My favorite breed of dog

Of all breeds of dog, my favorite is a Toy Fox Terrier. I want this breed of a dog because compared to the others, a Toy Fox Terrier is small, easy to carry or bring somewhere, and doesn't take up so much space at home. I like this compared to other because it is very different for the reason that it combines terrier traits such as being (strong, impulsive spunky, energetic,) with toy breed traits such as (more responsive, likes to cuddle, and most importantly more trainable than most terriers). I also like this kind of dog because it is very comical, lighthearted and loves to play ball just like me. Many Toy Fox Terriers love to play ball and do an excellent job of exercising themselves indoors. In my case, I also use this as my assistant whenever I play my little brother basketball toy wherein it has a small ring and a small ball. Whenever I make a long distance shot, my Toy Fox Terrier dog easily rush and get the ball and carefully hands and brings it back to me. Even without training, he easily learns how to fetch a ball. In contrast to others, Toy Fox Terrier dog learn fast in different thing such as going up and down in the stair, sitting down and lying down. In short, Toy Fox Terriers are very bright compared to other breeds of dog that’s why I selected it as my favorite breed.
Both toy traits dog and terrier dog influence personality as well as character. As a terrier, the dog is alert, proud, and spunky and as a toy, the dog is of quieter demeanor and furthermore loves to be hold.
The most important aspect that I want in Toy Fox Terriers that other breeds don’t have is their loyalty to their owner. As a person who watched and observed a Toy Fox Terrier grow, I noticed that this kind of dog always protect his master at all times. One good scenario is when he sense that I was angry to this person, he usually barks until me and the person continues talking. As long as we don’t stop, he also doesn’t stop barking, and when everything is alright he simply sits and observes. Most importantly since Toy Fox Terriers are very bright, it’s easy to teach them whatever kind of things you want him to do, and as a result you don’t have a hard time getting along with this kind of dog.
In other concern, I think an important factor when taking care of a Toy Fox Terrier dog is with regards to their suspiciousness. Almost all breeds of dogs are alert, but in 2 years of experience of my Toy Fox Terrier I must say that they are more attentive and watchful compared to others. Even a little footstep going up and down in the stair and a slight sound of a door will make them vigilant. Another important factor in having this kind of breed is their “mind their own attitude”. Since this breed is very bright, they have an independent mind. With all the good and excellent qualities a Toy Fox Terrier has, it surely is a fantastic pet dog to have.

Mafia Wars: A Popular Online Game

Mafia wars is an online game that can be found and played in a social networking site like Facebook and My Space. Discussing the game play of the game, Mafia Wars is set in New York City with the choice for players to travel between Cuba (if the player reaches level 35+), and Moscow (if the player reaches level 70+) and Bangkok. The game involves doing and mastering jobs in order to receive or collect cash and experience, with the objective of establishing and advancing ones criminal realm. Players create mafias by recruiting players and using reward points to hire extra mafia members. Social networking sites such as Facebook and My Space allow players to recruit from within their network of friends to build their mafia and fight against other players. In this game players can also improve their statistics by going to the Godfather or making a micropayment.
As a player myself, I enjoy playing Mafia Wars because of its unique style of game play, it is different to other online game because it doesn’t consume much time while playing this game. Compared to other online game, wherein you need to online your character in order for you to get strong and increase your level, Mafia Wars is very different because you can compete well with other players even though you don’t put so much of your time playing this game as long as you know the flow of the game.
Another good aspect of Mafia Wars is you don’t have to install something in your computer in order to play this game; it is only an online browser game wherein users need only a facebook account in order to access and play this game. Another thing with Mafia Wars, is that it not hard to understand compared to other online games wherein you need the advice of others who knows that particular game in order for you to understand and enjoy well the game. On facebook alone as of the end of October 2009, MW has an estimate 26 million monthly active accounts.
Before I play this game, I carefully chose what character will be best compare to other. After a few minutes of thinking I decided to select “Maniac”, a character which specializes in energy. Compared to other players, I must say that I’m more successful than the others in playing this game, because as an experience online gamer I make sure that every decision that I make is good, beneficial and helpful in the future. As a result, all of my assessment regarding my judgment in the beginning for example what character to choose, what statistics to fill on and etc help me to get my character strong and most importantly it entertains me more and don’t make me feel bored which is very significant in playing online game.
As a result of my 45 days of playing Mafia Wars, I reach level 250, which is very high compared to other players, I also have high results of fights and most importantly I earned numerous achievements in the game.

