• 1 cup rice, pasta about the size of a tennis ball
• 1 pancake about the size of a compact disc
• 1 piece of garlic bread about the size of a facial soap
• 1tbsp peanut butter or other spreads about the size of a thumb tip
• 3 ounce cooked meat is about the size of your palm or a deck of cards
• 1 ounce of nuts is about one handful
• 1 cup cut-up fruit is about the size of a fist
• 1 medium size fruit is about the size of a tennis ball
• 1 cup ice cream is about the size of a baseball
• 1 baked potato about the size of a fist
• ½ cup cooked vegetables is about the size of a light bulb
• 1 ½ ounces cheese is about the size of a 9-volt battery

For Breakfast, Avoid

Fried foods: eggs, bacon, hotdog etc.
Butter or margarine on toast

For Lunch and Dinner, Avoid

Anything deep-fried like french fries, fried chicken etc.
Pizza and pastas like macaroni & cheese, carbonara etc
Fatty/ oily foods like lechon and chicharon, chorizo, and mayonaise
Dishes with internal organs like bopis, goto, and papaitan
Fast food chain

Dessert and Snack to Avoid

Ice cream
Cream toppings
Chocolate bars
Cakes
Junk Foods like chips

.Green apples are so delicious, oh yes!

.They are like treasures on a pirate’s chest!

.They’re so easy to chew and digest.

.Why don’t you eat one and take a short rest.

.That green fruit is a favorite of mine.

.I tell you, they will make you feel real fine.

.Having some apples is quality time.

.Eating some of it makes me want to rhyme.

.Simple pleasures make simple men happy.

.Relax and forget your every worry,

.For a while, let’s be glad and rest easy.

.Eating apples is good for you and me!

1. Never forget to serve appetizer

Guest, oftentimes, come at varying times during the evening and If you are having a sit-down dinner where you have to wait for everyone before you can start dinner, it is important to serve appetizers along with your cocktails. This will keep your guests’ stomachs from growling while you wait for your fashionably late guest to arrive.

2. Never forget to cocktails

As soon as your guests arrive, you must serve them cocktails. Have a bar well stocked with h regular sodas, beers, and hard liquors your guests could possibly want. At the same time, make a cocktail for the evening, such as bloody mary, cosmopolitan or simple sangria. Make sure to have non-alcoholic option for many Filipinos are not big alcohol drinkers.

3. Never forget to set your table

Whether a formal sit-down or a casual buffet lunch, always set a beautiful table. Make sure you have a centerpiece. Oftentimes, that can be the food. Use beautifully coordinated serving dishes in complementary colors. If the center of your table will not be filled with food, fill it with props that match your party’s theme and if you are in need of a last-minute centerpiece, candles and flowers never fail. Complete your table with place settings. Make sure to use placemats or changers, a lovely set of layered plates, napkins, wine glasses, cutlery, and if you like, personalized place cards.

4. Never use heavily scented flowers in your dining table centerpiece

Save beautiful scented flowers for your living room. In the dining room, the aroma of heavily scented flowers like lilies will undesirably co-mingle with the lovely aroma of the food you’re serving. So keep as mums or roses.

5. Never serve food cold

Whether you are doing a buffet or sit-down dinner, never serve cold food. It is always easier to control the temperature of the food for a sit-down or family style dinner. Just make sure that you time the re-heating of your food for all to come out at the same time. For a buffet, you can resort to using chafing dishes that will keep your food warm or you can choose a menu that is a little more forgiving, by avoiding soups or oily food.

6. Never forget the condiments on a salad

I have found that, unless I’m serving dinner to a grouip of vegetarians, there I always so much salad leftover after the party. I have since never served a plain green salad. Dress up your garden salad with delicious goodies. A sure salad crowd pleaser is seafood that is pre-peeled and shelled, served with a delicious simple vinaigrette of lemon and herbs.

7. Never forget the candlelight

Nothing creates certain ambiance like candlelight. I like to buy a large pack of tea lights at Watson’s and keep a stock of them in the house for any last-minute party. Tea lights in wine glasses make the perfect instant centerpiece or just use them as accent lightning around the room.

