Is It Just a Crush? (A Crush [talk] on TED [.com])

 

(If your a dude, just read it in a dude's view by changing gender related text to your liking but in your mind only not in technical terms like actually changing what I wrote here )

This video I embedded is one of the videos from TED.com where Mr. John Rives is telling a story using many different emoticons that show how a boy… or a man tried to impress a girl who passed by that he seemed to like but has some problems in achieving his –let’s call it– “wish”, so he tries to and just when things seem to be looking… okay, he says, “I’d like to hand-paint your picture on a coffee mug.” Oh jeezeys wheezeys! Of all the things you could say to a person you’d like, you say… “I’d like to hand-paint your picture on a coffee mug.” So yeah, he tries to impress the girl who he freakin’ likes in a way that she doesn’t freakin’ care about because she goes, “whaaa-?” Then after more of the I’m-trying-to-impress-you-in-a-way-that-you-don’t-want-to-be-impressed talk, he calls himself a monkey. A freakin’ monkey. Who calls himself a monkey in front of the person he likes? NOW, here comes the nice part. He makes a metaphor and calls the girl a butterfly. How sweet is that? I’d really like to hear that from a guy. He was sweet for that, so he eventually asks her out, but what did the girl say? She says, “No thank you” without even smiling a bit or at least frowning. A harsh girl was liked by the wrong man, poor dude.

So let’s get to what I want to say, what I want to say is that sometimes, if you like someone, you get the feeling where you seem to do nothing that’s right, so you get all nervous and start to act stupid around that person (even if you act stupidly around everybody, the way you would act around that person is still different compared to how you usually act stupid around others). You could call it whatever you want to call it, but I’ll call it a simple crush.

A crush (I’m referring to the crushes we have on other people not on things) is what we get when we take our time staring at a person, had to have similarities with a person, or when we just simply like that person for no apparent reason… at all… not even one. In the site kids health.org (whose URL is http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/thought/crushes.html) , an article there says that, “A crush is a word used to describe special feelings you have for another person, a classmate, or friend that you really like.” Crushes happen, life is a package and in that package, there we’ll find crushes, we can’t avoid having them.

Crushes are there for a reason (and I mean the right reason) because they sometimes just go next to you and spontaneously combust a conversation concerning you and no one else and this event will be the most memorable of the day because if ever you were feeling sad, he made you happy and you would then start to be happy around other people too.  If you really like that guy, you would probably just look at him and then if he would look back, your day would be completada. No need for other people to look back at you? NADA, nada, nada. Then it’s either you start to smile a lot or start to talk gibberish or feel like you’re flying or you feel like you’re so so soooo light or any other perk that comes with the express ticket you’ve purchased for a trip to Crush town.

So if ever you…  

·Have Cooties

·Feel as light as a feather

·Can’t stop looking at your phone just to see if he texted you

·Can’t keep you mind, eyes, and words off of him

·Want to have a picture with him like a lot of pictures

·Want him to notice you

·(you know the rest, it’s up to you to continue the phrase)

                            ...then you have a crush on that “him” whoever “him” is for you. Just hope no one else likes your “him”.

If you find it hard to talk to him and sometimes you eventually go “gaga” over him, I present to you a step-by-step program to help you with your boy troubles.

Step 1 > Try to be yourself. TRY as hard as you can. You’re the one who’s gonna have problems later ‘cause you wanted to lie and be his Ms Perfect.

Step 2 > Remember, you like him, no love him.

Step 3 >Don’t let everyone know about it unless you want yourself to let “himself” know that you like him.

Step 4>Hope for the best if you know what’s best for you.

So now let me end my blog post with my “blogly” poem… :D

If I knew what to do,

I would have told you

If you cared about me

I guess there’s no one I’d rather be

If you liked me enough

You’d see past all my fluff

And I’d see past all your buff (body buff, as in “machoness")

Then know that if you really didn’t, it’s tough

But it’s just a crush anyway

I’ll just have to find another someday...T_T

(Sorry to be so sad and moody if you think that I am):P

(Image Links)

http://www.sodahead.com/living/calling-all-girls-do-you-have-a-crush-on-a-guy/question-603377/?link=ibaf&imgurl=http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000603377/polls_Crush_fotm_4214_817490_poll_xlarge.jpeg&q=Have%2Ba%2BCrush

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McIcey + McCreamy= McIceCreamy

 Yep, it’s McIceCreamy. What is it with ice cream and why the heck am I talking about it? Look, I’m sorry if I’m getting you hungry, but I happen to like ice cream you know and I hope you like it too. See, ice cream comes in thousands of flavors and one of the weirdest flavors I’ve heard of is… Horse Flesh ice cream. “Really?” you say. Well, yes. There really is horse flesh ice cream. Just by the sound of raw horse flesh flavored ice cream makes me quite nauseous. Ice cream shouldn’t be wasted with horse flesh or whales or octopi or tuna. Ice cream should have nutty or creamy or non-meaty flavors. These nutty, creamy or non-meaty ice cream flavors are what I’ll be blogging about so don’t you worry.

