Hacker|Cracker

Technology: Now the best way to steal money, property and or identity!

Don’t get me wrong. This blog post won’t teach you how to steal, but this will teach you about our modern era where technology is at large and where it is widely used by everyone and populated by what we call Hackers and Crackers.

Let’s start of by differentiating simply the difference between Hackers and Crackers. If we use Star Wars as an example, Hackers are like the Jedi Knights. They have mysterious powers and abilities. They are in fact, GOOD Jedi Knights. Crackers on the other hand, are the bad Jedi Knights. They are the dark side of the force. Did you get the point? I sure hope so.

Hackers are people who enjoy looking at systems and finding the loopholes and corner cases and ways around that system. In simpler terms, hackers are people who who come up with new ways to install phone lines as well as people who figure out (not read up on) tricks to get into some of the most complex systems of all (computer systems).

A hacker is someone who ‘hacks’. However let’s get something straight, we are referring to hacking here which is different from breaking into things. Hacker is being used by almost everyone to refer to someone who breaks into computer systems. This has been going for almost over a 10 years now. Hacker is being used incorrectly. People who breaks into computer systems “illegally” is what we call Crackers. Hackers or hack or hacking is used to express admiration for the work of a skilled software developer. Hackers don’t break into security programs because they want to, instead, hackers are being hired by computer companies to test their security. They hire hackers and let them hack into their system to know if there’s a flaw or loophole to their companies security. If they were able to hack the system, then it will be reported to the company and the company will then again test and make a new one or a new solution on how the hackers were able to hack into their system. After which, they let the hackers hack into their computer system again. This goes on until the hackers won’t be able to hack into the system which mean that the system is up and ready.

Hackers and hacking has been negatively used by the mass media. Media’s current usage of the term may be traced back to the early 1980’s. During this time, even those in the computer community referred to computer intrusion as hacking. Hacking and hackers was use by the media with ‘criminal connotations’. That’s why, several people though of ways to differentiate such. They provided the alternative terms such as “black hat” and “cracker” to distinguish those performing criminal activities and those performing legal activities as we call “hack”. However, even though hackers has been differentiated from crackers, still, the media keeps on using hacker or hacking to distinguish criminal activities. Due to this, even the general public continue to describe computer criminals with all levels of technical sophistication as “hackers” and does not generally make use of the word in any of its non-criminal connotations.

As a result of this difference, the definition is the subject of heated controversy. The wider dominance of the pejorative connotation is resented by many who object to the term being taken from their cultural jargon and used negatively[6], including those who have historically preferred to self-identify as hackers. Many advocate using the more recent and nuanced alternate terms when describing criminals and others who negatively take advantage of security flaws in software and hardware. Others prefer to follow common popular usage, arguing that the positive form is confusing and unlikely to become widespread in the general public. A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify (or leave ambiguous) which meaning is intended. It is noteworthy, however, that the positive definition of hacker was widely used as the predominant form for many years before the negative definition was popularized.

“Hacker” can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically-oriented sense (as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense) as members of the computing community.

A possible middle ground position has been suggested, based on the observation that “hacking” describes a collection of skills which are used by hackers of both descriptions for differing reasons. The analogy is made to locksmithing, specifically picking locks, which — aside from its being a skill with a fairly high tropism to ‘classic’ hacking — is a skill which can be used for good or evil. The primary weakness of this analogy is the inclusion of script kiddies in the popular usage of “hacker”, despite the lack of an underlying skill and knowledge base

Considering all of this, A hacker COULD break into systems, but generally wouldn’t harm anything purposefully.

Did you know that without hackers, the computer revolution in the 1970’s is not going to be a reality that we enjoy and use nowadays? Did you know that Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs who were the founder of Apple Computer Co., were hackers? Even Bill Gates and Paul Allen who founded Microsoft, one of the many companies who pioneered the development of the computer age, were also hackers. By this, we now know that hackers don’t merely make intrusion into computer systems and stealing valuable information illegally.

