I am cleaning my c drive, deleting old files no longer needed. And I chanced upon these very old articles. I have a habit of copying articles and showing them to my sister and unnies. So, before I completely delete them, I shall post it here... ahahaha!

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[PHOTOS] DBSK in airplane, first class section (Tohoshinki/DBSK/TVXQ/東方神起/동방신기)

We've always known DBSK has been flying first class ever since, but seeing photos of them actually being inside a cabin made me appreciate SM's effort to take care of our boys despite their inhumanly trying schedule.

Mou~ I remember this Filipina fan account who got upgraded to first class home to the Philippines because the airlines messed up her connecting flight from Korea. She got to sit next to Junsu, with YunJae behind them (she referred to Jae as GBHG - "gorgeous black-haired guy", I think), but at that time she had no idea who they were yet. Su was being so ADHD she even thought he's mentally-challenged, and when he laughed his high-pitched laughter, she thought he was gay. xD She was kind of disturbed by his blatant lack of respect for personal space. Later on though, they bonded by the power of a Bleach manga. xD Su even took a picture of them together when the plane was taxiing in Manila. Only about a couple of months later after the flight did she discover who they were, because her sister became a fan of them and had a poster up in her room. She was like, all casual, "Oh, I was on a plane with them." Her sister was, "0__0. No freaking way." *_*

Keeper: WHOAH! If I were the younger sister, ha, I'd be totally envious of my older sister. But if I were the one who saw them, hihi, I won't mind that I didn't know them before. The most important thing is that I saw them, lol, xD 

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I sent the next article to my unnies, lol xD

Satellite offers advice on tricky Facebook relationships.

by: JILLIAN LAND Satellite Correspondents
Monday, January 05, 2009
1/7/2009 1:45:19 AM

The teenage relationship: It’s a fine science every generation has studied. High-schoolers have always been curious to discover who is dating whom. That fact will never change, but youth today have a new tool at their disposal: the Facebook relationship status.

"Facebook doesn't lie when it comes to relationship statuses," said Justin Kits, a senior at Booker T. Washington.

There are six relationship statuses on the social networking phenomenon Facebook — seven if you count leaving it blank as an option.

The first is "Single." Calling oneself "single" seems self-explanatory. Read "single" as unattached and ready to mingle.

In many cases, that's true. But, as you might expect when dealing with high school relationships, there is more to it than that.

The single status can get a person in trouble. There is no better way to make your new girlfriend angry than by neglecting to change your status from "single" to "in a relationship."

Also, many people are reluctant to call themselves single even when they are. These people avoid the "single" status by banding together with another single friend to create a fake relationship. For example, two girls may list themselves as "Engaged" or "Married."

Jennie Wachowski, a senior at Booker T. Washington, is "married" to a friend on Facebook.

"I feel like posting a real relationship on Facebook is too public, and we have a strong friendship," she said. "I like pushing the traditional envelope."

Justin agrees that a relationship status doesn't always have to be earnest.

"(A relationship status) can be a serious thing if you want it to be, or it can be a friendly, joking thing if you want it to be," he said.

Unless used as a "single" avoidance strategy, "married" and "engaged" are straightforward statuses, although they are rarely used among high school students.

Next up is "In a relationship," which might be the most self-explanatory of the bunch: two people, exclusivity, pretty straightforward. The only trick is deciding who will make the first move and request the relationship.

"I've always allowed the other person to initiate the change over Facebook," Justin said.

Note: Just as important as talking about putting the relationship on Facebook is the talk about ending the relationship on Facebook. Never, ever cancel a Facebook relationship without talking to the person first.

"If you are going to break up with someone, it needs to be done face to face with words," Justin said.

If you're not in an exclusive relationship, or you're not sure whether you're in one, "In an open relationship," a fancy term for dating, is a handy alternative.

If you are still not sure, then it's safe to assume that your whatever-you-want-to-call-it relationship isn't FBO, or Facebook official.

Becoming FBO can be an important event.

"When people change their Facebook status relationship, it means they are willing to let everyone know about their relationship," said Bonnie White, a senior at Memorial. "It's a big deal when they are willing to share it with everyone."

But it's nothing to stress over, she added.

"If you are just dating, but not officially together, then you should remain single on Facebook," Bonnie said.

And finally, the sixth option, a festival of controversy: the dreaded "It's complicated."

This status is the subject of squabbles for one simple reason — what does it mean?

Satellite considered several possible scenarios but determined none of them is legitimately complicated.

Consider with us:

1) You like someone who doesn't like you back: That seems pretty straightforward. Unrequited love is real, unfortunate and even painful, but it isn't complicated.

2) You like someone who also likes you but does not want to "commit" to you: Again, pretty clear-cut. "Just not that into you" isn't complicated.

