Yesterday, the tropical storm named "Ondoy" by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), wreaks havoc to all the places that it passed by as it moves through Luzon.Me and my family personally experienced it's devastating force as it passed by out town, trees are plucked from the ground, part of our roof got blown-off by the force of the wind, and water came in and flooded part of our house. But compared to other places I can say that what we have...

Somewhere in Georgia back in the 1800's a poor farmer and his wife were expecting their 5th child. The farmer knew that he and his wife could not provide for this child because crops had been bad that year and he could barely feed his family of six.When the wife went into labor the farmer called for the doctor. Unknown to the wife, the farmer and the doctor had already made arrangements to get rid of the baby. Their plan was to take the baby...

DEFINITIONAn urban legend, urban myth, or urban tales is a form of modern folklore with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing or horror. It's consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them., the term is often used to mean something akin to an "apocryphal story" involving incidents of the recent past. Like all folklore, urban legends are not...

Due to problems with my Internet connection I wasn't able to update my blog for a long time, but now with a new Internet Service Provider, I am back. The long period of being offline gave me time to think of other topics I want to share here in the owlery, starting with this topic.Last week news came out, stating that the Philippines would face a problem with power shortage as announced by the Secretary of the Department of Energy Angelo Reyes.In a budget hearing at the House of Representatives,...

PROBLEMSProblems, everybody has them, no body is exempted from having problems. Whoever you maybe or whatever you do, you would always face problems everyday. It doesn't matter how big your problem is, what matter is how you tackle these problems to come-up with a solution. Problem solving is one of those abilities that allegedly distinguishes human beings from other animals. Though many creatures can solve problems, and some even uses tools,...

FEARFear is an emotional response to a threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. Some Psychologists John B Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that fear is one of a small set of bsic or innate emotions. This set also includes such emotions as joy, sadness, and anger. Fear should be distinguished from the related emotional state of anxiety, which...

GREEDGreed is defined in the dictionary as an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.Greed is the excessive or rapacious desire and persuit of money, wealth, power. It is generally considered a vice, and is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholicism.Buddhist believe greed is based on incorrectly- connecting material wealth with happiness. This is caused by a view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an object;...

SLOGAN ORIGINA slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish and Irish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, sluagh meaning "army", "host" and gairm meaning "cry". The battle cry of the Old Highland clans were said to be the name of the clan or the leader of the clan, repeated again and again by the soldiers in unison as they...

HUMAN HEADIn humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined...