Social Psychology: Is your impression keeps updating?
The value I kept in myself that was taught by my parents are to safeguard your impressions and judgements to others. It is not about looking to a person because on how he wears or how he moves his body. Then physical judge him and marked in your head that this person is something like that. We cannot avoid to make impressions because it is part of us that we have to be an observant to environment we are in.
As I was writing this article, I was sitting at the side of my garden. Then people are walking and passing by. I didn't knew them. I was thinking if all these people who walked by, what are they thinking right now? Some of them are walking holding their phones and with smile on their faces. I can make an impression that these people are happy to whomever they are exchanging messages with. While, others are just walking by straightforward without even making a face to their environment.
Adventure to PITX
It happened in the early morning before my graduation day. Since I was studying at one of the branches of my school in Bacoor, Cavite. The administration decided to held the graduation at Pasay City. All the branches including in Pampanga, Laguna, Cavite, Makati, NCR and Bulacan goes there. My mother and I wasn't familiar on how to go to PITX since that time, it was newly operating.
We decided to ride an air conditioned bus which the destination sign board was going to PITX. I sat comfortably and felt a bit nervous because this is it. This is my graduation day. The long wait is over and finally new achievement is unlocked. Fast forward, we get off the bus then I carefully observed the place. There are numerous buses, sign boards, cashiers, stores and jeepneys as well. I don't know if it's jeepney or cab. We asked to guard where we can ride going to Pasay. I really forgot the exact place but I remember it is in Pasay.
We took the cab outside PITX. Yes, I remember we took the destination going to Baclaran first. One thing I didn't forget taking that cab is because of young girls with us. These young girls are wearing revealing clothes with high stockings and boots. Their cleavage is very evident to the point in just a matter of time that can be seen their beast. During that time I had an impression that these young girls are raised with liberal family. If I can only show you how they dressed that day, then you will understand the whole image.
We met again at graduation place
Students and parents are undeniably happy because their son or daughter will finally march and ended their senior highs school life. I was with my classmates and taking photos right here and there. Many photographers are offering us to take a photo and pay 150 php. However, we are not sure if these people are trustworthy because they might run after payment. We just ignored them, but still very persistent and poke our parents.
Since this is an important event in our lives. Our parents grabbed the offer and we took some shots. We proceed for payments and they told us that we can have the photo after three days. It will be sent to our school and will claim there. That was quite suspicious because I didn't know they are acquainted to our school. Meanwhile, we were hungry and found a vendor selling dirty ice cream. We bought one for ourselves and I was shocked when I saw the young girls I met in cab beside with me buying ice cream too.
They were wearing toga as well. They looked innocent and charming. What's more shocking is that they offer to pay for my ice cream. It's quite a dilemma because I thought these young girls are just party goers and heavy drunkers. But I refuse their offer because I believe they have a hidden agenda. Can you imagine we didn't knew each other until we met at cab and ice cream vendor. They said that I looked kind and they wanted to treat me. I replied thank you but no. I can pay. They nod and left with their ice cream.
Should we trust our first impression?
To set an example, I illustrated the experiences I had with young girls I met during graduation day. At first, my impression to those girls are liberal, party goers, and heavy drunkers. Then the second encounter I had was when we met at ice cream vendor. My impression is that they looked kind, innocent and charming girls. What impression should I trust? Do you think my first impression is sufficient enough to avoid them since the first impression I had with them is bad?
Based on social psychology, our first impressions to a certain individual will remain. It will be our pattern to how we will make a decision and choice regarding to our interaction with that particular individual. Our impressions are forming and keeps updating later on. When someone did a bad thing, it has a negative impression to ours. On the other hand, when someone did a good thing, it has a postive impression towards us.
Now, whatever comes next, it is not our final impression. But it has huge factor to our future decision whether we avoid the person or continue interacting. Behaviors that are perceived as being less frequent are also the ones that people tend to weigh more heavily. Meaning, as much as possible do good things to people wether it is family or stranger. Remember impression may not last and final, but surely affects how people will treat you next.
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Earworm: Why it stucks in my head?
With the endless number of songs we saw on Spotify and heard everyday. Do you still remember some of the songs that became part of your playlist? Some of us prefer to listen pop because they like the vibe, easiness and tune of the songs. Some of us like rhythm and blues (RNB), soul, rock, classical, hiphop, jazz and many more. Personally, pop and soul music are the two genre I always listened to.
The beginning of the creation of music started in ancient times. Based on my research, the oldest surviving music written was came from Ugarit, Syria. The Hurrian songs have many songs and the oldest one is the Hymn of Nikkal dated back on 1400 BCE. I play the song since its available on YouTube. I was just amazed on the tunes of the song. I didn't particularly like it because it is not my type. However, I believe whoever wrote the song is an outstanding among his peers.
Father playing Elvis Presley's song
Twice a week, my father was playing Presley's song every 5:30 in the afternoon. He was fond of his song and 80% of my father's downloaded music was Presley. My father will use the speaker and connected his phone via Bluetooth on it. It is his way of releasing his stress after his work. I think it is very important that we have an outlet of releasing the stress and make ourselves comfortable again.
There are many songs Presley's had but the one song that keeps playing and replaying on my head is the song always on my mind. I will keep myself exaggerated but whenever I took a bath or juwt lying in our hammock. The song will suddenly pop up on my ear and play it continuously until I get bored and tired listening to it. Although I was quite expose to oldies song but my preference in music doesn't affected at all. But I felt delighted whenever I heard one.
Sister playing kpop songs (blackpink, twice, bts)
Numerous of people started adopting the Korean cultures such as food, song, language and dramas. I was wondering how much influence the Koreans today worldwide. They are dominating Netflix from their unbelievable, amazing, and well-directed series and movies. We have watched some of series directed from South Korea like all of us are dead and squid game. These two shows entered the ranked of the highest views on Netflix in all time. That's how unbelievable Korean products are now.
Aside from movies and series, their songs shouldn't be underestimated too. Some of the biggest girl and boy groups can be found in South Korea. Blackpink, twice and bts are the three of them. Most viewed music videos of blackpink is ddu-du ddu-du (1.8B), twice is what is love (625M), BTS is boy with luv, dna, dynamite (all 1.4B). Do you know what's the most viewed music video of kpop of all time? It was Psy's song Gangnam Style with an overwhelming numbr of 4.3B views.
Whenever my sister is playing kpop songs, I cannot control myself but to sing and dance as well. Kpop music really moves one soul and command it to go with the flow of the music. It brings light feeling to ease and soothe your body. Even though I don't understand most of the lyrics because I'm not korean and have no deeper understanding of their language. However, it doesn't stop many fans to dislike kpop, and with the charming and good looking idols bring fans to idolized them more.
So why the song stucks in our heads?
Actually, it is not the song that stuck, but the tune of the song. There will be some fragments of the song which you can hear out of the blue. If the song keeps continously playing and replaying in your head, this is what you called **earworm**. Although the name is quite unpleasant to read because there is worm attached in the word but that's not it. There's no worm in you ear or in your head that plays the song. This unbelievable phenomenon was studied and explained by multiple professionals in various field of science.
As what I have said earlier, earworms are the song that plays in your head and cannot be easily get rid off. These are songs that keep popping on your mind which eventually annoy you. Earworms are the catchy tune or phrase that your brain likes. Some of them can get from repeatedly played songs from your music playlist, neighbours music, bus music, YouTube music and even in the place you cannoy believe that play the song. Did you experience just laying down on your bed when out of the blue, there's a song you remember and keeps playing on your mind? Surely after playing and replaying over and over again, it doesn't stop until you are tired hearing it and unaware that you already fall asleep.
Auditory vortex is the part of your brain where earworms are located. This part is where the processing of sounds including earworm happened. Musical sounds are also stored in auditory vortex. One time, when I was taking a bath and the sound of water that came from faucet makes me hear my mother's or father's voice. I do not know how is that possible. I stopped the faucet and voice is gone. It was like your parents are talking to you or something wanted to say. I would say it is weird because it never happened before. Maybe my mind is missing my parents voice in just a weird way.
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The hidden intention in school canteen
It is another good day to start whatever tasks we have left yesterday. I finished my school works and ready to sail again in the platform. I read beautiful and creative contents here today. Gosh, I wish I can write good stories now, but my mind seems not functioning well due to headaches. Anyway, I am really happy to what will happen today.
Currently, I am in my university, CvSU. I am standing in the line for getting my good moral for the incoming scholarship. Then, I saw our school canteen. It was empty, a bit dusty, full of chairs, tables and equipments for cooking. Although there are some professors staying in the campus, but the canteen is not operating since the classes were off. The canteen we used to make ourselves be full in those some delicious meal offered by canteen is what I am missing now. It is not as big as what you are imagining, but good enough to occupy students and professors who wants to eat inside.
When my teacher scold me because of my hair
Ever since I entered school, I don't remember that I did any bad thing against students, teachers and school. You know that I am a very good student. Not super good, but I follow the school rules. I still remember the time when one of my tecaher in high school scolded me because of my hair. I wasn't able to go to barbershop back them because it is closed. Our class ended at 5 o'clock pm and most probably I reached home at 5:35 o'clock. Then when I checked the barbershop it is not open anymore. That is the only barbershop we have in our area.
So when my teacher scolded me, one thing I told myself. Make sure it will not happen anymore. Frantically, I was quite mad. Most of old male teachers are very strict especially in classes and school rules. Have I ever tried cutting class? Well, I do. It is not intentional that we skip the first class subject because we have to print our projects. What's funny is that all of the class officers, including me are not present to class. We are all in the printing shop. Thankfully, our first class teacher understood our situation, but we missed the quiz.
The value of good moral certificate
With depend our academic performances, it reflects to our grades. We love high grades which is higher than 90. We love making our parents proud because of what we achieved in school. Particularly, do we value the good moral certificate? Do you know the value that good moral certificate holds? In fact, although we sometimes neglected it because we thought it is just a piece of paper, but it's not.
One time, I have a former classmate during 8th grade. He was sitting at the back of the room with several looking gangsters with bandana in their forehead. He was shy, smart and funny guy. But that makes no sense when someone bully him from the next section. He was so mad, really mad and something happen we all did not expect. He threw his school attache case to the guy and the guy had concussion several minutes after. The teachers rushed in and confirmed what happened in the incident. Since many saw how the guy bully my classmate and how my classmate threw his attache case. The school case went wild.
We heard from our adviser that our classmate is dropping due to the incident. But what's we surprised is that he cannot enter any school within the city. He's good moral certificate indicated what he had done. It made him hard to enter a new school because of what was written on it. That is why good moral certificate is the rulebook compilation of our violations. Meaning, it affects drastically on how the school administration we're going to transfer to look at us.
Why canteen is the best excuse?
Do not deny it. You were once used the excuse that you are going to comfort room, but the real motive is to go to school canteen and eat. Students have different peculiar excuses on how they can skip the class. Thus, one of them is the comfort room and school canteen relationship excuse. Although, our teachers knew that we have a high possibility that we're going to school canteen, but why they still allowed us to go?
On the other hand, school canteen is really the best place in school. Best place only if they offer good foods and changing daily meals. Sometimes, if you noticed, the canteen always cooked what they cooked yesterday. Then they will cook it today, to the following day and so on. You are lucky if your canteen offers new meal everyday in an affordable price. After you went to comfort and canteen, then why your pocket is big now? That is what our classmates always looking at because that's the only place in our uniform to hide the food.
What's after?
Currently, I am at school while writing this article. I was sitting at the chair with my noisy classmates. They are poking and telling me to stop writing and take a break. But what I answer back is that I have to finish this and publish it. I am really not comfortable not publishing an article in a day. Anyways, we are near at the cashier to pay for good moral certificate. Yeah, that's the reason why we are in university to get and pay for this one.
I do not know what we will do after. Actually, we will visit one of my classmate's house and eat lunch there. It's Wednesday and the weather still hasn't changed. The same temperature we experienced yesterday and I think it's more hotter. Do not forget to apply some sunscreen on your skin to avoid any sunburn. My throat feels dry. I have a bottle of water with me because I have to drink it from time to time. Heat stroke is trendy now, be careful.
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It's Cavite day! No work, no school
As I shared yesterday about the incoming scholarship program and I will apply for it. I didn't know that we have no classes and work today. Cavite, my lovely province is celebrating the Cavite day today. As for this reason, I cannot go to university to get good moral certificate which one of the requirements for scholarship. I prepared everything and uploaded all the files need, except the one I mentioned.
Historically, the province of Cavite is full of historic events and home of many Filipino heroes. There are numerous important dates and events held in my province that's why we are very loving in terms of honoring our heroes. I travelled all the historic places in Cavite because I was fond of history. I know not all of you are fond of history, but I know for a fact you travel to historic places and flex it on social media.
Celebrating Emilio Aguinaldo's birthday
Emilio Aguinaldo is the first ever president of the Philippine Republic on January 23, 1899 - March 23, 1901. He lived in Kawit, Cavite which is his hometown. Today, it is his 153rd anniversary birthday. I visited the Aguinaldo Shrine most of the time when I went to my grandparents house. If you visit the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, you will see the beautiful antique home of Aguinaldo family. There are some renovation because it is so old. It is open for public to visit and allowed to take photos as well.
My first ever tour in Aguinaldo Shrine when I was six years old. Although I did not remember much but I had a photo of it in our family photo album. There are antique shoes, slippers, clothes, paintings, swords, boots, and many more you will see inside. It's like reconnecting to the former president's life. I am surprise to see how much they preserved it. There are old books which Emilio used to read when he was young and books related to him as well. It is not allowed to touch nor read what's inside the book.
The Philippine Declaration of Independence was held in Aguinaldo Shine as well. It was held on 12th June 1988. After that, General Emilio Aguinaldo became the first presient of the Philippines. The independence that our ancestors fought so hard after the long colonialism of Spain. In every country, independence day is one of the most cherish and celebrated day because its the most important part of one's nation. I still cannot believe that the first president just lived by around Cavite that I found out when I was seven.
Watching Filipino heroes biography
Since we have Rizal course this semester. I was quite happy because there will be an expert who will discuss the history of Rizal and his family. My professor in the said subject was a historian. She was a great historian and I learned a lot from her. What I liked her the most is that she's not boring while lecturing and discussing about the topics. She's humorous and at the end of the time, you will wish to hear more from her. Even my classmates who said Rizal course is boring, but now is fond of it.
