Dreams List

One dream

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:49:00 +0000

We tend to dream for a lot of things, most of them material things. But these material things are just temporary and will only make us dream for more or better material things.

Until I've encountered a message intended for me, to show everyone to true peace and happiness, and considered it to be my biggest dream. But on second thought, that shouldn't be just a dream but a direction to a way of living and I know everyone will agree. The ways and means to that direction seem hard to find or think about, but I know God will be there to make things happen.

I am therefore back to dreaming about one dream that seem hard to achieve: the right education and therapies for my special child without any cost, since I simply can't afford them. That was why I've thought about the possibility of going to U.S.A. to fulfill that, but even for air fare, I no longer have.

Gone are the days when I had enough money to fulfill most of my dreams, all of which were material things or means to make more money. But none among them brought me true peace and happiness.

Perhaps I should focus on that one dream for my special child. I'm sure fulfilling that dream will bring me true peace and happiness.

A Star in God's Eyes

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:51:00 +0000

During the Christmas program at Brahma Kumaris, each one was given a card containing a Christmas symbol. My husband got a symbol that fits him, and here's what I got:

The Star

"You are the star in God's eyes, who illuminates and shows everyone to true peace and happiness".

Wow! I think that will be the biggest dream I'll ever have, and the biggest challenge too. But I guess I've started to try to be one though perhaps I lacked self-confidence. I wrote about "God's Message" which was the main reason for starting a blog, but I didn't care if people will believe it or not. Maybe I was right that the message was for specific people at specific times, but maybe I could have exerted more effort to make mankind believe it because the message was for the whole mankind and not just for selected people.

How do I fulfill that biggest dream now? Perhaps I'll just continue sharing everything that I learn which will help people attain peace and happiness. In the first place, that was my main objective in creating the three blogs I'm now maintaining. I couldn't believe that while writing this and searching for the URL of my "God's Message" post, I found another venue or a popular site where I can fulfill that dream!

May the year 2012 bring true peace and happiness to everyone!

Lubel

My dream condo unit

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:48:00 +0000

There was a time I dreamed of owning a condo unit but forgot about the idea. Until I realized the difficulty of building a house and also maintaining it at this age. I got units in Basic Interior Design course and as a result, I said to myself when the time comes I'll build my own house, I'll focus on it and even take a leave from work. Time flew and it's a different story now.

I'm again dreaming of owning a condo unit, but this time I have very specific requirements so it's not easy to find one. The most critical requirement is the toilet and bath which should not be located at the southeast, nor south and north part of the unit, simply because those are my lucky directions where I should study or work. Again related to the toilet and bath, preferably it should not be seen from the entrance but that will be hard to follow because most units especially the small ones have the T&B located next to the entrance door.

Another consideration is the placement of the stove which should not be fixed so I can put it in a place where the front door is not facing the back of the person cooking. "A surprised cook will spoil the meals", I'm not sure why that belief should not make sense but I'd like to follow that anyway.

The floor where the unit is located should be at the ground or second floor, though a breathtaking view will of course be sacrificed so I may still consider a higher floor. Why I'd like a unit at the ground or second floor is because of its accessibility to the amenities specifically the pools and the gardens. I have a special reason, the kiddie pool will help in the therapy of my special child.

That's about it, my dream condo unit. I've seen a lot of them but the earliest turnover is 2014, LOL!

A Dream Workplace

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:46:00 +0000

Six months ago, I posted about "My Dream Office" which should be in my own house. But for most who are employed in a regular job, working in a common workplace is inevitable. There should be a dream common workplace then, the kind that will help employees live a healthy life. Is that possible?

In Japan, workers in some offices are required to attend the warm up session in the morning before the official working hour starts. But since a dream workplace would like to maximize the health of the employees while in the workplace, other solutions can be worked out.

1. Exposure to sunshine is a must for a person’s health and the best time of exposure that will surely help the body to produce Vitamin D is from 9:30 to 10 in the morning. Eating should not be allowed in the office in the morning, instead, a special canteen without a roof or located at an open field that operates only in the morning should be provided, where snacks may be taken or short meetings may even be conducted . Employees may be scheduled alternately and those scheduled to be at the open field canteen starting at 9:30 A.M. may be motivated with a free snack ticket. When it’s raining, that’s the only time snacks in carts may go to the offices.

