God will make a way

What's the story behind this song:



Late at night in a remote part of the Texas panhandle, Don Moen's wife, his sister and sister's husband were traveling with their four children. They never saw the approaching truck, and its driver never saw them. The children were thrown from the van.

In the terrible darkness, the parents followed the sounds of crying to their wounded children. But Craig Phelp's 9-year-old son wasn't crying. His neck was broken upon impact, and he was dead.

Craig, a doctor, quickly tried to revive his son. But God's voice cut through the chaos: Jeremy is with Me, God seemed to say. You deal with those who are living. It took 45 excruciating minutes for the ambulance to arrive at this desolate little patch of wilderness.

The next day, on his way to the funeral by plane, Dom Moen opened his Bible. Was it merely a chance that directed his eyes to Isaiah 43:19? I think not. "I will even make a road in the wilderness," Don read, "and rivers in the desert." A song immediately welled up within him, as if fully formed. It was one of those moments when divine inspiration overpowers an artist.

After the mournful service, Don embraced the bereaved parents; their tears mingled with his own. He managed to tell them that God had provided a song especially for them. And with a lump on his throat, he somehow sang:

God will make a way when there seems to be no way,
He works in way we cannot see.
He will make a way for me.
He will be my guide, hold me closely to His side,
With love and strenth for each new day,
He will make a way, He will make a way.

By a road in the wilderness He'll lead me,
And rivers in the desert will I see;
Heaven and earth will fade,
But His Word will still remain,
He will do something new today.

Today, that little song has made its way around the world. It offers the comfort of the Lord in every corner of the globe, simply because God's grieving children made a way to woship in the worst of life's wilderness. They could have fixed their eyes on the wreckage of a wilderness road, but they saw instead the invisible road-the one God always provides toward hope and deliverance. The Phelpses and the Moens knew that at the end of that road, a laughing nine-year-old waits to welcome them.

-David Jeremiah. My Heart's Desire.
Source: Linsay Terry, "A Song Written for One Family," The Communicator, December 2001.

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Heart of worship

Matt redman, a worship leader in England, tells how his pastor taught his church the real meaning of worship. To show that worship is more than music, he banned all singing in their services for a period of time while they learned to worship in other ways. By the end of that time, Matt had written the classic song "Heart of Worship":



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Biblical view on work

Many people ask how to be prosperous while seminars and even religious groups teach it. Being prosperous in not wrong. God would not have created it if He doesn't want us to be prosperous.... Also, we don't have to poor to live a holy and pleasing life to God.

Work is a command from God

God commands all able-bodied persons to work. Exodus 20:9 says, "Six days you shall labor and do all your work; and on the seventh day you shall rest." All have to work and those who does not sins. Some people work through others' hands. They tend to work with their mouth alone by commanding others to work for them. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 says, "Make it your ambition to work with your hands." Godly people are working people.

Ephesians 4:28 says, "He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands." This verse pertains not only to the conventional stealing we know. We are stealing if we get something others have worked for. There are families where only one person works while other members of the family just stay at their home and spends money. They should only be excused if they are still young, disabled or are very old already enough to work right?

"You will never be prosperous unless you work."

Why work?

God commends it. In proverbs 31:13, God praises a working woman. In our homes, a worked-out hand of a woman is a trophy. What can a smooth-skinned hand of a woman be proud of if she does not know how to work. Husband and children recommence a mother with working hands. "Her children arise and call her blessed." We should work because God commends it.

God exemplified it. In the beginning, God worked. Genesis 2:2 says, "By the seventh day God has finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he rested from all his work." God rested also because He worked. Godly men of God also exemplified work. Imagine the work of Noah in building the ark to accommodate the land animals and the birds. David created thousands of musical instruments for the temple to be played by 4,000 full-time musicians during his time. The glory of God comes down on earth for true worship coming from a true heart. One time out of industry, the apostle Paul spoke a sermon even during night time.

Work is God's way and provision to prosperity. God have chosen work as our way to prosperity. Anyone who works has the right to eat. Some people pretend to work in order to eat. Even children are meant to work in order to eat. They help in household chores like cleaning the house, cooking, and taking care of the younger siblings. Just imagine a tired parent coming home from work will always still clean the house and cook for dinner. Those who know how to ask for allowance should also know how to work. Parents give to their children because of love. The children should know this that they may also show their love to their parent by giving helping hands when inside the house. The more their parents do not ask them to work, the more they should volunteer in doing household chores.

