Events

Price-increase on cigarettes by 2011. Yays !

Posted in Events, Reviews, Uncategorized on August 17th, 2010 by Joan Mae – 6 Comments

Wow, I just heard this from my officemates  while we were puffin last night, and I was like ” No way?! Php 7.00 per cigarette stick?? Are you kidding mee?? ” and well,they’re positive as ever. “Hell yea! 7 per stick, it’ll kill your pocket as much as it kill your lungs”. So I figured that anytime next year, we are gonna go through a Hey-you-owe-me-one-stick phase and No-more-paBAM-muna yosi breaks ”

And my next question is:

Why the hell is this happening?

I know this came out some time last week in papers and TV, but I just found it out the other day, so Im readin my own stuff. According to Philstar ( its a newspaper in the Philippines, just so you know ) there was a proposal to “impose a P90 tax per 20-stick pack of cigarettes by the Dept of Health Secretary to raise more revenues for the government“. Although there hasn’t been any policy discussion on this proposal yet but Im seeing sky-high chances of this being approved.

Makes sense to me though…

Well, the reason why they’re adopting the US tax scheme for cigarettes,proposed by President Obama, is to reduce access to tobacco since they are reducing the capacity of people to afford it. And theyre eyeing on minors.. Population of kids getting into the habit is increasing due to the availability of cigarettes at the price they can afford. And besides, smoking is dangerous!! Like really dangerous , coz youre gonna die of lung cancer!! People are dying every year because they cant stop puffin’ ** oh god.. convince me ** Uhmm I smoke.. sometimes.. well yea.. not really -_- ( okey lets not talk about me coz my mom’s gonna kill me if she ever read this). And yea, I think the will to quit should be personal. It all boils down to controlling one’s self and resisting the urge. Yays..

Blog Clog – Culprit Identified

Posted in Events, Humor, Personal, Rants, Reviews, Social Sites on August 8th, 2010 by Joan Mae – 8 Comments

Right, I havent updated my Blog in Yeaarrsss..
And I was poking around it for almost half an hour, trying to figure out what I can do to develop it * like add widgets and stuff, get a new theme* but it appears to me that one thing you have to do to make it look good is to ofcourse- Write something into it!
One thing I havent been doing!
Great… -_-

So what am I up to that makes me so busy these days?

First – Well I have a new Job.. And my Job is tough. Like really really tough. I work 8-9 hrs a day plus another hour to chat with people. I get all lazy coming home from work and I sleep right away. Blah blah blahh ( I have to come up with excuses first )

The real deal :

for Facebook :

This thing is a TOTAL waste of time, and I am completely aware that this thing is REALLY A TOTAL waste of time. Oh well. Coz I keep logging in and logging off, readin stuff over and over, browsin pics over and over, posting random updates that meant nothing, stayin online for like forever doing literally NOTHING!!! ( Geez Im mad o_O ) Couldnt imagine anythin more addictive that Facebook. I log in before coming to work, after getting off from work, while eating, while half sleeping,while with friends, while out with my boyfriend. Wow.  Had I spent one hour of my FB time gathering contents for my blog, I couldve been a Problogger by now ( atleast to my own knowledge lol ) and Im planning to deactivate my account ( uhmm for a day, err, well I dont wanna totally get rid of it )