2. Thirty minutes before the closing time of the office, all elevators should be switched off and all employees should be required to use the stairs.

3. The main canteen of the office should serve healthy foods only, without any meat. These food should be sold at cheaper prices.

4. Turn on the centralized air condition only during hot seasons. Use electric fans during cool seasons since too cold temperatures can affect a person's health.

5. Employees with no abnormal findings during the Annual P.E. should be rewarded, and if they have ideal weights, their rewards should be doubled.

6. Of course provide gyms with saunas and work-out programs for the employees.

There are more ways than just the above 6. Where to get the funds for such program? Decrease the amount for health insurance to add to the savings in electricity when the centralized air condition and elevators are turned off, and the open field that will not require lights. This is not an original idea, only the ways differ, but that only means that achieving a dream workplace similar to this is not an impossible dream.

A dream garden of a cat and a CEO

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:38:00 +0000

Every morning at 9:30, the sun's rays are right in front of our door and I don't let that opportunity to be exposed to sunlight even just for 20 minutes pass. To motivate myself to regularly do that, I look at the garden, check if its overall view looks good. Both the left and right gardens would fit the frame of a camera, therefore their full views are easy to appreciate or assess.

How would I assess a garden? A blooming flower will surely make the overall view of a garden look good so it would be easy to spot and assess in more detail. The morgana flower will make a garden beautiful and at first glance one would like to look at it more closely and in so doing, discover flowerettes also blooming on the fully bloomed large flower. On the other hand, wilted leaves will surely mar the overall view of the garden so they should be regularly removed.

Why is the title of this post "A dream garden of a cat and a CEO"? Because our cat FPJ always looks at the garden like I do. Like me, perhaps he appreciates that he could see the overall view of the garden at one glance. I like big gardens, but if there is no spot in a beautiful garden that fits the frame of a camera, it will be hard to remember how beautiful it is.

It goes without saying that even a small garden can be a dream garden not only to a cat but also to people like me, and even perhaps to a CEO of a company. What if the overall view of a company is like a garden that I just described? The CEO will surely be very glad that at one glance he or she could see how healthy a company is. The small garden in this last photo looks good, but the branch of a beautiful plant with dark pink leaves is almost on the ground. That would be easy to correct but if left unattended, the beautiful leaves will finally fall to the ground and wilt.

The perfect plant for a perfect grade

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:50:00 +0000

"I could have given you a perfect grade for this, but you drew the wrong plant!". I will never forget that comment from my teacher in Freehand Drawing in my Interior Design course five years ago. It was almost lunch when we started drawing the three vases, one vase with plant on it, so we were asked to finish the drawing at home. I wasn't able to find the same kind of plant that was on the vase when I got home. But there was another reason, I just didn't find the plant beautiful. They said it was a water plant.

I've never forgotten that incident, and the plant. Since then I've been looking for the presence of that plant everywhere there were plants, until I realized that inside the school of my son where we had a coffee kiosk, the plant was abundant. It is beautiful when the leaves are already big. I grew the plant at home and wondered if it will fulfill my dream of replacing my artificial decorative vine at home with a natural vine. But every time I put some on a vase with water, the plant just didn't last. I realized that was because I've always forgotten to add water. So I bought clear vases so I could see if there was no more water. Until I got used to adding water even when the vase was still half-filled.

I later learned that the plant's name is "Devil's Ivy", also called "Golden Pothos" and it has grown with big leaves outside our house which I intentionally trim to use as decors on vases. And from the grown plant with big leaves, I finally managed to grow its vine just using water exactly at the place where I used to hang artificial leaves.

I finally got my dream. It was a small dream that had nothing to do with my bad experience for not getting a perfect grade. Now I know why I shouldn't had misjudged that ugly plant that became my way to fulfill a dream.

A Mother's Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:50:00 +0000

As a mother of two grown-ups, I can say I have fulfilled my dreams. Good upbringing, good education, and good health, those were my dreams for them. When they finished college, my dream was for them to have good jobs. Now that they are adults and have good jobs, they have their own dreams and I can only pray that they will always be in good health because most of the time, it is health that is sacrificed to achieve most of an adult’s dreams.

But God doesn’t stop to challenge me as a mother and as a dreamer combined. For my special needs child, my dreams are more complicated. Her health comes first. Good upbringing is to constantly show her that she is loved. The hardest part is good education which means special education plus complete therapies for her and that will require a big sum of money. That is what makes my dream complicated. And perhaps, that dream was the very reason why this blog was created in the first place.

