I know, pools are considered to be a luxury, but I like the comfort of being able to swim on my own without being conscious of how people would react to seeing me on my swimwear. I tend to get self conscious when I’m swimming out in public, and, well, I can’t exactly take laps when I swim and am worried about what others think.

You see, I’m suffering from mild scoliosis, and my doctor highly recommends me to swim a lot since it would be helpful for my spine.

I should get this pool installed as soon as possible. If you want to swim, just holler and I’ll let you know when I’m free and when you can swim!

I was a bit worried to open the package. It was addressed to my Mom but my name is written on the box itself. Worried, I called up my brother. My brother answered the phone and said, “are you calling because you received an insanely large package from me?”. It turned out it was a late Christmas gift for me. The shipment got delayed because of weather conditions.

Anyhow, drum rolls then I opened the package. It was a full sized keyboard! And not just any keyboard, but a dave smith! I was so happy and worried at the same time. I could not touch it at first. It was so shiny and so new. I felt like I was not worth it. Until now I still haven’t got the words to say thank you to my brother. Oh this is such a wonderful gift. I have always wanted one of these.

I have no idea what to get her, and it’s all up to you guys! If you must know, her favourite colour is purple, and she loves sour food. I just want to repay her for all of the amazing things she did for me and my siblings, and I guess the only way I can show that to her is through presents, aside from contributing to our house bills, haha!

What kind of presents did you give your mom this Christmas? Please, share it with me so I can get some ideas! I would greatly appreciate it. The comments section of this post is free for all, and I’ll make sure I read them all and put them into consideration. Thanks a lot!

I have been seriously considering buying yoga dvds so I can choose to do it in my own time instead of adhering to the schedule in the yoga studio. I can set schedules on weekend mornings when the yoga studio I go to is closed instead and I can do it wearing my birthday suit! Haha, just kidding. Well this way I won’t have to worry about people judging me for what I wear to yoga. This way I’d be less conscious of my surroundings or how I look like because there’s a cute guy beside me and I don’t want to look ridiculous! Haha.

If I do get a DVD I can skip a few sessions on the studio if I want to sleep and just do a session at home! Cool huh?

Yesterday I just had enough of it. When they placed some gooey stuff in my keyboard, I became so angry I promised myself I would definitely retaliate. But of course, revenge is sweeter when no one figures out you did it.

So I devised a diabolic plan of looking into their weaknesses. Voila! They were married individuals with some seriously insecure wives. So I went on with my plan. First I created their full profiles in some adult online dating sites. I placed there their full pictures and all, along with some office secret pictures like the one we had in Hooters.

Then, I also created some bogus accounts of women and created some scripted conversation with their fake accounts. To look like they were dating. After that, I emailed their spouses a screenshot and a link to the site. Oh it was diabolical. Earlier, one of the guys went to work looking very stressed out. I heard he had a fight with her wife. Oh I hope I could get the credits for that unfortunately I must resist the temptation to continue with my next plans. Of course, the plan is to send out an anonymous email saying that all of it was part of a prank. But that is for next week.

Unfortunately, the plant died. I had no idea why so I did some research on the net. Turns out that Miracle Fruit only grow on soil with 6.8 to 7 ph. This means that the soil must be ph balanced in order for the plant to live. I bought a ph meter from a gardening store to check out my soil and it turns out that it was PH 5. The soil killed my plant, or at least my plant was not able to live in my garden soil.

I told my friend about this and she told me not to worry. She will bring another Miracle Fruit plant when she visits me again in summer.

I’ve been really exposed to a lot of things that I never even knew were possible lately through the help of my friends, and I doubted them at first, but what they’ve been saying made a lot of sense. Haha. Am I weirding you out yet? I’m sorry. Okay, back to the original topic! Gemstones!

There is just something about these beads that have a timeless effect. It’s like they never go out of style and they’re so easy to wear with various kinds of outfits. I don’t know if this is just a phase, but most of my accessories are full of gemstones. Haha. What kind of accessories do you wear these days? Share it with us, and if possible with pictures, too!

My mom wanted the hose fixed, so she had it repaired, but it doesn’t really look very pleasing anymore. Do you guys know of any good brands with a flexible metal hose? I don’t want to buy a new hose that will end up the same way as our default one. Apparently my mom isn’t very good at judging the quality of things like these, and knowing me, I don’t even have any experience in the house appliance/furniture department, so I wouldn’t even trust myself to shop for things like this. What do you think?

Please, help us by sharing good brands or shops for this. THE FUTURE OF OUR HYGIENE DEPENDS ON YOUR RESPONSE! Hahaha, kidding, but you get the point!

Apparently my feet shouldn’t be the only things that I should be worried about. While I was happily wading around under the rain because I wore comfy leather shoes, I wasn’t aware of the fact that the papers inside my bag got drenched because the bag was made of cotton.

So yes, now I’m looking for decent leather backpacks that I can use. I don’t think I’m ever going back to cotton bags again, after all of the things that event put me through. It was hell trying to gather all of the readings from my courses and copying notes from my classmates for an entire week.

Never again, I tell you.

I used to do this by downloading the whole video then converting it down to audio only. Fortunately, this solution is much simpler.

Some of you guys may not agree with me, telling me that MP3′s sold in itunes still have better quality. Yes that is true. However, if you are not an audiophile you would not recognize the difference of a 192 kbps to a 128 kbps bit rate of an MP3. But you will have to agree that youtube already has quality audio. Good enough for the masses.