Confusing Words

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There are a lot of words that are confusing because they share the same spelling but they differ on their meanings. So for you to become aware of the common words that misspelled and misused often,

I've complied a list of those spelling mistakes that drive students, teachers, employees, colleagues, etc crazy.

1. "Your" and "You're" - They are not the same words. YOUR is in the possessive form that shows ownership of something (ex: Brush YOUR teeth.) while YOU'RE is a contraction of the words "YOU" and "ARE" (ex: YOU'RE so beautiful.)

2. "Specially" and "Especially" - Most people often use those words interchangeably. SPECIALLY means particularly, in a distinguishing manner, or for a particular purpose (ex: She has her gown made SPECIALLY for her by a tailor in Paris.) while ESPECIALLY means exceptionally in a noteworthy manner, or particularly (ex: I bought these flowers especially for you.)

3. "Bear" and "Bare" - Those words have different meanings. BEAR means to carry, to endure or tolerate, to maintain direction (ex: This small trees BEARS hundreds of mangoes every year.) while BARE means uncovered, naked or exposed (ex: Don't go in BARE feet. You'll catch a cold.).

4. "A lot" and "Alot" -  A LOT is always two words. A lot of people mistakenly write  A LOT as ALOT, actually there is no such word as ALOT because it doesn't exist. (ex: I know A LOT about Jose Rizal.)

5. "Loose" and "Lose" - There is often confusion over those words. LOOSE means not tight, free from constraint or not dense (ex: Watch your footing on this LOOSE gravel.) while LOSE means fail to keep or fail to win (ex: Shane is trying to LOSE weight.).

6. "Advice" and "Advise" - There is also often confusion over those words. ADVICE is a noun meaning a suggestion for a beneficial course of action (ex: Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it.) while ADVISE is a verb meaning to give advice and to notify (ex: My mother is always there to give me love advise.).

7. "Altogether" and "All together" - ALTOGETHER is an adverb means wholly, to the full extent, or with everything considered (ex: ALTOGETHER Kim earns more than her sister.) while ALL TOGETHER means collectively, this term pertains to when a group acts or acted upon collectively (ex: The passengers stood ALL TOGETHER waiting for the train.).

8. "Desert" and "Dessert" - They look similar but they differ in meaning. DESERT can be an adjective, noun or verb which means to leave behind, to abandon, or an arid land with little or no vegetation (ex: We will be visiting the Sahara DESERT next summer.) while DESSERT means the final course of a meal and it is usually sweet (ex: I want to see the DESSERT menu.).

9. "All ready" and "Already" - They sound the same but they are different. ALL READY means completely prepared (ex: Daniel is ALL READY.) while ALREADY means prior to a specified or implied time or as early as now (ex: I ALREADY sent you the coverage of the exam.).

10.  "Forth" and "Fourth" - They also sound identical and they are also different in meaning. FORTH usually means forward or onward (ex: Joaquin needs to be present in the meeting to put his ideas FORTH.) while FOURTH is related to the number four (ex: DJ is the FOURTH placer in the Spelling Bee.).

And that's it. I hope that my list of confusing words will be a big help for you to be not confuse again. :)

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Share a Coke with a Friend

Have you heard about the latest trend in the Philippines today? It is about the Coca Cola Share a Coke with a Friend campaign where in you will find your own name or your friends name on the bottle of the soft drinks. A lot of people are getting crazy on finding their own and their friends name in the bottles of the Coca Cola soft drinks to share it with them. I have here the list of names that are available in Coca Cola bottles.

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Everyone loves to have something that is unique and personalize whether it is a shirt, shoes, bags, accessories, or even if it is just a drink, it only proves that personalized content is a core focus right now. Most people feel that brands that create personalized content are more interested than others. 

Coca Cola Share a Coke with a Friend campaign not only shows how people value things that is unique and personal to them, it also teaches us the importance of sharing because it helps people get along with each other better, it shows affection with other people, it also shows how generous and thoughtful a person is, and it also a means of sharing love and affection to our friends and loved ones. 

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasure. For in the dew of the little things the heart find its morning and is refreshed." - Khalil Gibran

Share a Coke with Friends, Share a Coke with me! :)

Trending Games on Facebook

Facebook is one of the most popular among the social networking sites in the whole broad universe. Young, old, serrated or not, and regardless of the social status I know that almost all people of the population in the world today have a Facebook account and we are all hooked up on its different applications especially the games. So if you are sick and tired of scrolling your news feed up and down, might as well try these trending games on Facebook.

