Everyone is so excited as we only have few days left for the much awaited 2010 Winter Olympics which will be held in Vacouver Canada. The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia. Previously, Canada was home to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

THE VENUES

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to be held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada from February 12 to February 28, 2010.A total of nine competition venues are scheduled to be used during the games, spread across Vancouver, Whistler, and the neighboring areas of West Vancouver and Richmond. The majority of ice sport events will be held in Vancouver, while Whistler, which normally serves as a ski resort, will host the snow events. Six non-competition venues, three each in Vancouver and Whistler, have been completed and will provide athlete housing, space for media, and locations for ceremonies associated with the Games. The largest competition venue where Olympic events are scheduled to be held is Canada Hockey Place, with a capacity of just under 19,000 spectators. The Hockey Place is normally known as General Motors Place, but because corporate sponsorship is not allowed for an Olympic venue, it will be renamed for the duration of the games.

Some venues, including the Richmond Olympic Oval, are at sea level, a rarity for the Winter Games. The 2010 Games will also be the first—Winter or Summer—to have an Opening Ceremony held indoors. Vancouver, which will be the most populous city ever to hold the Winter Games

THE LOGO

The 2010 Winter Olympics logo was unveiled on April 23, 2005, and is named Ilanaaq the Inunnguaq. Ilanaaq is the Inuktitut word for friend. The logo is based on the Inukshuk (stone landmark or cairn) built for the Northwest Territories Pavilion at Expo 86 and donated to the City of Vancouver after the event. It is now used as a landmark on English Bay Beach.

THE MASCOTS

The mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were introduced on November 27, 2007. Inspired by traditional First Nations creatures, the mascots include:

• Miga — A mythical sea bear, part orca and part kermode bear.
• Quatchi — A sasquatch, who wears boots and earmuffs.
• Sumi — An animal guardian spirit who wears the hat of the orca whale, flies with the wings of the mighty Thunderbird and runs on the strong furry legs of the black bear.
• Mukmuk — A Vancouver Island marmot.

Do you like taking risks? I guess you are in doubt if you’re going to take it or not right? I guess it’s quite normal for most of us. Maybe because we are afraid on whatever consequences it may bring after taking it. There’s no assurance in taking risks, we do not know if we will benefit from it or we will just regret it in the end. But my principle about taking risks changes after I read an article written by Arina in her Self help blog entitled “Why Do We Dislike Taking Risks?”. I have learned that taking risk is okay as long as you know how to do it well. I have learned that before taking risk, we have to calculate them first. You should know your limit and you should know how long you can go. Just be confident to yourself and nothing is impossible.

“My A-Z Favourites List Tag”

I was Tagged by Foongpc of My Very First Blog. He created this fun Tag. Thanks dude.

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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Start copy from “Begin Copy Here” until “End Copy” to your blog.

2. List your favourites from A-Z.
For example, starting with the alphabet A, you can list down your favourite Actor, your favourite Anthem, favourite Aerobic exercise or even your favourite ABBA’s song. As long as it starts with the letter A.

Then move on to alphabet B. You can list your favourite Book, or Bag, or Blog, or even your favourite Boxer shorts! It’s entirely up to you!

Repeat the same with alphabet C, D, E and so on until Z.

If you can’t think of a word that starts on that particular alphabet, you may visit My Very First Blog for a comprehensive list of words.

3. Tag 7 people.

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My A-Z Favourites List
Actor – Robin Williams
Beverage – Coke Float
Cartoon – Jimmy Nuetron
Disney Character- Pluto
Egg dish- Omellet
Flavor- Cookies and Cream
Game – Badminton
Hobby- Drawing
Idiomatic expression – “Whatever Floats your Boat”
Japanese Anime- Yu Yu Hakusho
Korean food- kim chee
Lord of the Rings Film – LOTR “fellowship of the Ring”
Movie- Resident Evil
Number – 27
Opera singer – Susan Boyle
Perfume- Calvin Klein
Quotes- “Its Hard to fight against laziness especially if you’re to lazy to fight against it (lolz)
Rapper – Eminem
Song – If We Hold On Together
TV Show- Eat Bulaga
US State- Oklahoma
Video Game- Final Fantasy game series
Wizard- Dumbledore
Xmen Character- Gambit
Youthful actress- Miley Cyrus
Zodiac -Capricorn

now im tagging my fellow blogger friends: Your caring angels ; Yellow Shoelace ; Public Mind ; Writer Cramps ; Umma’s Blog ; Twinkletoe writing space ; Pinay Wham

Basketball is a sport that requires you to have great strength, speed, and strategy to win over your opponent. However these qualities will not be effective enough if a player do not know how to jump higher. A player should LEARN HOW TO JUMP HIGHER so that it will be easy for him and for his team to win. As I was searching over the Internet, I found site that offers training programs that will teach you how to jump higher and how to become more competitive in such sports like Basketball. If you are interested, you can visit http://howtojumphigher.grovetech.com and see what the site has to offer.

