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Sino nga ba ang Tunay na Mahirap?

Sino nga ba ang tunay na mahirap? ito ba yung mga taong mga nakaitra sa squatters, yung walang trabaho o yung maraming anak?
Parati na nating naririnig sa balita na marami na raw na mahirap na tao ngayon. Totoo nga ba ito o pawang kasinungalingan lamang? Ano nga ba ang tunay na kahirapan?
Araw-araw maraming mga pulubi sa lansangan ang nakikita natin. Yung mga kamay nila, parating bukas at naghihintay lamang na bigyan natin sila nito. Kung titingnan mo ang karamihan sa kanila, malulusog ito. Nakakalakad, nakakakita at maaaring magtrabaho, ngunit ang tawag nila sa kanilang sarili ay mahirap. Tunay nga ba silang mahirap o tayo lamang ang may maling pagtingin sa hirap?
Sa tingin ko ay hindi mahirap ang mga pulubing ito. Kaya naman nilang magtrabaho, bakit hindi sila magtrabaho? Dahil ba nakakapagod ito at ang panglilimos ay madali lamang? no sweat ika nga. Tayo ang dahilan kung bakit mahirap ang tingin nila sa kanilang sarili. Hindi ba't binibigyan natin sila ng pera at kinaaawaan pa nga?
Tingnan natin ang mga nakatira sa squatters. Karamihan sa kanila diyan, parating nagrereklamo kasi nga daw mahirap sila? Talaga? May cellphone at  minsan parati pang may load, kuryente, TV, Ref ... mahirap pa kayo niyan? Eh ano nalang kaya ang tawag mo doon sa kahit bahay ay wala?
Mahirap daw sila kasi halos wala silang maipakain sa kanilang pamilya at hindi nila maipadala sa eskwela ang kanilang anak. Seryoso? tingnan mo yang nasa squatters. halos araw-araw, may mga nag-iinuman sa kanto. Tumingin ka kahit saan, may naninigarilyo. Ito nga ba ang mga taong walang makain?
Kakambal umano ng kahirapan ang dami ng myembro ng pamilya. Kapagka marami raw kasing pinapakain, mas malaki ang gasto sa kwarta. Pero teka nga muna, bakit nga ulit marami silang anak? Dahil ba wala silang trabaho at wala na silang magawa kaya produce nalang ng produce?
Mahirap ang tawag nila sa kanilang sarili. Yung mga bata, halos trapo na ang sinusuot. Yung mga magulang naman, nagtatrabaho umano, o kaya'y nagatatrabaho kaya? O naghihintay na lamang sila ng grasya mula sa gobyerno? Ito ba talaga'y mga mahihirap o palamunin lamang ng Gobyerno?
Marahil ay nagtatanong kayo, ano nga ba para sa aking ang tunay na mahirap? Para sa akin, ang tunay na mahirap ay yung taong masipag kung magtrabaho. Yung ang nais nila ay mabigyan ng maayos na buhay ang kanilang pamilya. Yung halos lahat sa kaniyang pamilya ay tumutulong na ayusin ang kanilang buhay gaya ng pagtatrabaho, pag-aaral ng mabuti at kung ano pa. Ngunit, kahit gaano ang kayod, short pa rin sila sa pera at problema pa rin ito.
Ito ang tunay na mahirap. Yung masipag ngunit kulang ang sweldo. Ito ang mga dapat tulungan. Hindi yung wala na ngang trabahon, naghihintay pa ng grasya mula sa ibang tao. Palamunin hindi ba?

Thank You HIGH SCHOOL! :D

When I was in high school, I always complain WHY ARE WE SO BUSY? Why does our teachers kept on giving us LOTS of assignments and projects? They told us that it was for us to prepare for COLLEGE. Oh really? I used to not believe that cause I thought that College is where you’re relax and stuffs. But seriously, now I know, our teachers were really PREPARING us for COLLEGE!

