Recently, I found out about wordpress. Thanks to Dr. Jean, a very friendly and knowledgeable doctor, who is into blogging. My sister and I met her at a wellness resort center in Batangas called "The Farm". She is such a blessing as she is one of my inspirations in blogging.
I opened up an account and started to write some stuff under the name Ventura County (VC) Wellness and Rejuvenation Center because it is intended for people living in Ventura County who are interested in health, beauty and wellness. My blog link is: vcwellnessandrejuvenationcenter.wordpress.com. if you want to check it out.
So, for those people who are living in this beautiful ocean and mountainside of Ventura county who are interested to invest in a wellness center, please feel free to contact me for more detailed information.
Wishing everyone a good and healthy well-being.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Basics of Skin Care
No matter what type of skin you have, we all need to do the basics of taking care of our skin.
What are the Basics of skin care?
1. Cleansing
Make sure that you clean your skin before you sleep (even if you just stayed at home), and in the morning (even if you just stayed in bed) by washing with soap and water. It doesn't mean to say that our skin does not get dirty when we stay at home or just stayed in bed overnight. Our skin just gets more dirt when we are outside our house because we are more exposed to chemicals and pollution. So the more you stay outside your lovely and homey abode, the more likely your skin becomes dirty especially if you live in the urban area.
2. Moisturize
If you live in a hot, humid or tropical area, you may feel oily and thus, you may think you do not need to moisturize. However, you still do. If you feel like you don't or you think that all you need to do is just wash your face and use a toner or just do either of the two, think again. Use a moisturizer especially if your skin feels dry or tight. You can use a light moisturizer if you have oily or problem prone skin. Otherwise, an ordinary moisturizer will be sufficient.
We will discuss the different kinds of moisturizer and the best brand available for your skin in future blogs.
3. Eat Lots of Fruits and Veggies
What we eat affects our skin. I will talk more about what to eat and what to avoid when you have problematic skin in my future blogs, too. In the meantime, and as a general rule, we all need to eat more of the fiber and less red meat. If you eat meat, whether red or white, make sure that you wash it off by eating fiber after that. Thereby, lessening the effect of having too much oil and whatever kind of bad by-product that came in our digestive system.
4. Plenty of water
I think most people have been told to drink eight full glasses of water everyday. Not colas. Not tinted nor colored nor flavored water. Just plain water with one hydrogen and two oxygen. Lucky me, I could drink it plain 'cause I am used to it. But for those people who can't, you can probably start mixing your favorite beverage with more water. Pour your favorite drink in a glass almost halfway full. Then, mix it with water til it gets to almost the top. Stir and enjoy!
It might taste weird or unusual at first but you'll get used to it. Train your tongue (taste buds) and it will accept the taste eventually.
Drinking more water gets the toxins out of our system more easily and flushes it out of our body by urination. Imagine if you do not drink plenty of fluid a day, your urine gets darker and smelly. That's because it is so concentrated. That just means to say that you haven't been drinking lots of water. So drink, drink, drink water. Don't drown yourself though. Your body can tell when you need more and when you had enough.
5. Sleep
In this time and age, a person is lucky if s/he can have a full eight hour sleep. I think this is the amount of time that we can feel rested and rejuvenated. Although I have read sometime ago on the web. that people do not have to have a full eight hour sleep, but five to six is good enough. I do not know whether they did a research on it or not, but there are times, that my sleep is enough when I have six hours of sleep. That is without interruption in going to the bathroom, or my dog always moving on the bed, or turning whenever I do.
Those are the five simple things that we can do in taking care of our skin. In future blogs, I will be discussing more about taking care of our ageing and problematic skin ; branding and others.
What are the Basics of skin care?
1. Cleansing
Make sure that you clean your skin before you sleep (even if you just stayed at home), and in the morning (even if you just stayed in bed) by washing with soap and water. It doesn't mean to say that our skin does not get dirty when we stay at home or just stayed in bed overnight. Our skin just gets more dirt when we are outside our house because we are more exposed to chemicals and pollution. So the more you stay outside your lovely and homey abode, the more likely your skin becomes dirty especially if you live in the urban area.
2. Moisturize
If you live in a hot, humid or tropical area, you may feel oily and thus, you may think you do not need to moisturize. However, you still do. If you feel like you don't or you think that all you need to do is just wash your face and use a toner or just do either of the two, think again. Use a moisturizer especially if your skin feels dry or tight. You can use a light moisturizer if you have oily or problem prone skin. Otherwise, an ordinary moisturizer will be sufficient.
We will discuss the different kinds of moisturizer and the best brand available for your skin in future blogs.
3. Eat Lots of Fruits and Veggies
What we eat affects our skin. I will talk more about what to eat and what to avoid when you have problematic skin in my future blogs, too. In the meantime, and as a general rule, we all need to eat more of the fiber and less red meat. If you eat meat, whether red or white, make sure that you wash it off by eating fiber after that. Thereby, lessening the effect of having too much oil and whatever kind of bad by-product that came in our digestive system.