8. Never forget to serve wine with dinner

Nowadays, even in the Philippines, all formal dinners must have a nice wine served with it. Make sure you use a wine that pairs nicely with your dinner. When purchasing your wine, pick a wine seller that has a service staff who knows what they’re talking about. Ask them to make a recommendation on what wine to serve that would best suit your meal. If your guests are heavy wine drinkers, the ratio is four people to one bottle of wine. For light wine drinkers, who will drink half a glass during the whole dinner, the ration would be some six to eight people per bottle.

9. Never forget to serve dessert

A lovely meal needs to be capped with a lovely dessert. People rarely remember what they had for dinner the last time they were at your house but a delicious cake is never forgotten and gets talked about month after the dinner party is over. You can make a good impression with a delicious dinner alone, but a great impression ends with a delicious dessert.

10. Never forget to serve tea or coffee

Serve tea and coffee at the end of a meal. A great cake must be enjoyed with the perfect cup of coffee. Instead of scrambling at the last minute for your coffee maker or looking if you have enough teaspoons for your coffee cups, set up a tea or a coffee station on your kitchen long before the party starts. Have your maker ready to go, a tray of teas for your guests to choose from your cups, saucers, teaspoons, cream, and sugar all ready to go. Being prepared for all steps to a party meal will keep you from bein stresses when you are the hostess.

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world.

Points are scored by shooting the ball through the basket above; the team with more points at the end of the game wins. The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it (dribbling) or passing it between teammates. Disruptive physical contact (foul) is not permitted and there are restrictions on how the ball can be handled (violations).

Through time, basketball has developed to involve common techniques of shooting, passing and dribbling, as well as players’ positions, and offensive and defensive structures. Typically, the tallest members of a team will play center or one of two forward positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed, play the guard positions. While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play. In some countries, basketball is also a popular spectator sport.

While competitive basketball is primarily an indoor sport, played on a basketball court, less regulated variations have become exceedingly popular as an outdoor sport among both inner city and rural groups.

Human error is the most common cause of road accidents, and this is usually brought about by what is called “driver fatigue.” Fatigue dulls the mind and slow down nerve and muscular responses, making drivers more vulnerable to road mishaps. Coffee organization cited a study from the UK Department of Tourism suggesting “that 1 crash in 10 is due to drivers nodding off-twice the number of accidents caused by speeding.” Road statistic from Austria, New Zealand and Italy likewise identified driver fatigue as a significant factor in vehicular accidents.

Take a Nap

Continuous driving for long period is one of the main causes of driver fatigue. It results in eye strain and sleepiness. How many times have we heard of sleepy truck drivers on inter-provincial trips get into nasty road accidents? If you are about to embark on a long journey after a day’s work or have to get up unusually early for a long vacation drive, don’t put yourself at risk. To ensure a safe journey, it is therefore recommended for you top make a quick stop at the nearest convenience store, have a warm cup or two of Coffee and take a nap for about 15 minutes. According to a 1999 study ion vehicle accidents related to sleep, drinking coffee and taking a nap significantly reduced major and minor driving incidents, and had a powerful effect in suppressing sleepiness and signs of drowsiness.

Stay alert, stay safe with coffee

Drinking coffee also helps you to stay awake throughout your driving route. Coffee helps release dopamine, a brain chemical that stimulates the areas of your brain that helps keep you feeling sharp and alert. This effect is otherwise known as the coffee jolt. Coffee also helps combats sleep inertia, according to a study done by the University of Pennsylvania. Sleep inertia is the state of sleepiness of grogginess that people experience after waking. The study indicates that coffee helps warm up the part of the brain that handles problem solving and complex thought –parts that you use while driving.

More Tips

For a safer travel, it is also important to plan out your trip and activities. This will help you avoid instances where you’re forced to drive when you haven’t had enough sleep, or when you’re in a hurry to catch an appointment. Lastly, be aware of your current condition. If you’re experiencing symptoms of sleepiness while driving, take a break and do not take your chances.

