The Lady with a Crown in the Philippines

Crown. They symbol of power, might and royalty. And when one wears a crown, he or she is expected to be good; to be the best; to be perfect. And with that greatness instilled in the mind of people as they look up to the one wearing the crown, he or she is envied.

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It has been known that great people talk about ideas and small people talk about other people. Though this saying is almost a cliche, still we choose to be the "small" people. It is somehow disappointing that it has become part of the Filipino culture. And i know for even an ordinary student like me can relate well.

Princess Diana, who wore a crown of royal blood, wass well loved by the commoners. Still an ordinary person caused her death. Venus Raj, who is with a crown of beauty. brought pride to our country through an international pageant. Still, she was remembered by her own kababayans not as the queen of Filipina beauty but the queen of "major-major" wrong answer. And Shamcey Sup-Sup who won the 3rd place of Miss Universe during the competition and she also brought as one of the gorgeous woman in our country.

It is just so disheartening how you can easily talk about other people's mistakes but can't face the fact you are being judgemental; how you can easily condemn other people's actions without looking at your own, and how you can easily spread rumor about other people without even verifying its veracity.

You see, the small ordinary people always try to pull those with crowns down. And if you are that person with a crown, prove your worth. On the contrary, if you are the small person, you better learn how to apologize. Because a simple 5 letter word which spells S-O-R-R-Y means a lot.

And as i've said, the person with a crown is envied - by envious people and by people who just have nothing to do but say something about different things - even if those things are nonsense and more so not true.

I may look at myself differently as another person sees me. And that may be true to you too. But anyhow, it doesnt really matter. What matters is how you look at yourself, may it be the way they look at yourself, may it be the way they look at you or not. You may have your friends and family around you the whole day. But at the end of each day, there is only one person who constantly stays with you: that's YOURSELF. Trust yourself more than anybody else, more than your fans, or your paparazzis.

And be yourself, not because they want you to be but because you are happy being that person. Don't mind those people whom you can't please because actually, you can't please because actually, you can't really please everybody.

Each of us is a royalty in our own ways. So, what are you still doing out there? Tie your cape on carry your scepter, and wear your crown. And, hey! Don't forget to smile and wave =)

Broadcast Yourself at Youtube

Justin Bieber, Marie Digby, Maria Aragon, Charice Pempengco. Ever heard of these names? I'm sure you have! They have been around the globe performing with superstars and putting their names on the limelight. Thay are not superstars just because they are famous

and talented rather, they have something prosaic. If you try to correlate all the circumstances between these prominet individuals, you can decipher the code leading to their popularity and the reason for their acclaimed reputations. It is not because of the wits, not the looks and definitely not because of money. It's because of YOUTUBE!

With just one click and their videos can soar up to 1,000,000 views and get discovered by Oprah, Lady Gaga or Usher.We cannot deny the fact that media has a great impact to an individual. It can either make or break somebody's image. Lots of videos uploaded on Youtube are not that great and entertaining; some are scandalous and complete waste of time. Is there a need for them to act indecently to get noticed? Do they need to upload videos that are rubbish in order to get 50,000 dislikes and 2,560 likes and get criticized? Seemingly, Youtube is not just a venue for wanna-be's, it also gives a negative impact to the society for it can be an instrument of bad publicity.

Let us face it, Youtube is not just a money-maker, it's a life changer. Thanks to Youtube, celeb  hopefuls became real celebrities.

We may think that the effects of technological advancements may be all bad, but in these predicaments, we stand corrected. Youtube revolutionized the way people stream videos, adapted to the effects of technology to the society and gave a bit of excitement to the world of fantasy. Certainly, Youtube changes lives.

I wonder how Youtube could change my life.
Do you?

Facebook Addiction Disorder of Many People

Do you log into Facebook before you take a bath? Change your profile picture every 12 hours at minimum? "Like" every post that appears on your News Feed? Play a Facebook game til dawn just so your crops would not rot or your restaurant won't go dirty

or your pet would not die? Make a Facebook account for your pet cats and dogs? Or post a new status update every 3 minutes? Do you have Facebook Addiction Disorder?

 Facebook Addiction Disorder (or FAD) is simply being addicted to Facebook! This happens when you cannot eat, talk, laugh, breathe or simply live without Facebook. And yes, you should be worried.

The way technology has advanced over the years is something we cannot deny. And these advancements have lead to drastic changes in the way we communicate with other people, the way we organize activities, and the way we make our lives easier. Gone were the days when people actually greeted you "Happy Birthday!" personally; they had settle for a post on your wall. Gone too are the days when boys would visit you in your house as efforts to court a girl; now, they think their consistent "LIKES" and "WALL POST of sweet-talk" are already good enough to win a girl's heart.

We have learned the art of SPYING and STALKING other people's walls because confronting them about something needs a huge amount of confidence. And lastly, we have left behind our families because we have gone too busy keeping up with our FB accounts. Don't you see it? FACEBOOK is SLOWLY RUINING OUR LIVES!! But sadly, we still log in, we still post, we still comment, and still go on living the cyclical life of what we have become - addicted to.

