Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Will you kill for love?






















Have you ever experienced loving someone else except for your family and relatives as well? I am talking about loving someone intimately. But before that, how do you define love anyway?
Love is an affection that you feel with someone else. Yeah it's true that it drives you crazy sometimes but it depends on how you control it. It can move mountains as they say yes it's true, but do you know how to control your feelings to others?Some people misinterpret the word "love" sometimes. They start hurting the person they love because they believe that it is the way they are showing their feelings to them. Unaware of it, they are already neglecting, pushing away, and made their lovers suffer. If you are in that situation, start thinking. Maybe it is not love that she or he is feeling for you instead, obsession already. Love won't kill but obsession does.
An obsessed person claims that his/her lover is his/her belonging. That no one is allowed to talk or even glance at him/her without his/her permission. Remember love is giving not keeping. Love is understanding, caring, supporting, and never hurting.
A person who knows how to love understands each and everything. He won't never give any reason to make the person he loves to suffer. He is always there to support and give assurance that everything will be alright and always sticking together through thick or thin. Love is for caring not killing.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Attention to Prevention



Most of us have read in news papers and magazines or have been advised by doctors or even watched healthy lifestyle programs and television about how to have healthier and disease-free lives. Living a healthy life is the first step in prevention but many ignore the good advice....stop smoking, drink moderately, avoid fatty and salty foods,exercise regularly, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, worry less, etc. Easier said than done it seems because many of us would consider life pretty mundane if we had to literally follow all those "rules". Well, if one cannot do so completely, than maybe a little moderation is another option.
When it comes to disease or illness prevention, of course number one is to be in great health. Contact avoidance is likewise sound advice. Always eat in places that you know are clean; know where and how the food is prepared; do not share drinks with other people; avoid creeks and still water areas where mosquitoes breed and can spread dengue fever; do not visit hospitals unless you really have to; wash your hands before meals; always keep your surroundings clean, among many others.
Preventive accident techniques can be best implemented firstly at home, since statistically that's where most occur. Keep floors dry; have rubber mats in the bathroom shower area; be extra careful with candles, cooking oil, electric cords and sharp objects; keep children's toys in a box not strewn all over; keep detergents, cleansers, medication out of reach of children...keep firearms, if any, out of reach of everyone except the one licensed to use it. At the workplace, risks differ depending on occupation. Obviously, industrial jobs post more risks, even assuming that these jobs mandate adequate warnings and precautions. Other accidents such as those suffered in sports and leisure-related activities may be a little more difficult to prevent other than the usual advice for one not to be too foolhardy and always exercise appropriate care.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Different Kinds Of English


Once you have passed the elementary stage of English studies, it is important that you should realize there are different kinds of English used for different purposes. This is true to some extent of all languages. If you were speaking in your own language to a high official, for instance, you would not use quite the same expressions as when speaking to your friends, and on ceremonial occasions you may even have to use a kind of ceremonial speech which is quite different from the speech of everyday. But in addition there is one very important feature which English shares with all other advanced languages: it has gone far beyond the purely oral stage of development, and has a written history as well as a spoken one. English has, in fact, been written down for over a thousand years. Now when a language is written down, the written form is usually not quite the same as the spoken form, and written English is not quite the same as spoken English. This does not mean that they are always different. Most of the English you learn can be used on all occasions and for all purposes, both in speech and writing. But there are some expressions which belong only to speech, and others which belong only to writing. The English which belongs only to speech is called "colloquial" English, and that belonging only to writing is called "literary" English.