                 What is ice cream really? Ice cream is something frozen that is quite sweet when fruity but would probably not be like that if there is a bucket of horse flesh ice cream waiting to be tasted and eaten.

                Ice cream. We eat it, we let it float on our sodas, we put it in our mouth and try to withstand its very cold temperature, we love the little nuts that come with it, we sometimes even add cherries and bananas on top. What is it with ice cream? Why is it so fun to eat? Why is it so yummy (The nutty, creamy or non-meaty flavored ice cream is what I’m talking about)? We love it so much because it can be as simple or as complicated as we want it to be. It can simply be some strawberry ice cream with no bits, no sprinkles, or it can be a complicated dish of… Triple Chocolate Terrine with Raspberry Coulis. It’s your mood that helps you pick one of the many thousands of flavors there are. Whether you get a simple vanilla ice cream cause you’re feeling a bit plain, or you’re getting a chewy, crunchy, and mallowee rocky road ice cream, you will still enjoy these freakishly delicious ice creams and their freakishly tasty flavors. They have their way in making a person happier by the bite or suck or whatever you call the way you eat your ice cream (sometimes, you sip if the ice cream's already melted). These ice creams are there when you’re sad, when you’re with your friends, when you’re with your significant other, when you're sharing your pieces of information with each other, when you don't know what to eat, when you know what to eat but you don't eat it because you like ice cream more, or just when you came from a fight with your best friend or neighbor.  Ice cream seems to be the type of snack you would want (and I’m not saying that I‘ll be eating it during my snack time) to have when it’s hot or when it’s boring or sad. Ice cream’s there to let you eat it and then feel a bit better. 

With the many flavors of ice cream available all around. There is also that one flavor, that one special flavor, that for you, it’s the one you want the one flavor you think that best suits you and it’s the one that you will keep on seeking and craving for after you eat it. Every one of us has it. Every single one has a favorite ice cream flavor.

My favorite ice cream flavor is probably Black Forest, mainly because I really like that Oreo taste with the addition of cherries. Sometimes I even like experimenting and start making my very own Cherry and Banana ice cream which I’d name Hubaba ice cream if I had the chance to recreate it again.

So, how about you? What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

I hope this poem will help you answer my question,

A nut and a berry for you

Put it in some ice cream, don’t worry no one will sue

If you want it, go and eat it

Also go add a wafer and add a choco-bit

Choose Strawberry, melon, maybe mango or milk

Don’t forget to wipe your mouth with a napkin that’s silk

Try some syrup or some caramel to go

If you wanted to, you could just say so

Remember to try some marshmallows too

But don’t try to put in some of the glue

Don’t forget the Cherry and the Banana

Like my blog whose name is also Hubaba

 Here are the links of the images I used:

http://www.who-sucks.com/food/101-frightening-ice-cream-flavors-from-around-the-world

http://beyondwonderful.com/recipes/desserts/other/terrine_chocolate_raspberry_coulis.html

http://www.healthforthewholeself.com/2010/02/serving-size-distortion/

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Black-Forest-Ice-Cream-Pie

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Yours, Mine, Our Sexuality

Sexuality. What comes into your mind if you hear the word sexuality? Is it sex? Is it your gender? Is it your being a man/woman just because you’ve slept with lots of women/men? Is it just limited to the physical aspects that come into one’s mind when he/she thinks of sexuality?

Human sexuality is not just the things we see that are related to it. It actually has 2 aspects, (as stated by Fulton Sheen in the article, “Teenagers”) the material and ethereal, the seen and the unseen, the physical and spiritual. Human sexuality is not just the sex, it’s not just the being a man or a woman. It’s how one becomes a man/woman. It’s when a man is one who would allow a woman to sit down before he does. It’s when a woman would try to make herself look pretty for a big party. Human sexuality is when a man/woman follows his/her natural human instinct intended for him/her. It’s not only the purely sexual instinct that he/she follows. 

How exactly does human sexuality affect my age group, the teenagers?

Teenagers today look at sexuality as “when two people meet together… in bed” when it’s not supposed to be JUST that. Sex is not the only thing that human sexuality covers. In the Christian (oh sorry I forgot to mention, I am a Catholic) point of view, sex is for married couples and it is supposed to be that way for a good reason. Premarital sex is supposed to be avoided because there are so many sexually transmitted diseases out there that a person could get because he/she didn’t take into consideration the possibility that his/her bed mate isn’t a virgin and had hundreds if not tons of other people go into her/his body. The possibility of not getting the disease is quite low if a freakin’ condom doesn’t fulfill its sole purpose and if the other contraceptives out there don’t work and end up giving the next person an STD. Yeah sure, don’t worry about having a lot of sex. Who gets hurt in the end? It’s the person who didn’t listen to all those school talks about what not to do, the person who didn’t listen to his/her teachers’ warnings about premarital sex. Sometimes, it’s not only the person who gets hurt. Sometimes, also the “fruit” of two people’s mistakes will suffer. A baby’s life will be jeopardized. A baby’s future will be wasted, and if not dealt with in a good way, a baby would grow up like his “mommy and daddy”.  How pitiful these children are, yet pity doesn’t help them. It’s their mothers and fathers who can and must help them, but instead they run. Running away from problems becomes the only thing they can do.

