Life as a Dancer

When I first entered the world of dance, the first question that came to my mind was: "Can I dance?"

With the long journey I have traveled in these world, I learned a lot of things. I have learned that technique is the greatest weapon you could ever use in dancing. Even though you don't exactly know the steps, you could look as if you do, if only you have that right technique. A technique is not easy to be developed. It always takes time to learn something. And so if you want to have technique.

I can honestly say that I am not a great dancer. Yes, I dance, but that doesn't mean I am great in it. Not all dancers are great dancers. Not all dancers look like dancers. Not all dancers act like dancers. And not all dancers have the heart of dancing.

As I walk into the rehearsal room this afternoon, I looked in the mirror and saw dancers. Some were very advanced, yet, some were still  not that good. As I observe them dance, I came to a great realization. A realization that struck me.

I realized that time is just a factor of how you could be a good dancer. That time is not all that is needed to be better.

I have been in this dance school since I was in kinder and if you count the years, you would know that it's almost 10 years since I started. I could still remember the recitals I went to and how great I felt when I was in them. But if I look into the videos of every recital I had, I would realize that I wasn't that good as how I felt. And now, I would always feel that as if I just wasted every Saturday of my life for the past 9 years I've been dancing. Instead of taking the opportunity to love dancing, I just wasted it. I didn't take dancing seriously, and now that I am serious, I can't make myself any better.

So that just proves that no matter how long you've been dancing, if you don't have your heart in it, you wouldn't do it. Dancing is like any profession, that if you don't know how to love it, you couldn't do a good job out of it.

Loving is always the first. Timing is just the second.


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Little Bad Boy

Dr. José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda is known as the Philippines' Pambansang Bayani. A well known person to Filipinos and to some nationalities who not only possessed one profession but almost all of them.  Jose Rizal is a very intelligent man who came from a wealthy family. He was able to go abroad to travel and study.

But of course, he also made himself comfortable in those places. He found comfort in some bars and with some friends. Studies show that Rizal made used some of his time having fun. There were also a lot of ladies that were connected to him. In which most of them were from the other countries.

Rizal also was a gambler. At times, he goes out with friends and gambles. But surely, he wouldn't have lost most of those games. Taking him as a very diligent and intelligent man.

But what Rizal has portrayed when he was in the other countries simply explains that he is just like any man, just like any Flipino. He too is just a normal guy playing his games. It shows that no matter how intelligent you are and how many good traits you have possessed, you can still do wrong things.

Rizal has the right to do those things. He just made himself happy. No matter how great and good he is, there is still a part of him that tells us that he isn't as clean as God.

What I love most about Rizal is that he always thinks of what is for the good of others. He doesn't prioritize himself, but rather, makes sure that others are safe and well. He made all the studies and all the hard work to help his family and to save his country.

He came back for the Philippines. He came for the independence of this country. He never forgot to look back, and that's what brought him to great heights. He brought all the knowledge he knew to the Philippines. He taught Filipino boys and girls. He taught them to be strong and inspired them to do what is right. He cured a lot of civilians. He helped contribute to the development of the lives of the Filipinos.  

He loved the Philippines so much that he fought for the independence of this country till his last breath. He truly is a hero.

As we remember him, we remember the love and wisdom he shared to us, to our country, and to the world too.


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Just Be Who You Are

Billy Elliot:

I have been looking for great old movies and this struck me. Actually, at first, I thought it was just a usual movie. But when I saw it's trailer I was really touched especially I'm a frustrated dancer. This movie is entitled "Billy Elloit". Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes! Setting aside the mining strike with his father and brother involving in it, he follows his heart instead of his responsibilities. When his family knew about this, he gets into big trouble. But he has enough determination and courage to fight for what he knows must be. With the guidance and support of his teacher, he was able to withstand the challenges he faced for his dream.

Although it has a lot of unpolished dance routines, Billy Elliot is about family relationships and dreams, not really about dancing. It is about how a father gives in to necessary sacrfices in order to bring back the bond that he has with his son, and about how a young boy, who unexpectedly dreams of being a ballerina and who is determined to pursue that dream.

The best thing about this movie is that there are a lot of values in it. It reminds us of the value of loving, determination, and honesty.

Sometimes, it's really hard to be you. Especially now adays, you really have to belong. Teenagers are really looking for belongingness. Belongingness somewhat brings them confidence. Being unique is far apart from being themselves, as if they aren't alive if they aren't in.