This is my appreciation post for my teachers J

• Thank you Ma’am Ethel and Ma’am Emma because of the way you teach. The way these two teachers teach is priceless. They teach us sooooo fast that there are times when we try to tell them, “Ma’am, CHILL! We’re not preparing here for an interschool contest”. My third year teacher was Ma’am Ethel and I used to complain my friends how fast she teaches us (that was during the first quarter). However, as the year went on, I got used on how she teaches us.
• For fourth year, I had Ma’am Emma for Physics. She’s like Ma’am Ethel, but ummm … worse or better? I don’t know. Basta, she used to give us TWO quizzes, one before her discussion and one after the discussion.  We actually COMPLAINED to her about this and to make the story short, she changed her “quiz” style and just gave us a quiz and at times seatwork instead of TWO QUIZZES.
• In college, you can’t really say, “Hey Ma’am, CHILL! Hinay-hinay lang”. NO. You need to be with the pace on how your teacher teaches and it’s your problem if you can’t. That’s why thank you Ma’am Ethel and Ma’am Emma because of your teaching styles, it helped me a lot in adjusting now in College. <3
• Thank you XUHS for the Oral Thesis Exam every YEAR. I used to LOATH this! The oral thesis exam is the one-half final exam per year level. So I had 4 oral exams for my whole high school life. When I went to college, I thought that Oral Exam doesn’t exist anymore. But boy I was wrong, it still exists! Gosh …
• The oral exam for college is trio so I really need to work with my group. At first, they didn’t know what to do (kind of). So I gave them a bit of pointers on how to do these stuffs. And for me, I did what I used to do back in high school. Wow, it actually worked!
• After those 4 oral exams in high school, thank you cause you helped me now in COLLEGE!
• Thank you Ma’am Merci Labial for the advices on how to speak during an interview. Seriously, she helped me a lot also during the oral exam. What she told us before was that, “If you’re asked a question and don’t know the answer, SMILE first and show confidence even if you’re nervous”. And that’s what I did, I smiled first and had my mind work fast to answer the question. And you know what? IT WORKED! FREAKING WORKED! Whooo J thanks Ma’am!

There’s so much for me to say and such but all in all, I want to say, THANK YOU HIGH SCHOOL for preparing me for College J <3

ooooh ... LONG POSTS!

I was backreading this blog when I suddenly realized that I've had posted LONG POSTS! Like seriously? I haven't really thought about it until now but I think I became less inclined in posting long stuffs right now compared before. I don't know why. Maybe because of laziness or what?

I'm used in Tumblr that I get to post short stuffs you know. :|

Why Can't I leave this BLOG?!

So yesterday, I made a Wordpress blog and it was supposed to be my official rant blog. But then I got guilty so I deleted it and went back to this blog. 
I just love this blog <3 :)

Mga Bagong Salawikaing Pilipino

The following are just made up and only used as jokes  don’t take these seriously. 

