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| Thursday, February 23, 2006 I made mistake, gosh! I saved this page as "My Activities and Cool Stuff" when it should be "My Weblog" and this was deleted.. Here am I, repeating the same thing. Please bear with me. Friday, February 24, 2006 Jamie who is at the rear left end, migrated to London last year. She's my classmate during 3rd year high school at ECSS and very nice person. She has a smiling eyes. Beside her is Angela and I am in the right front in red t-shirt while Abeth is the one wearing the neck tie. I will take Electronics and Computer Engineering (ECE) as I love computing. Come every one, lets eat! Saturday, February 25, 2006 The 2nd pic in the right shows my group in volleyball. Sexy teacher, Jennifer Pulleda (in front), next row are the following: me (left), Joanna, Joan, the tall guy is Christian, Bryan (with hat), Mctel and Renz. We won in some team but in the end, lose the game. An apple for the looser, ha ha! Sunday, February 26, 2006 I'm missing Jamie.. hey! how things going on with you there? Hope you can easily adjusted with the climate and European culture, how about an email? Monday, February 27, 2006 Working here.. I upload photos of our J-S prom. Some are still to be printed so just stay tuned. I remember the night in our J-S prom, dancing with Aljon and after that to take my seat, but Renz pulled me again to the dance floor, very gentleman? but the party is exciting! Tuesday, February 28, 2006 The team Ferrari is what I called, "The Boyz." There, they are: Renz (left), Hariloyd (front), Criselda, Angelo (with shades), Christian (with hat), and Mctel. I want to eat chocolates and ice cream while completing my site and I know, I'm increasing my waist line. Anyway, we do lots of activities later so calories will easily be burn. Wednesday, March 01, 2006 Another photo from Abeth, Angela and me. Nice shot, right? I like this one. |
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| What? Minds are like parachute, only works when open. Love, like a river, will cut a path around any obstacles it meets. There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors. Some people are like slinkies, not really good for anything, but still fun when you pushed them. Ants donnot sleep. A chameleon can move its eyes in two direction, at the same time. Laundry men do 29% of the laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly. Bananas are Americas number 1 fruit. |
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| Five (5) Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes - Martha Brockenbrough - 1. Be agreeable When it comes to language, we can't just agree to disagree -- at least not when it comes to subject and verbs. If your subject is singular, your verb must be, too. Usually, this is easy: "The boy eats pie." "The people eat the pie." It gets trickier when there is a descriptive phrase tucked between the subject and the verb. As peanut butter gives life and meaning to bread, this modifying phrase enhances the meaning of the sentence. But just as peanut butter doesn't turn bread into a waffle, a modifier doesn't change the form of the verb. So you'd say, "The group of people is eating the pie." Also on Encarta: - Most educated-cities on the U.S. - Does classical music makes kids smarter? - Do you like your job? What's the trick here? Knowing how to identify the subject. In this sentence, "the group" is the subject, not "people." In any sentence, the subject is whoever or whatever is performing the action. In this case, it doesn't matter if there are 100 students eating pie; the group is the subject of that sentence, and its need a singular verb. In a similar vein, I just got a letter home from my daughter's school that said, "A child reads better if you read to them everyday." Even though an elementary school-age child has the energy of many people, he or she must be talked about the singular. But if the "he or she" thing feels too stuffy, it's fine to say, "Children read better if you read to them everyday." 2. Avoid apostrophe catastrophes On the bright side, the "pie's" made by our dorm's cook in college were delicious. For that, she get significant credit and everlasting gratitude. But I did gasp in horror at the sign she made advertising them. It is catastrophe of apostrophe to make a plural of an apostrophe- s. Apostropies are used for possessive. Pies, alas, don't possess such much beyond crust and filling. So unless you are talking about that, keep the apostrophe out of the recipe. Apostrophes also appear in contractions which magically appears when you make one word out of two. The apostrophe stands in for the missing letter or letters. There is one exception, though not all apostrophe zealots agree with me on this point. You can't easily write home about all the A's you got in English class if you don't stick the apostrophe in there. (It reads as though you're saying, "I got all as." As what? As if?) This exception has got some grammar nerds whipped into a lather. Purists view this as an abomination, though the apostrophe zealots in England who give a an email , couldn't give me a better way of writing around the "As" problem. (You can work around this by putting the "A" in italics but if you aren't careful when you change your