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Center Dwaight “SUPERMAN” Howard agreed to sign again to a new team after another dominant year with the Lakers. But as we all know the team had high expectation because of the stars in that team like Point Guard soon to be hall of famer Steve Nash and Shooting Guard Kobe Bryant. Everyone agreed to the trade but as the season started everyone questioned the trade. As we all know the Laker franchise had no problem in a playoff spot but this year was different everyone questioned the players because they almost did not make it to the playoffs. Everybody blamed the coach but in my opinion it’s the team’s chemisty.

Dwaight Howard declined his extension with the Lakers so he went to look for another new team some team’s had an eye for him like the Dallas Mavericks and the Brooklyn Nets but he was afford an amazing with the rockets. On July, 6, 2013 he agreed to sign with the Houston Rockets. And his Statement on Twitter after his decision “I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel its the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best.”. Now with Shooting Guard all-star James “Beardsanity” Harden And Jeremy “Linsanity” Lin. In my opinion this might be a start of a play-off team with Dwaight’s defense under the paint and Harden’s and Lin’s scoring this might be the big break for the team and the franchise. We will see in this upcoming season. Catch their first game on October 5 2013 in the Toyota Center .  

By: Jeo Argosino

 

Family time

Family Time for me is very important specially nowadays that we’re too busy with our own schedules that we don’t have time to bond with each other, talk, play or just plain being together, a time where we would just chat and have fun. Family Time is also important because it is like your energy charger, your booster, mentally, spiritually & emotional. Some families that don’t have time together sometimes lead to broken homes and the worst, their kids straying from home.
For us one of the ways we do it is that every Sunday our Family would go to hear Mass. On the way to Church, my sister and I always insinuate that we wanted to eat at yellow cab after going to church. After Mass, we would always say something like “Papa gusto namin ng dilaw na baby bear/lion” or have a conversation like when my sister is wearing a yellow shirt she will ask what the color of her shirt is then ask what a baby bear or lion is called to our dad until he gets our point. Sometimes when he can’t take our pestering anymore, he will tell us to ask our mom to make us stop, but eventually they will agree to eat at yellow cab. We would drive to Imus where there is the nearest Yellow Cab. We would always order a Manhattan Meatlovers Pizza, Charlie Chan Chicken Pasta, Twice Baked Potato Halves and Hot Wings. After ordering our parents will go to our table. My Papa would always joke on whom will pay or whose allowance the bill will be deducted. Then my sister and I would point at each other. Then our order will come and we will all eat. Sometimes, I and my sister would scramble at the last piece of chicken. I was always the last one to finish. 
After eating we just sit there for a while, we just talk about what has happened the past days and other stuff. It’s like our little family Sunday bonding time where we forget about everything else and just think about each other. That’s why I love to insist that we eat outside after the mass. Now, that’s what I call Family Time.


[Draft] By: Janina Abadiano

Filipino Food

This soup is also know as “Sopas” in Filipino. When someone is sick this dish is serve for them, aside from that this it is also serve as an Appetizer or Entrée. When the season is change to rainy days, it is serve in the family. It is also serve when there  is Birthday, Christmas and New Year. I prefer this than “Lugaw” A.K.A. Gruel. Because It has many ingredients than lugaw that has only, meat of the pork and Glutinous Rice(Sticky Rice).

“Pinakbet”
A Filipino mix vegetables, with shrimp or pork. This food together with rice is a well-known dish. Aside from this is “Adobo, Sinigang, Kare-Kare, Sisig” etc. This dish stands out for me because for the first time I've ate it when I was on second-year High School, it taste really delicious. This dish has more ingredients than other dishes, as I asked others in the internet, they much prefer to have other dishes. I just like it because it is much healtier and delicious.

“Pancit Malabon”
The dish originated in Malabon City, this dish is a afternoon food(Merienda). It is a noodles with eggs, shrimps and vegetables as a topings. Aside from “Pancit Malabon”, “Palabok” is also serve for afternoon food. It is healthy to eat this with lots of vegetables. 

“Buko Pie”
Buko Pie (Coconut pie) is well known as a souvenir (pasalubong) in Laguna. It taste good when serve hot. It has been a war in Laguna to be selled out. 