* Ang buhay ay parang bato, it’s hard.
* Better late than pregnant.
* Behind the clouds are the other clouds.
* It’s better to cheat than to repeat!
* Do unto others … then run!!!
* Kapag puno na ang salop, kumuha na ng ibang salop.
* Magbiro ka na sa lasing, magbiro ka na sa
bagong gising, huwag lang sa lasing na bagong gising.
* When all else fails, follow instructions.
* Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling
wika, lumaki sa ibang bansa.
* To err is human, to errs is humans.
* Ang taong nagigipit … sa bumbay kumakapit
* Pag may usok … may nag-iihaw
* Ang taong naglalakad nang matulin … may utang.
* No guts, no glory… no ID, no entry.
* Birds of the same feather that prays
together … stays together.
* Kapag may sinuksok at walang madukot, may nandukot.
* Walang matigas na tinapay sa gutom na tao.
* Ang taong di marunong lumingon sa kanyang
pinanggalingan …. ay may stiff neck.
* Birds of the same feather make a good feather duster.
* Kapag may tiyaga, may nilaga. Kapag may taga, may tahi.
* Huli man daw at magaling, undertime pa rin.
* Ang naglalakad ng matulin, late na sa appointment
* Matalino man ang matsing, matsing pa rin.
* Better late than later.
* Aanhin ang palasyo kung ang nakatira ay kuwago, mabuti pa ang bahay
kubo, sa paligid puno ng linga.
* Kapag maikli ang kumot, tumangkad ka na!
* No man is an island because time is gold.
* Hindi lahat ng kumikinang ay ginto … muta lang yan.
* Kapag ang puno mabunga … mataba ang lupa!
* When it rains … it floods.
* Pagkahaba haba man ng prusisyon … mauubusan din ng kandila.
* Ang buhay ay parang gulong, minsan nasa ibabaw,
minsan nasa vulcanizing shop.
* Batu-bato sa langit, ang tamaan … sapul.
* Try and try until you succeed… or else try another.
* Ako ang nagsaing … iba ang kumain. Diet ako eh.
* Huwag magbilang ng manok kung alaga mo ay itik.
* Kapag maiksi na ang kumot, bumili ka na ng bago.
* If you can’t beat them, shoot them. (Nalundasan)
* An apple a day is too expensive.
* An apple a day makes seven apples a week. (really expensive)
* Aanhin pa ang damo kung ang garden mo’y sementado
* Aanhin pa ang damo kung bato na ang uso

Super Junior

I love this group family. This is the reason why I got into k-pop. After I listened to their song Sorry Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself but to listen to them again and again. :)

they debuted as twelve-man group, then became thirteen then became fifteen <3

right now, there are only 12 active members. the other three are: one focused on acting, one at the army and one member left the group and went to China. but whatever happens, ELFs will always be with them :)

SUper Junior fighting!

2ne1

my favorite girl group <3

When I see 2ne1, I don’t see the usual k-pop girl groups wearing short skirts or frilly clothes or girly types of clothes. What I see is a fierce, fashionable and a kick-ass group. :)

All of them are talented and because of their hardwork, they are now near top of their race. But I heard YG is planning on having them debut in the US which is totally cool. :) their songs are so catchy and so upbeat that I think many people are easily attracted to. 

If you want to see a good korean girl group, you better watch them. They don’t need to wear sexy clothes just to attract much attention. Their presence on stage is enough to drive many fans crazy and attract many people with their music.

<3

Backstreet Boys

THIS IS LEGEND! :))

Everytime I see their MV at Channel V, I always stop and watch. I’ve always loved them :) their songs still holds meaning to me until now. It still gives me happiness whenever I hear their songs. 

I don’t think any other groups (not even k-pop group) can even be like them. They’re so unique that when you think of Backstreet Boys, there is always a song that will come into your mind. :)) <3

I miss them. 

every body!! yeah, yeah. Rock your body! yeah, yeah. Rock your body right! backstreet’s back alright!

Justin Bieber

I used to dislike him. Not because I don’t like his songs but because of his fans. Many of his fans are obsess with him and I’m so fed up of it. I kind of dislike his voice to like in One Time where his voice is like that of a girl’s. 

But now, he gained my respect because of Selena Gomez. I’m not a big fan of Selena though. When I heard him and her were dating, I was like, OMG! Seriously? But then during that day (I think his birthday), where he and Selena were in the car and people and fans were all around them, trying to destroy their supposed to be time together, he just gave them a middle finger and an annoyed faced. If it was me and people were trying to destroy my time with my love ones, I could have shouted and made a scene. But Justin just held his temper and did something less reckless to protect his girl. :)) 

Justin is also now growing up and his voice is changing! it’s starting to be deeper (listen to Never Say Never). I don’t get irritated anymore listening to him in a girly-like singing voice (sorry ^^)

so that’s it :)) 

Suicide

now this is not a suicide note. This is just a post. don’t spazz up and start making a post about messaging me and telling me things. gosh~~

When my mom told me that I WOULD take up nursing as my course, I thought of killing myself. I just don’t want to take up nursing! It’s not my thing. My thing is writing. I live to write. Whether it’s short or long, informal or formal, I don’t care as long as I write. So the thought of not being able to take up Journalism devastated me. 

