If there’s one place in the world I’d like to be this very moment, it would be on the beaches of Honduras. In particular, the gorgeous sands of Anthony’s Key Resort in Roatan, Honduras.

Who wouldn’t want to encounter this?

or perhaps see this?

Some things you need to know about Anthony’s Key Resort in Roatan, Honduras:

• It’s been serving the tourists of the world for over 40 years; adventure is the name of their game. Whether you want to have an encounter with the dolphins, get to know the beautiful gardens of this tourist spot in Honduras via hiking, and still manage to have a fuss-free, tranquil time at the beach, then this is your beach.
• They give a 20% discount to the military, veterans and their families, just present your Military ID! A worthy treat for the ones who’ve sacrificed their time with their families to protect the nation.
• Families will enjoy Anthony’s Key Resort for the various activities it has for the members of the family, young and old. On the other hand, couples will have a romantic time at the private cabanas or the beach side bungalows. Furnished with no expense spared.

Click here to know more about Anthony’s Key Resort

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Catarina
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Have you ever had a time where you were itching to ask something, but you knew deep inside the answer could lead to trouble? Or you really wouldn’t want to know the answer, but you just had to ask?

I was on a way to a doctor’s appointment when it occurred to me, one of the biggest questions I had to ask was if I was sick(or what disease I had yikes), and somehow, did I want to know the answer? Not really. Whether it was negative or positive, even if it did cost my life, or killed me (curiosity killed the cat!).

I’ve come up with questions we want to ask but we don’t really want to know the answer:

How am I going to die? When am I going to die? Will I die before my partner does?
Who doesn’t want to know? And yet we know if we are made aware of the answer, it can possibly alter the way the future is going turn out.

Who does my mom love best? Me or my sibling?
Whether you were loved by your mother or your father in the same way as your sibling, there must be a little voice inside you who’d like to ask this to your parents - if only they could answer as truthfully as possible.

Has my partner ever cheated on me?
So let’s imagine you in a loving, understanding relationship. Although you’ve been with him/her for the longest time, admit it, you’re thinking in that brain of yours if the thought of cheating on you has ever occurred to him. You know, you don’t really have to ask as men are biologically predisposed to cheat.

Is there a ghost beside me?
We were on a beach holiday off Mexico getting some good rubbing from the masseuse; he left for a while and during that in between moment, the hair on my back stood on its end and I felt cold air on my neck - and there wasn’t any possible source. If I were with someone who could see or communicate with ghosts, I really don’t know whether I’d ask or not.

What the heck did I just eat!?!?!

During out of town trips, don’t you feel like asking this especially when they just keep shoving plates in front of you and you have no choice but to agree (if you don’t, it could cause some misunderstanding between you and your host). If you were in China or Thailand, would you want to ask this?

Other questions:

Do I have AIDS?
Do I have feelings for the same gender?
Did she/he enjoy IT? (arrrg torture!)
Who’s going to win this year’s elections?!

So many questions you can ask but really, doesn’t it give you palpitations just waiting for the answer? I nearly fainted during a check up at the health clinic just recently. Yes, I asked, and what made it scarier was the health officer heaving a sigh - now that I think about it probably a sigh of relief. But I was rattled senseless.

Getting enough strength to ask is a big deal in itself, however when it comes to answer, we maybe to weak to deal with the truth it can provide.

What other questions can you think of that you wouldn’t have the strength to know the answer? Send in your thoughts.

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Catarina
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There are millions of items on eBay. In fact, you can sell just about anything you want. You can also buy things you don’t even imagine ever existed. Now, there just some people out there who can’t help but put on auction the most extreme stuffs. Mind you, they are not even things:

A BABY. It’s hard to think why parents have such an idea to sell their seven month old baby online. The couple from Memmingen, South Germany has contested that the whole thing is only a joke after the baby has been crying so loud.

The post reads, “Baby – Pick up in Person Only, Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has become too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28 inches long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a pram.”

