Attending SPPMPC Annual Assembly

Today is the annual assembly of the Sts Peter and Paul Multi-Purpose Cooperative held in the municipal gym.I actually don't want to attend like this considering my health but I need to do do it because I want to receive something as incentives to members who will attend such activities.

Early this morning, I went to the venue of activities to register. So I need to stand for a while in a queue during this warm morning. This initial activity actually makes me feel bored and tired.

Yes, I am tired. I think, it is because my hemoglobin level is too low again. You see, I failed to follow the instruction of my doctor. I was told to take three immunosuppressants (HCQS, Prednisone and MyCept) but I could only afford to buy two of them (HCQS and Prednisone). And I was also told to take these immunosuppressants one tablet each three times a day, but I only take one tablet once a day. To raise my hemoglobin level, my doctor told me to take a certain injection once a week, but I couldn't because I couldn't afford to buy such injection.

Actually, I don't have sponsors anymore since the month of March. So, I don't have any option but to focus all my trust to God. If God permits that even without meds I can survive this illness, then that will be a great miracle to happen. God's miracle in my life is my only hope.

 

Lupus, Ice and Water

This post has nothing to do with my illness, Lupus. I just want to compile information that I learn after doing an information-search about making Ice Cream.

Why am I doing a research about making Ice Cream?

Well, I already had told you that my family is currently struggling to survive. We already had spent a lot of money for my therapy. I already took loans and am already at the point that I couldn't take another loan account because my net pay is already too low to have another loan account.

So, my husband decided that he should find a job for us, and this is the only way. But, he doesn't want to abandon his offices in the Church of Christ (Iglesia Ni Cristo) and for him, have a job, as if he is an employee might force him to abandon his Church offices and responsibilities. And then he suggested that it would be better if he will open a small business, instead... like doing a habal-habal (motorcycle taxi) services or selling own-made ice cream (sorbetes style).

And as part of the start of the business, he did a research about Ice Cream making. And part of the procedure is the use of ice and salt.

So, I wondered: "why use the salt to the ice?" These are the result of my little research:

1. What's the effect of salt to the ice? Salt lowers the freezing temperature of the water. If the temperature of the ice is 30 degree Fahrenheit (for example), after adding salt, the freezing temperature will be come 29-down degree Fahrenheit. With the salt added to the ice, the salt after in contact with the liquid surface of the ice will melt first (dissolves) and make the liquid salty. Salted liquid film of the ice because its freezing point has been lowered already, causes the ice to melt down causing to have more liquid that also causes more salt to dissolve... the effect goes on and on, until all ice in a container or in an area melt. So, this is the reason why in the snowy places, they apply salt into the snow or ice to melt them down faster. This is also the reason why making artificial rain uses salt as part of the procedure.
2. How does we compare the melting ice without salt and melting ice with salt? The ice without the salt melts because the air around it is warmer. The ice tends to absorb the warmth around it that causes it to melt. However, ice with salt melts faster that the ice without salt not because of the warmth around it but because its freezing temperature has been lowered down by the salt.
3. What's the point of using salt in making Ice Cream? Salt lowers the freezing point of the water, right? So, the ice with salt will be much colder than the ones without ice, thus causing the ice cream to hardened faster. So, the water with salt needs more time to freeze compared to the liquid without salt. So, if you put a bag of water without ice into the cold water with salt, the water with salt remains liquid but the water without salt inside the bag freezes fast.