Potty time: (might be) icky subject on sleep

Do you drool in your sleep? Or do you wake up with a dry throat?

I have just recently surmised that I is better to drool in your sleep than to wake up with a dry throat. For when you drool in your sleep, you wake up with a moist mouth and throat sans the inconvenience of having the need to force yourself to get out of bed and gurgle.

Have a good night's sleep. :)

Onlookers, usiseros, uzi

Everyday I commute to and from my office. And everyday I meet heavy traffic during the so-called rush hour as everyone and anyone rushes to get to their destinations at the same hour - 7:00am - to arrive at, well, 8:00am or earlier.

Heavy traffic is caused by several circumstances. First among them is, well, because there is a lot of traffic going on. :) too many cars, too small streets. And yes, that is the second cause, small streets and a large number of vehicles.

The more occasional cause is heavy rain. Slippery roads result in slower moving traffic.

Another reason can be surmised from the phrase "slippery road," accidents. Accidental contact between two vehicles results in blockage of the streets making the already small street much more constricted.

And accident as a cause of heavy traffic leads us to the next cause of traffic almost always linked road accidents - the onlookers or usiseros or 'uzis' as we call them in our country.

Onlookers of road accidents are curious drivers who slow down to see what happened in "ground zero." They start as irate drivers who hate heavy traffic because they are late. They then, upon passing the scene of the crime, turn to curious onlookers, replacing those before them, driving slower to get a good look at what happened keeping the slow pace of traffic that begins to extend further back. And they don't even care to stop and help. They just look.

These irate-drivers-turned-onlookers-who-don't-care-to-help will be replaced by more irate-drivers-turned-onlookers-who-don't-care-to-help until the cars who figured in an accident or collision are removed from the street thus continuing the cycle of that particular slow moving traffic.

So, the next time you pass by a road accident and you are one-who-don't-care-to-help, please don't even care to look and drive on and spare the rest of us the agony of becoming one of you.

Concept - Money less society - current transaction media

Let us explore some of the current use of money-less transactions.

1. Debit Card
Debit cards are widely used at present. They are used to transact through an electronic terminal when purchasing items or paying for services. All you need to do is deposit cash to the card through a bank and you are about ready to go. Then you will have to place a personal identification number (PIN) and sign the back of the card. And lastly, look for a store where it says that they have an electronic terminal where you can use your card.

Most debit cards are being used like credit cards. Get your bill, swipe the card, sign the receipt, retrieve you card and the cost of the bill is deducted from your deposit.

To keep using the card, one must keep on depositing cash to it.

2. Credit Card
Every body knows how to use a credit card this days. Purchase in person or purchase online. You can even call in for a purchase. Just give them the card number and you're good to go.

Credit cards, as their name implies, pay for products and services through credit. That means you will have to pay the bank that issued the card with cash. With interest and finance and other charges added on to the amount of your credit.

3. ATM payment
ATM payments are also becoming common. Just make sure your bank account has enough money to maintain the average daily balance and pay for your purchases.

For ATM payment transactions, one has to present their ATM, have it swiped through an electronic device, punch in your PIN, and the amount of your bill is deducted from your account.

4. Mobile wallet
Mobile wallets are becoming common here in our country. But instead of transacting with a bank, you transact with the telecom operator to "put money" in your wallet.

Telecom operators here in the Philippines charge 10 pesos for every transaction (deposit or payment) up. Beyond 10 pesos, a transaction fee of 10% of the amount transacted is charged as transaction fee.

Unfortunately, you will need to memorize several keywords to do this. To remedy this, the telecom companies began releasing SIM cards with menus that allow a user to transact without bothering to memorize the keywords.

In Japan, they have a system where they send keywords to the telecom company and receive some sort of a bar code that is displayed on the mobile phone of an individual. That person then puts the screen of his phone to a scanner and the expense is charged from their account and the purchase paid for.

So, for a money less transaction, one still needs a medium to transact. A medium that can still be stolen, misplaced or lost like money.

Concept: Money-less society

There have been talks of a money-less society.

For a society to be money-less, you could either be poor or dirt poor. Or you engage in barter trading. Or you use other means to transact business.

This series will dwell on day-to-day cash transactions putting in mind a money-less society. Here are some questions that will guide me in this discussion:

1. What is the mode of exchange?
2. How can we determine the liquidity of a person?
3. What about exchange rate?
4. How can something go wrong?

In the next few entries, in between other entries, I will explore how a money-less society works. Please do share your insights.

How the doorbell works

Watch this video posted by Ivanisavich in Yahoo! videos.



It is cool!

Rush hour traffic

Why is it that people know that the traffic is heavy during "rush hour" periods yet they still continue to join the many who ply the streets?

1. To be in the "in" crowd. To belong, you must be there for may lose the concept of the rush hour traffic if we let it die away.

2. Work place. All offices end work at 5:00pm. Why linger in the office when join can join the mob gathered in the streets and crammed in buses and trains?

3. Normalcy. Rush hour is normal. Why avoid it when everybody else are in it?

4. Economy. Most pubs, bars, restaurants, and places of ill-refute offer special promotions and reduced prices during "happy hour" which is another term for rush hour. Like the question in item number 2 - why spend your time in the office when you can spend it getting drunk?

5. Time table. Why go home later when you can go home now?

And once everyone is home they will say, "I had a rough day" when they have only spent a few hours in heavy stressful traffic.

Male bathroom etiquette

I found this from another blog: bathroomblogfest.blogspot.com and searched it through youtube.

It is about the proper behavior of every male in a rest room.



The makers of the video can be visited on their website at Zarathustra Studios.