What is Christmas?

Christmas. What does it really means? Christmas is the season of joy and gladness. And the key to all our celebration is Jesus our Savior. This is a season of sounds and sights, of carols, lights, pleasant weather, family visitation, and reunions. This all add up to the spirit of joy that should be ours as we praise and thank the lord for the gift of the savior.
Christmas is also a time of surprise. We would always be amazed by surprises it may be may be a gift or a visit from a long lost relatives or friends we haven’t see for years. Christmas is also sharing and spending time with our love ones, friends and relatives. It may even be just going to church together, malling, sharing sad and happy stories together, and watching our favorite movies together.
Christmas also is a time when our heart overflows with gratitude. Gratitude for having many blessings in spite of hard times. Gratitude for having a loving and supportive family, friends and relatives. Come to think of it, we must remember that Christmas really means seasons on of reconciliation and repentance brings peace with oneself and everyone. Forgive those who have sinned against us, or even saying “I’m sorry” to person we have hurt or offended. This would lead to peace between enemies and maybe peace between conflicting countries. Repentance on the other hand means changing for the good of one’s self and others. Each one should be selfless; one should think not just oneself but also of the welfare or good for others.
All of this mention may truly be the true meaning of Christmas. No matter how many meanings Christmas have, it leads only to one thing Jesus Christ our Lord. Times now may be hard we should always think positive, look up in the sky, see the stars and we can find him them there. Christmas would always mean happiness and the reason mainly because of the joyful reality that Christ came to our world. That is the true genuine meaning of Christmas

Is Santa Claus Real?

Generally speaking, the existence of Santa Claus if it is for real or not is varied to everyone. For some, Santa Claus exists and for others Santa Claus is only a character made by old people to make their children more inspired and imaginative. As a person who did not grow up knowing much about Santa Claus from the very beginning, I simply believe that Santa Claus does not exist.
As a realist, I want to see a phenomenon first before I believe in it. In case of Santa Claus, I didn’t remember an incident wherein I saw Santa Claus so definitely I didn’t believe in him. In case of other people, they also have an opinion regarding Santa Claus whether he is for real or not. The belief of a person may also be influence with regards to his/her religion of the existence of Santa Claus. If a person is more of a religious one, he/she would think that Santa Claus exist, because Santa Claus was actually declared as a Saint (St. Nick) because of the wonder of delivering presents to children throughout humanity. However if a person think skeptically, then most likely he/she don’t believe in Santa Claus, most often this people grow older and come to realize that only their parents are doing this Santa Claus thing.
In the end the existence of Santa Claus is merely as subjective as anybody else. If a person is aged 10 years below, they would probably believe in Santa Claus, however if this person is older than 10 years old, they come to think that Santa Claus is the giving spirit of Christmas. It concerns giving to others as well as being selfless, meaning to say the older the person is, the deeper he/she understands and perceive.
More importantly, Santa Claus existence whether true or not, is not a big deal at all, if someone tells that he exist, we should let it be, because beliefs should be respected and if someone tells that does not exist, we should also respect what he believes.