1. Texas hold 'em Poker - Is a variation of the standard card game of poker. Texas hold 'em consists of two cards (hole cards) being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three ("the flop") then an additional single card ("the turn" or "fourth") and other additional card ("the river" or "fifth street") - with players having the option to check, bet, raise or fold after each deal.

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2. Tetris Battle - Is a new Facebook game has a great game play. Tetris battle combines Tetris with battling your friends of random people playing Tetris battle all over the world. Tetris battles have several modes like, clearing 40 lines faster than your opponents, giving cleared lines to your opponents and much more. Tetris battle is really the same Tetris game you have played before with only the addition of some models and the ability of playing with friends and other people.

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3. Cityville - Is all about constructing a metropolis. You start with a small town with the goal of turning it into a booming city. And to do this you'll have to erect various types of buildings. Businesses will provide a steady stream of income, houses and apartments will increase your population and provide rent money, and community buildings make your city more enticing to new residents. You'll also need to establish farms, add decorations, and even expand your businesses by setting up franchises in neighboring towns. You'll be able to blow up the size of your city through incremental upgrades.

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4. Farmville -  Is one of the most popular and easily-established games on the Facebook social network. Farmville is first and foremost a game about crops. You’ll plow plots of ground, seed them, and harvest what grows. Ignoring all of the barn raising and fertilizer, all of the elephants and maple trees, this simple three step mechanic is at heart of FarmVille. Players also making gift-giving a share of their daily visit in the hopes that their friends will return the favor.

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5. Diner Dash - Is a strategy video game and a time management game. Seat the guests, take the order of the customer who comes first! You should have to keep your customers happy by serving them as fast as you can. The happier they are the more points you will earn. Reach the target number of points to clear a level. If the customers wait too long they will get upset and leave your store.

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6. Throne Rush - Is a classic building game. You take control of your very own tiny kingdom and you expand it by building core structures and upgrading them. You can gather resources through milling, mining, and raids. You can also train/recruit armies for added offensive power in knocking down your foes, and improve your defenses by erecting walls and towers for increased resistance on attacks.

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7. Diamond Dash - Is a new Facebook game that has a good game play. You need to click boxes with the same color but you can only make boxes disappear if they are 3 or more that is side by side with each other. The game play is great by itself but the game will limit you on how many games you can play. The hearts on the upper right part indicates how much game you can play. It refreshes but the game itself is just 2 minutes meaning if you have 5 hearts you will just have 10 minutes of game time in one play.

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8. Gun Bros - Is a new Facebook game but has the exact game play with the original version that came out in smartphones but Facebook added a few features to make it better. In Gun Bros you have to fight robots/monsters in planets with the help of your bros which is a Ai that will help you fend of those robots or monsters. You can also upgrade your armors, get power ups and such in this new Facebook game.

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9. Town Island - Is a new Facebook game that has all the points of old Facebook simulator games but added a bit more features. Some of the added features are having a need to add transportation to your own town island, animals, and even advertising to gain more visitors to your island. And in this game you are in control of an Island and you need to make it more popular by adding buildings, establishments and transportations among other things.

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10. Magic Land - Is a new action simulator game on Facebook. In magic land you control a knight or a warrior on a small kingdom that is plague with dragons, cyclops, giants and monsters. Your task is to get your partner which is a prince or a princess and make your kingdom better and flourishing. You can also go into adventures in magic land where you go to mysterious lands and meet other mysterious people but the real task is to defeat the evil wizard that is endangering your new founded kingdom.

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"The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumption we make, things we ignore, and things we change make is what we become." - Terry Prachette

A School that is Conducive for Learning

I just wonder  what if our government  can provide and sustain all the need of the public schools in our country. I think the learning will be more conducive and all the students will become motivated and inspired in studying and  to go to school everyday because they know that the government is at their back and it is willing to sustain and provide all the things that they will need.

Every time  I had given a chance to go to the different schools here in Marikina , what I always did is to observe. Observe their facilities, observe their classrooms, observe their students, observe their teachers and observe the school environment. As I observe, there is a common question that kept on playing in my mind, and that is "What are the Characteristics of a good school and classroom Environment that is Conducive for Learning?".

There are lots of characteristics of a good school and classroom environment that is conducive for learning. Here are the following: It needs a well facilitated school and classrooms. A good classroom environment qualifies a clean and cozy ambiance. for the students to become focused to their study and for their mind to be relaxed. All the needed resources are well provided for. The school must be near to other substantial establishment like drug store, hospital, police station, Barangay outpost, fire department, and other government offices for easy access if any kind of emergency or accident happens they can easily seek for help. The construction of the school building must be durable enough so that if any disastrous event happens the school building will not get easily destroy. The accessibility of the school in main roads and high ways is recommended. The canteen should prepare delicious, clean, and affordable foods. Recreational area must be big enough to accommodate massive number of people. Their library should have internet connection and it must have plenty of educational books that can help the student's to become more knowledgeable and competent. The school must have science and computer laboratory for their students to experience hands on activities.

