Why You Have To Grab Aquaflask And Bring It With You Always?

 

What is Aquaflask? - for me it's the cousin of Clean Canteen. Ha ha ha!

Just look at the pic and you'll know instantly, it's a thermal flask - for water or juices; with shining shimmering splendid variety of colors.

Where to get or buy? - it's currently at a discounted price since last year, you have to hurry to the malls ; normally Aquaflask sales teams are located in the center isles, or among booths of the mall or message me in my email posted on this blog, if you want to order directly from me. 

What are the benefits of having an aquaflask? - it makes you love water, more; over and over again. just 2 having my thermal flask and i am already achieving my water intake allocation before the day ends. 

I'm a stone-former; a urologist told me to drink 2-3 Liters of water a day; a great feeling - Aquaflask is helping me attain this goal.

Get the 32 Oz (almost equivalent to 1 liter capacity) - it's pretty handy, not big, not small.

So, what is the significance of drinking H20? ... read these 13 major benefits collated by Medical News Today.

1. It lubricates the joints

2. It forms saliva and mucus

3. It delivers oxygen throughout the body

4. It boosts skin health and beauty

5. It cushions the brain, spinal cord, and other sensitive tissues

6. It regulates body temperature

7. It flushes body wastes

8. It helps maintain blood pressure

9. It makes minerals and nutrients accessible

10. It prevents kidney damage

11. Boosts performance during exercise

12. Promotes weight loss (especially warm water)

13. It helps reduce hang-over.

Last tip? - buy the boots, it'll help repel any dents or scratches from sudden drop or bumps. The boots are the base covers made of silicon.

Last Last Tip? - I used my 64 Oz as an harinola. Yeah!, my 2nd floor has no CR and am lazy going down during the night, so i'm shooting it in on the marine blue thermal flask - easy to clean! LOL!

~billymac ®shortStories

 

Yourself Alone, Is The Source Of Motivation

"if you continue to wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting for the rest of your life" 

~ steven barlett

I came across with an IG post somewhere along these lines, it's worth sharing.

 The cost of ambition:

- late nights, early mornings

- lots of associates, very few friends

- you will be single unless you are lucky enough to find someone who understands your lifestyle

- people will want you to do good, but never better than them

For these reasons, you will do many things along.

It's hard i know, it's difficult-yes, that's given. 

It's all in the mind: those thoughts, when chances are seemingly so small to succeed, and yet, if you crush those thoughts pulling down your ambitions, or your dreams; and replace it with the "push", you're on the right track because no one is going to do that, but you!

Pero siguro that is the hardest part to accept—that motivation is not something we stumble upon, but something we manufacture in isolation.

We spend so much time waiting for the right conditions. The right mood. The right sign. The right person to believe in us before we believe in ourselves. Subalit 'yung readiness na tinatawag, as the quote suggests, is often just a more polite name for fear. A delay disguised as prudence o pagiging "cautious mashado". A way of postponing discomfort while telling ourselves we are being responsible.

The truth is, most meaningful things begin without permission.

Ambition rarely arrives with reassurance. It arrives as restlessness. As dissatisfaction with the present. As the quiet feeling that something in your life is unfinished and calling for attention. And that call is usually answered alone.

Late nights are not romantic. They are silent. Early mornings are not heroic. They are heavy. The loneliness that comes with pursuing something uncertain does not feel noble in the moment—it feels isolating. There are fewer people to talk to, fewer places to belong. Even success, when it begins to appear, feels strangely empty without familiar faces to witness it.

This is the hidden cost of ambition: you grow, but not always together with the people you started with.

And yet, what choice is there? To wait for collective approval is to surrender agency. To depend on external motivation is to live reactively. Eventually, ma-rerealize natin na, no one will arrive to validate our hunger for more. No one will knock on our door and say, “It’s time for you to try.”

Ikaw... Tayo... lang ang makakapagsabi nun sa sarili mo..., natin.

The mind becomes the real battlefield. Not between talent and failure, but between persistence and self-doubt. Every day presents a choice: to indulge the voice that lists reasons to stop, or to cultivate the one that insists on movement, even without clarity.

The push, as you described it, is not loud. It does not feel like confidence. It feels like showing up without certainty. It feels like acting while afraid. It feels like continuing despite the absence of applause.

Motivation, in this sense, is not inspiration—it is discipline disguised as belief. And maybe that is what growing up actually looks like. Not finding the perfect reason to begin, but accepting that the beginning itself is the reason. Choosing to move before you feel ready. To act before you feel capable. To trust that momentum will follow effort, not the other way around.

Because at the end of the day, the most uncomfortable truth is also the most liberating one:

No one is coming to save you from hesitation. No one is coming to hand you certainty. No one is coming to live your potential for you. You either become the source of your own motivation—or you remain a spectator of your own life.

