Living with my two parents who are in their senior years and diagnosed with chronic diseases like hypertension and high cholesterol, it is not easy for them to manage their health, take their medication as prescribed and on time, and keep a close watch on their diet. I do what I can, as the dutiful daughter, but it is very stressful on me too.

Since both my parents are educated and slightly computer literate, I thought that they should get online to gain some knowledge on how to better manage their health. I asked my colleagues who also have elderly parents and they told me of med3q, a social networking site where doctors and patients come together to interact.

This site is free and anyone could join. Med3d has the tagline, It’s your health. Make it personal, which I think is rather apt. Everyone should take control of his own health.

I told my parents about their site and I urge them to register with the site. If they need to interact with a medical professional, they always could, and anonymously too, if they so wish. Moreover, they can receive free advice without feeling like they are taking up too much of their doctor’s time.

Med3d also has a separate section called BizRx, which is for doctors only, and this section is created to help doctors to be better business people on top of being good, caring doctors.

If you do have parents who are living with a chronic disease or another, do check out med3q. It’s more than a resource site, it’s also a social network site where patients can lend support to each other.

After nine long months of working non-stop, my friend advised me to take a break to avoid burn out. I spent two days doing nothing and got bored out of my mind! I decided that I had to get away so I went online to do some research. I have previously been on travel sites many times but I found this very unique travel guide that is an accumulation of travel news and tips from real travelers with real photos featured in a host of travel blogs.

Little did I know that this travel guide known as Real Travel is the definitive travel guide and travel planner with a wealth of travel information, advice and reviews from people who have actually been to these places.

Real Travel has a blog where the Editor picks the best submissions in stories and photos plus destinations that come highly recommended by travel bugs of the Real Travel community.

After browsing through the travel guide, it really is not easy to select the country that I would most like to visit. They all look so interesting! The most important of all would be the one that fits my budget the most. What tough choices!

I still remember a year ago when my friend, Boon, told me about TM’s Merdeka One Million Contest. He had a lot of time to surf the internet as he was so sick he was almost bed-ridden and yet optimistic enough to participate in the contest with the hopes of winning a million Ringgit.

In the blink of an eye, he has passed away one year this coming August and the Merdeka One Million Contest is back on. I wish he was still alive so that we can both participate together. So this year, I am going to participate alone but I am not as optimistic as him. He enters to win. I enter to make up the number. That’s how different we are.

I don’t even remember if a winner was declared in the previous round last year. Was there a millionaire from that contest? Who was he or she? What sort of lifestyle is he/she living now? I have participated in many a contest that never ever announced the winners and then everyone forgets about it as the new one rolls around.

I am so pessimistic even of winning a minor consolation prize that I wonder if it is not a waste of time for me to crack my head over the slogan. Urghhh I am very bad in creative writing!

My friend just loves playing poker but the problem is he is using a Mac machine and he could hardly find anything that is not Windows based. He told me of his problem knowing that I surf the internet a lot so I promised I would look into it for him and actually found Mac Poker. This is a website dedicated to Poker für Mac, just as well because there ARE many poker players who prefer to use Mac.

Mac Poker Online is actually a directory of everything poker. It reviews the various poker sites and also list out poker bonus given out from each site. This makes it so easy for poker fans to get the information from one website without checking the various sites.

Knowing the online casino bonuses beforehand would be very helpful because the amount and the percentage various with each site and it could be pretty confusing. My friend also found the FullTilt Poker and Pacific Poker reviews most helpful.

Serious poker players should check out Mac Poker Online for the latest news and views on poker on the internet for Macs.

This morning, I was surfing the internet for information on dog breeds when I came across The Dog Guide. I was helping my cousin with his homework and he was asked to identify the various dog breeds on his work book. One of the breeds was the Basset Hound.

My cousin was very surprised to know the real name of the basset hound because he has always referred to it as Hush Puppy! What did they say again about the power of marketing??

I have friends who are keeping basset hounds so I guess I will have to introduce my cousin to them! My friends told me that they have quite a bit of trouble taking care of the ears of the basset hound because they are too large and are always damp, especially during the rainy season.

I think basset hounds are cute but I definitely have enough on my hands to keep one more dog no matter how cute they are!