But when we come to think of it, what has Facebook done wrong? Basically, the real problem here is us - the Facebook users. Facebook is a mere program, a form of entertainment that offers some positive aspects of living too. Facebook doesn't always give out negative results; it produces some good out of us every once in a while. The only problem is that these positive aspects are overshadowed by us and our capacity to overuse the essence of a simple thing. We need to control ourselves. Think again. Think hard.

What do we truly need to change? Moderation - that is what we need. I am not telling you to commit Facebook Suicide (therefore, deactivate your account). I am merely trying to shake your temporary stance into a more productive output. Talk to other people, share experiences and get to know them better, right way. Look at the mirror and realize that you don't need a good profile picture to prove that you are beautiful. Go out once in a while and see the world in a personal perspective while you still have the time; it might just look a whole lot better than in tagged pictures. Stop worrying about your crops, restaurants, fishes, or pets; try taking care of a real one instead! Stand up and stretch while we are still youg; because when we grow old, all we will ever be capable of doing is sitting down. Most importantly, spend ample amount of time with family because they matter the most.

Will you try to stop your addiction
Think again.

Why most of the programmers are men?

Do you know that the first programmer is a woman? Yes, it's true. The first programmer is a female named Ada Lovelace. She is mainly know for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general purpose computer,

the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmers" since she wrote programs that is, encoding an algorithm in a form that a machine could process; for a machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond more calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities. Ada Lovelace may be regarded as the first programmer; but if you have reae closely on some computer history books, she was supposed to be the leading programmer of Babbage's Analytical Engine which didn't really push through. The reason why she did not turn out to be as expected is that, she was merely a visionary rather than a hands-on programmer.

Ada Lovelace, though deemed as more of a visionary is still worth emulated because of the incomparable attitude she had shown as a woman programmer. It's now rare to see a woman possessing such a passion and devotion for such a brain strenuous work. Somehow, most of the women today don't have the same traits as Ada's. They prefer light jobs(on offense) rather than those jobs that really need a lot of personal attentin and sacrifice.

Women are more focused on the details and creativity than men. Men have a better ability to analyze things than women. No wonder why most of the men are programmers because men's focus is to analyze things logically, it's like: if (cubicle = no girl programmer)
   {System.out.ItatakSaBato("Company must hire a girl programmer!");}
    Else
   {System.out.ItatakSaBato("Boy is lonely without girl");}

Behind man's success is a woman. So, if a man is successful when a woman is there, how much more if a woman is there in the cubicle?
Anyway, legendary programmers are all male(including game developers), stereotypes of being geek or nerd is for male, and of course there is no web development or anything that is quite hard to do before. Most of it is low level programming which also include hardware engineering. Those people in IT are mostly bunch of geeky males. There are female programmers yet they are not so extreme compared to the male programmers, as they usually focus on web development and design; whereas, male programmers develop highly elaborate designs like games, firmware, drivers and other extreme development. Men are more patient in debugging codes that women. Men can survive sleepless nights and meal skips just for programs. It is also observe in colleges and high schools. Those who dominate in programming are males. Agree? Only few females love programs even though they are smart.

Techniques to solve programming problems

article by: -nonon-

PUT YOUR MIND ON
- First thing to remember in soloving programming problems is to put your thinking on to the problems or have a presence of mind. Focusing your thoughts on a single matter enables you to concretrate to the problem that needs to be solved.

RELAX AND STAY COOL
- Relaxing of one's mind will lead to cooling oneself; that's why, be calm if a programming problem is given so that it will not result to mental block which is a worst thing to happen in dealing with programming problems.

OPEN YOUR MIND
- Open your mind to all possible ideas. Don't just stick to one idea. Accept the ideas of others. Expand your ideas in the way you can. For one idea you can gather is already a big help for you to solve the problem.

GATHER INFORMATION
- In order to have stock knowledge, gather information. It will surely help you in looking at a programming problem in the right perspective and in determining the best solution. Futhermore, it can boost your confidence knowing that you know something that others don't know.

REASON OUT
- You must reason out why you come up with that answer to the problem you're working on. Most students fail to solve the problem because they don't have enough reasons to support and explain it.

ASK YOURSELF FIRST
- Before you ask other people on how to solve the proble, ask yourself first, How can i solve this problem? "This technique is self-proving whether you are really capable of solving the problem or not. Remember, a problem solved solely by you gives a sense of fufillment and confidence.

MAKE A SELF ASSESMENT
- Before and after solving a problem make a self assesment. Evaluate yourself whether you learn something new or not. Then, if you don't, it's up to you to determin what you need to do more basing on your evaluation.

MAKE AN ADVANCE STUDY
- Advanced studying is an upredictable key in solving a problem.You can never tell that the exact solution of the problem you are dealing with could come from the things you have studied in advance.

ENCOURAGE YOURSELF
- Each time you fail to solve the problems, don't give up. Never get discouraged with the failure. Instead, encourage yourself to put more effort to know that thing. It would be a great experience to learn interesting ideas which you don't know yet.

REMEMBER YOUR EXPERIENCE
- Every problem that you are able to solve is already a big achievement. Every learning form a failure is also a great achievement. Therefore, gain experience and learn from it. Experience is still the best teacher.