The starting bid price is only one Euro or $1.58. Luckily, no one has attempted to bid. Two hours after, the local police have removed the advertisement. As for the mother, she has been advised to consult a shrink. The baby has also been taken away.

A WIFE. A jealous husband from the UK puts his wife on auction after he discovered her illicit affair with a coworker. Paul Osborn has placed an ad on eBay, saying that he will offer his “cheating, lying, adulterous slag of a wife” to anybody. The starting price is £0.01 pound, but it has closed at £500,100.

Although Sharon denies the affair, Paul has already confirmed the rumor. Too bad for the wife, she’s already been kicked out from her own home. Where else she’d be? Of course, she will be spending time with the highest bidder. Wheeww! Some people just have fetish for unfaithful wives.

A SOUL. Adam Burtle, an American university student has offered his soul for sale online in 2001. He’s too bored with his life that’s why he did it. The bid has hit $US 400.00 before eBay authority has closed it down.

A LIFE. Although there are already people who have successfully sold their lives on the Internet, it’s now the turn of some guy from Perth, Australia. Ian Usher, 44, puts his life for sale after his partner has left him. According to him, it is indeed the best way to move on.

The bidding started on June 22, 2008 with a goal to raise $US 500,000 to start a new life. Presently, the ongoing price is $US 373,230.33. You can still bid on eBay if you want.

Usher’s so-called life on sale includes:

• House : 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house in Wellard, Western Aus
• Car : Mazda 929
• Motorbike :  Kawasaki ZX600R
• Jet Ski : Kawasaki SX650
• Lifestyle : Awesome Perth lifestyle
• Job : if required
• Friends : to show you around
• And more…:     much, much more!

Check out the complete advertisement.

Talking about getting a life! These people knows the right but radical way to get one. The internet is indeed a good venue for business, just any kind of business.

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Catarina
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Laetitia Casta is one of the most successful models of all time. And if ever you will ask her about her 38D cup breasts, she will delightfully answer, “… made in Normandy… from butter and cottage cheese.”  That is because she is from Normandy and Corsica, France.

What you need to know about her that the magazines do not tell you:

• She admits that she has been insecure and stubborn as a kid. Laetitia Casta is absentminded and distracted. Her former teacher always tells her that she is not talented like her brother.

• Boys never have the motivation to approach her when she’s 12. Her boobs have driven them away. She’s been always alone watching everybody from a distance.

• If she is not a model, she would probably a simple housewife (indeed a hot one!). She loves children. She is not regretful having her daughter at the peak of her career.

• Laetitia Casta is impatient. It’s the one thing she wants to change about herself.

• Her beauty advice – Drink a lot of water and get more sleep. And oh, she laughs 15 minutes everyday or as much as she can.

• When people make Laetitia nervous, she imagines them as toilet.

• She relaxes by listening to loud music and dancing wildly in front of the mirror.

• She defines herself as stupid, sometimes dumb, young and happy.

• “When I begun as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat or too little: they tried to remold my teeth….I am very proud to stay as I was.” She actually breaks the cycle of the standard model. Take a look at those curve and imperfect teeth.

• She’s the hottest French export since Brigitte Bardot. She actually becomes Marianne, the national symbol of France and a personification of Liberty and Reason.

Laetitia striking pose comes with those tantalizing eyes. Why do you think she made it to more than 100 magazine covers?

Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Catarina
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The Pen is one of the things that proves the existence and evolution of mankind. From the hieroglyphics on the wall, man has finally devised something that will do them the convenience of recording  the history of civilization. Even in the advent of the computer age, the pen holds on to its important everyday role. Why would they make an expensive pen in the first place?

