I can say that I have a various set of friends. Starting from the types who like to be bossy and just order other people around and even call them anything they want to call them, to the point of humiliating their friends in public. Usually these are people who think that they have superiority over their buddies. I have friends who talk big and always rule in any kind of conversation. "Know-it-all", at least that’s what people call them. There are also those who just ride with the stream. Whatever the bossy types want, they go for it without questions. Well of course, I can’t miss those who act cool, as if they always know what they’re doing.

The ones I’ve just mentioned were not so bad when compared to the next batch. These are the worst and ironically the longest whom I’ve been with. Probably the best way to describe them is that, they are good in taking advantage of your kindness and generosity. Have you ever seen a beggar on a street who would greet you "alms", and extend their arms to you, asking for spare coins or food. Sometimes, you feel like they do deserve what they’re asking for, and you end up giving them an amount you are willing to give. When they receive something from you, they run away without any sign of gratitude. Then after a few minutes, if you’re still there where you’re standing, the beggar comes back with a flock of their kind and each of them would be asking for their share. The worst is, by the time they see you again on the same street, they take advantage of the fact that you are the generous type, then ask more from you.

Most of my friends are like beggars. Though it’s obvious they have the capacity to earn something for themselves, they just simply sit and wait for their friends to feed them whenever they see an opportunity. The sad part is knowing that they keep the best for their own good. I’m already pissed off with people who are like this. I wonder why I was never able to realize that all these times, I was always taken advantage of. But you see, I can say not all of them are alike. There those whom you can truly see deep within the kindness they possess, and no doubt these are the kinds of friends that I will truly keep for the rest of my life. The rest are just trash. The fact that they were able to share moments with me is merely a way for me to know if they’re worth keeping. Anyway, what good can I get from them if all they do is deprive me respect. I’m only starting to build a life, and I think, now is the best time for me to choose among my circles whom I can really consider friends for a lifetime.

Once, I came with the idea of what really Life is, on what a human’s life is all for. That Life is a privilege for us to enjoy it. Living it to the fullest and finding true happiness is everything that defines Life, anyway, when death comes, all these opportunities may never come into reality, because death means an absolute end. As of this moment, I can say that I’m at the turning point of realizing what Life truly means, and at the same time, a risk of actually never to be able to understand it. I have dreams, but they’re still not clear to me. I don’t have the will to act upon it. I don’t even know if I have enough strength and skills to attain my goals. Right now, I’m only waiting for answers, I’m searching for an inspiration, which I’m not even sure if it exists or not. A woman perhaps? A sensei? Someone whom I can look up to? An event which is capable enough to trigger my interest? I’m waiting for it. I believe in God, but not necessarily on how Religion teaches me about God. I believe that God is beyond human intelligence, and I have faith that only my prayers have the power to enlighten me.

Inspiration… if only it’s something I can acquire through money, then I might say I could already have a grab of it. But maybe Life and Inspiration have that something in common. In my state right now, I can never truly define what it means. Right now, I don’t have a sense of direction to where I’m heading. I want to know what Life really means, and the only thing I know for me to be able to achieve it is to find first the perfect Inspiration for me.

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Internet Explorer just drives me crazy and challenged all the time. No need for further explaining. Just bear with it. And by the way, whatever version they use, still, they’re all the same. 

I know I did my part of pursuing someone I really like. Someone who has been very significant to me and to my whole being and I would be honest that I couldn’t thank her enough. She opened me back my Faith. She introduced me again my God and reminded me that it’s Him who gave me everything I have and who’d give me all the things I’m about to have. Apart from that, yes, she’s attractive and smart, and just the right type of woman whom I can live with until the last days of my life. I wasn’t exactly asking her from God but prayed instead, "God, if she’s the woman whom you made for me, I would be glad and live with it. But if you have other plans for me and for her as well, I won’t hesitate to accept the fact that she’s just not the right one for me, because I know you know better than anyone else."

True, that very day, the painful truth was revealed to me in the most unexpected manner. It spelled me S-H-O-C-K-E-D!! And I was trembling with what I saw and proved that my suspicions were indeed right. I was meeting an old high school friend that time and I just can’t help myself getting distracted with what I kept on witnessing at the very same place. I would get bugged sometimes and I’m just forcing myself as if I was still focused with what we were currently discussing. I was faking my every move and kept on smiling to my friend and hoped she’d never notice.

