YuGiOh: How to become an Aspiring Duelist

YuGiOh logo

 "Life consist not in holding good cards, but in playing those who hold well."
- Josh Billings

Are you familiar with Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler and Seto gayKaiba? They are the first coolest YuGiOh duelist in the world. Did it ever come to your mind to be one of them?

Playing YuGiOh always comes with many emotions like; feeling nervous, pleasure, and disappointment. In every victory there is joy and happiness; in every defeat always carries a lesson.

In dueling, intelligence is important in every moves, strategies and decision you are going to make.

Deck of cards

Duelists are using YuGiOh trading cards which are categorized basically by; Monster cards, Spell cards, and Trap cards. And in advance categories there are; Fusion monsters, Synchro monsters, and the latest XYZ monsters.

(from left to right) Monster card, Spell card, Trap card

(from left to right) Fusion monster, Synchro monster, XYZ monster

Want to become a great YuGiOh duelist? Then you should know first how to play and win a duel.First, observe and study how the game circulate. Learn how to use each of your cards strategically. "Attack!," "Activate!," "Effect!," "Draw!," "Destroy!."These words that we usually hear from YuGiOh anime series are the basic moves that a player can do while dueling. In reality, players do not shout or even speak, because players can understand each other automatically.

Here are some easy steps in how to play YuGiOh.

Each player's deck must be shuffled by their corresponding opponent for play. Then decide who goes first by flipping a coin, playing rock-paper-scissors or roll a die.

Ways in picking the first player

Then, draw five cards from your main deck. If you go first you have a total of 6 cards in hand and your opponent will gain his 6^th card on his turn.

Actual drawing of cards

Start playing your cards by placing those cards in corresponding locations.

Actual positioning of cards on its corresponding position

Your deck goes in the right side of second row, with the extra deck zone (where you can place fusion, synchro, and XYZ monsters) at the left side of the row. At the top rows, field card zone is on the left side and the graveyard (for discarded cards) is on the right side. The middle five slots for the top row are for monster cards and the bottom row are for spell and trap cards. 

Actual duel

On your turn, you need first to draw a card from your deck. Then do “stand-by phase”, the phase that you can think of what you need to do in the whole turn. Then take “main phase 1”, the phase where you can summon monsters, use spell cards and trap cards (these cards cannot be use in the same turn as they put down). After that, you are now ready for battling. (insert photo main phase)

In “battle phase” you can attack your opponent’s monsters using your monster cards and calculate the damage and life points (Life points are the health/life of your opponent, begin at 8000).

After battling, you can now proceed to your “main phase 2”, the phase where you can do the same thing at your “main phase 1”. After that, you can now enter to your “end phase”, and then your opponent will take their turn.

Now, here is a video interview with one of the students in Bachelor in Communication Research, Liam Camba, who's also a YuGiOh duelist. He will tell us about his own experiences in playing YuGiOh. 

Playing YuGiOh can be in lined with Defense of the Ancient (DOTA), Special Force (SF), Counter Strike and other cyber games by which interest most youth nowadays. Being engaged with these kind of habits is fine as long as you know how to prioritize things around you. 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing."

- George Bernard Shaw

You don't need to be one of the greatest to be good at something. Have fun. Just enjoy the game, then you will find more learning and happiness.

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Revealed: Porkie Tax Eater

Janet Napoles is the primary and the heaviest scam person behind this Pork Barrel and most of all government officials are suspected to be involved in this case.

It was disclosed in the COA report that the general performance of utilizing PDAF is not good and organized. Aside from Senator Janet Lim Napoles, there were other government officials who were alleged to be involved in the Pork Barrel Scam.

How heartbreaking it is to know that until now, our government is still run by self-centered and greedy leaders. Officials prioritizing their selfish agenda and compromising the justice and change that our country is yearning for, many years from now.

PDAF was made in order to provide fair and systematize support for the projects that officials planned for the welfare of the people. Sadly, the spirit of evil still tries to sabotage our government. Selfishness and dishonesty continues to cover the truth. Certain conspiracies and anomalies regarding the funds released,  un-existing NGO offices, and illegal projects are some of the issues raised in the PDAF.

