The Secret Behind Attraction

   Have you ever liked someone at the first glance? At times, we can fall in love with someone or get attracted to someone at the very first look. Find out the real secret behind the attraction.

The secret behind the attraction

All our lives, we’re been told not to judge a book by the cover. We’ve been told that people shouldn’t be judged until we know them well enough.

These words may be told to you by the wisest and the greyest, but that still can’t stop you from going ahead and judging people by their faces.

And it’s not just you. Even the ones who told you not to do the judging can’t help but judge people at first glance.

So what do we call them? Hypocrites? Or perhaps, we should just blame our genes.

The first glance

How many times have you met someone and felt a sudden rush of emotions, good or bad? There may have been times when you felt uncomfortable hanging around someone new, and you couldn’t wait to get out of the room.

It may be your first date with a very cute guy or girl, but at times, we just can’t help it when our involuntary genes decide to kick in and make the plans for us on the very first look. More

The Pros and Cons of the Dating Age Gap

Social Minang Organization 

     Genealogically speaking, the matrilineal Minangkabau social organization consisted of four levels : The kaum, paruik, payuang, and suku.   Kaum is the smallest genelogical unit who traditionally occupied one rumah gadang (a big house with horn-shaped roofs) .  In  the old days, although the central figure of the ingerited communal house was the oldest woman, the head of the house was usually a male, the mamak ( uncle) who was sometimes alho called tungganai.

   A group of a maximum of four kaum forms a paruik ( womb). A bigger group is called payuang ( umbrella ) , and the biggest one is the suku (clan).  The suku was traditionally an exogamous group.  One of the major functions of these genealogical units was to secure the orderly transfer of the sacrosanct inherited land.  Another function, of course, was to take care of the ranji, the genealogical register.  After all, it is the register that should be used to determine one’s right to the pangulu ship.

A man is actually only a guest in his mother’s house.  He may inherit the family adat title, but it is his sisters who would acquire the landed property.  As a member of his adat community he is involved in two types of social networks.  He is a nephew to his uncle ( mamak ) or an uncle to his sister’s children.  But at the same time he is responsible for the father – son network, being a son of his father or a father to his children.  Therefore, it is expected of Minangkabau males to put into practice the traditional proverb : Anak dipangku kemenakan dibimbing, putting one ‘s children on the lap while holding the hands of nephew and nieces.  An individual male then is expected to fulfill both sets of responsibilities. More

What is morality and deviance?

According to Encarta Dictionary, Morality is the accepted moral standards. It is a standard of conduct that is generally accepted as right or proper. It is the rightness or the wrongness of something as judged by accepted moral standards. While Deviance, It is different or unacceptable behavior. It is the behavior that is sharply different from customary, traditional, or generally accepted standard. 

The problem of morality in the Philippines is to consider the actual and prevailing norms of right and wrong among Filipinos. It is quite obvious that there is a conflict. It is between what they say as Christians and what they do as Filipinos. It is also between their actual Filipino behavior and their ideal Christian behavior; in short, between what is and what ought to be.

Some church people and laymen always talk about the lack of morality. More appropriately social morality/responsibility as it applies to our perennial, national political-economic crises. For 480 years and counting, most of us Filipinos have been taught or inherited the Catholic Christian (or any Christian variety) religion. For some reason, there obviously is something wrong in the inherited teaching or method of teaching. Since we supposed Filipino Christians have become superficial, truly nominal or "split-level" Christians (Fr. Jaime Bulatao, SJ  1960s).

The Coconut Worm lives inside coconut tree.It's a pupa of some kind of insect.

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Consumed by my loss, I didn't notice the hardness of the pew where I sat.  I was at the funeral of my dearest friend - my mother.  She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times. Always supportive, Mother clapped loudest at my school plays, held a box of tissues while listening to my first heartbreak, comforted me at my father's death, encouraged me in college, and prayed for me my entire life.  When mother's illness was diagnosed, my sister had a new baby and my brother had recently married his childhood sweetheart, so it fell on me, the 27-year-old middle female child without entanglements, to take care of her.  I counted it an honor.  'What now, Lord?' I asked sitting in church.  My life stretched out before me as an empty abyss.  My brother sat stoically with his face toward the cross while clutching his wife's hand.   My sister sat slumped against her husband's shoulder, his arms around her as she cradled their child.  All so deeply grieving, no one noticed I sat alone.  My place had been with our mother, preparing her meals, helping her walk, taking her to the doctor, seeing to her medication, reading the Bible together.  Now she was with the Lord. My work was finished, and I was alone.  I heard a door open and slam shut at the back of the church.  Quick footsteps hurried along the carpeted floor. More

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                                   DRAGAN  MUNTEAN

                                an ambassador of speech and Romanian song 

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Gubbaw:  Igorots’ Traditon Of Naming A Child 

Gubbaw is one kind of tradition that makes some of the Igorot people unique.  When a child is born, they will wait until the umbilical cord is detached from the child as a sign the baby can be named or “Maigubbawan”.

The ritual is called gubbaw.  This is the igorots’ traditional way of giving the child a name.  It is like baptizing in Christianity.  In the church a priest does the ceremony of baptism, while the igorot’s tradition, the elders do it. 

The priest directs its prayer in heaven, the Igorots call to their God Kabunyan, and to the ghosts of the dead relatives of the family. 

The priest use a holy water, the Igorot use a “native” chicken (not cull or broiler).  The chicken is killed through “killing me softly way” or a stick is used to whip the wings and neck of the chicken so that the blood accumulate under the skin - until it dies.  Some feathers of the wings are taken and be put away.  The More