Today, July 24, is Lyca’s 9th birthday. I started this blog in 2008, seriously dreaming that I should win the Lotto so I can bring this special child to the United States where I’ve seen very good facilities for her development, in the internet. That was three years ago and I haven’t stopped hoping for that dream to come true. Even with her disabilities, I know this child has the right to be educated and that obligation makes my dream stronger, and I have to look for ways to fulfill that even without winning the Lotto.

My wish for her birthday next year is to already have a clear picture of the fulfillment of my dream of special education and the necessary therapies for her. For now, my dream is focused on her health, that she will be seizure free with the help of a Modified Atkin’s diet. In fact, that shouldn’t be just a dream but a prayer, a prayer that will be granted if two or more people will pray for that. If you happen to read this and join in that prayer, a mother’s dream is about to come true.

Fulfilling the dream - to be a therapist

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:16:00 +0000

I first blogged about a new dream to study the acupuncture points of the body on September 2, 2008, and then elevated that dream of becoming a "therapist". Today, I'm declaring myself a therapist since I've already proven a number of times that I can indeed treat people by just stimulating their acupoints with my Tiens non-invasive gadgets and boosting their immune systems with the right supplements.

That doesn't mean that I've memorized the 2,000 acupoints of the body. I was forced to fulfill that dream because I needed to address the immediate health problems of my family. It did not really take more than two years because I had a full time job in 2009 but resigned after 9 months because I didn't feel at ease with my own health. As a therapist, I need to be healthy myself.

However, I cannot be a professional therapist because I still lack the required schooling and licence. I am now thinking if my next dream should be to take up "Master of Science in Asian Health Practices".

What is more important at this point in time is that members of my family are immediately treated even without medicines. Every case of illness in my own family that I successfully treat makes me very happy!

The Dream Soul

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:42:00 +0000

I'm not so updated with the young people's terminologies but during our time, we had dream boys and dream girls. When we became older, we had ideal men and ideal women. Most of us probably wanted a "dream soul" or an "ideal soul" in a person that we were looking for. But more often than not, we could not eliminate some physical characteristics we were hoping to find in a person, thus we never referred to just the soul of a person.

The dream soul is harder to find and should be first achieved in oneself. It is the best medium to change oneself, and its surroundings will follow. Achieving a dream soul is simply being conscious of its original state: peaceful, powerful, pure, positive, loving and joyful. If this original state of the soul is achieved on a daily basis, then a dream soul is achieved.

Yesterday I was blessed to have the opportunity to attend a seminar in Brahma Kumaris about "Soul Consciousness". At first I could not imagine how the seminar would be effective to the participants. It was amazing to be enlightened how simple the process involved in soul consciousness is, but it could be hard to practice for sure. This morning, I started meditating about achieving my soul's original state. If I can eliminate negative or waste thoughts like gossips the whole day, then I will succeed in achieving that.

Worldwide health care

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:55:00 +0000

Under the arms of the United Nations is a World Health Organization which of course is in charge of the world's health. It was created in 1948, the time when the first batches of baby boomers were born. Though born later, I was a baby boomer and I probably knew the very specific functions of this organization when I was in grade school. But that was long ago, and I can just imagine how hard it was to develop health programs for the whole world. This is the 21st century where everything is possible with the help of modern technology and the internet. The great dream for worldwide health care is possible not only by an organization but even by a single baby boomer.

I admit that I am one of those baby boomers trying to be a messiah to save the health of mankind, in my own little way of sharing whatever I learned about health and wellness. I am aware though that caring for the world's health is not as easy as sharing information through the internet. In my blogs, I share some philosophies of TCM or Traditional Chinese Medicine, not knowing who would believe them.

Perhaps the greater dream is for all philosophies of medicine to be integrated, such as Oriental or Traditional Chinese Medicine integrated to Western Medicine. Some might say, that is an impossible dream, but I prefer to base my beliefs on simple observations. For instance, the scrubs which are now worn as medical uniforms in hospitals can easily be the standard uniforms for healthcare. So when one sees a person in scrubs in any part of the world, an instant message is understood: that person's mission is health care.