According to many surveys, carpets are one of the dirtiest parts of any room. We have to be aware that this carpet should be cleaned in a regular basis. Vacuum cleaners are not enough as it leaves some dust and dirt still. All your carpet need is a massive and thoroughly cleaning. This is what naperville carpet cleaning offered. You don’t have to worry about your carpet cause naperville carpet cleaning is ready to help you out.

This world is like an arena where in every participants has to compete to each other in order to win. This is what exactly happening in the global web market. The competition takes place on how popular the product is in the web market. This is the reason why most online entrepreneurs are searching ways on how to make their product or services recognizable in the market. One of the best ways is to submit it to Free Press Release. It is a site that offers a free press release distribution services that will be very useful in driving up the popularity of your product! Everyone is welcome to apply here!

Globe Broadband finally comes up with a very exciting and newest web application. Gloo is like an online scrapbook collaboration website that allows users to share photos, doodle, chat with your friends, post videos all at the same time. Just like the term “Glue”, all you have to do is to paste and input those stuffs in one canvas. Gloo’s other exciting features are the following:

• Watch your favorite Videos, music and share them all with your friends
• Chat with your friends online with their barkada message board
• Allows you to send MMS/ SMS online
• Tunes and music are also applicable
• Doodle, Stick and Decorate
• You can post reminders using Gloo Post-IT pad
• You can also personalized your layout or your space with customized themes provided by Gloo
• Input your Photos

Note that Gloo is not a social media site but more of a real-time online collaboration tool. It is not a reply to Sandbox or Facebook, Twitter, etc. It is a unique website application that everyone will surely enjoy. It is ideal place for parents to interact with their kids and family from abroad and vice versa.

Here’s my online scrapbook and i’m starting to add and create spaces in my canvas. I even invite my friends to create an account for Gloo so we can all enjoy the great features offered by this one of a kind web application.

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Online shopping has become widely popular and continuously growing in the global web market. As an online shopper, I enjoy purchasing items online because it is very convenient. Most of the online store works 24 hours a day in which I can access them anytime in either of my work or at home.

I’m happy to found SMILDS.com. It is a site that offers great items and products and it is a perfect place for online shopping in the Philippines. It was launched last July 2009 and aspires to become the Philippines’ premiere social shopping platform. These agents in turn sell the service subscription to the merchants.

SMILDS.com also became a major sponsor of the recently held Digital Filipino E-commerce Summit and Web Awards 2009, a prestigious gathering of top e-commerce players and practitioners which aims to give grace to all DigitalFilipino Web Awards 2009 winners. The said event has paved its way in cultivating new insights as well as trends and developments in the local e-commerce industry.

One of the advantages of online shopping is being able to seek out deals for items or services much faster than an actual store. It is a great place to canvass items too and you have the ability to compare each price and look for much cheaper items. It was said that a large percentage of all online shopper in the world are Americans and it’s nice to see that we are putting ourselves in the flow of technology. I’m proud to discover our Country’s very own online shopping store ~ SMilDS.com. Feel free to shop items and look for ideal gift for the upcoming Holidays. If you are interested, you can visit them in their website and see the site’s great item selection or you can visit SMILDS Philippines Facebook fan page. Happy Shopping!

Money is a very useful tool that we can use to achieve our goals. We all want to become wealthy? I guess all it takes to become wealthy is discipline! You must learn how to discipline your self and spend your money very wisely. As what I have read over Arina’s Self Help Blog and on her article about The Three Biggest Investments that All Wealthy People Make, most wealthy people invest their money instead of spending it! And I guess this answered the question of why most wealthy businessmen able to maintain their wealth despite of the global economical crisis that we’re experiencing right now! This makes me realize the truth beyond reality. I have learned that we should balance everything and we must know if we are over spending or not. In short, we should use our money wisely for our own sake and for our family for the near future

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