Ocean of Truth: 4th Grading Period

          “I seem to have only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Wonderful words from Newton. This saying was much related to my fourth grading period. As overall, I was only a student learning lessons and searching for more but the world has an infinite knowledge.

          I learned a lot this fourth grading period with Ma’am Vera Cruz and our practice teacher. It such wonderful that I have met people like them. They were very easy to understand and they also easily understand us. This coming graduation, I will not end my thirst to discover new knowledge from that ocean of truth. But I will not only feed myself with that fish from that ocean but also to share it to hungry someone.

All I have to do is Dream a rift to the future

                I was awakened from a wonderful dream in my deep sleep when there is a loud noise from our kitchen. Bounty feasts together with business partners and presidents of different famous company. Gifts including:  luxury cars and ten layered cake from friends, celebrity guests and my big house where my 50^th Birthday were celebrated. But all of these happened only in that dream.

          But it is not hard to come true because I’m now a Certified Public Accountant and just had finished Law after ten years after my graduation in high school. I didn’t expect that I will be on the top of success. Because of many problems I had encountered. Before I was a working student, I work in a Bank during the day and during the night; I study my second course, law. I took two courses because it was my dream before when I was in high school.

          But in all of a sudden, I was again awakened by a noise, noise from the mouth of my mother shouting to awake me. It is another day and another day for school.

Change start with me and every youth

          Change is only the permanent in the world. Because all will change as time passes by but not Change. But in the situation of a Nation to be change was very hard if every people will not unite. During the time of President Marcos, Filipino was very judgemental. They only make bad comments in the government of Marcos.

          This is not good, because Marcos is not only the people in the Philippines to do all the things to change and make the country rise up. We are all Filipinos and I am Filipino Youth. Together we must start the change in our hands. We must do our responsibilities and obligation as a citizen of our own country.

Kannawidan Festival

          The Ylocos Region is very rich in extraordinary historical treasures, including the literary works, traditions, ethnic music, food, delicacies, handmade products and the culture of both modern and ancestor Ilocanos. The Literary work Biag ni Lam-ang by Pedro Bukaneg was very popular all over the Philippines and it was an Ilocano work.

          On the last week of January to first week of February, the province of Ilocos Sur celebrates the Kannawidan Festival that aims to showcase the different products of every town in Ilocos Sur and also shows the old beliefs and traditions of Ilocanos. During the Kannawidan Festival, lots of activities were made in the Quirino Stadium. This includes different competitions about the culture of Ilocos Sur such as quiz bee, writing daniw, tribal dance, painting and many more.

          The occasion is very important to every Ilocano because it reminds us the work of our ancestors and as respect to them and to our selves, because we are Ilocanos too.

New Year, New Me: Change is Good

               

                      New Year, New me. It’s 2014 and a new time for our life had come. “Change is good!” a wonderful quote by one of the legendary Champions in the League of Legends. Everything’s changes as we all know. But we didn't know that it will take many things to do the process of changing. Not just in one click, one blink or one millisecond. It needs also the reconstruction of our physical body, rehabilitation of mind and submission of spirit to God. But the most important is that of submission of our self to God and rehabilitation of mind even if you're still ugly just like the past time. You had changed.

         The past years, I had a lot of bad, wrong doings that is not God-liked and against the human rights. Not God-liked in the sense that I didn't go to the church and pray for straight 7 months since the Lenten Season. And my parents had told me that. Then I talked to my self and realized that I've done the worst thing in my life that God has given me. It is one of his commandments and I've break it. Just like a worst criminal that break the Law of the Government. Last years also, I I've done against the rights of my fellow men. I have taught bad things about a person even without knowing her or him very much.

         So this New Year, I have planned and starting to project my new self. I’m not already the one last year, and I’m the One this year! I will be the model of my fellow men and that should be. I will not make again a bad history of my life. Because I had realized that this life is wonderful gift from someone above me.

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Bad Chain of Events: 3rd Grading Period Reflection

Once again, it’s time to evaluate myself in the past grading period and make a vision and mission for the fourth and final grading period. In the last period, I can’t say that I have done my best because I did not concentrate on my studies. Instead of at home before sunset, I was there in the computer shop once every two days. Once in a very late night, I together with my school mate Joshua and my brother Andrew just have gone in the computer shop. When we are walking back home a car stop on us and blown its horn. We are very angry on that driver of that car because we three were shocked by the sudden loud noise.

We continued to walk and all of a sudden, the car opened and we were very shocked. There is Ma’am Vera Cruz, our ICT teacher talking to us. She was the driver of the car! My mind change and remembered the saying: “Don’t be easy to get angry because it can’t help you.” We responded to her questions and after that, we went home. In all the events of my life this third grading period I was very happy in the way that this happenings no matter how worse or good it is, I am very happy.

After all of the bad events, I must do good events also continuing my high school life until the end. I will change my habits and construct my new self.

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TIME FOR POSITIVE: It’s Christmas and let’s forgive

          The Time is very fast that it’s time again for happiness. This coming holiday of December we are all going to be busy. Busy in preparing every house for the coming Yuletide Season and buying gifts to share to other people. And that is the true essence of Christmas.

        In streets, children carol house to house to save money for buying gifts and self wants for the Christmas day. They joyfully sing with grace in their heart with the cold breeze of the wind and dancing leaves of the mahogany tree. You can see people forgive their enemies and forgot all their hatreds in their hearts. There are also noises that make all bad luck disappear and never to return again. Firecrackers here, there, and everywhere.

        You can also watch Firework displays, shopping discounted items and seeing every people you encounter with smile in their faces. It is very true that Christmas is the time for Happiness, Time to forgive and Time to share.

         

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