Work Earns profit. Proverbs 14:23 says, "All hard work brings profit." We should not be ashamed to sell something'' to gain profit. We work for the profit in the first place. For our friends who have their own business, we usually ask for discounts and free stuffs. If we are their friends, we should be the one to understand the situation that they are working for profit and yet we ask stuff with discount and things for free. Sometimes we even tease them for their job. We should be the ones to encourage them more and support them for their industry.

People in the world are not meant to be poor. Many just have lifestyle designed for poverty. Psalms 128:2 says, "You will eat the fruit of your labor."

Hard-working people earn even good sleep. Ecclesiastes 5:12 says, "The sleep of a laborer is sweet." If you find it hard to get asleep (except for the insomniacs), take time to think if you just lack of work.

God blessed work
God blesses those who work through His justice and through His favor or His pleasure. God's justice makes sure that workers are blessed. God created the natural laws and phenomena. He created formulas that if you started something and continued in doing it, you'll get the product. Work gives reward and even rewards. Proverbs 24:12 says, "Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?" if you want God to pay you, then do some work. His justice will see to it that you get rewarded.

God also blesses us through His favor/pleasure. Satan reacted to God's favor to Job when he said in Job 1:10, "Have you put a hedge around him and his household and everything that he has? You have blessed the works of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land."

If there's such as God's favor, there's also God's withholding of a blessing. In short is a curse. There are works that God despises. Ecclesiastes 5:6 says, "Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, 'My vow was a mistake.'" Turning back promises is despised by God and "Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?"

Favor is up to God. It is not his duty. We prosper or not depending on God's favor and we are not to blame God if His favor is not with our work. We should check ourselves instead. We affect God's favor by the things we do. We may make Him angry through words we say. We won't prosper if He will not allow it. God doesn't destroy our work. Removing His protection already makes our work to be destroyed. Everything in this planet leads to destruction because of our sin. Because of our fallen nature, we tend to be greedy, have murderous intentions and have selfish attitudes. All things are meant to be destroyed because of sin.

Can we override destruction? Only God can provide a protective fence around us. His protection is the only thing we need. God doesn't have to destroy us. All he have to do is remove His protection and we are destroyed automatically. Try not washing yourself for a day or two and describe your smell afterwards. All are meant to decay. We are just slowing down the process by doing something. Our destruction is natural and we need God's protection to be exempted with the natural process severed by sin.

In spite of our sins, God is so gracious to give us things that we enjoy. We are children of disobedience but God still give things we enjoy. God have all the authority to allow things to happen and it is He who exempts us from the consequences of sin.

Other people prosper while some do not and God or any other people are not to be blamed about such. We should check ourselves instead for unpleasant words we say or things on pour mind that displeases God. We are accountable for every word we say. There's power in words as God created things with His words. God indwells us and has created us in His own image that there's also power in our words.

Words we say usually come back to us that we should guard our tongue. It's better to bless people that blessing may also come to us. For every work we speak we should ask ourselves if it could happen to us. Just look at Satan, all his lies are just coming back to him.

Ethics of Work

Focused. Godly works are concentrated. Ecclesiastes 8:9 says, "I applied my mind to everything done under the sun." Solomon focused by applying his mind. You will not catch any if you run after two ducks.

Steadfast. Don't leave your work because of impatience. Psalm 104:2 says, "Then man goes out to his work, to his labor until evening." On the average, we are to work 8 hours a day, 8 hours to sleep and have 8 hours for ourselves. A godly work is steadfast; it is done until evening.

Righteous. Work is not blessed until done with righteousness; no cheating, no lies and no tricks. Proverbs 10:16 says, "The wages of the righteous bring them life, but the income of the wicked brings them punishment." We should not envy those who cheat. They will pay for any amount cheated. Will you envy a cheater whose income was just spent for his son's surgery and was filled with worries and sadness? Earning the exact pay and being exempted from big expenses is already a blessing. "The wages of the righteous brings them life." Not only to the biological life but the meaning of our life. Doing the rigth thing should satisfy us already. Food can be bought but not appetite. Beds can be bought but not sleep. There are many gifts from God that cannot be bought by money.