I have some Filipino movies and series saved in one of my flash drives. I watched **Ilustrado** which is the life of Rizal. It was a great series produced by GMA on 2014. I think it was aired on TV and received good feedbacks from viewers. It was played by Alden Richard as Jose Rizal. The show has a total of 20 episodes and 24 minutes per episode. In addition, I will watch El Presidente which is about the life of Emilio Aguinaldo. It was a movie directed by Mark Meily, a great and respectable director in the Philippines. The movie has an runtime of 2 hours and 45 minutes. Aguinaldo was played by E. R. Ejercito.
The value of honouring heroes
Just like how we adore and became fan of Marvel's and DC's superheros. We used to envision ourselves with the portrayal of the heroes we would like to be. As a young boy, I loved Batman because I believed in his way of justice. He became the heroes of Gotham City and he protected it at all cost because he saw how his parents were murdered brutally in front of him. Likewise, the real heroes who served and died for our country deserved to be recognized in any forms possible.
Can you imagine if in your country has no one who wants to fight against the colonizers? No one who stand against the enemy that will make your country, your family, your fellow citizens in danger? That is the reason why I loved the courage of our ancestors especially to those who initiated to fight like Jose Rizal. We have to honor them either known or unknown heroes of the past. They all deserved recognition from their extreme passion and reverence for their motherland. You have no peaceful and ever-loving country today. The perks of being free and away from war. Without those who fought and died on war.
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School and scholarships
Recently, I saw my university posted about for the incoming scholarship application. It was the scholarship given by the university and according to your GWA last semester will determine if what type of scholarship you will receive. So far, since I studied CvSU, I was a partial scholar because I haven't met the full scholar's requirements. For you to be able to get full scholarship, you need to have at least a GWA of 1.40 and above. The highest GWA I had was 1.44.
Aside from it, what I love to our university scholarship is that you can get back your tuition fee. If you are full scholar, then you will received full tuition. If you are partial scholar, then you will received half of tuition fee. Since my course is quite pricey, I always get atleast ₱4,000-₱6,000 ($76.11-$114.16), exchange rate based on the current price. The problem is I cannot go to school righr now to get good moral because we have a major activity. Perhaps I will go to school next Wednesday.
What do I do after I get my scholarship?
Ever since I started applying for many scholarship including to mayor's scholarship, university scholarship, governor's scholarship and private company's scholarship. I always spend it in a right way. You know scholarship is a privileged given for us, students who did very well on school and I believe it is a fruit of our labor. I do not know if any of you try to have two scholarship at the same time, but I do not do that. I felt quite guilty because I am not the only one who wants to get scholarship. Others are deserving too.
The first ever scholarship I got was way back 2015. Yes, it was seven years ago. I still remember what I bought because I still have it until now. I bought a technical writing books from Booksale. Booksale is a second-handed books, but still in a good quality. Since back then I used to write for school publication, I need some guide and extra knowledge for writing. I bought the technical writing books for $2.67 dollar and $2.15 separately. Now, from time to time, I read those books whenever I found myself in a situation where I forgot some writing technicalities especially the grammar rules.
So far, 60 percent of my books are grammar-related books. I do not know why I always buy books related to writing stuffs. Perhaps it is because of my passion in writing and it is also my first ever passion in my entire life. Some of my friends knew about this, and they gifted me grammar/technical writing books for my birthdays. I prefer books than clothes and jewelries. Books expand your knowledge and imagination. That is how it works and will always be.
What is my least favourite subject?
It is unusual if you have no least favourite subject even one. Since I started schooling, I never thought that I would hate Filipino subjects. Ask me anything about math, english, science and history-related topics, but don't ask me anything about Filipino subjects. To tell you the truth, until now I am so confused about pandiwa, panghalip and something like that. I felt like it's not needed to study it in college. We took Filipino subject from 1st grade until 12th grade. Then you will be surprised to see on your registration form that there is still Filipino-related subject.
I know the value of language and how it distinguishes us from others. However, to study it for a life time in school is really not needed. I used Tagalog to everyday dialogue and I never allow myself to forget it as to what the argument of pro people who wanted Filipino subject stays as part of minor subject in college. Do you think Filipino is really needed to take it up until college?
What is my greatest favourite subject?
I think the very first time I studied and took up history subjects was when I was 3rd grade. I remember we call it Hekasi and Araling Panlipunan. I am so in love to history and economics-related subjects. They are what I am waiting for to everyday schedule. I felt hype whenever I found new knowledge about what happened in the past. It is such as how a certain thing is invented and discover. What makes people fought and wage war to other countries. Who are the prominent people back then which caused a huge change in the world.
Some of you may not like history subjects because they are boring. What's the need to study the past instead to focus in the present and future, that might be your thinking right? Well, I think to study history is to reconnect to the events before. We cannot understand how things work today without understanding how it made before. There is a great value to understand the purpose and objective of a certain thing. I still wonder why greatest inventors lived back then, and few are today?
Is Internet better than books?
We know for a certain thing that internet is widely used now. We can access broad and complex data in just few minutes. It has a tumultuous amount of information which most likely everything you need is on it. However, is internet better than books? In terms of ratio, we know internet has a lot of things including web sites, unlike library only few books can be found. I think the asset and advantage of library is that all books you can found are reliable and was made by professionals. Unlike internet, we are not sure if the author or website is credible and reliable, unless it is on Google scholar.
We cannot deny the fact that internet will win. It is the future of the world and books are gradually left behind. Thus, internet continues to evolve and developed by great companies together with pack of genius computer scientists. But, all the history of the world can still be found on books and they can be passed down generations to generations as to how our ancestors did.
Let us use internet in right way. Do no use it for destruction of other people's moral and life because that is not the purpose of internet. Anyways, to book lovers like me, I know for a fact that my love for books will never fade.
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Stores that accept bitcoin cash as payment near you
The weekend almost ends today. It is Sunday and weather is still so hot. The scorching sunlight shines so bright and bigger. Later on, I would attend in our online worship. I still can't go to the church because I'm still shy, just kidding. I would attend on worship physical in church next month after my booster shot.
Anyways, are you wondering where you can pay bitcoin cash as payment in local stores near you? I know everyone holds bitcoin cash and using it as payment is quite my dream. I am so excited to scan the QR code and pay it with my dear bitcoin cash. Are you dreaming or wanting to use it as payment as well? I think that would be so amazing, right? As I searched on internet, I found bitcoin wallet. They will guide you to where and what store accepts bitcoin cash as payment.
The bitcoin wallet service
If you don't have a bitcoin.com wallet, then you just need to download it to Google playstore or Apple's app store. Just sign it ans save your recovery seed phrases. Then go to discover section, the globe with search logo at the middle. Then, find the bitcoin.com maps service. Like what you are looking now in the photo. Then launch it.
After you launch the service, it will direct you to where your current place. Of course, you have to open your GPS because it will not tract where you are if you don't open it. So, this is my beloved country, Philippines. I am from Region 4-A, CALABARZON particularly in Cavite. Anyways, the number you are looking at are the stores that accepts bitcoin cash as payment.
Fortunately, there is only one store I found in Cavite and that is what you are looking above. It is Aranica Fajilan, I don't know if its the store name or the owner's name. I can find it at Dasmariñas which is quite far from my place. I need to ride two jeeps to reach the place. It's not clear what they are selling too. But it's good to know we have one in Cavite.
Let's tour to other countries
This is the country Taiwan in Asia. Currently, the country got **19 stores** that accept bitcoin cash. It was quite a small number, but looking at how small the country. It is already a big number. Kaohsiung City has 8 stores, the biggest sum of stores in their country.
I am not surprise to know that Japan has quite a big number that accept bitcoin cash because Satoshi came from them. They have 113 stores in total. Tokyo, the country's capital has **78 stores** which is 69% of the total ration in Japan. Arigato!
This is country named Australia. They are known for exotic animals lurking around the streets. Big spiders on the wall, kangaroo that lives beside the neighbourhood, and find more on social media. Surprisingly, they have **275 stores.** That's quite a number!
Can you see it? Yes, you are. That's United States of America. And they have a lot of stores that accept bitcoin cash. They have an overwhelming total number of **5, 521 stores**. Just wow! I did know they have fast adoption, but in this extent? You gotta be kidding me.
Here's some of the lists:
Philippines - 28 stores
South Korea - 4 stores
Hongkong - 78 stores
Brunei - 4 stores
Indonesia - 3 stores
New Zealand - 14 stores
Guatemala - 23 stores
Venezuela - 368 stores
Puerto Rico - 233 stores
Paraguay - 220 stores
Slovenia - 966 stores
Croatia - 107 stores
Continental statistics
I am just a curious boy who wanted to know something and feeds my curiosity. Out of this curiosity, I tried to total every stores from all the seven continents of the world. I am so surprised to the result I got because the number one spot is too overwhelming and very dominant. Not just by number, but I think in everything. Anyways, here's the total for you.
North America - 7,473 stores
Europe - 2,039 stores
Asia - 500 stores
Australia/Ocenia - 397 stores
Africa - 259 stores
South America - 11 stores
Antarctica - 0 store
**Total: 10,679 stores worldwide.**
This number is based on the registered store on Bitcoin.com wallet service. I know there are more of them out there. For example, I know ate @Eybyoung accepts bitcoin cash payment in her mini store. I do not know how bitcoin.com wallet verified each stores or how an owner can registered to be recognized as one.
As you can see, North America and Europe have the highest number of stores that accept bitcoin cash. North America dominantly gathered around 70%, Europe 19%, Asia 4%, Australia/Oceania 3%, África 2% and South America and Antarctica is 0%. I would like to remind everyone that this is just based on bitcoin.com wallet. Not so certain about the exact number of stores in this huge world.
Bitcoin cash is becoming dominant
From the number I saw and computed, I would definitely conclude that bitcoin cash has a huge potential as one of the biggest crypto currency in the crypto verse. I am not a pro to this, anyway. I loved, we loved bitcoin cash a lot. We cannot deny the fact that most of us are just aware of crypto because of this platform. Both read.cash and noise.cash. The good thing is that we're growing in numbers.
I just hope that my country, Philippines adopted wholly bitcoin cash as payment because I know there are a lot of people out there hodling BCH and other crypto tokens and coins. Can you imagine riding in bus, or any public transportation and pay BCH? How awesome is that. Although you need internet to do that but I think it's still amazing. I cannot wait for the Philippines to adopt BCH in terms of wide range. More Filipino needs to learn this as well.
Thank you for reading!
Ayuda for a Year: The 200 pesos monthly allowance for poor families
I helped my father building the chicken's houses yesterday. It was 9 feet tall and 6 feet wide. He intentionally made it because since our chickens are growing in number today due to fast production. We cannot allow our chickens to go out wild becasue we are in a subdivision. Our neighbours might complain about the mess of our chicken manures. That would be a problem if ever happen.
We had a Friday general cleaning too. We cleaned the entire house because my mother initiated it. She said that there are already a lot of cow webs found in the house especially in our rooms and sala. Some corner of the house has an evidence of cow webs. She doesn't like it at all. We defrost our refrigerator because the ice is too thick already. Surprisingly, the sides of our refrigerator has too many dirts and I inhale some of it. Currently, I have allergic rhinitis and it happened every few hours. Thus, I have runny nose as well which one of the sickness I hate the most. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/the-sicknesses-i-hate-the-most-f9d21fdd
The Philippine government and and its bills to pass
For the government to pass a bill and signature by the president is a good thing. However, what's surprise me is how helpful and wasteful are those bills. Are they really intended to help the mass or just a sugar-coated bills to make a certain politician's name to view as a good. To my surprised, I was curious and dig in deeper about the problems our country is facing.
I do not know if you are aware of the wage increase proposed by Senator Sotto for the National Capital Region (NCR). Thus, if you are living in Cavite, you are aware about the current proposal of Vice Governor Revilla to increase the minimum wage rate. In addition, I cannot believe that Department of Finance (DOF) proposed the ₱200 ($4) monthly allowance for poor families which approved later on by President Duterte.
There are many ongoing bills to pass in the Senate of the Philippines (18th Congress). Here are some of few list:
Revised Higher Education Act of 2022. Filed by Joel Villanueva, Sony Angara, Pia Hontiveros.
August 12 of every year as National Youth Day. Filed by Ramon Revilla Jr, Sony Angara.
Young Farmers and Fisherfolk Challenge Program. Filed by Imee Marcos, Sony Angara, Ramon Revilla Jr, Kiko Pangilinan.
Bawat Pamilya May College Gradweyt Program Act. Filed by Kiko Pangilinan.
The ₱200 ($4) monthly allowance
On March 16, Wednesday, the Malacañang Palace announced that President Rodrigo Duterte approved the ₱200 subsidy to all poor families under 50% of the total population. The subsidy will last for a year and there is no concrete date when the subsidy distribution will start. This was properly proposed by the Department of Finance (DOF). The main purpose is to ease the 11 weeks successive prike hikes of gas which affects the entire market prices.
The source budget will come from the Value-Addes Tax (VAT) due to its higher collection and higher prices of gas. The proposed budget allowance for subsidy amount to ₱33.1 billion ($629. 7 million). However, some senators do not think that it will be sufficient. Senator Grace Poe said that it is just a pittance to fellow Filipinos to received the subsidy.
Filipino views, opinions and reactions
Personally, the 200 pesos is far from enough to support and ease the price hikes of gas. I can just spend that money for 4 kilos of rice and we will consume it for less than two days. I do not know if DOF really inspect and thoroughly examine the situation both the market and fellow Filipinos. To give subsidy is okay, but the amount they will give is not okay.
I read some of the comments on Facebook and I'm not surprised from what they said. Some says that the money only be consume for a day which another subsidy distribution is next month. Some says that we have to work and not to depend our lives to what we received from the government. Some says that we should be thankful enough to received the subsidy even though it will not be sufficient.
Honestly, I do not get it. It is not clear about the subsidy distribution. My question is the ₱200 per family or ₱200 every member of the family? Because they said that the monthly allowance is for poor families only. Well, I think we just have to be thankful for what we received. Blessing is still a blessing from Above.
Celebrity news
I just found out that our canditate for Ms. World finishes Top 13. She is Tracy Maureen Perez from Cebu. I am not a pageant fans but I was hooked in her Beauty with the Purpose program which named Para Kay Nanay (For my Mother). She talked about how independent and single mothers raised their children in a very hard work. Her mother died, and was a single mother too. She offered the program to every single mothers in the community especially in Cebu. One of the highlight of her performance is her National Costume. It's very festive and colorful. In addition, she wants to give single mothers a job specifically in BPOs to support their children. Again, congratulations Tracy!