“Halo-Halo”
While enjoying out in the hot summer, Halo-Halo is always selled out, it is a refreshing mid-afternoon snack. Enjoying eating this desserts relieves our stress, and heat in the Philippines. For me, instead of eating ice cream, I prefer having halo-halo. It is fresh than ice cream that has preservatives.





[Draft] By :Mary Claudette Milambiling

The life of Bruce lee

First of all I want to tell you why did I choose this topicfor my blog? I choose this topic because I want to know what make Bruce lee a great fighter in martial art and moreover he is also my favourite fighter actor becausehe is very fast and strong in fighting. And my most favourite movie of Bruce lee is Fist of fury and Enter the dragon I also want to tell you short story of Bruce lee.

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California in both the hour and year of the Dragon. His father Lee Hoi Chuen, a Hong Kong opera singer, moved with his wife, Grace Ho, and three children to the United States in 1939; Hoi Chuen's fourth child, a son, was born while he was on tour in San Francisco. He was a child actor in Hong Kong who later returned to the U.S. and taught martial arts. He starred in the TV series The Green Hornet (1966-67) and became a major box office draw in The Chinese Connection and Fists of Fury. Shortly before the release of his film Enter the Dragon, he died at the age of 32 on July 20, 1973.He is best known for was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon as well as the technique JeetKune Do.

Lee received the name "Bruce" from a nurse at his birthing hospital, and his family never used the name during his pre-school years. The future star appeared in his first film at the age of 3 months, when he served as the stand-in for an American baby inGolden Gate Girl (1941)

Breaking Box Office Records

Lee signed a two-film contract, eventually bringing his family over to Hong Kong as well. Fists of Fury was released in late 1971, featuring Lee as a vengeful fighter chasing the villains who had killed his kung-fu master. Combining his smooth JeetKune Do athleticism with the high-energy theatrics of his performance in The Green Hornet, Lee was the charismatic center of the film, which set new box office records in Hong Kong.

Those records were broken by Lee's next film, The Chinese Connection (1972), which, like Fists of Fury, received poor reviews from critics when they were released in the U.S.

By the end of 1972, Lee was a major movie star in Asia. He had co-founded with Raymond Chow his own company, Concord Productions, and had released his first directorial feature, Return of the Dragon. Though he had not yet gained stardom in America, he was poised on the brink with his first major Hollywood project,Enter the Dragon.

Mysterious Death

On July 20, 1973, just one month before the premiere of Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, China, at the age of 32. The official cause of his sudden and utterly unexpected death was a brain edema, found in an autopsy to have been caused by a strange reaction to a prescription painkiller he was reportedly taking for a back injury. Controversy surrounded Lee's death from the beginning, as some claimed he had been murdered. There was also the belief that he might have been cursed, a conclusion driven by Lee's obsession with his own early death.

And there is some quotes of Bruce lee that you can learn from him "The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups." And A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard."

[Draft] By: Martin S. Fernandez

Eight Below: A Dog's Life

Dogs are loving, playful, jolly, and are happy beside their master. You can seea dog’s feelings by wagging their tail and shows affection by licking your face or your hand. In the movie, Eight Below is a very touching story that shows leadership and love to one another—both dogs and their master. The movie started when Paul Walker is a guide at an Antarctica research base. Paul, Harrison, andMcClarenare going to Mount Melbourne to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury and the only way to go there is by using a dog sled. Due to the storm, too much weight in the plane can’t carry both people and dogs so they decided to return for the dogs later. The storm is worse than expected and soon knew that there will be no rescue for the dogs until the next spring.

After a few days when they left the dogs, the dogs break free of their chains then immediately set off their journey to find food but, one dog named Old Jack can’t come because he’s too oldand weak to break the chains then, eventually dies. One night, one of the dogs named Dewey, falls to a slope then eventually dies because of his fatal injury. Max, one of the dogs stays with Dewey a little while longer then went to find his friends. On his way back he saw a dead animal and ate it, until he was attacked by a seal. The other dogs was able to find Max, Max tried to distract the seal so that the rest can eat the dead animal but, the seal predicted what’s happeningthen bites Maya (the leader of the dogs) on the leg but manages to survive then, the other dogs chase the seal furiously. The part that touches my heart is where the dogs hunt’s foods for Maya but refuses and gave it to Max. This means that she’s passing her leadership to Max, who has shown bravery, leadership, and compassion.The dogs find their way to the camp, where Paul and his rescue team and return home with the six dogs.

