10-Eat Out, Eat Healthy

Want a healthy food whenever your in hurry or in urgent appointments ?Worry no more because this will help you to choose wisely on what are healthy fast food that will work .

So, let's get started !

What are fast foods?

• quick,easily and cheap alternatives to home-cooked meals

•  food, as hamburgers, pizza, or fried chicken, that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method and can be dispensed quickly at inexpensive restaurants for eating there or elsewhere

Benefits of fast food 

Saving Time

Many people are in a hurry, which usually leaves little time to shop for and prepare meals in the same manner as their parents or grandparents might have done.

Improved Nutritional Value

According to the NIH, in an effort to meet the needs of more nutrition-conscience consumers, some fast food restaurants have salad bars, whole grain buns, grilled chicken and lean meats. In addition, a number of fast food restaurants will provide an information sheet on the nutritional content of the food on their menu.

 Fast food health risk 

 Obesity Risk     

According to livestrong .com ,fast food increases BMI. The higher your Body Mass Index,BMI which indicates body fat thuat is measured to your weight and height,the higher the of obesity and chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, gallstones and cancer. 

Stroke Risk

According to livestrong .com ,Fast food restaurants use processed foods with high amounts of sodium to flavor your meals. Sodium is a risk factor for high blood pressure and stroke, the third leading cause of death in the United States.

                        Some Healthy fast food in the Philiippines

When you're on a tight budget, on the go, or stuck in traffic, you can't really be very picky with your meal. Sometimes you have no other choice than to eat fast food even if you know it isn't very healthy. But here are the best picks if you're on a diet and counting calories. 
1.Burger King

Whopper Jr. without mayo (260 calories, 10g of fat, 2g of fiber). Its burgers are heavy on the stomach, and this is the lightest one available. It’s not so bad.
2. Jollibee
Yum! burger (150 calories, 25g of sugar, 15mg of sodium). Order this with more tomato, lettuce, and cheese. It’s a good way to have some vegetables in your food.
3. KFC
One-piece Drumstick (120 calories, 7g of fat, 380mg of sodium) with rice (206 calories). If you want a light meal just to keep the hunger away, this is it. The whole wing has 140 calories, while the breast without the skin has 130.
4. McDonald’s
1. Regular hamburger (250 calories, 9g of fat, 520mg of sodium). It’s got fewer calories (around a third) and less fat than the Quarter Pounder!
2. Six-piece Chicken McNuggets (280 calories, 17g fat, 600mg sodium). The meat isn’t really the healthiest or the freshest, but their calories are low compared to the other snacks available.
3. Egg McMuffin (300 calories, 17g of protein, 750mg of sodium, 4g of fiber).It’s an excellent source of calcium.
5.Subway
Six-inch Roast Beef Sandwich on Wheat Bread (310 calories, 5g of fat, 24g of protein, 700mg of sodium). This is lightest sandwich they have, and it’s generously stuffed with vegetables.
6. Taco Bell
1. Crunchy Taco (170 calories, 10g of fat, 290g of sodium).
2. Crunchy Taco Supreme (200 calories, 12g of fat, 320g of sodium).
7. Wendy’s
1. Chili (190 calories, 6g of fat, 830mg of sodium). It’s filling but also low on calories.
2. Quarter-Pound Single Hamburger (250 calories, 8g of fat, 490mg of sodium). You’re better off ordering this light burger than the others or choosing their 700-calorie salads.


See more at; http://www.cosmo.ph/health/healthy-eats/the-healthiest-fast-food-orders-for-when-you-have-no-choice

09-Francisco Arcellana

Francisco Arcellana (Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana)  was born in akaFrank V. Sta. Cruz, Manila and born on September 6,1916 . He was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher. Fourth son of 18 children of Jose Arcellana y Cabaneiro and Epifanio Quino. 

           Arcellana bloomed early in his craft and prospered from his first schooling in Tondo              until he entered the University of the Philippines (UP) as a pre-medical student 

            in 1932. He developed an interest in writing while he was studying at the Manila                       West High School (now Torres High School) as an active staff of the the school                                  organ TheTorres Torch.

           

  Some of his works have been translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, Italian, German and Russian, and many have been anthologized. 

Two major collections of his works are:

 Selected Stories, 1962

 The Francisco Arcellana Sampler, 1990

       Francisco Arcellana other published works are;

 Philippine PEN Anthology of Short Stories,Editor(1962)

Fifteen Stories: Story Masters 5(1973)

    

  Arcellana's Poems:

The Other Woman

I wait for you

To touch you

                                                               

         From 1928 to 1939, 14 of his short stories were included in Jose Garcia Villa's honor               roll. His short story “The Flowers of May” won second prize in 1951

 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature.