Honest. Proverbs 13:11 says, "Dishonest money dwindles away but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow." Money from dishonesty is gone easily and does not prosper. Though little (not because of small profit and slow business), an honest work prospers.

Industrious. We really have to be industrious. Proverbs 14:23 says, "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads to poverty." Words without work will bring you to poverty. Work is a great channel of blessing. Hard work is one great way to prosperity. Our energies should not be spent in lifting barbells and in working out. We don't have to go to gym if we really are working. There's also no need to watch for your weight and diet if you work hard. God designed us not only to work mentally but physically also.

One great way to be prosperous is to work hard. Let the Holy Spirit finish the other things not mentioned. We should confess to God the times when we lack work.

We can glorify God through work. We are familiar with worship through dancing, singing, studying His word but we can also worship God through working with the abilities He has given us.

Source: Siksik, Liglig, at Umaapaw: Work, Invest, Save, Give, Atbp. By Eduardo Mendoza Lapiz. Mandaluyong: OMF Literature, 1999.


Translated from Siksik, Liglig, at Umaapaw: Work, Invest, Save, Give, Atbp. By Eduardo Mendoza Lapiz. Mandaluyong: OMF Literature, 1999.

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Extremities

Do you know that:

- The largest ever gold-bearing nugget was found in 1872 at a mine in New South Wales. It yielded 187 lb. of gold.

- The largest plants in the world are the Big Tress (Sequoia gigantea) and redwood trees of California. These trees are believed to live as long as 6000 years. These trees are also the world’s largest living organism.

- The world’s smallest flower and the world’s smallest flowering plant is the Brazilian duckweed called mofia. The whole plant can be less than 1/16 in. across.

- Rafflesia arnodii is produces the world’s largest flower. The lower can measure more than 3 ft. across, is ¾ in. in thickness and can weigh as much as 15 lb.

- The plant with the most repulsive smell is the tropical giant arum lily.

- The largest insect known to the world is the Goliath beetle. It measures 4 in. across and 5.8 in. in length

- The world’s largest animal is the blue whale. It can weigh more than 100 tons. This animal needs 4 tons of food per day.

- The largest organism without a backbone is the Atlantic giant dquid. It can weigh 2 tons and can grow to 55 ft. long.

- The largest mammal is the African bush elephant. Its average weight is 5.6 tons.

- The smallest mammal is the pygmy shrew of Northern Europe which is rarely longer than 1½ from nose to tail.

- The largest bird is the flightless North African ostrich which can weigh up to 345 lb. And can grow up to 9 ft. tall.

- The smallest bird is the bee hummingbird of Cuba. It is 2 in. long and has a 1.1 wingspan.

- The fastest creature is the spine-tailed swift. Records say that it can fly in excess of 200 mph.

- The largest of all the spiders is the South American bird-eating spider. It has a leg span of 10 in and has a 3½ in. body length.

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50 ways to Tell Your Child, “I Love You”