4. Plenty of water
I think most people have been told to drink eight full glasses of water everyday. Not colas. Not tinted nor colored nor flavored water. Just plain water with one hydrogen and two oxygen. Lucky me, I could drink it plain 'cause I am used to it. But for those people who can't, you can probably start mixing your favorite beverage with more water. Pour your favorite drink in a glass almost halfway full. Then, mix it with water til it gets to almost the top. Stir and enjoy!
It might taste weird or unusual at first but you'll get used to it. Train your tongue (taste buds) and it will accept the taste eventually.
Drinking more water gets the toxins out of our system more easily and flushes it out of our body by urination. Imagine if you do not drink plenty of fluid a day, your urine gets darker and smelly. That's because it is so concentrated. That just means to say that you haven't been drinking lots of water. So drink, drink, drink water. Don't drown yourself though. Your body can tell when you need more and when you had enough.
5. Sleep
In this time and age, a person is lucky if s/he can have a full eight hour sleep. I think this is the amount of time that we can feel rested and rejuvenated. Although I have read sometime ago on the web. that people do not have to have a full eight hour sleep, but five to six is good enough. I do not know whether they did a research on it or not, but there are times, that my sleep is enough when I have six hours of sleep. That is without interruption in going to the bathroom, or my dog always moving on the bed, or turning whenever I do.
Those are the five simple things that we can do in taking care of our skin. In future blogs, I will be discussing more about taking care of our ageing and problematic skin ; branding and others.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Just the beginning...
I should belong to the Amish community here in the States because I love to be in the olden times.
According to Mr. Wikepedia , Amish people generally has a heavy emphasis on church and family relationships. They have rules that include prohibitions or limitations on the use of power-line electricity, telephones and automobiles, as well as regulations on clothing.
What I like about the olden times is that women and men have definite roles that they play in the community, their church and their family. And like them ( with what I have heard ), they are not into technology. Imagine having no computer , no mobile phone , nothing of what modern people in our time enjoy... and get a headache of. No bills to pay for. Less stress. Nothing to think about except doing their roles and responsibilities for their church and family. Simple living. Rural area. That's what I like.
Albeit unlike them , I have a few modern gadgets on hand that I enjoy but didn't want to make a full use of as I do not want to get addicted nor do I want to spend too much time on any of them. I only have two gadgets that I think are very useful to me - my laptop and my cellphone (having purchased the former only last year because of the need).
Just doing household chores and running errands keep me busy not to mention my part-time work. So I would like to spend my free time just relaxing. Looking at the beautiful scenery ( not the screen of my laptop ) that we are surrounded with here in our marina environment and spending time with my patient hubby and my supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ( coined from Mary Poppins ) doggy . So why add something else that would take my time ?
When I went to see my friends and relatives back in my loving home country , the sunny and humid Philippines, people asked me if I have a facebook . I looked at them and jokingly said , " I have a face and lots of books , but I do not have a facebook". On several occasions , my sister kept on sharing and telling me about her blog which I never got to read except during the time she showed me how to do blogs . Another friend told me twice to have one. I'm like, "what's that?".
Another thing that I do not like about facebook and blogging is that one's private life becomes public . I am one of those private persons who only like to share with my small group of friends whom I can really trust. My family is also one of the rare species that I can truly divulge all my secrets to and will always remain a secret til death do we part. What remains a secret will always remain a secret within the family.
However, this year I have outgrown my fear of being known ( at least a little bit ) as there are things that I would like to share that I think people can learn from. I think this is one of the reasons why my friend , Kaye, was trying to do so she was convincing me to blog. Not to mention the fact that she can see what I have been doing and up to. ( Love you, girl! ). If I stay in my shell, nobody will ever learn from my experiences. So now that my fear isn't as bad as before , I will start blogging. Well, only the things that I think will be helpful to other people.
One of the things that I have learned in writing online is that I have the power to control what the public can see. Hey, I only learned that a couple of hours ago. It is all in my hands . I just have to make sure that I press the correct key. Can anyone please help me find the delete button here on blogger?
So why be on facebook and be a blogger? Because of my need to connect with people .
Some of my relatives and friends do not read their email but they are often into facebook , ano ba yan ? So finally, I decided to go on facebook after a lot of nudgings from relatives and friends only to find out that I have opened up an account that I haven't used . Because of my long absence , like some people do , I have forgotten my password . I could not retrieve nor can I change it through my 9th email address because I have forgotten its password too . Yes, I know what you are thinking. See, I told you, I am not into technology that's the reason why I should belong to the Amish community. I would rather spend time with real people and not the screen. But what can I do ? Being on my last resort , I decided to make another one - one more name on facebook. Taran! I finally got connected easily. Wow! the power of technology.
