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Have you ever, at any one time, had the feeling that life is bad, real bad, and you wish you were in another situation? You find life make things difficult for you, work sucks, life sucks, everything seems to go wrong… Read the following story… it may change your views about life:

After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per month, he is happy as he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is considering he has to skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws, a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household.

He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India… that happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and touring India after a major setback. He said that right in front of his very eyes he saw an Indian mother chop off her child’s right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother’s eyes, the scream of pain from the innocent 4-year-old child haunted him until today.

You may ask why did the mother do so; had the child been naughty, had the child’s hand been infected?? No, it was done for two simple words- – -TO BEG!

The desperate mother deliberately caused the child to be handicapped so that the child could go out to the streets to beg. Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was eating half-way. And almost instantly, a flock of 5 or 6 children swamped towards this small piece of bread which was covered with sand, robbing bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger. Stricken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries. The owner was dumbfounded but willingly sold everything.

He spent less than $100 to obtain about 400 loaves of bread (this is less than $0.25 per loaf) and spent another $100 to get daily necessities. Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in his life he wondered how people can give up their dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25.

He began to tell himself how fortunate he is. How fortunate he is to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice and what isn’t nice, have the chance to be clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of… Now I begin to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that bad? Perhaps… no, I should not feel bad at all… What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one hand to beg on the streets.

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I got this on my email again and would like to share it with you guys. With the generalization of self-service facilities in petrol stations (luckily here in the Philippines there are gasoline boys assisting customers) people should be warned about the outbreak of fires resulting from static electricity while they are pouring in petrol.

150 cases of this type of fire have been investigated and the results were very surprising.

1. Of the 150 cases, more happened to women than men, due to their habit of getting in and out of the vehicle while the petrol is being poured in.
2. In the majority of cases the people had re-entered their cars when the hose was still pouring petrol out (the danger of the triggers on the nosepieces). When they finished refuelling and got out to remove the hose pistol the fire began, as a result of the static electricity.
3. The majority of those affected used rubber-soled footwear and clothes of synthetic fibres.
4. Never use mobile phones when filling up with fuel.
5. It is well known that it is the vapour that comes from the petrol that burns and causes the fire when it makes contact with static charges.
6. In twenty-nine of the cases analysed, the people re-entered their vehicles and later touched the pistols during the petrol fuelling process. This happened in cars of different varieties of makes and models.
7. Seventeen fires occurred before, during or immediately after the cap of the petrol tank was removed and before starting to fill up with petrol.
8. The static charge often results from when a passenger rubs their clothes against the upholstery of the seats on getting in or out of the vehicle. To avoid this, it is recommendable that NOBODY gets in or out of the vehicle while the petrol is being poured in. Movement in or out should only be done BEFORE starting, or when the fuelling is finished and the petrol cap placed.
9. MAXIMISE THE PRECAUTIONS if the petrol has spilt or splashed onto the ground. Highly inflammable vapours are immediately produced which can be ignited by sparks of static electricity from the turning on of electronic equipment (mobile phones, remote controls, etc.) or by the ignition of the vehicle itself. BEFORE starting up the engine again, the spilt petrol must be gathered or neutralised by the petrol station staff.

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This is important information for females of ALL ages.   When this was sent to me over my email, I was told to forward it to my lady friends.  I forwarded it to most everyone in my address book and now I am sharing it all to you here in this blog.  My men friends have female friends and this information is too important to miss someone.  Please pass it along. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1. The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun, braid or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed.  They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.
2. The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around specifically to cut clothing.
3. They also look for women on their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.
4. Men are most likely to attack & rape in the early morning, between 5:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
5. The number one place women are abducted from/attacked is grocery store parking lots. Number two is office parking lots/garages.  Number three is public restrooms.
6. The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to another location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.
7. Only 2% said they carried weapons because rape carries a 3-5 year sentence but rape with a weapon is 15-20 years. (I think this is no longer applicable for in the Philippines rape is a lifetime imprisonment.)
8. If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming
9. These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas, or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.  (Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.)

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Have you heard of the latest French sensation band call Phoenix and Karl Sadler who is known as the digital-installation renaissance man. They are two of the artists that are included in the Creative Projects that were formed by Intel and Vice. This project is formed as a network to celebrate culture and creativity to different kinds of media around the globe. These two artist are then interviewed by Vice to discuss about their secrets behind their creative process.

Phoenix is compose of Thomas Mars, Deck D’Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz, and Christian Mazzalai. They have been releasing albums since year 2000 and have famous singles like Lisztomania”, “1901″, and “Too Young” and have been nominated many times on the 2009 Grammy Awards for the album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix for Best Alternative Music Album but won it on the same category on the 2010 Grammy Awards. Right Now they are being invited to play on this year’s major music festivals. The video below is about them being interviewed by Vice wherein they talk about promoting their last album by touring on several locations and incorporating creative styles and ideas like how they use light shows to make an impact on audiences and how they are inspired on modern light arts and shows so they could get ideas from them and be able to combine them with their live show to make a total new set of performance. Check out the video to learn more:

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