As I was thinking of ways to kill myself, I thought of three things: gun, pill, knife. I also thought of the possible pains and stuffs about these three things that I could use. 

• Gun- I know where to get one but it’s painful! >.<
• pills- like where can I get these pills? yeah right, pharmacy. :) 
• knife- painful ~~

so see, it’s painful. I was also thinking about this one. So I told myself, if I kill myself, I’d commit a sin and my family would cry. It would also cost them a lot of money for the wake, foods for the visitors, morgue, funeral, etc.. But if I’ll open this up to my friends, maybe they can help me convince my parents. :) if they can’t, then I’ll just study Nursing, but while studying, I can still write :) I still have my blog to continue my passion. :)

so I’m here right now, alive and breathing, will take Nursing for college but I won’t stop writing. :)) thank God I didn’t continue my thoughts. I could have regretted it :)

p/s: my reason for suicide is sooooooooooo petty 

Desperate and Disappointed

There are always those times in our lives that we become desperate and I am not an Exception (I'm part of everyone, duh?!)
There was one time when I don't have any ride to go home. It was raining so hard at that time and there was an overflow of water somewhere in the road. Almost all the cars were blocked from passing through.
I texted my dad if he can come and fetch me. He told me to wait. I thought he would be coming but then I realized for sometime, maybe he won't. But still, I kept my hopes high. I thought he would come and rescue me like a father should. I texted him again but this time, it took him many minutes to reply. I texted my mom then (which is at Canada, I'm here in the Philippines) and told her my situation. For the majority of time, she was the only person that kept me company through text.
My grandma then texted me that I should wait for my uncle to come. He would be the one to fetch me. That was the time when I really became disappointed of my dad. I was really thinking that he would be the one to get me.
I waited for almost an hour for my uncle. At that time, I really wanted to go home and rest. I so need to sleep because I was really tired and feverish. I thought of many things to do just for me to go home immediately. One of them was to faint.
I read in articles that holding your breath doesn't kill you. SO thats what I did. I held my breath until I feel that I was fainting. But then, for a millisecond, I gasped for breath and I could breath normally again. I was kind of disappointed because I failed. I tried many times but then I realized that I would fail over and over again.
When my uncle arrived, I was relieved. I was happy to be able to go home and rest. Bu then I also felt sad because for the last time, I was hoping that it would be my dad to come.
When I arrived home, my grandma was dead worried of me. I was happy to see her too. When I asked where my dad was, she said he was at his room and was sleeping.
Sleeping? really? When all those time I was there, outside, no money, low battery, no transportation, stranded in the rain and desperate to go home, he's here at home sleeping?!
That was the first time that I got REALLY disappointed of my dad. I always thought that he will always be there for me when I need him. But I guess some of those are just silly little things. :(

I find many Filipinos stupid

I’m sorry to say this since I’m also a Filipino. 

I’m really fed up of people always in the streets and SHOUT. They kept on organizing a rally and then shout in the streets the things that they don’t like. WTH?! Their usual problems are no jobs, FARE PRICE HIKE and the like. Corruption for me is the most OVERUSED reason to organize a rally. I mean hello, whatever you do, people won’t listen to you that easy for them to stop being corrupt. 

okay, so here’s the stupidity:

No Jobs

They say that the government is not doing their job to secure jobs for Filipinos or that there is job shortage. SO how in the world can they look for a job when all they do is go in the streets and organize a rally? Tell me! Does their constant shouting there will do any good? What if they just used the time they spent in the streets to look for job? They might have find a good paying job. Gosh ~~

Second is that that our government keep on telling us to take up these courses like IT, HRM, Culinary and other courses that they say is what many companies need now. They also said to preferably avoid Nursing cause there’s too much nurses now. What do people do? They take up Nursing. For Hell’s sake people, can’t your common sense tell you that there are too many nurses and that MAAAAAAANNYYY of them doesn’t even have a job? IT is one of the courses that is in demand now. Technology is changing and many companies are hiring people who have knowledge about Technology. Perhaps if we’ll just take the courses that is in sync with the jobs available now, maybe only a few Filipino are jobless. 