Once and for all, I think it’s just better to that Pork Barrel should be abolished and pursue transparency inside the system of the government.

Reference:

http://coa.gov.ph/GWSPA/2012/SAO_Report2012-03_PDAF.pdf

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How is Nintendo gaming today?

Have you ever played a video game before? For sure you never forget of SuperMario, Pokémon, Mega man, and Sonic the Hedge Hog. They were the first coolest guys you played with your Game Boy before. But how Game Boys and these cool guys haven’t recognized today?

Because of the evolution of technology, Game Boys and other gaming gadget such as; Brick game are now thrown away and forgotten.

Game Boy model

One of our childhood memories is playing Gameboy, even some girls played this gaming device before. They played girly games such as; Hello Kitty! Town, Dress up, and Mickey Mouse.

Cloud of Final Fantasy, CJ of GTA (Grand Thief Auto) San Andreas, Tekken, and Naruto are the new coolest popular guys that can be played through; PSP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, etc. These cool guys are the reason why our childhood goodies were buried. 

Clearly, video games, in some ways, have been part of our childhood. However, could this be still possible for our generation today?

Nintendo started to upgrade the old Gameboy to produce new and more portable gaming devices that can enjoy more by the kids.

Gameboy players before are happy when they play and accomplish some missions and objectives in their game. Today, PSP and Nintendo DS players are not even contented in just playing and accomplishing those missions but they searching or finding new game plays such as; after accomplish some missions, they can go to other world or they can play another type of game that they did not played before, and mostly they want to play with other players or live players by connecting their devices technically.

Generally, Nintendo contributed a major history in the video game history and society most especially to children who wants to have happiness through video games. The Nintendo Gameboy is totally ruined by the newest gaming technologies today. And great childhood memories like this will be not experience by kids in new generations.

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Happy go lucky: Hannah Patricia Dela Cruz blessed life

Her simplicity illuminates her beauty for being kind to her classmates even though she wasn't that close to them. She's one of healthy classmates of BCR 3-2, Hannah Patricia Dela Cruz.

Hannah at her endless laugh 

Aside from reading novels, she really likes to eat especially whenever there is a long vacant time. Hannah or Pat as most of her friends called her.

Behind her healthiness and happy personality, she is scared of ghost, most especially when she is watching scary movies.

A year ago, she and her family went to a cemetery near to their house. As she walked along the puntod in the cemetery she thought someone was walking behind her, that’s why since then she is always afraid of going to cemetery. But she loves to troll someone thought she always scare at the Mumu.

There was a time that her lola almost had a heart attack because of her naughtiness.  As she hide in the corner of their house, when her lola passed by, she surprised her with a massive laughter afterwards. Truly, Hannah has her own way of fun.

When Hannah was in elementary, she really did excel in her studies. She always participates in class discussions and was always present in the class as possible. As the recognition day approached, she was so excited and hopefully expected her parents to accompany her in the stage to receive her medal for being top 7 in the class. Unfortunately, her parents didn't come and instead, her lola accompanied her to get her medal. She kind of, felt jealous with her brother when her parents attended to her brother’s recognition day.

Hannah Patricia Dela Cruz

When Hannah was in high school, she watched sex scandal video together with her cousin just for fun. She was very afraid and anxious because her parents might catch what they were doing.

Beside her cleverness, she is a religious and always thanks God in all of her blessings received.

Aside from learning, and eating, Hannah loves to go to church to serve the Lord. She handles a youth fellowship group wherein she shares the word of God. She always feels happy whenever she serves the Lord, and able to motivate other youth. Also she wants to be a successful researcher as she always praying to God.

Five years from now, Hannah, dreams of having her own research company or a Developmental company through which she can help other people and to be able to pursue her passion, which is researching. She also wants to experience and do extreme things that could ring out the adventurous side of her.