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The quality of school and classroom physical environment is connected to the educational performance of the students because it serves as their motivation to improve their learning capability.

We all know for a fact that a school that has a good environment is a much better place to study with and it can increase the development of creative and critical thinking skills of the teacher's and student's.

"Make the classroom environment a learning laboratory, an active workshop for discovery." - Unknown

A poem for my Mother

MAMA

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You've been a great mother to me
Teaching many things that others never did to me
And so I write to you this poem today
That the lord may bless you everyday

Through the years of hard work and success
You've always been there for this girl whom you love and spoil
And now I'm a lady whom you trained in the past
Though sometimes there are misunderstandings and fights

Anyway, I just want to say
THANK YOU, my mother for always being there for me
For without your teachings I'd be lost today
But because of you and God by my side
Maybe I will find the bravery inside

The strength to ignore every personal attack
That my enemies throw at me and I might just lack
And so to you the WORLD'S BEST MOM
I will say I LOVE YOU till the last beat of my heart. <3 

Every Child is Special

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I have watched a lot of Hindi movies but there is one movie that really caught my attention and heart, this movie made me laugh, smile, sing, and cry. 

Every Child is Special is a movie that touched my heart and at the same time it brings me hope that having dyslexia is not a desperate situation.  It is about a boy named Ishaan Awasthi, who was simply always getting in trouble at school for being so misbehaving and out of focus from his classes. Ishaan's father, Nandkishore Awasthi, is is a successful executive who is expecting too much from his children to excel in their studies. His mother, Maya Awasthi, a housewife who is frustrated because she is lacking abilities to education her sons especially Ishaan. Ram Nikumbh, an alternative art teacher who payed attention and understand Ishaan after he discovered that Ishaan has dylexia and consequently turned his life around and change the way Ishaan would act towards school and figure out how to appreciate himself even more.

Ishaan's character in the movie is a student who cannot cope with the academic demand in his school. He is fond of imagining things that out of this world that a normal child couldn't imagine. Because of Ishaan's poor understanding in every lesson in school, his teacher talk to his parents. That's why his father decided to send him in a boarding school but Ishaan's academic status doesn't improved instead he became loner and he is always skipping classes and crying because he misses his family so much. Then there comes the alternative art teacher named Nikumbh, he voluntarily and patiently teach Ishaan to read and write properly. And also he is the one who discovered that Ishaan has the potential and talent in painting. Teacher Nikumbh organized a painting contest where in all the teachers and students in the school are the participants including Ishaan. Ishaan is the declared winner in the competition and his work of art becomes the cover of their school's yearbook. After that his father became proud of him.

The movie made me realized that every child is different and they have their own ways of learning. Every child is a unique individual who has his/her own strenghts and weaknesses. These strenght might be in english, math, science, sports, etc. But being intelligent is not limited with academic excellence, but it's also be in the form of special skills and innate talent like being good in art (like Ishaan who has a talent in painting). The movie also emphasizes the importance of family's support, guidance and understanding. 

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"Every Child is Special" is a must watch movie because it tackles a lot of social issues that is really happening in real life and maybe a lot of students and teachers are experiencing it. It is definitely a life moving movie that will surely made you realized that every child is unique in their own ways and every child is indeed special. 

The Power to Time Travel

Have you dream to have the power of invisibility so that you can go in any places that you want without people noticing you?, have you dream to have the power to control  time so that you will be able to stop, rewind, or fast forward everything in your life?, or have you dream to have the power to have an eternal life so that you will never get old and you will not die?. Whether we admit it or not and for what ever reason, we all came to a point in our lives where we dream to have those powers. 

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If I would be given a chance to have a power, it would be the power to time travel. I would like to go back to my childhood years, wherein I don't have major problems in life to deal with, wherein the only person that I think about is myself, wherein all the attention and time of my parents are all mine, wherein imagination is the limit, wherein there is no drama and fake people, wherein I don't care what I look like, wherein I can do whatever I want to without being judge or criticize,  wherein I don't care if other people would like me, and wherein it's easier to heal wounds than broken hearts. 

