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First of all, I’d like to greet everyone a Happy Labor Day since it is almost May 1 st , Philippines’ National Labor Day celebration!  It will be a non-working but busy day for activists and labor groups but for some non-partisans, it could be the start of a long weekend so regardless of where you in the spectrum; this day is sure to be a memorable one!  I would like to digress though and create my own LaborDay celebration because it being a day for workers is obviously already commemorated. I would like to re-declare today as National #LaborDay and share my Labor Day story...after all, not one is ever the same, ask your mothers! ;-) It is also very timely since Mother’s Day is just around the corner!  It was on November 15 th 2011 when my LaborDay story started... (cue nostalgic music..) I had gone to my routine pre-natal check-up and all was well, after all, my expected due date was not until the 28 th . After my check-up, I went to Robin...

  What would you do if all your years of being content with school life is suddenly shattered upon your discovery that all the while, you've been the DUFF?!  What's duff you ask? I'm right there with you, I didn't know what the word meant nor have I heard of it but apparently, it is an acronym for D esignated U gly F at F riend (D-U-F-F).Yeah, you can google it too just like I did and after it gives you a meaning related to flour pudding, Urban Dictionary will tell you the acronym I just wrote above. And so we're back to my initial question: what would you do?  Fortunately, with the magic of books and movies, you don't need to imagine it to see what might actually happen! Last weekend, I chanced upon a DVD copy of the movie entitled The Duff and after reading the synopsis written on the back cover, I knew it was one movie I had to watch and I was right!    It's actually a movie adaptation of a novel by Kody Keplinger about a t...