Danny's Space

I am starting a fast tonight. I hear the wail of the horn telling me it's 10 pm. I had my last solid food at 9 pm - a banana. Let's see. This is how I'm going to do this. I am adding sub-posts here as my fasting progress. Wish me luck. edits:  linked to finding donato  

We are experiencing above 40 degrees Celsius in the afternoon. It is now Holy Tuesday and just like in 2020 some traditions are being modified because of the pandemic. The government just announced a general community quarantine over Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna, Batangas and Rizal. The National Capital Region is experiencing 10,000 new cases which is projected to increase to 18,000 daily cases by the middle of April. A curfew has been imposed over the Capitol from 6 pm to 5 am. I hear the wail of the horn every late afternoon that signals the beginning of the curfew.  My PLDT Home router/ modem is broken. I called their hotline 171 yesterday and the lady and I tried to troubleshoot the problem. In the end she diagnosed the problem as a defective SIM. She advised me to bring the device to their aftersales. It's the middle of a Covid-19 surge lady. It's Holy Week. I am not even sure if your office is open. In the meantime I have no wifi.  I have my cellphone data. It's my l...

I got my very 1st Hemoglobin A1C test last Monday and I got the results the next day. What prompted me to have the test is my family history with diabetes and it's my birth month. I don't want to get blindsided by this disease. And oh yes, the result is 6.4%.  A result of 5.7% and below is normal. This number also corresponds to an average blood sugar level of 117 milligram per deciliter (mg/dL).  A result in the range of 5.7 to 6.4 means I have prediabetes.  Prediabetes means my blood sugar level isn't high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Many doctors consider prediabetes as diabetes stage 1.  What this means to me is that I have to take some actions to prevent this present condition to progress to full diabetes. How? The first thing to do is a healthy diet and weight loss. The second thing to do is increase my physical activity. 

It is 2021 in Manila and we are again going back to another lockdown. COVID-19 cases are surging the past 3 weeks in and around the capital city, Metro Manila. Thirteen thousand Filipinos dead of the corona virus and its variants and complications. And we are back in square one. This is just awful and horrible.  How awful? The economic situation is at its most dire since World War 2. Philippine debt is now at 9.8 Trillion Pesos, that's 54% of the Philippine Gross Domestic Product (GDP).  GDP growth plummeted in the first lockdown (March 2020). Filipinos found a way to earn money to buy food, pay their utilities and rent. The government lifted some restrictions. With this surge, the government is going the lockdown path once again.  The vaccine against the corona virus is trickling down to the medical frontliners and I doubt the younger ones will ever get it by Christmas this year. Medical experts advise continuing with social distancing and masks even after you get vaccin...

I decided to make a blog post of this first. I ordered "Wild" from Youtube. If you don't know it, Youtube has a streaming service for some very good films. Wild is about Sheryl Strayed and her life, starring Reese Witherspoon. Sheryl Strayed walked or hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650 mile hiking and equestrian trail along the west coast of the United States. Hikers usually begin their hike from May to September before the snows and the cold. One can't bring a lot to protect himself from the cold or change clothing and gear from dry dessert hiking to snow deep mountains. It is a punishing walk for a 100 days and for some more than that.  I hope this will be the first of many movies from Youtube that I'll get to watch. Like it. Like your service.

I have seen it and learned about it in my life. How we regard women and value their place in the world do not equate to reality at all. Women have always led and carried more than what we expected. It is their work at home and family to leadership and entrepreneurship that sets apart the promise of success or failure in many endeavors. My mother who is 79 years old makes me proud and grateful. I am happy to be living in these times when we can celebrate women's day together with the rest of the world. March 8th is also her birthday. She was born when the world was marching towards war. She did not see her father alive because of the war in the Pacific. She finished her schooling thanks to free education afforded to the sons and daughters of soldiers who did not come back. I believe the benefit was aimed at men who after the war needed to finish their schooling - the GI bill so called. Well my mom is a prime example of what happens when we help women accomplish what we expect from m...

This is a general decrease in exercise and a recovery phase but prolonged by the pandemic.