Finally, many thought that they should have PROPER education to have a nice job. Technically saying, yes, getting a proper education is an asset for you since many companies require college graduates. But even if you’re only high school or elementary graduate or just even an elementary undergraduate, you can still have an ‘education’. What is ALS and TESDA for?

FARE PRICE HIKE

Just this week, many students (from U.P. O.o) were having a rally about this fare price hike. As I was watching this one, I just thought of one things, “How dumb can they be?” I mean hello, they’re the “Skolar ng Bayan” but then didn’t even one of them thought of the reason why there is such thing as Fare Price Hike?

Okay, here’s the pattern. Fuel Price goes up, Fare price goes up. The simple pattern that even the non-genius people can understand. But the problem here is that these students are saying that why the students are affected by this one. Yeah, I kind of get that too. Why the hell are we affected by the Fare Price Hike? We are not workers and it’s only from the baon of our parents we get our money. So why should we be affected of this hike? Oh, I know why. BECAUSE WE ARE ALL RIDING A JEEPNEY! stupid!~~

Can’t you just sacrifice even one peso to add to your fare? Do understand that these drivers also have family on which they need to give their earnings. Let’s say the government didn’t imposed yet the price hike. Each driver usually has a quota and they need to attain this quota at the end of the day. For example, if the daily quota of the drivers is 350 and his earnings for the day is 900, the fuel lets say reached P40 from its previous price of 38. The driver then bought fuel that amount to P200. In the end, that means that he only have 350 as his personal earning. See the logic?

So you see, Fuel price hike and Fare price hike are PARALLEL!

hate me with all you like but this is just two of the stupid things that I can see in my people. Puh-lease! grow up and think rationally people. and quit saying things like “wala pang nagagawa si Noynoy” or “Noy-Noy is useless”. 

in the words of my Econ teacher: “Mag-research ka muna bago ka magdakdak diyan. Hindi mo naman alam yang pinagsasabi mo”. 

What are the things that my family doesn’t know about me?

• I can feel ghosts. Yeah, right. This may sound absurd but I really do. I can also see ghosts but that’s kind of not so usual for me. I can feel ghosts more. this means that I can sense if a ghost is following me or somewhere near me.
• I want to be a theatre actress. Weird you may say but I really do. I want to be up there in the stage and act. I want to be someone who I’m not for even a short time.
• I want to travel the world. I want to go to places that amaze me like ruins, museums and amazing infrastructures.
• I sometimes cry myself to sleep. Being an only child means that you don’t have any siblings to go to when you have any problems. So that means that I have to deal with things myself even if that means heavy problems. These are the problems like friends, family and stuffs … so all I do is to cry :’(
• If I’ll be a mother, I don’t want to be like my mom. My mom is the best mother if I can say. But the part that I don’t want to be like her is where she works away from me. Everyday, I long for my mom and just wants to hug her. If I would have a child, I’ll try my best to have a work that will enable to go home everyday and prepare food for my child.
• I want to be a JOURNALIST … I know that they know (maybe) that I want to be a writer … but what they may not know is I REALLY, TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL, BONGGANG-BONGGA wanna be a writer. Writing is my passion and I really want to pursue it.
• I want to be a fashion designer and photographer. Next to being a journalist, these are the two jobs that I want to have. These are what I like … unfortunately, my mother dislike the idea of me being a photographer and I suppose that telling her that I want to be a fashion designer is out of the question.
• In college, taking up Psychology is just my way in saying to them that I don’t want to be a CHEMIST or a NURSE. Being a Chemist and Nurse are what my parents WANT me to be. Shocks … sorry, not interested.
• When someone yells/scolds to me and I’m infront of the computer, prepare for my rants against you in Twitter.
• They don’t know my mannerisms. Seriously, I’m more of myself at school with my friends rather than at home. I don’t know why.
• Listening to music using earphones when in front of computer means that I don’t want to be distured.
• I hate it when they keep on asking me to do things for them. For crying out loud, can’t you even put a mug to the sink?! Lazy ass.
• I cuss. Yeah right. I use shit … to cuss. However, at home I don’t.
• I first learned to cuss when I was still little. I used to hear my grandparents curse to each other and then I just picked it up. Now, they tell me that if I learn to cuss, I might have picked it up from some of my friends. Yeah right.
• I want to party. Sometimes, I’m so bored here at home and I just want to go out with my friends and have some fun. Even going to a sleep over is like telling them that I’m going to America for a year.
• I just forced myself to choose Psych because I don’t have much choice in terms of courses.
• I WANNA STUDY AT HARVARD! I’ll do my very best to even get a scholarship there. (p/s: some people think that I’m joking but I’m freaking serious here people!)
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Ugh! FUDGE!!

