Swine Flu Advice

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Everything

...Now you will probably here a lot of stories in the news about the widespread outbreak of Swine Flu also known as the influenza A virus subtype H1N1, which has caused mass media hysteria for some months now. Now many people may have or may be in the process of writing a review about Swine Flu, but for me i feel as if i should be compelled to write a review, because i am currently at the end cycle of suffering from swine flu, something which i have been suffering for nearly two weeks now. I hope to provide as much information as physically possible, as well as share my experiences regarding the flu. Why? Well because i no just how powerful this nasty flu can be, and my aim is to try and help people currently suffering from it, to try and give some advice and what people should do, and perhaps just make people more aware of what symptoms...

jaygami1986 24.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Flu Vaccination

Ciao - Advice to Help You Get Started

Advantages: hopefully it will give you a good idea about site etiquette
Disadvantages: you don't have to take advice given here or anywhere else on the site or do you?

...Ciao is a consumer review site. Potential consumers come here to get advice on products such as cameras, TVs, mobile phones, laptops that they want to buy, books they might want to read, films they want to see, countries they want to visit, restaurants they might want to eat at, etc. The more people that come to the site, the more they will click on adverts and banners on the site, the more revenue is generated for the company and the better it is all for all who write here. The more coherently and informatively a review is written; the more reads it will generate as highly rated reviews go to the top of the list when someone does a search. I've been writing on consumer reviews for over five years now, mostly on UK based sites as that's where I live. I enjoy writing reviews and I hope I have learnt over the years to accept...

anonymili 30.06.2009 (05.10.2009) · Read review
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Advice on Running.

Advantages: Keeps you fit, you feel much more healthy and positive
Disadvantages: Can cause painful muscles and joints

...Running I thought I'd offer my own insight and advice on running, seeing as I've just taken it up myself in the past few months. I'll say first that I absolutly love running - it gets you outside, you get fresh air, and you can stay fit and feel better about yourself afterwards. When To Run I honestly don't know if there is a scientifically proven best time to run. All I can do is offer my own experiences, which are that I find it much easier to run in the afternoons, but also much more peaceful to run in the mornings. If I run in the morning, I'll do it at about 7am. I'll get up, warm up, then go. What's good about this is that everywhere is quiet, and you are running much more freely because you don't have to worry about other people around you. However the problem is that you feel tired, very tired in fact. It's a good way...

Eazy_Rider 11.03.2009 · Read review
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My Story and My Advice

Advantages: Finding all about you
Disadvantages: Finding out the truth

...*** Updated 24 October 2008 (see bottom section) *** Just Window Shopping I was browsing the Ciao Café section on Membership Advice this morning (as you do) and I happened to come across reviews about adoption. After reading some of the very personal experiences, I felt compelled to write my story. Quirk of fate Adoption is something, in my view, is a very private, yet public thing; I mean it is literally giving away a person - a member of your family - to a total stranger; even to someone who they may never meet. I've always found this to be strange but one of the most remarkable and bravest things anyone can do. Each adoption has its own unique, often sad, story. This is mine. My Story I was adopted at a very early age. I've had a wonderful, happy childhood, and I would never want to replace my...

orrin31 22.06.2007 (24.10.2008) · Read review
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advice needed

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...If I ramble I apologise, I don?t expect you to rate this review I just need to write. Also I have no advice on break ups in fact its me who needs the advice! Maybe ciao should put on a new category saying, ?help needed!? I sit here wondering what the future holds and what the hell has just happened in the last 24 hours. Me and Paul (my boyfriend or ex I should say) haven?t ever had the perfect relationship he has some kind of hold on me and although we love each other we are far from perfect and people including his own mum often say we would be better apart. Yesterday (Sat) Paul?s mate came back from Spain now I dread it when the two of them are together as they just go on the piss and spend money like it s water. Now every week Paul is meant to give 240 quid to cover bills and household expenses, so I knew as it has happened...

sarahpervin 13.06.2004 (14.06.2004) · Read review
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Advice on Schizophrenia

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Disadvantages: read op

...Up until a few weeks ago I worked for a Mental Health Charity. My job was very stressful, but also very rewarding. However it was not physically challenging so I left. The role of my job was to support, counsel, and befriend people with mental health problems, such as depression, bi polar disorder and schizophrenia. The latter was the most common problem, and I dealt with people who suffered from this on a daily basis. In this opinion, I hope to give advice and insight into this illness. What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a mental illness that USUALLY affects people between the ages of 16 and 25. It distorts peoples senses, making people who suffer from it unable to tell the difference between what is real and what is not real. Schizophrenia is a brain disease, it happens because of chemical changes or imbalances in...

justme 16.10.2002 (17.12.2002) · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Mental illness

There really can't be any advice

Advantages: NONE
Disadvantages: everything

...I don't really know why I am writing this, I have wanted to write part of it for a long time. I have written some feelings about it but nobody has ever read them - not even my husband. I must warn anybody that is going to read this I don't know what I am going to write, so if I ramble or upset anyone then I am sorry. The category is 'Member Advice on Coping with Death' but can anybody really give advice on this - I don't think so because everybody handles things differently therefore copes differently. I believe people can only tell how they dealt with it or didn't. I first came across death when I was 8 years old, my Nana had her bed downstairs and my Grandad cooked her meals, I can't remember how long her bed had been downstairs but one day I remember going to visit with my mum after school as we did everyday. My mum had tears...

rojm 07.09.2009 (13.09.2009) · Read review
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* No Good Advice *

Advantages: Catchy , Different
Disadvantages: Not Good Advice!

...Girls Aloud are a British girlband consisting of five members ; Nadine Coyle , Cheryl Cole , Sarah Harding , Nicola Roberts and Kimberly Walsh. Girls Aloud were formed on the reality television show ; Popstars The Rivals in 2002. Since then they have become a huge success. To date they have had eighteen top ten singles , including three number ones. Their style of music consists of pop and electro pop. No Good Advice was the second single from Girls Aloud. It was released five months after their first single (and first number one) ; Sound Of The Underground. No Good Advice was released in the United Kingdom on May 12th 2003 and debuted in the British Single charts at number two. The song comes under the pop and rock genre. The length of the song is three minutes and forty eight seconds. No Good Advice is taken off Girls Aloud's debut...

xdonzx 06.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of No Good Advice (Single) - Girls Aloud

Some friendly advice for your fairytale day

Advantages: Cliched but true - it will be the happiest day of your life
Disadvantages: Endless lists and the potential for lots of stress!

...Despite vehement teenage outbursts of, 'I'm never getting married', the fact that someone might actually propose to me one day never even entered my tiny mind. I suppose I'd be lying if I didn't admit (at least on a subconscious level), that I have occasionally entertained the odd fantasy about the big white dress and my own Prince Charming. One of my strongest childhood memories involves a dressing up box complete with my Mum's old wedding dress and veil, and I started modelling bridal gowns voluntarily when I was fourteen, so there must have been a small part of me that wanted the fairytale wedding. Here follows a ridiculously lengthy spiel about my own views on wedding planning, the order in which we did things and some of the advice/hurdles we encountered along the way. I apologise for waffling, but am still so giddy about my...

Tadders 27.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Wedding Planning

My Story (plus advice)

Advantages: You get a boy/girl-friend
Disadvantages: Hard work

...Some of you may already know that I?ve been in an online relationship the last four months. I finally met my girlfriend, Emily, last Monday (09/02), when she flew in from America for a holiday, so I thought now would be a good time to tell. I?ve pointed out before Ciao asks for ?member advice? rather than simply ?my story/experience?, so it?s worth saying here that this will try to combine both, with lessons drawn from my experience. Meeting Online Meeting people in bars always seemed intimidating to me - how do you know if someone?s single, interested, not psycho and sharing your interests? Well, a good way I suppose is to meet through a friend. The same can be true online - meeting ?sexybabe69? in a chat room probably isn?t the best way to a long term relationship. My girlfriend arose out of www.uk-fusion.com (see my separate...

a-true-ben 13.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Online Dating