Be Positive

Almost two months more to go and we’re already saying goodbye to our school, Ilocos Sur National High School. It feels like I’m really excited to graduate. I can say that life is not all about happiness always. Things will never be the same already. I will miss my High School life, especially when I’m spending it with my friends. We’ll not often see each other anymore because we’ll enter different schools. I can’t assure to see and be with them always, but all I know is I will not forget them especially the happy moments that we're TOGETHER.

I had again learned and discovered many things in this grading period. We’d learned about the Microsoft Frontpage. On this grading, we also made our individual projects which is the making of the web design. I’d just made a simple project because I’m not good in designing or putting animations on it, which will make it wonderful.

I had encountered many problems in this grading especially in making our web design using the Microsoft Frontpage. It feels like I don’t know what to do on it and feels like I’m giving up easily already. I’m not expecting to have a high grade in my project because it was just simple, but all I know is I’ve exerted efforts in making it.

I just did what I’ve known. On this grading period, I know that I did my best in doing every school works that we have so that I could have high grades. If my grades will go down, I still have one more grading to improve it.

Moving on, I will do all my best on the last grading that remains. Last grading my grades went down. So, I was challenged to make my grades higher these 4th grading. My grades will still go up as long as I will study my lessons and do my best in everything I do. Whatever problems or challenges that I will encounter again next grading, all I have to do is to think positive in every situations and do the best way that I could.

GO CONFIDENTLY IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR DREAMS. LIVE THE LIFE YOU HAVE IMAGINED.

~ Henry David Thoreau 

NEW BEGINNINGS

"GOD DID NOT PROMISE DAYS WITHOUT PAIN, LAUGHTER, AND SORROWS BUT GOD DID PROMISE STRENGTH FOR THE DAY, COMFORT FOR THE TEARS AND LIGHT FOR THE WAY."

I had encountered many problems in my life, especially in the Year 2012. Problems that I thought, I will gave up on it already. God gave me strength in facing those challenges in my life. He was always there with me and gives us everything we need. Another year had already passed. We attended mass to thank God because He gave us again another year to live and see the beauty of life.

As we welcome the Year 2013, we had NEW DREAMS. Dreams that will make our lives better.

"My life isn't perfect but I am grateful." Nobody's perfect right? Each one of us has a bad attitude. We all know that we need to change it for the improvement of our personality. I will be more mature especially when it comes to thinking. I need to change so that I will not be hard up when I'll enter my College Life. I'd promise myself to be more responsible and learn how to be independent.

I hope that I can do all the plans, and achieve all of those dreams that I have this year. LIVE LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW.  Enjoy every moment of it with your family. Thanks God for giving our family so many blessings. May you continue to guide us throughout the whole year.

Christmas in our Hearts

It’s already been a part of our lives and become a tradition that we, Filipinos and Christians, celebrate the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. We celebrate it in many ways such as Christmas Parties, giving gifts and exchanging cards. It was also pleasurable to visit different houses singing Christmas carols. It’s also the perfect moment to commence family gatherings or reunions.

During the 25^th day of December we celebrate “Christmas”. It’s a special day to all of us because it is when Jesus Christ was born. In preparation for that, we celebrate Midnight Mass which is popularly known as the Misa de Gallo. I am glad not because I've fulfilled my desire to complete it but because I have a great moment with God, giving him thanks for all the blessings, graces and guidance He showered upon me. Do you know why the colors of the candle of the advent wreath are purple, pink and white? Each candle represents something. The purple candle represents LOVE, the pink candle represents JOY and the white candle represents that Christ has come on this day.

The most important part of celebrating Christmas is we must be all present in the family gathering, even though we just have few foods to eat as long as we eat “Noche Buena” together. But  nothing more lonely than celebrating Christmas with incomplete members of the family, they can't come home because they are numerous miles away sacrificing everything just to support and finance the needs of his/her family.

Even though we're not complete in celebrating Noche Buena, we’re still very thankful because we have a better life than those people staying at the streets or whom we call the “beggars”. One of the true essences of Christmas is SHARING. We share the things that we have that some people may not have and will really need it in their lives. The true essence of Christmas is not giving wonderful presents nor exchanging cards but it is about how we celebrate and give importance to the Birth of our savior, JESUS CHRIST. We must LOVE each other, not just on this day but for the rest of our lives so that we can attain HAPPINESS AND PEACE FOREVER.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL OF US!