January 28, 2010 – the day 4-Regis class is quiet. >.<

You know what’s the reason? It is our TERM PAPER. Many of my classmates were absent today since they thought that today is the due for our final draft. Too bad our teacher moved it till tomorrow, 5pm. Our teacher also informed us that all of those students who were absent are given minus points while those who are present are given plus points. Yay! Moreover, she also told us that only those students who are present are the only legit people that could pass the draft until 5pm tomorrow. Those who are absent are forbidden from the extension.

Personally, I find this act of some of my classmates as a childish act. They are all willing to sacrifice the four subjects in the morning or maybe the other remaining two subjects in the afternoon just for one requirement for ONE subject. What a deal. And also, if you’ll see, some of these people who ‘excused’ themselves in class are those students that were not doing anything for their draft like typing. These are also the same students who kept on whining about why our English teacher is unfair because the due date is really short. Ftw?! These people are so IRRATIONAL!
I really have a plan that I would excuse myself from the class today. But I also thought that I would maybe miss a lot of things. And my decision to go to class is good, if I did continued my plan, I couldn’t have been legit to pass tomorrow or get plus points. I may have missed lessons in Computer and Physics. I should have miss my long test in CH and new lessons in Math.

The main thing is that some of my classmates, those who are absent, didn’t have a great deal when they decided to be absent. They missed many things just because of one thing, term paper. I know that when you fail to pass your term paper, you’re not allowed to graduate. The secret here is that you need to be able to control your time and know the things that you should do, IMPORTANT THINGS!

Section Naming

You know what, I’m not writing this blog right now because I want to degrade some people or to attack my own, beloved school. But I wrote this blog because this what many students feel and wants their voices to be heard. I’m writing this in a point of view of a General Section student.

In our school, each year level has three types of class: honors, semi-honors and general section. To further explain the three types, here it is…

• Honors Class- this is the class where the smartest and the top students of the batch belongs. Usually, participants for different competitions were taken from this class. Their lessons are more advanced than the semi-honors and the gen-sec since the teachers expect them to learn quickly. The teachers also expect them to be behave since they were supposed to be the ‘role’ model of the batch. *tch*
• Semi-honors Class- this is the class where the people who were smart but not smart enough to be on honors class belong. Some participants for different competitions are also taken from here. Their lesson is also advance compared to gen-sec. Same as the honors, the teachers also expect a lot from them from studies to behavior.
• General Section Class- this is where the majority of the batch belongs. Those who aren’t qualified to be on Honors and Semi are placed here. The lessons are just of average pace and teachers (I think) thinks that some Gen-Sec students are unruly (which is kind of true).

Now why did I differentiate these types of classes? Why? So that you could easily understand the predicament of the Gen-Sec students.