Crackers on the other hand are a different kind of people. Crackers attack corporate and government networks big time. When media found out about this, they still used the term Hackers instead of Crackers. A Cracker is someone who breaks into someone else’s computer system, often on a network; bypasses passwords or licenses in computer programs; or in other ways intentionally breaches computer security. A Cracker can be doing this for profit, maliciously, for some altruistic purpose or cause, or because the challenge is there. Some breaking-and-entering has been done ostensibly to point out weaknesses in a site’s security system.

Now that we know the differences between Hackers and Crackers, let’s not misuse these terms next time we use it. Also, check your computers, be sure that your computer is firewall ready from all Crackers out there. May these information that I’ve provided in this blog be an eye opener for all. Because now, the world wide web isn’t safe anymore. Who knows, your personal information might be circulating somewhere already. Or worse, your identity is being used by another person to do bad things. Be careful on what you put on the internet. Don’t use lame passwords that are easy to crack and easy to be guessed by other people. Use passwords that contain numbers and letters. There are password strength indicators in the internet, check if your password is strong enough. Regarding the I forgot password option, don’t use secret question that is connected to you and such. That could give a clue to your password. Don’t spill too much information on the net. Also, be sure that who you’re talking to is a trustworthy person because he might be the one that could ruin your internet and real life forever. When registering to websites, be sure to read the terms and conditions, license agreements and everything specified in that website. Check if it’s a secure site and such because there are a lot of scam sites already. Don’t be dumb! Open your eyes! Read read read! You’re identity is at stake here, even your life!

Technology: Now a part of our lives. It could help us, however, it could also destroy us

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Sources:

Wikipedia.org
Samiam.org
White and Blue Magazine

Halloween Treat

Baguio City is known for its cold and relaxing weather. It’s been called as the Summer Capital of the Philippines. Do you know why? Well of course you do, but for some who don’t, it’s called Summer Capital because during summer, people tend to go to Baguio City to cool themselves of because of heat in the lowlands and because of the cold weather in Baguio City.

But do you know that Baguio City is also home to paranormal events. A lot of Philippine ghost stories come from Baguio City. I myself experienced some during my stay in Baguio City.

There’s this hotel that was abandoned for many years now. It’s been deserted and all precious items and designs to the hotel were already ruined. What you would see now is just destroyed bricks, destroyed walls, destroyed rooms, destroyed bathrooms, well you get the idea. This hotel is called, the DIPLOMAT HOTEL.

The Diplomat Hotel

The Diplomat Hotel is located at Dominican Hill, Baguio City. It’s believed to be haunted. In the early 1900’s, it was bought by Dominican Friars from the American owners. Now, it’s been abandoned due to the war that raged here in the Philippines.

On May 1911 the Council of Dominican Order decided to erect a rest house in a 17 hectares place that was called Dominican Hill for the terminally ill patients in Baguio City. The first building was inaugurated on May 23, 1915.

On June 1915 Collegio del Santissimo was opened to the public because of tax exemptions during the time. But it was closed after 2 years and became a vacation house sanitarium. When the World War II started, this is where the refugees stayed. The Japanese Army Liberation Forces bombed the place and a lot of nuns and priests were beheaded and murdered.

After the war, the Dominican Hill was reconstructed in 1947-1948. In 1973, the property was purchased by the Diplomat Hotel Inc. and remodelled the interior and turned it into a 33-bedroom hotel. From the start of the opening of the hotel a lot of guests didn’t stay long for the reason that they’ve been seeing ghosts in their rooms. There were screams and howlings heard along the hallways. Until now, some of the residents in the Dominican Hill had testified of hearing screams and howlings from the hotel.

The hallways of the hotel

The fountain view of the stairs going to the second floor.

