rant#1 : guestbook surfers
more & more teens/people are wanting to make their own webpages but they don't have any idea of what layout to use on it. they surf the net, checking out sites, thinking that maybe they would give them ideas. some sites get to impress them so much that they'd want to copy the whole thing. when they do, they 'bite off' the original site. the problem with this is that people may mistaken the original site for the biter, and the biter's site as the original one :( this is one of the biggest problems with webmasters / webmistresses today. we should be able to think of our own original layout - since we are all unique. with our own creative minds, we can be able to make our own layout ideas, express ourselves, something that shows what we really are.

rant #2 : being left-out
hey, if it weren't for jannie, i wouldn't have thought of this subject! being left-out, hmmm ... for example, me .... i have a friend of a different country who speaks another language. she has a friend who speaks the same language, too. this happened everyday last year. we have this 'break' or 'recess' after every two hours. when it is recess, they talk together in that particular language, with me staring around ... just trying to understand what the heck they were talking about. so i decided to daydream a bit. look somewhere where it looks heavenly, and think of positive things. i even listen to a walkman ... so that at least i have 'music' that reminds me of the philippines ... then, when i turn around, they aren't there ... i was left-out, in the middle of the hallway, all alone, with no one to talk to .... dang ... i felt sooo stupid those times. but not only that, there was once when we met a new friend, who speaks english - then she [my classmate before, not the new girl] began speaking of her schedule. i already knew a bit of it, so i commented on that [well, that's an improvement ... at least it's in english ...], you might think that it's better ... no. it was more of worse. she even had the nerve to say 'was i talking to you?' ... like, dang ... why does this have to happen? why don't you let someone in the conversation for once, huh? [oh, sorry, i was *talking* to that left-out maker] ... this is sooo unfair for other people. they want to feel 'in', feel good 'coz they know that someone listens to them. if we realize that we weren't needed in the conversation, it really hurts. at least accept a little comment, and react on it, so that you make someone really happy. don't snob them - if he/she is your bestest friend, well, take care of his/her feelings. one day you'll never know that you already killed one's spirit to live. [yeah, i know, i exaggerated, but this is a very serious topic. if you are that person who left me out in the hallway all alone, and you know who you are, and sure that i was talking about you, ponder. ponder on what you did, how you destroyed my trust, and how hard it is too keep up with being left-out ... i'm not mad. i'm just miserably shattered.]

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