The Best Pizza Place in Town

The best pizza place in town for me is Pizza Hut. My criterion for selecting is based from its taste from the crust to its different toppings. Out of the 6 pizza parlors that I experience to eat which include Sbarro, Yellowcab, Little Ceasars, Shakeys, Greenwhich the taste of Pizza Hut is more mouth-watering and very excellent to me.
As a person who likes pizza very much, I’m very glad the moment I bite the pizza, for me it taste heavenly, I seen addicted to it, you will crave for more once you start eating it. Usually, whenever I eat pizza in town I’m with a member of a family and friends, so it adds a lot to eating more, you are with persons you like. As a regular customer of different pizza companies, I frequently order beef related toppings and sometimes I try also their special menus.
Every now and then, I’m very satisfied whenever I eat pizza. Either I eat it at home or at town, I always contended and satisfied. As a sign of showing that pizza is one of my favorite foods to eat, I usually order whenever I see a pizza commercial on television. Since Pizza Hut is my favorite, I regularly dial their hotline when I’m starving and craving for pizza. When I’m all alone, I just order a regular size of pizza and when I’m with someone I always order a large size. Another sign of showing that pizzas are my favorite and Pizza Hut is one of the best for me, most of the time I pass by a Pizza Hut “hate late” stall I purchase their buy one take one promo for a small amount of money. I like this kind of promo besides it is cheaper it is delivered right away, you don’t have to wait extra minutes when ordering in a normal pizza store or ordering at home.
In the end, I wish that pizza companies continue to produce delicious and yummy pizzas in order for us customers to continue buying their product. I also want in the days to come to create other kind of toppings in order for customers not to hate the product, some people can easily discontented especially if the food if there are no other choices to select from. As a consumer myself of different pizza companies, I like to see an improvement in taste whenever I buy their product. Honestly, if I will be given a chance to do a business in a future, I prefer having a franchise of a Pizza Company because I believe ones success depends on what they actually preferred.

My Favorite Poetry

My favorite poetry came from the Soviet literature called “The City of Yes and the City of No”. I selected this poetry as my favorite because the author Yevgency Yevtushengko uses unique words in describing a situation or a context, this significantly captures my attention.
As a reader I find it interesting because it was contextualize in a way that it was experienced by different people in the world. In this poetry, the writer uses a unique style of differentiating two contrasting circumstances wherein he uses the poetry “the City of Yes and the City of No”.
Based from what I understand, City of Yes is compared to nature which is best without walls, and the in the City of No, there is a denial/rejection, that which could not accept the place or the atmosphere.
Reading the lines of the poem makes me feel interested because it forces me to choose what preference I want more. It will oblige the readers to think what side is more challenging and what is best.
After reading this poem I obviously decided to pick the City of Yes, because my present free life tells me to live in a manner that I am free from all sadness, fear, and restraint. My present free life diminished my capacity if it didn’t take away all of it, I should be grateful for a life such that in the other City. My acquaintance with laughter and open activities would make me feel uninterested and threatened in the City of No for the reason that there are no such things existing in it. I desire the City of Yes over the City of No not because it is better, but relatively it is due to my biases and my capability as person to live in it.
In the end, I choose it as my favorite because it portrayed an aspect in the society wherein everybody experiences this kind of life.

