your heart. Admittedly, just a thought of running 5k scares me. I asked my self, “can I make it?” So I challenged myself to finish a 5k run without walking. My goal is to endure the run and build resistance, not speed. So I ran on my own pace and competed with myself, competed against the thought that I will not be able to last, and will end up walking. Well, my first 5k run was with the GMA 7 sponsored “Tatakbo ka ba?” and I FINISHED IT 
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Sonnie Ask Sonnie, Sports Running
Update: 68 of the 137 drivers still in limbo
For sure you have heard of the 137 stranded bus drivers in UAE. Right?
They went to Dubai with the hope of giving their families a better future, they took the risk, quit their regular jobs in the Philippines, borrowed money and off they go. Well, they did arrived at Dubai…. sans the job. Now they are broke and in debt.
According to these drivers, CYM, their recruiter, offered them job as drivers for $1,500 a month. Each of them gave the agency 10,000 pesos for the “processing fee” and the agency also asked them to secure a 150,000-peso loan from a lending agency recommended by them. These drivers also claimed that they’re made to sign undated cheques worth 405,000 pesos addressed to a bank and the lending agency, payable in 15 months.
In Dubai, they were housed in a building beside a garbage dump. Without food, they either rely on the kindhearted Filipinos or scavenged for tomatoes in the area to serve as “ulam”. Even though the job is a hoax, now they are being pressured to pay the lending agency.
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Sonnie Ask Sonnie, Blogging, Current Events Pers. Social Responsibility
CNN carried this banner story last week : WHO raises pandemic alert to second highest level.
The Swine H1N1 virus is affecting hundreds of people around the world, creating fear among citizens and govt. scrambling to cope with the disease which originated in Mexico. As of this writing, more countries in Europe and the West are affected by the virus. No reported incidents yet in the Philippines. But what puzzled authorities is the way the virus is spreading in progressive countries where young and healthy citizens are getting infected, in contrast to the pandemics in the past.
Accordingly, this virus is a combination of 3 strains– swine influenza, avian influenza and human influenza. It was still unclear how the virus was transmitted to humans, but what is certain is the the virus had mutated and humans don’t have natural defenses on this, yet.
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Sonnie Ask Sonnie, Medical Science Pers. Social Responsibility
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