Colloquial English.
When we are speaking, we often use expressions which would seem careless and undignified in writing. This is true of highly educated people as well as everyone else. One of the most familiar examples is the practice of shortening certain common verbal expressions, e.g "don't", "won't", "I'll" (=I will or I shall),"he's" ( he is), etc. These are extremely common in speech, but are normally avoided in writing unless the writer is purposely using a colloquial style, as when writing a letter to friend, or when using direct speech to report the exact words which somebody has used. Moreover, in colloquial English we often say things in writing would be the sentence, "Who did you see?" when it is spoken, but if we are writing it we must alter "who" to "whom", because it is the object of "see" and must take the object form.
"Slang" is an extreme form of colloquial English, though even slang is widely used by all classes of people. Many slang expressions are used only in certain occupations, and may not be understood by people outside those occupations. Sailors for instance, have their own slang; so have schoolboys, actors, thieves, and others. Uneducated foreigners(e.g. uneducated Africans and Chinese) use a simplified type of English called "pidgin English". English people living in Africa sometimes use pidgin English among themselves as a kind of slang. Expressions like "left small"(for soon) and "one-time" (for quickly) are pidgin English, and would not be understood by the average Englishman in England. Finally, a good deal of slang is impolite or obscene, and is therefore avoided by all respectable people.





Literary English.
The word "literary" means "belonging to writing".It should not be confused with the word "literal" which has a different meaning. Literary English is more careful than colloquial English. Why is this? The reason is that when anything is written down, it is often a permanent record which everyone can see and check and examine, and the writer, knowing this, is careful to be grammatically correct, and to make his sentences effective or striking. Now this very careful kind of English may also be used in speech for special occasions, for instance in giving a public address or welcome to some important person; but if it is used in ordinary conversation it may sound foolish. Thus, "the person with whom I was conversing" is normal literary English, but in normal speech we would say something more simple "the man I was talking to".
There is one other very important thing about literary English. As the years go by, every language is slowly changing. You do not notice this with a less advance language, since if it has only recently been written down, you cannot compare the way people speak it now with the way they spoke it long ago. But in English the comparison can easily be made because we can still read the books which were written by our forefathers even hundreds of years ago. Thus, the English we read is often old-fashioned. This is to some extent true even of the literary English written today, because the written language always changes more slowly than the spoken. The words "thee","thou",etc., for example, are ever used in normal spoken English, but they are still sometimes used in writing specially in poetry.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

A Great Trial To Filipinos


The scenery's heartbreaking, flood's everywhere, every face's frightened and worried not only from themselves but specially to their families. This is the tragedy that just came to my country Philippines.
It was September 26, Friday night when the rain starts pouring continuously until Saturday the whole day. I never thought that it will be serious but as the day came on Saturday, I notice the creek nearby. I was so surprised when I went back to our laundry area back of our house. The water seems so high and almost reach our back yard. It never happened before so I start watching it, if the water will go higher than before. For a better sight, I went to the second floor and so shocked. The creek is over flowing already and almost to our backyard, to my father-in-law's fighting cocks. I ran down and panicked. It's just good my brother-in-law is around and transferred all the fighting cocks to a higher ground. As for us it remained that way, backyard's flooded but if you just saw the houses across the creek, only the roofs are to be seen, fences broke and goes with the flood. After that, brown out everywhere so we can't watch any news.
For the years that we stayed here since we moved, this is the very first time that the creek over flowed. We're just thankful that only a small damage happened to us but it so sad when we heard that part of our subdivision was flooded so bad that the water's deep is unto neck. I was more horrified when we heard the news that almost the whole Metro Manila was flooded and hundreds of lives where taken by it. It was so painful seeing families including babies on top of the roofs begging for help but rescuers can't reach them.
Until now, some schools are still used as evacuation areas because the refugees don't have any home to stay. Their homes were taken by the flood. The bad part is, rescuing's still going on but here comes another super typhoon again. This time it affected the northern part of the Philippines, it includes my home province. My parents and siblings are there and made me worry so much. It's just good that I manage to contact my mom and thank god they are okay.
The good part of this is, we still manage to help our co-Filipinos. It doesn't matter if you are poor or rich.In this case, we help each other without any hesitation. We do our best to save lives of other. And we do our best to reach out for those who are needy and homeless. We give to those who are starving and comfort those who are suffering.
Now I just pray that all of mankind shall realize that this is a Calling. Nature's giving back the things that is done to it. If the illegal loggers don't cut trees on the mountains, there should be enough trees to hold the water and prevent floods.
In moment like this, it is so great that Filipinos rely to each other, help each other, and hold on to each other. It is so nice to see everyone doing their best to do everything they can to save anyone's life. Mabuhay ka Pilipinas!