Written by crizlai on Jan 14th, 2011 | Filed under:
life,
lifestyle,
living,
rant,
technology 
Tap… tap… tap… tap… tap… ka… chink… Can you still remember how dreadful it was to go groceries shopping during peak periods in the old days? Those were the sound of the old cash register being manned by a weary looking cashier. I can imagine the stress the cashier would be in each day, having to manually key in the price of each items, especially those with huge purchases. It might be quite a norm then but still most customers do not have the patience to be caught in tens of minutes of long queues.
Today, with the foresight of good customer relationship companies, more counters are being opened up to ease the queues. Moreover, barcodes are so widely used on all products now to lessen the input time. All the cashier need is a POSGUYS to send the data into the system to be computed on the receipt with the total amount needed to pay. It’s as simple as that.
With the advancement of technology, more people would have saved up a great deal of time. Thus, life can be less stressful. More time can be spent with your loved ones to nurture a closer relationship.
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Written by crizlai on Jan 14th, 2011 | Filed under:
awareness,
games,
life,
lifestyle,
technology
With so many social networks available through the internet nowadays, you can practically find a steadily increase in the number of social games almost in any site you pop in. Social games are becoming a key aspect in people’s lives. About 60% of the social network users had at least got themselves involved in a social game, with more than two thirds started at the beginning of last year. Most of the social gamers were introduced through the mode of heavily promoted advertisements within the social networks, followed by a substantial numbers being drawn in by their social network friends.
From a survey, it was learned that two thirds of the social gamers play at least 2-3 games per week. One third of them play at least a game daily with a quarter of them logging into their game account several times daily. Surprisingly, those golden aged group surpassed the teen and middle aged group in social gaming. I guessed they have more time in hand after retiring from their jobs. Amongst those social gamers, 70% of them are playing for fun or to kill time, 25% of them play to compete with friends while one fifth plays to relieve stress.
From the current trend of social gamers, it looks as if social games would be here for a long time since there’s a significant growth in the computer games development market within these few short years. This is becoming a reality as no matter where you go, whether in subways, colleges, offices or homes, you can easily spot people playing social games on their laptop computers, tablets or mobiles.
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Written by crizlai on Jan 14th, 2011 | Filed under:
awareness,
health,
life,
living,
medical,
rant
As time passes by swiftly by the winks of many blinks, you can actually feel that the body clock is deteriorating much faster than ever each day. Physically and mentally, you would get more illness cruelly hitting hard on you. Your senses would begin to show signs of failing. Your medical bills would hit high on the ceiling. If you are rich, these problems would not be a problem at all as you can seek many alternatives with your richness. The worst scenario would be to be sent to the Home for the Aged to settle all your “inconveniences” by just paying a lump sum of money. Thus, there’s the lack of personal contact with the ones who had undyingly loved you from the start of your birth into the world. All they would get would be a few hours daily of visit from their personal helper.
Unfortunately, a large number of the elderly would not fall into this category of the rich and famous. They have to spend their lifetime earnings to fend for themselves. Medications, supplements, vitamins or even frequent visits to the doctors are not costing any much lesser nowadays. The amount spent in keeping the body in the best of health can be quite a surprise. How great it would be if any member of the family is in the nursing line. He or she could at least have the necessary experiences in caring and nursing any elderly members in the family within the best of their knowledge.
As a Registered Nurse (RN), one would provide scientific, psychological, and technological knowledge in the care of patients and/or families in many health care settings. It would even be better if one were to possess a B.Sc (Nursing) which could easily be achieved through any of the bsn online programs available out there. Don’t you think that it would be so ideal to have someone so qualified who has gone through bsn online around to empathize along with you through old age?
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Written by crizlai on Jan 13th, 2011 | Filed under:
life,
lifestyle,
living,
rant,
vacation
If you were to be given a chance to choose a location anywhere throughout the world to build your dream home, where would you think that would be? That’s the question I have always asked myself. With money not being an issue, I could always choose a pent house unit overseeing the whole city but that would not be what I had in mind. I have always dreamed of being somewhat closer to nature but staying in a jungle in South Africa or Amazon would surely not be my preference as I can’t go without any technological equipments. Costa Rica has tropical climate and great beaches overseeing the Caribbean Seas but most of these remote areas have no proper road access.
That left me with two options to choose from. It’s either Seychelles, an island nation, northeast of Madagascar and east of Kenya or Maldives, another island nation located in the southwest of Sri Lanka. Both have 3 shades of blue sea water all over the hundreds of coral enriched islands. This would be a real hard decision as both the nations have rich underwater kingdom. I won’t mind swimming in the crystal clear water while exploring more of the “rainforests” of these “underground safari”.
Hmm… an idea just struck my mind. I might even plan to set up two identical dream homes at both locations. Gosh! I suddenly felt that I’m so greedy but who could resist the beauty of the scenery daily? Moreover, the richness of the marine lives would be incompatible to anywhere around the world. If I ever get bored of wetting myself, I could easily view all my underwater recordings through my ever faithful Samsung HDTV.
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Written by crizlai on Jan 13th, 2011 | Filed under:
home,
ideas,
life,
lifestyle,
living,
tips
In order to make your house into a place you can call home, you would need to be focused on how comfortable you would want to be in. The living room being the most utilized area throughout your house would surely be the first place you would like to liven up with some magic touches. All you need is a basic layout plan, a bit of creativity and of course some lifestyle purchases to make your dream place come true.
So how can you go about making those changes? You can start by studying how you can make those walls look attractive. Try choosing colors that would soothe your senses after a long day of work. Pastel colors would be great with one side of your wall where you would be having your entertainment equipments having a stronger color tone. You could consider having a few strategic located pendant lightings from your ceiling that would help in generating positive moods. I’m quite sure that you won’t want to leave those walls bare looking. Hanging up some family photos or even your pet photos would create that feeling of being surrounded by the people you love always.
Bringing in part of your garden would also help in staying tune with nature since green is the most relaxing color to the human eyes. A few cut flowers from your garden placed in vases around your room would add more colors to your life. Moreover, they would give out that natural fragrance that would freshen up the whole place. With all those little touches in place, it’s time to get pampered. I would think getting a set of theater seating would not take up much space, would you?
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