~ billymac ®shortstories

iMessage, iPhone, RCS, and Racism

(this is an opinion!) 

iMessage: iconic blue text

Just thinking out loud:

• Apple's iMessage is so powerful, Google is making it a big deal for Apple (the creator of the iMessage exclusively available in the walled-garden of iOS devices) to adjust its messaging platform; by asking (or begging) for iMessage to be universally available & compatible with Android devices or adapt the RCS platform.
• what is RCS platform? - Rich Communication Services is a communication protocol between mobile telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages with a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling, and can transmit in-call multimedia. It is part of the broader IP Multimedia Subsystem.

• Green Text vs Blue Text - The Difference! (using the default text message of your smartphone)
• iMessage's glaring beacon, instantly kicks-in for iOS users when they see the blue text conversation, the blue bubble!; not to mention the aesthetic - animated dots - signifying the other person is responding back, prolly typing or editing the message he's trying to send. 
• non-iOS devices like Android or Huawei defaults to green text through its main text message app. The green text appears when the owner sends it to an Android device, and when the Android owner responds, the text is non-blue.
• What's the importance if your text mate doesn't have the blue text?
• it means you can't do the "Pew Pew" mode. (laugh if you can relate to this)
• you can't flirt with Animojis, Emojies, Awesome stickos!
• read receipts, delivery receipts are unknown
• threaded conversations can't be done.
• dropping a file, an image, a map, a voice not... are not possible
• encryption is not observed if you're texting with a green text while the blue ones are encrypted (it happens only within your own devices, not shared over some Apple server: at least according to Apple)
• and the list of benefits not received goes on - if you are texting with a green one.

image from Ars Technica

• Do iPhones and (iOS devices) trying to monopolize and trying to project superiority? Is it some kind of  passive-agressive type of racism?
• read on from Ars and decide for your own!!!
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/ 

~ billymacdeus® techstories

Pasalamat YETG2021 Photo Op

 

Flexin' these shots of our year-end Thanksgiving in the Church of Christ, year 2021.

Fountain of Youth

Ngiting In-Love

Choir Friends in EWS

Feeling Tall - shot by Kats

monotone filter - KADIWA friends

The Organist

Visit of The Ministerial Student

parallel shoes and prints

Until next time....

IT Folks - The Unrecognized Heroes Of The Pandemic of 2020

 

'Twas never mentioned, not even a single video of gratitude and appreciation was aired on TV, or on mass media - a mere line of, "Thank You, IT Professionals", was never heard in general public. It was pure silence...

(Neither bitter, nor trying to discount the exposure of greatness in the medical field, but airing some opinion as a way of freedom of expression, to recognize also the people in the IT field) ... 

as they are worth praising too, acknowledging too their tireless efforts to keep everyone "connected", afloat online; that by means of IT service, infrastructure, network, automation, security and the endless possibilities that Information Technology can offer - - us, people in this pandemic phase of the century became: 

• productive

• diverted; sanity-kept-in-check for most.

• social media experts, learnt, abused it, nevertheless, our one of the goto outlets while at home

• accessible with online transactions - business related or not

• online sellers, to appease the lost of jobs

• tiktokers, and entertained the followers and the world

• influencers, even more generating income, unexpected and those AHA moments

• cryptoWizards; where the thrill of gaining crypto currencies converted to thousands, millions of dollars or local currencies is simply exhilirating; congrats y'all who became millionaires!

• OnlyFans instant celebs - need i elaborate further 😝

• YT creators, streamers and FB LIVE online sellers/entertainers - hats-off to you!

• Zoom experts, online meetings, online classes became the norm

• news freedom chooser; as news outlets jumped into the bandwagon of news streaming online

• Grab-FoodPanda-LalaMove consumers, drivers-riders

• beneficiaries of Teleconsult, Video Con medical consultation reacheable

• accessible to Online Religious worships

• IG and Twitter hi-movers

• banking more efficient, almost hassle-free

• work from home ninjas and samaritans 

• and the list, goes on...

all, because of the IT Professionals working to make it happen, their collective efforts, magic and expertise resulted to how, both infected and not-infected individuals of the virus were able to navigate this pandemic journey, a little bit easier, a little bit lighter, a little bit bearable... where one of the enablers and foundation is due to the dedication of those in the IT Field.

Therefore,  Cheers! to those :

IT Helpdesk Engineers

Systems Admins

Laptop/Desktop Support

Cloud Engineers

Security Officers

Net Admins

Telephony & Telecom Engineer 

Programmers of All Types

Developers

Data Scientists

Artificial Intelligence Innovators

Service Desk Representatives

DataComm Engineers

ISP Techs 

et al..

plus, to all the plethora of IT roles unmentioned, its leaders, executives, and chieftains of the Tech Industry, Salute to all of you!!!

~ billymac

#elasticMind and gratitude seeping in, tremendously.