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MRKH Syndrome: The woman living without genitalia
Writing this article is truly hard for me. I took cautions from using very vulgar words that might be unwanted and unpleasant to read. My purpose is to share the positivities I got from this certain woman who became a real inspiration to every woman who had the same syndrome she had.
I would like to continue celebrating the women's month. This is about a woman born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome. I took this as an inspiration to share to every woman who joined this platform the real definition of being a woman. The entire interview of this woman named Emily Green is showcase that being a woman will not be defined by what kind of body she has.
The MRKH Syndrome (background and statistics)
There are a lot of syndrome known to world. One of the most popular syndrome is what we called Down Syndrome. Down syndrome is a condition which a child born with an extra exopy of their 21st chromosome. The three copies known as trisomy21 or a person who has three copies of chromosome 21. I knew that every one of us already encountered one. They are sweet, lively, and special individuals.
Meanwhile, the Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome is a condition that occurs to women and directly affected their reproductive system. It means the vagina and uterus of a woman is underdeveloped or some parts are not fully developed. Although their external genitalia is normal. This only means that they are not capable of carrying a child in their womb. The very sad and difficult situation every woman can ever face.
In fact, MRKH syndrome only affected 1 to every 4,000-5,000 women in a general population. It is quite rare if you look closely on its case. Based on MedLine Plus, there are two types to classified if you have MRKH syndrome.
Some women with MRKH syndrome also have abnormalities in other parts of the body; in these cases, the condition is classified as MRKH syndrome.
In this form of the condition, the kidneys may be abnormally formed or positioned, or one kidney may fail to develop (unilateral renal agenesis). Affected individuals commonly develop skeletal abnormalities, particularly of the spinal bones.
Emily Green's confession
The subject of this article is named Emily Green, a 22 year old girl who born with the MRKH syndrome. At the age of 16, she and her family discovered that she has the said syndrome. She felt so humiliated and embarrassed about it because she thought that without a proper functional reproductive system makes her a lessen woman. She don't even considered herself as a fully-woman due to her condition.
She was diagnosed in the following year. It was not an easy journey becasue she is also schooling at that time. Her parents decided for her to undergone surgery. It is to removed the excess parts and the remaining organs which can affect her health if its continue to grow. She said she cannot bear the pain of the surgery, and will not do it again.
Her condition became a hindrance to hwr social life. She wasn't able to get out to meet friends because she's so afraid of being judged. The only thing she done was to be with her family most especially to her mom. Emily's mother discovered an organization which only consisting women who had the same syndrome her daughter has. She introduced her daughter gradually and Emily likes it. The other members told Emily their fertility journey and how they overcame it.
Later on, Emily grew in strength and courage to face and accept her syndrome entirely. She said that with the support availability she got from her mom and other women makes her to decided to share her story as well. Today, Emily is living with happy life knowing the fact that she's not alone in her battles. She knew too that her condition can inspired thousands and millions of women out there. As early as possible to accept your condition, is to make your life easier and happier, she said.
The worth of being a woman
I wonder what a woman feels about not able to bear a child. The fact that she cannot give birth and build her own family through her own womb. That would be a very disappointing and unbearable situation a woman can have. What I learn about Emily is that being a woman is not entirely depending on her capabilities to not produce a child, but her will to stand as a woman born with her syndrome.
As a man, of course it is given that we wanted to have a child with the woman we love. In her situation, will a man changed her decision if he discovered her condition? In general, there are a huge possibilities that a man leave her, but we can hope that man love her not her physical body. I believe loving a person is loving her whole being including her body, soul and spirit. Your woman is still what she is and you cannot changed that fact.
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My preparation and ID validation towards face to face classes
I still remember the day when I had my very last class on university. It was second week of March, to be specific March 16 when President Duterte implemented that there will be a total lockdown to entirety of Luzon. Everyone was shocked and at first some retaliate. They cannot accept the fact that covid virus exist.
What makes that day memorable is because I lend my flash drive to one of my friend in school because I need to recopy something from her. That flash drive is quite pricey and unfortunately I didn't able to get it back. In addition, the same month we have an ongoing project which to be submitted at March 20. I already finished it but wasn't able to pass it since our professor cancelled any project-related things. It hurts to see my hard work wasn't paid off because that project was made with sleepless nights and extreme research. It is a web site.
Announcement from school (ID Validation)
Since Cavite is under alert level 1, there are a lot of lifted banned and ordinances. Everyone is rejoicing because we can finally enjoy all the perks of life that was taken from us by the virus. We can almost go to anywhere we want and have a good time with friends. In fact, people are fluctuate to malls, supermarkets, parks and cinemas. Kids are very excited to go outside because their parents can bring them out now.
In part of alert level 1, face to face classes are finally starting. My previous school on high school was holding a face to face classes to specific sections. Although there are some who is still afraid to join the limited face to face classes, but we cannot deny the fact that those students are missing the school environment. There is no place like school where we can enjoy our life without being bothered by our siblings, cousins and our unending tasks at home.
With this preparation, our university announced that we will be having an ID validation for the whole week. My friends and I chose March 17, Thursday to validate our IDs. This ID validation purpose is to make sure that you are still a bonafide student and have been permitted by parents to attend for the incoming physical classes. I am actually excited on how our everyday life on the new normal will be like in university. Are we still the same energy and environment? That is something I am looking forward to.
Morning preparation (heading to university)
It is 8 o'clock in the morning, I am currently with Genina. She is a close friend of mine. We are waiting for others to come and it is freaking hot. My forehead is sweating like a flow of river and my underarm is quite wet too. I talked to the security guards and they are still friendly as always. They are very talkative and makinh us feel welcome again in the university.
We are about to go to Library for our ID validation when we were approached by a professor. We didn't knew him, but he's just asking some questions like what year we are and what's the purpose of our visit. The university is quite messy because of tumultuous amount of dried leaves from the ground. It is very unpleasant to see, but I just missed the environment here. We are not allowed to walk and tour around the university to avoid uncertainties like possible spread of virus.
The library is very clean and the smell is like a fresh Orchid and Sampaguita. There are vases inside which you can notice how much it was cared for. The librarian asked our requirements for ID validation and we gave it away. Just few minutes, she handled our IDs with sticker at the back. It was a proof that we are already validated and can be attended to incoming semester. I'm just excited coming to university with other students for the incoming semester.
Plans after ID validation
We came to university early so that we can do some errands after. Our plan was to visit our friend working to Mcdonald and to dine in as well. She wasn't able to come with us in our preferred schedule because her manager doesn't allowed her. We are now walking towards Mcdonald and thankfully it was gloomy weather.
I cannot resist to smile today. It's been a long time since we had met and my friends are just too lovely. They are real friends which is worth it to treasure. Alright, I don't want to make a long drama because I might trip walking. I plan to go to Robinson mall after we ate to Mcdonald. I want to buy new power bank. Just remember to smile and have fun today.
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Filipino households have more phones than toilets.
In a certain home, one of the basic part is having a comfort room and toilet is included. What if your very own house doesn't have a functional toilet? Toilets are so important because as we eat, we also need to defecate. Then what if you don't have a proper and safe place to defecate? That is one of the major problems facing by those underprivileged places most especially in Manila and particular place in some provinces.
The problem lies to why Filipino households prefer to buy smartphone than building their own functional toilet at home. This is very interesting topic that I have been curious about to write. In fact, a long time ago, this topic was even debated in our classroom. I find this topic so important to talk about because health problems are so risky nowadays.
Living in farm (has toilet but not functional)
As you all know, I grew up in farm for almost 10 years. Basically, I spent my teenage years planting and farming several crops in farmland. Living in farm is feeling like isolated because we have no neighbourhood. In addition, there is no source of electricity which basically living like without electricity in 9 years. That is why I am used to not using electric fan and any technological devices or equipments. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/life-series-living-without-electricity-in-9-years-e643ed4e
Our house was wooden-made back then. My parents used strong woods which is cheap compare to prices now. So you can imagine that our comfort room is made with woods too. Later on, we cannot able to use it since the woods build there fell down because of several thunderstorms passed by. Additionally, the bowl wasn't functional too. The water doesn't go down easily and it stays so long until you wanna leave. That is the reason why we chose not to use it anymore.
Defecation in farm field
The very first time I defecated in farm field was when I really can't hold my poops. This happened way back I think I was around eleven years old. I went to Sampaloc (tamarind) tree which is at least 30 meters away from our house. There is waterway and I sat down and lay like a king. Are you wondering where this water will go? Well, the water flows to rice field and the water keeps running since the entirety of field is wide. Thus, that very water way is used by others too as a bridge to connect water from other farmers.
What's interesting about defecating in outside is that you have to do it in a very short amount of time. You have no time to leisure and daydream about anything because I don't want to be caught by some farmers. Tell me honestly, we used to play games, watch videos, play music or daydream something while defecating. I do not know the scientific explanation in that particular area. I do not used water from the waterway. I always brought two liters of water and a soap to wash myself.
Statistical data (phones vs toilets)
According to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), **there are about 70 percent of Filipino families claimed that they have owned functional toilet which isn't shared to any family. While, 84 percent of Filipino families claimed that they owned a personal smartphone.** This data showed that there is about 14 percent gap between possession of toilets and smartphones. The data was later on publicly announced by Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd on November 2017.
If we look closely it is very alarming rate that Filipinos still purchasing smartphones than building their own functional toilet at home. Based on the data I gathered from Philippine Statistics Authority, the Philippine has a total of 104,70,000 (104.7M) population in the year 2017. **If I compute the total of 70% of 104 million, there are only 73,290,000 individuals who have proper toilet which means there 31, 410,000 individuals left.**
On the other hand, **there are around 87, 948,000 individuals who possessed smartphones and 16,752,000 who don't.** Can you imagine the big difference? Actually, these families can afford to build their own toilet but choose not. A smartphone can worth atleast ₱4,000 to ₱6,000 ($80-$120) each. If you can add each phone price they possesed, I think it will be around atleast ₱12,000 ($240). That would be sufficient to build a decent comfort room with functional toilet.
The community project
In 2014, DOH has implemented a project called "Goodbye, Dumi! Hello, Healthy!". It was a project to encourage Filipinos to build their own toilet at home. Thankfully, the project was later on successful with the sudden increase of percent gathered by PSA in 2018. I think the project was good, however the fact that Manila has still improper toilet facilities today.
Sanitation aligned to our health and environment. If we don't take take care our own selves, then we can expect to be sick anytime soon. Most especially, the virus is still lingering and will not fade away in just a single clap. Be realistic in choosing decision particularly when your home and family members are at risk. Isn't good to see your home that can live by comfortably?
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Ophthalmology: Do humans have the best eyesight?
Considering the fact that we have a good vision that can see afar of images, colors, and motions. We can also differentiate hundred of colors which uniquely and completely different in shade. I knew that each of us have favourite color that suits to our personalities, types, and preferences. But will it be sufficient to call that we have the best eyesight?
To tell you the truth, I don't have a good eyesight because sometimes I do wear my eyeglasses to make blurry things clear. I know some of you wear eyeglasses as well because I noticed that some of your profile wore eyeglasses. Some of your wear anti radiation eye wears to protect your eyes to radiation coming from various forms of technological devices such as computer, laptop, smartphone, and tablet.
The unexpected rain
We were hit with a strong rain and wind last night. I do not expect to rain that hard because we didn't have any rains these past few days. It was 5 o'clock in the afternoon when I noticed that the sky is becoming grayish and I saw blackish gray at somewhere part of Manila. I reviewed my phone and checked if there is an early sunset, but what I see is not.
It was exactly 5:45 o'clock when it finally rain, drops by drops. Every drop is a big drop that I can hear from our roofs and I saw it outside as well. My father called me to heat and boil some water because he will drink hot coffee. Since it's already 6 o'clock, I decided to wash the rice and cook it. I forgot to tell you that we had no water yesterday because our subdivision is cleaning the tank every quarter. It is also for the safe of everyone because to avoid moss inside the tank. We were advised three days ahead to saved water and prepared from the incoming days. Currently, the water supply is back and my mother is busy washing some of our clothes at the back.
Finding my dog and chicks last night
Suddenly I was hit by a thought about Polar, our dog. She was outside and she is the only dog who don't have its own house. We have three dogs, and the two has its own respective dog house. I went immediately outside to check where she is. Actually, we don't have light in front of our house since we already have enough light coming from street light. I cannot find her due to strong rain and my back is so wet. My umbrella was kept hitting by a strong wind too.
As what I have said earlier, I have poor eyesight most especially at night. Although our eyes can adjust in its environment, but my eyes can adjust just a little. I found my dog inside the tricycle my father owned and it's time to find the chicks which nest in the Alitiris tree (Kerson tree). I cannot use flashlight because it might caught water and will not function anymore. I picked up those chicks and put them besides my rabbit house. They are safe and the rain cannot penetrate inside.
Eyesights comparison (humans vs animals)
There are a big difference in terms of physical and visual pattern of our eyes from animals. Animals have various forms of pupils such as circular, sub-circular, vertical and horizontal. Some eyes have rotate independently, squiggly-shaped pupils. Some eyes have exerting blod and protective eyelids. But if we compare our very own eyesight to animals, who nailed it?
Based on my research, there are several categories which divides the excellency of a certain eye. **Are you curious which animal has the best sight? It is the colossal squid.** Colossal squids lived at the bottom part of the Antarctic ocean and it is said the they have a soccer ball size of eyes. So big! **Which animal sees best in the darkness? It is the Arctic Reindeer.** Artic Reindeer is the only animal which eyes respond to the seasonal change. In summer, their eyes are golden, but in winter, it changed to blue and it has 1000 times sensitive to light.
Who sees the most color? (based on spectral sensitivity)
Our eyes are the most unique part of the body. It has the function to view our environment and enjoy its beauty. So how we see the images and its processes? Our eyes are sensitive to light and we have sensory stimuli. The waves of light we see was detected by photoreceptors which converts the light into neuro signals. These neuro signals travel to our brain and process the image.
**Based on the spectral sensitivity, surprisingly, dog only have two colors which is blue and yellow. Humans have three and they are blue, green and red. But let me surprise you a little more. Bluebottle butterfly has 15 colors and Mantis Shrimp has 16 colors.** Can you imagine if you have a Mantis Shrimp eyes? You can see the world in a whole new level with broad varieties of color.
