Short Stories

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Some other FACTS....

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.


3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.


6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.





7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.


8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

9. Polar bears are left handed.

10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

15. Butterflies taste with their feet.

16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

17. Starfish don't have brains.


18. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

19. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

20. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

21. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

22. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

23. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

24. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

25. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

26. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

27. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

28. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

29. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

30. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

31. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

32. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

33. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

34. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

35. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)

36. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

37. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

38. Pearls melt in vinegar.

39. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

40. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

41. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

42. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

43. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

44. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

45. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

46. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

47. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

48. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

49. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

50. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

51. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

52. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

53. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

54. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

55. A snail can sleep for three years.

56. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

57. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

58. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

59. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

60. All polar bears are left handed.

61. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

62. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

64. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

65. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

66. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

67. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Letters

Whatever!!! I don't know if this is a bad omen or what..... I really hate those letters, especially if they're put together which could really create a "BAD WORD." Let's say, it's forbidden... hahahaha....

Shoot!! I entered High School unintentionally bearing that (glad I got through HS), and I am surely not gonna leave College with still that... although it's different this time, but it's still with the same letters. I can't really say the worst is over, it's still there and I know its gonna be there even if the world ends, or will probably reach 2013. Luck was never on my side, she's always busy wandering God-knows-where, so I should probably prepare myself for the party of the year which I think will be themed: Misfortune. I think I can beat Lemony Snicket's characters his series of unfortunate events, and take note, we're talking about real life unfortunate scenarios here.

Anyway, I got further away from my supposed to be issue here. What's been done is done. I got through with it before, I'm sure I can get out of this mess easily this time.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Deja Vu, Delusions, firsts, and so much more....

It's 12:30 am and I had a few drinks, 2 and a half shooottzz to be exact. One shot for each kind of drink.... hindi ko naman matanggihan.... hahahaha.... good thing na.realize sa "gunner" na I'm not used to drinking and said --- "ah... dili nka,, luoy na kaayo ka tan.awon... (after 2 shots pa lang)" hahahaha.... can't blame me,,, I turn red easily,, even just for a single drink pa lang... or 1 shot.... imagine... they said "pula na kaayo ka" after those 2 shots....

but before that..... yeah.. they finally spilled the beans... and it turns out I was right! I'm the only person who didn't know about the issue, even some of our "famileeee" who wasn't involve or didn't have anything to do with the issue knew about it. Though, my "pagmahai" was, if not gone, lessened because she told me that I should be the first person to know about the issue but I ran an errand during that time due to the demands of my "familleeee".... and she has to let out her feelings at that moment so she shared it to somebody.... and when I came back,, how naive of me not to notice anything. oh well, I guess everything happens for a reason.... If I knew about it a little earlier I don't know what or how am I supposed to act towards her... Anyway, I'll post an update as soon as the matter will be settled.

My friends told me I am naive, insensitive, blind, clueless, not observant, etc... you get the picture. A friend of mine also said "no wonder about the HS class incident... ---> the one where I am the person who was really involved but I really had no idea until the fated confrontation"... hahaha... that brings back memories... It's not that I am all those things, well I guess I am, but I am the person who does not jump into conclusions. I rather know things and even declare something based on evidences and when I am directly told. I love puzzles but don't get me wrong, I'm not good at putting them together in real scenarios especially if there are glitches. I want to know about the matters directly, no sugar coating or whatsoever, I just want to know about it direct, straightforward, and complete. of course I have gut feelings too but I don't want to assume although I do most of the time. They told me some of my characteristics/attitudes which I know nothing about... and to think I thought I already know myself.... They even told me I am really unpredictable and very hard to decipher, well that part.. I admit, I think so too.

This delusion is probably... I don't know! It's just that I don't put malice in everything, especially if it's with my friends. Like I said, although I have gut feelings already but I don't want to assume and declare since I don't want to eat my words.. Besides, it is nothing.. Everybody (most) rather, tell lies... or it is just NOTHING!!! plain nothing!!! although it would be better if..... it will be a roman holiday and you swept me off my feet... you can really take me... I can come with you, just say so.... hahahaha.... ok! this is due to excessive exposure to movies and fiction books.