I've noticed in Wikipedia's definition of health care that it pertains to humans and haven't found the word "animal" in its definitions. In TCM, acupuncture can be applied to animals as well, in fact pet lovers should start learning about it if they really care for their pets. The scrubs can be veterinary scrubs that will send the same message of caring for health though this time it involves animals. Health care includes acupuncture while acupuncture includes the animals, therefore health care should include the animals.

"Brought to you by my friends from www.blueskyscrubs.com"

Inspiring future nurses

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:14:00 +0000

The last Nursing Board Examination results in the Philippines showed a low percentage of passers. Those who failed experienced a "shattered dreams" illusion. This is normal, but illusions are temporary and one week of recovery from such should be enough. Continue dreaming and continue learning what you failed to assimilate in the past.

Caring for people is one goal that can never be replaced by other goals. So those who perseveringly studied Nursing should pursue this noble goal. They had been inspired not only by their loved ones but by mankind as a whole. The internet is another effective medium that can inspire future nurses and help them achieve their dreams. Even just the photos of nursing uniforms can inspire them.

It won’t be long until they again look for nurses scrub uniforms in the internet, this time for real. They will be among the many nurses selecting from the several designs of nursing scrub tops or men’s medical scrubs for men.

To the nurses who pursued their dreams, a job well done!

"Brought to you by my friends in www.blueskyscrubs.com."

My Dream Office

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:28:00 +0000

The price of gasoline is rising fast and the road traffic is also getting worse. In this situation, what could be a better solution than working in one's home? Maybe none. But an office setting is always ideal, makes one more focused and far from distractions.

Therefore, an office situated exclusively in another story of the home can be an excellent place. The photo here obviously shows a beautiful house, but for me, that bedroom on the second story can be my office. The adjacent balcony with plants around is an excellent place for breathing exercises or Qi Gong, and be exposed to the sun to get the much needed Vitamin D by the body, during working breaks.

That will be a nice dream to be added to my Dreams List.

Perseverance will be rewarded

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:52:00 +0000

It was worth searching the web for the definition of "perseverance" because it inspired me more to write this post about our own experience of persevering. Before my story, here are some of the definitions I have searched:

"Perseverance is a day-to-day decision not to give up".
"Continued steady belief or efforts, withstanding discouragement or difficulty".
"Steady persistence in a course of adhering to a course of action, a belief or a purpose".

Whenever people see us with our special child, people would tell my husband and I that the child will bring us good luck. And then there are also others who'd say that the child is very lucky to have us as her adoptive parents.

A year before the special child was born, though I could no longer give birth because of surgery, I wished for a child but did not want a grandchild. So when this child was born right inside our house, I believed she was God's gift to me. This child is now 8 years old and we are confronted with several challenges that would test our perseverance. Maybe I had been persevering most of the time in the past, but I didn't think it could also be a gift from God.

A few months ago, our child had massive seizures because of her cerebral palsy. Her doctor advised us to try changing her diet into a modified Atkin's diet, because it effectively eliminated the seizures of some children with epilepsy and cerebral palsy, and also eventually eliminated their medicines. I immediately researched about the diet, some guidelines that go with it and its positive effects, and then immediately tried it even without the guidance of a dietician. To our surprise, we noticed several changes which the doctor sees as improvements because our child became more sensitive. There was a negative side effect - constipation. It was very difficult to both the child and us so after a month, I decided to quit. It was just a few days after that decision when we went to the doctor who was glad to hear about the changes, and then told us that the constipation can easily be resolved so we should resume the child's diet.

The two hours after every meal of dealing with our child's constipation was greatly reduced. But the best thing about it is the improvement in her motor skills, caused by the reduction or maybe even the absence of seizures. She can now hold the glass of water she's drinking and is able to control the amount of water she can swallow at a time. Just a month ago, she'd drown herself when she would hold the glass.

There is now big hope that our dreams for Lyca, our special child, will soon come true. And there is only one secret in realizing those dreams - perseverance. I'm glad that it's not only me who was given this gift of perseverance which is now being put to test. There's my immediate family: my husband, my daughter and my son who are now adults and who perseveringly expressed their support for Lyca, emotionally and financially. In due time, their perseverance will be rewarded.

A good sign as the year starts

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:19:00 +0000

Last month, I've seen what I feel was the most beautiful Christmas setting in a department store I've encountered so far. It was in Rustan's Department Store inside the Shangrila Plaza mall. I was with my former officemates, one of them just arrived from Canada for a vacation here in Manila. I enjoyed the views inside the department store so much, I dreamed of coming back for a picture taking with my special child before they dismantle the Christmas decors. It was a dream because I knew there was a small chance it could happen.

