China was badly hit by an earthquake last Monday. The earthquake which measured 7.9 in a Richter scale has its epicenter in Mianyang city causing lots of damage in property. Mianyang has death counts of 3000 but 18000 were buried alive and were not yet been retrieve as of this moment due to its heavy rains keep pouring down. The death toll numbered to 12000 people. In Sichuan city farms ,buildings and roads were also destroyed.

The UN send 40000 troops to the place for rescue operation. But due to the bad weather and heavy rain rescue is not easy. According to CNN death might rise up because the temperature goes down to 20 degree celcius. In Mianyang street lamps were turn on but lights on the buildings who was not collapsed are still off. Street lights were on to lessen the fright of the survivors.

Chinese governments says, they welcome aid in form of money and supplies but they cannot entertain personnel aid.This quake is the deadliest in thirty years. The last quake that hits the country was in 1933 and its death toll were 8000 and it was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

My time piece read as 3;00 in the afternoon, time for me to buy snacks for my kids. Then I command them to buy bread as well as soft drinks.Everybody are enjoying his portion. The soft drinks that the children buy is ice cold, that quenches our thirst. I clean our mess and throw the garbage in the plastic bag.But I kept the the bottle cap of the soft drinks.

My daughter then asked me why then I told her that ;this might be a help to anybody in the future. My daughter did not understand me. So I started to narrate to them what is the bottle cap that I have to keep them. Week ago I watched television on the channel feed by cable. It was about an Indonesian inventor.

He collected aluminum tin cans of any drinks,the top caps of battery and any aluminum scrap of any sizes. Mostly this things are recycled, made into a new cooking utensils such as, baking dishes ,drinking cups, kettle as well as basin and more. But this gifted inventor don’t recycled these aluminum scrap as of the others. He made them into something that gives hope to those who have problem worst than any material needs.

A man made the scrap aluminum into an artificial legs. An invention that makes anybody who was at birth has one leg or no legs at all. Or anybody who losses it after an accident. Or whose leg was amputated because of diabetes. Whichever of the three, is the reason this individual has the problem of walking . This intelligent man gifted by God, make a difference in their lives. He made this meaningless garbage into a meaningful ray of hope to those who suffered so much in their fate. That is why the next time you will see aluminum it maybe a cap or cans of your soft drinks think, that this scrap will become a leg or a pair of legs for those who doesn’t have. My daughter say, ah!I see.

Rice shortage is a global issue. The news is simultaneously broadcast both local and overseas network. This is really a big crux especially in the countries where, Rice is their main staple food.While the western countries are lax in this issue,the countries such as Thailand ,China,Malaysia,Indonesia, Myanmar and Philippine were panicked.Here in the Philippine some of the politician suggested that their constituents will sort into consuming root crop. Though bananas ,sweet potato,corn and cassava are abundant in our country. The crops can be delicious only if not eaten too often unlike rice, we can eat this three meals in a day without the feeling of distaste . So other crop can be a temporary substitute but not a total replacement.
Harvest time of the said crop has just ended when the bad news came. There are still few who have not done yet harvesting.So whats the matter of the news department.They broadcast the news when the farmers are busy collecting their rice.Well, experts have calculated the yields of the farmers.

In the Philippine there are 91 million people. If 1 million of these are still babies, then 90 million are the numbers of mouth to feed. And to think not half of this populace are into farming.Considering not only the number of farmers but the size of the land they toil.Every year the farmland shrink because farmland are converted into malls, subdivisions and some are planted with bananas or mangoes. So this means Rice Shortage is really afflicting us.This is indefinite problem without definite solution. I do not know if what is in my mine is correct and can solve this in numbers of years to come…..(That every couple should only have one child… ONE CHILD POLICY………That each person is entitle to one cup of rice each meal) I will be the most affected why?Because I use to have 3 to4 cups of rice imagine how poor it seems to me .

Ever wondered what the words on perfume labels mean? According to French standards, perfumes are classified into four different types:

• Eau de Cologne (EDC) popularized by Napoleon Bonaparte, is made with a three percent compound solution of oil and water. It is considered to be the lightest of scents and the least expensive.
• Eau de Toilet (EDT) or ‘toilet or bath water’ as it was historically known, is made with three to eight percent compound solution of oil and water. Its concentration is higher than as Eau de Cologne, making it pricier.
• Eau de Parfum (EDP) has a 10 to 15 percent compound solution of oil and water, which make it more potent than EDC and EDT. When applied on pulse points, it lingers for hours.
• Parfum has the highest concentration of oils, with a 20 to 50% compound solution – closest to that of a pure botanical essence. Parfum last longer than the other mixture and is also considered to be the priciest perfume.

Easter, the celebration of Christ’s resurrection, is the queen of the Christian holy days. The word “Easter” and the German “Ostern” comes from a common source it is referring to the direction from which the sun rises. In other words, the word referred to the celebration of the spring sun, when all things returned to life. This symbolism was transferred to the resurrection of Christ who brings us new life. There is no evidence that the word “Easter” was the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess “Eostre”. This was based on a passage in the writings of the Christian author, Bede, who in the eighth century erroneously ascribed the word the word to the goddess. To this day, no research has been able to find any mention of Eostre in Germanic mythology.

As mention above, the earliest word for the annual celebration was probably Paschal. As to the dating of Easter, this has been fixed ever since the Council of Nicea in 325. At Nicea it was decided that Easter would occur on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, which occurs between March 22 and April 25.

Easter celebrates Christ’s victory over sin, death, and the devil, as well as the promise of our justification and everlasting life. The season of Easter lasts 50 days until the day of Pentecost.

As we would expect, Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection have been annually observed from the earliest times. Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection are described in detail in Mathew 27-28, Mark 15-16, Luke 23-24 and John 19-21. However, they are not celebrated exactly as we do now. With texts such as John 1:29 and 1 Corinthians celebrated Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection called the Paschal (Greek for “Passover”).

The earliest evidence we posses, point to the Paschal as the first of the annual Christian festivals. In fact, in the Second century A.D. a church-wide split of staggering proportions almost occurred over the correct dating and meaning of the Paschal. The Christians in Asia Minor, citing the practice of John the apostle, bishop Polycarp and others, claimed that the Christian Paschal should be observes on the 14/15 of Nissan (the seventh day of the week), just as the Old Testament commanded. The rest of Christendom, including the bishop of Rome, Iranaeus and Jerusalem, held that the Paschal should culminate on the Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. In the end the majority views won out. In recent years there has been a return in some quarters to a celebration of the Paschal; one festival celebrated over three days: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.