Anyway, that has to end, it was only me who’s left by 3PM, and I can’t hold myself any longer with the burden I was carrying that very moment so I decided to cancel my 4PM leave and went home as early as possible and find an outlet for this unlikely emotion. From that onwards, I thought the whole world fell on me and I couldn’t even consume the second piece of that delicacy I ordered, and just decided to take it home with me. Those were the saddest of all the saddest I ever felt in my whole life. The only thing I could do back then was to simply offer that to God and focus with my music, the melody of my God-given talent. At 6PM Mass, I dedicated the songs for my sadness. I can claim that it was the very hour which I was able to express my fullest through my music. Yeah, I love the harmony of the music I create, and I bet it’s just something which God would love to hear from me.

I wasn’t able to get over that yet, until for something which gained me back my happiness. The same friend whom I was talking with earlier at 2PM revealed to me a secret. It’s a secret which I never knew since the first day I met her. It’s a secret which made me realize that it’s not just me who’s keeping lots of valuable philosophies for myself. I couldn’t agree more to what she has explained to me after sharing to her what happened to me that day. Because the same thought she told me was something I had in mind a few months ago. Can you imagine that??? And I’m writing this down in this blog entitled "As artists think alike…" And remember I said I was hiding my feelings when we were discussing with some important matters, and unexpectedly, she did notice it, or perhaps I’m not just that good in faking.

I’m happy to have met again someone whom I was already able to meet 8 years ago, but this time, realizing we were alike. I’m happy that I still have a friend who cares and values emotions and is still able to relate it with God’s teachings. I know she’s pretty popular and I even thought because of that, she’s simply out of reach. But who cares?? She did made my day, and I believe it was Destiny!! She’s someone whom God sent to cheer me up and regain my joy. She might be reading this now (well as expected from the Internet) but I won’t regret it, because this is the only way I can fully express myself.

God did made this day an unforgettable one. He’s simply full of surprises. I love His surprises and I’m craving for more!! 

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Fact: There’s poverty because we have an unstable economy. We have an unstable economy because of certain factors such as possible improper allocation of funds and of course, corruption. If our taxes were meant for specific funds and absolutely 100% of these taxes are properly allocated for each, then we have a chance of improving our economy. Also, whether who among the geniuses shall be appointed as president is capable of understanding how he/she’s going to do it. Therefore, it’s not a matter of choosing who among them are the smartest.

Targeting aid for those who are searching for jobs including opportunities for Overseas Filipino Workers as well as assistance for small businessmen is an intelligent approach. This way, it somehow help boost their tax paying capabilities. If they become responsible with their taxes, considering their massive number, there’s no doubt that we’d have more funds to be especially used for government projects. But what we are missing is the fact that before these taxes can be fully distributed to different funds, there are chances that they can reduce in quantity, and this is all because of corruption. Therefore, no matter how much we citizens strive for progress, the moment our taxes are caught by corruption, progress stops right there. That’s why even politicians would claim that helping job seekers and OFWs would solve poverty, it won’t happen for as long as corruption still exists.

Fact: Corruption slows down economic progress. In order for our government to solve this issue, they thought of passing the Anti Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. This may have somehow acted against corruption, but it doesn’t really mean corruption no longer exists. Corruption will always exist and it will be passed on to the next generation of leaders, and to the next leaders, until it becomes hierarchical. Passing a law such as Anti-Corruption won’t stop the corruption chain.

Corruption is everywhere. Whether it’s big time or not, one form of corruption does not make any difference with the other, and it will be kept in practice until it becomes a habit. I am one of those who are ultimately aware that corruption exists even in school. In fact, a simple form of cheating in class quizzes is already an example of corruption. The worst, most of those students who cheat in school aren’t even aware that they are into corruption. It creates a very huge impact to their psychological being. At this point, they may no longer be able to understand the difference between a good act and an evil act. They may even consider cheating as a good act. This simple concept is not far different from a corrupt politician’s point of view. They are incapable of identifying which among their actions are corruption

The biggest problem our government must face is the quality of our education. Students won’t be forced to cheat if they’ve just been properly taught. Of course, a student will always find ways just for him/her to pass the subjects even it means cheating. The "passing grade" system itself is flawed. Who the heck thought of this kind of system anyway? The great philosophers once said that there are millions of ways to solve a certain problem. Hence, it’s just like saying, there are millions of ways to pass a subject. Another important thing, schools miss the fact that they also have the responsibility to introduce to the students the "evilness" of evil acts. All throughout the years of being a student, I have never been formally introduced on how corruption works. I just learned about it by thinking it through logically. Educators must teach students how corruption is done and everything related to it, and they must put it into their minds its effects. Schools must not deprive students from reality. Anyway, we will all still reach to a point that we’ll live in reality. I believe, with our current education system, for more than 14 years in the academy, I have never been taught how it is to live in the real world. We may not be able to completely eradicate corruption for the next 20 years, but we still have a chance, for the sake of the next generation. Sooner or later, the youth today will become leaders in the future, and let’s all hope when that day comes, they’d already be free from corruption.

