What’s Up, Buttercup?

It’s been so long since I last posted on this page. It was not because there wasn’t much to tell, but I guess I have been too busy to tell stories.

A lot has happened since October 2012 and I can’t even remember everything anymore. Christmas came, New Year, our 3rd year anniversary, my 28th birthday, Valentine’s Day, Holy Week, my brother’s birthday and my younger son’s birthday all came.

I think the highlight of my life right now, is my going back to school. Yes, I inquired at Pamantasan ng Cabuyao with Guil and took the entrance exam on April 11th. We were so nervous because it had been over a decade since we were both at school, taking examinations. We were too scared that we would fail that test. I don’t really know how it happened but we both passed the test, and, with fairly good scores! Haha! We were super thrilled and amazed. Okay, so everything was rolling as we wished them to.

Less than a month ago, we returned to the university to submit the requirements. Just a couple of days ago, we went back there for the interview. Boy was I nervous! I was shaking and I could hardly breathe while waiting for my turn, and even while inside the VPAA’s office. He asked questions, I tried to answer with a steady voice. Then he signed and told me to go to the Dean of Education.

As I entered the Dean’s office, I gave him my folder, and he gave me a sheet of yellow paper. He told me to write a composition about the “Essence of Education”. So off we went and started writing outside the campus. I tried to gather my thoughts and wrote. Then we headed back to the Dean’s office and submitted our compositions. When I sat at his desk, he read my composition. He was nodding while reading and seemed to like what I wrote. Finally, he said, “It was good. But… Since you will become a teacher, you have to write in cursive and it should be readable.” I smiled and admitted that I was still shaking from the interview that I had with the VPAA. But I was really worried about cursive writing. I really hated that back in 2nd grade. Until now, I am not confident to write in cursive, but I have to practice and get used to it.

Then we were sent to the Guidance Counselor, had another interview, then finally were sent to the clinic. We have to undergo some tests and a dental check up, so we will be admitted to the university. This coming week, we are scheduled to go to Ospital ng Cabuyao for the medical tests.

I am really excited to go to college. I will really do my best.

So help me God.

DEMOCRACY!!!

DEMOCRACY! Surely, you can generate better ideas. IF YOU CHOOSE TO.

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Good Education Has A Price and A Prize

Tired. Has just been to BIR to get two documentary stamps for Titus’ Form 137. It costs P15 each. Tomorrow, my mom’s going to school to get the papers.

Documentary Stamps

Cabuyao Municipal Office

Having decided to transfer Titus to a private school, I have to fix different papers and pay quite a lot of fees. Though I haven’t got much in my pocket, I know I can get by, somehow. This is the time I am feeling a mother’s responsibility of taking her kid to school.

I made such decision to give Tyt a better education. Public schools today aren’t the same with public schools in our time. I understand that a kid’s performance doesn’t depend on the school he goes to. But it sure helps a lot.

The fees I have to pay are no joke at all. But I know it’s going to bear good fruits.

No matter how hard the obligation is, I trust that the Lord will help me get through, and I will stay strong for my family.

Titus in front of his new school – St. Matthew’s Montessori and Science High School

Lizzie The Ugliest? OR Lizzie The Greatest?

As I was browsing the Internet, I found a link to a site with an article about a girl named Lizzie, who was voted as the ugliest person on YouTube. It turns out that she had an extremely rare condition (only 3 in the world have it). She took in everything that the “beautiful” people said on their comments, and got back on them in a way that’s not as filthy as their mouths.

Watch this inspiring video of her, and learn how she coped with it and what she did with her life.

 

For all the bullies who have shits for brains, this is what she has to say.

 

This is the video of her that is only a few seconds long but has over 4,000,000 hits.

 

I admire her courage and boldness to go through it all. She just proves to us that no matter how different we look, we can still achieve every goal we set. We just have to have the same level of courage, determination and self-respect that she has.

Now what I want is, to find her book, buy it, read it and learn from it.

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/littlelizziev
Like her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lizzievelasquez
Follow her on Tumblr: http://www.lizziebeautiful.tumblr.com
Visit her website: http://www.aboutlizzie.com

Project Knowledge

I was reading Saab Magalona’s blog this morning and I saw her post about Project Knowledge. Education is one of the most essential things a person must have. But it is also one of those things that are not given to everyone. So with this project, even those who live far away will be given a chance to get better education. I just want to share this awesome project to all of you guys and maybe we can help make this project work!

Click this picture to go to their Facebook page.

Project Knowledge is a group of 10 business students from UP Diliman and for our CWTS project this sem, we decided to raise funds for our chosen beneficiary, the Knowledge Channel (creator of educational shows like Sineswkela, Mathinik, Hiraya Manawari etc.)

One of our fund-raising projects is a Facebook Like page or campaign, in which Aquabest will donate P5.00 for every like our page will be generating. So far we have already accumulated P11, 310 (as of 8:26 PM August 9) and our target number is 10,000 likes or P50,000.

The funds that we will be raising will be used by Knowledge Channel to provide free educational TV (ETV) facilities and programs to public schools, especially those in the remote areas. They are also trying to reach out as far as they can through volunteer mobile teachers and the use of E-pads and I-pads in teaching.

Go and like their page to help get the whole country educated! Click on the picture NOW.

Why Posting Photos On The Internet Should Be Carefully Done

from http://theblogger15.blogspot.com/ posted on 27 May 2009

Deleted.

Saw this article on my friend’s Facebook page.

(http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/142366)

It’s always fun to write about research that you can actually try out for yourself.Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL to the picture is (the actual photo, not the page on which the photo resides), and then delete it. Come back a month later and see if the link works. Chances are: It will.

Facebook isn’t alone here. Researchers at Cambridge University (so you know this is legit, people!) have found that nearly half of the social networking sites don’t immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed. In general, photo-centric websites like Flickr were found to be better at quickly removing deleted photos upon request.

Why do “deleted” photos stick around so long? The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites: While your personal computer only keeps one copy of a file, large-scale services like Facebook rely on what are called content delivery networks to manage data and distribution. It’s a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service simultaneously. (Yahoo! Tech is served by dozens of servers, for example.) But because changes aren’t reflected across the CDN immediately, ghost copies of files tend to linger for days or weeks.

In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL in question is reused, which is usually “after a short period of time.” Though obviously that time can vary considerably.

Of course, once a photo escapes from the walled garden of a social network like Facebook, the chances of deleting it permanently fall even further. Google’s caching system is remarkably efficient at archiving copies of web content, long after it’s removed from the web. Anyone who’s ever used Google Image Search can likely tell you a story about clicking on a thumbnail image, only to find that the image has been deleted from the website in question — yet the thumbnail remains on Google for months. And then there are services like the Wayback Machine, which copy entire websites for posterity, archiving data and pictures forever.

The lesson: Those drunken party photos you don’t want people to see? Simply don’t upload them to the web, ever, because trying to delete them after you sober up is a tough proposition.”

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A Good Poem

This is a poem I read few years (if I’m not mistaken) back, which I also posted on my Tumblr. Let me share it to you. Some of you might have seen this before but for some who haven’t yet, this one’s a good read. It’s a pretty effective way to practice your English pronunciation skills.

 

If you can pronounce every word in this poem correctly, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

 

Were you able to read everything right?