Is that supposed to be? I don't think so... no matter what they'll say, we must still do what we think is necessary, appropriate and proper.


Being the real you won't cause you anything, because if the people around you accepts you with love and accepts you as who you are then they'll be proud of who you are and who you've come to be.

In return, we must show them that we deserve the price of love they have offered to us.

Watch it, and you'll surely be inspired and you'll see how a boy and his dream changed the world around him.


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SLU: From Small Beginnings Comes a Great University

Saint Louis University was not Saint Louis University before. Actually, it was just a small room. A small room that allows the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae missionaries to inform and to share their charisma and their missionary vision to the young Filipino men and women.

Mandated by the Vatican to Christianize the northern part of the Phillipines, the CICM missionaries decided to come in the country and to follow the Vatican's order. They arrived here in the Philippines by the year 1907 and settled in Baguio because of its proximity to both Manila and the mountain province of Benguet beyond the Cordillera mountain range, that was home to numerous indigenous tribes. But only in 1911 did Fr. Séraphin Devesse started a one-room elementary school for 10 Cordilleran boys and named it the Saint Louis School . And in 1915, St. Louis school has expanded by opening it's second branch and improved into a vocational and trade school. In 1952, the school came to a new light through the rise of the institution of Saint Louis College having 75 students enrolled. This was part of the efforts made by Fr. Rafael Desmedt and Bishop William Brasseur. Saint Louis College soon became Saint Louis University in 1963.

Saint Louis University was not the only school built by these CICM missionaries. They also run the Saint Louis School of Mandaue, Saint Mary's University in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Saint Louis College in San Fernando, La Union, and the Saint Louis College in Tuguegarao, in the Cagayan valley, thus covering a major part of Northern Luzon with outstanding educational institutions.

Through a century of outstanding service of quality education, the Saint Louis University has produced more than a thousand impressive fruits who brought major developments to Baguio up to the mountain ranges of the provinces of Benguet.

The continuous growth and development of the institution was made through the guidance of the following Rectors or Presidents:

1952-1954 Gerard Decaestecker

1954-1962 Albert Van Overbeke

1962-1964 Gerard Linssen

1964-1976 Paul Zwaenepoel

1976-1983 Ghisleen De Vos

1983-1996 Joseph Van den Daelen

1996–2005 Paul Van Parijs

2005–present Jessie M. Hechanova 

Now, SLU not only offers secondary education such as Elementary and High School but now has nine colleges offering graduate and undergraduate programs . The different Colleges are now known as Schools which was just effective on June 2010. The campus is divided into 3 major groups:

1. Saint Louis University- Laboratory Elementary School

A school that offers quality education for children entering Kindergarten up to Grade 6.

 

2. Saint Louis University- Laboratory High School

A school that offers quality education for those teenagers who graduated from Elementary and enters the second level of their education. The school aims to produce children who will be ready to face the reality of life and to prepare the students for their college degrees after they graduate.

 

3. Saint Louis University

A school that offers quality education through major subjects. The school aims to guide its students to the direction they have to take for their future. Major colleges that it offers are:

• School of Accountancy and Business Management - SABM
  (College of Accountancy and Commerce)
• School of Computing and Information Sciences - SCIS
  (College of Information and Computing Sciences)
• School of Engineering and Architecture - SEA
  (College of Engineering and Architecture)
• School of Humanities - SoH
  (College of Human Sciences)
• School of Law - SoL
  (College of Law)
• School of Medicine - SoM
  (College of Medicine)
• School of Natural Sciences - SNS
  (College of Natural Sciences)
• School of Nursing - SoN
  (College of Nursing)
• School of Teacher Education - STE
  (College of Education)
  

SLU also brought its name to good glory through the competitions the students participate on. Many competitions outside the school are joined by different students. They simply show that Louisians also have great potentials, talent, and intelligence that is used to make SLU and Baguio proud.

SLU has developed in all its aspects. From small beginnings, now here comes our great and mighty...SLU!

 

 

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There's No Place Like HOME - No Place Like SLU-LHS

Have you ever found the right place for you? Where you feel comfortable? Where you find happiness? And where you find content? Just exactly like a happy home? Well, I just did.

