These who got stowaway comments from me:

1) Buzon
2) Lu
3)Olores
4) Delfin
5) Espinas
6) Adriano
7) Baldelomar
8) Bautista
9) Pasaoa
10) Fernandez
11) Morales
12) Claveria
13) Calma
14) Salamat
15) Lopez
16) Angot
17) Huliganga

15 - Nine Point Eight

              Nine Point Eight (NPE). Heard of it before? Actually, if you have read one of my previous posts, then you would have known that this is another song from Mili. Of all the songs that I have heard from Mili so far, I believe this tops them all.
              The song starts happily enough, listing names of flowers in the opening of each verse. Listening to the entire sing at all, you wouldn't be able to discern the meaning . However, search for the lyrics and you will see that the song is actually sad. I won't copy the entire lyrics here though, just go search for yourself.
              Having a loved one die is no easy thing. People may go through the five stages of acceptance. Or, they may take the easy way out (suicide).

              This is what happened to the girl. She lost someone as denoted by the line "Please don't leave me behind..." There are many other lines indicating this loss such as "synchronize to your frozen pulsation" and "sparkling ashes drift along off your flames, and softly merge into the sky."
              The most striking line is "Here I come I yell and take a leap to hell" Followed by "...and nine point eight is my acceleration"
              Get it? The girl leapt from a high place, and what is nine point eight? Nine point eight is the acceleration due to gravity, something one would experience fully should an attempt to jump from a high place be done.

14 - Smok-o Is a no-no don't you Know?

             Rather lame title, I know. But my mind's not exactly running at 60 fps today. You probably notice that the post doesn't fit in with my usual randomness. Yes, it's apparently a requirement. But like most assignments, I want to get my own, personal kick out of this one.
              Smoking kills. Smoking is dangerous to your health. Stop smoking now. Pretty common things. Same as this post, which is supposed to convince someone to stop using or attempting smoking, but would probably have the effect of slapping someone with a wet noodle as a punishment for being bad.
              The hard thing is though, that I've never had a chance to smoke then stop it. After all, one should justify one's own argument. And what better way to do that than to experience what you are trying to fight. I suppose, I would have to resort to conventional statistics and repetitive arguments.
             This is my only argument, smoking does kill, in a way that is completely undesirable. Why? Well, smoking is a really big detriment to one's health. It affects the teeth, the throat and the lungs. Everyone is aware that it is a really big factor in lung cancer. Whether they are right or wrong (as it is still not completely proven) any type of cancer is a serious setback. It is painful, so says some patients. Moreover, it really costs a ton of money for treatment. It is especially hard when one is still a minor and cannot support oneself yet.
              You may get through all this. However, it may affect your future in many ways beside trying to pay off debts. You may have lost opportunities of education by the time you recover. Time would have been wasted. And treatment left you physically scarred, some job opportunities would probably become closed to you.
              I do not condone nor condemn smoker of today, whether they smoke by choice or by addiction. However, stop wasting your life for a single piece of paper with tobacco inside

13 - When I was a Kid...

Yep. This post is a short story of me. Well more specifically, it’s about something that happened to me when I was a child. May mirth shine through your faces, for that is the exact reason why I wrote this post.

The afternoon wasn’t clear. Well, it was rather cloudy since I never would’ve gone outside to practice my bike if it was. I was about nine years-old at that time. And the bike was the greatest thing that happened to me back then.

My only problem though, was that I am a very slow learner. I always grasp things slowly no matter what I do (*cough* Orianna *cough*). I have been using my bike for more than three weeks now, I’m convinced that I have worn down everything: the tires, my knees, shins and butt; most especially, my mother and her patience (whose foot I have frequently run over whenever she took  her morning walks).

It turned out though, that I have taken the last straw from the mother that was the universe.

So back to that afternoon…

I was trying to attain greater speed on my bike. I went to the ends of our road and always looped back whenever I reached the intersections. Doing this for more than an hour I was convinced that I had mastered the bike. Obviously a mistake.

On my way back, I once again tried that speeding-up thing. Unfortunately, I lost control. I didn’t semplang as most people would call it. Instead, I got myself into a greater mess.

As I was focusing only regaining control of my bike, I didn’t notice the broom. What broom? Well, it was of our resident street sweeper. The broom was laid out across the street and sidewalk, forming some sort of bridge for ants if ants somehow wished to cross the gutter. I plowed through that broomstick, and naturally it snapped.

“WALANG HIYA KANG BATA KA! BAKIT DITO KA NAGBIBISIKLETA? HAYUP KA...!”

That’s was all that I caught from her between saying little gasps of “sorry.”

I remember not going out of the house for months when I didn’t have to. I often looked out the window during afternoons, and there I saw an old, weathered, rather plump woman, using a broom whose stick was tied together with a string of straw.

12 - Bibliophile

        A bibiliophile is someone who likes books. More to the point, I love reading books. I bet you haven't even thought of me this way, considering the way my blog looks like so far. So why do I like reading? The story is simple actually. I grew up without a TV, we were given extreme restrictions on using gadgets, and lastly, I only used the internet in a relatively late age. Reading has so many benefits that outweigh the things that I missed. Being a fan of literary works has taught me some lessons.
        Being a reader helped me a lot especially  in academics. I don't read for grades though. That's boring or in stuffy, sophisticated book terms, platitudinous. I don't read dictionaries. I mentioned that because someone asked me once if I read dictionaries. Wow. Some people say that I use highfalutin words. In my defense though, I try to use them out of necessity.
        Anyway, those are all boring stuff. Originally, I wanted to recommend some books an novels for you, but some memories came up and about. Here are some literary works that put me in times of good mental digestion:

1) The Star Wars Extended Uninverse
2) Deltora (Quest, Shadowlands, Dragons series)
3) Witchlanders (Lena Coakley)
4) Noli me Tangere (Jose Rizal)
5) El Filibusterismo (Also by JPMRAR)

        These are only some of my favorites. Books are fun! For reading and for throwing them at siblings you argue with. Use hard-bound books for this!