typeface, you might loose it in the editing phase.) Language nuts who are more generous with their apostrophes stick them in if's, and's, but's. That's too far, apostrophes donnot belong in if's, and's or but's because those plurals are perfectly clear without them. Clarity is the whole point of grammar and if a rule doesn't make language more clear, then it's just silly. The final tricky situation here is whether possessive nouns that end in "s " get an apostrophe only, or the apostrophe- s. 3. I seem to have misplaced my modifier Let's say you're trying to sell your grandmother antique dresser online. Does this make a good advertisement? Hmm, let's see. For Sale: Woman's antique dresser with thick legs and large drawers. If you keep your sentence structure simple, you are less likely to misplace a modifier. When in doubt, start with the subject, then move right away to your verb. This can led to dry writing but that's better than inadvertently hilarious writing, like this: Having finished homework, the TV was turned on. A great way to avoid making mistakes like this is to write in active voice instead in passive. You know you're writing in active voice when the subject of your sentence performs the action. A sentence is in passive voice if it's not clear who did something, in this case, who turned on the TV instead of trying to earn extra credit. 4. Dangerous malapropisms: Say what? A friend who's in the media business told me the awkward tale of a colleague who kept saying "antidote" in a meeting, when the word she was grasping for was "anecdote." This is a classic malapropism, when someone misuses a word by confusing it with another word that sounds similar. A number of words sound similar but mean very different things. Indicted and Inducted form another pair of potentially embarrassing swaps. When a person is indicted, he's charged with a crime. When a person is inducted, he's been given a new job or honor (or introduced to a new idea). You'd congratulate someone who's been inducted and offer condolences to someone who is indicted. Otherwise, you'd be embarrassed. Conscience and conscious are another tricky pair. But if you stay conscious of the difference, you will have no embarrassing incidents weighing on your conscience. Want more? Take the evil word-twin quiz. 5. Words to write right. its, it's, who's, whose, their, there, they're The saying used to be, "On the Internet, no one knows, if you're a dog." (Cats are obvious, though; they always fell asleep on the keyboard.) Likewise when you're talking no one can tell if you screw up whose and who's, its and it's and there, they're and their. But when you're writing, watch out . Screw this up and you'll look like a fool. But don't despair. Or as grandmothers say, "There, there." You can expand your mind on this font by understanding contractions. If what you're really saying is, "it is," "there is," or "who is," then use the apostrophe version. So it's, there's, and who's. Use its, whose and theirs for possessives. How do you remember this? Just remember that possessive pronouns have everything, except apostrophes. Likewise, I have another goofy little trick for keeping their straight from they're and there. Their is a possessive. It has an "i" in it. I like owning things. Therefore, the one to use there is their. There's, meanwhile,comes with a warning. There's is short for there is. "There's a fly in my soup" is correct, if disgusting. But "There's flies in my soup" is incorrect and even more disgusting. So be careful there, even one of my smartest high school students, an award winning writer, made this mistake in a recent piece she wrote for me. My bet is this is a common mistake because it's easier to say, "there's" than "there're," which is the correct verb form whenever you're dealing with more than one fly. Those two "r" sounds in a row don't exactly trip off the tonge. While you can get away with it in speech the error will be more obvious in writing. So beware. And now, for two final entrants into the write-it right category: loose and lose. This one's easy. Loose rhymes with goose. And as they say in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "How loose is your goose? Your goose is totally loose." Whatever that means. Meanwhile, lose is a loser. It has lost its other "o." And if you can remember that, you'll be a winner, grammatically speaking, at least. |
| Quotable Quotes The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller~ You never find yourself until you face the truth. ~ Pearl Bailey ~ The giving of love is an education in itself. ~Eleanor Roosevelt~ For most of history, ANONYMOUS was a woman. ~ Virginia Woolf~ Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determine our success or failure. ~Norman Vincent Peale~ Love is everything. It is the key to life, and it's influences are those that move the world. ~Ralph Waldo Trine~ You are the sum total of all your choices up to now. ~Dr. Wayne Dyer~ One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers wants. ~Proverbs 11:24~ Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. ~Elizabeth Bibesco~ To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant~ LOVE: if you have it, you don't need anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have. ~Sir James M. Barrie~ I