Childhood years are the best years in life. You must enjoy it while it lasts because you only live once so you better live your life to the fullest. You will never ever take back a time that has been lost so you have to seize every second and every minute of your life so that you won't have any regrets when it's already gone.

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If you would have given a chance to have a power, what would it be? And why?

A night to Reminisce

Aside from a fairy tale wedding one of the greatest dream of a  girl is to have a debut party, because this is the time where you will feel you are special, people will treat you like a princess and you are the center of attraction. Back when I was a little girl, I don't have any idea on what a debut is or what happened in a debut party. Until my cousins, neighbors and high school friends invited me to their debut parties.. and I became part of their 18 candles and 18 treasure/gift. From that moment, I got ideas what is debut party is and I also dream to have my own debut party.

When the year 2013 started, I already have plans in my mind on what will be the theme and on what will going to happen on my party. Even though I haven't discuss it with my family, I already made up my mind that I will going to have a party. Until the month of April comes,  my eldest brother who is now a graduate and who is now working on a restaurant discuss to the family on what will going to happen on my debut. "Ako naman sobrang excited kase matutupad na yung pangarap ko na maicelebrate yung debut ko. Haha" The day after that talk, we go to Marikina Youth Camp to have my "Pre-debut photo shoot", I am so happy during that time because I love to pose to the camera and to take pictures and I am a frustrated model. Through the help of my talented college friends namely Yeye, Marcris, Abby, Pattar and Marex my dream photo shoot become a reality. After the photo shoot, I finalize all the details for my invitation because Marex will be the one who will make my invitation. (Super laki ng utang na loob ko kay Marex during that time, kung di dahil sa kanya wala akong invitation. Haha)  Then we go to Divisoria to canvass for the gown that I will going to wear and to buy stuffs that we will use for my debut like balloons, candles, ribbons, utensils, tokens, etc. Two weeks before I turn 18, I distribute my invitations to my friends and classmates so that they will still have the time to prepare.

At last, my most awaited day come... sobrang aga kong nagising kahit gabi pa naman yung party ko, hindi ko alam kung sobrang excited lang ako or what. Hahaha! I check if all the things that we will use for my debut are complete. Then my cousin who is a hair and make up artist arrive at our house, she starts to do my hair and make up. By 6-6:30 pm, my friends, relatives and classmates are starting to arrive at the place which held my debut. 7 PM naaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! This is it, eto na talaga yon! Rak na. Party! Party! HAHAHA After my grand entrance, we started the ceremony with a prayer then we proceed to 18 shots where in my Tita's are in the entourage. "wag ka munang mag bo-boyfriend... tapusin mo muna yung pag aaral mo kase pag nakatapos ka madali na lang yung paghahanap nun", those were the words that they kept on saying in their mesages for me (gusto ko sanang sabihin sa kanila na.. as if I have a boyfriend naman mga Tita. HAHA) Then we moved on to 18 treasures where in the entourage is my college and high school closest friends who knows me well so that they will not going to find it hard to think for a gift that suits for me. (hindi ako nagkamali sa pagpili sa kanila pero binuking nila ang mga sikreto ko sa harap ng family ko! hahaha) After the 18 teasures, my classmtes perform a song number for me and after that it's eating time. while the visitors eats their food, I roam around to take some pictures with them and to ask them if they're having fun. The 18 candles follows and the entourage is my cousins, they give touching messages for me which made me cry a river. The last part of the ceremony is the 18 Roses, and this is the highlight of most debut party. My cousins, my college classmates, my best friend, my 2 big brothers and my Father is in the 18 Roses entourage. Unfortunately one of my classmate wasn't able to be part of the entourage because he is in the province, but my college friends surprised me because they invited my crush who is a 4th year education student that time. Actually I already invited him but he said that he will going to have a vacation on his province that's why he won't be able to attend my party. So I got shock when I saw him because I wasn't expecting that he will be coming. He becomes the substitute of my classmate, he is my 15th dance. I can't remember a thing while we are dancing, and I haven't utter a word or two during that time. It feels like I'm in heaven "wala pa sa kalahati nang naramdaman ko sa first dance ko nung JS Prom". After the 18 Roses, they lit the candles of my birthday cake and they sing a birthday song for me. I made a wish then I blow my birthday candles. My parents give me a heart warming message that made me cry a river again because I was so touched by their message.

For once in my life, I've experienced to be the center of attraction, to be special to all the people, to be a princess and I was able to feel the overflowing love from the people whom I care and love. Even though my party is not that elegant like other people's debut party, I really had fun and  I enjoyed it. I will never ever
forget this very special day of my life. A night to reminisce.