I love my cousins.. they are like the best! Sooo much fun to hang out with.. to bad we live like about 50 miles away from Jeremy-Anne, Joshua, and Joseph. And I live like 14 miles away from Kristina, Richard, and Raymond. Gah, that sux @$$. I have cousin’s from here in Cali, Texas, Philippines, Netherlands, Austrailia, umm….. and I THINK Germany. Yah, a lot of cuzzos. Okay, well i just decided to write a post about this just to show some love to dem cuzzies.

This is just a very important note:

Isn’t it true that we all carry our cell phones with hundreds of names/numbers stored in its memory but yet nobody, other than ourselves, know which of these numbers belong to our near and dear ones? Let us for a moment create a scenario where in (God forbid) we are involved in an accident or had a heart attack and the people attending us get hold of our mobile phone but don’t know which number to call to inform our family members. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? For this reason, we must have one or more phone numbers stored under the name ICE (In Case of Emergency) in our cell phones.

In the Philippines, first we go to 1st grade to 6th grade (elementary school). Then we go straight to being a freshman, which is first year high school. We skip 7th and 8th grade (middle school or junior high). Why is that? Well… to tell you the truth I really don’t know. So, if I’m living in the Philippines right now at this very second, I would be in high school (freshman). I think that’s pretty cool, what about you?

Cancer update — Johns Hopkins — Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:

1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent out his newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army MedicalCenter as well.
Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV progr am to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.
He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.
He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.
Cover food with a paper towel instead.

You are probably wondering why i’m telling you to throw away your spinach…but there’s and E.Coli Outbreak!!!! This one perosn died already (seriously), and there are about 100 people who are ill. Here are  some things that I read on CNN.com:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others.

Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves and consumers tossed out the leafy green.

Food and Drug Administration officials said that they had received reports of illness in 19 states.

The outbreak was traced to Natural Selection Foods, based in San Juan Bautista, California, and the company has voluntarily recalled products containing spinach.

FDA officials stressed that the bacteria had not been isolated in products sold by Natural Selection Foods but that the link was established by patient accounts of what they had eaten before becoming ill.

Hi Everyone, I am back to blogging. I had to delete my blog last time because I was too busy to go on it. Hopefully that won’t happen again.