3) You are with someone who is in a serious relationship with someone else or is married or is your teacher: Unfortunately for you, "sketchy" is not a relationship status. But still, complicated isn't a good fit here.

Today's high school relationships are as hectic as ever, but whether you're "single," "in a relationship" or "sketchy," Facebook is there to help you keep things up to date and interesting.

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Thank goodness mine is so simple: SINGLE.

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Okay, last one. Another article I showed my unnies :)

RELATIONSHIPS ARE always a difficult terrain to navigate.

As a woman, you spend hours pondering—alone or with your girl friends—the intricacies of the human heart. You always hope and pray that the next generation will get it better than you did.

Below is a letter I found in my daughter’s website (I have her permission to share this). She wrote it to “the man I will someday love.”

I was expecting to read a gushing, romantic, idealistic tome. I was humbled instead by her sentiments. It’s filled with sensible expectations.

I pray that this will make every girl believe that hope does spring eternal, and even if your heart has been broken a few times, you can always put the pieces back together, and make it right the next time around.

Take your time. Don’t rush and don’t just “settle.” If it’s part of His plan, God’s best awaits you out there.

Letter

Dear You,

I will admit that sometimes I really do wonder if you exist.

There is a part of every little girl’s heart that envisions her prince charming. At age three, it is usually of a man who can save her from the wrath of an evil stepmother, wake her from eternal slumber or give her that true love’s kiss.

In elementary school, he becomes the boy with the least cooties, the one who’s willing to cross the playground to share his Oreos even if it makes him a target for the week of all the other boys.

Come high school, it’s that boy you stand with at prom, who your father stared down at the door, who provided you with an experience complete with photos you will cringe at a decade later, a corsage that yellows in the refrigerator, and a faded memory of a night that seemed almost too magical to be real.

Nineteen years into this life, however, and still unwilling to give my heart away, I am still that same little girl who hopes for her prince charming. And although I wonder why it has taken you this long to sweep me off my feet and whisk me off to your palace on horseback, I know that it is probably because meeting you will be better than any fairytale I could’ve read as a kid.

A couple of heartbreaks and a few years wiser though, I will admit that there are times when I question your existence. Because I have yet to meet the guy who makes me hear songs like “All My Life” or “A Whole New World” in my head when I see him does not mean I don’t hope that it’ll ever happen.

I may already know you or may still meet you someday—something I leave completely up to God because I’m pretty sure our story will be epic.

However, I can’t promise you that I’d make the world’s most perfect princess. In fact I’ll probably keep you on your toes and amuse you with my eccentricities—there are a lot of them. I’ll probably steal a bunch of your T-shirts and turn them into shirt dresses, or drive you slightly mad with my obsessive compulsivity and my need to fix your collar constantly.

I can promise to be your best friend however—that person you can rant to after a rough day, the hand you can hold when you get sad, or the person you can text when situations get awkward.

I’ll probably mess up your hair sometimes and hug you for too long, but that’ll only be because I absolutely adore you. I’ll bury my head in your shoulder during scary movies and make you feel like superman when you kill those flying cockroaches that really shouldn’t exist. I’ll cook your favorite food on your birthday and try my best to make friends with your mom.

I’ll respect your nights-out with the boys and make you seem like the perfect guy to my barkada. I’ll watch basketball or soccer games with you, and not complain when you cheer too loudly at the TV set.

I’ll know the difference between giving you space and being constantly there for you—even if it means sitting and playing video games with you or taking hot chocolate runs when it rains.

I’ll listen to your music and we’ll go on epic adventures together—seeing the world, taking awesome pictures, eating awesome food, and never running out of things to tell each other along the way.

I won’t be waiting for you to sweep me off my feet and take me on a magic carpet ride, because I know I won’t need anything like that to fall for you—I will love you for you.

You will be that someone to make goofy faces with in pictures, to lace fingers with when I’m lonely, and to take long walks under the stars with on the beach.

You’ll be the guy who takes me the way I am—and will laugh as I burst into Disney song or pick out pink wallpaper.

You’ll be that someone I envision a future with—us filling out visa forms as we travel the universe, picking out our first dog together and arguing about what to name it, or being snap-happy stage parents in our preschooler’s annual mini-plays. And I keep hoping that maybe someday when we find each other, you will become that someone whose smile I wake up to in the morning and the last one I speak to every night.

So to the man I know does exist, and who will help me maybe make sense of the world someday, this man I can’t wait to love. Please know that I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you. But for now, I wait. Fingers crossed and palms held together, I hope that you’re out there somewhere, waiting for me, too.

With the hope I will be yours for always,

Me

E-mail the author at cathybabao@ gmail.com

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None of these articles are written by me ;) You may even have read all of them before this. Hehehe, I just want them to have one last use before I delete them.