The game has its origins in England as an after-dinner amusement for upper-class Victorians in the 1880s. Mimicking the game of tennis in an indoor environment, everyday objects were originally enlisted to act as the equipment. A line of books would be the net, a rounded top of a champagne cork or knot of string as the ball, and a cigar box lid as the racket^.

Table tennis evolved into the modern game in Europe, the United States and Japan. The popularity of the game led game manufacturers to sell the equipment commercially. Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of “whiff-whaff” and “Ping-pong.” A number of sources indicate that the game was first brought to the attention of Hamley’s of Regent Street under the name “Gossima”. The name “ping-pong” was in wide use before English manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name “Ping-Pong” then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques equipment, with other manufacturers calling theirs table tennis. A similar situation came to exist in the United States where Jaques sold the rights to the “Ping-Pong” name to Parker Brothers.

The next major innovation was by James Gibb, an English enthusiast of table tennis, who discovered novelty celluloid balls on a trip to the U.S. in 1901 and found them to be ideal for the game. This was followed by E.C. Goode who in 1901 invented the modern version of the racket by fixing a sheet of pimpled, or stippled, rubber to the wooden blade. Table tennis was growing in popularity by 1901 when table tennis tournaments were being organized, books on table tennis were being written, and an unofficial world championship was held in 1902. During the early 20th century the game was banned in Russia due to a belief that was held by the rulers at the time that playing the game had an adverse effect on players’ eyesight. In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in England, and the International Table Tennis Federation followed in 1926. London hosted the first official world championship in 1927. Table tennis was introduced as an Olympic sport at the Olympics in 1988.

In the 1950s rackets that used a rubber sheet combined with an underlying sponge layer changed the game dramatically, introducing greater spin and speed. These were introduced to England by the sports goods manufacturers S.W. Hancock Ltd. The use of speed glue increased the spin and speed even further, resulting in changes to the equipment to “slow the game down.”

Toward the end of 2000, the ITTF instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport. First, the older 38 mm (1.5 inch) balls were officially replaced by 40 mm balls. This increased the ball’s air resistance and effectively slowed down the game. By that time, players had begun increasing the thickness of the fast sponge layer on their rackets, which made the game excessively fast, and difficult to watch on television. Secondly, the ITTF changed from a 21 to an 11 point scoring system. This was intended to make games more fast-paced and exciting. The ITTF also changed the rules on service to prevent a player from hiding the ball during service, in order to increase the average length of rallies and to reduce the server’s advantage. Variants of the sport have emerged. “Large-ball” table tennis uses a 44 mm ball which slows down the game significantly. This has seen some acceptance by players who have a hard time with the extreme spins and speeds of the 40 mm game. The ball’s mass is 2.47 grams.

There is a move towards reviving the table tennis game that existed prior to the introduction of sponge rubber. Classic table tennis or “Hardbat” table tennis players reject the speed and spin of reversed sponge rubber, preferring the 1940-60s play style, with no-sponge, short pimpled rubber equipments, when defense is less difficult by decreasing the speed and eliminating any meaningful magnus effect of spin. Because hardbat killer shots are almost impossible to hit against a skilled player, hardbat matches focus on the strategic side of table tennis, requiring skillful maneuvering of the opponent before an attack can be successful.

I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again

And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love and then softly leave
And its me you need to show
How deep is your love

I really need to learn
cause were living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be

We belong to you and me
I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
Youre the light in my deepest darkest hour

Youre my saviour when I fall
And you may not think
I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do
And its me you need to show

I remember so well
The day that you came into my life
You asked for my name
You had the most beautiful smile

My life started to change
I’d wake up each day feeling alright
With you right by my side
Makes me feel things will work out just fine

How did you know
I needed someone like you in my life
That there’s an empty space in my heart
You came at the right time in my life

I’ll never forget
How you brought the sun to shine in my life
And took all the worries and fears that I had
I guess what I’m really trying to say

It’s not everyday that someone like you comes my way
No words can express how much I love you