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"Oh death, where is thy sting?" is often what one who is hopelessly bound to earth mutters. Probably because of the unbearable pains and the unmeaningless in one's life do mortals eagerly await their end.

Death connotes many things to different people from different walks of life. To a doctor who pronounced one man's demise, death may mean, the end of time or the time that they need to fill out those death certificates. To a lawyer death may mean heirloom and the time it needs ...

With a book opened to a story's page, I stood in front of a beaming class, waiting for me to take them to another land way back in time and to discover two characters and their internal conflicts. I noticed that for several days now, my students have left the valuing part to me. It used to be that we go through that phase together. Now they seemed to have left me on my own, with the reins on that process.

At other times, it takes on a smooth flow, most especially when the lessons do ...

~Hanson Shout It Out World Tour ~

When they came out, nothing could have prepared me. For the shock of the universe colliding. For the shattering noise of the audience, amplified like my ear drums automatically build a wall of China to prevent it from breaking, and the almost illogical amount of pride that I had as if it were my children up there . For the overwhelming feeling that, after ...

What is it in you that you would not leave us alone? When you could no longer take the atrocities done on your being, you vent yourself up like some active volcano, spewing out odors that pervade our senses.

Is it about what we eat that you often make yourself noticed, like some matinee idol on a movie screen, always flashy with his signature smile? Dieticians should come up with some sort of diet just so you would not make some cameo performance in a leading role.

Why ...

I love reading books as much as I love buying them. But lately, most of my hard-earned money is spent hoarding a lot of books which are mostly about rearing and educating children. Wait, I did buy one on relationships from my favorite Christian author. And guess what, they still lie on my desk and already accumulating dust, waiting for me to notice them. What fancies me now are those trilogies. I just finished Divergent by Virginia Roth and is waiting for the sequel.

You can now safely ...

It's funny how we put so much emphasis on preparation. A whole hour play production takes days or even months of rigid practice. A boxing match takes months of vigorous workouts, just to get that much desired weight and stamina. A wedding, even when it is just a celebration, needs much careful planning and coordination. A proposal, spends not only nerves on one guy's system but also a lot of his neurons, carefully seeking out the perfect place and timing and the ring for that much-coveted "yes." ...

It has spread around the country (even around the world) like some grass fire that is ready to engulf anyone who has heard and read it. Beauticians and barbers alike have their say about the issue. Even the cigarette vendor and the peddler talk much about it and is very much intent on following its developments.

Those who are really concerned and have a personal hand on the issue keep mum about it. I admire the measures that STC has deployed to carefully air out their side, without ...