As an IT professional, father to a cute child, and as a partner in a common-law relationship, stress rears its ugly head every now and then. As I started getting productivity drops and became the king of memos in the office, I realized I had to do something about my stress levels.
 
I Googled the phrase [...]

Alexander Dumas’ ever-loved fictional character, Edmond Dantes, was one of my heroes when I was growing up. I have read the Count of Monte Cristo when I was still in elementary, and Dumas’ exceptional prose for figurative language would take me places. Of course, that was I dosed with pure imagination, as any normal kid [...]

When I was younger, I was having a difficult time deciding what I wanted to be although I already knew then that I have a talent in the arts. I wanted to pursue Fine Arts but I also wanted to pursue architecture at the same time.
When my grandmother got sick, I told her I’d pursue [...]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ novel is about an illness of love that plagues the main characters Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza. He has successfully deployed universality in the themes of love, suffering, aging, and death.
The story opens with the funeral of Fermina’s husband, Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Her long-time admirer Florentino approaches her and vows once more [...]

Not so long ago I was downloading beats crafted by various producers. My main source was SoundClick.com where most musicians compete with their works. Although not well known in the music scenes, the beats I find there are awesome. They’ve got complete, coherent patterns. Then I saw videos from YouTube showing how the generic software, [...]

I once read an article involving the death of a Navy SEAL operative during a conventional security checkpoint mission. How would this relate to the title of this article you might say? Well it’s simple mathematics. Navy SEAL training for one person would cost the United States government close to $350,000.00. SEALs are trained for [...]

Copyright issues on data distributed over the web are a widely discussed matter among original creators. Be it an e-book, movie, software or even a simple blog post copied by another blogger, these products are among the most unsecured properties that are open for wide use through the Internet.
Paying for online product or service doesn’t [...]

I personally admit that I am a smoker, and I know that my life is at risk because of this vice. More and more people die because of smoking. It is estimated that five million people die annually because of lung cancer due to excessive smoking. And over three-quarters of deaths among smokers worldwide were [...]

Every so often, we feel guilty about a lot of things: about not spending time with our loved ones, about not contributing financially to the household, etc. The problem is, more often than not, most of us unconsciously flail ourselves with feelings of guilt.
Psychologists opine that guilt is important in keeping people from hurting others. [...]

I can still perfectly remember how Manuel and the rest of my blockmates in first year college shared Chemistry and Biology laboratory notes. We would meet up outside the building to compare notes and illustrations on the experiments early in the morning. There have been times also when we busied ourselves gobbling Samba chocolate instead [...]