The second day of the New Year was a Sunday, I decided to wear the new dress given by my Mom though I had to use a coat over it, while I also dressed up my special child Lyca with a new dress and head dress given to her last Christmas. I was in a hurry I used a blazer over my dress and the mass was over when I realized I looked funny. And then I recalled I saw a branded sweater more appropriate for the dress. I thought it would be good to see and fit the sweater while I was wearing the dress. Outlets of the sweater's brand are found everywhere but my companions preferred to go to Shangrila Plaza mall.

We were already at the mall when I was reminded of the Christmas decors in Rustan's in Shangrila Plaza. It should still be there because it was The Sunday of Epiphany and the timing was right since I brought the camera to take photos of Lyca in her new dress so we could thank his uncle who gave the dress, with her photo (I can't be contended with 2 megapixels camera in a cellphone).

It was dream fulfilled on the second day of the new year, it was just a small dream but for me it was a good sign and perhaps just a beginning of more dreams fulfilled within the year.

I Have You

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:48:00 +0000

I have always been a dreamer
Followed visions of my own
I was born to belong
To the lines of a song
And make them my home

I believe in happy endings
Though I've only known a few
For as rare as they are
Like a bright falling star
I found one in you

Sometimes
All the world can seem so friendless
And the road ahead so endless
And the dream so far away

Sometimes
When I'm almost to surrender
Then I stop and I remember
I have you to save my day

Often my imagination
Has me reaching out too far
When I fell you were there
With your hand in the air
You knew from the start

Sometimes
After all you've done to save me
Through the love you freely gave me
Every step along the way
Sometimes
People ask what keeps me goin'
And in truth, it comes from knowin'
I have you to save my day

Sometimes
Feeling helpless when I held you
Wishing words would come to tell you
I have you to save my day

Winning the Lotto

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:09:00 +0000

I was so excited to start the day but it's only 5 o'clock in the morning so I decided to just start this post. Two hours from now I expect to have breakfast outside and then go to a Lotto booth. The jackpot prize has reached the highest in the history of Lotto in the Philippines. It is now more than 400 million pesos.

The long lines to the Lotto booth would tell that anybody wants to win this lottery. I am somewhat different though. I really would like to win but I'm a little scared. I practice the principles of TCM, so I try to avoid emotions that will affect my health. But how can someone avoid being overjoyed when he or she wins the Lotto? Overjoy can cause heart attack and that's what I'm scared of. But fear also affects the kidney, LOL!

Oh well, I've stopped dreaming because of too many tasks and schedules I had to fulfill and dreaming of winning this lottery is a break from a busy reality. Perhaps, some people who'd like to win have no time to dream small or they simply have to dream big this time. In my case I'd like to go to the U.S. to bring my special needs child, Lyca, to a cerebral palsy center where there is complete facilities for therapy. My Mom has a pool in her home in Las Vegas, it can also be part of Lyca's therapy, especially now that Lyca has grown big. The water would really be a big help for us to manage her weight and height.

Whoever will win surely deserves the prize for whatever purpose that only God knows. If you are that person, just don't forget to take it easy and just relax so you won't have a heart attack.

Revising a dream

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:25:00 +0000

In my original Dreams List, the 12th dream on the list was to win in the international category of the speech contest of Toastmasters Club and unfortunately not yet fulfilled. Since I am no longer an active member of that club, I don't think I can ever fulfill that dream because even if I become active again, the younger generations are getting better and better and always deserve to win in speech contests.

And so, I'm revising that dream, though this revised version is also very hard to achieve: to be an international speaker of Tiens, which requires that I should first be an 8-star distributor to qualify, and that is the harder part. My original objective for speaking to an international audience was to be able to spread God's message, but that was when the web was not yet widely used. It was the main reason why I became a blogger and by being one, I've started to spread my own true story about God's message. Perhaps it still makes a difference if they hear my story from my own voice. If they did not believe my written story, I'm sure they will feel the sincerity from my voice and will believe this time.

If talking to an international audience is not achievable, then whatever God will plan next, I wish I could guess or will be able to discern, so I could welcome it wholeheartedly.

