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What does "Christmas" mean to you ?



Some say, Christmas is about the celebration of Christ's birth. A few say that it's all about the giving and receiving of gifts, while others say that it's merely about those noisy carolings on houses and jeepneys by annoying children.

Well, as early as November, Christmas carols are already heard almost everywhere. Magnificent Christmas lights and decors are all set in some houses, malls and other establishments. People began shopping for Christmas presents.

But behind those wonderful scenarios are the innocent eyes of those misfortunate ones on the streets, the poor families who, maybe in their entire life, haven't experienced yet the so called "noche buena". For them, Christmas is just one of those ordinary days on the cold streets, which they called home.

Lately, I see these individuals almost everyday, on my way to school and vice versa, but people just don't mind them. Sometimes I give them a peso or two, but oftentimes I don't. It's just that.. I'm afraid that they might use it to buy some rugby, or even illegal drugs. I would rather give them food. But everytme I ignore these poor ones, my conscience keeps on knocking in my heart. It's as if it's talking to me and reminding of God's words, "Help your brother".

It made me realize that, indeed, Christmas is about the celebration of Christ's birth, a reminder of how much God loves us that He gave his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. He sent His son to teach us to love one another, and so as to help our brothers who are needy.

This Christmas, may we extend our hands to our brothers who need our help, even a prayer for them will do. It's always been a nice feeling to know you've helped other people and made them happy even for a while. May we share some of our blessings to them, the graces which God had given to us.

☺ phyne19 ♫
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♀◘ Tips and Tricks.. ◘♀

Ending a non-responsive program

Have you ever wonder why an application program running in a computer fails, halts, hangs or simply non-responsive to user. The cause of this frustrating situation is a deadlock. A set of processes is deadlocked if each process in the set is waiting for an event that only another process in the set can cause.

Here are some tips and tricks to escape on that particular stew:
☺ Go to the task manager by simply pressing the ctrl-alt and delete key simultaneously.
☺ Go to the application tab and locate the non-responsive program you need to end.
☺ Right click on the program and choose “end task”.

If this will not work or be it a more burden, try this :

☺ press ctrl-alt-del key again and right click on the program and choose “go to process”, which will re-direct you to the process tab.
☺ Locate the program, or it should be highlighted.
☺ Right click on the program and choose “end process” or “end process tree”.

If this will fail again... :
☺ go to the process tab and locate “explorer.exe”,
☺ right click and choose end process or end process tree.
☺ Go to the file menu of the task manager and select “New Task (Run...)”,
☺ type in explorer and the task bar should be returning and explorer should be visible on the process tab.

These procedures can help user minimise processes which consume system resources. By ending programs, applications or even system processes and task which are not essential to system performance can speed up your machine/computer.

Something to believe in...-Peter Pyke "HotRodU2"

How to speed up your system?

Try to imagine yourself on a tight schedule with loads of school activities, assignments, projects and semestral examination is fast approaching, when all of your resources can be found in your computer. Suddenly a turtle is faster than your computer's boot-up time. One cause of this is you have too many loaded programs and applications on your start-up items.

The area on your lower right side of your monitor, where you can find small icons. E.g. clock, volume control icon, antivirus icon, and so forth...This are program applications which are loaded during start-up, running on the background. This program will use system resources such as RAM (Memory), Processor time.

We can minimize this program by configuring these at the system configuration console, simply by"

☺ pointing and clicking your mouse pointer to the windows logo or start menu and locate the "run" tab.
☺ Click and type "msconfig". A window will appear and
☺ go to the start-up tab and there you can disable and enable those programs.

Be very careful not to disable essential system programs. Disabling essential system programs will create undesirable results.

Something to believe in...-Peter Pyke "HotRodU2"

☺☻On the Soft Side..☻☺

The Little Boy Who Wanted to Buy a Doll For His Sister in Heaven




On the last day before Christmas, I hurried to go to the supermarket to buy the remaining of the gifts I didn't manage to buy earlier. When I saw all the people there, I started to complain to myself:

"It is going to take forever here and I still have so many other places to
go... Christmas really is getting more and more annoying every year. How I wish I could just lie down, go to sleep and only wake up after it..."

