RAN Online: Are you hooked?

“Having fun is not bad but do it in moderate,

not in an abusive way”

Have you ever played an online game? What did you feel after you play? Was there something in you that wants you to play again? Well, for me, yes.


It was a summer break last year when I started playing this game. I admit that at first, I did not know what I am doing. I just do not understand the objectives and everything about the game. But when I went outside of the Internet cafe, I felt that I want to play again. This game is what they called RAN Online.


This game is very common to all teenagers, especially to U.P. High School second years (2006-2007). I admit that I’m hooked to it. This game is very nice because its concept is like a school or a campus. There are four campuses in this game, namely: Phoenix Campus, Sacred Gate Campus, Mystic Peak Campus and the Leonair Campus. There are four classes of students in each campus except for the Leonair Campus because the campus no longer exists due to an unexplainable accident so it lays in ruins. The four classes are the Brawler, who uses hands, feet, head, body and energy to execute a skill, an Archer, who uses different kinds of bows and arrows to defeat monsters, a swordsman who carries different kinds of blades to slash an enemy, and a shaman, who possesses magical powers with an aid of talismans and spears or sticks. Each class is divided into three types: the strength, dexterity, and intelligence. Except for the shaman who has only two types: the strength and intelligence. To know more about the game, just visit www.ranonline.com.ph.


Here’s some information about the beginning of RAN Online:


The Omen began 18 years ago. A terrifying solar eclipse engulfed the skies above Asia. From this gaping darkness, a vicious torrent of meteors hurtled down, leaving a wake of smoldering rubble and scorched earth.

Chaos and paranoia swept over Asia, forcing the rest of the world to quarantine the continent, an island onto itself.

Two years later, from this apocalyptic wreckage, a clandestine organization known only as the Sacred Financial Group ascended to power, shrouded in myth and mystery, brimming with untold wealth and influence.

The Group would found four schools, each one unique in its own way: Sacred Gate, Mystic Peak, Phoenix, and Leonair Campus.

Only the smartest, strongest, fittest students were recruited to these institutions. Yet beneath its quiet facade of learning and academia, an unsettling truth began to surface. These were no ordinary schools. Their infrastructures, rising menacingly above all others, were strange and alien in design, as if echoing an ominous, inescapable fate...

To know more about the Beginning of RAN Online, visit this site: http://ranonline.com.ph/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=9.


Here are some facts about the campuses :

Mystic Peak Campus

Mystic Peak is the second campus to be created by the Sacred Financial Group. For strategic reasons, the campus is located on the Northern area of RAN world. Although the curriculum of Mystic Peak is similar to that of the other schools, its dedication to the arts is what sets Mystic Peak apart. This classical approach has helped make Mystic Peak the most picturesque of the schools. Classrooms are surrounded by lush, verdant greens and trees, fields of blooming flowers and plants that add color and vibrancy to an already scenic campus. Stained glass windows frame the campus buildings with an air of solemn grandeur.


Phoenix Campus

Phoenix campus is the third educational institution of the Sacred Financial Group. Its campus is located in the Southern area of the RAN world. Together with the other two schools, Phoenix comprises a solid defense system against , with Phoenix catering mostly to the students of high society families. Phoenix is renowned for its advanced engineering curriculum, offering the engineers and scientists of tomorrow access to the most expensive and advanced technology, free to test out their theories and experiments.



Sacred Gate Campus

Sacred Gate Campus is the first educational institution built by the Sacred Financial Group. On the surface, all looks normal, but there are troubling undercurrents that lay beneath its design. Rumor has it that supernatural experiments are being conducted below Sacred Gate’s underground facilities. From the outside, the school’s veneer seems to reflect the Sacred Financial Group’s commitment to time-honored values, with its traditional, oriental architecture, brick-lined walkways, pagodas, florid gardens and exotic fountains.



Leonair Campus

The last of the campuses founded by the Sacred Financial Group, Leonair lays to the East, but due to a yet unexplained accident, the campus no longer exists. It lays in ruins, a haunting tomb that serves as a terrifying reminder of a reckoning long past. Strange, supernatural occurrences at the campus are being reported everyday. Some students, curious about the events surrounding the enigmatic campus, have ventured to Leonair, never to return. Those that do make it back, tell shuddering tales of a giant lion statue standing menacingly in the darkness, where trees hang withered and dead like skeletal hands, and where the surviving plant life has mutated into a savage species that prays on the humans foolish enough to venture into its path. Once proud and majestic, Leonair is no more, a black hole, where only nightmares thrive.


To know more about the campuses, just visit: http://www.ranonline.com.ph/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=45.


To get into the game, just visit: www.e-games.com.ph.


Try this game and I’m sure that you’ll enjoy it.

Now, I’m not playing too much because I’m using my money wisely and I realize that this game, honestly, is very addictive that I almost forget that I have some school stuffs to do like assignments, projects, etc. etc. etc. and I don’t have much money to please myself so I’m using my money wisely and I only play if have some free time and if I have some extra money.


There are many ways to please yourself. Like studying lessons, playing sports, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So many ways in pleasing yourself without spending so much money. You may need not an Internet connection or go to an Internet cafe and play online games. Just stay in your house, watch T.V., and find some ways to have fun without spending so much.

Always remember that you are a child and you still depend on your parents in terms of financial status. Save money and study hard so that your parents will realize that they don’t have any mistakes in raising a kid like you. Study hard so that you will be successful in your life and you can help your family the way they help you to be a better you. Always remember that having fun is not bad but do it in moderate and not in an abusive way.

The Life in the Province

Do you still remember the first time you went in a place full of trees and other plants and animals? How do you feel living in that place? How do you feel about the environment? Is it fresh? or polluted? You can answer these questions if you have lived in a province.

I can still remember the first time I went in our province. In the house of my aunt, located at Tamiao, Bantayan Island, Cebu, I lived there for almost six years. It was so nice living there because everything is there except for money. But in spite of poverty, we can still live there happily because my relatives are there and my uncle has a farm there. My uncle is also a fisherman because we live not just so far from the seashore. Every dawn, before the sun rises up, my uncle always go fishing . After my uncle left the house, I always wake up and I don't know why. When I wake up, it is still dark but I can clearly see the sun's rays near the sea.

During six in the morning, I always take a bath and after we our breakfast, I always play and play in the farm not so far from the house. In the farm, there is a wide area of land which was divided into two parts. The first part was planted with corn while the other part was planted with "chicos trees". It was so nice wandering around the farm because the air is so fresh and you can't see any house and the sky seems so close to you. It feels like you're the only one living in this world. Every afternoon, my friends and I always play near the big "sinegwelas" tree at the back of our house. There were also banana trees all around the place. After I play, together with my cousins, we went to the well and then take a bath.

As the years passed, I didn't think of going back to Cebu City where my family lives. But one day, my brother came and told me that i should go the city because I'm turning six and they want to have my elementary there. So, I have no choice but to go with my brother in the city. When we came in our house, it is not so small but it is fit for my family.

I have so many difficulties in adjusting to my new life because I like fruits but I can't even see any fruit-bearing trees except for coconut trees. The environment, it was so noisy not like in the province. But my father promised that we will go back in our province so we went back in our province. Sometimes I think that it is better to live in the city because you can find money there but in the province, nothing will happen in your life. But if you can find money or money can be easily earned there, then why not live there?