- By Joe White

When your child is participating in an athletic event or musical performance, be there watching.
Help your son or daughter learn a new skill such as riding a bike, making a cake, or fixing a flat tire.
Leave an “I love you” note in your child’s school lunch box.
Read an entire chapter together from your child’s favorite book.
Find a new way to trust your child by granting a new area of responsibility that he or she would both enjoy and benefit from.
After your teen aged son or daughter comes in from a date, have popcorn together.
Go out in the snow together and throw snowballs at a target (even a few at each other).
Listen to your child – with all your attention.
Help your child wash his or her bike (or tricycle).
Snuggle in bed together as you tell a goodnight story.
Have a water-pistol fight (let your kids drench you).
Make up a secret code language and write messages to one another.
Say, “I am proud of you.”
Prepare your child’s favorite dinner menu twice in a week.
Make up and tell stories with your kids as the heroes.
Bring home your child’s favorite candy bar.
Take an evening walk together.
Have a pillow fight some night at bedtime.
Play games together (e.g. Old maid, Concentration, Candyland, Sorry, Pictionary).
The bible’s love chapter says that love “is kind” (1 Cor. 13:4). Think of a special way you can show kindness to your child today.
Take nature hikes together and collect leaves, acorns, rocks, mosses, sticks, or whatever.
Spend a special time praying together for others – for the leaders and teacher in your church, for government officials, for any missionaries your child knows, for neighbors, for friends, for family members.
Keep a scrapbook of your child’s awards, newspaper clippings, photos, and so on. Get it out often and look at it together.
Invite your son’s or daughter’s friends to your home to spend the night.
Build a “faith growth chart” on which you list prayers and answers in one column and memorized bible verses in another. See your child’s faith grow!
Make popcorn, curl up together on the couch, and watch your son’s or daughter’s favorite video for the 20th time.
After a scolding, tell your child, “did you know I love you even when you’re naughty?” Then give him or her a hug.
Build and fly kites together.
Show your child a special card or picture he or she has given you that you’ve kept for a long time.
Give your child your full attention when he or she tells you what happened at school today, and provide a thoughtful response.
Compliment your child’s attempt to keep a tidy room.
Show your child one of his or her baby pictures and tell why it’s one of your favorites.
Show your daughter fix her hair in a special way.
Take a winter’s afternoon off and do a puzzle together.
Take your child out to breakfast (just the two of you) before school.
Before a big event in your child’s life – a birthday, a competition, a big test at school – decorate his or her room with crepe paper and posters.
Allow your child to plan the day for your family.
Go on a bike ride together around the neighborhood.
Take your child out for bowling or miniature gold, and go out for dinner afterward.
Display (on the refrigerator or in another prominent spot) the artwork or other creations your child made at school, Sunday school, and so on.
Ask for your child’s opinion on a big family decision.
Cook breakfast together on a Saturday morning.
Tell your spouse how proud you are of your child or something he or she did, and let him or her overhear your remarks.
As you notice your child making or doing something creative, call other family members to come and see.
Give your child a hug when he or she is feeling down.
Make sack lunches for you and your child, and enjoy them together at a local park.
Plant flowers or vegetable seeds with your child. As you together see the plants sprout and grow, tell about your child’s growth – physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually.
Talk with your child about what you believe about god.
Tell openly with your child about your most significant convictions, and ask fir his or her opinions in response.
In a relaxed moment together, talk about favorite memories. (Even younger children enjoy this – their “past” may be short in years, but relative to their ages it seems just as long as ours.) Talk about favorite gifts, favorite toys, favorite surprises.

This list is excerpted from Faith Training by Jo White. Published by Focus on the Family. (c) 1994 Joe White

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Things to know about colds

Cold is a viral infection of our upper air passages. It causes inflammation of the mucous membranes lining of the nose and throat. We recover from it once we are immunes. You won’t catch cold if you can be immune to the over 200 cold viruses. That’s why children are the ones who usually infected which may occur 10 times a year. Coughing and sneezing is the easiest way for the cold virus to be spread.

Here are the symptoms:

• Sore throat (can be accompanied by a hoarse voice)
• Blocked or runny nose
• Sneezing
• Watery eyes
• Headache
• Cough
• Body aches
• Mild fever
• Chills
• Malaise (uneasiness or discomfort feeling)

The infection may cause:

• Inflammation on our air passages
• Inflammation of the voice box (larynx)
• Inflammation of the middle ear
• Sinusitis
• Inflammation of the windpipe (trachea)
• Secondary bacterial infection
• Aggravation of existing respiratory disorders like asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic ear infections, etc.
• Reactivation of the virus that causes cold sores

What we can do is

• Rest and stop doing exercise
• Drink plenty of fluids especially hot drinks
• Inhale steam to loosen nasal congestion and ease expulsion of mucus
• Stop smoking
• Take decongestant medicines or use nose drops/sprays (not to be done more than a few days)
• Blow nose frequently blocking one nostril at a time (to keep nasal secretions from being forced to sinuses and the middle ear that may cause infection)
• Consult a doctor if the cold remains or worsens for more than 10 days that the doctor can check why symptoms have worsen and perform proper treatment of complications

To prevent catching cold, avoid crowded places. You’ll easily catch the cold virus there. also, keep yourself healthy by having a balanced diet and regular boy exercise.