What lies in the future

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:08:00 +0000

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of NMEDA. All opinions are 100% mine.

I've always wondered about Lyca's future. Only this week, I've seen a young man with cerebral palsy walking on the sidewalk. Although he looked pitiful because of his abnormal gait, at least he could walk, and I wished Lyca could do that too, someday. But looking at the situation in another perspective, he could be prone to road accidents. He could get to a place faster with the help of a motorized wheelchair maybe.

And then today, I've read more about NMEDA or National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association, the organization that can help families get the right equipment for a disabled family member. This organization doesn't sell equipments, it is affiliated with dealers or NMEDA members who sell handicap vans and vehicle modifications for disabled people. Isn't that awesome? An organization is focused on looking after the vehicle or equipment needs of the disabled.

NMEDA also has Quality Assurance Program (QAP) dealers. The Quality Assurance Program (QAP) is the only nationally recognized accreditation program for the Adaptive Mobility Equipment Industry. It is based on the principle that in order to satisfy customers consistently, companies must have a systematic and documented approach to quality.

I can now imagine what Lyca's future can be like. Whether she would walk on her own or not, it won't really matter. NMEDA can help us choose the dealer with the right equipment for her. It is not easy to take care of a special needs child because it could be depressing at times. We, the people taking care of Lyca would like to try our best to make her less dependent someday, but there were times it seemed hopeless. Just recently though, I've seen more facilities in the U.S. that will help Lyca improve. I guess we need to push through with that plan to go there. And I'm just glad that there's an organization that can educate us to buy Lyca's future equipments from a qualified dealer.

Your Dream Scrubs

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:40:00 +0000

Most of my friends in the medical industry are nurses and I’m sure they will enjoy this post. I remember when the scrub uniform started to replace the white nursing uniforms, we in the medical department were all excited to look for websites offering scrubs.

The good news is the scrubs uniforms were made more fashionable by Blue Sky Scrubs. They come with colorful scrub hats and there are several designs to choose from. Fashionable surgery scrub hats are also available and that will surely transform the stressful environment in the operating room into a delightful view. Pocket placements, inseam lengths will also no longer pose problems we’ve encountered in the past because Blue Sky Scrubs also offers Custom Scrubs from the many designs to choose from to create the perfect scrub uniform.

Of course lab coats are also available in this site for my friends in the laboratory.

To my friends in the medical industry, just bookmark this post, click on the appropriate links and you’ll surely find what you need.

"Brought to you by my friends in www.blueskyscrubs.com."

My dream product at the perfect time

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:23:00 +0000

Two years ago, I wrote about my dream product. It was called Tiens Dream Bio-energy Mattress. That was in Sept. 2008, and I knew I will achieve that dream because I already had a buyer for the townhouse unit I was selling, and I was also expecting to be employed again. However, the processing of the housing loan of the buyer stalled and I didn't get a job, so the down payment of the buyer lasted for four months only. As a result, we had to borrow for our daily expenses until we got paid in full for the balance of the townhouse, after another two months. We had to pay debts so I had to forget about my dream product.

After just a few months, Tiens announced that a new model of my dream product will be introduced soon. The same old features will be retained, plus new features based on the latest technology. The product is now called Tiens Photon Bio-energy Mattress. I was employed again by that time, and had seriously looked for a buyer of the lot we had wanted to sell even before we sold the townhouse unit. The events went fast, I've already set aside the money I will need for the mattress from the sale of the lot, but I've also decided to resign from my job. I did not change my mind about buying the product, because in my mind, it will be easier for me to market the product and earn, if I own one.

I've realized that this is the perfect time for me to get this dream product. What if I got the old model? It doesn't have the photons that the new model has. Controlling the features with the new model is a lot easier because there are fixed exposure times for the VLF (Very Low Frequency) alternating magnetic wave, which is 20 minutes after every one and a half hour, and the photon, which is one hour after every four hours.

The benefits of the photon, which has the same wavelength used by the astronauts of NASA (660 nanometer), are just amazing! Healing happens in the cellular level, which means that any disease caused by injured cells can be healed! When an injured cell is exposed to photon, it repairs itself and once it is repaired, it is done and will no longer receive further treatment from the photon. That means there is no overdose because it is the cell that controls the treatment, not the person. The light from the photon at the 660 nanometer wavelength has no affinity for cancer cells so that the killer cells that was made healthy by the photon can defeat the cancer cells. Isn't that awesome?