expect to pass though life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn~ Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. ~Ralp W. Stockman~ There's always room for improvement. It's the biggest room in the house. ~Louise Leber~ Dance like nobody's watching; Love like you've never been hurt; Sing like nobody's listening; Live like it's heaven on earth. ~Mark Twain~ When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. ~Elayne Boosler~ Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. ~Emily Dickinson~ If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace. ~Thomas Payne~ Let us rise up and be thankful for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick and if we got sick, at least we didn't die, so let us all be thankful. ~Buddha~ Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. ~Hannah Arendt~ The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. ~Mohandas Ghandhi~ Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Satchell Paige~ Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ~Percey Bysshe Shelley~ Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to go strong but conflict. ~William Ellery Channing~ A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright~ First, there are no sufficient literary, psychological,or historical answer to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. ~Elie Wiesel~ |
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| Power of Love Words have always been the source My best ability to express The emotion in my soul My heart of love, in truth I confess The Love Story of my heart Is singing to you, forevermore Only the touch of your hand Would be greater than the dreams before Let us share our love always We have come from the darkest places Into light and love of life Where only a fairytale graces Yet, reality gives us The love we have longed always And now this moment in time Is embracing all our yesterdays None but the bravest of hearts Could have bared their souls with such love Until the day, I met you I only visioned you my dove In spite of the pouring rain You princess, breathed life into me The greatest love to unfold Our love shall go down in history I shall always adore you And as only you know and I know A song that never will end My love for you shall forever grow With each drum of my heartbeat I've never felt a love such as this Lifetimes, slowly come and go But perhaps it was your loving kiss Through the rain and sunshine glow I'll share my love for eternity And if you're cold in the wind I'll wrap my loving wings around thee Until sleep heats our bodies That forever entwine me and you You shall know my love always As the hourglass of sands flow through And I'll be the quill to etch Deep within your soul of poetry The love of a billion years Carry us both through eternity It was promised us both We'll live in the milky lands of youth It's written, so shall it be And my heart you'll see is spoken truth My gentle soul loves your heart From this world to the promise anew Where now shall be memories And death's plan shall reunite us two As we let love complete us Within the circle never ending Upon each fingers caress I sing love songs forever mending Yet my armor be just flesh My love pure but still weakly woman Love sees past all my mistakes Your vision sees beyond illusion I await to cross again So the universe can see us shine For we're one, the brightest sun Eternity our love will define Rest easy my precious love For I'll cherish every moment Live and breathe each breath my dear And you'll know our love was always meant As we spent it together Forevermore through eternity The strength of love shall never Part me from you, and you loving me. |
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The Tunnel Zenkai, a son of samurai journeyed to Edo and there became a retainer of a high official. He fall in love with the official's wife and was discovered. In self-defense, he slew the official then ran away with the wife. Both of them later became thieves but the woman was so greedy that Zenkai grew disgusted. Finally leaving her, he journeyed far away to the Province of Buzen, where he became a wandering mendicant. To atone for his past, Zenkai resolved to accomplish some good deed in his lifetime. Knowing of a dangerous road over a cliff that has caused death and injury to many persons, he resolved to cut a tunnel through the mountain there. Begging food in the daytime, Zenkai worked at night digging his tunnel. When 30 years had gone by, the tunnel was 2,280 ft. long, 20 ft. high and 30 ft. wide. Two years before the work was completed, the son of the official he had slain, who was a skillful swordsman, found Zenkai out and came to kill him in revenge. "I will give you my life willingly," said Zenkai. "Only let me finish this work. On the day it is completed, then you may kill me." So the son awaited the day. So many months passed and Zenkai kept digging. After he had helped for more than a year, he came to admire Zenkai strong will and character. At last the tunnel was completed and the people could use it and travel safely. "Now, cut off my head," said Zenkai. "My work is done." "How can I cut off my own teacher's head? asked the younger man with tears in his eyes. |
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