As she goes to her life, she always smiles and laughs whatever the problems and challenges came to her life. She always doesn't forget to pray when she is blessed and she always doing her best to achieve her goals and desire.

It’s more FANS in PUP

Aside from a cold ice water, a fan could be a great help through times of severe hotness. 

Base on PUP students' experience, there are little chances where in the feeling of freshness and cleanliness you feel when you are still at home, would still be the same feeling you will feel when you arrive at your work place?

A PUPian who is riding a PNR as transportation to go to school said that for five days in a week he travel from Taguig to his beloved school through PNR (Philippine National Railroad).

PNR offer 10 peso ticket for each ride from Bicutan to Sta. Mesa, and 15 peso from Alabang to Sta. Mesa, which is why many commuters in around Manila patronize PNR. Because of this, PNR becomes a can of tuna every rush hour and as a commuter you need to endure the hotness (siksikan) every morning.

Fans are useful for us even in just simple ways.

Useful Bruised

A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flower plants of the genus Musa (In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains.) (www.wikipedia.com)

Bananas are variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant.

A bruised banana is not a trash; it can be use in producing banana chips because it increases the sweet taste of chips. And it is a delicious delicacy that can be found here in the Philippines. It is still useful most especially as a fertilizer on an agricultural soil such as; farm, garden, and other soil that plants can live.

Agriculture in the Philippines is rapidly dropping down because of the increasing of prices of the market products. Also because of the flash floods, people who only rely on their agricultural jobs will more affected compare to people who bought products came from agriculture; they can buy to other agricultural product distributors.

Little Destruction

A plastic bottle is a bottle constructed of plastic. Plastic bottles are typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, ink etc. The size ranges from very small sample bottles to large carboys. (Wikipedia)

A plastic bottle is like a mirror of life, when you look through the bottle, you can’t see anything, its blur when it is full. Any destruction in nature you do will be done without seeing any effects. But later when the bottle is empty, you clearly see the effects and realize your faults and unfortunately it was too late to apologize because the damage has been done.

A tiny plastic bottle can do something good and something bad in our society, when this tiny plastic bottle continue to thrown away after using, it will produce pollution, and a pollution can harm people especially little children. It may destroy our Ozone layer because of the green house effect produced by plastics and other things that contain carbon. UVR or Ultra Violet Rays can be the causes of some skin cancers through direct expose on it.

A little plastic bottle thrown anywhere, the world would probably pollute and soil became too weak causes of flash floods, landslide and worse, animal and plant poisoning.

Circular Memory

A bottle cap seals the top opening of a bottle. 

A plastic bottle cap is just a trash but when you see it imaginatively, you realize that its circular shape is like our lives. We know this concept are too “GASGAS” but the fact that the cycle of life, there is always a top and bottom, a top when we are in success and victory but unfortunately there is always a bottom, when we were lost and defeated.

But suddenly, when I look at the brand name of the plastic bottle cap, it’s a “Mountain Dew”, the soft drink that I always drink before go home after classes. A remember when first time I enter PUP, I go to the canteen to eat my lunch after I get my PUPCET permit. I bought Mountain Dew and Buy 1 Take 1 burger for only 20 pesos. So every time I saw or encounter the word Mountain Dew, I always remember my first entrance in PUP.

Even if this little plastic bottle cap is a trash, but still, it reminds me on a something happened before. 

Smoke Devastation

A cigarette is a small cylinder of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking. 

The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well. Most modern manufactured cigarettes are filtered and include reconstituted tobacco and other additives. (Wikipedia)

A single cigarette stick may be the reason of destruction of our lives. Most of the time, minors who more exposed in area that has smokers have the larger chance to become like them. They don’t care on what should be the effect of these cigarettes to their lifestyle, relationship to others and especially our health.

Students who totally addicted on cigarette smoking have the higher risk to become slothful in studying. Sometimes they tend to leave the class (cutting class) in able to use smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol together with their indolent classmates. Some are only go to school to have their allowance and buy some cigarettes and other what they want without attending the classes.