So now, let’s proceed to my story. My friends and I went to the Diplomat Hotel last August 2006 around 5:00 pm. It’s been 2 years since we went there. There’s a guard watching the Diplomat Hotel. Just one. His guard house was located at the gate of the hotel, well duhh. It’s just a very small guard house where you could just stand and sit. The thing is that you won’t be able to enter the Diplomat Hotel when you couldn’t get pass through the guard because it’s the only way. The guard won’t allow you to enter especially if you’re just teenagers. Unless you bribe him with something like liquor or think of a very silly excuse that is believable. So what we did is to tell him that we’re visiting the hotel to do a little investigatory project on it. Kind of like a science project on spooky stuff. He wasn’t buying the excuse so we showed our university ID and such then he let us go in. Finally.

The entrance to the lobby of the Diplomat Hotel

So there we are, walking inside. We felt eerie things while we are walking. As we went inside, you would see that everything has been destroyed and all. We first roamed the first floor. Walked inside every room. Walking inside the halls and inside a room will give you goose bumps. At first, we didn’t encounter paranormal things. So then we proceeded to the second floor.

Second Floor – Restaurant

The second floor consists of rooms; of course it’s a hotel, and a restaurant of some sort. We took pictures as we proceeded from one place to another, one room to the next, one side to the next one. After that, we went directly to the third floor and me taking a video footage since we entered the gates up to the last. While we were walking through the stairs going to the third and last floor, I was still taking a video of the whole thing. So as I was in the middle of the stairs, I stopped the video recording for awhile and watch if everything’s going well and if I captured something strange. I blasted the volume to maximum and full screened the video. So there I was in the middle of the stairs watching the video while one of my friends watched it with me. Until it came up to the video footage of me walking up the stairs and shooting a video of the guard walking through the second floor. Then a scary thing happened. When I’m watching the video, I’ve heard myself talking in the video; however there was a second voice. I was not shouting or anything and it’s impossible that it’s an echo because there’s no hallow place there and it’s an open place. There I heard a voice copying my voice. Here’s the dialogue:

Me: Ayan na yung guard oh!
Unknown Voice: Ayan na yung guard oh!
Me: Papunta na siya dito!
Unknown Voice: Papunta na siya dito!
Me: Tara na sa third floor dali!
Unknown Voice: Tara na s third floor dali!
End

The picture below shows where the voice and where I captured the video:

So after I watched and heard that video, I was frightened and so is my friend. We ran to the view deck of the hotel with the others. However, we didn’t tell them the story yet so that they won’t freak out. They were just wondering why we ran to them.

When we were in the view deck, a friend of mine who has a third eye noticed something weird. He pulled me and told me that he saw a ghostly and shadowy appearance on the cross (there’s a cross in the middle-side of the view deck) and the shadowy appearance jumped. So again I am almost freaking out but I maintained my composure. After that, my friend who saw it said that we’d better go down already.

After which, we went back to the first floor. We decided to get a picture of the fountains. There were two fountains. In the left, and in the right. It has 2 or 3 angels on it. However, heads were already removed.

Left Fountain (top), Right Fountain (bottom)

While we were taking a picture. A friend of mine heard a girl screaming. A lady more likely. So she went running outside screaming while I and another friend of mine remained in the fountain. Then the friend of mine went back to the fountain and told us what she heard. So everyone ran inside the lobby of the hotel. After that, every one of us heard the screaming and we went outside the hotel. We were so frightened and we were wondering on what and who was screaming. After that incident, some of use wanted to get out of the hotel already. But majority said that we should still visit the park or garden or whatever it is where there’s a lot of trees.

While we were walking through it, the guard told us that there were a lot of visitors who entered the hotel already and went through the park or garden. He said that some even had a camping there. For some, they were unlucky; they were never found and never came back until this day on.

Walking to the garden

We don’t know if it’s true but we’re already scared so we’re starting to believe it due to what happened inside the hotel. So we went to this place in the garden where there’s a big hole in it. The guard said that the hotel had a hidden underground passage where the people staying in the hotel could pass if ever the enemies would try to invade the place. But now, it’s not really clear if it’s still a hidden passage because it’s already filled with water and trash.