Meaning, the more types of color photoreceptors we have, the better our color vision is. We cannot say who really has the best eyesight since every creatures made has their own unique and exceptional eye characteristics. There are animals excels in sensitivity, color vision, motion vision and resolution. We, humans placed only moderate compare to those animals, but what's important is how you take care of your eyes. Your eyes are the most beautiful part of your body and that beauty cannot take away from you.
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Insect bite: I got stung by a wasp from my head
Considering my love for the plants, I used to see various insects and pests too. When you are living in the farm you know how hard it is to look at your plants being devoured by insects. Well, we cannot blame these tiny little insects because that is their foods. However, sometimes those insects will go far and they will sting us as well.
Have you ever been stung or bitten by any insects? I am sure you are mostly when you are a kid. Due to your broad, playful curiosity and nature, you explored different insects in the scope of your home. Sometimes you played insects with your friends, cousins and siblings. There are numerous insects can be found in your area such as bees, bugs, flies, mosquitoes, ants, and many more. I knew that some of these mentioned, you encountered and played them before.
Garden day (replanting and replotting)
Yesterday, it was Sunday and we had a good weather. I enjoyed planting and replotting some of my plants because there are too many seedlings and saplings from the mother plants. Most especially, my aloe veras are getting thicker and higher and the saplings are just too many below. Aside from that, my snake plants are too beautiful to see now that they are growing in number too. I think my snake plants are around 50 plus now. Whoo, too many right? I planted them in a semi-circular shape so that I can still enter the middle. There is a solar led lighta in the center so that when nighttime, the beauty of snake plants are visible too.
As I was in the middle of replotting, I saw a colony of ants beside my Papua plants. They are the ordinary red ants with big body. I do not touch it because I know they will bite me. Since I knew what to do to these colonies of ants. I have prepared natural insect repelant made from garlic, onion, dishwashing liquid and oil. I sprayed it around the corner and I make a two line so that it will served as a road for them. So thirty minutes had already passed and I saw them already leaving. They went to the nearest mango tree and I know that's where they will settled.
Checking my Jackfruit and Soursop (langka and guyabano)
Since our jackfruit and soursop trees have became fruitful at last. It has been planted by my grandma last seven years ago and this year finally it bears fruit. Last year our jackfruit bear fruit, but it rots. The fruits turned into blacked and had whitish spots on it which I suspect, a mold. I cannot wait these jackfruits to become ripe and ready to eat. There are also some recipe my father used to cook with jackfruits.
On the other hand, our soursop trees also bear fruits. It has been fruitful since three years ago. I had eaten its first fruits because I was the on who saw it first. I secretly picked it up from the tree and ate it at the back of our house. It was delicious and sweet. Unfortunately, I never expected something bad to happen because there is a nest of wasp at the middle-left of the tree.
I was stung by a wasp(s)
I was about to checked one of the soursop fruit which I suspect ripe, but then I suddenly hear zzz sound. So I immediately take a sit and cover my eyes and look above. I have not seen it first because my eyes are a bit blurry since I my eyes were hit by sunlight awhile ago. When my eyes get back its full and clear vision, I saw wasps flying around on top of my head. I heard the loud zzz sound again.
I stood up and get pull myself together. I was about to run when I felt something sting or bite my scalp. It felt like a needle was pinned from my head followed by an ant whose its teeth pinned down to my scalp. I ran hurriedly and shook my head until I get dizzy. I still hear the zzz sound in the head even though the wasps are gone. I don't know how many wasp stung my scalp but it's freaking hurt. I want to scratch my head from the part where the stung is, but I shouldn't because it will become more itchy and painful.
My sister looked out for any stingers left by a wasp from my head. It should be removed to reduce the redness and also to avoid swelling. Fortunately, the swelling is not that big, but the redness is still visible until now. I don't want to attach a photo because I felt shy to do so. In addition, you might find it really unpleasant because there are two swelling from my head. I'm sure this is my karma from not sharing the first fruit I ate before. Just kidding!
Facts, facts, facts (bees vs wasps)
If you are wondering about the difference between a bee and a wasp, me too. So let us research it together and that's our assignment. Just kidding. Of course, I will include it hear and there are interesting facts I have saw and that's my first time learning about it.
Usually, **bees can only sting once, while wasps can sting you multiple times**. So when you saw a wasp and was about to fly merrily around you. You have to get away as far as from these wasp because you never know how many sting you might get. **Bees have hairy body and legs with round body and thorax, while wasps have smooth body and legs with cylindrical abdomen and thorax.** Basically, we cannot deny the fact that bees are more beautiful creatures than wasps.
Wondering the excellent benefits of having these two in your garden? Bees are excellent pollinators and we knew this since we are young. They collect almost 80% of pollens and transport it. While wasps are excellent as natural pest control since they eat insects around your plants and vegetables. They ate crickets, flies and caterpillars. So why not caring and raising them in you garden, right? But one thing you should remember, be very careful from their sting.
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Trichology: Why don't we have fur?
With the evolution of human, some parts of our body developed and sharpened as well. In the wide curiousity of this writer of yours, I thought and researched about why humans don't have fur? I was so in love with furs of dogs and rabbits. They are so soft, smooth and thin. So what if humans have this kind of fur too?
In the midst of my research, I was able to understand the few explanations of how the ancient humans have developed the hair we have today. It seems really too fascinating on how much evolution of the ancient past up to now. However, is this kind of evolution really advantageous in our current date? Are you curious about what we look like if we have the same fur as what our pets have?
Human hair vs Animal fur (basic history and facts)
Based on my research, human hair and animal hairs are made with same protein called Keratin. Actually, human hair and animal fur is just the same. Hair is what we called for humans, while fur is what we called for animals. Fur is hair, and hair is fur. In addition, both human hair and animal fur have the same parts consisting of three namely as cuticle, medulla and cortex.
Filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles. These follicles grow and shed as time passed on. So what's the difference between human hair and animals hair? The most evident difference is the length of these two. Human hair is much longer than animal hair. As a matter of fact, the longest human hair ever recorded in Guiness Worlds Records, it has a length of 5.627m (18 feet 5.54 in) holded by Xie Quiping from China dated back on 8th of May 2004. On the other hand, the longest fur recorded based on Guiness World Records is named Franchesca, an Angora rabbit owned by Betty Chu from USA and has the length of 36.5cm (14.37 in) on 18th of August 2014.
Human hair numbers (the estimated count)
I have been curious on how much estimated hair I have. I know some of you are thinking about we have around hundred thousands, or even million of hairs in our body. With the curiosity I had in mind, I was able to seek reference to Harvard University for their official study and to make this article more credible. We love fact check, right?
Based on Harvard University study, human count hair varies on what color it has. Yes, since human hair has a lot of natural color such as blonde, brown, black, and red. These are the four primary natural colors, of course there are dyed hair color so let's not count them. **Originally, if you have blonde hair color you have an estimated count hair number of 150,000. For brown hair has around 110,oo9, for black hair 100,000, and red hair 90,000.**
Can you see the big difference between these colors? I bet you are starting to wonder if it's real, but it is. The remaining count hair such as body hair, eyelashes and eyebrows. **The body hair has estimated number of 25,000, eyelashes has 420, and eyebrows has 600.** Can you imagine that all these hairs are found on your body and it plays a major role to keep your skin and body to function well.
What does our hair do?
Aside from the shocking numbers of hair, you might not know the functions of the hair found on your body. In fact, sometimes we don't appreciate our hairs because that is not the hair type we want. Although, there are barbers and salons to go to make your desire hair to be fulfilled. It's a matter of time that your hair to go back on its original shape.
The most visible and decorated hair will be found on the top of your head. It's basic function is to protect our sensitive scalp and keeps our brain from overheating receiving the heat from the sun. Our eyelashes is to make and minimise the hair flows coming from every direction over our eyeballs. Our eyebrows sometimes depict and use for communication because we can express our feelings through it.
There are six basic functions of hair. They are protection, heat retention, visual identification, sensory reception, chemical signal dispersal, and facial expression. Basically, without our precious hairs, we cannot live a seemingly good life because we lost these functions in our body. We can easily get our eyes hurt from the sudden airflows and damage our eyeballs. We can easily get sick because the oil in our body doesn't secrete. We can easily inhale something and the dirt will not be filtered from our nostrils.
Kilay (eyebrows) is life
This is one of the famous saying commonly used by females to make it clear that their eyebrows are very important. According to study, Filipino women prefers to do their eyebrows than putting lipstick. I think I agree in this study because as I noticed to my friends and relatives, they really valued and take time fixing their eyebrows. Sometimes it took them longer like around an hour or two.
One thing you have to remember about your hair. You have to cherish it as long as it grows. If you don't know, according to study, around 75% of men is balding at the age of 50. Thus, 25% sign of hair loss experience at the age of 21. So men like me is most likely to experience it and it is natural. For women, there are only 40% who experienced balding compared to 75% of men. Just love your hair, it is not permanent.
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My sister is going to UAE!
I'm not gonna lie to you. I will miss you while you are not here because you have been with me since we're young. I will miss your laugh and the way you tease me to girls. You never asked me to do better because you know how I work wise for me to get to where I am.
With the ongoing financial crisis to our family, my older cousin sister decided to go to UAE with her mother. Yes, nanay Venus is also working in Dubai for about 8 years now. She wasn't able to come back to the Philippines because of the threat of covid-19 before. It was truly heartbreaking for us to bid goodbye again to one of our family members to go abroad for work. It will never be good, but it will be for the sake of family.
Last night event
Since my sister's flight was later this afternoon, we have planned to make a simple celebration before she left. This celebration was intended to make her smile and laugh so that she had a good last memories. I am very glad that we arranged this little celebration of ours.
We bought some fries, popcorn and pizzas. Also, we are permitted to drink alcoholic beverage since its just occasional. Soju and wine are the two beverages we bought at the local supermarket around the next street. In fact, I was the one who cooked them. Gosh, there's some boiling oil sprinkled from my hands last night. It burns my skin, but it is just minimal. If you are wondering if I drink last night, no. I drink only one shot then I stop. I really don't like to drink alcoholic beverages.
We picked a particularly movie in Netflix. As you expected, 90% browse, 10% watch. We preferred to watch horror-comedy movie just perfect for everybody's choice. At first, we make sure we will not scresm because we might wake up our neighbours. It will be bad for us. We don't use our phones last night to make sure that everyone is focus on the simple celebration we had. Thankfully, my cousins are just too cooperative.
Overseas Filipino workers statistics
If we think about it, most of Filipino households have an overseas Filipino worker (OFW). It might be your mother, father, husband, wife, sister or brother. There are various reasons why we they go abroad to work. But one thing is certain, the lack of minimum wage rate in our country. Based on the 2019 survey of Philippine Statistics Office (PSA), there are about 2.2 million OFWs. Thus, the current exact number of OFWs today haven't been confirmed due to wide spread of the pandemic.
Are you wondering who has higher percentage of Filipino workers? Is it female or male ones? In fact, based on PSA's data from 2019, there are proportion of 56% female higher than male which only have 46%. This is evident since most of these female OFWs are mothers and working as domestic helper (DH). Surprisingly, most of these OFWs are from CALABARZON region with a total percentage of 20.7%. It is followed by Central Luzon, National Capital Regiom and Western Visayas with 13.3%, 9.7%, 9% respectively.
Still, Saudi Arabia has the highest country with OFWs 22.4% (492,800) and I think Saudi is popular since then. It is followed by United Arab Emirates with 13.2% (290,400), Hongkong 7.5% (165,000), and Taiwan 6.7% (147,400). These data is still based on PSA as per survey on 2019.
As of the moment
I am amazed to the data I had researched awhile ago. I amazed to how these OFWs make it and survive abroad. Most especially when I knew that women are very dominant than men in number. Salute to your mother if you have mother working abroad.
Today, as I was writing this blog we're about to leave our home to deliver my sister to the airport. I am very sad right now, I really am. But on the other hand, I'm excited to what the future has for my sister. She is a strong, independent woman who can carry herself in every situation she was in. That is the reason why we trust her in this journey. Although my grandma is quite mad because she was the one who raised my sister and leave like that. But we know my grandma understand the whole situation.
The new heroes
Overseas Filipino worker are the new heroes of our country. Starting their journey to unfamiliar country with unfamiliar culture, language, writings, currency and beliefs. However, despite of the big difference, this doesn't stop them to work and strive in a foreign region. I believe that these OFWs are the new heroes of the country. Without their understanding and unending support to their family, I do not know how much the difference of life they have now.
Thank you for reading!
Filipino wage rate: Is it worth enough?
After your seemingly unending studious way of living that consumes eighteen years of your existence. The real battle of life will begin. All the knowledge, wisdom and experiences you have gained will finally be put to practice. You are so excited to make money because you know you can buy anything you want after payday. However, what if your salary is not enough?
Although I am not working and experiencing the life of tax payer yet. I am sure to what I know from observation from my parents and relatives salary. Most of their salaries are just enough to pay bills, monthly allowances, and grocery. They can't even have a portion to save money since it is not enough. Thus, sometimes it leads to borrow money which usually takes a long time to pay.
Your salary is not just an ordinary one. It is your hard-earned money that you worked so hard for so many hours. That's why it has much value than any money you have.
Filipino Minimum Wage Rate (Cavite rate vs Manila rate)
I am living in Cavite which you can found in Region IV-A CALABARZON. There are a lot of historical and tourist destinations you can visit. Aside from that, we have Cavite Economic Zone. Cavite Economic Zone also known as Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), but sometimes we Caviteño called it as EPZA. There's no history on it though.
**PEZA is one of the largest producer of workers in the country. It has a total of 408 ecozones, 4, 542 companies, and an overwhelming 1.6 million workers. One of the top investment promotion agencies in the country that contributes the biggest export income to the national government. Additionally, Cavite Economic Zone has 275 hectares or 2,750,000 square meters.**
However, these data does not change the fact the Cavite minimum wage rate increase. Cavite rate particularly in Rosario and General Trias only have a minimum wage rate of ₱373.00 ($7.09). While, the new minimum wage rate in Manila is ₱537.00 ($10.21).