Nonetheless, I made my way to the toy section, and there I started to curse the prices, wondering if after all kids really play with such expensive toys. While looking in the toy section, I noticed a small boy of about 5 years old, pressing a doll against his chest. He kept on touching the hair of the doll and looked so sad.

I wondered who was this doll for. Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him:

"Granny, are you sure I don't have enough money?"

The old lady replied: "You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear." Then she asked him to stay here for 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly. The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand.

Finally, I started to walk toward him and I asked him who did he want to give this doll to.

"It is the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for this Christmas. She was so sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her." I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus will bring it to her, after all, and not to worry.

But he replied to me sadly. "No, Santa Claus can not bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mother so that she can give it to her when she goes there."

His eyes were so sad while saying this. "My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy will also go to see God very soon, so I thought that she could bring the doll with her to give it to my sister."

My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said: "I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I asked him to wait until I came back from the store." Then he showed me a very nice photo of himself, where he was laughing. He then told me: "I also want mommy to take this photo with her so that she will not forget me." "I love my mommy and I wish she didn't have to leave me but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister."

Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly. I quickly reached for my wallet and took a few notes and said to the boy, "What if we checked again, just in case you have enough money?" "Ok" he said. "I hope that I have enough." I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll, and even some spare money.

The little boy said: "Thank you God for giving me enough money." Then he looked at me and added:"I asked yesterday before I slept for God to make sure I have enough money to buy this doll so that mommy can give it to my sister. He heard me." "I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn't dare to ask God too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and the white rose." "You know, my mommy loves white roses."

A few minutes later, the old lady came again and I left. I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind. Then I remembered a local newspaper article 2 days ago, which mentioned of a drunk man in a truck who hit a car where there was one young lady and a little girl. The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-assisting machine, because the young lady would not be able to come out of the coma that she was in. Was this the family of the little boy?

Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the young lady had passed away. I couldn't stop myself and went to buy a bunch of white roses and I went to the mortuary where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make a last wish before burial. She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest. I left the place crying, feeling that my life had been changed forever. The love that this little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine. And in a fraction of a second, a drunk man had taken all this away from him.




from:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/doll.htm

† "Sunggo of the Month" †

The pattern of coins shown on the left must be transformed into the pattern shown on the right, by moving exactly three coins, where at the end of each move each coin needs to touch with at least two other coins. The coins must be moved flat on the table (coins cannot move over each other).

The Question: How can this be done?

† Fernando Yray ††

† "Did you know ??" †

Why do we have a decorated Christmas Tree?

In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. He did many good works there, and spent much time in Thuringia, an area which was to become the cradle of the Christmas Decoration Industry.

Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to describe the Holy Trinity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The converted people began to revere the Fir tree as God's Tree, as they had previously revered the Oak. By the 12th century it was being hung, upside-down, from ceilings at Christmastime in Central Europe, as a symbol of Christianity.

The first decorated tree was at Riga in Latvia, in 1510. In the early 16th century, Martin Luther is said to have decorated a small Christmas Tree with candles, to show his children how the stars twinkled through the dark night.

from:
http://www.christmasarchives.com/trees.html

♣ Upcoming EVENTs.. ☺♥

December 1, 2009(Tuesday) :AIDS Awareness Day

December 7, 2009(Monday) :Nat'l Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

December 9, 2009(Wednesday)
8:30 AM :"Golden Year Lecture Series" @ AVR M3

Note: Attendance of the CCS students is required. Please come on time.

December 10, 2009(Thursday)
1:00 PM : Student's Activities
Dance Contest (Yugyugan)
(Main Campus)

6:00 PM : SWU Got Talents
Best Lantern

7:00 PM : Opening of the "PASKO sa SWU 2009"
Lightning of the SWU Christmas Tree
(Main Campus)

Human Rights Day

December 11, 2009 (Friday)
9:00 AM : 50th Charter Day Program
Eucharistic Celebration
Service Awards
GAWAD (AZCO)

7:00 PM : Miss SWU Pageant Night
(AZCO)

December 16 & 17, 2009 (Wednesday & Thursday)
PRELIM Examination

December 24, 2009 (Thursday)
12:00 PM : Christmas Eve

December 25, 2009 (Friday)
Christmas Day

December 31, 2009 (Thursday)
12:00 PM : New Year's Eve

☺ phyne19 ♫
♀ damn forsaken §