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Foot binding was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the first half of 20th century.
Foot-binding resulted in lifelong disabilities for most of its victims. As the practice waned in the early 20th century, "some girls' feet were released after initial binding, leaving less severe deformities," according to a study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco. However, some effects of foot-binding were permanent, especially if a girl's arches or toes had been broken or other drastic measures taken in order to achieve the desired smallness. In the 1990s and early 2000s, some elderly Chinese women still suffered from disabilities related to bound feet.

Arroyo and Sukarnoputri Share Similarities

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines and Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia have remarkable similarities. Both are 54-year-old women who had been vice-presidents before becoming presidents in place of their predecessors who were ousted in the year 2001. Both of them were daughters of former presidents of the world's two largest archipelagos who lost the presidency in 1965 to dictators. Both women have three children and their husbands were being pursued by controversy. Both visited Washington in their first year as presidents and met US President George W. Bush, another offspring of a former president who also assumed power in 2001. Arroyo and Sukarnoputri are not entirely similar though. The former is a Catholic Christian from the world's fifth largest Christian country while the latter is a Muslim from the country with the world's largest Muslim population.

hold on

hold people like it's

the last time you'll

ever see them...

and when they go,

don't make reasons

for them to stay

make reasons 4 them

to return...

there are things in our

life that aren't meant

to stay, sometimes

change may not what

we want, but sometimes

change is exactly what

we need

PURPOSE-is still the

best driving force

to live...

coz when you have

reason to live, u

will never have a

reason to quit...

World's 4th Most Accident-Prone Country

According to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Philippines was the fourth most accident prone country in the world. The two institutions arrived at this conclusion after finding out that some 5,809,986 Filipinos were killed or injured as a result of disasters or man-made calamities over a ten-year period (1992-2001).

If not for its smaller population, the Philippines could have been the world's second most accident-prone country after Iran. Because of its large population, China topped the accident list, with 97,783,301 of its citizens affected by accidents during the ten-year period. It was followed by India, which reported 46,060,125 victims during the period. Both China and India have a population of over 1 billion people. Iran was third in the list, with 6,416,570 victims. Behind the Philippines were Ethiopia, with 3,334,266 victims; and Pakistan, 2,732,032 victims. The global report by International Red Cross said 535,416 people were killed in natural disasters and 86,947 others in industrial, transport and other "technological disasters" worldwide from 1992 to 2001.

According to the Philippine Red Cross, 31,835 Filipinos were killed and 94,369,462 others were affected by natural disasters and calamities in a span of 20 years. "The Philippines was a natural laboratory for floods, typhoons, monsoon rains, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides," Philippine National Red Cross governor Dante Liban said. (Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Typhoon Juan

The strongest typhoon in four years roared through Northern Luzon Monday and plunged entire provinces into a state of darkness and silent cell phones. Damage to infrastructure knocked out power and telecommunications, hampering efforts to reach loved ones in the eye of tropical cyclone Juan, which left 7 people dead and 9 injured.

Randomly..

We're the king and queen of hearts
Tell me when the music starts
all my dreams come true
when I dance with you...

Did I dream that we danced forever
in a wish that we made together
on a night that i prayed would never end. ohhh..
you know it's not my imagination
or a part of the orchestration
love was here at the coronation

I'm the king and you're the queen of hearts..

This was the song that went out of my mouth this morning during our computer class while doing an activity.
I don't know why I sang this song. Maybe there is a meaning that I need to figure out.
But I hope that time won't be now because I'm still busy. :-)

A Film to Remember

We are very lucky yesterday because... we didn't have afternoon classes.
Yehey!

There was this activity for all High School students together with grade 6 boys and girls yesterday which was the reason why most of us were in an excited mood.
We were invited to watch a film entitled the 13th day at SM city.
This film was mainly about the experience of the 3 kids- Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta wherein to these same persons our Lady of Fatima appeared to.
In my own perspective, they were lucky enough to have seen the image of virgin Mary and be an instrument of God's salvation..

Honestly, I envied these kids because of all people, why them?
After watchinf the said film, I came to realize that they were the chosen ones because it is in each of them that God have seen a perfect personality.
I am very lucky to have watched that particular movie because in the end it left a mark that could never be erased, I think so.

If I will only be like them- in time may, it may be now or tommorrow or even next year, an image will also appear to me if I but change my ways and follow their footsteps.