I love mydogs because whenever I arrived home from school they’ll meet you at the gate immediately. I love the way they wag their tails because it showed them how happy they are to see their master. I don’t want my dog to treat me as their master, I want them to treat me as a friend.I really like dogs and I’vedreamed of having a siberian husky because they look so attractive.Dogs are man’s bestfriend, we must treat them love and care just like the way dogs or any animal treated us. “Dogs have been known to die to save their masters. A dog might even die of misery after his master is dead. They are certainly a true and faithful friend. It is right to call him man’s best friend.”

[Draft] By:CARLA KRISTEL LOPEZ

FAVORITE RESTAURANTS

*Me and my tita loves to eat. We ate in many restaurants.

THE CHOPHOUSE

~ The chophouse started in the USA in the late 19^th century as a development of traditional inns andbars. We ate at trinoma branch. I ordered U.S. beef minute steaks, 7oz and my side dish is French fries.

CRISOSTOMO

The Crisostomo restaurant is a Filipino Cuisine. We ate at Resorts World, Pasay City. The general theme is the turn of the century, Spanish period. I like the frames that hang on the wall and the sorbetes outside the restaurant. I ordered bracken tofu, bagumbayanlechon and sisig.J By the way, the restroom there is a little bit creepy. :o

LEGEND OF INDIA

Obviously, It’s a Indian restaurant. I learned to eat Indian food because of my tita’s Indian husband. Most of the Indian foods are spicy and I like spicy foods. J I ordered samosa and chicken tandoori. They also serve free snacks while waiting for the food J

RELISH AT PONTE

The Relish at ponte is a continental Mediterranean restaurant. We tried it because my tita’s friend told us that the food their was good.What she said was true. I like the food and the restaurant was nice inside and out. I ordered relish bistro steak and relish roasted chicken.

LUTONG MACAU

Lutongmacau is a Chinese restaurant. We always eat here because we like the yang chow rice and the siomai here.These restaurant is also near in our apartment, It’s a walking distance. I ordered beef tenderloin in Chinese style and sweet and sour pork.

 [Draft] By: Alexandra Cabarles

Cell phone

 Cell phone is the most used technology today. Almost all of us now have a cell phone, even our grandparents. I remember when I was a kid, my father’s cell phone was the Nokia 3310, it is black and white, thick, and without camera. I remembered it because I always borrowed it from him, just to play Snake and Space Impact. The cell phones now days are very different compared to the past years, it’s because of the growing technology. Cell phones are already colored, touch screen, thinner, lighter, with camera and can connect to the wife.

We all know that things and gadgets are created for us to benefit from it and make our life easier, but there are disadvantages too. Cell phone is very useful to me. I am able to communicate to my family and friends through texting and phone calls, and I can contact them in case of emergency. I can play music for entertainment, watch videos if I want, capture the memorable moments in my life together with my family and friends for remembrance, and play games when I am bored. I can also connect to the wife to be able to surf the internet for me to be updated in the latest news, discover new things that I don’t know yet and allows me to log-in in my favorite social networking sites like Face book and Twitter.

There are disadvantages and bad effects of using a cell phone. The radiation of the cell phone that can have an effect on my body and brain. Sometimes, I don’t have enough time to talk, tell stories, experiences, opinions, thoughts, and feelings to my family and friends because of texting. It also became a distraction for me when I am doing my homework and projects and when I’m studying for a quiz or exam. When waking up in the morning, the first thing that I will do is check my cell phone before praying, which is really bad? And when sleeping at night my cell phone is beside me. For some, they don’t respect the foods during meal time because they can’t set aside their phones; they still use it while eating. In class, some students don’t listen to their teachers/professors because of using their cell phones.

 I will do all my best to change my attitude in using my cell phone. I want to spend a quality time with my family and friends. I will lessen the time of using my cell phone and leave it in one place when I’m doing a homework or project and while studying, so that I will not be tempted to use it.

[Draft] By: Ria Hernandez