I want to share the story that my Sister-in-law wrote for my magazine project. I hope you will enjoy reading!

Title: Wake up!

"And they lived happily ever after!" - Non sense!

I knew a lot of people who got hurt believing all these fairly tales, true love, fantasy!

They thought they have found the guy of the girl that they wanted to grow old with, yet in the end after a few years of happily ever after, they got cheated, fell out of love, or got a simple decision of "I don't want to be with you anymore."

I got scared knowing this, fear of maybe losing him someday, waking up one day that he is no longer mine. Could I still go on?

A friend actually made me realize something that made me answer this question. When I saw her crying on our shoulders, we kept on saying those cliches..." you can do it, there are still lots of guys out there, don't cry just because of him, let's move on, blah blah blah." When I took her home, while on our way to her house, this friend of mine kept on blubbering her heartaches. I tired to comfort her and the best that I could say was "I understand you, I've been through that too."

I've been there, done that...fell in love, got hurt, cried, and cursed someone. I thought I knew what I was going through, I thought I understand it all, but then just that night I realized something.

We kept on believing on forever, happy endings, wishing someday we could be those princesses who found true love...we got so deep into the idea of love that we forgot about reality.

REALITY is that, you are not the only princess in this world, there are no fairy godmothers that could change everything for you, there is no perfect prince charming that could never hurt you and for you to find true love's kiss one should not just sleep, do nothing and wait until it comes.

So here's the thing! Stop dreaming, wake up!

Maybe it would be less hurtful if you would know that not like in fairy tales real world offers us a new day to start a whole new story again if we ready to begin it. We could learn and try again. If we fall, we could still stand up and carry on again. If that fairy tale of yours ended, don't worry it's just a little chapter i your real life. You could add new characters maybe or you could still keep those the ones that you would like to stay.

We could still find another prince, we could still go on, live life again, it may not be happy the whole time but we could still keep on working on it. The last time that you experienced pain will not be the last time, there would be more. We could still be hurt, we might cry again and get wounded all over again, but then just make sure that it was not the same mistake. That I wasn't the same wicked witch who took your happiness away. Don't just put yourself into a deep sleep on nothingness because no matter what you do, when you wake up the pain will never go away. Instead of doing so, keep yourself busy in turning your weaknesses yo your strengths. Learn to love yourself first!

And the next time you meet your next prince charming...

Don't just appreciate him for coming into your life, prove to him that he was never wrong of choosing you.

Don't just be glad that his staying, give him reasons to keep on staying.

Never expect more than what he can give, try to know him well and soon you'll understand him more, then you could love him the way the he wanted.

Don't work on your relationship so that you could have him forever, but love him today more than the first time you did and like that today would be the last day that he could be in your arms because who knows, maybe tomorrow it would no longer be your fairy tale.

Tell him you love him right at this moment, don't think you could still do that the next day or the day after that, because you might regret it that you had never shown your prince how much you loved and cared for him.

Indeed there are no fairy godmothers to rescue us, but never forget that we have something more powerful than them. HIM, so never stop on praying, pray that your heart will be whole again and that HE will keep it wise and safe.

Someday, we may not say that we loved happily ever after, but there's one thing that I want to make sure that someday we could say, that I died happily ever after.

-Maria Sahara Fregil

Technology Before and the Future

Why recreation is important?

Recreation is a worthwhile activity, socially accepted for self-satisfaction and enjoyment. (A general definition found in google.) The definition clearly says that recreation is for self-satisfaction in which people satisfy themselves through plunging some activities in which they would like to perform. Recreation is very important because it allows a person to be socially active and have close relationship to the community by having good times with our friends and family. It also makes us physically fit! Through recreational activities we enjoy at the same time learn some new things! Free time? Get up, get on your feet and have fun now!

One Year Older!

Okay so I'm turning ___. I can't believe I'm getting older! It's hard for me to face that fact but I just have to because it's the reality that I can't ever change nor control. Life after all but come on, I should be happy. The Almighty God gave me another chance to celebrate my birthday and be with my loved ones! I should be rejoicing! I should be shouting for joy! Thank you Lord for all the blessings! Now it's time for me to celebrate!

Proverb for a day

"All good things come to those who wait." - Patience brings rewards.

Unique Selling Proposition

The Clear Men advertisement uses a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) approach. It makes a proposition to the consumer that Clear Men has “2 times dandruff fighting power and scalp strengtheners that gives 48 hours protection” which is a core benefit of the brand. What makes Clear Men unique is the “48 hours dandruff protection” which the other brands cannot offer. Also, it presents strong proposition because it features the world’s best footballer as an endorser, which is a great advantage to pull over new consumers to the brand.

Brand Image

 

Adidas made a strong and memorable identity of their brand. Adidas running an ad campaign “Impossible is Nothing” which promotes as the world’s famous brand when it comes to sports. The ad designed to create an image for Adidas as a brand to let the people inspire that everything is possible and to always fight with courage and dignity.

 Inherent Drama

 

Clear Men also used inherent drama approach in presenting the characteristics and the benefits that the consumers will get. The ad used a dramatic element which is a kick to match the written element above which is the 2 times superior anti-dandruff power.To make it both more realistic and creative, it featured Cristiano Ronaldo known as the world's famous footballer presenting stamina and also used a burning ball to symbolize heat.

Positioning

 

Nido Fortified positioned itself by attributes and benefits. The brand talks about having complete nutrients to support the 10 Signs of good Nutrition. The idea of this advertisement is to somehow create a position to consumer’s mind that Nido Fortified can actually give full nutrients to help boost and support every aspect of the children’s health.

 

 Advertisement Analysis (2)

 
The Real leaf, Frutcy advertisement of Coca-Cola introduces new product segmentation for those people who loves fruits flavors which comprises Lemon Iced tea-Ice, fruit flavors like lemon, apple and calamansi.
I personally attracted to this advertisement and it is enough to be seen by the people driving through Lacson St.
The ad somehow creates a mood of excitement and refreshment and also curiosity of what the taste is going to be like. The ad is simple yet attractive and very colorful.

It uses: 

•    Light background to emphasize the brightness and coolness of the entire ad.

• Different font styles and sizes. As noticed, the word “frutcy” is the biggest font of all the other fonts. Since the product is new to the market, the execution of the font is correct and creative enough for the people to remember it.

• Series of colors to indicate flavorings or match fruit colors.   

• Fruit pictures to make it more realistic and bottles to present the actual image of the product.

The ad doesn’t have much of the story going on because it doesn’t use figures (man, woman, children) to present the product but since the product is just starting, the ad instead used a technique to attract and that is using lots of colors and to make the ad more fun to watch.