Seeing Two Worlds

I happen to be flicking images in Picasa and this pic really is a nice way of seeing two worlds - both land and water.

Weird Fishes

I was going over the coral reefs when I was surfing and it made me stop and think, what are some of the weird fishes around? Let's all find out.

Estuary Catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, a large catfish capable of causing painful injuries to swimmers. Also a popular eating fish in some parts of Australia, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific Ocean

Eastern Stargazer, Kathetostoma laeve, a Juvenile Stargazer buried in sand, Edithburgh, South Australia, Australia, Southern Ocean

Short finned Sunfish, Ranzania laevis, a smaller cousin of the Mola Mola. They are found in most seas but not commonly seen. Here in Southern Australia they are occasionaly found washed ashore, Two Peoples Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Southern Ocean

Usually hidden, this yellow colored Painted Frogfish (Antennarius pictus) was perched out in the open on top of a small coral head. The fishing lure, though not extended, can be clearly seen, especially the peculiarly shaped bait on the end. Image taken on the coral reef that surrounds Gato Island off of Cebu and Malapascua Island in The Philippines.

Smooth Anglerfish, Phyllophryne scortea, anglerfish found actively swimming at night under a jetty, coffin Bay, SoutH Australia, Australia, Southern Ocean

Splendid Toadfish (Sanopus splendidus) under a reef ledge in Cozumel, Mexico. Occasionally this fish is known as a Crested Toadfish. Cozumel is the only known habitat for this fish.

A pale pink or orange color phased Warty Frogfish (Antennarius maculatus) sits amongst the rocks on the bottom of the ocean floor on the shore muck dive at Basura at Anilao in the Batangas region of the The Philippines. Frogfish are ambush predators and through coloration and selection of their location they lie in wait for their prey to swim by then explode forward to capture their target. This fish is often known as the Clown Frogfish, especially when in the small, white phase rather than this coloration phase.

A pair of Crinoid Clingfish (Discotrema crinophila) deep within a host Crinoid on a coral reef at night off Mabul Island in Sabah, Malaysia. These fish live within these crinoids for protection and are difficult to photograph without disturbing the crinoid unnecessarily.

Photographer: Paul Osmond

This dark headed Jawfish (Opistognathidae sp? - Opistognathus sp) was spotted in Cozumel,Mexico. Possibly a Yellowhead Jawfish variation DSI is looking for further information on this species

Old Wife, Enoplosus armatus, School of this common shallow water fish. Their name is derived from the grating sound they make when stressed, Wool BAy, South Australia, Australia, Southern Ocean

Photographer: Paul Osmond

An adult Zebra Shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) with a large hook in its mouth, rests on top of a coral wall. A small Sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) is attached to the sharks side. This shark is often referred locally as a 'Leopard Shark' due to its spots, however the Zebra Shark name comes from the juvenile patterning which consists of large dark stripes. Image taken in the early morning at 'Barracuda Point' off the coast of Sipidan in Sabah, Malaysia

Photographer: John Lewis

Western Blue Devil, Paraplesiops meleagris, a stunning fish that is found on southern reefs usually hiding in a cave or under a ledge. They are relatives of the hula fishes, Bremer Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Southern Ocean.

Source: Deep Sea Images

I'm Back!

You may have noticed that I have not updated my blog for a couple of days now, it's because my baby was hospitalized due to pneumonia, and later found out, in his urinalysis with urine culture, that he has UTI. I have a feeling he had the UTI not because of diapers, but because there are times that his diapers was not changed on time (especially in the evening when I was not able to change him and later found out it's already full).

His illness started with colds due to allergic rhinitis that later on became a cough that's been prolonged, hence, became pneumonia. To make matters worst, his sister and brother also have a cough...sigh. So, it's been circulating all over the house. You can see my dilemma for a couple of days...now, I'm back.

Knowing Your Baby's Height

Do you ever wonder how tall your child going to be when he/she grows up? Well, try this height calculator I stumbled upon on the net. It's an approximate, but it's fun knowing how they surpass your current height... I did mine, and my boys will become 5 feet and 4 inches..whew...I know, I know...not that tall but at least 2 inches taller than their dad..hahah.

PC Defense by Free Antivirus Download

Just last Sunday, I blogged about the upgrade my PC got re: changing my DVD into a DVD writer and installing another HDD to my satisfaction with 160GB. Now that I have these ones installed, I am now uploading and downloading stuff especially freebie digital scrapping materials from the net, songs from my compact discs, organizing a lot of things here and there. Pictures, songs, and other bits and pieces that I have compiled or like, I put it now in my F drive to minimize the space of my drive C.

With things like this, it is really very important to have an antivirus scanner so that my computer gets protected from these silent, unwanted and fatal bugs. If not, I surely would be saying goodbye to all my deemed important stuff, and I don’t ever want my PC to crash down.

One sure thing to do is to get a Free Antivirus Download available online. A CyberDefender would be nice as it prevents all the unwanted stuff crawling on our PC every time we connect such as malware, spyware, viruses and even identity theft (I think that is what phishing is all about – I always see phishing alerts especially when we encode vital data into the system). Oh well, it made me remember a movie (which I forgot the title) by Sandra Bullock where her identity and everything about her on the system got hacked.

That would be too much though.

Know Sex Offenders

My bestfriend Moncel told me once that her aunt who is located in Texas sent her daughters back to the Philippines. She said that her aunt got alarmed when her daughters returned from their school in Texas crying. She thought they were bullied but then they told her that they were harassed because they were asked to be somebody’s girlfriend or something. At an adolescent age of 11 and 12, it’s no wonder. That’s why I wanted her to locate Texas sex offenders through the net so that she’ll have ideas and be aware. Of course, I wanted her to learn self-defense too.

