I have, from time to time, mentioned a friend who ballooned up so much that he looked like a small hippopotamus. While I am not laughing at him, we are all concerned about his drastic weight gain. He is also, that is why he is considering a lap band surgery.

He told me that he is currently in search of more information on the procedure and talking to people who are thinking of undergoing the same treatment and also those who have successfully implanted the lapband. They have even recommended him a good Lap Band Surgeon Mexico seems like one of the safest and cheapest place to get it done outside of the United States.

My friend told me that from the resource site, www.mylapbandsurgery.com, where he is a active forum member, he read that he could save up to 75% savings for the same treatment should it be done in the Mexico. Moreover, he would qualify for a free doctor’s appointment, a free $500 travel voucher and a lifetime of free fills.

I was surprised to know that lapband medical technology in Mexico is even more advanced than the United States but considering that Mexican doctors have been treating patients since the 1980s while this procedure was only approved in the United States in 2001, doctors in Mexico have many more years of experience than their American counterparts.

He also told me that other patients were saying that the hospital is Mexico is like a luxurious and nothing like the kind of hospitals that we know of, that put fear into people. According to testimonials, many people enjoyed their trip to Mexico and treated it like a vacation!

While I think my friend should do something with his weight, I told him that he should be a hundred percent certain that this is what he wants to go through but he is quite positive that this is the only way to achieve what he wants where other weight loss programs have failed. He said he will make the final decision once he has weighed the pros and cons of a lapband surgery and getting all the information he wants by calling toll-free 866.309.0036 and direct line at 386.206.9358.

Well, if he is happy, I am happy for him too.

The other day, I was chatting with my childhood friend about how we used to play with cotton rag dolls and how kids these days have it so easy. My friend told me that her daughter now plays with dolls online. Well, that was news to me because I did not know that dolls have gone virtual as well.

She also said that her daughter loves to play with virtual stuff animals on webkinz and how we had to beg our parents to buy us our stuffed animals.

With kids nowadays so web savvy, I am not surprised that Cartoon Doll Emporium is one of the most popular websites that cater to kids receiving more than three million unique visitors per month. This is a staggering figure. It is also estimated that each kid spends an average of twenty minutes per visit. This is very impressive. I don’t even spend more than ten minutes on any website!

However, if I have my own daughter, I also prefer her to play with virtual dolls and stuffed animals. This is the new age now.

Oh my goodness! Today, I sent more than 20 SMS messages to my friend asking him to help me set up my new internet connection. I feel bad now because he just replied me telling me to dial 1-886-GeekNeed instead.

I do realize that I have treated him like my very own personal technical support line especially when something bad happens to my computer like the time it was infected with a Trojan that totally crippled it or the time I kept getting the Blue Screen of Death which was later attributed to a dying power supply.

Now that I know where to get cheap technical support via the telephone, I need not bother my friend anymore. He should have let me know sooner! At only $1.99 per minute after we have explained our problem for free, it surely is very reasonable.

What I like about 1-886-GEEKNEED is that they even could log on to our computer to repair or troubleshoot it remotely. Ahh.. I have longed for someone, just anymore, to come and take care of my troublesome computer for more. I have now found someone who would not complain!

My friend has wondered why my computer seems to give me so many problems and has insulted me by saying that it is “user-problem”. Well, let me show him that now my computer is 100% healthy. He doesn’t need to know that I am calling 1-866-GeekNeed, does he?

For the past two weeks, I have visited so many different blogs. What I like about blogs is that each owner has its own personalized or customized layout. While I have been impressed by some layouts, I have at the same time been put off by quite a handful as well.

One thing I exceptionally dislike is the thing called “Content Link”. I think that is what it is called. I am not sure how it is implemented, perhaps it is a plug-in or whatever, but I have no idea why anyone would want that on their blogs. Perhaps it is another mode of monetization but I think that to have all the little bubbles popping up each time I hovered my cursor over a link ACCIDENTALLY, the pop up comes out, blocks my view of the text field and interrupts my reading. There goes my mood for reading because I keep losing my reading momentum.

Although this could be a way to further receive revenue each time someone clicks on the link that appears in those little oblong pop-ups, I find it bad form should these links appear in a sponsored post.

Can you imagine how you will feel if you, the advertiser, have paid for the text post and then there comes all these links in bubbles popping up all over your blog post trying to lure away your market?

I think that blog owners who have implemented this should serious consider removing them because it is very unfair to the advertiser. What do you think?