I'm stuck

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 09:54

MARK ANTHONY ASINAS, the contributor, is from UP-Diliman. He normally does most of his articles very late at night or even up to early mornings. Mark is a DOTA addict and hates calculus with a burning passion.

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LIKE FIREFLIES playing in the cold dark night, lights flashed before my eyes. As I looked up the heavens, the stars glowed as if telling me something that words could not express. But I understood the message it gave me, in the same way I did not ...

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To be loved by an angel

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 09:31


CHRISTINE MAY DOMINGO, the contributor, put as her ‘status’ in her Facebook account “ay masamang tao.”  (You, too, can have your articles published here. Send them through e-mail to OurHappySchool@yahoo.com)

ONE BUSY MONDAY MORNING, I went to the market to shop for fresh ingredients of the whole week’s menu. I hate getting midway through a recipe and not being able to finish because I ran out of staple ingredient so I was very cautious as I peruse my list ...

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SOME LESSONS IN LIFE

Submitted by admin on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:43


Editor’s note: This poem by an award-winning author teaches, among others, that some important lessons in life can be learned from the simple things around us. Happy reading!

THE WORLD IS A SCHOOL OF SORT –
a place to learn a lot of things;
From dawn till dusk to another morn
life’s varied wisdom richly springs.


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RESOLVED: Perfect world is a perfect bore

Submitted by admin on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:36

THE SECTION NAMED “PRELUDE” of the best-seller book Life 101 asks the intriguing question, “What if life were perfect?” Intriguingly enough, the authors surmise the most probable scenarios should we live in a perfect world:

            “What if you live in a perfect world of perfect people and perfect possessions, with everyone and everything doing the perfect thing at the perfect time?

            What if you had everything you wanted, and only what you wanted, exactly as you wanted, precisely when you wanted it?

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Philippine Automated Election May 10, 2010: VOTERS' experiences, complaints, assessments, etc.

Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 03:26

WHAT'S YOUR EXPERIENCE in this HISTORICAL PHILIPPINE ELECTION? How would you want it to be RECORDED in HISTORY?

Let us CHRONICLE our EXPERIENCES for the NEXT GENERATIONS to know!

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Their ‘sacred’ cow!

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 02:48


Contributed by RAMIL SEBASTIAN, a Zoology major from Davao City, Philippines. (You, too, can have your articles published here. Send them through e-mail to OurHappySchool@yahoo.com)

COW IS THE ANIMAL that has something to do with the death of the mother of the well-loved American president Abraham Lincoln.

No, Mrs. Nancy Hanks Lincoln was not attacked, let alone devoured, by any of these domesticated herbivorous mammals that constitute the genus Bos, of the family Bovidae.

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Losing one's nose for mathematics

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 02:41

Allan S. Galang, the contributor, is taking up BS Education Major in Mathematics at the University of the East, Manila, Philippines.(You, too, can have your articles published here. Send them through e-mail to OurHappySchool@yahoo.com)

TYCHO BRAHE, THE DANISH ASTRONOMER who made comprehensive astronomical measurements of the solar system and whose data were used by his assistant, Johannes Kepler, to formulate his (Kepler) laws of planetary motion, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation.

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The frogs called humans

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 02:15


TOPICS DISCUSSED: Anatomy; Animal Communication; Animal Behavior

IN THE PHILIPPINES AT LEAST, seldom would you find a college graduate who in his school days did not experience to dissect a frog in biology laboratory. Being cheap and relatively easier to find, frogs are usually used to teach students about the anatomy and physiology of vertebrates, or animals that have a backbone. Vertebrates as we are, we humans have anatomical and physiological features that basically resemble that of the frog.

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FEWER OR LESS?; DIFFERENCE OR DIFFERENTIATION?

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 08:52

The Encarta Dictionary Tools (Microsoft® Encarta® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation) clarifies the correct distinctive usage for each term:

“fewer or less?

As a general rule, fewer is used with things you can count (fewer meetings, fewer people), whereas less is used with things you cannot count (less time, less money). The same difference applies to the use of fewer than and less than: fewer than twenty people, less than an hour.

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'Filipino English'

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 08:44

American English, British English, and Australian English, among others, are recognized by many as patent varieties of the English language and some can even distinguish the differences among these ‘brands’ of existing English. But what about Filipino English? 

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