Since there are these Honors and Semi-honors, some students actually don’t even study that hard now. They feel that whatever they do, they can’t be even in Semi so they slouch there and barely pass. My point? Some gen-sec students feel insecure of the Semi and Honors students since they feel that they are inferior to them. >_<

Also, there are many instances that we’ve felt that the school kind of recognize more the talent or potential of an Honor or Semi student rather than of the gen-sex students. You know what? There are many students from the gen-sec who have really high potential of many talents but are kind of not recognized because (maybe) the school focus more in the Honor and Semi-honor students.

Now, I am a fourth year and I’m still on the state where I need to choose my course and school. I’m actually kind of interested at ADMU. I heard that there would be a student orientation about ADMU and I was kind of excited and told myself that I would be attending it. Well, after some time I learned that only the Semi-honors and the Honors gets the privilege of being oriented. O.o of course I was dumbfounded of this one.

Why are they the only ones that were being oriented? Deep in my mind something tells me that maybe the time is so short or the venue is too small. Okay, I can handle that. But what I can’t handle is this is not the first time that this happened. Even last year, only the semi and honors were privileged enough to be oriented. O.o I think they can work on time and space if the people behind this orientation wants ALL the students too be oriented. Why? Are they afraid that Gen-sec students will give XUHS a bad name? >.<

There are so many things that I wanna write yet I don’t have the guts. I don’t want to say and conclude things which may affect the name of our school. >.<

The Story of my Essay

I was already five minutes late when I arrived in the LRC. Father Pen was just finishing his short speech for the participants. Yes, participants. This was the last league of the Essay Writing Contest sponsored by the school’s alumni. I sat in the side and listened to the last few words of Father Pen, “They don’t want to read what you think other’s thought, they want to know your own opinion”. With that, Father gave us the topic of what we should write. We will complete the phrase “I Believe…” I thought that it’s not really that hard especially if many ideas were already running through your mind. I approached Father Pen and he gave me my paper. I walked to the table where my classmate was sitting and sat across her.

We were given one and a half hours to write. As I sat down, I started to jot down my ideas. Some of which were “I believe that we should respect our parents” and “I believe that we should never forget our friends”. But as I wrote these, it did not satisfy me. I flipped my paper back and front to think of the best idea that could pop out of my mind. Then an idea came to me, “I believe that the school should remove calling the sections as Honors, Semi-honors and General Section”. I wrote this idea on the paper and thought hard if I would continue with this one or not.

One of the things that kind of made me think twice to write this one was the reason that Father Pen could be one of the judges. I think he will be insulted with these stuffs especially because he is the head of the high school department. However, a part of me told me to continue since Father Pen himself said “…they want to know your own opinion”. And that was how I started to write my essay that led me to win the second place of that essay writing contest.

If you’re thinking why that idea just came out of my mind, it was because I find naming the sections as semi-honors, honors and general section quite irrational. You see, in our school, when you belong in the honors class, your school mates may think that you’re the nerdy, bookish, weirdo type of person. When you’re in the semi-honors, other people may think that you are the cool, not-so-dumb-yet-not-so-intelligent type. However, when you’re in the general section (which MOST of the students belong here), some people (other students AND even some teachers) may think that you are unruly, not fit to be in the semi-honors and have a low chance of winning ‘some’ competitions.

As I wrote my essay, my thoughts drifted to my schoolmates who had so many potentials yet they were not that formed. Whenever there are interschool competitions, the people that were always sent were from Honors and sometimes from the honors class. These students were trained and sent to these competitions with their coaches. I find it unfair since every time there are interschool competitions, these same students are being sent to compete. How about those that are in the general section on which I can say are better than them?

When you label a section, that may also mean you label the students. As what I said, in each category (semi, honors and gensec) of sections, the students are perceived differently. And I know that all of us hates to be looked upon differently than who we really are.

To end, I still stand my ground about my opinion. I don’t know why I won the contest or whether or not they agreed with me. But what I am cared most was that they took time to read my essay and maybe, just maybe, this made them realize how some students think of the categories of sections. 

Complaining Much?

When was the last time did you heard in the news about people complaining to the new laws/rules that the government implemented? I bet never. Never because we people are very fond of complaining even to the littlest bit.

