What’s On My Mind: Unique, Spontaneous, and Original blog posts by C5

Minimize Heavy Traffic

by Cecile Cinco

In the Filipino vernacular, when you say it’s traffic, it means the traffic is heavy. Technically there is always traffic. It’s just either light or heavy…or a little in between and over.

The only traffic we would like to be heavy is internet traffic. That is, if you are the owner of the site. If you’re the end user, internet heavy traffic will be your patience’s trial.

Road traffic is best when it’s light. We all have to do our part to contribute in making the traffic light. Continue reading »

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How To Prevent Hair Loss

by Cecile Cinco

Hair loss comes early in life usually because of our own doing. Hair dyes, hairdryers and curling irons are the leading causes of hair loss for men and women. Hair coloring more than once within the 8-week period will make gravity stronger, causing hair fall. Braiding too tight stretches the hair is also a hair-fall contributor. Too much alcohol and tobacco not only causes hair to say goodbye to your scalp but dandruff is also caused. Illnesses and antibiotics weaken those grips to your hair follicles so as excessive shampooing and lack of sleep and off-time sleep. Also, avoid too much salt. Continue reading »

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Maximizing Space With Mounts

by Cecile Cinco

Apart from blogging, I sell real estate. It’s something you can sell without much capital except for knowing everything about it and going to the site to explore what you’re selling, which means travel expenses.

There is this one model house that’s generally small. It’s catering the buyers who don’t have enough money and yet would like to have a good-looking design. Continue reading »

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How To Be An Online Shopper

by Cecile Cinco

Online shopping has never been more competitive than now. More and more are also getting comfortable with it joining the millions enjoying the ease without having to dress up for shopping especially for busy people who cannot be in two places at the same time.

What I like most in online shopping is Continue reading »

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Controlling Asthma Attacks

by Cecile Cinco

Asthma can be deadly. Several times I’ve experienced attacks that made me think it’s the end of me. Asthma attacks can be controlled, though. Only if you knew how to.

Two days ago I had a bad attack. I don’t panic yet inspite of that my call on God was really asking for help right away. Good thing my youngest daughter was with me then. I motioned her to tap my back. Having small hands, she got tired and her hands reddened because she had to make her taps a bit harder than usual. She did not leave until I said it was ok. I had my inhaler but having around 10 puffs in the span of 45 minutes is not normal. Normally, 2 would be enough. It was one of those near-death occasions. I’m sure God intervened. Continue reading »

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How To Give More Than One Gift To The Same Person Within The Same Day: Facebook’s Farm Town Gift-Giving Glitch

by Cecile Cinco

Among the Facebook applications, Farm Town holds the record as the top 1 Most Frequently Played Game. At least, for me. There’s more to it than just clicking. It’s the closes to a real farm in terms of buying seeds, planting and harvesting. You get to choose yourself where and when to plant. You get others to harvest for you and they are paid or you can harvest it yourself. In addition, there is communication among the farmers. It’s a chat and play at the same time. You get to know people from other parts of the globe.

In addition to plain farming, you also get to beautify your farm with fences, houses, trees, flowers and even ponds. As you go up each level, some features gets unlocked. I’ve seen very beautiful farms. Although I can beautify mine now, I’ll wait till I can buy the largest farm I can buy. From level 15 and all the odd numbers till level 25, you get the option to buy land in addition to your existing land. Your farm gets bigger.

Farm Town gets addicting so if you haven’t started yet, don’t tell me I did not warn you. I just learned recently that there are even Farm Town cheats. It turns out that a matrix has been made to plot the price of seeds, the length of time it gets ready to be harvested, how long before each withers, how much to harvest and how much it gets sold for. Anyone can figure that out if given the time to spend on it. Somebody has done it, why reinvent the wheel, so to speak? My point is, that’s not a cheat at all.

I’ve done several searches and there exists a cheat. Actually several but the working one (as one claims) is a certain application you have to install. It makes your avatar 5x faster and other stuff it can do. I did not delve more into it because I don’t like it. It’s really a cheat. Though the fact that somebody was able to do it means the system is glitched. This glitch is selfish because it favors the player.

Gift-giving is glitched too but you don’t need anything else other than your browser to be able to send out more than 1 gift to the same person within the day. Besides, this glitch is outward. You give than receive. When you give, you don’t expect anything else in return but the natural law of giving compels the recipient to do the same. It would be the recipient’s choice to give in return or not.