Source: Health Guide Philippines

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Why employees leave organizations

written by Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office,and the very best technology,even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their immediate boss ....Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

"People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don 't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

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Snails help to save lives

The common garden snail lays about 30 eggs in a year. Each egg is the size of a pinhead and each one is a potential lifesaver.

The snail’s egg is cheap. It is readily available and is a stable source of a chemical used to determine blood groups. Normally, this chemical is extracted from human blood. It takes the blood from five donors to provide as much as is contained in a single snail’s egg. The contents of the egg are extracted and dissolved in a saline solution

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Make Money Online

Is it possible to make money online?

Definitely. This may sound new to you but it is possible. Aside from searching, the Internet is now used for business transactions. Many companies bring their products to their customers through the web and they give cash for the advertisements of their products. One way of advertising on the web is by placing ads on others’ web pages. You can be the one who can have the ads placed on your web pages. Take note, this doesn’t mean that you should have your own website to have a nice looking web page. You don’t even have to know html coding to have your own web page written. Webmasters have done the coding for you. All you have to do is sign up or free. Nowadays, you can also earn money by being a freelance writer to write about a field from a wide range of topics.

What companies can I join in to make money online?

Many websites pay you for participating on their company. How? By helping their website expand through posting your comments on their discussions or by starting a new discussion. They give also pay you for referring your friends to the company. Once your friends signed up, you can earn a percent of their total money. Like myLot.com and xomba.com, you are paid for every information you share on their website. Signing up is free and you can participate with them anytime of the day. Once you’re a member, you can learn many things from other members and you can earn money if you share the things you know. You can also post questions to start a discussion and other members may answer it in just a few seconds.

There are other ways to earn money online aside from the ones above. Other sites like bux.to and adverbux.com give ads to be viewed for a few seconds or games to be played depending on what you want and they will pay you for each view or games played.

If you wan to write on things you know and want to write about it, try freelancewritingcenter.com. You can start doing papers pegged at $4/page (at least) once your application is granted. You don’t have to be a college graduate to apply because what the company needs are your skills and a little of your time depending on your schedule.

Going back to advertisements, you may have seen web pages with banners containing the phrase “ads by google.” The owner of the web page is paid by google if people click those advertisements. You can get paid if you want. Take note: You don’t need to have your own website to accommodate the advertisements. You can create your own blog for free at blogger.com and you can put those ads on your blog. To have the advertisements put on your blog, you have to sign up to google adsense for free and have it activated so you can start putting the ads.

How do I get paid?

All of the websites mentioned above pay you through your PayPal account. You can open a Paypal account for free now if you don’t have one. PayPal is very popular. It is used to receive and transfer money through the web. You receive the money to your PayPal account if you’ve earned the minimum amount ($5, $10 or $100) agreed with the company you are affiliated with. Things mentioned above just gave some of the incentives you can get. Now you can check out the website links above to know more about the companies.

There are other similar companies to the ones above where you can earn money from the web. Just search for “freelance writing”, “writing job”, “pay per click”, etc. on search engines. This one’s for sure, you can signing up is for free at the ones mentioned above.

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God is Good

I woke up in the morning, dress up, spend the day and sleep in the evening. For the next days, I up in the morning, dress up, spend the day and sleep in the evening again. The daily routine is just repeated all over again. If you were to remember a specific day, you would find it hard to pinpoint it since all are just the same. We remember the days with unforgettable experiences. They are the days with unusual situations. Not only positive but also negative things like problems and troubles make us remember the days.

Problems make days unforgettable. Problems remind us of days when we are helpless and we then remember God. After trying and failing to solve our own problems, we desperately come to God. We remember God this way. Instead of being the first, we approach God as our last resort to unsolvable problems.

It should be enough that we are given each day to live in order to remember God. In each day we spend, we should be thankful that nothing bad happened to us. It is seldom that we give thanks to Him for our daily routines in life. However, when something bad happens, we remember and often come to blame Him.

It is so easy for us to believe that the Lord can do everything. Well, that’s not debatable since He is God. Another thing that is easy to believe in is that God knows best since He knows everything. But then, as pointed by Jerry Bridges in his book “Trusting God”, it is hard for us to believe that God is good especially when something terrible happens to us or to our love ones. We ask, “How can God who knows everything and can do everything such situations to happen?”

