Living Mye Life

Got a forwarded email from a friend whose working abroad. An uplifting featured article from Arab news (A Saudi Arabian English-language daily newspaper).

Imagine a world without Filipinos
Abdullah Al-Maghlooth | Al-Watan, almaghlooth@alwatan.com.sa

Muhammad Al-Maghrabi became handicapped and shut down his flower and gifts shop business in Jeddah after his Filipino workers insisted on leaving and returning home. He says: “When they left, I felt as if I had lost my arms. I was so sad that I lost my appetite.”

Al-Maghrabi then flew to Manila to look for two other Filipino workers to replace the ones who had left. Previously, he had tried workers of different nationalities but they did not impress him. “There is no comparison between Filipinos and others,” he says. Whenever I see Filipinos working in the Kingdom, I wonder what our life would be without them.

Saudi Arabia has the largest number of Filipino workers — 1,019,577 — outside the Philippines. In 2006 alone, the Kingdom recruited more than 223,000 workers from the Philippines and their numbers are still increasing. Filipinos not only play an important and effective role in the Kingdom, they also perform different jobs in countries across the world, including working as sailors. They are known for their professionalism and the quality of their work. continue

Want to tone up your tummy?

Here's a quick and convenient way to flatten your stomach

1. Lie on the floor with your legs bent, your feet flat on the floor. (Cheat's option: with your legs bent at a 90-degree angle, place the soles of your feet up against a wall. This will make it a little easier.)

2. Place your hands on the back of your head, or cross them over your chest like an Egyptian mummy.

3. Lift your shoulderblades off the ground, moving your elbows towards your knees. Don't try to lift your entire back – only your shoulderblades.

4. Squeeze your abs for a second (think about squeezing a lemon).

5. Slowly return to the starting position. Remember to breathe out when raising your body up, and breathe in on the way down.

TIP Make sure your movements are slow and controlled - resist the temptation to rock yourself back and forward just to “try to get a few more out”. It's better to do your crunches with good form than a lot of crunches with bad form.

It has been nearly fifteen years since the war between the orcs and humans ended. An uneasy peace settled over the land while, for years, the drums of war were silent. Yet the kingdoms of men grew complacent in their victory - and slowly, the defeated orcish clans regrouped under the banner of a new visionary leader.

ow a darker shadow has fallen over the world, threatening to extinguish all life - all hope. The drums of war play upon the winds once again - rising urgently towards the inevitable hour when the skies will rain fire - and the world will tremble before the coming of the Burning Legion.

The Day of Judgment has come...

I told my hubby not to let me learn how to play the games of WarCraft III -The Reign of Chaos. With its special features and cinematic trailers and its legendary heroes, you'd feel you’re really watching a real movie and you're playing with it!

It takes me one boring day to finally leave playing Tumblebugs and click the icon of Warcraft III and start playing until i want to play more and then be mindless of the time and just heard my hubby laughing behind my back as i am sticked like glue in front of the PC. That's how addicting this game is. Now, I'm in the last stage and i can't take my eyes off the screen thinking how to conquer and kill Cenarious, my main quest. Until my eyes gave up and asked my hubby to massage my back before sleeping and told him its all his fault.

I can still hear him chucking before i finally drifted to sleep and he whisper to me that the next game will be WarCraft III- the frozen throne. Goodness! =)