I lifted this from Apple Seeds which I thought was well-said:

1.      Life is not
fair. Get used to it. The average teenager uses the phrase “It’s not
fair” 86 times a day.

2.            
The real world
won’t care as much about your self-esteem as your school does. This may come as
a shock.

3.            
Sorry, but you
won’t make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice
president or have a car phone, either. You may even have to wear a uniform that
doesn’t have a designer label.

4.            
If you think
your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.

5.            
Flipping
burgers is not beneath dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for
burger flipping. They called it opportunity.

6.            
It’s not your
parents’ fault if you mess up. You’re responsible! This is the flip side of
“It’s my life” and “You’re not my boss.”

7.            
Before you were
born your parents were not boring. They got that way paying your bills and
listening to you.

8.            
Life is not
divided into semesters. And you don’t get summers off. Not even spring break.
You are expected to show up every day for eight hours; and you don’t get a new
life every 10 weeks.

9.            
Smoking does
not make you look cool. Watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s
what you look like to anyone over 20.

10.        
Your school may
be “outcome-based,” but life is not. In some schools, you’re given as
many times as you want to get the answer right. Standards are set low enough so
everyone can meet them. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to
anything in real life—as you will find out.

Ever received one of these? Well I have, and more than once too. How do I know this is a scam? Well,  I am not and never been a Paypal account holder. Phishing schemes never let up and you should not fall prey to these vultures who are invading your mailboxes.

This and  similar cons like the Nigerian 419 fraud and eBay ones are a real pain. More recently, we’ve had fake emails disguised as Maybank advice to ” verify your account.”  Well, that’s the power of the internet for you.

Here’s information excerpted from Paypal’s site:

PayPal will never ask you to enter your password or
financial information in an email or send such information in an email.
You should only share information about your account once you have
logged in to https://www.paypal.com/ directly from your browser.

 Remember: A legitimate vendor will never ask you to enter your password or financial information in an email.

While other kids were mugging away in arid classrooms
homeschoolers had themselves an adventure of sorts at the Lentang Recreational
Forest off Karak Highway. It was a nice and breezy day and we had the river all
to ourselves. That would have been impossible if it were the weekend where day
trippers and gawkers would have put paid our little experiment. A ranger did
stop by to ask what we were doing seeing the amount of bamboo trunks we hauled
up to the riverbank.

The object of the excursion was a raft-building expedition
that was part of the group’s
project. Nothing fancy you know, just get the
bamboo raft to float, and that’s it, they told me. Taking care of the
project logistics was part of their project as well, and I thought they
pretty much acquitted themselves. Lots of bamboo, lots of tools, lots
of bread and dogs – marshmallow even!- way too much food too, lots of
spunk. The kids were supposed to do
all the work 
but some of us couldn’t help but lend a hand, or more than just a
hand. – You know moms and dads. Me, I put on my best imitation of the invisible man.  Nevertheless we all
had a really good time. Now, the kids will have to figure out if they did
 good…