Author Archive for Lorie Therese

i'm a girl who knows what she wants and would do anything legal and self-respecting to get it. i'm the kind of girl who wants the best money can buy. and yet, paradoxically, i can live on dried fish and rice. :p

Gossip and Slander: Verbal Cannibalism

Apr 08 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Lifestyle Features

I used to have strong notions against women from my country marrying men from another country. I would always second-guess their motives, and I had such a bigoted notion about interracial marriage. Today, I came across this article, and I was struck about a couple of things about my culture that had been disappointing me lately, and I am struggling to overcome.

I Choose Sunshine!

Apr 06 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Family Features

I came across this blog post by Gadzooki colleague Jim and I was appalled at how our children are as wired as they are now. Barely in their teens, children now have Friendster accounts, and a myriad of other online accounts. They brandish high-end cellular phones, and for them, the Asus eeePC, or the OLPC, is just another toy. At age 3, my best friend’s niece had beat her computer game scores... And to think my best friend has the IQ of a genius! And yes, she creams me every time at Pinball (think a score of 5M to 1M). Imagine that! But what all this implies to me is something scary, even sinister.

Sand, Surf, Stonefish and Jellyfish?!

Apr 04 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Health Features

As children, most of us were fascinated by animals. Even girls used to like dogs, and some even liked frogs and snakes, at one point in our childhood. Of late, I had been coming across posts about strange animals being discovered. Today, I came across this post on the most dangerous creatures on earth.

The Search for Significance: Can Great Relationships Be Less Than the Best Life Has for Us?

Apr 02 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Lifestyle Features

Sometimes, we derive our significance from something good.. But not the best that God, the Author of Life, Life Himself, wants to offer us. Our sources of significance may be a relationship, family, or even career. While these are good sources of significance, they are not supposed to be THE main source of one’s significance.

Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 2)

Mar 29 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Business Features

This post is a continuation of my Cliff’s Notes for Who Moved My Cheese, the book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. (also the Author of The One Minute Manager). Hope you enjoy my annotations of the rest of the principles!

Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 1)

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Business Features

Finally, after quite some time, I give you the Cliff's Notes for "Who Moved My Cheese"! MY cheese was moved quite so often lately, so I apologize for delivering this only now.. Last post, I had talked about Who Moved My Cheese in a general way. Today, I will give you a Cliff’s Notes version of Who Moved My Cheese. No, I won’t give you spoilers on the parable itself. But I will give you the main principles of the book. If you want to enjoy the childlike beauty of the Who Moved My Cheese parable, you better grab the book for yourself. So, ready for a few life-changing lessons now?

The Search For Significance: Is Your Life Built Around Your Career?

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Business Features

When you think of the word “significance,” what comes into your mind? Do you equate significance with self-worth? Pleasing your figures of authority? Money? Wealth? A thriving career?

The Search for Significance: Is Your Worth In Your “Stuff?”

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Concepts, Business Features

There is one thing that saddens me about our generation, and this is the seemingly extreme materialism that we have. A generation back, our parents had toiled in order for us to experience the comforts that they themselves have missed out on. But today, the average yuppie works... To buy the next iPod, the next digicam, the latest and greatest laptop. While there is totally nothing wrong with being able to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor, and for all I know, like in my country, these young adults deserve their creature comforts too, because these young ones are the type who actually support their families or siblings, and put them through college. But there is something wrong when people focus all their energies on these “creature comforts.” Then there is something grossly wrong when people even turn to credit cards in order to fuel these wants.

The Search for Significance: An Intro

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Lifestyle Features

My own journey for my search for significance started in high school, when I would challenge my teachers about the purpose of needing to study Algebra, or Calculus, or some other such subject that didn’t seem to be important to real life, the one that people live after college.

Resting Ain’t Bad For Ya

Mar 14 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Business Enhancements, Lifestyle Features

It is not good for man to be overworked. I had made the mistake of overworking myself for one whole week monthly then be depressed and exhausted for three weeks a month, in the past. Then just right now, after having my mid-work Quiet Time (after finishing my February BlogSearchEngine.com posts), I read from 1 Kings 19:7: "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." The context is 1 Kings 19:1-18, where Elijah fled from Jezebel’s* wrath. Elijah was given food twice. After he was given food the first time, he ...

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Iran clones goat… what’s next?

Something quite new from Iran today, they have released official reports that they have cloned a goat. Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. The female goat, named Hana, was born early Wednesday in the [...]

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Tech pumps

One of the biggest things I’m raving about here in the USA are those tech gas pumps. You know what I’d mean if I say their pretty secure, fast and easy to use. I remember in Asia when I’d pull into a gas station how I’d hand over my credit card to a gas attendant [...]

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Teen Trades iPod For Walkman

Remember that handy black gadget that was so cool 20 years ago? I remember begging my parents to get me one of them, as my classmates all had one. A chunky black box with matching headphones, which were just as chunky, seemed to be one of the coolest status symbols way back then. [...]

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World Record : longest queue to the loo

It’s no joke, the Guiness Book of World Records says “a world record in the length of a queue to a toilet was set on Sunday when 756 people lined up to a latrine in central Brussels to raise awareness for the need for clean water on World Water Day.”
What an achievement! And [...]

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Conquer Your Fear Of Heights At The Sears Tower

Did you know that there are hundreds and hundreds of different phobias? Some are afraid of chickens, some are afraid of ants, and others are afraid of air! Of the phobias, I don’t really know which one is the most common but I do know that I have met so many people with [...]

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Teach Your Child How To Read Well

I believe that reading is at the root of learning. Children who learn to read at an early age and continue to do so as they grow older have a big advantage over those who do not pick up books on a regular basis. Reading opens up worlds that may otherwise be closed [...]

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America Needs a Savior

What would drive a man to end his family’s life. This is sad news, brace yourselves. You’ve heard that Ervin Lupoes has decided to end his life and his family’s. Authorities investigating this has mentioned the motive was because “he has no job and has five children”. Taking matter into his [...]

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