Poverty in the Philippines

Almost all third world countries experience poverty. Here in the Philippines, poverty is prevalent. The Philippine society is experiencing poverty right now. In my own estimate I must say that 50% of the Philippine population is on the poverty level. This people who is experiencing poverty is scattered around the Philippine archipelago. I believe will continue to increase if there is no intelligent social action between the government and the people.
Among the economies of East and Southeast Asia in the 1980s, the Philippines were exceptional: its economy was shrinking, not growing. Only after 1993 did the economy at last begin to grow strongly, and not at the rates achieved ten years earlier in the rest of Southeast Asia. Filipinos are justifiably proud of the recovery, but many regret the unfavorable comparison with their neighbors. At the same time, they can point out that relative positions have changed often over the centuries.
Before the arrival of the Spaniards in the mid-sixteenth century the archipelago was one of the few extensive areas in eastern Asia without a form of political state. It then became for a time the largest colonial area east of India, but at the end of the nineteenth century it was the first Asian colony to reject imperial control and proclaim an independent republic. Although that was immediately overthrown by the new imperial power of the USA, in 1946 the Philippines were the first East Asian colony to gain independence peacefully (that is, excluding the colonies freed from Japanese control). The independent Philippines became one of the first countries in the region, after Japan, to begin industrializing protected by tariffs and other barriers. By 1960 the values of its manufacturing output and of its exports exceeded those of Taiwan or the Republic of Korea. This was, though, more or less the peak of its comparative performance. Its growth continued in the 1970s but at rates ever further behind its neighbors, until the crisis of regression came in the 1980s. The economy was in a serious condition for a decade: major problems became obvious in 1981, grew very rapidly worse from 1983 to 1986 and were then stabilized but not entirely resolved.
This situation arose under the most explicitly developmentalist government in Philippine history, the twenty-year rule of President Marcos, who claimed that he had declared martial law in 1972 precisely to remove the political and bureaucratic obstacles to more rapid and egalitarian development. His government formulated many new policies, affecting all sectors of the economy, yet the sought-after transformation was achieved in very limited areas, while the economy as a whole slid into profound crisis. Businesses closed, workers were laid off and social unrest intensified.
Even after the fall of Marcos, political problems persisted, with a fissile Congress and seven attempted military coups against President Aquino. Not until 1993 did local and foreign investors regain enough confidence to renew investment on a significant scale, reviving growth and restructuring the economy further, with a fall in the incidence of poverty. The changes made after 1986 enabled the Philippines to survive the East Asian crisis of 1997-8 better than its neighbors, but growth remained spasmodic. Cronyism and corruption re-emerged at the highest levels, culminating in a new political and economic crisis in 2000-1, and President Estrada left office after his impeachment was aborted.
The worldwide focus on the last phase of the Marcos regime showed how the characters of the president, his wife and certain close associates had contributed to the crisis of the 1980s and to the incomplete restructuring, but the responsibility did not lie with them alone. Their rule was never absolute. Many other political and economic actors, including individuals and institutions within and outside the Philippines, made decisions that affected the national economy, through processes sometimes at the local or regional level, sometimes at the global level. Such decisions often had ambivalent results. Some undoubtedly contributed to the concentration of flows of income and wealth, to foreign indebtedness, to outflow of capital, to environmental degradation or to other problems. Even so, some decisions helped to diversify the economy, induced the acquisition of new skills, raised productivity in various industries and contributed to export earnings or replacement of imports. The impacts on different regions and on different categories of people varied, because of their characteristics and historical experiences. The Philippines is plural in character as well as in name (cf. Steinberg 1982). In other words, the varying patterns of change had both spatial and social elements. In some cases, change would be better described as regression than as development, so that the long-standing condition of uneven development continued.
This all suggests that, in order to understand the years of political and economic instability in the Philippines, and prospects for its future, it is necessary to look at the sources of uneven development. Social and spatial inequalities are, of course, normal, but each developing society has characteristics that make it different from all others. Therefore, certain structural and behavioral traits of Philippine society need to be examined.

Christmas Wish

During the month of December, people start to think of what would be there wish for Christmas. Traditionally, whether it will be given by God or other people, wishes gives happiness to everyone especially if it granted to him/her.
They say that the key to Christmas is happiness. Each and every one of us has wishes during this season of joy and gladness. Wishes which are sometimes hard to obtain and attain. The sum of all of these wishes is for us to be happy.
So what may be our Christmas wish to make each one of us happy? Some may say many blessings for the year to come, good health, having lots of friends, wish to be slim, wish to be more understanding and patient and many more. For those who are poor, they wish for material wealth, for those who are sick, they wish for good health, for the oppressed, they wish justice, for those who are in prison they wish for freedom, for the silent and marginalized they wish for a voice.
If we just sit down and reflect for a while and think of the one thing which one must wish for. The answer is only one thing LOVE. Love with one another. If we love one another there would automatically be sharing and giving, the rich will help the poor, the oppressed will be given justice, the prisoner would be pardon, the silent would be given a voice in a society. If there is love, people will forgive one another for one’s mistakes; ask for the forgiveness for wrong things they did.
Love would make the person change for the better. There would be understanding between one another, between world leaders and nations; there would be peace and recognition all around. All this would lead to happiness brought about by the one thing that one would wish for which love is. Remember that God so loved us that he sent his son Jesus Christ to save us, so I may say that love is the only thing that one may wish for this Christmas.