So, you want to give more than what you can naturally give? Here’s how:

1. log into your Farm Town

2. click on Send Gifts

3. open several new tabs or windows to show the Send Gifts page

4. in each tab/window, choose the gift and the person/s you want to give the gift to but don’t click yet the final sending.

5. when you are done with all tabs/windows, click each final Send button. If you did 7 tabs/windows, the person/s will receive 7 gifts.

How many can you send? It all depends on your computer’s memory.

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Space Management: How To Stack Your Stuff When You Have More Than Your Floor Space Can Hold

by Cecile Cinco

Two decades ago, the standard house for sale in a subdivision has 3 bedrooms big enough to fit 2 single beds and you still have some space in between. Now, that has changed to 2 bedrooms which can fit 1 bed. More and more 1-bedroom row houses are being built to accommodate families with low income to give the opportunity of owning a house. It’s not surprising that in most of the designs, you can reach the door from your bed!

It’s still better, though, to own a house instead of renting, but that’s a different topic. When you’re one of those wanting more space because you have more stuff your floor space can accommodate, then you might gain from this post.

Assuming you have your stuff like furniture, arrange them in a modular way.  Arrange big items close to the wall. That way you have the walking space in the middle. Reaching to the left or right will be easier than having your walking space by the wall and everything else on the other side.

Keep stuff you don’t need but won’t throw away under the bed or in the farthest cabinet.

Use the wall. Instead of picture frames, install shelves or wall cabinets (then put your picture frames on the cabinet door if you so insist on displaying them). Hang your TV too. There are several tv stands that are designed to attach to the wall.

Use the ceiling. I’ve seen a small house where the clothes cabinet is hinged to the ceiling. The hinge is on the top front part, the ceiling serves as the cover. There is a hook at the bottom part that hooks to the ceiling when you bring the bottom up. I thought it was really cool. You just make sure you hinge it to the horizontal beam with big screws that can handle the weight of the filled cabinet.

When you’re yet buying:

Think modular. Modular furniture, for example, can follow the form of the space provided. You can rearrange them to fit.

Think stackable. Anything stackable saves space like monoblock chairs.

Think functional. If it’s mere display, think again.

Think multipurpose. If something can do more than one purpose, great! The more it can do, the better. I like my kitchen scissors. It has a can opener, bottle opener, grip, fish scaler, peeler, knife, flat screwdriver and sometimes I use it as a pot holder.

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Know Whom To Contact Before You Need It

by Cecile Cinco

There are standard emergency numbers that should be available in your home, near the phone. The same should also be true with your mobile phone. Continue reading »

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A Man Looks Better When…

by Cecile Cinco

Let’s face it. Not all men (or women) look good. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes what you see is not what really is.

Below are some of my observations from way back 3 decades ago up to now: Continue reading »

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How To Be Organized When You Are Not

by Cecile Cinco

Being organized takes a level of skill. The good about it is everything is neat. An organized person knows where to find his/her stuff because he/she knew where he/she put it in the first place. The problem is, when you touch or move that person’s stuff and did not return it the way you found it, he/she gets lost. Continue reading »

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How To Make Your Hair Shine In A Fraction Of A Dollar

by Cecile Cinco

It’s every woman’s dream to have that sheen/shine/luster you see on shampoo and hairconditioner advertisements. All the promises of beauty salon result without spending as much. But it seems that they are mere promises…or am I not doing it right? Continue reading »

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Toilet Training Tots

by Cecile Cinco

I have 3 children. Three opportunities to toilet-train tots. My mom had 6 opportunities of her own and 5 to learn from her directly.

As early as my children learns to walk (9 months), I started sitting them on the toilet. Yes, the adult one. I never used any of those tot versions. It would be guess-work at first as I’d never know the schedule. When I sit Continue reading »

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Caring For Your Digital Cameras

by Cecile Cinco

Digital cameras are more bought these days than before. Not only can you see instantly what you are taking but it doesn’t cost you the film too. With higher resolutions coming out every few months or years, quality has become satisfying. Continue reading »

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How To Detect Stroke When It Happens

by Cecile Cinco

I received an email from my sister, which was a forward and it has something to do with blood clot/stroke indicator–how you can know so you can take immediate medical attention.

With the many hoaxes going around, I have developed the habit to check other sources and I found it to be true (not a hoax).

The email, in a nutshell, says you only have to remember the first 3 letters of ’stroke’ which is STR. Continue reading »

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How To Safely Pop A Pimple When You Really Have To

by Cecile Cinco

First of all, don’t pop a pimple! When, then, can you?

Pimples are never anyone’s friend. Once we have it, we do everything to hide it to the point of getting the situation worser. Continue reading »

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