"The Flowers of May” 

Francisco Arcellana

Victoria is Father’s first real, and as it turns out, only loss. Josefine who died before her died in early infancy and Concepcion who died after her was stillborn. Victoria died and we buried her and Father has not said her name once or even spoken of her.”

• Another short story, “Wing of Madness,” placed second in the Philippines Free Press literary contest in 1953 

The wing of madness

The  hands went. My berserk hands! As soon as I knew that my hands were gone, then I knew that I was mad. Never before had I lifted my hands in anger. Never before in my life had I struck a blow?neither in violence nor love. Never before had I used my hands to crush or to caress, to create or to destroy.

Now that they have stirred, when finally they have lifted, they are monsters, how they rage: they have turned against me, they have fallen upon me: they hold me and grip me: they shake me and break me: and there is no stopping their frenzy. Oh, the fury of hands that are denied!

Sources;

http://www.poemhunter.com/francisco-arcellana/biography/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Arcellana

http://www.nancycudis.com/2012/08/3-stories-francisco-arcellana.html

08- Parasyte :The Maxim(Live Action)

Parasyte ; The Maxim is a manga based  “Kiseiju: Sei no Kakuritsu” illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. 

The story starts with an worm -like alien called Parasyte trying to invade Shinichi Izumi (Sota Sometani) that time he was asleep when the alien is trying to crawl inside Shinichi's ear but  there is an earphone blocking his way.The alien do it again in order to live he decided to enter through his right hand.Finally , the alien successfully entered in Shinichi's body.Next morning ,he woke up he feel something wrong until he saw something comes out in his right hand and this alien name is Migi (Sadao Abe).

Shinichi was able to prevent Migi from traveling further up into his brain, both of them are able retain their separate intellect and personality.As the duo encounter other Parasytes, they capitalize on their strange situation and gradually form a strong bond, working together to survive. This gives them an edge in battling other Parasytes, who frequently attack the pair upon realization that Shinichi's human brain is still intact. Shinichi feels compelled to fight other Parasytes, who devour humans as food, while enlisting Migi's help. 

They end up fighting other Parasytes who attack them after realizing that Shinichi's human brain is still intact. These other Parasytes devour humans as food, and Shinichi ends up fighting them with Migi's help. As the two of them encounter more Parasytes, they end up forming a strong bond as they work together to survive.As the story ends, Shinichi together with Migi would do their best to kill those bad parasites living on other's body.

It was amazing, thrilling,exciting and interesting movie.The quality is good .Some scenes was gross especially when the Parasytes are eating humans and it really shown in the movie.

07- SOM but not SOAB anymore

 

SOM week opening cermony

Yes,the School of Accountancy and Business(SOAB) changed into School of Management(SOM) !!!

It's official as the opening ceremony of  SOM week held on October 26, 2015 at Asia Pacific College ,Parking lot, 10:30 am.There were lots of activities and booths inside the Cafeteria like SOM fair , SOM Fright Night ,TMysteries ,Mr. and Ms. SOM 2015 ,Halloween Movie Marathon etc.
I went to  SOM Fright Night last October 29,2015 at Asia Pacific College ,Cafeteria, 6;30 pm. Just like the Frosh Night there were photo booths. foods , dance floor etc.  we just enjoyed the night because it's our time to have fun and tomorrow will be a normal day. 

I also tried to join in TMysteries but unfortunately there were no slots available because it's a First Come,First Serve I just realized that it will be a fun activity. TMysteries is a detective game wherein you will solve a the mystery on why is that crime happened.  Luckily, I have the chance or opportunity not to play the game but I'm the one who will threaten some of the players so that they will be more confused on what their doing.It's was fun with the other Tourism Management(TM) students and I feel like I'm one of them. 

Coronation of  Mr. and Ms. SOM

The Mr. and Ms. SOM 2015 was the last activity I went for the last day of SOM week held at APC Auditorium .I am cheering for the representative of Accounting Students together with my blockmates and other higher year of AC students. As not we expected one of our representative won as a 2nd Runner Up but it's okay there will be chance we won and we lost sometimes.  

The SOM Week is quite fun and exciting but I think that it would be better if it was held a week before the Midterms examination and it will make students difficult to study because they will be cramming just to be done on reviewing their past lessons in late night. 

06- Anti-smoking Campaign Seminar

Last October 21,2015, at Multi-purpose hall number of Asia Pacific College (APC)  the campaign for the Anti-Smoking Seminar meant to aware us,the APC students on what are the risks and dangers of smoking to their health and also what are the best thing to do to able not to be a victim of it .There are two guest speakers whose invited to give their speeches.The first one is a former chain smoker and the second one is a doctor that came from a prestigious hospital.