I love war stories with happy endings and I'm glad that there is now a product that can assure us of a happy ending, though it is not a weapon but just a friend of mankind, invented by the Russians to save mankind in outer space, perhaps not realizing at first, that it will be more needed to save mankind on earth.

Goodbye, my friend

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:34:00 +0000

Early this month, I was saddened by the news that a friend who became close to me died. For the last four years, I've wanted to see him, but perhaps I did not try enough and that was what made me have some guilt feelings, until I wrote this.

Joel wanted to excel in everything that he does. His dream was to be somebody that people will look up to someday. When we became close, he was taking up masters. We were partners in a ballroom dance club we attended after office, just outside the area where my office was. He would usually wait in my office, would usually rehearse his speech for his masters class, but whenever he did that, he would give the impression that he is a good speaker talking in front of an audience, much like a younger Boy Abunda of the Philippines. I knew about his weaknesses, but his strengths could easily cover them up. He was a person with big dreams, but sometimes, he would need people to boost his morale, and I was one of those people.

During the last day of his wake in Manila, I wanted to say “Goodbye, Joel”, but I could hardly say it and all I've said was the word “bye” that almost couldn't come out of my mouth. When I was about to leave with my companions who were also his close friends, I jokingly told them, “pinipigilan nya akong umalis” (“he was stopping me to leave now”). It was already morning when I arrived home because we still stopped by “Burger King” to eat. I went to the kitchen, opened the faucet to drink tap water when I saw a small moth fly to the sink from the tiled top, when it felt my presence. I was reminded of two symbols, the moth or butterfly symbolizing death or a dead person, and the presence of water which is where the lingering souls on earth prefer to stay. So I thought “this might be Joel saying thank you and goodbye”. With that in my mind, I decided to take a photo of the moth.

When I downloaded the photo to my laptop and checked the resolution by zooming it in, I was surprised to see a figure on the moth that looked like a man with thin but muscular frame that is waving. That was how Joel looked, and that could be his way of saying goodbye. It could be only me who could see that figure, but no matter how I try to convince myself that the figure was made up in my mind, I could still see the figure of a man that looked like Joel. And as I cropped the photo to create a closer view and made it brighter just now, I couldn't stop some tears to fall from my eyes.

As far as I'm concerned, my friend found a way to say “Goodbye”, not only to me but to all his friends, because he knew I will help him even after his death, by publishing this post with the photo, and that support is also my best way to say “Goodbye, my friend, rest in peace”.

Glimpses of my future

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:43:00 +0000

In July 2002, my daughter dreamed that I gave birth to a baby girl. A few years before that, I dreamed that I gave birth to a third child, a fair and chink-eyed baby boy with nice teeth.

Both dreams were far from reality because my whole uterus was removed in the year 2000. I can't remember which came first, my surgery or the dream about the chink-eyed baby, but nobody among us in the immediate family was chink-eyed.

What amused my daughter and me was a week after her dream, a baby was born inside our house. Who gave birth is another long story so you may just click this link for that story.

The baby had grown to be Lyca, our special needs child, and I just realized that the chink-eyed baby boy in my dream looked like her, almost like Lyca's photo in this post. The baby in my dream looked like a boy because of the short hair. Does that mean the arrival of that child to my family was part of God's plan several years ago? In my thoughts, I wished for a baby but that was already after my surgery. The dreams in our sleep can bring us to the future but more often than not, we only realize that when that time in the future has come. Why the dream about the child instead of other significant events that may happen? Perhaps because my life will be focused on this child. Life is truly a mystery and only God knows the answers to most of our questions.

I've read in a natural health news that the best alternative therapy for children with cerebral palsy like Lyca is acupuncture and music therapy. I'm glad that we're on the right track, has started doing non-invasive or needleless acupuncture on Lyca and has exposed her to the piano.

Maybe Lyca has a mission in life, or I have a mission in life and Lyca will have a big part in that mission.

A Dream Site: RepairPal

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:15:00 +0000

One of my big dreams is getting a BMW car as an award from Tiens as a leader and distributor of its high quality health products. But expensive cars can pose hard-to-solve problems because not many are knowledgeable about the ins and outs of such luxury cars. So the dream car becomes distorted because the owner will end up selling the car and replace it with a second choice that is easy to maintain in terms of parts and experts' availability.