Can you look at the data once again? The huge difference between Cavite and Manila rate is still far from each other. Even though Cavite has PEZA, I think it will be sufficient enough to increase the minimum wage rate at least to ₱500.00 ($10). I have heard to some politicians running in my province that they are already studying and planning to increase it. However, the problem is that they did talked and announced the same thing last campaign way back May 13, 2019.
How much my parents earned everyday? (Monthly salary of ordinary Filipino family)
To set an example, my mother is working in one of the 4,542 companies in PEZA. Her current minimum wage rate from where she started at ₱373.00 to ₱406.00 now. If I will compute her salary per month, except those she have rest days and unexpected some absences. She can earned up to ₱8844.00 ($168.21) per month. This does work include the taxes and additional cuts in her salary.
On the other hand, my father is working as public driver. He can earned up to ₱800-1,000.00 a day. Of course, as driver he doesn't have any taxes to pay. If I will summarize my father's monthly salary it will be about ₱20,000.00 ($380.39) as per the current currency of Php to USD.
To sum it up, my parents can earned up to ₱29,000 ($551.57) per month. If you compare my mother's monthly salary to my father. There is a huge difference. That's my point, if you are working as machine operator in PEZA, you can earn the same as my mother. If you are working in office, you can earn a little bit higher than my mother. My whole point is that the current minimum wage rate in Cavite is NOT enough to provide needs of a family.
The unending cycle of debt
If you are living and working in Cavite, then you will realize the importance of minimum wage rate. I believe some of the Caviteño prefer to work in Manila since they can earn higher than our province. But the problem lies to transportation fees. As you know, our transportation fees increase in the past two years. Lucky enough to those BPO employees who worked at home.
Since the basic minimum wage rate of Caviteño is low and it is not truly sufficient. The end of it lies to borrow and borrow money to make their finances fit for the whole family. This scenario is very evident if you look closely to your neighbour. I think for the number one sources of Filipino lenders is what we call Bumbay or Indian money lenders. I know every Filipino knew them so I will discuss it furthermore.
Minimum wage rate vs Product prices
The very basic needs and food products fluctuate again. I felt this since I was the one who grocery for my family. I went to the local market to grocery twice a month and I really choose a products which has the same quality but bit lower in price. I have to make sure that our budget still fit and I can assure that all of our basic needs are provided.
However, as my parents salary became stable but the product prices went up. Now, if we feel our budget was really tight. What more to those families who earned just really enough. The bills are getting piled up as well and the gas prices went up too. If you noticed, your salary is almost equal to the family's bills and purchases.
All I hope for the better of our family's finances and to increase the minimum wage rate here in Cavite. I bet in the next 10-20 years, if the prices continually increasing but the minimum wage rate is left behind. I think it will be so hard for Filipino families to provide everything needed of the family. That is the reason why we should elect a new and wise leaders who can bring EVERY FILIPINO FAMILY whether rich, moderate, or poor for the better.
Thank you for reading!
It's all started in a book
***"THE BEAUTY OF LITERATURE DOESN'T DEPEND ON ITS GENRE. THE BEAUTY OF LITERATURE DEPENDS ON YOUR INTEREST."***
As a writer, we have been involved in various forms of writing. But these types of writing and genre will not be given a justice unless we have heart and interest to write it. Perhaps, some of you have tried to write a specific genre that out of your forte. As a result, it failed. I wrote some fictional and romance genre before but it really is not my forte at all.
I find writing romance genre as hard because I'm not that kind of persona which has a great interest in love. Thus, my imagination in love sequencing is so limited and I haven't been in a relationship which I can say I had lesson to get. **Well, do you find romance genre worth to write and read?**
Oho, there are great novels which received undeniably a great spotlight in **New York Times** as best seller and best author. I believe it's a dream to every writer and author to see their work being published in giant publishing house company and reviewed by millions of readers. I don't want to deny a fact that we writers want to earn from our works too. That is a truth.
The source of interest
With a broad genres in literature, we cannot have to put it all in a one book. It does matter to focus on your forte while writing a specific type of genre. You can choose at least 2-4 genres in one book. **Anyway, what's your source of interest?** I wonder what and where your interest comes from?
Most especially, I wanted to ask this question to those writers who have been in the platform since the beginning of read.cash. I'm so curious how did you write hundreds, thousands of published article in 2 years? That's so impressive. I want to tag people and I don't know if they will notice this. I really wanted to find their answers. Since I'm just your newbie in the platform which I found difficulty sometimes to think what to write. No, I'm quite shy to tag these people, sorry!
On the other hand, what's my source of interest in writing a fictional or certain literature? Well, I think it's based on my experiences and general knowledge. Since I cannot write a certain genre that I have no idea at all. Although, I can write, but I don't know if I can finish it in a good way. Also, I think our source of interest is based on how we are related and how big its impact to our life.
The four genre I loved to read
****Young Adult Fiction****. If you haven't read a young adult literatures I think it's time for you to discover this particular genre. It has a unique and interesting stories which can hook your minds. Although this genre has only a target audience ranges between 12-20 years old, but it doesn't matter. You can still have a youthful mind so it's okay.
****Thriller****. Oho, I think everyone's familiar in this genre since we want some suspense, excitement and a little bit touch of irritation and surprise. There are many writers who found this genre easy to build up since it's a matter of twisted plots. I have tried writing thriller book as well when I was in mid senior high school. Although it wasn't much successful yet I gained a little bit of audience. Thanks everyone!
****Children's literature****. Yes, include children literature in my most lovee to read genre because I loved how this genre's story developed the characters. I want some light novel too. I was hooked in this genre because as an older brother, I read and share stories to my little sister aged 6 today. She loved me sharing a little fantasy, colorful and lively stories at night. I felt like I'm also a young dad.
****Light novel****. I know only few of you knew about this kind of novel. Actually, light novels are the sources of manga, manhwa, manhua. Light novels are illustrated as comics, and from comics to anime. Since I'm impatient guy, I want to read the light novel before the anime released or I want to continue the chapter where the anime ended.
Books recommendation
This is book is very interesting one.. The first time I saw it's cover on Amazon and Goodread, I was already hooked. The plots are so good and how the characters was developed. The mystery behind the sudden death of a certain character is the main scenario here. It has a second book titled One of us is next. It will be having a series produced by Peacock and was premiered on October 2021.
Oho, this book is a children's literature obviously. I loved this book and it's amazing characters. This is fantasy and the book focus on how the girl was raised and finding her mom. There are a lot of surprises in the plots. My sister liked this book a lot. She even drew the main character in her sketchpad.
This light novel is so good. I can give 10/10 because of its amazing action, thriller and adventure plots. If you wanted to read this book, you will never disappointed until the end. Although it's published already, but the English translation is continuous up today. I loved this one, really.
Always remember reading is fun! Nothing beats in your own little imaginary world.
Thank you for reading!
Spirit warfare: My battle cry
Life is like a battlefield, a prepared soldier will most likely to win and last long.
As you all know, these past few days, I wasn't feeling well. My body kept losing weight and I don't know what's wrong. I just wanted to write this article for myself and to those who are in pain like me. Perhaps, you don't understand what kind of condition you are now. I will not force you to read this because I know you have a lot of articles to read in your notifications. But I will appreciate if you will give your time to spare reading this. This is very personal to me.
The problem
Have you ever feel sometimes you felt like you want cry out of the blue? Like you just literally wanted to cry because it will make you feels good? This overwhelming feelings and emotions that keeps stirring in your heart. You cannot contain it due to that you wanted to burst in tears. Those tears are not made because you pity yourself, but it is made to wash away your crying soul.
*If you want to cry, then cry.*
*If you want to laugh, then laugh.*
*If you want to smile, then smile.*
*If you want to shout, then shout.*
Nobody knew and understand everything about yourself except you. Nobody will dictate what you should do except your own judgement. How should I address you? Friend? Stranger? Pal? Buddy? Alright, it settles then. I will call you mate. Mate, how are you feeling right now? Can you be honest just this time? What's going on?
The root cause of my unstable emotions and resentments are not found yet. I'm still analyzing and assessing my whole being to categorize where is this coming from? But I had few suspicions. Let me elaborate it futhermore.
****My longing to Christ****. I want to be honest with you pal. My relationship with Him is not as good as what we had before. I'm not committed serving him. My prayers are failing and week. My devotions stop. My duration of bible reading minimize and top of it all, I'm doubting my faith.
****I cannot pursue what I loved to do****. The reason why I'm resenting to everything is because I felt like I'm in a cage where I, myself cannot do anything but to breath, eat, and sleep. You know, the sense of adventure and challenge I don't feel it anymore. I have money to travel places, but why I'm feeling like this? Stupid me! I just don't understand my nature and it irritates me most.
****Fear of being left behind****. Since we started online classes, we cannot deny the fact the students academic performance weakens and becomes poor. As a college student, college years are the most pivotal part of our learnings since after this is work. To be honest, I don't know if I will be qualified anymore in my own field. In the scale of 100%, my understanding of my field is just less than equal to 15%. That's a fact! I do not know if other students feel the same way, but I agree to what an economist said before. Our country's economic performance in the near 10-30 years will be poor because colleges will produce not globally competitive and skilled individuals. All because of this Covid-19 virus.
The battle song
In this time of my personal crisis where I don't know what should do. I always go back to where I found him. I always go back to what my leader taught me to. I always go back to the words of Christ. You may not know worship song, but I will tell some of my battle song. Again, this is very personal.
https://youtu.be/HUISd7LSxAQ
This song is titled **Desert song** by Hillsong Worship. What I loved Desert Song is about a person who is experiencing a hardship in life. However it doesn't stop that person to give praise to the Heaven Above. You can play the song and you might like it too. What's my favourite part of the song that makes me kneel?
*"I will bring praise*
*I will bring praise*
*No weapon formed against me shall remain*
*I will rejoice*
*I will declare*
*God is my victory and He is here"*
See the Desert Song lyrics. Just click here. https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Hillsong-UNITED/Desert-Song
https://youtu.be/rYQ5yXCc_CA
This is again another song which I used to sing **O come to the Altar** by Elevation Worship. This song literally just makes me feel like to kneel down in front of Jesus and just surrender my everything. He is my everything. Listen to this song as well. Playing it doesn't cost you anything. The most heartfelt part of the lyrics of this song is this.
*O come to the altar*
*The Father's arms are open wide*
*Forgiveness was bought with*
*The precious blood of Jesus Christ*
See the O come to the Altar lyrics. Just click here. https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Elevation-Worship/O-Come-to-the-Altar
The recovery
The entirety of my whole being is recovering from its suffering and resentment in life. I am extremely encouraging myself to fight and become courageous as what He said. As I was writing this, I felt sad but at the same time happy because I am able to share this to anyone. I know not everyone here is spiritual thingy or anything. But give it a shot.
My battle cry is not solely on my own. This battle cry is what everyone experienced. I may experience this now, but you might later. I just wanted to say few things before I ended this writing.
**You are loved.**
**You are empowered.**
**You are courageous.**
**You are brave.**
**You are the best creation God had ever made.**
Thank you for reading!
Wanted: Dead or Alive (The President's head)
I would like to greet everybody a happy morning since I woke up with great blessing and healthy body. I wasn't able to publish an article yesterday because of my poor body. As much as I wanted to make an article, but this earthly body of yours truly doesn't respond to what I think. That is truly unfortunate! So I have missed one article this month, sad.
Last night, I wasn't expected to received a message from a stranger. He said, "Hello, Denn Marc with a happy face emoji". I didn't knew him nor seen him in any form that my memory can remember his face. I stalked him first before to respond in his message. He actually graduated the same university I am currently enrolled and he is a teacher. So I decided to response and I was shocked that it was about a lifegroup. They are inviting me to join and participate in the said group. Of course, I am willing to join since this is an opportunity for me to get to know fellow brother and sister-in-christ. We set a date to have a virtual meeting which will happen this incoming Friday at 4pm in Google meet. I am just excited to share it to everyone.
Anyway, are you curious about my title? Well, you read it right. It is about a man who have bounty in his head. Thus, this man is not your ordinary man. He is the current president of Russia who started the war in Ukraine. We heard and saw a lot of news about the current events from these two countries. We felt sad for Ukrainians who didn't deserved to die in war most especially the kids, elders and pregnant women.
The post
The attached photo is the official statement released by Alex Konanykhin in his Facebook public account. He said that he will give a bounty of 1,000,000$ to the officer(s) who can arrest Mr. Putin due to violating the Constitution. Unfortunately, the original post was banned by Facebook.
The poster
The attached photo is the poster posted by Konanykhin in his Facebook account. As you can see it was the face of the current president of Russia. Under his name was the case he was bounty for, "Mass Murder". In my opinion, I'm quite scared in this poster not only because of the photo used by the designer, but the poster itself. This is a bounty. This a hunt game where I only knew in serial crime series and the anime, One Piece. This is a big, bold statement from Konanykhin.
The benefactor
This is the photo of the man who gave bounty. The one and only, Mr. Alex Konanykhin. Alex Konanykhin, 55 is a tech entrepreneur and the current CEO of TransparentBusiness. He also wrote books such as How to Succeed in Business Despite Being Hounded by the FBI and La Sfida: How to Succeed in Business Despite Being Hounded by the FBI, the KGB, the INS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, Interpol and Mafia Hit Men. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Defiance-Business-Department-Homeland-Security/dp/0972737707&ved=2ahUKEwjywoS5obX2AhXslFYBHdMHAsEQFnoECAsQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2HTQqAca26fTZVCx_qQe8a https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Defiance-Business-Department-Homeland-Security/dp/0972737707&ved=2ahUKEwi3-r6nobX2AhUDslYBHYNwBF4QFnoECBcQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2HTQqAca26fTZVCx_qQe8a
Are you wondering how rich and wealthy this man that made an offer of $1M? Surprisingly, he has an overwhelming net worth of $300M. So burning his money in this way is will not affect his money at all. Just a cent most probably in his sight.
The public views
As I wanted to hear some insights of public views, I have read comments and posts of several people on Facebook and Twitter. Most of them supported Konanykhin in this fight due to the dark mass murder he believed caused by its opponent's leader. I cannot help myself but wonder how this leader put his nation and its enemy's nation at risk which thousands, no millions of lives on the line.
In fact, I have heard some rumours about that Konanykhin received tumultuous amount of money from different anonymous people who supported wants to do the same thing. I forgot where I read the article or where I watched the news. But if I ever remembered it, I will definitely attached it here.