You know, when I was in my pre-school years, I really fear to go to school. My mom had to bring me right before my classroom two hours before my class starts. Especially, in the first day. Even if its still dark outside and nobody can be seen walking around, we have to be there. She is a teacher. So during those times, she mostly have classes that start before or exactly the time I also start my class. So she needs probably an hour to use just trying to convince me to go and enter my class then she has to give me sometime to stop crying so that I would not look stupid in class. So when I'm finally convinced and am ready to go to class, she would bring me to my teacher and talk to her about something and then she would let go of my hand. And that's when I start to cry again. But she only uses sometime to make me stop crying. Not as long as the first one. But its good to know that this attitude of mine gradually decreases through the years.

So, you'd probably think I hate school, huh? Well, I don't. I go home with a happy smile in my face and a lot of stories to tell about how wonderful my day was.

Now, as I am in High School, I learned to love more my lifestyle. That is because my lifestyle includes going to school.

My school serves as my second home. It has even my second family on it. How could that not be possible if I am in school for almost 10 hours a day in 5 days a week in 10 months. It really eats up more than half of the time I have. I do most of my stuffs that are connected to school. But I don't forget my responsibilities at home. My family is always my priority. That's the main reason why I go to school. I aim to attain a good life for them.

Saint Louis University-Laboratory High School has given me many many advantages that I can use for my life. It feeds me up with the knowledge I need to have. It embraces me with all the values I need to enhance. And it carves my way to my own future. My school is simply not like any other schools. It is an extraordinary transformative school that I have ever wanted.

Every faculty, every staff, and every student is a teacher to me. They play a part in teaching me different aspects for living. For every incident that I encounter in school, I always gain new values to live up. For every occasion that occurs in school, I learn to value every single day of my life. For every success I achieve, I always tap myself with humility. And for every failure I had, I build up the strength and courage I have.

My school is certainly like a home. It gives me comfort, knowing that my friends, the people who I can lean one are in there. It gives me guidance, knowing that my teachers would always act like a parent to his/her students. It gives me support, knowing that they will always believe in what I can do. And it gives me love, knowing that every student is valuable to the school.

Whatever you say or do, you can never change the fact that SLU-LHS is certainly a home, a school that gives you the commons of a home.

SLU LHS is my school, my home. The place where my world evolves. :)

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To SLU: Happy Centennial! From: Me

Saint Louis University is now one of the country’s most valued and respected school. It is one of the leading institutions not only here in Baguio City but all around the Philippines. SLU is regarded as the “Light of the North” because it has played a very important role in the development of not only the Cordilleran region but of its surrounding towns and provinces too. It just started from small beginnings but now, it is a very large university. Literally, it has more or less 20,000 students in its campus. It has gradually increased in population of students and faculties as it continually attracts students and scholars from different places nationwide and around the globe through its excellent reputation of education. 

 

It is with great pride that I am included in this institution. It is an important part of me as a growing Louisian. It served as my backbone through out the years. It is just right that I value and celebrate the upcoming SLU Centennial.

 

Yes, that’s right; SLU will soon celebrate its Centennial. It will surely be a historical celebration in the history of SLU. 

 

SLU Centennial will be celebrated in a year. This is termed as the Centennial Year. It will commerce on December 2010 and lasting up to December 2011. Many activities were already planned by the faculties and staff of SLU. Many preparations had been made and is continually being made. Just recently, the school’s president, Fr. Jessie Hechanova, started the countdown to the day that will start the Centennial Year. 

 

The SLU Centennial is an important event in the lives of the students. I, as a student can’t honestly do much for it. Probably, only by celebrating it is the best thing I can do. 

 

But by this simple blog, I want to show my great gratitude and respect to SLU. And to it’s upcoming Centennial. I want that the whole world would know how my school grew and is growing through the power of the Lousians and the trust they offer to the school, that through these things, Saint Louis University would be a stronger institution. I want them to know that through SLU, we, the Lousians, would be able to change the world. 

 

For the past one-hundred years, SLU brought out approximately about a thousand products of its valued education who is now, at present, some of the people who develops and improves the status of the world we live in. The school continually offers valued education to its students. SLU aims to develop students as well as faculty and staff imbued with the institution's core values of competence, creativity, social involvement and Christian spirit.

See how wonderful SLU is? 

 

I bet, that that is just the start of the development of SLU. There would be a lot more of improvements that could happen. 

 

We know that SLU's Centennial would signal a new start for developments. Every part of the world would certainly know about my school, SLU. There would be a lot more of Centennials to come. SLU would never just die out because they know that they are important to the lives of the Filipinos. 