The hidden underground passage

After that, the friend of mine who has a third eye said that there’s a woman looking at us from a far. So we asked him if he’s just joking because we’re already scared as it is. He said he is not. He looked really serious to us so we believed him and we hurriedly went back in front of the hotel.

At the top part of the picture below is where my friend saw the woman

After that, we decided to visit the place where they usually held a mass. There’s a statue of a saint or some sort in there. The weird thing is that, the statue is black, really black. We don’t know if it’s really like that or someone ruined it to be like that.

Since I accidentally deleted the picture of the place, I took this from a website, credit goes to Sayote Queen

Well that’s the whole hotel. After that, we took the very last video of the hotel through my friend’s phone. This time, we decided to not watch it until we are far away from the hotel.

The last pictures taken from the Diplomat Hotel

We left the hotel around 6:00 pm or 6:30 pm. We decided to walk because there was no taxi passing by in that place. After we arrive in the highway, we departed in our own ways with different taxis. The next day, in class, the friend of mine who shot that last video of the hotel approached me and said that she captured a ghost in the video. When we were watching it closely, it appeared to be a bloody nun or a bloody woman standing just inside the window of the Diplomat Hotel. My friend sent me the video. Fortunately, my phone has the ability to play videos frame by frame. So there it is, we saw it clearly. We chose the best frame and took a snapshot of it using my phone. The snapshot is below. Feel free to see it.

The picture taken from my friend’s phone of the said ghost

So that’s the eerie experience that we had when we visited the Diplomat Hotel. I also have the proof of the voice copying ghost found in the middle part of my story. However, due to bad luck, the cellphone that contains the video proof was stolen last December 2006. Just months after the incident. So, I won’t be able to let you hear and watch the video. Sorry.

Regarding my story, it’s up to you to believe it. I don’t intend to say that you should believe me. I’m just sharing my story. It’s your free will to believe it or not.

Thank you for reading my third scary blog post. Keep visiting my blog for more. I’ll be posting more of this scary stuff until Halloween’s eve. See you soon.

Spooky!

It’s Halloween again. The time of the year where we frighten and scare the crap out of people. It’s the time of the year where television shows play the scariest films ever and re-enactment of scary stories that was told by people.Yearly, I try to watch MGB (Magandang Gabi Bayan). I don’t know if this show is still up and running. They re-enact ghost stories that they could find and it look so real that’s why I keep on watching it yearly. After watching, well, I go out and scare people. Haha. That’s just what I do. I don’t usually go trick-or-treating because I have no one to go with, besides, I don’t think that I’m still fit for that. So now I just do all the scaring part.

So what’s the true meaning of Halloween? Is it really just about scaring people? What’s the history behind Halloween?

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses”, carving Jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints’ official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.

History

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

History of name

The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows’ Even (both “even” and “eve” are abbreviations of “evening”, but “Halloween” gets its “n” from “even”) as it is the eve of “All Hallows’ Day”, which is now also known as All Saints’ Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.

Source: Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

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Ghost in Room S505

Anyway, now we know a little information about Halloween, I’d like to share a photo with you that was taken in a building named Diego Silang Building, room S525. When I first saw this photo, I was very scared due to the image of a girl standing at the back of the persons who are in this photo. (Names of persons involved will not be revealed due to private reason. Besides, I don’t know those people who are in the picture. Haha.)  This photo was sent to me by my friend. The photo below is the ORIGINAL COPY, I repeat, ORIGINAL COPY of the real photo. It was sent to my cellphone by Bluetooth. That is NOT EDITED. If you can see it clearly, there’s a girl at the back of this group, dressed in white. It has a black face and hand. Well you get the idea. Look clearly. Isn’t that weird and spooky? It really got me scared when I first saw it.

