Busy Busy

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Hey peeps: I know that we all get busy from time to time but it is now 5 days since anyone has posted anything.So I figured that I would break the ice a bit .
I`ve been tied up with work and getting a cancer-stricken friend something that he really needs.I hope that I was not too late.
What have you all been up to this week??

[jadegil6]

I have started a new construction project rebuilding second and third story balconies on an apartment complex. I was still trying to recover from an injury to my leg, and all of this hard work is not helping matters. I can hardly walk by the end of the day. But I needed the work, and sometimes we have to force ourselves to make things happen.
Sorry that I have been too tired to comment on the forum, but I have been adding at least one new lady's profile each night, and that usually means retyping most of the answers in proper English, and then editing all of the pictures associated with that profile. That is about all I can muster this week. Hope everyone is doing well.

[jadegil6]

oH..i FORGOT TO MENTION ONE OTHER LITTLE THING...tHE wORLD SERIES STARTED LAST NIGHT

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I have started a new construction project rebuilding second and third story balconies on an apartment complex. I was still trying to recover from an injury to my leg, and all of this hard work is not helping matters. I can hardly walk by the end of the day. But I needed the work, and sometimes we have to force ourselves to make things happen.
Sorry that I have been too tired to comment on the forum, but I have been adding at least one new lady's profile each night, and that usually means retyping most of the answers in proper English, and then editing all of the pictures associated with that profile. That is about all I can muster this week. Hope everyone is doing well.

I hear you there Michael; If anybody had told me 20 years ago that ,at this age,I would be working this hard ,for this much money,I think that I would have laughed at them.

[red]

Been busy thinking/stress of how my siblings have fallen apart. It started when one got sick then someone suggested it might because of witchcraft and so they sought help of "espiritista". I said don't believe in it, God is ultimate healer. But it did not stop there because somebody in our family is being accused of doing "this and that" to her. It is all false accusation and it all rooted to hatred since long time ago. Some people just can't accept certain situations and resist to understand and forgive, forget. I thought i have enough troubles of my own. I wish for peace among them.

[jadegil6]

Sorry to hear of the family turmoil in your life, red. I have heard some stories about the belief in witchcraft in the Philippines called kulam, especially centered on the island of Siquijor. Kulam traces it's origins back to Haiti, and is supposedly used to to inflict pain and suffering to a person who has wronged someone in a certain way. The person who was violated supposedly goes to a person who practices kulam (witchdoctor or mangkukulam), and brings an item or a strand of hair that belongs to the person who wronged him or her, and the witchdoctor uses that to cast a spell. The person who has the spell cast upon them supposedly get sick with fever and constant vomiting, or in worst instances, they may die. This sickness supposedly cannot be cured my modern medical means. The only way to counter the spell is to seek the help of another mangkukulam or through other witchdoctors known as an herbularyo or albularyo.
There’s a far more potent and evil form of kulam called barang. Barang uses insects like cockroaches, spiders, or flies to inflict pain to a person. What the barang does is put these insects inside of a person’s body through evil spells. The victims of barang do not only get sick through high fever and vomiting. The insects mentioned above allegedly come out of their ears, nose, and anus or through wounds that began as swellings until it explodes and the insects come out. Sounds like some scene out of a horror movie. Superstitions are prevalent in the Philippine culture just as they are in many other cultures around the world.
I recall a superstition of my ex-wife who is from Central America. It is really harmless and quite silly in my opinion, but she believed it. The superstition is that if you pack a suitcase or bag of your possessions on New Year's eve, and you take it outside, and run around the house carrying it, then you will make some trip during the coming year. Beats having bugs crawl out of your ears!

[red]

It is crazy isn't it....i know it exist but i don't believe in healing thru mediums. (Leviticus 19:31)
anyway, I miss all of them, I can only pray that one day we all gather together be one happy family again.

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You bet it is. . . . . I look at it as there are two sources of supernatural power.God is one. I think we all can pretty much figure out the origin of the other.
Time to pick a team and stay with it

[m&m]

Hey peeps: I know that we all get busy from time to time but it is now 5 days since anyone has posted anything.So I figured that I would break the ice a bit .
I`ve been tied up with work and getting a cancer-stricken friend something that he really needs.I hope that I was not too late.
What have you all been up to this week??

I was busy lately and have two audit, the Bureau of Treasury and Commission on Audit.

At this time, I have a time to write here since our internet is back. We have slow internet in the office and sometimes if no internet, I need to go to the internet to make my report.

I hope that others will post also.

[Chas]

Wow, Mae your brain is buzzing today, so many thoughts. Good to see you posting again.

I have been busy recently and have a hospital appointment this morning. After lunch, if I have time, I will post another photo, though I think only the Bacolod Babes will be able to guess the answer. I am running out of photos suitable for the quiz, but I have an idea for one more.