SURVIVE YOUR COLLEGE LIFE

Starting a new life, college life, can seem a bit strange and it is important that you learn a few tips and tricks to be sure you will survive as well as enjoy college life. The first thing and the most obvious is that money is going to be vital, so make sure you pay your essentials before spending for enjoyment.

The majority of students live in shared accommodations in their college life. Because this may be the first time they share space with non-family members, this is the time when college may either become enjoyable or hellish. If you can develop a boundary with your roomies, your success is guaranteed. Make sure you have the time to study for your exams undisturbed and then you can enjoy your new college life. Although you cannot change people around you, as long as you clean up after yourself, your life will be much easier.

In this new college life you will meet lots of new people, but don't let this affect your relationship with your family or those back home. Remember that you had a life before college and you will have one after it as well. Also, keeping the relationships with your friends from outside the college life can be a form of relaxation when your college life gets to be too much.

There aren't many rules that teach you how to settle into college life but you have to give it a chance. Don't rush back home every time you run into some difficulties because then you will find it harder to adapt in real life as well as in college life. Also, the best parts of college life happen on weekends, so don't miss them.

College life can be sometimes so exciting that you won't remember the most important things: to eat and sleep well and to take care of yourself. You should enjoy college but don't forget to rest and concentrate on your studies and exams.

ODE TO THE NICE GUYS

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny

/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious” between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.

The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!” or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming.

MEET AND GREET DAVID COOK

OMG!!!.. I was so shock and amaze when I saw David Cook in North Edsa...hahaha....the Kultura and the Aldo is full of fans waiting for David to come out after buying some stuff..

hahaha.. Pls. watch the David Archuleta and Cook Concert Tour!!

600 MILLION, WIL THEATRE MALL

It’s final and its out that the 600 million Willie Revillame Mall is on the way on its construction. This proves further that the most powerful personality in showbiz is also one of the most powerful man today in the Philippines in terms of wealth.

It was first revealed in some reports that Wil Mall owned and managed by Willie Revillame, the Wowowee Show host is only 400 million worth of budget but today, the news finally revealed that the mall which is on sight with the ABS-CBN compound already had a budget of 600 million pesos all in all and is targeted to finish in 2010 last quarter.

The prestigious Wil Mall according to Willie will have its own spa, basketball court, carpark, and a theater where celebrity movie premiere shows are targeted to be held. The mall is also targeting according to some reports to contruct a hanging bridge that will connect to the ABS CBN building itself.

It is a dream-come-true according to the host of Wowowee noon time show that he owes to God. the Wowowee show host also said that whatever God gave him he is willing to share with the less fortunate in his own way.

TIPS FOR PREVENTING SWINE FLU

As it investigates recent incidents of swine influenza in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stressing prevention.

The agency has posted several Web pages dealing with swine flu, including a list of what you can do to forestall this — or any — infectious disease.

The CDC recommends taking these everyday precautions:

• Avoid contact with people if you, or they, are sick.

• Stay at home — from work, school or other public activities — when you are ill.

• Shield others from your coughs and sneezes by using a tissue.

• Wash your hands often.

• Keep your hands away from your eyes, nose or mouth.

• Maintain healthful habits — get ample sleep and exercise, drink fluids, eat well.

Currently, there's no vaccine for humans that prevents swine flu, though scientists are working on one. But there is a vaccine for some forms of swine flu in pigs.

Which suggests one more precaution particular to this outbreak: Avoid unnecessary contact with live pigs. (It's safe to eat pork, but not pet a pig.) But that alone may not roadblock the spread of swine flu this time around. In pigs, this virus causes a respiratory illness that's highly contagious, but usually not fatal.

As seen with bird flu, people coming into contact with infected animals occasionally become sick themselves — but the virus usually stops there. Rarely have humans infected other humans with bird flu — or swine flu. With the current swine flu outbreak, the swine flu virus has transformed, appearing to increase its ability to spread between humans.

"We've seen swine influenza in humans over the past several years, and in most cases, it's come from direct pig contact. This seems to be different," Arnold Monto, a flu researcher with the University of Michigan, told the Associated Press. "I think we need to be careful and not apprehensive, but certainly paying attention to new developments as they proceed."

At this point, the CDC and other government organizations are focusing on getting the message out to individuals about how to respond to the threat of influenza. Public health officials are monitoring the various cases and conducting epidemiological research on the virus.

"If the outbreak turns into a full blown epidemic," says Andrew Pekosz, an associate professor at the Bloomberg School of Health at Johns Hopkins University, "the government will have the right to place limitations on travel and gatherings of groups of individuals." Schools may be closed or sporting events canceled, Pekosz says, and officials will implement quarantine procedures for hotspots of cases and begin distribution of antiviral drugs.

All these steps, Pekosz says, are necessary "to limit the epidemic and slow virus spread."

YOUTH CAN MAKE A CHANGE

Philippine Political System: How can it be changed by the youth?

Philippine political system has been tagged to be corrupt and hopeless. Politics is unhealthy and rights are abused. Social justice seems to be a far away dream. And the observance of the law seems ruthless.

The youth is said to be the catalyst of change. It is said that the youth is the hope of changing and bringing an ideal system. But how exactly can the youth change the present system when he is sorrounded by a corrupt system? How can he do it when not all can study and get themselves involved in worthy activities? How can he do his advocacies when his freedom are supressed?How can the youth fight the pain of a corrupt system and maintain his idealism for an ideal system?

HIGH SCHOOL NEVER ENDS

The class of 2009 has come along way since the freshman year at University of Eastern Philippines Laboratory High School, and memories come flooding back every time we reminisce each high school happening. all of which were blissful, worth remembering and unique in their own right.

The first day of classes in high school signifies that to be a freshman is to be in possession of a wonderful thing:time. There is time to figure but what you want to do with your life, time to figure out what books you want to read. There is time to make friends. this was the time of building friendships again, for each ma have parted with old friends and that new sets of close acquaintances are to be developed. That i think is what being a freshman is about - to begin again.

The growing students of class 2009 have come to the point of hitching their wagons to be a star. Believing that dreaming is the beginning of success, these sophomores have then begun to mold their future in their young minds. It is clear that future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. the trick of succeeding is to seize the opportunities and avoid the pitfalls. Opportunity comes only once but when it doesn't knock, you must learn to build a door.

Continuity of vision and specified goal are necessary requirements for upcoming senior. significant aspects in strikng for aim. Obstacles come at evry chance and there those frightful things that one sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Senior year: the final lap. New dreams are to be dreamesd; new hopes are to be hoped for, and lot new works are to be worked on. the once little youngsters have now grown and became young adults, that from playing and chatting, they will now embark and handle over great responsibilities and obligations, they have been then approached the instance of making the hardest decision. that their future counts on the manifestation of this decision. Eventually, stories of triumph, success, loss and frustration are expected from this new journey.....

May God Bless You Always.... and Always Remember that no matter what happen High School Never Ends