A POEM FOR A SINGLE PERSON

A POEM FOR A SINGLE PERSON

Single means you have the time to grow
and be the person you want to be.

Single gives you space to grow...
Sometimes, it is harder to grow
when you are too close to someone.
Trees are planted far apart
so they can spread their branches
and become strong as they mature...

Single means learning to live by yourself.
However, that is no more dificult
than learning to live with somebody else.

Single means freedom.
You are free
to spend a week's vacation on the beach,
to take computer courses,
to work late on an interesting project,
to spend the day in bed with a good book
or simply with a person who has read one...

Single means learning not to need a man/woman
to make your life meaningful
but learning to live with a man/woman
because you want to be with him/her.

Single means that sometimes you will wonder
why you will bite your lip and feel wistful
and wonder if marriage is better...

Ironically, yet quite happily,
single is feeling good
about being in control of your life.
It is liking and respecting
who you are and why you are.

Single is realizing that being married
is not necessarily better,
it is merely different...

Single means that there could be
something wonderful around the corner
and you can take advantage of it.

Single means you are free to love again.

On the lighter side...

The 8 Beatitudes of Single People
1. Blessed are the single people, for theirs alone is their income.
2. Blessed are those who are detached, they can go where they please, when they please.
3. Blessed are the non-couples, they shall inherit no one else's problems but their own.
4. Blessed are the uncommitted, they have no phone calls to wait for.
5. Blessed are those who do not thirst for companionship, they do not have to share the remote.
6. Blessed are the purely unattached, for they will see what they want in a shop and go buy it without any thought as to whether their mate will approve of the purchase. In other words, they can indulge without guilt.
7. Blessed are those who are persecuted when Valentine's Day rolls in, they do not need some stupid special day declared to remind them that they are happy in their present state.
8. Blessed are you when couples walk by arm in arm on a rainy day, you are not getting wet, they are. (I mean, try squeezing two people under a small umbrella, geez!)

With all these things in mind, I will still choose to be married to Joanna and a father to Ianna.

About the Psalms

Did you know that:

1. Psalm 118 is the middle chapter of the entire Bible.
2. Psalm 117, before Psalm 118 is the shortest chapter in the Bible.
3. Psalm 119, after Psalm 118 is the longest chapter in the Bible.
4. The Bible has 594 chapters before Psalm 118 and 594 chapters after Psalm 118.
5. If you add up all the chapters except Psalm 118, you get a total of 1188 chapters.
6. Verse 1188 or Psalm 118 verse 8 is the middle verse of the entire Bible.

Should the central verse then not have an important message?

"It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put your confidence in man."

Ate and Kuya, what is it all about

Siguro for those who are curious what's next after ditse or after the
kuya
ano na ang tawag sa next eldest boy sa pamilya, I wrote below how my
daddy's brothers and sisters call each other:
For boys: (arranges sequentially from oldest to youngest)
- Kuya
- Diko
- Sangko
- Siko (oops not the elbow!)

For girls:
- Ate
- Ditse
- Sanse
- Dete

Now if your have a family with more than 5 boys/girls.... di ko na alam
Kung papano pa sila tatawagin (=P)

*** inputs by getti

Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer was so "profound" that the professor decided to share it with colleagues.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some other variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. (can anyone explain how he came to this conclusion?) With birth and death rates as they are at present, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls into Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.

The student received the only "A" given.