Before that , I went to blogger.com to sign-up (thinking that I do not have an account) only to find out (again) that I have opened one long before my sister did who taught me about blogging . ( Thanks, sis. for going through it with me ) . But guess what? I think you guessed it right . I haven't written a thing . Why? I think I just opened up an account because people have asked me to do it but I am not really interested into it until now because I feel the need to connect .
To my friends and family who will be following my blog, this is for you . To my future readers and followers , please be patient with me as this is the first time that I am blogging . For the next few weeks ( or even months or years ) , I will be doing a lot of reminiscing . Blogging my experiences here and everywhere I find that may be relevant to those people who may learn from what I have to share or just want to see what I am up to . You can post your comments but please be nice even when you have something to critique . Otherwise , do not say or write anything at all.
Graci!
Gracias!
Mahalo!
Salamat!
Arigato!
Merci!
Thank you!
Danke schon!
According to Mr. Wikepedia , Amish people generally has a heavy emphasis on church and family relationships. They have rules that include prohibitions or limitations on the use of power-line electricity, telephones and automobiles, as well as regulations on clothing.
What I like about the olden times is that women and men have definite roles that they play in the community, their church and their family. And like them ( with what I have heard ), they are not into technology. Imagine having no computer , no mobile phone , nothing of what modern people in our time enjoy... and get a headache of. No bills to pay for. Less stress. Nothing to think about except doing their roles and responsibilities for their church and family. Simple living. Rural area. That's what I like.
Albeit unlike them , I have a few modern gadgets on hand that I enjoy but didn't want to make a full use of as I do not want to get addicted nor do I want to spend too much time on any of them. I only have two gadgets that I think are very useful to me - my laptop and my cellphone (having purchased the former only last year because of the need).
Just doing household chores and running errands keep me busy not to mention my part-time work. So I would like to spend my free time just relaxing. Looking at the beautiful scenery ( not the screen of my laptop ) that we are surrounded with here in our marina environment and spending time with my patient hubby and my supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ( coined from Mary Poppins ) doggy . So why add something else that would take my time ?
When I went to see my friends and relatives back in my loving home country , the sunny and humid Philippines, people asked me if I have a facebook . I looked at them and jokingly said , " I have a face and lots of books , but I do not have a facebook". On several occasions , my sister kept on sharing and telling me about her blog which I never got to read except during the time she showed me how to do blogs . Another friend told me twice to have one. I'm like, "what's that?".
Another thing that I do not like about facebook and blogging is that one's private life becomes public . I am one of those private persons who only like to share with my small group of friends whom I can really trust. My family is also one of the rare species that I can truly divulge all my secrets to and will always remain a secret til death do we part. What remains a secret will always remain a secret within the family.
However, this year I have outgrown my fear of being known ( at least a little bit ) as there are things that I would like to share that I think people can learn from. I think this is one of the reasons why my friend , Kaye, was trying to do so she was convincing me to blog. Not to mention the fact that she can see what I have been doing and up to. ( Love you, girl! ). If I stay in my shell, nobody will ever learn from my experiences. So now that my fear isn't as bad as before , I will start blogging. Well, only the things that I think will be helpful to other people.
One of the things that I have learned in writing online is that I have the power to control what the public can see. Hey, I only learned that a couple of hours ago. It is all in my hands . I just have to make sure that I press the correct key. Can anyone please help me find the delete button here on blogger?
So why be on facebook and be a blogger? Because of my need to connect with people .
Some of my relatives and friends do not read their email but they are often into facebook , ano ba yan ? So finally, I decided to go on facebook after a lot of nudgings from relatives and friends only to find out that I have opened up an account that I haven't used . Because of my long absence , like some people do , I have forgotten my password . I could not retrieve nor can I change it through my 9th email address because I have forgotten its password too . Yes, I know what you are thinking. See, I told you, I am not into technology that's the reason why I should belong to the Amish community. I would rather spend time with real people and not the screen. But what can I do ? Being on my last resort , I decided to make another one - one more name on facebook. Taran! I finally got connected easily. Wow! the power of technology.
Before that , I went to blogger.com to sign-up (thinking that I do not have an account) only to find out (again) that I have opened one long before my sister did who taught me about blogging . ( Thanks, sis. for going through it with me ) . But guess what? I think you guessed it right . I haven't written a thing . Why? I think I just opened up an account because people have asked me to do it but I am not really interested into it until now because I feel the need to connect .
To my friends and family who will be following my blog, this is for you . To my future readers and followers , please be patient with me as this is the first time that I am blogging . For the next few weeks ( or even months or years ) , I will be doing a lot of reminiscing . Blogging my experiences here and everywhere I find that may be relevant to those people who may learn from what I have to share or just want to see what I am up to . You can post your comments but please be nice even when you have something to critique . Otherwise , do not say or write anything at all.
Graci!
Gracias!
Mahalo!
Salamat!
Arigato!
Merci!
Thank you!
Danke schon!
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