There is a site that will finally make dreamers like me realize our dreams: a RepairPal for almost all kinds of cars, for example, a Honda Accord, and can help you find a car shop near you, like the San Francisco auto repair shop, for example. Repair costs can now be budgeted instead of remaining a mystery until the repair is completed, because of the provided feature for repair estimates in this website, even if it is just for one part, for example, a timing belt, and even provides information about a specific part and its replacement.

What's more, RepairPal also provides monitoring of the services done to each of your cars. I can now tell the world about my real dream car, and can also now confidently tell them how I can take care of my dream car. How about that?

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My Prodigy

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:17:00 +0000

I think I have a prodigy at home. She may be blind, has a hypertonic right hand and hypotonic left hand as a result of cerebral palsy, but I'm sure she can be a prodigy. Who knows, she might have a dream too, to be a good pianist like her adult sister, Holly.

Lyca will be eight years old this coming July 24. I used to believe I needed a job to be able to support a special needs child like Lyca, but after her caregiver left and I had more time to be with her, I now believe I should always be with her, discover what she can do or what she wants to do, and how she is able to communicate that want. So far, whenever she wants to play the piano, I am able to know that through her gestures and facial expressions.

I still give myself time to research for technologies that might improve her condition and I'm glad to learn that the 660 nanometer photon found on the mattress we have at home can help. I have to research more deeply about the ideal duration for her to be exposed to photon, when to stop, and when to resume exposure. Anyone who knows the answers?

Voice out your dreams!

noreply@blogger.com (Maria Luisa Taa Venida) — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:48:00 +0000

Five years ago, when I was involuntarily retired just like my husband who was retired a year earlier than me, I found it necessary to study Interior Design to support my husband's possible venture in renovating offices or houses. However, my studies compromised an earlier promise to send my special child's caregiver to school, but promised that after I finish, which would be after two years, we'll push through with the plan for her to study.

Unfortunately, I had to stop my studies for financial reasons. The renovation business did not materialize, succeeding business ventures did not work, the coffee kiosk business remained but couldn't support any extra expenses and we had to pay cash for the balance of the lot where we've already paid 20% down payment. Until we can no longer sustain the coffee kiosk and I had to find a job but was not fortunate to find one. To continue my schooling as well as that of the child's caregiver was still in my thoughts but I had no choice but to defer those dreams. Until the caregiver sent her younger sister to school, I didn't notice that another two years had passed, because I thought that she decided to sacrifice herself since she and her sister couldn't go to school at the same time. She will need to shell out money for her own studies since it was not possible for her to depend totally on me for her studies, by the time I will have money to help her. During those times of financial crisis, I always dream in my sleep about a class I had to attend but either I forgot about my schedule or I will already be late for the class.

Early this month, the caregiver of my child left with a broken heart though she told me she'll just have a vacation. She never voiced out her dream to continue studying maybe because the previous years, she knew that I had to find a job and when I found one last year, I needed to wait to be regularized. For health reasons however, I had to resign meaning I won't be receiving a monthly income again. Maybe, if only she voiced out about her dream, I could have done something about it. She knew that I still continue dreaming for her because more than once in the recent past, I told her it would be good for her to study Physical Therapy and open a Wellness Center in their province someday. She never said anything about that idea, nor voiced out any other options she preferred.

I am very sad because she left telling others I did not fulfill any promise I made. It was never my intention not to fulfill those promises, in fact, a month before her scheduled vacation, I told her that one promise I made can soon be realized, and that was for us to go to Hongkong and visit the Disneyland there, together with my husband and sister-in-law, and that can surely push through as our Tiens' Indonesian upline's incentive to me, my husband and sister-in-law for the ranks we attained in Tiens.

Perhaps taking care of a special needs child takes a lot of patience and if that can be the compromise to voice out one's dreams to fulfill them, one can have second thoughts about voicing them out. But I admire my caregiver's patience and I believe there were other reasons that, or the totality of several reasons, kept her silent. Anyway, I'm still hoping and praying that she'll come back.

Now I'm sure I won't dream about a missed class in my sleep anymore, because it isn't really my dream, but somebody else's dream that is more important to be fulfilled.

My biggest dream remains, and that is for me and my special child to go to U.S.A. for a sponsored rehabilitation program for my child. Her caregiver was part of that dream, if her VISA will be approved, I told her.