Ghost

Ghost – supposed spirit remaining after death: the spirit of somebody who has died, supposed to appear as shadowy form to cause sounds, the movements of objects, or a frightening atmosphere in a place.

Source: Encarta Dictionary

We’ve been having this scary phenomenon since… ever. There are even videos, pictures, and other stuff to prove their existence. But no hard proof was found. Due to modern technology nowadays, it’s hard to determine if those things are real or not due to photo editing and video editing. I have included one link from youtube.com showing proofs of ghosts. But I don’t know if it’s real. In my opinion, it’s real. But hey, that’s just me. What matters is your opinion.

So here’s the link, entitled:

Ghosts, Spirits, and Demons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoJUBW9CI8&feature=related/

It’s a compiled video of supernatural circumstances caught on tape. You decide if it’s real or not.

I have stories that give me the chills, so I don’t know if I could even post it here. I’ve posted it in my Friendster blog. I’ll try reposting it here. I also have some proofs of my own to show you guys that ghosts are real. My friend even caught one on his cellphone and I recorded a strange sound on my cellphone too. Some says, due to technological advancement, that these things happen. It’s just some glitch or pixelated image or something caught on a cellphone that we think that it’s a ghost or something. I’ll try to look for it in my Friendster blog which means that you have to keep visiting my blog for it.

There had been many circumstances that I’ve encountered such paranormal experience. People also tried to prove their existence. But is there really ghosts? Or was I just hallucinating when I experienced those supernatural phenomena?

This I would share, one of my experiences of these spooky encounters. It was around 3 am, yes 3 am, and I’ve checked my watch and my laptop’s watch. Usually, people would say that 3 am is the time that ghosts mock the crucifixion of Christ which happened around 3 pm. Back to my story, well I was playing, FlyFF during that time and I was also at the phone with my friend. Yes we were talking about some things spooking each other out. So there I was playing and talking, that suddenly, a huge sound came bursting from the fourth floor. Well, my flat is located at the third floor. Above me is a room where family lives. Someone told me that they went to manila for a vacation or something. So there’s no one there. They don’t leave anyone behind, not even someone to watch over their unit. Back to the story, this sound was very loud, as in, very very loud. It was the sound of footsteps, but not just walking, but running! It’s like running while hoping to create a tremendous sound. I heard it start from the stairs up to the point where my room is located below it. It scared the crap out of me. So, I asked my friend if she heard that, and she said yes and asked what that is. I told her the story that there were no people in the unit above as of the moment and there was someone running. So she’s spooking me already and I was starting to get frightened. So I said that maybe I was just hallucinating and stuff because it was already 3 am. Then after 10 minutes, it happened again. This time the sound is louder. So I said that it’s not normal anymore, it’s not someone running already. It’s something far more than that. Running scared, I tried to remove it from my mind. So I just kept on playing and talking to my friend.

The next morning I tried asking around the condo if someone was there last night. They said that no one was there. Not even a cat or a dog. I’m pretty sure that they’re not really there. So who’s the one running? Is there someone running? Was it a burglar?

I shared the story above because it’s the only experience that I had that isn’t really scary. I still have other experiences that are far scarier than the story above, however, I don’t know if I would be able to post it. If you want to read my other scary stories, please comment on this post and tell me. 🙂

BE FEATURED!

If you have your own spooky story to share and you want it featured in my blog, again comment on this blog or send me an email at fm.zeichi@gmail.com. I’ll be waiting. 🙂

Aspartame Controversy

As we all know about the latest products of Coca Cola Company and Pepsi Cola Company which are Coke Zero and Pepsi MAX. These two products was said to have zero sugar. But would you believe me if I say that they do have sugar?

