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Not to Scrooge on your fun, but some facts about the Yuletide season really border on the sacrilegious!
What if, instead of a carol, someone offered a curse?
"Tis no season to be jolly. Let this Christmas malice steal the 'merry' out of the festivity and may all our Christmases be free from white lies..."
We would forever be banned from any Yuletide festivity in this merry country. Grinch though we'd like to be, being left out is never on top of our list.
The reason we want some semblance of sobriety to the Christmas progrom is that, if you were so idle as to check the origins of the Yuletide season, you'll find out that a lot of its symbols-even the date itself!-we owe largely to heathens and pagans who used them for wanton debauchery.
The facts:
THE DATE IS A HOAX!
Traditional Christmas day contradicts what's written in The Book that shepherds are staying in the fields to "watch over their flock at night" during the nativity, which suggests it is spring time. Legends have it that the date was selected by the church in the 4th century to challenge a fellow religion on the rise that also celebrates the birth of their god on December 25! The church obviously won.
SANTA CLAUS IS JUST A MASCOT!
The kid-loving fat man was just a character in a classic poem (A Visit from St. Nicholas) and his popular image was first drawn by cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1863 for an ad. Santa's other name, Father Christmas, was actually a 15th century character who represented holiday merrymaking and drunkeness.
PAGAN PARTIES
The rejoicing, merriment, exchanging and giving gifts is rooted in pagan custom as well. During the celebration of the winter feast Saturnalia everyone feasts and rejoices, friends gather to exchange presents, and people indulge themselves in all kinds of amusement and partying-an age-old tribute to the god Saturn carried on today.
A CHRISTMAS SIN!
Pagans didn't cut down trees because they considered it a sin against nature. They however decorated living trees with bits of metals and sun replicas to 
signify the rebirth of their sun god after the winter solstice. They also adorned their houses with boughs of evergreen trees to worship vegetation. All these is said to have brought the idea of the Christmas tree.
signify the rebirth of their sun god after the winter solstice. They also adorned their houses with boughs of evergreen trees to worship vegetation. All these is said to have brought the idea of the Christmas tree.
I went to Olivares Mall in Los Baños yesterday to buy gifts for my relatives. I came across with these soft toys in the bookstore which are for sale. I searched for something that I can buy for my baby boy because he doesn't have one yet. It landed me to grab these stuff because they are colorful (don't mind the image of the toy) and soft, which are safe for my baby.
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HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAY BE UNIVERSAL BUT IT CAN DEFINITELY BE HARD TO LEARN. PONDER THESE LINES -
- The Bandage was wound around the wound.
- The farm used to produce produce.
- We must polish the polish furniture.
- He could lead if he would get the lead out.
- The solider decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
- A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
- When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
- I did not object to the object.
- The Insurance was invalid for in the invalid.
- They were too close to the door to close it.
- A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
- I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
Lets face it, the English language is crazy. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French Fries in France. Sweetmeats are candles while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We also wonder why quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from guinea nor is it a pig. And why is that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? One goose, two geese - why not one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
CROTON
Local Name: San Francisco
Price Tag: 150-200 Php
Local Name: San Francisco
Price Tag: 150-200 Php
Growing Information
Crotons develop their best leaf colors when planted in shifting sun. Plants placed in shade or semi-shade tend to develop a large amount of green color in the leaves. Soil should be enriched in compost, muck, or peat moss, and the plants fertilized regularly with a general purpose fertilizer, preferably the one that has high acidic rating such as azalea fertilizer.
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