Making Promises to Myself I hope to Keep!

Heeey! It's another year over. Time to look back at what you've been up to. I think i've accomplished some of my resolutions last year. SO For this year,

I Resolve to :

1. Have FUN

2. LIVE for the Day

3. Be at PEACE within and without

4. Appreciate the Blue Skies around me.

5. Go to the Beach

6. ENJOY work

7. FIND interesting things to do.

8. LEARN from everything and everyone

9. JUMP OUT OF THE BOX!

10. KEEP THINGS SIMPLE.

New Year' Eve Party

Start:

Jan 1, '07 06:00a

Time to wear my Bling-Bling!

Christmas Shopping!

 Yarghh my aching feet! But it's worth it!  For the past months I've been going around the malls in the city.  Looking for the perfect gift for the people on my christmas list.  I hope they like what they get from me. 

I enjoy looking for the perfect gift no matter what the cost!  Aching feet and all! It's interesting to see how innovative our entrepreneurs are this season.  It's the season of giving so I do it to the hilt!  Especially when I find nice things at reasonable prices.   I feel like a personal shopper for my friends and loved ones. And it's amazing to go to quirky little out of the way places that have great gift ideas.  I actually bought my sister a P50.00 worth skirt which looks great on her.  Ukay-Ukay is my personal heaven!

Well, here's to another round of shopping!

Taking Care of Your Voice

PROFESSIONAL VOICE USERS, INCLUDING SPEAKERS AND SINGERS, CAN FOLLOW PARTICULAR GUIDELINES TO PROMOTE OPTIMAL VOCAL FOLD HEALTH AND FUNCTION.

 

1. CONSULT AN EAR, NOSE AND THROAT DOCTOR - to obtain a baseline evaluation of your voice when you are healthy.  Establish a healthy picture of your larnyx. This serves as a source of comparison when you encounter voice difficulties in the future.

2. Maintain Adequate Hydration.  Many doctors propose that consuming approximately 64 ounces of non alcoholic, non caffeinated fluids per day is necessary to maintain adequate hydration.    Research supports that adequate hydration allow vocal cords to vibrate with less "push" from the lungs, especially at high pitches.  Well hydrated vocal cords resist injury from voice used more than dry cords and recover better from existing injury than dry cords. Increased systematic hydration also benefits by thinning thick mucuos secretions in the throat.

3. Always warm up and cool down. - stretching to vocal muscles prevents vocal injury during strenous vocal use.

4. Know your range - Avoid singing at the extremes of your vocal range. 

5. Know the potential side effects of your medications - many commonly prescribed medicines can have a big effect on the voice. 

6.Screen yourself daily for vocal cord swelling to determine whether you should perform or not.

7. Avoid vocally abusive behaviors :

             * decrease overall volume

             * no shouting/yelling

             * don't whisper

             * dont talk in the presence of a lot of background noise.  Talk to people only at an arm's length away.

             * don't try to sing during a bad cold or laryngitis.

8. Avoid eating or drinking anything that may create acid reflux or produce mucous.

9. Don't SMOKE.

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