These are the current list of most expensive pens:

1. Mystery Masterpiece by Mont Blanc - $730,000
2. La Modernista Diamonds fountain pen by Caran d’Ache - $265,000
3. Ripple H.R.H. Limited Edition fountain pen by Visconti - $57,000
4. Grayson Tighe Limited Edition fountain and rollerball pens - $22,000 - $24,000
5. Limited Edition Pens by OMAS - $16,500
6. David Oscarson Pens - $4,900
7. La Dona Menagerie Fountain Pen handcrafted by Cartier Pens- $4,000
8. New York Fifth Avenue rollerball and fountain pens hand-made by S. T. Dupont - $2,400
9. Pen of the Year 2008 - $2,000
10. Conway Stewart Westminster Teal Pen - $1,800

Here are some ways to use an expensive pen:

1. Put the pen in a glass box. Why would you use it the first place? Just display it for everybody else to see and to envy.

2. For signature purposes only. If you decide to use it. Use it only for signature. And oh, make sure that there photographers around. It’s like having a baby; you need to take pictures every step of the way.

3. Only use it in signing multi-million dollar contracts. Make sure that the price of the pen is only a tiny fraction of the business deal. So if you lost it afterwards, you won’t even have that guilt.

Posted on June 21st, 2008 by Catarina
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Remember that sleeping requires a good place so good rest will follow and no one will have the crazy idea to take advantage of your tired situation. I have been so stressed lately that it has affected my daily dose of real doze. What’s there better to do than killing time on the Internet? Apparently, the whole process is mocking. I found these pictures of people sleeping good slumber:

If you are really lonely on a Friday night, be sure to get rid of you rubber date before sunrise.

You can call this the balancing drunk. He is too wasted that cans can pile upover his head as if it’s a flat surface.

Seriously, when you deliver a report in class, you have to make sure that it won’t get your professor all cozy and sleepy. The good news about this is you might get an “A” so you won’t use it against him.

And for the finale, someone must have been really pissed off with this guy.

After a really good laugh, I have fallen asleep without even knowing it. The perks of the Internet, someone else’s mishap might be the only solution for sleeplessness.

Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Catarina
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There are some people who are not only beautiful but they just mesmerize you with those looks or stares or even glares. The next thing you know you are smitten, and then find yourself becoming one of their fans:

Angelina Jolie. Your all-time hot momma. But before she even becomes the maternal figure of her brood, she always gets us with her piercing stare in her movies. Too bad Brad Pitt already got her all tied up.

Ellen Pompeo. Her watery eyes are just one of the reasons why you keep watching Grey’s Anatomy. With McDreamy and McSteamy on the side, you just have to stay tuned every week for the show.

Megan Fox. This Transformer vixen is more than meets the eyes. She makes you happy on a gloomy day when everything is all over the place and you just don’t know where to begin cleaning the house. If you look at her for a moment, I guess you will have no problem getting all those clutter out of your home.

Michelle Pfeiffer. The original cat woman is just too good to look at. Her stare is feisty and all-consuming.

Laetitia Casta. The supermodel that has made Vivienne Westwood believes in God. Literally, you can’t keep your eyes off her.

I only got five to let you know how eyes could contribute a lot in fame and money. Can you name some more?

Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Catarina
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So okay I found this video in YouTube, like paying some concern about the haters of Tina Chen. I don’t know if he is just adding insult to the injury, but definitely he sound like mocking Tina. On the brighter side, he makes Tina comparable to Britney Spears, yeah?

Why do people learn to hate Tina Chen:

1. They think she is fat and ugly. Somehow in the concept of the standard prettiness or so, she does not qualify. But, she has taken thousands of people online to watch her. It reminds me, what defines ugliness if they say Tina is?
2. She can’t sing. Obviously, she can’t hit the exact note. However, people still watch her. Take note, she is famous, yeah?
3. They mock but she shines. People and more people are feeling disgusted about her. But hey, why are they watching her again? In turn, she becomes famous on the Internet.

Seriously, all she wants is a million friends. But it still works when you get to have a lot of people hating you for a reason or two. Tina might not reach her social quota, but she sure does gain a million of attention all over the world.

Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Catarina
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Regardless of where you notice him, it is about that thought that kind of haunts you for that moment. Dating has somehow become overrated lately because of those reality shows and other new ways to get a date, if not a possible real relationship. But, have you ever wonder about going back to the old ways? Indeed it is quiet challenging, yet it’s so fulfilling in so many ways.

Flirting is the key, and definitely without any help of a match maker or a friend or whoever. Natural flirting is barely possible these days because of the fast pace of life, and factors like stress and anxiety. These things actually kill the thrill of the moment.

How about you start looking around and perhaps you might hit on someone who has already kept an eye on you all the while? How to tell:

1. The little smile. Real flirts don’t jab you with punch lines, although those count in some ways. However, it becomes a real turn off when those smiles are followed with a senseless conversation. You can tell if he is really interested because he takes his time and becomes careful not to screw the flow. If he asks you to have a cup of coffee tomorrow, then everything works just fine. If he rather asks you for another drink, well you’re up to a one night thing only.
2. The random look. That “Can’t take my eyes off you” song really works. However, it is really up to you if you will take actions into your hand. Make the move or you just stay there and wait for him to do the entire introduction. This might be a really long process, but if it’s successful, you’re on to the next level.
3. The casual touch. Any woman knows when that first touch usually means something or something else. If that touch says let’s go to some place now, or it could mean let’s go somewhere right now and then I want to see more of you in the future.

Flirting might be a little thing, but it has always been the start of every relationship. It’s just that lately TV has killed idea of flirting big time.

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Catarina
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Who is Tina Chen? She is actually Kristina Chen. She wants to have one million friends in her Myspace account. What is she doing to reach that certain number? She sings. She sings with her whole heart and soul, and eventually results in self-embarrassment. However, it does not show any signs that she feels that kind of humiliation. Besides, more and more people are watching her beyond mediocre YouTube performance among all other things she has been doing online.

Then the question starts to pop, why most of those who are online anticipate her next song:

Geek is always fun. Sometimes being a teenager is really tough for some people. Wanting to have friends may result in some drastic ways to get attention. Eventually, attention mostly hoards people to praise if not to criticize. But hey, there’s always a friend or two among ten people who is curious in watching her. They may laugh out of amusement or mockery, but either way Tina has caught their attention, right?

Desperation for an outfit. The midriff exposure, the glasses and that outfit. Oh yeah, hideous but eye-catching. Nothing is glamorous about Tina’s fashion sense, but someone else’s disgust over her makes a hundred or more. She makes Ugly Betty very pretty.

Remix karaoke style or lesser than that. Listening to her sing is like being so wasted, and then not knowing what the hell is happening. Is it the end of the world already? She sounds good somehow if the alcohol is taking over the body. Or, maybe there are more and more people out there who are frustrated to realize their desire to be popular, but not Tina Chen. She has guts to sing all the way, how ever she would sound like. Imagine that, no holds barred style. Not all people are motivated enough, especially humiliating one’s self to the world.

The “almost there” moves. Look at those moves, if she would just move a little bit more, she would definitely become the new Britney. Well, she needs a choreographer alright! With all the YouTube attention, at no time, she will have a complete production team. But until then, she is really funny doing those dance action. Are they even dance moves, or Tina moves?

Fans appeal and then some. It’s either too much beauty or too least of it. Extremes always work just fine. Why? Because most people are too skeptic to become the most, all they do is dream of becoming. They stop there, but not Tina. Fans admire this quality in a person. They follow because they don’t have what it takes, even if they do, they just don’t have enough drive to push through. Again, not Tina Chen.

Who does not want to be famous? Everybody does at some point. Fame comes with money. Who does not want to be rich? Tina Chen represents the spirit of hope that popularity can indeed comes in many colors. There is always a way to be known. That one million friends Tina wants, it’s not impossible. It is just a matter of time now.

Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Catarina
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