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Of course you know what Wikipedia is. If you don't, stop being a loser and visit here.

According to Time, Wikipedia has more than a million articles, nearly 10 times as many as Encyclopedia Britannica. That makes it the largest encyclopedia. Ever. Not only that, it has like the best and most complete entries. Ever.

Wow, right?

That is because it's made not just by one man, but by EVERYONE. If there is one concrete, present-day evidence of global bayanihan, it is Wikipedia. The words "Edit this page" were a big risk. Bad guys could vandalize and put big curses on its pages. It happens sometimes, but because of its millions of contributors, vandals are immediately cleaned out.

Jimmy Wales is the genius behind it. At first, he thought he couldn't match Britannica 'cause he only had 12 commissioned articles in two years. At this rate, it would take several millenia to equal Britannica, said Time. But he didn't give up. And look at what happened, a proof that egalitarianism can do wonders.

Now, imagine life without Wikipedia. I can't. Without it, there can never be an ultimate web-surfing experience.

Thank you, Wikipedia. I love you!
What keeps me from writing is just myself. It's easy to write, but not easy to write well.

Some people think they can write just because they can fill up a page with ease and speed, but writing is not that. "You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's vile hard reading," said Richard Brinsley Sheridan, an Irish playwright.

Many are also fond of writing with big words that only they can understand without consulting Mr. Webster, but writing is not that. Ernest Hemingway, a writer known for his simplicity, once said "There are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

I don't know when I can consider myself a writer. Is it when I'm already making a living out of it? Or when I'm published? Or when I get a flat 1 grade for a school paper? I want to be called a writer not when I'm all of the above, but when I'm already making a good impact on someone's life through my works. It doesn't necessarily have to be literature, a creative prose, or a newspaper article. It can only be a piece of note I left someplace that changed a reader's way of thinking for the better.

There's one book I've read that says writer's block is caused by the Censor, an inner being that tells you you're writing crap, your punctuations are a mess, or your verb's confusing. I know I have to fight the Censor in me and believe in my own pen but it's not as easy as you think. I know I can write better than some and that's the main reason why I took journalism, but things and persons and situations do not allow me to believe that I write well. Some people I've met the past year helped me cope but so far, it has not been enough.

These past days, I've been telling God that I'm offering up my studies, and he responded by giving me a sense of pride and contentment that I'm a journalism student. I think He just told me that I'm on the right track, even when 42 journalists have already gotten killed under Arroyo's administration.
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Hi, I'm Camille, and I'm a real journalist from Manila. Without claiming expertise on the subjects, I try to write about my artistic and cultural encounters on this 17-year-old spot.

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We will have but one option: We will have to adapt. The future will present itself with a ruthlessness yet unknown.
~Michelangelo Antonioni, filmmaker

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ...
~first lines of Charles Dickens' The Tale of Two Cities

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
~Matthew Arnold, cultural critic

The only way to really change society is through culture ... it's not through force, it's not through armies, it's not through politics (but) through freedom.
~Dony McManus, artist

You are a fine person, Mr. Baggins ... but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!
~Gandalf in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

"I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
~Groucho Marx, actor

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~Logan P. Smith, essayist

God is in the details.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect

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