Netnet Camomot HERE’S another time-waster: 4 Pics 1 Word. It’s an old game more complicated than Candy Crush Soda Saga since guessing that one word to describe all four photos may require a week of brain-churning guesses. Yes, better read a book. But that one word may help expand your vocabulary, which is a necessity for a candidate included in the Miss Universe’s Top 6. Well, before you can reach Top 6, first ensure you have the other obvious requirements: beauty, height, and a Coca-Cola body. No, not the body after drinking all that soda. It’s the body that doesn’t drink soda, thus, it now resembles the classic Coca-Cola bottle. Soda is always bad for any diet. Even the zero kind is bad since it inspires your body to crave for real sugar. But how to enjoy sinugbang baboy, kinilaw, and rice without soda? That’s the question. Any gathering with family and friends will always require food. Exercise is one way to meet with them, but afterwards, gulping down liters of water to rehydrate is simply not enough. There will be snacks or a meal to go with that water. Now that we’re talking about exercise, any updates on that New Year’s resolution to lose weight? If your version is losing a few pounds, only to gain them all back and more the next day, you’re not alone. The aim to lose weight the healthy way always sounds easy before New Year’s Eve while you’re writing down resolutions. But after the New Year and the birthday party and the Chinese New Year celebration, it’s not as easy as expected. You gulp down your favorite food, and hope the weighing scale won’t whine and complain the morning after. You’ll feel the excess weight in your butt, thighs, and bilbil as they become heavier with each bite of sinugbang baboy, kinilaw, and rice. Add the generous sips of soda to that and, well, tambok pa more. Miss France Iris Mittenaere, the new Miss Universe, has inspired this question on her size: Size 0? Size 2? She’s so lean, I gotta feeling she avoids croissant. Carbs are bad news to anyone trying to lose weight. But on Wednesday night, there I was, asking for more rice for the kare-kare, calamares, lechon kawali, and fresh lumpia. Should have focused on the fresh lumpia only. Oh, well. Any wish to be a Miss Universe has gone down the drain anyway, thanks to, uh, senior-moment age. Haha! February is the second month of the year. If you’re still making New Year’s resolutions, please remember even the Chinese New Year is so over now. February is the month for the heart. More precisely, for what that heart feels, the kind that makes it go crazy. It’s also the month for motels and restos. The, hmmm, virgin-since-birth will probably wonder, Motels? Well, the teenager, who’s about to receive condoms from the health department, is probably more informed on why motels will do good business this month. The Department of Health is planning to give condoms to high school students in public schools. That’s for those who are already 15 to 24 years old, but with their parents’ consent. A 21-year-old who still asks for his parents’ consent for condom use is way too much for that 21-year-old. Oh, well. This is a chicken-and-egg puzzle again. Which came first? Do condoms inspire every human being to have sex? In this age of “Fifty Shades Darker,” the English-speaking Miss Universe who can’t decipher why “came” is associated with sex may require more English words in her vocabulary. A condom is a preventive measure. Celibacy is the utmost preventive measure. But only priests and nuns are required to be celibate. There’s no such requirement for the rest of the human population. Even the Bible says, Go forth and multiply. And you can’t multiply without going, uh, forth. But too much multiplication results to many babies that the multipliers may not be able to support, thus, the preventive measure. And there are other complications that sex can have on your health. Google that and let’s see—pronounced as the Spanish work for milk—if you’ll still celebrate Valentine’s Day the usual way. The usual way, as in dinner? Yeah, right. But surely, you won’t consider that usual way as a waste of time.