Why would there be so many teenage mothers? Why is it that many children are left unborn? Why would a mother give up her child? It’s because of the big mistake people make specially those who are young. It’s when they do it JUST because it’s done by others. Somethings should be done for the right reasons and not for reasons concerning one’s status in the society (either being a virgin or one who’s had sex).

Why can’t a person’s virginity be saved for the right person at the right moment? As my teacher has said to me and my classmates one time, “your virginity is the best gift you can give to your husband or wife.” These things our teachers put into our young and ignorant minds should serve as the stepping stones we use to survive and live a meaningful life and in life the best things we need shall always come at the right time or at the right moment.

As usual, I’d like to end everything with a short poem:

A boy sat on a bench and said

This time I’m really getting you into bed

The girl refused so they bickered and fought

And everything didn’t go just as they had thought

Human sexuality must always be valued

Lessons should stick with us remaining unglued

Things have to be done at the right time

Doing what’s right will save you from the crime

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Part of His Term’s Ten-Point Agenda is Two More Years in the Basic Education Cycle

Before I give my opinion on this particular topic, let me expound the details of it. First, the ten-point agenda is all about the improvement of the Philippine’s education system. There are ten main points, one of which is the 12-year Basic Education Cycle. According to barriosiete.com, this will supposedly expand the basic education system to a more globally-comparable twelve years instead of the ten-year basic education system we have now. 

Hmm… this means that a school year will be added to the elementary and to the high school level. Whoop’tee’doo that means parents will actually suffer more, and based to how most Filipinos are suffering now, how do the people [who thought of this] think this will help them?  We’ve all heard about the higher possibility of going abroad and stuff like that if the 12 year education cycle is implemented, but how would Filipinos go abroad if in high school or even in elementary, people won’t graduate and won’t be able to reach and graduate from college due to financial problems and the like. How would something be an improvement when it’s actually going to be the root of the problem? Sure, go add a year more to elementary and high school. Sure, don’t consider the fact that the funds given to DepEd will not be entirely used for their purpose.  Sure, go for it. Go for the total financial loss of thousands of Filipino families who planned to pay for a 6 years elementary (excluding kindergarten) and 4 years high school’s worth of funds. If some of you don’t get my point, I’m being ironic and I’m using irony because I am starting to get irritated by this decisions people make now a days.  

Let me quote what Christopher Bernido said. It goes "If you go from the 10-year to the 12-year cycle, it's like jumping from the frying pan to the fire. It will be a complete disaster."He’s actually right. We are currently in the frying pan, where we are already okay. Why must we go away from somewhere we are okay to a point where we would get burned? There are just so many other ways to improve the education system like Mr. Christopher Bernido (favorite person of this blog) has also said that the DepEd needs to focus on improving the quality of teachers before adding years to the cycle which is very right. The problem is not with the number of years that a kid would spend going to school, the problem is with the teachers (not all but most). Imagine having an English teacher who would, most of the time, be grammatically wrong. For cherries’ and bananas’ sakes! An English teacher can’t and is not supposed to teach English to a young child if he/she would be teaching that child the wrong things to say. It would be better if improvement of the quality of teachers comes first before the addition of 2 years in high school and elementary.

We’ve just seen the bad side of the Ten-point agenda. Let’s see the nice points too.  Yes indeed, the ten-point agenda is not that bad. There are also many programs that could help children and their many problems regarding books, increase the reading proficiency of children, help in the rationalization of mediums of instruction,  help in building more schools, help in assisting private schools, increase the proficiency in Math and Science, bring technical vocational education as an alternative stream in senior high school, make the Madaris education as a sub-system within the education system, and have the universal pre schooling for children. This ten-point agenda’s “points” seem to be nice solutions to the educational problems of the country, but it would not work well if not done right. The more pressing issues should be dealt with first with the surely successful solutions before those issues to be dealt with points in the agenda that would not be surely successful if implemented. It’s like trying to clean a polluted river. You must clean the upstream first before cleaning the downstream. If you clean the downstream first, the polluted water from the upstream would, again, pollute the cleaned downstream.

Here’s the poem I would like to share with you:

A twelve point agenda may be what we need

To control most problems it might be the one seed

That brings forth the longed for and fruitful tree

And from our educational problems we’ll be set free.

Will Noynoy know what to do?

Will he save the future for me and you? (if you’re a Filipino student)

All we can do is hope for the best

And this 12 year education cycle be implemented on the rest.

I hope I’ll graduate as a fourth year.

To go to fifth year, this is exactly what I fear.

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