5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Despair about Being Single on Valentine's Day

Are you single and have no one to spend Valentine's Day with? You don't have to feel bad or pathetic about it. And you shouldn't mind the teasing and bullying you might get. Let me tell you a not-so-secret secret: Being single on Valentine's Day is awesome too. Don't believe me? Here are why.

Reason #1: You don't have to make do with a single valentine.
I'm sure you're not the only person without a romantic partner on Valentine's Day. Gather your family and friends and have a group date instead. I'm sure it'll be more fun. And your dates won't have very high expectations as to how your date would go. You can go to the beach or to the park... it doesn't matter. What matters is you'll spend the day with the people you love.

Not really what I have in mind, but could be fun too.

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For Cheap yet Delectable Japanese Food, Try Tokyo Joe in SM

Tokyo Joe in SM (ground floor) is one of my favorite Japanese restaurants mainly because it serves considerably cheaper but delicious food. This restaurant has sort of become one of my go to places, especially after having a haircut. Getting a haircut is always a harrowing experience to me, no matter how many times I’ve already done it. Rhea usually comes with me, mostly for moral support. We agree that Tokyo Joe is one of our favorite places so afterwards we always go there—me, to reward myself for my bravery and either to celebrate if my haircut turned out okay and Rhea, because she conveniently has a craving for ramen or any Japanese food. Moral support, see?

Anyway, I went back there yesterday with my niece because it was the first time that she showed interest in eating in a place other than Jollibee or McDonald's.

My lunch date

In Keeping with Tradition, Here Are My New Year's Resolutions

I suppose it's tradition to have New Year's resolutions. I don't really put much stock on this tradition of sorts but everyone (and that's including me) has to have something he or she wants to change, right? And what better time to think of things I resolve to do or change than the time when everyone else is also doing it.

So, here are some of the things I'd really love to do or happen this year. 

Disaster Preparedness: How Ready Are You for a Super Typhoon?

After Typhoon Yolanda’s devastation in November of last year, another super typhoon is threatening our country. News of this bad weather has driven people into fresh panic. We have become more wary, and rightly so. Yolanda’s aftermath is still fresh in the minds and hearts of Filipinos. Some are still grieving their dead and reconstructing their lives and others are just beginning to get over and put behind them their horrible experience.

7 Medical Conditions and the Lies Told about Them

Back in the day (aka my childhood), mothers and older people I knew usually relied on personal experience and information gotten from their parents and other well-meaning people to cure common illnesses. The thing is, because there wasn’t Google then, people had no way of verifying—without seeing a doctor—if those passed-on information were true. And because they believe the information to be true, they usually spread on the misconceptions. 

Below are some of the medical conditions I heard people around me told lies about at one time or another while I was growing up.

 Liar!

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Why You Should Watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

If you haven't yet seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, it's time you should. If you're not familiar with this film, it is a musical created and produced in 2008, during the Writers Guild of America's strike in 2007-2008. It is a three-part mini-series created for online release, written by Joss Whedon, his brothers Jed and Zack, and Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed's wife. The music and lyrics were provided by Joss and Jed.  

Dr. Horrible won several awards, including a Creative Arts Emmy. That should tell you that it's worth watching, right? Allow me to convince you more to include it in your list of films to watch. 

#1 The actors are great

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Go International with KFC’s New Rice Bowls Offerings

To those who are fond of KFC, or to those who simply want budget yet tasty meals, KFC’s latest Rice Bowls offerings would probably come as a welcome surprise. Not only are the dishes scrumptilicious, one serving is also enough to fill you up, making it worth your money. So aside from the usual fares, you now have additional meals to choose from when dining at KFC.

 Italian a la king

7 Deadly Bacteria that Could Be in Your Soil

Soil is host to different kinds of bacteria. And while some are helpful because they help recycle natural elements and compounds, make the soil rich and fertile, and speed up decomposition, living alongside them are the pathogenic kinds. Because bacteria are not visible to the naked eyes, we won’t know if the soil in our garden or in our yard is teeming with them. Perhaps this the reason why parents don’t want their children to play in the mud?

Below are 7 deadly bacteria that could be present in your soil.

1. Burkholderia pseudomallei

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RAS Syndrome: Do You Have It?

Are you familiar with RAS syndrome? Have you ever, even just once, said “… ATM machine”? How about “… PIN number”? If you have, sorry to say that you’re plagued by RAS syndrome. But don't worry; it's not fatal. Contagious—maybe...

2013: The Year that Was

In the years to come, Filipinos old enough to remember the events would look back to 2013 and still remember the catastrophes that occurred that year. In the last quarter of the year, so near the Christmas season, two extremely devastating events would occur one after another: first was the earthquake that had a magnitude of 7.2 and the other was the typhoon that was considered to be one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded.

Eid al-Adha fell on October 15 in 2013. Schools were closed and some employees did not have work, which was fortuitous because the aftermath would have been more horrible and devastating otherwise.

The day started like any ordinary day and all was well until the clock struck 8:12 in the morning and very strong tremors were felt. The earth movement lasted for about 34 seconds. In the aftermath, people were left feeling confused and terrified, especially in the wake of the aftershocks that continued to plague the affected areas for days afterwards.

4 Things that Can Induce a Book Lover to Tears

A book lover isn't really the same as a bookworm because while the latter is generally fond of reading, the former is fond of both reading and the books themselves. She may even value the book more than the story in cases where the book is rare or when the copy is a special edition. And while she may not condemn e-book readers to the deepest level of hell for being phoney tools of evil that will never measure up to the value of printed books and may in fact even have one or two, she would prefer a tangible copy to electronic one. To her, reading is not complete without the concrete sensation of a book’s weight in her hand. Plus, she may also have the urge to breathe in the book's musty smell from time to time.

A book lover is easy to identify, especially in the places where she feels more at home: in bookstores and in libraries. If you spot someone acting generally creepy by sniffing books, crooning to them like they are her own first-born, or sighing/crying/fainting/gushing like a Beatles fan at a concert at the sight of a book one does not normally find in local bookstores, you have found yourself a book lover.