Dr. Jose Rizal once said, "The youth is the hope of our nation", and this has been in circulation for more than a century now. How many youths have already taken over our government? When will that specific youth be born? How come we are all still struggling for progress? We are not just searching for intelligent leaders, but those who are also capable of stopping corruption in its simplest form. We are not just searching for leaders who has the wealth and power to help those in need, but those who can assure us that what we citizens are striving for won’t be put into waste.

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The proposed system shall operate through XML-Remote Procedure Calling. Just by sending post XML data to the server, it can produce results even without actually visiting the host website. Also, responses are encoded through XML. Through this method, managing different websites would be at breeze.

And what’s more? This post is created through my very own system (under development and testing). I didn’t even bother logging in to this blog. I just did it the XML-RPC way.

1-2. addslashes() and mysql_real_escape_string()

These two functions are a bit related, in a sense that these provide security especially in handling things with your database queries. As their name suggest, the first function adds slashes (escapes) to these characters in a string: ‘, ", \, while mysql_real_escape_string() escapes \x00, \n, \r, \, ‘, " and \x1a. In a more complicated security issue, most programmers prefer mysql_real_escape_string() since it prevents certain loop holes like escaping quotes (characters) which later lead to SQL injection.

3. stripslashes()

If slashes may be added to strings, then at some point, you would also need to strip them out. This is when stripslashes() comes in. Though I don’t really often use this function, but it becomes handy when you need to print an HTML code through a JavaScript code all from a PHP source. Just don’t forget this function, surely you will have to remember it as soon as you would need its purpose.

4-5. urlencode() and urldecode()

Printing anchors, source urls, url outputs, form validation using GET or POST method, urlencode() musn’t be missed out for use. Usually, the absence of this function especially when handling anchors result to broken links (which of course would be pretty inconvenient for your visitors). There are certain characters like %, &, ?, spaces, and other more special characters which are read differently on URLs which should be encoded first before passing it. While of course, urldecode() does the opposite. It decodes encoded URLs and reads them back on how they should be read.

6. trim()

Though this one’s not as important as the other mentioned functions, but this would definitely help in idiot-proofing. You know, some users may be too idiot to follow certain instructions that leading and tailing spaces are not accepted but still they submit their inputs with these. It would rather lead to flaws and unexpected results, so better trim out those spaces first before validating strings.

7. strip_tags()

Most web programmers just take this function for granted, but by the time their website layouts would act strange and get mixed up, they’ll start investigating and end up never knowing HOW. It’s because without strip_tags() just means your website will definitely become very very prone to hacks. A simple example would be the insertion of a <strong style="font-size:100px;"> string.

8. htmlentities()

My favorite of ‘em all. Nearly most of my PHP echoes come along with this (unless especially not needed). This encodes special characters into HTML readable characters like < (less than) to &gt; and " (quote) to &quot; This is very important when printing values for HTML tag attributes, since you would no longer need to bother for misprinting strings.

These are just pieces of advises and functions I recommend you mustn’t miss to consider. Mark them "strictly for security purposes", and everything will run as smoothly as a web should be.

1. I’ll miss the annual programming competitions. I’d love to be back in Cebu, especially SM and Starbucks.
2. I won’t be able to initiate I-Like-My-Match booth for Intramural and I can no longer overseer those students who liked whom.
3. I’ll miss the choir. Of course, I wouldn’t have to bother waiting for my phone to ring every first friday morning mass since the choir won’t be expecting the "always-late organist".
4. Lastly, I’ll miss SAD (which turned out to be literally sad) and the members who are involved. I say they have to be on their own now. Anyway, they can’t proceed the 4th year without the necessary skills they have to acquire. If they made it this far, then it means they really must be "something". Also, like I mentioned in my previous entry, I would rather prefer innovation for my thesis.

The pros:

1. I can start now with something I desire the most. Even if I have to finish the next two semesters, I’ll still end up with this something I want for my own. The only difference is that, there may be certain factors which would greatly affect this plan if I won’t have it as soon as possible.
2. I’m 20 years old and I’m not getting any younger, so the earlier I’ll begin, the more I’ll gain. Plus, the society is quickly evolving, what seems to be the latest today would already be obsolete by the next day.
3. I’ll be free from the virtual world, the harsh realization about the facts relating our current system of education. I’ll be learning how it is to live a real life.
4. Most of all, I won’t be wasting my remaining funds spending it for nothing but a silly diploma dictating how society should work, blinding citizens with the social reality that every person on earth should be judged according to their individual achievements.

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