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Masungi Georeserve: A Guide to First Timers

Everyone’s been spending more time into Social Media, might it be for personal updates, work related posts, gaming or the most popular of them all, ESCAPADES ;-) From time to time, my Facebook timeline has been flooding with pictures of a group of people joining together, mind you, they are not usually related with each other whatsoever, they all just decided to go on a trip and visit one place to another. I personally have won a lot of friends as I join myself visiting various places near the Metro. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present you, The Masungi Georeserve! Have you seen breathtaking photos of this geopark on your Timeline? Not to mention the spectacular views. You might wonder how to get there so you too can enjoy the same, well, here's a guide to help you plan a visit to this exciting destination that isn't too far from Manila. A geopark in the Philippines, Masungi Georeserve is a conservation area in Rizal that aims to sustainably protect the rocks, flora, an

South African Kiara Nirghin, 16 Years Old Invents Extra Ordinary Thing to Fight Drought

You can never believe that a young schoolgirl can take time to think about her country’s dilemma and try to deal with it. A young schoolgirl wanted to tackle her country’s long drought then have everything researched so she can find a solution, and yes she does, indeed. South Africa's worst drought in recorded history has left eight of the country's nine provinces in a state of disaster, with thousands of communities and millions of households facing water shortages. To help farmers through the crisis, the agricultural union Agri SA has requested over $1 billion in government subsidies, but a cut-price solution could soon be available -- from an unlikely source. Kiara Nirghin, 16 years young, a Johannesburg schoolgirl, recently won the Google Science Fair's Community Impact Award for the Middle East and Africa with her submission "No More Thirsty Crops." The precocious student created a super absorbent polymer (SAP) using orange peel and avoca

Hidilyn Diaz Ends Two Decades of Philippine Olympic Medal Drought with Silver via Weightlifting

Every Olympics event, we sent our chosen one’s to represent our country. Along with them is our pride, hopes and prayers that one of them might bring home the long waited medal, might it be Bronze, Silver or of course, the very-long-waited GOLD. The Rio Olympics is still on going as of this writing, and one great Filipino athlete have given the Philippines a great honor, a Silver Medal. Hidilyn Diaz finished with a lift of 200kg at the women’s 53kg category in weightlifting on Monday, August 8, 2016. Since Onyok Velasco’s triumph at the 1996 games in Atlanta, we sure have hoped a Gold on that one, well, Diaz’ silver medal is the country’s first. “Ginawa ko yung best para sa country," Diaz told CNN Philippines. "Yun lang talaga yung goal, tapos mag medal. Bronze lang talaga yung aim namin ng coach ko.” Initially thought to be a two-horse race between Chinese-Taipei’s Hsu Shu-Ching and China’s Li Yajun, the rest of the field was seen to be competing for the bronz