Hooray!

Someone just gave me a compliment that my grammar is improving!

Thanks to that person.

As you can notice, I started blogging last March and my grammar isn't that good. I also posted before that I want to improve it so I can do better in school. Now that I achieved my goal, I am also thanking blogger for helping me giving a good practice.


Chao!

Gross!

I hope that there will be an automated door next time I'll enter the cubicle inside the ladies' comfort room (In our school!). I never wanted to touch it anymore after what I had experienced earlier!

I'll tell you why. One afternoon, I needed to pee so I proceeded to the comfort room. As I pulled the cubicle's door, I felt something sticky and wety in my hand. And, Eiiwww!.... There's a booger and a blood (you know, girl thing) stuck on my hand! Yuck, It's so gross!

I Double Dog Dare You...

...to leave a comment...just one...just one little itsy bitsy comment...

Is There Any Wonder?

Well of course English is a difficult language when a word like "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" means "the fear of long words". Sigh!

Define 'Happines'

I am going through some of the hardest days in my life. Days that I didn't see come. Days I didn't plan for. Days I haven't thought of alternatives or ways to overcome them. They say that something good must come after a lot of bad, and I await passionately and anxiously and also willingly with a smile to see what is next.


I am excited about what is next.

I know what is happiness.

I know where is happiness.

I have found happiness.

Have you?

back at it

I'm giving credit to WG after reading her funny yet crazy post. Read it. It's totally awesome.

WG: Can I help you find something?

Student: I'm looking for Room 23.

WG: You found it.

Student: Where?

WG: This room. It's number 23.

Student: No, that's where I'm going.

WG: But you're already here.

Student: Where?

WG: Room 23.

Student: Yeah, where's that?

WG: (Sigh) Go ask the teacher next door.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Meet Gabi. Gabi will be 6 on Sunday. Gabi told me I have to be at her birthday party. Gabi is in love with the idea of being in love. Everything is weddings or boyfriends or something in-between. When asked the very important question of "How do you show Jesus you love him?" Gabi's response was "When you love Jesus you get married." (Her answer graced the front page of the sacrament program.)
A few nights ago I was cuddling with Gabi in the living room. "Guess who I love," I said to Gabi. She looked up me and said all seriously, "Fox" (Fox is a friend of mine who Gabi hadn't seen in MONTHS. I think Gabi is in love with Fox.) I laughed and said, "I love YOU Gabi."

Gabi looked frustrated and threw her hands up in the air and said rather loudly and with a tone, "If everybody loves somebody why doesn't anybody EVER get married???"

A very good question my adorable niece, a very good question indeed.

The Problem with Cash

I've recently been called on, again, to help a friend in need financially. I've done so on many occassions and have learned a lesson that many people go through life not ever really understanding. "More money doesn't solve money problems." That may sound incorrect, but the fact is you can give away as much money as you want - to fill someone's needs or not - and the same problems will come their way again.

"Then what does solve money problems, Mr. Know-it-all?" Without this turning into a lecure, let me keep it to a simple answer of "Financial education" and "Personal Development". I wish I knew how to share this with more people. Have a great day my friends - who haven't asked money from me yet. :)

Overheard Conversation 2.0

This doesn't seem like an overheard conversation, but the people talking here are only them, and I'm not included.

Earlier in school, we checked our seatworks, That was in TLE time. The Items were over 20 and I only got 19 (phew! too bad, didn't make it). I was with my buddy, Dela Vega, that time. We were talking when another classmate butt-in.

The conversation started:

Classmate: Jan, what's your score?

Dela Vega: 19, why?

C: Oh, nothing. We just have the same score. It's just that yours is one higher than mine.

DV: Ah------ hahaha! (sarcastic)

Me: (Listening to them)

After they had there little talk I approached DV again and said, "He is weird. It's so weird. It's so, so weird!" (Making face), And he just kept laughing about it.

The Things People Say

People say some really stupid things sometimes. To often it gets passed off as "cool" or, worse, "wisdom." "I've got a mind like a steel trap," someone might say. What does that mean? It's rusty and illegal in 37 states? There are famous quotes from famous people, like when Queen Elizabeth II asked the Beatles, "So, what do you do?" Or when the Foreign Minister of Vietnam said, "We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." I particularly liked Samuel Goldwyn's classic, "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." Or the wise guru who said sagely, "It's like the sound of one hand clapping."

There are the classics that everyone has heard. "It's always in the last place you look." Of course it is. Why would you keep looking if you found it? "There are more fish in the sea." So ... what's the connection with "fish" and the person you just broke up with? The opposite sex is all wet? Slimy? Easily hooked? What does that mean? How about this one? "If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times." What is that ... a proverb for the math challenged? And a phrase I've never understood: "I couldn't help it." I know it means, "I couldn't stop myself from doing that", so what does "help" have to do with it? It's like, "I could care less" used to mean "I couldn't care less." It doesn't make sense.

Then there are the contradictory ideas peddled as wisdom. Take, for instance, "Many hands make light work." Okay ... but we also know that "Too many cooks spoil the broth." So, which is it? We have all heard, "Look before you leap," but we've also heard, "He who hesitates is lost." So, which is it?

When I was a junior student, I remember telling my PE reacher, "I can't do that." I don't remember what "that" was, but I do remember his response. "'Can't'," he told me loudly, "means 'didn't try'." Even at my young age I understood that that made no sense at all. "I want you to fly up to the top of that pole and catch that bird." "I can't!" "'Can't' means 'didn't try'!" Um, no, "can't" means "I lack the ability." "Go rob that bank." "I can't!" "'Can't' means 'didn't try'!" No, again. "Can't" in this application means, "I am not allowed to do what you're telling me to do." Of course, explaining the various definitions of "cannot" and their ramifications to your junior high gym teacher who is three times your size and screaming at you at a distance of 2 inches isn't likely the right choice. So I proceeded to demonstrate to my coach that, in this case, "can't" meant "I lack the skills to do what you ask." While I get the intent of "'Can't' means 'didn't try'!", I question the wisdom.

One you've all seen, I'm sure, is the bumper sticker that settles everything. "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" This one hurts me as much as it tickles me. You see, in this structure, there are two factors that determine if a thing is settled -- 1) God said it, and 2) I believe it. I picture God making a statement and then waiting, with bated breath. "Sure," He thinks, "I've met the first criterion ... but will he believe it? Oh, I hope, I hope ..." You see, it's sheer arrogance. The sticker would make sense if it said, "God said it! That settles it!" You could tack on "I believe it" at the end if you wished, but it would have no bearing on what determines a thing is settled. God saying it is all that is required.

I'm sure we all have things we hear and, more to the point, things we say that, if we thought about them, just wouldn't make any sense. I suppose our hope is that no one is listening, eh? No, that can't be right ...