Collection of Best Love Quotes

Honestly speaking, among all the quotations, love quotes is one of my least likes, that’s why I don’t remember any love quotes that I encountered, read or hear in my life. I am not a romantic person that mainly is the reason why I don’t like reading compilation of love quotation and another reason is that, it does not suit my personality.
I’m a type of person who likes to read or like to engage myself in social issues and current events. As a person who is interested in different issues and significant events, I’m more expose in different people’s expression or sentiments or in short I’m more familiar to what the masses tells and says.
If I will be given a chance to collect love quotes, that would be an inspirational love quotes, meaning to say I want to collect love quotations wherein it motivates and encourage me to do things that will be helpful and beneficial to me in the future. In connection to this, I want to collect a love quotation wherein I can read it over and over especially when I’m in a dilemma or when I’m in trouble with regards to life and love. I want an inspirational love quotes because I need something that will develop or recover my confidence whenever I experience failure in terms of problems in life that I will encounter.
An example of love quotes that I like, which I come to browse while doing this work is from Henry David Thoreau which states that there is no remedy for love but to love more, I found this quotes as simple but very meaningful. In order to remember something, the idea should be clear and concise. In this quotation I understand right away the idea of Thoreau on what he was trying to express.
Since I don’t have a collection of love quotations, the previously love quotations of Lao-Tzu, Voltairre and Aristotle which I came to browse once again while doing this paper is a good start to collect if given a chance to collect love quotes in the future.

2010 Philippines Election

The 2010 election is another milestone for Philippine history. It is a much awaited event that is very significant for the country and its people, the outcome of this event is where their future depends on. The election that will be happening in the Philippines in 2010 includes both the national and local government; meaning from the highest position of the country (president) up to the lowest (councilor) is in contest. On the other hand, the battle for barangay leadership is still in hold whether or not they will be included in this coming election.
As a democratic country like the Philippines, every vote of a citizen is very important; it is the only way that they can exercise their right. Under the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, the right to suffrage is given to an 18 and above years old citizen to choose and elect whom they like to be a leader of their locality and the leader of their country.
As early as now, people who will be running for the 2010 election are preparing all their mechanism in order to get an edge with their opponent. In a presidential position, from a hundreds of people who filed their candidacy only 8 are chosen by the Commission of Elections and the rest are considered as nuisance, this is also what happened to the vice presidency aspirants. On the other hand, the rule in executive department is different in the legislative wherein everybody can run as long as he/she is qualified to run. In terms of election in the local government, majority of those running are re-electionist, some are former mayors who seek another term in office and some are local officials who are running for higher office from their previous position.
Another thing to watch out in the 2010 election is the newly implemented automated style of election wherein the Philippines will be using for the first time. From traditional manual election, which is considered by many that is always manipulated and cheated, they will use the automated way of election in May 2010 election. Another observation for the 2010 election is that many of the candidates who will be running for public office came from one party to the other.
In the end, this coming election is very crucial for the future success of the Philippine, as days continue to pass; election date is becoming nearer. The battle is so intense, the team’s strategy are being intensified and most of all the eagerness of all the candidates to lead is seen in their interviews, advertisement, forums and debates which can be read, listen and watch every now and then left and right