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**Due to Macy Sevilla's demand. :)  Being college students, we surely experienced relying on caffeine to keep us awake when there's still work to do. It's also what we take in to knock out sleepiness and give us a boost in school days. Luckily for everyone, especially for us, Thomasians, caffeinated drinks now come in two options and they have begun to come into sight near our university.

 Coffee has always been a crowd favorite and it never fails to give satisfaction to its patrons. Milk tea, on the other hand, became an instant craze when it emerged. Both drinks are infamous to college students and are regarded as current addictions. With this at hand, let's probe the factors that make coffee and/or milk teas a hit.

 Flavor and Variety. Coffee shops and milk tea stalls have a wide array of flavors and alternatives for customers to choose from. Coffee drinks offer drinks from the basic flavors, such as caramel, mocha, strawberry) to the different types that their patrons will choose from like peppermint, banoffee, and coffee jelly). Meanwhile, the variation of milk teas range from more adventurous flavors specifically winter melon, yakult, banana split, and rose. Plus, milk teas include luscious tapioca pearls that certainly adds to the delectable milk tea experience.

 Affordability. For a fact, we know that well-known shops like Starbucks and Moonleaf serves enjoyable refreshments yet to a dear price so sometimes, you really have to save money first to buy a drink. But fret no more. Several coffee and milk tea stores pose a more affordable charge. Coffee Indulgence in P. Noval and D' Cream along Dapitan are two of the hot spots of the budget-conscious Thomasians who revels in inexpensive caffeine drinks.

 Health benefits. Of course, being caffeinated in nature, both coffee and milk tea holds in important health benefits. Tea helps prevent cancer. It has components like EGCG and theaflavin which suppresses the enzymes required for the growth of cancer cells. Tea also has antioxidants which will decrease serum cholesterol, triglyceride and fatty acids that contribute to heart disease. Now moving in to coffee drinks; it has major benefits like fights back drowsiness and easing nasal congestion due to colds. Coffee also has very similar properties to Theophyline which helps in rousing the muscles by acting on the bronchial tubes, alleviating cases of asthma.

You can't make everyone like you. Every once in a while, people will say things that aren't nice, but that doesn't mean you have to feel so insecure. Take it as a challenge. If they don't like you, then it's fine. It's a challenge for you to accept yourself for who you are; a person with flaws and weaknesses just like everyone else.

Open yourself to the world. See everything that's around you now and regret ever depriving yourself from these things. Take every golden opportunity that fate bestows upon you; it'll help you grow.

Hey. Hey, you.

It has been a homogeneous mix of crazy times, happy memories, poignant encounters. It was always a dose of daily laughter, an occasional insignia of sadness, arguments with speeches always with a recuperation afterwards. That's always been the cycle and path we take.

But we never get tired.

We have been constantly living our lives like we always do. Distant, yet especially close. Forlorn, yet subsisting with a familiar happiness. Apart, but knowingly together.

Yes, there were storms, whirlwinds, pitfalls, and whatever, but we're still in one piece. I guess after everything, we made it through.

Hey, you. Yes, you.

This roller-coaster ride of friendship we're in, we had our fair share of ups-and-downs. But we still make it through.

 You have no idea. You have no idea that I want to see you so bad. I can't wait any longer. I need to tell you something. Something that if I just let through now, it can't be reversed.

 You were always special to me. I've never felt so happy and genuine before. It's just, when I'm with you, the graying color in my life becomes ten shades brighter, often revealing a brilliant crystal-clear white. With you, I forget all these things that interrupt me. You just know all the right words to say when I feel down and weary.

 Maybe you are more than special to me. I should not have attached myself so concentrated to you, but it's impossible. Because you are just beautiful, inside and out. You were always hard to resist for me. I cannot deny that I was infatuated with you. I want to be with you. So desperately. But I can't accomplish this fully. Not with this curse I have to live with.

 I have to see you now. In my darkest reverie last night, I foresaw the tragedy. I saw it and how I wish I can just close my eyes, my mind and my self to it, and to my clairvoyance. Now, I have to see you. I have to stop you from coming into the tragic scene. It's going against the rules of Fate, but I can't lose you now. I can't lose you forever. 

 I need to see you now. I need to tell you that something will happen that can alter the path that this universe is following. I have to tell you something you may not believe, but maybe because you feel the same way about me, you and I will run and avoid the unfortunate and tragic thing in our lives.

 I have to see you now. I can't just sit around and wait. I have to tell you now, so things will be fine for us. I have to stop you from boarding on that train. Or if I can't stop you anymore, I just want you to know, in that small span of time that I see you and as heartbreaking as it is for me, I want you to know that I love you.