Coke Zero and Pepsi MAX don’t have sugar. They do not contain the normal sugar that is usually being added in these soft drinks. Actually, even in diet Coke, diet Sprite, etc. These diet soft drinks don’t also contain a sugar or have a minimal amount. Would you agree with me if I say, there’s a sugar in all of these soft drinks? Some of you might and some of you don’t. These soft drinks removed the sugar that they usually add to make the cola sweet. If I’m not mistaken, that is the glucose. But even though they removed this chemical, in fact, there is a substitute sugar that was added. This is called ASPARTAME.

“The ASPARTAME has been the subject of a lot of vigorous public controversy regarding its safety and the circumstances around its approval. Many studies have recommended further investigation into the possible connection between aspartame and diseases such as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma. These findings, combined with alleged conflicts of interest in the approval process, have engendered vocal activism regarding the possible risks of aspartame.” – Source: Wikipedia

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener: a protein produced from aspartic acid. Instead of the normal sugar being added in the cola’s, aspartame is being added. If we break down the chemical contents of aspartame, it contains: 10% methanol and formaldehyde, 50% Phenylalanine, 40% Aspartic Acid. Some scientists believed that the methanol and formaldehyde in aspartame isn’t harmful and some believed that it may result to chronic poisoning. It’s also known that Phenylalanine isn’t harmful except to those suffering from Phenylketonuria. Phenylalanine being added in the bloodstream might result to neurotoxic. Aspartic acid belongs to a class of chemicals that in high concentrations act as an excitotoxin, inflicting damage on brain and nerve cells. Another chemical which has been found in aspartame is Aspartylphenylalanine diketopiperazine. This type of diketopiperazine (DKP) is created in products as aspartame breaks down over time. For example, researchers found that 6 months after aspartame was put into carbonated beverages, 25% of the aspartame had been converted to DKP. Concern among some scientists has been expressed that this form of DKP would undergo a nitrosation process in the stomach producing a type of chemical that could cause brain tumors. Other scientists think that the nitrosation of aspartame or the DKP in the stomach would not produce a chemical that would cause brain tumors. In addition, only a minuscule amount of the nitrosated chemical would be produced. There are very few human studies on the effects of this form of DKP. However, a (one-day) exposure study showed that the DKP was tolerated without adverse effects.

These are some effects that you could acquire when drinking the cola’s that has been said to contain zero sugar. I’m not scaring you or something. I’m just informing you of some of the possible effects that could arise from the consumption of these cola. No offense to these gigantic companies.

Global Warming

GLOBAL WARMING is not an issue anymore. It’s a WORLD CRISIS.

Every single day, world climate changes rapidly. There are days that it gets really hot and there are days that it gets really cold. This is the result of global warming. It is a sudden change in climate temperature.

If you already watched Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, there you’ll see the drastic changes that is happening all over the world today. Heat temperature rises each and every single day. If you didn’t watch it yet, I suggest that you watch it. Watch it now! Be informed, be educated, be involved.

If you didn’t notice, here in the Philippines alone, the temperature is rising yearly. If you can’t feel it, it’s getting hotter day by day. Try to observe your surroundings. This year is even hotter than last year. You can feel the sun’s heat in your skin, you can even feel it already in Baguio City. Even though the temperature is still between 14 to 23 degrees, you can already feel the sudden decrease in the cold and soothing air to the warm one. I remember being in Baguio City when I was still in my elementary days. It was so cold. Even during lunch time till noon (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm ) where it’s usually hot. You wouldn’t sweat a bit. You feel so cold that your body would start to shake up especially during early mornings. Literally. But now, early mornings are still cold mornings, but not that cold anymore. You will start to feel the heat wave during lunch till noon. I know that some of you guys who are reading this would say that it’s impossible. But it’s true. You might also say, ”your fat that’s why you sweat all the time, you’re thin that’s why you don’t sweat, etc.” But it’s the reality.

