The Deduction Process

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” Oh, Mr. Holmes. Never thought your words will be helpful in times of crisis, specifically, the examination week.

“Multiple choice” type of exam may sounds easier than the “identification”  type.Perhaps, because of the fact that there are choices given and a little guess can work by computing the odds of getting the right answer or by just gut feeling. In the multiple choice type, there’s a question and there will be a set of possible answers. Typically, there’s only one right answer on the given set of choices. Having an “educated guess” is better than choosing by gut feeling (obviously). To produce an educated guess, an elimination process will be helpful, especially when memory retention is the primary problem. In this process, a dash common sense is needed, basically, learn the fundamentals of the course/topic itself. Read and analyze the question, carefully eliminate the obvious wrong answers, then fewer choices will appear, making it easier to choose between the two (usually, two choices left after eliminating others).

Probably, there’s a lot of students out there that already know this technique. And for others who haven’t tried this, give it a shot. Unfortunately, when I said that there’s a lot of students out there that already know this technique, also take the fact that there’s also a lot of teachers/professors out there that already know this technique. So, don’t expect that the answer is always in the choices because nowadays, there’s an instruction before the test that goes like this: when the answers are not in the choices, write NO ANSWER. Well, I think that process will be REALLY helpful (*screaming internally).

Spoken Words

My Air Castle

By Juan F. Salazar

My life’s tomorrow beckons me
From distant mountains, high and low;
My future seems a boundless sea,
Where moving passions come and go.

Deep in my heart ambitions dwells;
He cheers me up the highland,
And guides me through the hills and dells
Wherein I pass the busy day.

I cannot write with Shakespeare’s pen,
But I can love with Shakespeare’s heart;
I love his skill his craft of men,
His mastery of poet’s art.

I do not care for fame, has he,
Enthroned, was like unto a god:
The depths he reached are dark to me.
But I will grope the ways he tried.

I wear achievement’s coronet,
For best are they who see things done!
And all my cares I soon forget
When I have wrought my work alone.

If I be met by adverse fate,
And all my dreams be but in vain;
Then, must I work the harder yet
With high resolve to try again.

Spoken Words

Concealed Fear
 By RearedVoice 
 
 Out in the Open
 You can laugh or cry
 That genuine or normal one
 Even of the hysterical kind
 
 Out in the Open
 You can shout or curse
 The most harsh or the vulgar words
 For fun or just for nothing
 
 Out in the Open
 You can talk out loud
 That senseless blubber
 Or that mere noise
 
 Out in the Open
 You can love or hate
 No one's there to forbid
 It's just you who decides
 
 Yet
 
 Out in the Open
 You feel pain or worse
 An easy target's what you are
 Exposed and unguarded
 
 Out in the Open
 You are subject of judgments
 Others are there in silence or noise
 Sniffing for drawbacks
 
 Out in the Open
 You give your life
 Someone's there to take
 Your choice is high-end
 
 Out in the Open
 You are in control
 But not of you
 Just some of you. . .
 Just few. . .


*Note: I haven't figured out who's RearedVoice. 
I've tried to email the author of this poem, still, no reply.
For copyright purposes, I got this poem in this site.

How About A Song…

Have you ever experienced Hypophrenia (A feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause)?

Is it really possible to become sad without a reason? Can a mushroom just pop out from nowhere? Possibly not. Soggy weather encourages mushroom to sprout everywhere. As well as sadness, and it’s not caused by soggy weather.

What’s the difference between sadness and loneliness? Are they partners? Speaking of a song lyrics, there’s also this lyrics that says, “It doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone”. But when I searched the meaning of loneliness, it means A feeling of depression resulting from being alone. 

There are many factors that makes people sad. Hypophrenia is just a phenomenon when the source of sadness is unidentified, not without a cause. Though, it is a scientific word, so obviously it undergo several studies, it is still possible to be sad for no reason.

If it is possible to be sad without a cause, why not choose to be happy without a reason? Just try it. Then instead of getting “Hypophrenia”, probably you’ll get “Schizophrenia”.

Spoken Words

Quietness

By Amador T. Daguio

I am lover of quietness-

Unechoed songs within a silent heart,

A sliver pond, a statued loveliness

Where words can take no part.

I love the quiet ways of memory,

The quiet looks to give you loving praise,

The quiet secrets of my misery

Through quiet nights and days.

The quiet mountains of the earth I love,

The moving clouds, the sun, the dewy leaf.

My quiet questioning o God above,

My quite, tearless grief

An Introduction Of You and I

Hulya Vassail bootpacks on the upper part of the north ridge of Dôme du Goûter at sunrise, with Aiguille du Midi and the lights from the Chamonix valley below her.

All beings have anxieties. Problems give anxiety. For some who cannot identify their problem, their problem is they do not know what their problem is. We worry on the things that aren’t worthy of our time. It is space-consuming to our mind.

But not all the time anxiety is bad. It makes the brain work, thinking all the possibilities, skipping to conclusions, and having hypothesis are great brain workouts. Anxious persons tend to think before they act and that what makes them look cautious, well, after all, slowly but surely, they often become successful than others. They also tend to overdo tasks which makes them too tired for anyone’s crap. Yet, they excel.

So, keep calm, live your life full of anxiety but too much is not good, it can kill you.

Well, proven though: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9441038/Anxiety-raises-risk-of-early-death-by-a-fifth.html