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Are you embattled right now? Having some crossroads? Life has lots of problems, yeah. But how we deal with them makes the difference. Does worrying makes our problem a little less? Of course not! Rather, we are putting more lines into our face - wrinkles! So how should we deal with our problems?

I just found the answer - be a COFFEE! Yes, you read it right, BE A COFFEE, not drink a coffee! How? Watch this nice presentation on motivation. I came across this very nice powerpoint while browsing for motivational slides that I could show to one of my classes. I am so glad I found this one and I just can’t help but share it will all of you, too.

Ooops, after you watched it, I hope you could tell this to yourself when some trouble comes your way:

I AM A COFFEE, THE HOTTER THE WATER, THE BETTER I WOULD BE!!!

I really love this song by the Eraserheads. This was really a hit during my college days, around 1989.  I tried to learn how to play the guitar by playing E-heads songs, but I am not really into playing instruments or even have a musical ear.  So to make the story short, I didn’t learn to play guitar! Also, Eraserheads was the only band I saw in concert in 1990.  The concert was held in the university where I am teaching now.  It’s a premonition I guess, that 18 years later, I will be a professor there.

Anyways, I really love this song because even if the melody is simple, the lyrics really made an impact to me back then (and until now - I still know the whole song by heart).  In particular, the first stanza continues to inspire me specially during hard times:

Lift your head, baby don’t be scared
Of the things that could go wrong along the way
You’ll get by with a smile
You can’t win at everything but you can try.

We go through different problems and sometimes it seems there’s no way out or everything just always go wrong that all doors have closed.  However, if we just face all our problems with a smile (even if it’s so hard to smile when we’re problematic, right?), we could face our problem on a different perspective.   If we just take a deep breath, try to smile and have an optimistic outlook, what seems to be a heavy problem, could be dealt lightly because we would be more focused on finding the possible solutions to our dilemmas.  Of course,  faith in God is also the number one armor - because God doesn’t give us problems we can’t handle.  If that’s the case, then that’s enough reason for us to smile despite adversities, right?

Going back to Eraserheads, I am glad that Ely Buendia survived his heart attack last year, and more glad that the E-heads will have a reunion concert this August 30 at the CCP open grounds.  All the original members will be there to perform all their other hit songs like Ang Huling El Bimbo, Toyang and Alapaap.

Ooops, before I end this let me remind you, start your day WITH A SMILE!!! For sure you will have a whole nice day!

The pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together with their newborn twins are so adorable, aren’t they? The twins, named Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, are cute! Of course, all newborns are sooo cute, but I am always amazed and wondering where do these Hollywood celebrities get their kids’ names?

But aside from being a doting dad, Brad Pitt is apparently also an Olympic boxer to join the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics? I came across this article from Inquirer.net and got confused at first because I never knew that Brad Pitt is a boxer (although he portrayed a disgraced boxer in the upcoming movie ‘The Fighter’) and an Australian!

Ok, so this is a different Brad Pitt - not the Holywood star! Well, this guy from Melbourne is already getting the spotlight not just because of his Hollywood namesake, but also because he’s actually a good boxer. Even US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Victoria Premier Steve Bracks visited him while training for his impressive 2006 Commonwealth Games debut.

Anyways, I find him charming, like the Brad Pitt we knew. For those wondering how this boxer Brad Pitt looks like, here’s his pic that I got from the official site of the 2008 Australian Olympic Team: