Returning Favors

I find this interesting.

"the norm of reciprocity -- one of the best-studied norms in psychology -- is a powerful factor here: You've offered to do a favor for that person, so now that person is going to be motivated to return the favor."

Well, I guess, if I want something from someone I'll just use this concept. Wink!

Sticking with cyber-communication

source: Yahoo
Most of us have heard that countless couples have been formed through online dating.
At a wedding, I even heard a couple thank an online dating site in
their vows! While I credit the Web for producing countless love
matches, technology can often put too many screens up between us. We
develop superficial relationships over text, instant messenging, and
email. After getting comfortable with someone online, get past the
initial stage of dating and lay off the gadgets a bit! Make time to
hang out in person to really get to know someone -- not just the
persona he presents online or on the phone.

kilig mode

you know, when i said i knew little about love...well, that wasn't true. i know a lot about love. i've seen it. i've seen centuries and centuries of it. it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. all those wars. pain and lies. hate. made me to turn away and never look down again. but to see the way mankind loves...you can search the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. so yes, i know that love is unconditional. but i also know it ca be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and well, strangely easy to mistake for loathing. what i'm trying to say tristan is...i think, i love you. my heart, it feels like my chest can barely contain it. like it doesn't belong to me anymore. it belongs to you. and if you wanted it, i'd wish for nothing in exchange. no gifts, no goods, no demonstrations of devotion. nothing but knowing that you love me too. just your heart in exchange of mine.

-star yvaine to rat tristan
stardust flick

We can definitely change the world. Just one Act of Random Kindness will do.

It's pretty amazing to know that Genesis 6:14 can be about love. A very interesting, notable line when Freeman explained to Joan, "A love story. Believing in each other. Standing by each other. Side by side." She struggles in keeping her family together while her husband's busy with ark-building. He added, "If someone asks for patience, you think God will them patience? Or will He give them an opportunity to be patient? " The same with courage or an opportunity to be courageous; a closer family, warm fuzzy feeling or an opportunity to love each other?

Nice huh? i recommend you watch Evan Almighty, a sequel to Bruce Almighty. You'll definitely enjoy it. Have fun!

note: Evan was played by Steve Carrell, God by Morgan Freeman and Joan by Lauren Graham.

Dad, can I ask you something?

Ideas have been pouring out. But what and how to write it seems to be juggling in my mind because I want to keep it interesting as I share something about myself.

As usual, it's now six in the morning and I couldn't find my spot in my tiny bed even just to drowse off. Guess what? I am surfing the net. Hahaha...

Well, going to my favorite sites to watch TV shows can be boring. Yeah, for four hours. Marathon of Will and Grace, some Ally Mcbeal and Kyle XY episodes and that leaves me nothing but to write. I've been wanting to write about resiliency not just to cause traffic but because I have to. Anyways, I ended up not writing about it because I happen to stumble again on Interview with God. Have you seen it? You better do.

When I first saw this, it made me cry. Hehehe...what can I do? I was on the verge of giving up during that time. Really, it is beautiful. Hey, what if...you can ask Him (Daddy God) anything, what would it be?

I am thinking.

Dad, do animals have souls? Can they enter Your Kingdom? What did Your Son look like when He was still on earth? Where'd Peter go? What did Adam and Eve look like? What the earth looked like before Noah's time? Is there anyone else besides us in this vast universe? I have so many questions to ask you Dad...but I still have to wait for You to take me...sigh...when would that be? I can't wait. :)

Lazy Blogger

Abject apologies I just climbed out from under my rock and realised I have not updated this since long before Shakespeare wast a boy... You would not believe that my hands were chopped off and I was waiting for bionic ones. I permit myself in sorrow and beg thy forgiveness..

I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with waiting for a fine young gentleman to propose, learning to fart the theme to neighbours, just generally being a nuisance to the bodyguards of the blogger I am stalking, my day is filled with fluorescent light from midday to sun down and beyond. I am wearing my budgie smugglers. deal with it.

I go, my lords and ladies; just think of me as I battle mine enemies. You have my word! What do you mean you don't believe me?.


Just playin'. Try it.