The news
https://youtu.be/h_Ku1Ki4VWs
If you want to know more about my topic, then watch this news for some enlightenment. This is one of the news regarding to the source of my article. It was aired last March 3, 2022 from NewsNation based on United States. It has now a total views of 1,684,625 and total likes of 27k.
The conclusion
I am truly sad about reading and watching about war or war-related news. We cannot deny the fact the without undergoing to war, there will be no so called peace. However, since ancient times, war are happening left and right. It is unavoidable. In my perspective, why can't we just live in peaceful life? Isn't amazing if we live in the world where negativities and wars doesn't exist?
Thank you for reading!
Sometimes the place you used to is not the place you are belong
These past few days I wasn't feeling well. My body weight dropped significantly from 57 kilograms to 53 kilograms. I lose almost 4 kilograms in just a week. I had few headaches and my eyes are aching most especially the left one. I'm low blood too. I'm taking daily vitamins such as vitamins C and Multivamis like Enervon. I did some stretching and exercises so that I still can maintain my physical health in check.
Have you ever had felt peer pressure?
You don't have to answer my question. I know most of us had felt the feeling of peer pressure. Peer pressure is a type of pressure that can get from your common peer such as friends, classmates and cousins. The **greatest peer pressure I ever felt was way back on high school**. I can consider this pressure as dangerous because it pushes me to exert my everything in its limit. On the other hand, this allows me to have breakthrough in every stage of my life during those days.
I still remember the phrase my grandmother said to me few years back. **I** actually **don't want to remember** this but I think it's **the past** so it's okay. It is second grading period and the our card distribution was finished. I felt joy because I retained my grades which I had a general weighted average of 94.67%. Thus I remained top 1 in our class which is a great feeling of satisfactory.
When I visited my grandma's home, **my** **smile is very evident to my face**. I entered her home proudly holding my achievements **which I worked on really hard** in the entire grading period. Restless nights due to review, and finishing projects. I presented her my grades and she smiled. However, after a minutes, I was shocked to what she said.
"Ang taas ng grade mo ngayon Denn ah. Wala ba itong itataas pa katulad sa pinsan mo? " (Tagalog para dama!)
"You had high grade now, Denn. Can you not raise it (grades) like your cousins?"
After she finished her sentence, I smiled and pretended to be okay. I said I can do better next grading period. "You don't have to worry, La", I added. When I went back home, I was hurt and my heart is bleeding in her words as if a double-edged sword. That day I promised to myself that I can show them how capable I am in my academics.
In addition, **it** **fuels my desire** to be committed to something that I don't like. Although I like **to get** high grades, but not in that way. **My vision to achieved** my goal was covered by hurtful words which blinded me until I was in senior high school. Thankfully, I met Jesus along the way and set me free from the chains that I was the one who chained myself.
Not all places you used to is where you belong
**You might used to cling to someone for you to be able to advance**. There are people who are opportunist which if they saw someone who can help them achieve their goal in life. They will cling to get that person's attention and trust. Even if the journey is rough and unsure, but if they can benefit. They will go for it. Those are very dangerous people.
**You might used to hangout with friends.** We cannot live and enjoy the benefits of friendship without hangouts and parties. We usually set a plan to go a trip such as hiking, biking, dining in a restaurant, watching movies, visiting parks, and strolling around local tourist spots in your area. However, there are extreme hangouts which we should avoid like attending parties every night, asking you favor to do something that's you are not comfortable to do, drinking alcohol, smoking and even trying drugs. Get out in this kind of group of friends.
**You might used to blame yourself**. I was once a person who used to blame myself for everything happened badly at home. I felt so responsible as if I'm the one accountable to everything. Also, you might used to blame yourself because people are leaving you without knowing the reasons why. I'm telling you if people are leaving you without reason, it doesn't mean they don't like you. Don't blame yourself. You deserved better. Better friends, better lover, and better relationships.
***"Sometimes going out from your own shell is advisable. Exploring the world with eagerness and burning passion. Don't stay to what you used to because that's the only thing you know. The world is big and you are so free to do anything you want. Find a place you are happy and accepted."***
`Happy a hundred and eleven (111) subscribers!`
Thank you for reading!
Blog #39
3/6/22
My restless soul
In my previous article entitled despite of everything I still looked up to my old self. I described how much I missed the memories I had in my old room. It was a fantastic moment to transcribe and turn all those memories in written-form. I remembered @Ling01 commented that she read my article as if I was describing a vintage room. I would love to continue it and have a little tour to my little extraordinary world. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/despite-of-everything-i-still-looked-up-to-my-old-self-9d379223
If you still remember, I ended the article with the memories I had with my mother wherein she used to kissed my forehead when I went to school. She was a great mother I knew. I know our mothers deserved to have a fantastic life and we, as their children should honor them without fail.
The painting I hanged last 17 years ago was a bit dusty, but it is covered with frame. I still remember the day I got the painting. It was a gift from a dear friend who used to draw and paint. She was one of a kind friend that you can say a reliable and trustworthy one. I stood infront the painting for about ten minutes. I turned back and walked around the corner to get some sticky notes.
The board made from styrofoam which I picked up from the seashore. I actually stole it from the fisherman because I really wanted to scratch the styrofoam and used it as a snow flakes. How wonderful to experience snow even if it's a fake one. Since the styrofoam is quite lengthy and widthy, I cut into half and washed it at the back of our home. I dried it and hanged to my room. I bought sticky note from a local store in our area and started writing some random inspirational quotes. There are six colors presented such as light green, pink, aquamarine, orange, cream and white.
I read some of my notes pinned in the board. I closed my eyes and hugged the note I picked. This is what the note says ***"You are strong, courageous fighter. Do not let down yourself no matter what happened. 08/09/05"****.* I do not want to open my eyes because I enjoyed what I am seeing in the dark world behind the shadow of my eyes. I saw myself standing, crawling and has a face of fighter. The flag at the end of the destination is my goal. I want to get it. I want myself to experience to win just this time. My vision in the shadow was cut when I felt something biting my feet.
An ant bitten me at my left feet. I pinned the note back at the board and scratch my feet. It's so itchy. I sat down for awhile and looked above. This room is filled with ecstatic life of my teenage years. My wild, stupid, and idiotic acts all happened here. I closed my eyes quickly when a light reflected to my eyes. I used my hands to cover my eyes and look what it is. The CDs I bought from the local supermarket in the city. Although most of them are pirated, but I loved them.
I crawled towards the bed and reached the CDs. There are cds which has some scratches, opened and without covers. I thoroughly read the titles one by one. It is not funny, but I laughed really hard. I remembered watching in our DVD player with my friends and invited some of my neighbours too. We used to jump from our seats to cheer for the character who is about to die. I remembered Justin who accidentally pushed a vase from the table and fell. It was broken to pieces which cut the noise of the crowd. They all looked to Justin with confused face while I was having an extreme nervousness because mom will be mad.
The silence is noticeably to all of our faces. I browse the whole CDs inside the box. Then suddenly, a cockroach appeared and flew over me. I moved backward and shake off my shirt. The cockroach flew heading to my old bed. I hurriedly grabbed a book from my bookshelf which I slowly hit the cockcroach. I didn't hit. It flew to the window's curtain and hide in a small hole. I sat at my bed and sighed. Since I was a young kid, my fear to cockroaches are very evident. Whenever I saw some of it in the floor, and kill it if possible. If I didn't kill it, then for sure I cannot sleep well that night.
I stood up from my bed to get out of my old room. I was about to hold the doorknob when I heard a conversation. Someone is telling something about selling the house since we are not living with it. I listened to their conversation which I never do before. I was crying while listening to them without knowing my tears are already running in my face. I hold memories in this room, not only memories but most of me is in here. I cannot opened the door, my hand is shaking. I felt weak. I want to run towards them and tell not to sell the house. When I was about to open the door, I was bitten again. Not an ant, but a snake?
Thank you for reading
Blog #38
3/5/22
How I recover my lost money/missing transaction from bitcoin.wallet?
Bitcoin.com wallet is one of the most used and downloaded crypto wallet. Speaking of bitcoin.com wallet, it has a smooth, friendly user-interface which we can easily used at hand. Perhaps, you have hodl some tokens including BCH as of the moment. I believe most of us transfer our earnings in read.cash wallet to bitcoin.com wallet.
Last couple of days, I saw flexUSD in bitcoin.com wallet. Although it was there for quite a time, but I don't have an interest into it. However, these past few days I had an interest to swap some of my BCH to flexUSD since it has low fees too. My initial plan was to hodl some flexUSD because it has almost up to 20% APY. Not bad! But yesterday at noon, my first transaction was successful. I'm happy because it appeared immediately within 10 minutes I guess.
However, for my second transaction which happened around late at night. I swapped 30$ worth of BCH to flexUSD. It didn't appeared within ten minutes and I don't feel anything wrong. The notification that I received the 30$ swapped to flexUSD appeared and I clicked it immediately. But money didn't reflect on my wallet. As in zero dollar, no money reflected. I waited around 11pm to appear my I feel so sleep that's why I didn't wait any longer.
When I woke up in the morning, I opened my bitcoin.com wallet to see if its reflected to my wallet. I was sad seeing that there's no money. I remained calm, but at the same time I was worried too. 30$ is big enough money for me because I can buy some frozen goods for our refrigerator. I was about to tell to my telegram group what happened to my transaction, but I opened my bitcoin.com wallet to check if I can report it first.
Luckily, there is a **help & support** feature at the right-bottom of the application. When you click it, there will be an option to choose. Click **speak with a support agent**. The **message box will appear** and the online support agents from bitcoin.wallet. Fortunately, there is an agent named Regina who assisted me very carefully.
This is our first conversation which I send the screenshot of my 30$ transaction of BCH to flexUSD. I forgot to write my concern first that's why she said what's with the screenshot. Pardon me Regina! Then, I told her my concern which presented in our conversation.
This is the part where she told me to check the notification if status of my swapped is successful or not. I knew ahead that it was successful because I received the notification last night. I sent a screenshot which is a proof that the transaction is successful.
We have few conversations because I want to understand everything. I really don't have an idea how and what went wrong about my transaction which I knew I did it correctly and properly. This screenshot is the instruction she sent to me about if I already try to scan my missing transaction. I have no idea what it is. So I carefully followed her instructions which is presented in our conversation.
Go to your wallet. The specific wallet where you swap money will be receiving to.
Click the menu button in the upper-right corner specifically the three dots above.
Select Wallet information which is at the bottom part.
Scan for missing transactions. It will start scanning that last 60 seconds. But there is a note that it will last up to 20 minutes.
I don't restart my phone actually. I just checked my wallet and it appeared.
I told her that money already reflected to my wallet. You don't know how much deep sigh I released when I saw my money reflected. This is where our conversation ended. Regina is such a great help, and yes support agents are truly helpful in times of need like this.
I'm very nervous because this is my first time I encountered having this kind of trouble. I bet you too. There will be a time when a missing or lost transaction will happen. That is the reason why I researched and seek knowledge to any resources before having a transaction. It is to make sure that what I will do is correct and will not regret.
You may encountered the same missing transaction like what happened to mine. So this is the guide that might help you to recover your money. Whether small or big money it is, the fact the it's your hard-earned money. It's valuable!
I cannot say much about this or explain deeply what happened since I am a noob in crypto verse. Just be careful and do your own research. I hope this article may help you in times of need.
Thank your for reading!
`Author's note!!!`
`Thank you so much to my sponsors who renewed their sponsorships. I didn't browse entirely my notification so I didn't see it last few days. I will continue sponsoring too. Sending virtual hugs to everyone.`
Blog #37
3/3/22
Despite of everything I still looked up to my old self
I felt my body was shattered to pieces when I lay down to my old bed room. The cushion is still soft as ever and the memories I had with it just flows on my mind simultaneously. I was drowned to my overwhelming and suffocating emotions. I looked up to the ceiling from left to right, then go back to every corner of my room. It is still what it looks like in 17 years. Random memories are flashing back then I, without knowing - I'm starting to cry.
The cry I contained for all those tragic events happened in my life. I wasn't able to cry because I know when I cry, I cannot control. I cannot control these mixed emotions in my heart and I might hurt myself. The curtains are old and a bit dusty. My favourite painting is still hanging on the top-left corner of my room which my bookshelf was placed. I remembered the most read book I had entitled, the friends of my enemies. I loved how the story started which I was hooked to read. To every end of chapter, I want to read more because I felt like the author is teasing me.
I started to compile all my old pillows and put my foot on top. This good old days when I used to jump up to my pillows and my mom will scold me because I might hurt myself. Thus my bed might broke too. When my sister came in to my room, I used to throw pillow on her face and she will get mad. She will throw her phone at me and of course, I'll let not myself hit by it. Carrying two pillows both in my hands, and rushing to her to bombard her face. She will again get mad and I absolutely loved it.
It was difficult to stay in my room because I felt alone and sad. My eyes are becoming teary and I stood up to shake my restless body. I scooped some of the dust and blew them away. I remembered how we had so much fun when we used to play the powder and used it as makeup. Putting first to my eyebrows, forehead, nose and the rest of my face. I looked like a peking duck whose about to enter Chinese theatre to perform some funny scenes and entertain the guests.
I sat down to my old chair and look at the mirror. I'm analyzing my face, shoulders, hands, legs and the rest of my body. What I have done? This is not me. I used to be a good, kind, friendly guy who loved by people. I got praised and compliments from strangers to wherever I go. I am not looking at myself. I'm draining my own energy without realizing I'm gradually becoming a dead man. My eyes are starting to form liquid at the left side corner. I looked up above in real quick to get back my teary eyes. I'm not ready yet to cry. Not now!
I opened my old table and found the old letters written by my past self. They are a bit dusty and some are too dried. The ink was quite dull and spilled over my penmanship. I still open some of my letters and browse until I reached the last letter. I sort the letters by their sizes because some are too fancy and big. There are letters that is heavy because of what I put on it before. Reading some of them makes me smile and again, old memories which now is clearer than awhile ago.
The one that catched my eye is the letter I found in the last third layer of my table. It was stapled and locked with some sort of yarn. I opened it slowly because I don't want the string attached to be cut. My eyes almost popped-out when I saw my old penmanship. I was stunned for a second and adored how I used to write this good. My strokes, serifs, and curvings are just too perfect in my teary eyes.
