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.

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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


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.

Usage: I vs. Me

“I” and “me” are both first person singular pronouns. The former is used as the subject or part of the subject of a verb while the latter is used as the object of a verb or preposition. You can think of “I” as the doer of the action expressed by the verb and “me” as the receiver of the action.