 The first speaker, a cancer party list of "New Vois Ass'n. of the Philippines Inc."  he also had a throat cancer and regular smoker that's why he was using a robotic device near his throat so that he could speak but not anymore be back from his normal voice.He told us the reasons about why he got his vocal chords sound likes a robot because he continuously smoke that results him to have a tumor in throat.Smoking may cause a person lost his/ her concentration and focus.As the speech ended, he gave us warning not to smoke anymore because it may destroyed our health conditions and smoking will only cause an early death.

The second speaker, told us what are the cause and effect of smoking. He told us that a cigarette contains dangerous chemicals especially Carbon Monoxide and Nicotine that causes a lot of harm to a person’s body.He told us that smoking makes an individual become depressed on what his/her surroundings would be . It may also be the reason why they have difficulty in concentrating, decreased heart rate, and weight loss. As he end his speech , he also warned us to stop smoking so that we can have a healthy lifestyle and to lower the chance of dying at a very young age.

"Stop it as soon as possible so that in the end there would be not regret to your actions"

From Left to Right; Mr. Labada,Laine,Chelsea, Me and Mr. Rojas

05-Turn Left,Turn Right Movie Review

Turn Left ,Turn Right 

I watched this movie last October 16,2015 at Asia Pacific College, Audio Visual Room (AVR),7:30 am. Turn Left Turn Tight is based on the best-selling illustrated love story of the same name by renowned Taiwanese author/artist, Jimmy Liao.

John and Eve missing each other

The story is all about John Liu , an inspiring violinist and Eve Choi,professional translator .The two are meant to each other but their paths never cross as they are staying in the same apartment building.One day, John is walking around a fountain in the park and also Eve they bump into each other and it was a love at first sight.Unfortunately, a sudden rains shower cuts the encounter short. They manage to exchange telephone numbers but the rain renders the phone numbers illegible. As the movie goes on , they are both trying to reach each others thru phone calls but then everytime John will call Eve and Eve will call John their lines are busy .There is one instance that an earthquake happened  the two couple realized that they really love each other and because Eve and John already met since their grade school times because of it they just knew they are neighbors.Finally, the movie ended as they live happily ever after. 

I love this movie. It is simple. It is about two people who are so meant for each other, but always missed out on meeting each other. The two lead players are so gorgeous, and had so much chemistry, that you just smile everytime you think about the movie. They played their characters very well, interesting and simple. The movie is a straight on adaptation of Jimmy Liao's comic. And it is done very well without becoming boring. The cinematography is so stylistically done that every shot is like a postcard. Definitely one of the movies that I would rewatch over and over.

04 -Play Review: "Ang tatay mong kalbo"

Our professor required us to watch play entitled "Ang tatay mong Kalbo" held on  October 10,2015 at Asia Pacific College (APC), MPH1, 1:00 p.m.  The play let a question remain to the audience like "How will the flows of the play easy to understand?" "Ang tatay mong kalbo" by Isagani R.Cruz ,PhD. It is performed by Teatre Phileo .

The play is a story all about a couple named Mr. and Mrs. Santos who were discussng with each other.While Mr. And Mrs. Santos keeps arguing with each other and suddenly their Maid, Maria told them that Mr. And Ms. Reyes would be coming to visit.Mr. and Mrs. Reyes were already in their house and they tell some stories when a local firemen and Maria's lover ,General Hepe arrived at their home and he ask if there is a fire at the place. They quickly respond to his question and said ,"No there's no fire here". General Hepe horribly looks like there are so many question on his mind and make things worst  when he heard it, then he cry like a baby and he share some stories about fire and firemen like if there's no fire ,no salary. Finally , General Hepe decided to go home and ask the question "Nasaan ang tatay mong Kalbo?" and Mr. Santos replied that he is still combing his hair again and again.

Based on my own observation ,I probably say that some scene on the play happens in real life .First of all , Mr. And Mrs. Santos continously arguing even if it's a small things to argue with like couples today, they are fighting that really cause them to break up to each other. Second,  Mr. And Mrs. Reyes are very sweet to each other and if one done something wrong they will resolve it by act of something sweet some keeps tickling ,cuddling etc. to ask for forgiveness.Lastly, General Hepe and Maria love affair which shows that some will easilly judge because they has a same gender like female between female and male between male .

The whole cast of "Ang tatay mong kalbo"

After watching the play, I realized some things that really happen in true life .I would say that it was a quite nice play and the actors and actresses are great to respesent each role and to help us to understand the play. I highly recommended this for some who doesn't yet watch it.