I cannot read the letter because if I do, my head will start punching with heavy and emotional storyline of my life. I kept one letter in my pocket and stood up. I saw my foot really unpleasant and full of dirt. It was like before when my sister asked me join her to catch some dragonfly at the yard. I remember her smiles which I adored so much. Her laughed made my heart shouting with joy. She was the best sister in the world. When I was about catch a dragonfly, she hugged me at the back. She said I love you and I responsed back. I held her little arms and pinched it. I continued to walk in my old room and I found myself standing in front of a painting.
This painting's portrayal was too emotional. The mother carrying her baby with a strong, sturdy and colorful scarf. She hold a basket with various vegetables and you will notice the sun above. There is a corona on top of head and I interpret it as she was the queen of her own home. She is a queen, and will always be a queen. I remember my mother who used to tap my shoulder. She kissed my forehead whenever I went to school and we exchanging I love you's. She gave me a lunchbox with full of healthy sandwiches and mayos.
I will end my reminiscence in which I remember my mother. The whole tour about my old room wasn't finished yet. I would like to tap every corner of my room and share the story behind it. Carrying the sack of emotions are instilled on my mind and my heart. Would you like to read more about this little tour of mine?
Thank you for reading!
Blog #36
3/3/22
To all the PETS I loved before
Late this afternoon I asked my siblings to go to farm to get some hay for my rabbits. We usually got a sack of fresh hay from farm since it's my way of decreasing expenses for my rabbits. In the morning, I get some malunggay to feed them, not too many but just enough for their breakfast. What I loved about my rabbits are they are friendly and loving. I think they are smart too or is it because I'm the one who feeds them that's why they are kind to me?
While I was lying in our hammock at the back of our house. I was suddenly felt lonely and missed my old pets. I had a deep thought while my mother is picking up some Indian mangoes. Yes, it's mango season. I know some of your mango trees are now becoming fruitful and ready to harvest. Thankfully, my father cooked some bagoong with a little bit spiciness yesterday. I loved spicy food. We have a lot of varieties of chili plants too.
Polaris: the oldest and first dog I had
When I was aged six, my father brought a dog at home. It is a male dog with brown and white fur skin. It has a Labrador and Bulldog mix breed blood so I know you can imagine it's size and physical appearance. I personally named it **Polaris** because my love for astronomy is incomparable before. Some of you had an unforgettable pet most especially if it was your first.
The best feeling of having a pet is that it's your buddy and someone you can talk to whenever you are down. Our first pet is exceptionally special in our hearts. They are irreplaceable even we have better and pricey pet to come in the future. I was thinking if only I had a phone and camera before I can definitely took a photo with Polaris. Unfortunately, I do not have a phone in that age and my parents' phones are just keypad without camera. If it has camera, memory card will be a problem.
If you are asking me if how long Polaris lived and I will answer you now. To all his greatness and loved for our family, he lived for about 9 years. I do not remember the cause of his death, but I'm sure its because of his old age. He's rarely sick and I always brought him whenever I jogged. His facial smiles and wagging tails is what I remember now. It is as if he just died yesterday.
Muchikins: the fluffiest and friendly dog
I still can't believe that Muchikins had passer away last October 2021. She was a bulldog and shih tzu cross breed. I do not know if it's common to have a mate these two breed, but ours is so cute. Unfortunately, I cannot upload her photos because I don't have one in this phone. All her photos was saved to my laptop which is broken. Poor me!
Bulldog was known for its friendly and calm personality. Fortunately, Muchikins had it to her father. One thing I loved about her is she's so friendly to everybody. She's rarely growl or bark to strangers unless she felt wrong and danger. My little sister was the oned named her and everybody's loved it. How cute to her call sometimes, Muchi or Muchy. "Muchi, come here. Come!". She lived for abour 6 years and died due to unknown food. We don't know what kind of food she ate outside or what she ate inside our house to cause her dead. That's why we're very careful now.
Athena and Apollo: My dearest and newest rabbits
I had already made an article about these two. They are my new pets. It's actually my first time caring and raising rabbits so I'm so careful handling them. With the guide of my friends, I was able to raise them properly without problems. As of the moment, they haven't had any sickness and that's I'm very thankful for. If you are curious about why I choose rabbits, then just click that highlighted text with link. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/why-i-choose-rabbits-861b0377
I named them Athena and Apollo because of my interest for Greek gods and goddesses. Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom. She was known for her good war strategy and able to create useful crafts. While Apollo was the god of sun and archery. He was known for his wits in making poetry, music and prophecy. I just felt like naming these two rabbits in Greek gods and goddess. Making them more special. *Laughing*
I want to remind everyone if you wanted to have pets then it's better to find pet that suits your personality. It's great if you can pick the same personality as yours to have a great bond as well. If you have pets right now, then love them with your purest heart. More than anything else, they help us ease our stress and stabilize our health. They are not only a pet, but a family too.
Thank you for reading!
Blog #35
3/2/22
My first ever monthly report: Reaching 1BCH
As I was writing this article, I cannot believe how many achievements I had within a month of staying in the platform. Before, I was just a reader who smiled reading articles of other writers reaching numerous achievements in read.cash. My mind is keep telling me that you can achieved those achievements too. You will write an article which contains your very own performances, attainments and achievements in this platform.
Although I started my journey quite late because I was too focused on noise.cash earlier those days. Thus, I was afraid of publishing articles because no one might read it. I'm not good at writing articles because it is not my forte at all. That's my reason why I quit in journalism publication. I dropped the offer as well to compete to division and regional. However, I still cannot believe how writers in this platform encourage me to write. They might not know but @Eunoia @ExpertWritter @OfficialGamboaLikeUs @Ayane-chan are those people who have became my source of inspiration to write daily. They are so active and you might know these great writers as well.
The goals I made when I started using the platform
To reach 100$ in a month.
To publish articles daily.
To read 20 articles daily.
To achieve 50 subscribers.
To achieve 200 views of my articles.
It might be many goals I made for this month since my account is so new like a baby. You might not know but I started this account and my journey here last January 27, 2022. Meaning, I am month old two days ago. Let's start elaborating if my goals were reached or not.
To reach 100$ in the month of February
Thankfully, I made it. I have accumulated with the total of 144.07$ this month. I cannot put my gratitude to those people who have helped me to make it. I appreciated all of you who keeps upvoting my articles. All I thought a 100$ is impossible since I'm a new guy who just wanted to share my little own world to everyone.
The hightest amount earned I got from a single article is The boy who's allergic to ALL food: Real-life story which I got 10$ and was published on February 24. This is a story of Will Rowan who is unfortunately born with rare disease called Chron's disease. If you still remember, this disease doesn't allow him to eat any food since his body rejects it and will surely put him in danger. This is a tragic event that might be thought would be his The sicknesses I hate the most. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/the-boy-whos-allergic-to-all-food-real-life-story-9bc366cc https://read.cash/@DennMarc/the-sicknesses-i-hate-the-most-f9d21fdd
Unfortunately, the lowest amount I earned was about 2.28$ which is Life series: The madman inside me. I think the bot doesn't want negative article since I talked about some of my deepest hate here. I published the article last February 8 and that was the final article for my Life Series. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/life-series-the-madman-inside-me-9a879c03
To publish articles daily for a month
Another goal I met too. In God's grace, I was able to write and publish articles without a single absent this month. I'm so glad because thinking a topic which might be understood and liked by you is what I always consider to. So I think this month of March, I would set this goal too. Since I am saving money for my laptop, then I have no choice but to grind everyday.
To read 20 articles a day
I have plenty of time and didn't busy to I have read 20 or more articles everyday. It might not be incomparable to how much you read but this is my limit for now. Pardon this yours truly if I didn't read your article in everyday since I cannot read everybody's article. I will try to read everyone's article but not daily. I might run in your article today, but tomorrow will not since I will read others too.
To achieve 50 subscribers for this month
This is very shocking! In just a month, I gained 99 subscribers. To be honest, I really can't believe it. Where are these numbers came from? I'm so honored for everyone's support who believed to me and to articles I made. Gosh! Thank you very much everyone. Reaching 99 subscribers was just too awesome for me. I'll make sure to entertain and make my articles worth to read this March. I want to get your interest badly.
To achieve total of 200 views for my articles
With all honesty, I still cannot believe that I have reached total of 1000 views from my articles. It is five times higher to my initial goal. As I was writing this, my heart was beating fast and I want to mentioned everybody but I cannot. All my warmest gratitude may be felt to all of you. To those readers who kept reading my article until now, you have my love. In addition, I don't know where my journey this month will bring but I'll keep following Where my feet leads me to. https://read.cash/@DennMarc/life-series-where-my-feet-leads-me-to-24f64722
#1BCH
I would like to congratulate myself for achieving 1 BCH just using both read.cash and noise.cash. Actually, with the current bitcoincash price I would have 1.36 BCH. This 1.36 BCH is the total amount I have earned both platform since I started using them. I have no idea that I have already 1 BCH until I compute and total history earnings I got from my Bitcoin wallet and Coinsph wallet. Oh, dear Lord, thank you for this amazing achievements. All I thought I wouldn't able to come from this far.
Extended appreciation for my sponsors
In a month, I have gained 12 sponsors in total. I cannot believed that these people entrusted me some of their penny and sponsored me. Thank you for sponsorship. I'm so grateful that there are people who recognized my work. I love you all.
Thank you for reading!
Blog #34
3/1/22
I let my friend trade my money
In the whole day, I wasn't feeling well. My body urged me to rest and my brain doesn't work like usual. I had a class awhile ago and my schedule was quite hectic. As you know, my laptop broke and my phone is the only thing I used for writing my article. Thus, I use it for my online class as well. Since my phone is quite an old version, it's battery is faster to be drained. Then during our discussion, I was surprised to encounter google meet to forced itself logout due to my phone is heating up. I cannot used my applications properly and there is an annoying notification says "cannot use application due to phone heating". Goodness, I'm so irritated and my patience is slimming.
Fortunately, it end up well because I borrowed my father's phone which is much better than mine. I really don't want to have a male professor because they are usually strict and very intimidating. I'm so nervous whenever my name called because I'm the class representative. I became class representative out of nowhere since I'm the most active in class since 1st year.
It's the last day of the month of February and we are now computing the total earnings we have in the platform. I bet some of you are disappointed because lf their poor performance, or som are happy because they met their goals. I don't want to talk about my earnings and if I reached my goal this month since it is reserved for tomorrow's article.
I'm actually thinking about investing and trading for the last few weeks. I want to trade my money and earn profit even if I got low profit. Just to tap the water as what @carisdaneym2 told me before. It means why not to try the trading and start with small amount of money. The purpose is to make yourself familiar about the dex and how it works. My first ever token was rBCH. It's the first token she recommended to me before. To be honest, I don't really understand it before. I'm just like stunned and tried to ask them what's going on.
Then I remember my classmate who used Binance and is already trading there. We actually became friend since 3 years ago. I still remember clearly our very first crypto trading using Coinsph on April 2021. We don't have any background or anything knowledge about it. All we know is to buy low and sell high. That is the very basics concept we knew and fortunately we earn although the coinsph fees are quite high. We still manage to gain profit from BCH and XRP.
I messaged him in Facebook messenger then switched to Telegram and asked if he still active in trading. As I expected, he is. He is a good trader. I've seen his portfolio and his previous successful trade. I was impressed on how we managed to gain profit and when I asked him if I can give him money to trade. At first, I was hesitant because although I knew him and his performance in trading. I still can't get rid the thought if I lose my money.
After a few minutes, I realized it's taking the high risk. I want to trust him and make good of my money. He accepted my offer and we set in a good terms. It is a win-win situation for the both of us. So now, while I'm hodl some tokens in SmartBCH, then he is trading some of my money in Binance. I'm happy on how I saw my money gaining profit and moving forward, I really wanted to learn how binance works.
Do any of you know whose to watch in YouTube about crypto trading lessons? Or any books that you read before trading? I'm very interested and glad to hear your response. I'm getting serious and serious day by day in this cryptoverse. How I wish I knew this platform early so that I have a source of fund for my trading before. Anyways, I have so much gratitude in this platform for allowing me to expand my limit knowledge about crypto by reading your honest testimonials about your journey in crypto stuffs.
I believed patience and right timing are one of the keys to become a successful trader. Thus, knowledge and experience as well. Let all our journey traders to become successful. Cheers for the success!
Thank your for reading!
Blog #33
2/28/22
Just show up: Learning the process
It has been a good month for everybody as we celebrate the love month of February. We still have one day left and we will welcome another month full of surprises and experiences which is March. As far as I remember, March is the fire prevention month. Commonly, there are high cases of fire reported all over the country. However, I want everyone to be careful of their plug appliances and other stuff at home.
My aunt and her family visited us earlier this morning. Actually, whenever she visited us here and she usually clean up their motorcycle and bike. I don't know why she always did that but I like idea of going here to ask how we are. Before they go home, I picked up some vegetables including eggplants, tomatoes, chilis and ladies fingers (okra). Since we have them a lot of them and I started to loose appetite eating these vegetables everyday.
As we celebrate the love month, I want to extend my appreciation and love for those people who are part of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+). I haven't read any appreciation post for them so I would like to make one. They made me happy, no they made us happy from their joyful and humorous personality. They are usually the joker of the group especially the gay ones. It's becoming a culture in our country to have a joker gay friends. At least one in our circle of friends we have gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
In fact, when I was in high school I used to hangout with some of my gay friends. You will never be boring whenever you are with them. They will make you laugh so hard until your stomach aches and hurts. I still remember when Jericho, one of my gay friends who used to make fun of me and its actually funny. He accompanied me whenever I got sick and the one volunteer to bring me to our school clinic. I missed him. I miss his jokes and humours. We separated our ways when we entered senior high school since we both have different academic tracks to pursue. We called and hangout sometime if we have no conflict in our schedule.
**I want to ask if you have a gay or a lesbian in your family?** Actually, we have one. It's my grandmother's sister. She was a lesbian but she has kids. Yes, she was married and fortunately were blessed with two kids. Although she was lesbian and was known by that man, he still proposed and marry her in the end. I still can't believe how their love story goes and how it proves that love has no gender and boundaries. Can you believe that, a straight man was in love with a lesbian woman and got married with two kids. Just an amazing love story.