Ice caps are starting to melt. Ice caps which are found mostly in the North Pole, South Pole, Greenland, and so on. If these ice melts, sea level all over the world would increase from about 20 inches or more. You might say that ”it’s only 20 inches, we’ll do just fine.” But you are wrong. When ice caps melt, and sea level increases, parts around the world would be COVERED by water. They would be scrapped out in the map. As shown in Al Gore’s film, even where the World Trade Center use to stand will be underwater. 20% of China will be under water, even India, and other countries. Philippines, is surrounded by big bodies of water, so don’t expect that the sea levels around our country would not increase because it will. Cities beside the sea would be under water.

Looking at our government, do our government care about what is happening with the world? From my opinion, they do not. All they care about is making money and keeping some for themselves. That’s their main goal. Our country is already the number one corrupt country in the world. 80% are even poor. So why don’t our government help the poor and try to make plans on how to improve the way Filipino’s live and on how to prevent global warming. Why don’t they just use the government money to real use. Not for personal use. They can’t see the harsh realities that is happening in our country because they are blinded with fame and fortune. They are scared to give up some of the things they have for the good of all.

Also, as shown in Al Gore’s film, if there’s an increase in water level, there would also be a tendency to have a drought in some country. A drought that would last for days, months, and even years. These drought would cause our fresh bodied waters to dry up. After years, we will not have fresh water to drink.

Green house gases are increasing and it would keep locking up heat coming from the sun and it would warm up the earth like putting an ice cube in an oven.

There are a lot of ways to help and prevent global warming. All you have to do is have some will to do it. Act now or regret the consequences that may arise in the near future. You can search the internet for ways on how to help in preventing global warming. You could start in your own home. Decrease your energy consumption. Unplug appliances that you are not using. Buy energy efficient appliances, those that are not harmful to the environment. We can still defeat global warming. It maybe here already, but we can still battle it out to save the world that we live in. Keep in mind that we only have one earth, one world, one place where we live in. There are no substitute. Yes there might be some ways in the near future where we can find new planets to live on if it’s possible. But do you think that we can still live that long when global warming is already on hand? It’s already destroying mother nature. It’s already destroying our planet. It’s already destroying our HOME. Our home with our family. Are you willing to take the risk of losing your home, or your family? I know you won’t. Act now and help stop global warming.

Like Kindergarten

Do you remember the time when you were a kid?

Running around, being so care free. Having a lot of toys and having fun with each and every moment you have. Do you remember the time when you had your very first best friend? Do you ever remember playing in the park or in the playground? Do you remember the time that you were playing with someone that you’ve never even met before. I know you do. Because these are the moments that we will never forget for the rest of our lives. These were the days that we didn’t care about tomorrow, about yesterday. All we cared about is right there, right at that moment. You don’t care on what others might have to say, and all you have to be, is yourself. When we were little, we used to play with someone who we don’t even know. But we don’t care. Cause all we want to is have fun as what kids always does. That was the very first time that you’ve been yourself, that you’ve shown who you really are.

People these days are so self-conscious on what people tend to say about them. They tend to forget to be themselves. They tend to forget who they really are. They’ve been living in the shadows of people. Scared and horrified of the comments that may arise. Remember that you should always be who you are. Don’t be afraid to show your real colors. I know that it’s a scary place out there. But nothing will happen if you just live in the corners of people’s minds and being affected about what they say. Stop trying to be someone else. If they can’t accept you as who you really are then they aren’t worth to be with.

I know sometimes I also tend to be soooooo self-conscious. Then, I get a large trout and slap myself. Not literally, but that would give you the point. I know that someone would always be there to hate you, to be above you, to step at you along your way. But learn from it. Learn to grow people! If they hate you then that’s not your problem anymore, that’s their problem. You’re just being who you are. Well of course, this comes to the exception when you are being yourself but you are hurting others. Be yourself, but try to not get in people’s nerves.

Always remember about your Kindergarten. Like before, you were just playing with another kid, and next thing you know, you’re already best friends forever because you were just being yourself and you never try to put in mind about what people might think about you, about what people might say.