These cigarettes would probably ban to the school and sari-sari stores near the schools, most especially on elementary and high schools. Even if there is sin tax law executed in the Philippines, the population of smokers is not decrease, but instead, increases throughout the years. These smokers should quit so that future generation couldn’t adopt their smoking habits.

"The Luxury of Choice" – The Wall Street Journal

The largest newspaper in the United States, by circulation and an American English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-four times. Also it was ranked no.1 in BtoB’s Media Power 50 for the 12^th consecutive year. It is published six days a week in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal. “ The Wall Street Journal”.

Primarily, The Journal covers American economic and international business topics, and financial news and issues. Its name derives from Wall Street, located in New York City, which is the heart of the financial district; it has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. 
The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-four times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of China's booming economy.  

The Journal’s first product is brief news bulletins hand-delivered throughout the day to traders at the stock exchange. 
They are later aggregated in a printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter. The reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser convert this into The Wall Street Journal, which is published for the first time on July 8, 1889. And began delivery of the Dow Jones News Service via telegraph.
 In 1896, The "Dow Jones Industrial Average" is officially launched. It is the first of several indices of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1899 "The Journal's" 'Review & Outlook column, which still runs today, appears for the first time. It initially was written by Charles Dow.

The Wall Street Journal has its own online website where audiences or readers can read news through internet. The Wall Street Journal Online, was launched in 1996. 
In 2003, Dow Jones began to integrate reporting of the Journal's print and online subscribers together in Audit Bureau of Circulations statements. In 2007, it was commonly believed to be the largest paid-subscription news site on the Web, with 980,000 paid subscribers. 
Since then, online subscribership has fallen, due in part to rising subscription costs, and was reported at 400,000 in March 2010. In May 2008, an annual subscription to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal cost $119 for those who do not have subscriptions to the print edition. 
By June 2013, the monthly cost for a subscription to the online edition was $22.99 or $275.88 annually, excluding introductory offers.

On November 30, 2004, Oasys Mobile and The Wall Street Journal released an application that would allow users to access content from the Wall Street Journal Online via their mobile phone. It "...will provide up-to-the-minute business and financial news from the Online Journal, along with comprehensive market, stock and commodities data, plus personalized portfolio information—directly to a cell phone." 
The paper's paid content is available free, on a limited basis, to America Online subscribers, and through the free Congoo Netpass. Many of The Wall Street Journal news stories are available through free online newspapers that subscribe to the Dow Jones syndicate. Also in the same year.

In September 2005, the Journal launched a weekend edition, delivered to all subscribers, which marked a return to Saturday publication after a lapse of some 50 years. The move was designed in part to attract more consumers advertising. 
Also in the same year, the Journal reported a readership profile of about 60 percent top management, an average income of $191,000, an average household net worth of $2.1 million, and an average age of 55. And in 2007, the Journal launched a worldwide expansion of its website to include major foreign-language editions. The paper had also shown an interest in buying the rival Financial Times. 

Sources:

http://asia.wsj.com/home-page

https://www.facebook.com/wsj

https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046785223/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJ.

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This news article is for academic purposes only. This is an assessment activity for our course subject, Online Journalism

Huge Blaze of Fire kills a mother

Manila, Philippines – A mother and her three children burns while sleeping in Love Road, Delta Compound, Friday morning.
Based on Deputy Fire Marshal Jose Waling of the Bureau of Fire Protection, Father of the family left a lit candle unattended before going to his night work. Suddenly neighbor smelled the smoke and started to scream.
It took fire fighters about 4 hours & 20 minutes to extinguish the flames. And reached the alert level into Task Force Bravo. At least 70 houses and at least 70 families are affected and 3 men and 4 women sustained minor injuries. The strong winds caused the fire to spread and houses in the community are made only of light materials.
Meanwhile, three children and mother rescued and bought to La Loma Hospital. Three children are in critical condition with 1st and 2nd degree. Mother suffered 3rd degree burns and declared dead on arrival.