PC Upgrade

My gift to myself is install a new DVD with writer capability in my PC since it's not been working for quite some time, and of course, along with the said writer, I added an additional HDD, I had one installed when we bought it at 40GB. I realized that a blogger like myself, who tinkers a lot, downloads and uploads a lot of stuff, to and fro, needs a bigger space. So now I have an additional 160GB...wow! 200GB all in all! Now, I'm really ready to scrap!

SEVEN: God's Favorite Number

(I don't know why it's inverted, anyways)

Years ago, I copied this from somewhere and the paper is already old. Instead of putting it somewhere, I decided to share this with all of you here since this is really a nice excerpt.

Creation of the world
light; firmament, ; land, seas, plants and herbs; sun, moon and stars; animals of the sky and water; animals of land and man; and on the 7th day, God blessed them all and sanctified.

Creation of angels on the highest ranks - Archangels
consist of 7 letters: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Lucifer

Creation of the 10 commandments, consist of 2 tablets
1st tablet, God wrote 3 rules on how to relate to HIM
2nd tablet, God wrote 7 commandments which govern our acts in relation to others

Church prescribes 7 sacraments to assure safe journey to heaven
baptism, confirmation, holy Eucharist, penance, holy orders, matrimony and extreme unction

To be Christian, we are mandated to practice

• 7 CORPORAL ACTS of Mercy feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, sheltering the needy, clothing the naked, visiting those in jail, visiting the sick and burying the dead.
• 7 SPIRITUAL ACTS of Mercy counseling the doubtful, instructing the ignorant, admonishing the sinners, comforting the afflicted, forgiving the offenders, bearing patiently the troublesome and praying for the living and the dead.
  

HOLY SPIRIT has 7 gifts to us
wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord

7 deadly sins
pride, covetousness, lust, anger, adultery, envy and sloth

7 anti-venom serum to neutralize the effects of sins
humility, liberality, chastity, meekness, temperance, fraternal love and diligence
7 tells the kindness of Jesus on the hungry multitude who followed Him in the desert to listen to His words with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes, he fed 5,000 people and 4,000 people with 7 loaves

Jesus emphasized how many times we should forgive offenders not 7 times but 70 times 7

God's painting in the sky, the rainbow, has 7 colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

God songs are 7 do re mi fa so la ti do

7 last words of Jesus Into your hands, I commend my spirit...

***Amazing isn't it?

Strong Women

I really like this quote, it really is so true. Tried and tested in times of trials, we have more stamina and endurance in trying times. What do you think tough women of the world?

Women are like teabags.
You don't know how strong they are
until you put them in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Jessica Biel

She's one of my most favorite actresses.



I first saw her in Seventh Heaven, boyish. I was in awe when I saw her in Blade, and there I wanted to follow her exercise routines. You can see why.

Know Passion #16

I got this Oprah newsletter and it talks about knowing what we wanted out of life, finding it and maybe, answer this eternal question of life's purpose. Just click on the title and read the rest.

Sweating Out

I got a really bad case of stiff neck now because I stupidly raced the 8th floor of the clinic building to get on time (my pedia was already waiting that time), carrying my 9months at 9 kilos son in less than 2 minutes!

And now, because of that unbelievable feat (it's adrenalin I guess), I think I pulled my shoulder muscles and veins (hence, the stiff neck). But the good thing about that, is that I knew my heart's doing good!

Missed Opps

I couldn't believe it when I was doing an opp and when I finished it, I found out I couldn't qualify because my PR got 0 in PPP? What? I got alarmed so I checked with a PR checker, thanks God, PR is still there (alarming because I once lost a PR and it's really a bad thing)!! Then what is happening with PPP? Grrr...

Ditto!

I was reading a post from The Household Helper about the six ways to cope with stress, and the one emphasis there is to get the needed 8-hours sleep - when you're addicted to the net, how can you?

Yeah, sleep deprivation is stress.

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Another post on the To-Do List, I think I have to do something about that, like 5 tasks per day just for me to really be productive (it's been sometime now that I've been procrastinating, even my hubby keeps reminding of that email I was supposed to have made already for him). Yeah, that To-Do List, I needed that.

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Another post on negative thoughts, yeah, at times, I've been planning to give up some things that I've been keeping at bay for a while, I know it's about time I should do it, aside from procrastination, depression seems to be getting into my system. Still trying to get away with the cons.

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Still another post, on happy thoughts, I want to emphasize these that I wanted to post on my wall as a constant reminder of keeping negative ideas away (copy pasted from The Household Helper post):

* Seek out positive people to associate with.
* Expose yourself to all the wonderful books, music and movies available.
* Find the one important thing in your life that’s important, and pursue it.
* Show kindness and respect towards others.
* Live life as if every day is your last.
* Use positive reinforcement wherever and whenever you can.
* Use visualization methods to view the positive aspects of life.
* Speak in a positive tone.
* Rid your mind of negative thinking with yoga and exercise.
* Let your expectations reflect your positive attitude.
* Allow peace of mind to envelop you.
* Become your own best friend.

There is a wonderful poem which clearly explains how unhappiness can thwart our every desire.

If you think you are beaten you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you want to win but think you can’t;
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose you’re lost;
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in a state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger and faster man.

Happiness is not a genetic trait we are born with. It is ingrained in us by our parents and those we love. It is up to us, then, to maintain it, share it, and build our lives around it. Think happy, and you will be happy.

***Yeah, as a SAHM and a WAHM, the household helper is a big help.

Never Interrupt

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Never interrupt your enemy

when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)