However, **coming out is not always easy for everyone**. Most of them are afraid of judgement from their families and friends. They are afraid of how they will going to react and response from their coming out. I cannot imagine how difficult it is and the burden inside of them. **They want to go out to public and shows who they are,** ****but cannot******. They want to savor their life and spend with good happenings with friends,** ****but cannot******. They want to pursue someone they love,** ****but cannot******.**
I have asked some of my friends how they tell to their family that they are not straight people. I was actually surprised to their answers since it was different to each other. I therefore conclude that the culture inside the family affects how a certain person comes out. For example, my friend Jericho came out when he was ten years old. He told his parents that he likes girls stuff than boys stuff straightforwardly. Since his parents also noticed this, it doesn't hard for his family to accept him and thus doesn't hard for him either. In fact, his grandma supported him all throughout and bought stuff he likes until now. What a great grandma!
In this platform, I have known some users who has a relationship with their same s*x. I adored their boldness to show off how proud and how confident they are to flex their relationships. I know some of you might trigger and view this kind of relationship as illegal or something dirty. **But we have no right to make a judgement and tell them to break up. We have to respect their gender preferences, feelings, decisions and choices in life.**
I made this article for them who I wanted to share my love for them. You are all good people who just followed your heart. Thinking about what you do is right and found happiness in it. It's okay to show up and bring out your true color. It will make you shine and beautiful. I wanted to tell you that I am so proud of you for becoming who you are. I appreciated your bravery, courage, and confidence to come out. **You are like a chick who breaks off their shells to see your true world.**
Thank you for reading!
Blog #32
2/27/22
How far are you from winning
In my previous article, I mentioned that we are having an overnight swimming party hosted by my younger cousin. We had fun and amazing memories again. Surprisingly, even though we are not complete because kids doesn't allowed to go with us and some are working. We make every moment to be like a treasure chest. I am very happy because it took me a year and half to experience to swim again.
I found difficulty to sleep earlier this morning. That was my body's response whenever my sleep doesn't followed according to usual. Even though my eyes are sleepy and my body wants to rest, but my mind is so active. Like when I tried to close my eyes and force myself to sleep. My thoughts are running wild. I kept thinking about my rabbits, my chickens, what happened earlier and read.cash as well. At the end, I did not sleep. I finally got sleep at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and woke at 5:15 o'clock.
Winning is the moment when you overcome all the hurdles in the competition and became first place. That is our very basic concept when it terms to winning. However, what is the reason why you keep continuing your life and what's the price of winning? I am very open about concept of winning and loosing for it will both benefit me.
In a race, participants are aligned together and when signal was given. That is the time when you all participants will start running and reach the goal. Everyone's goal is to finished first to become the winner of the said race. The crowd are cheering for their respective bet and was hyped. How lovely to see your bet at the front line and stand to your chair whenever someone surpassed him.
What is the reason behind of our own concept of winning? I believe that everyone has their own concept of winning. Perhaps your concept of winning is not about getting the price of competition and being in the front line, but collecting all the possible experiences which can make you a better person. Moving forward, challenging ourselves is one of the best way to create opportunities for us to grow and to develop.
I know someone who is very eager to join all the open competitions to school. He was very eager to challenge himself not because of his confidence in winning, but rather experiencing the best way of living as a student. As a matter of fact, out of 16 competitions in school, he won 12 of them. His winnings are not all first place, but we can say he won second and third too. He doesn't see his winnings as requirement to boast to everyone, but see as an opportunity to testify that sometimes challenging yourself makes a better self.
As time goes by, he kept competing and competing. Competition to challenge , challenge to winnings, winnings to growth and growth to improve oneself. Can you imagine how much that person has now? When you meet him in person, you can tell how much aura he can release and tells you that he is a matured person. When I met him, I was shocked how much wisdom he shared to me. I had this impression that he is funny but serious, talkative but with sense, and can help you build up yourself.
One time when our conversation was heating up and he accidentally told me that winning is not always winning. I still remember the exact words he shared to me. **He told me that winning is not always winning. The moment I joined a competition my mindset is to feed myself with lessons and sharpen my discipline. It is a bonus if I get a price of the competition.** That is my own version and definition of winning.
I was stunned for a second and thought about it seriously. I realized I was too focused and selfish about getting the price. Yes, I know that I went through harsh trainings and reviews just to compete. I thought that it is the requirement for me to become deserving as winner. However, that is not how competition works. If you think your hardships are the main reason for you to become a winner, then do you think your competitors did not do the samething?
It is good to have a winner mindset, but don't go too far because it could lead you to selfish mindset. I would say anything has its own price and you just need to be patience. Do not look on how far are you from winning, but pay attentionly on the process of winning. The person I met and talked about winning concept is myself, itself.
Thank you for reading!
Blog #31
2/26/22
Sometimes unplanned get-together is best
My heart is purely sad over to what I read online. The war has begun and it seems will continue to last for months. Watching the raw videos of people crying and wailing in pain due to various loses. They lose their happy home which contains thousands of memories. They lose their business which built purely with hard work. They lose their livelihood and do not know how to start over again. But that's not what is important today.
They need need to flee in their respective area which now receiving bombing and missles. The loud noises will be heard. Children are wailing, parents worry for their children. How painful it would be for a wife knowing her soldier husband will not probably get home. Can you imagine the pain of a parent who lose his dear child which she conceives for nine months and raise until he built his own family? No words can explain how much people are suffering in Ukraine. I tell you, pure sadness is covering and embracing me right now.
Planning has a crucial role for achieving success and our objectives. It does affect the overall performance of the activity we are about to do. Without planning, even though how good or wise you are, it is inevitable to fail and make mistakes. Well, we cannot deny a fact that planning is part of our life. Every time we make new things and adventure, the first thing we do is plan.
When is the last time you make a plan for yourself? I know some of you before making and creating an article. They are doing researching and outlining to come up for the best article. Some of you are planning crucially to think the best topic which you can write and share you knowledge. I'm so fond of planning even though I know it might fail. It is because planning creates higher chance of success.
Last night, I saw a new group message appeared on my Facebook messenger. It was new group whose members are my cousins. I was notified that we will be having an overnight swimming in a semi-private resort here in our area. I was curious how much likely this plan will happen since I thought it was made for fun. I don't pay much attention because I'm busy reading article in the platform too.
At 9:00 in the evening, my sister asked me if I will come and join to an overnight swimming hosted by my younger cousin. They said that it will be happening tomorrow. I was shocked how fast the event is. Then, I said yes. I do not know what we will prepare since there is no sharing of things to do.
Later this morning, I wws surprised that they already shopped ingredients such as chickens, curls, snacks, biscuits, ingredients for spaghetti and pancit. What I like about it is I don't spend any penny. They planned themselves and pay for foods. I only pay for my entrance fee in the resort.
As I was writing this article, I cannot enjoy swimming yet because I need to write an article. I don't want to lose tge opportunity to earn because I am saving money for my laptop. As you all know, my laptop broke recently and needed to be changed as soon as possible. My cousins are enjoying swimming right now, but here I am sitting in our cottage while writing this.
From this unexpected and sudden event of our family. I would definitely say that sometimes the unplanned event and get-together is better than planned. We Filipinos often say that it is just a drawing and will not happen because of several excuses and reasons. So pardon me if I cannot read your comments and article tonight. For I will unwind and enjoy my personal as well. I don't remember the last time I went to swim in pool. Maybe around last year, no last last year. Whatever date it is, what's important is here I am enjoying the pool.
The boy who's allergic to ALL food: Real-life story
I have been checking my rabbit from time to time because I'm observing if my doe is pregnant. She's gaining weight quite fast and whenever I petted her she aggressively run away from me. It is very unusual because when they see me coming, they will immediately come and lower their heads. I marked the date when she doesn't want to be petted just to have a date to count.
My heart is extremely sad and my crypto losses is in the air. Well, crypto is volatile, we expected that. However, I hope whatever conflict or problems between Russia and Ukraine today might be settle. We don't want a kid to lose his family. A pregnant woman to lose her husband in war. A parents who raised their child and suddenly killed in war. That's truly unfortunate. War is starting and here we are, reading and watching news in our sofa and bed. While people in Ukraine are nowhere to go. I urge everyone to pray for Ukraine and for the war to stop.
Food is the sustenance in our body. It is not actually the food, but the vitamins and minerals which the food contains. Can you imagine eating all your favourite foods and dishes? I bet you are feeling like heaven and that might be the most memorable experience you have in your entire life.
Have you tried fasting? I have tried fasting not because for medical purposes, but for fasting and prayer in church. At first, I don't like the concept of fasting because I keep loosing weight and my energy is easily burned just doing basic and minimal activity. Later on, I reliazed that fasting and prayer leads me to how to control my desire. You know the feeling of sudden urge to do something even if you know that was temptation only. But with the help of fasting, you can control that urge and flee from the temptation.
It is a great feeling to eat the best dishes served in a local restaurant. Sometimes, you go back to try their other dishes and menus because you know how good it is. Trying new food is everyone's dream. Sometimes we have this dream to eat in a 5 star hotel and bring our family with us. However, what if all these things aren't for you? It's not because you cannot afford, but you cannot eat.
Recently, as I was browsing in my Facebook feed and looking for new updates to whatever events. I saw an article posted by DailyMailUK which intrigued me the most. It was an article about a boy who's struggling and suffering from Chron's disease. This disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease or IBD. Basically, if someone has this disease it causes to our digestive tract. Thus, I'm sad to say this but there is no CURE for Chron's disease.
Will Rowan a 16 year old boy from Vienna, Virginia who's suffering from a disease known as Chron's disease. His mother said that his son is basically cannot eat all kinds of food because he get sick. He is extreme deadly food allergies which is very rare to exist. Although it is not fatal, but still could lead death when handle mistakingly and improperly. But that wasn't the problem they are facing now.
The only food supplement for Will is now facing a recall when FDA found some bacterial infections from the milk. Yes, he is depending to a baby milk powder which he consumed everyday. Right now, the supplier and producer of that product is facing a recall. His mother urged to seek help to help them to get a can. Fortunately, there were people with good hearts who helps them and donated cans.
This is a story of which gives us a lesson that we are lucky to have no food allergies. We can eat the food we want. We can cook the food we saw online. We can explore and discover new food from other counties. How lucky you, no we are to enjoy the life. But to Will, the only food he can eat is gradually taking away from him.
Thank you for reading!
Blog #29
2/24/22
Finally, my 50 centimeters long hair was cut!
The whole day is gloomy and our land is still muddy. Since the back of our house is not cemented, when it rains the land becomes muddy. However, whenever it rains I loved it. My plants and flowers are being watered freely which I think is best for them. Nature to nature contact. This is the start to see the farm to turn greener and work on it.
I am writing this article while eating my snack. My father bought two whole white loaves with cheez whiz. Before I forgot my grandpa visited us earlier this morning and brought us peanut butter and peanut brittle. I'm sure all of us likes peanut brittle. It is perfect to consume after we had our meal. It's sweetness, crispness and easy to bite makes me wanted to eat it more.
I cooked some fish for tonight. I add vinegar, salt, pepper and chili then boil it for 15 minutes. We still have salted eggs and I will chopped onions and tomatoes to add, then it's ready to serve. Unfortunately, we don't have soup tonight because we already consumed the pork sinigang during lunch.
Hair is the best decoration for our body. It covered our top head, eyebrow, eye lashes, skin and some part of our body. We can see hair everywhere in our body. Can you imagine your body without hair? Like no hair at all.
I am thinking about what if I no longer posses hair now? What would I look like? Most probably people will laugh and call me an alien, sort of. People will judge you because a person without hair is unordinary. It is rare to find people who doesn't have hair at all.
In January 26, 2020 was my last hair cut. I still remember clearly why I decided to cut my hair that day. We are about to celebrate the Feb-ibig night which is an event in our school. The said event was to gather all freshmen to senior college and get to know each other. Lucky you if you meet pretty girls and handsome boys, then ask you out.
In fact, I don't know what is the name of my haircut. Since young, the only haircut I knew are mohawk and army cut. The rest are all the same to me except if it's painted with colors. I told to the barber to trim my hair and that's it. No fancy hairfut style. Since 2015, I don't go to barbershop to cut my hair, instead to my favourite salon. They are so professional. They are all women, no gays if you wonder.
So why my hair grew so long and reached 50 centimeters or about 19.69 inches? Honestly, I still can't believe how my hair grew so fast just in 2 years. Yes, I didn't neither cut nor trim my hair since January 2020. Can you imagine how long my hair is? I know all girls know how long it is. In fact, I didn't choose to grow my hair long. I was just afraid to go outside and get covid virus since salon is fully covered and air-conditioned. I'm afraid that due to my carelessness will bring disaster to me and my family. Meaning, the main reason is I am health concious and that's totally okay.
I was struggling everyday due to having long hair. Whenever I wake up in the morning, my hair was messed up and the moment I combed I kept losing my hair. Whenever I shampooed my hair, it needs a lot of shampoo because a little is not enough. No bubbles even. Whenever I go outside and the wind is strong, my hair just keep blocking my eyesight and it irritates me. Whenever I tie my hair, I feel like my hairline in my forehead is backing off. It's my first time to have this hair so long and I can't handle it properly.
One time my sister asked me to get her moral certificate in her school. She needs it because her current school was asking to complete all the requirements needed. Moving forward, when I went to her school in junior high-school and asked about if I can get my sister moral certificate. I was shocked how I was called by the teacher assisting inside. Since my hair was long, I also didn't tie my hair since it's still quite wet and I wore a face mask. She said "Yes Ma'am, what do you need? Do you have an appointment?". Like I was stunned for a moment and registered how she called me. I said I'm a sir and not a madam. She just laughed and apologized gently.
That moment, I realized that people are now starting to see me as a woman because of my long hair. I actually do like a woman when I wear my face mask. But you know, I have mustache so they will know I'm a man when I take off my mask. Gosh, that push me through to trim my hair. Thus I am fully vaccinated since December. I don't want to be called ma'am, sis, and ate. It hurts my pride a lot. Kidding!
January 24, 2022 I decided to cut my long cherished hair. I actually used a pretty expensive shampoo that day since I want to enjoy my last long hair and I do know if I could achieve it again. I asked the barber if I can get my hair and she said yes. She cut and aligned my hair carefully. Then tied it with rubber band and cover with plastic. I remember what she said to me that day. She told me that I have a pretty and soft hair, and she envied me. I loved that woman to be honest, she is so gentle and friendly to customers.
Boys, would you rather have a long hair or not? Some girls find boys having a long hair attractive though.
Thank you for reading!
Blog #28
2/23/22
@DennMarc