Job the prophet, experienced such condition and didn’t understood his situation. He came to struggle with God and God said to him, “Where were you when I created the earth?” Can anyone answer God if asked this kind of question? We are blessed to the life He has given to us.

God knows all that we aren’t able to know what His plans are. He doesn’t even need to explain to us. In His goodness, He won’t allow something that’s not on His good plans. He has plans to prosper us and not to harm us. God is a Father that disciplines His sons.

It seems reasonable or us to rage against God when something terrible happens but…it is a sign of misdirection. It is a sign of being not mature in relationship with Him. It is hard to accept the truth that He is good after all the bad things happening around. Anyway, whether we believe that God is good or not doesn’t change the fact that He is good.

We have developed relationship with God if beyond our circumstances, whether good or bad, we are not swayed to the fact that God is good. Trusting God develops trough time by knowing Him more. We come to know God if we read His word, the Scriptures and are having fellowship with other believers.

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College life ends but learning continues...

It is a happy feeling to be a graduate from college. Who wouldn’t be? It is just I only felt it right this time. People would not greet you with “Hi!” or “Hello!” They would greet you with “Congratulations!” instead.

Students usually think of graduation as an end: end of paper requirements, exams, etc. but for me, this is just a start of a new beginning. Once in my life I get excited again. I’m excited to begin this new stage of my life.

This may be a good time to remember some things happened during my years in college. I really didn’t expect that I would be admitted to the University of the Philippines (UP). During my high school times, I had another plan in mind where to study college and what degree to take. I took the UP Admission Test (UPCAT) though without the feeling of passing it. Eventually, I passed the exam and was admitted to the university.

I took the degree in Applied Mathematics. I love Mathematics in high school and who would think I wouldn’t in college. But then I realized that I love being on in front of a computer more. Well, it’s too late dude and I have to finish my degree no matter what. Anyhow, there’s a lot of computer programming in my curriculum including the electives and extra course I have taken. Applied Mathematics is not that far in many subjects in Computer Science. Now I have the edge of working in the field of Applied Mathematics and programming.

Anyway, what’s the difference between BS Math and BS Applied Math? This is the usual follow-up question for people asking about my course. People who want to stick on the concept and theories in Mathematics choose BS Math. People who want to apply concepts and theories of Mathematics in industry choose BS Applied Math. I hope this helps.

My first programming subject is in ForTran. That’s short for Formula Translation. It wasn’t bad because I got the highest possible grade on that subject J ForTran has been created since the world began in programming but still is useful these days. It is a very useful programming language (PL) in computing things. I appreciated it when I took my Numerical Analysis subjects. Later on I took programming subjects in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. All my programming subjects helped for me to appreciate programming in Java. You know, the one used to program games on cellular phones and on the web. Now I can program with objects.

Along the way, I also learned HTML/CSS, Visual Basic programming and creating games using Game maker by Mark Overmars. I hope I can write a short tutorial soon on how to create your own web page through HTML. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.

Studying in college twelve hours away from home through a bus, I can only see my family every ‘semestral’ breaks and during Christmas breaks. It’s worth it since I’ve learned to live on my own. I’ve learned to do the laundry and cook in my apartment. It’s a great feeling to learn basic household chores.

One important thing to be learned from college is budgeting one’s money. From experience, it is hard to budget if you have nothing to budget anymore. The rule is: Budget while you can! If you receive your allowance every month, budget it on a weekly basis. You’ll find it hard to allot money for the whole month if you can do it or each week. That’s why it is more advisable to receive money weekly. There’s no way you can spend the money for the next week.

Another important thing to be learned is budgeting one’s own time. You may have the freedom to do anything but you may have the all time to do it. Spending a lot of time sleeping also makes your grades sleep especially during exam weeks. Computer games are addictive in nature and should be avoided. I got my first failing grade because of computer games. The only good thing I’ve got from that experience is that I met my passion. I’ve recognized that I really like working in front of the computer.

With all the experiences which cannot be all written above, I can’t imagine that God wasn’t there. He helped me trough all the troubles and worries of college life. I can’t believe He allowed me to be the first and maybe the only one in my high school curriculum to enter UP. All other UPCAT passers are from the science-oriented curriculum.

Just always remember that achievements in life are not destinations, they are just stations of another course in life.

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