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Total Solar Eclipse

it was March 18, 1988. a regular day for a student like me who's more excited with the upcoming summer vacation than the total solar eclipse that everybody has been talking about. my science teacher told us to bring our handmade sun disk eyeglasses. i forgot mine, so the only way i could look at it is through a provided by someone i can't remember who batyang bakal na may lamang malinis na tubig (oo, batsyang ginagamit sa paglalaba ng ating mga mader dears o nila ate yaya) . i didn't get it right away, so all i did was stare blankly and pretend that i could actually see the spectacular view from my batya with water. but not to worry, i eventually had my own glimpse with TSE.

it was all in the news next day that the total solar eclipse took place at General Santos City for 3 min 22sec by 9:03 a.m. that awed the crowd by its magnificent view. darkness creeps along the city like a late twilight. street lights were switched on and church bells rang with a willingness to contend.

i discovered that it takes 350 years in a particular location before the total solar eclipse takes place again. so it was great to know that i was there to witness in my batya that magnificent view.

since TSE's last visibility in 1999 in Europe that lasted for 2min 22sec, this coming friday, with the sun's magnitude of 1.039, TSE will show its enthusiasts once again in northern Canada (Nunavut), northern part of Russia, western Mongolia, and China.

unless you're still interested, a partial eclipse (moon's penumbra) will be seen in eastern North America and most of Europe and Asia for few minutes not greater than 7min (vs greatest eclipse at northern Russia for 2 min 27sec at 10:21UTC). Remember August 1, 2008, general eclipse begins at 08:04UTC.

note:
solar eclipse is the moon passing between the sun and earth (that happens merely every new moon) that occurs from 2 to 5 times a year on Earth, with between zero and two of them being total eclipses. Total solar eclipses are nevertheless rare at any location because during each eclipse totality exists only along a narrow corridor in the relatively tiny area of the moon's umbra.

Photo: Images by the J. Rodríguez, from the Mallorca Astronomic Observatory
and Amodiovalerio Verde

when the heat is on

my hammy's having a hard time with humidity







he moves around to find a cool spot










as if sleeping, eyes wide open

no success

so i gave him a bath

he rests on my finger whenever he gets tired

then again, swimmin' around in my sink








then crawls back to my hand when he's done

lickin'












and lickin' some more









and now the treat!








chocolate ice cream! yum! yum! yum!

yaaawwnnn...then off to sleep

sigh...well, i did a good job! :-)

Bertdi

Predicted earthquake on July 18.

Philippines.

8.1 in magnitude.

Today's my birthday.

Earthquake. 4th grade. 1990.

Intensity 7.8

Other significant events.

Wonderin'.

July 16th

1769	The first Roman Catholic mission in California was dedicated at the site of present-day San Diego.
1790	The U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government.
1945	The first test of the atom bomb was conducted at a secret base near Alamogordo, N.M.
1959	Billie Holiday, considered one of the greatest jazz singers of all time despite a tragic life, died of cardiac failure at age 44.
1969	Apollo 11, the first moon-landing mission, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
1980	Ronald Reagan was unanimously nominated as the Republican candidate for president at the GOP National Convention in Detroit. He chose George Bush as his running mate after former U.S. President Gerald Ford declined to join the ticket.
1990	Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev dropped his objections to a unified Germany in NATO.
1991	At its London summit, the Group of Seven agreed to support the Soviet Union's economic reforms and its admission to the International Monetary Fund.
1999	John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister were killed when their single-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard. The son of former U.S. President John Kennedy was 39.
2004	Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of house arrest for after being found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators.
2004	At least 75 children were killed in a fire that engulfed a school in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
2005	British police said a powerful explosive had been found in an apartment in the English town of Leeds, possibly related to the previous week's London bombings of three subway trains and a double-decker bus in which 54 people died and more than 700 were injured.
2006	Leaders of the Group of Eight major economic powers criticized Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon for their fighting and urged them to stop. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Hezbollah had to be disarmed.
2006	North Korea said the U.N. Security Council resolution sanctioning Pyongyang for its recent missile tests was a prelude to a new Korean war.
2007	A reported 85 people died when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a Kirkuk compound that housed offices of Kurdish politicians in Iraqi Kurdistan.
2007	International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors verified that North Korea had shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.