Notepad Corner

Flowers are more than just ornamental or aesthetically pleasing, to many horticulturalists they are their passion and their livelihood.  As a species we have been historically preoccupied with beauty and this goes for anything man made or from within the natural world and flowers especially have been used to reflect our love for visual splendour.  Some blooms have had a lot more credit given to them than others and here is a list of some of the more popular flowers from around the world: Image attribution: Kivanc Nis @ flickr.com/photos/kiwanc/

When I’m bored and have a few minutes where I can’t think of anything else to do, I often look for cool new apps for my iPhone on the App Store. Recently, I had a look for some fashion apps for a friend of mine, who was also interested in thinking of baby names, as she’s currently pregnant. After finding a few apps she might like, I searched for ‘baby names’ and found this app from Bounty. Although it was about what to do while pregnant, I downloaded it anyway, and found it was a lot of fun. 

Whirlpool-Maytag Commercial Laundry line products have been formally launched by Excellence Appliance Technologies, Inc. (Exatech), the official distributor of Whirlpool appliances in the Philippines. The products of Whirlpool-Maytag Commercial Laundry Whirlpool Corporation successfully got hold of Maytag Corporation in 2006. Maytag established in 1893 in Newton Iowa is renowned as one of America’s top laundry brands. 

In this modern era in which every house hold has a computer or two, on the internet you can pretty much find a dumbed down version of everything. Recently I have been looking at learning the guitar by using only chords. Basically this is done in rather a crude manner. A guitar fret board is drawn on a web page using hyphens and a letter representing a specific note is drawn on this ‘fret board’ indicating where you must place your finger whilst strumming. After having tuned my new guitar using a simple online tuner (all you need is a computer with a microphone) , I set off and started strumming whilst holding the guitar string in the place indicated and eventually after messing about for 20 minutes I actually recognised the sounds coming out of my guitar as the song I was trying to play. You do have to kind of jiggle about with the speed at which you are doing It as if you do it too slow or too fast it will not sound right.

It’s all go, go, go when you’re a parent.   image from dreamstime.com You spend all day, every day running around after your little ones and never seem to have a moment to yourself, or when you do get some free time you’re not sure what to do with yourself.  This is where sites like Ladbrokes could come in handy. There are loads of different games that are easy to play – and there’s the chance to win money if Lady Luck is smiling on you! Attitudes towards gambling have changed dramatically over the last 10 years and more and more people now enjoy having a little flutter every now and then.

Menopause is a period in a woman’s life that comes with its own set of unwritten rules and in order to best adapt to the changes that our bodies are experiencing, it is good to know how to begin with preemptive measures. While menopause will affect everyone differently, one very common side effect associated with the onset of menopause for most women, is weight gain in all the wrong places. It is estimated that the most profound weight gain women will experience will take place during the years leading up to and during menopause. Because menopause is largely based on our hormone levels, usually a decrease in estrogen and progesterone, the weight gained will be distributed differently during menopause than at any other time in our lives.

Weeks ago, days of non-stop rains in the Philippines brought about by southwest monsoon (Habagat) resulted in floods and left Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna and nearby provinces of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, and Bataan submerged in flood waters, forcing thousands to be stranded on the roof of their homes as flood waters rose significantly high. It is sad to say that most of those affected still suffer from the devastation to the present time. photos from the web