In my last quarter for the senior year in high school, the pressure is already high. Projects and requirements should be fulfilled and submitted. We need to make our term paper, produce our play and study for the quizzes and long tests for our subjects. so whenever any of our teacher would say that we’ll have an assignment, you’ll never fail to hear complain like “Ma’am, we already have many assignments” or “Sir, we’re tired already!”

Jus this morning, I realized that in the real world, the world beyond high school and college, complaining won’t do any good. If we already have a job, we can’t tell our boss that we won’t do the work because we’re already tired. Complaining in our job may cause us to be sacked. The pressure and the tiring works that I’m experiencing now (as well as my classmates) can prepare us for the more pressured-environment that we may encounter in the future.

Another thing, complaining won’t do help us move forward. Like the question that I asked a while ago, we always hear in the news people organizing rallies to stop or object the new set of rules that are implemented or suggested by our government or other governing body. This people will have lousy reasons like “We can’t afford it” or “This is just bad”.

Take the K-12 for example. Even if it’s not yet implemented, the people are already against it. They say that it’s just a waste of money and it will not do them any good. Not do them any good? Does that mean that quality education doesn’t make you any good? Does that mean that additional knowledge about things won’t do you anything good?

Some say that it’s money. I understand that some of the least fortunate are sometimes incapable of sending their children to school if there would be two more years. But when they think about it, a good education pays well. In the future, you can get the best job that you want! :D

Before we complain, we need to think about it. It’s not everyday that changes happen. Let’s give change a chance and stop complaining. 

The Teenagers and the Feeling Teenagers

I once saw in Tumblr a post about “People who act like teenagers”. It was a pie graph and it has three parts: teenagers, elder people who try to act like one and kids aged 11-13. The teenagers got the smallest share in the pie graph, next is elder people who try to act like one and the one that got the greatest part is the kids aged 11-13. I laughed inwardly with the result since I know that this is partly true. Teenagers nowadays are a bit childish and those who are only preteens can’t wait to become teenagers.

The grade school campus is just beside the high school campus. So obviously, the grade school students can enter our campus. When you’re in high school, make-up and gossip goes together, totally normal for a teenager. In case you can’t observe, many of the girls in high school already apply light make-ups. When the grade school student(especially girls) would go in our campus, they would be exposed to this new surrounding.

When I see many grade school students (girls) now, I can’t help but get annoyed by how they act. Some try to act as if they’re already teenagers. The way they behave and dress is totally teenager-ish. It’s like they can’t wait to be teenagers and can’t wait to do things that we (the teenagers) can do.

What makes me feel more annoyed about this one is that they can’t enjoy their childhood (or preteen hood). They’re so busy trying to be not they are. Being a teenager and behaving like one comes normally. It is not something that you just learn and acquire. If they just know how tiring (super tiring) being a teenager is, they may regret not enjoying their preteen hood.

Busy Days Ahead

Being a senior is really tiring. There are lots of things that you should accomplish. If you fail to accomplish these things, then you won't be able to graduate this MARCH!

• Term Paper- name me a senior who isn't tired of this one. Without your term paper, there's a little to no chance of graduating. So even though how tiring making this one is, we should just endure it. In the end, this will be for our greater good!
• Play- second biggest thing for our English subject (next to term paper). We have a play to make and a term paper to do, what do you think will this lead us to?! We're kind of pressured about this one since we already know that for the past few years, the play that the past Regis students made were all VIEWERS CHOICE! 
• Talumpati- or oration. We need to recite this one for our Filipino class. We will start NEXT WEEK. I'm assigned maybe this Thursday (or maybe Tuesday >.<). This is 20% of our class standing. 

these are just three of the things that we should do. and these are NOT just the three things that we will do for this quarter. we also have assignments, quizzes, long tests and the EXAMS!! >.<
and I prove it true that when you're in Fourth Year, the Eight-Hour Sleep that you were used to is not applicable! trust me :)