BE FAIR

Why do we need to be treated equally? The reason behind it is so that it will be fair to others. We all know that we people are all equal in the eyes of God. “Equal rights, equal opportunities.” What does it mean?

We all need to be fair in all things in life and we have the freedom in every action that we do. Are you aware of the laws that we have in our country? I think some people were unaware to it. We must know the importance of these laws. It was put up because it emphasizes that we all have the rights.

                An example to this theme is there must be an equal chance between boys and girls in all aspects of life. Some thinks that women can’t do the work or job of men. They just think of that women must just stay at home and do the household chores but it’s not. Women can also do the work of men. Especially nowadays, it seems like the world was already changed, because men were already staying at home doing the household chores while women were working.

AN ENVIRONMENTALIST? I CHALLENGE YOU TO BE ONE OF US!

     Are you aware about the Climate Change? It is one of the main problems of our society nowadays. An example of climate change is the El Nino, which can bring a dry summer for some and wet winter for others. In the past few decades, scientists have discovered that our planet’s climate has been changing at an alarming rate. They are also actively working to understand the different causes of this problem we’re facing. The following are some of the factors in which those knowledgeable and well-informed people noticed the reason behind it:

·         Forcing Mechanism which includes Solar Radiation, Orogeny, Continental Drift and Thermohaline Circulation.

·         Contribute more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, which may lead to the ozone depletion and global warming.

·         The exploitation of people on natural resources, such as fuels, gold, black sand, trees, etc...

·         Improper disposal of their garbage

We are all capable of influencing Climate Change in our world through our different actions and activities. And the fact is we are afraid and doesn’t want to face those risk brought by them.

But as a simple person, have you ever wonder how can you contribute to save and protect the place where we belong? All of us can play a dynamic role in saving our Mother Earth. As a student, I encourage you to be cooperative and support different clubs in your school, especially Science Club, with their different operational plans in conserving our natural resources.

To all the teachers or mentors, with due respect ma’am/sir, I do request you to do the first step in conducting a seminar with the main theme on how to save our planet.

            We are the one who introduced Climate Change and yet we have the ability to eradicate them step-by-step. It would start from me, then you, then all of us. Inspire, motivate and challenge others to be an environmentalist and do their part!

Treasure Every Moment

It’s like it was just the opening of classes yesterday, and now the second grading period is about to end. Time really flies so fast. We have almost 5 months more to go, so we must already enjoy staying in this school.

It was really fun to study lesson that is all about this subject. We used notepad in our activities. I had learned that using the start tag, end tag and tag attributes was really helpful in making our activities more presentable. It looks better with these tags.

All I can say is “life gets harder” because as time passes  by we encounter things more complicated that makes us feel that life really gets harder. Maybe I can say that this grading period was harder than the last. But it was not really that hard. I had again enjoyed this grading period. I had learned many things that will help me expand my knowledge about something.

Another grading period had done, so I had still 2 more grading periods to improve my grades.

When life gets harder always remember that “there are always challenges to every success in life.” I need to study harder for the remaining grading periods. I will review well for the incoming periodical examination. I MUST get a high score! Good luck to me and to my classmates.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF!

           The celebration of the Science month has already ended. Hello October! It’s time for the English month with the theme “Upholding English Proficiency for Communicative Competence.”

        My 1^st post on this 2^nd grading period  

was all about my insights on the theme of Buwan ng Wika this year, and now it is all about the theme of the English month. Our language “Filipino” is all we need to use in speaking with our fellow Pilipinos in our native land while our language “English” is the most important language to used Worldwide, that’s why we called it as the “Universal Language”.

        Why do we really need to learn speaking the English language? It’s for the reason that this language is all we need wherever we go so that we can communicate with others. Learning this language was very hard. Correct grammars, spelling and Proper Pronunciation is all we need. It’s not that easy to use this language and all of us commit mistakes, so we need to try harder. “Don’t give up easily.” 

Start learning the language while it is still early so that we’ll not be hard up someday and all we need is to improve it. I’m sure that you will enjoy and have fun in using the English Language. So, LEARN THEN TRY TO SPEAK ENGLISH FLUENTLY. In order for us not to be hard up in learning the language, reading books will help us.