 

Though SLU is not as popularly known as Ateneo, De la Salle, or The University of the Philippines , I still can't see no difference in any of these schools (except, of course, of the value of the tuition fee). As so you know, they all offer quality education and a good reputation for its students. So if you ever think that SLU is worse than any of the other schools, then you are wrong... It's not just because it is my school, but that is how I see it. I'm sure, if you try to enter my school, you'd probably understand me and agree with me too. 

 

I am very proud to say that my school has reached a hundred years and has stayed strong all through out. This just shows how SLU has grown so much. And would still move on with the future with greater aims and higher heights.

Congratulations to SLU on its Centennial! 

 

We believe in SLU, AND SO WILL YOU.

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Future Technology: a bit of Human

Can you imagine your cellphone already talking to you? Which will be telling you what choice is which. Helping you out on your everyday living. More like your own best friend. Maybe it even has a better intelligence than you do.  That's how it is in the future.  Believe it or not. 

 

 Let's see how Fabian Hemmert suggests this possibility to happen.

 

 This talk about what the future holds for our technology opens our eyes to the possibilities that technology would soon be equivalent to humanism. As what was demonstrated by Fabian Hemmert in his talk, he demonstrates the possible living mobile phone. A living phone which adopts, moves, and feels. More like a human, huh? He based this “future living phone” from us, humans. He thinks of what advancements can be further made based on what we already have. He mixed the physicality of humans with digitality of mobiles and made it as a tool to find what is in the future of mobile phones...

 

 Fabian Hemmert talked about 3 possible options of what is next to touch phones and wii's with it's need of physical presence of a person for it to work.

 

 First, he finds the need of mass. The “weight-shifting mobile”. It is a mobile that uses gravity as a very important tool. It tells where a certain object is just by its gravity. It could be best used for navigation. It can lead you to where you want to go even only by touching it while carrying it. By its weight-shifting feature, you can identify on which direction you must go. It uses weight for you to identify where your center is and where you are. Where the mass is more likely to be heavier, is the indication that it is there, whatever it must have to be, it is there. Surely, you'll always find that phone as handy as could ever be. And that is all because of mass...

 

 Second, he looks for the thickness and thinness of its shape. And now shows a “shape-changing mobile”. It has the ability to adjust to what size or position you want it to be. It adjusts to the space it is inquired to take and takes the position of your hand as a guide to what position it must take. Where it is thicker, there is more content. What is best about this phone is that it can expand in all directions that makes it as useful as possible. It's adoptation to its environment and to its content makes it more amazing to have. You don't have to find a comfortable and accesible way just to enjoy the features of this phone because it will personally make that job for you. It offers you full quality time and a comfortable chance to enjoy having your mobile phone on hand.

 

 Third, he likes an intuitive kind. And there is the ”living mobile phone”. A phone that practically acts like a human. And has a heart and could breath. Not really so literally, but you could see its figure, moving and breathing as if it is really organic or some kind. You could imagine having it, from being relaxed and then getting excited, and when it is patted in its back, it would then be back to normal. Imagine having it like a pet of yours. A pet that gets excited when sees something that amazes it and would be calmed by its owner by patting it. It's like you can always know that that person is alive seeing him/her moving and breathing. That is the main purpose of this mobile phone. You don't have to look at it and check it just to know if it is still with you or if you received a phone call or a text message. By simply feeling it movement, you can easily identify what is happening or if there is happening in your mobile phone.

 

 So you see, this is how our future will become. Technology as more human. A good way for digital to be graspable to humans, by being like humans. You see, development of such creations can be useful to us. Hopefully, it wouldn't be a reason for humans to change their way of living from positive to negative. Let's use these technologies in the right way.

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Hungry Much?

Since I was young, I have these foods I kept craving for. I really liked them even though I don't get to eat them as much as I wanted to. But I think that that is better, at least I don't get bored eating my favorite food again and again until time comes that I don't like them anymore. Since they are my favorites, I prefer having them for me as gifts or rather having them only on special occasions. I don't want to grew tired of them and just find another set of favorite foods...Oh, that's awful.

Anyways, here below is the list of my top 6 favorite foods of all-time. I swear. I can remember craving for these foods when I was still little. And how dirty and fat I looked in the pictures because of my eagerness to eat these foods.

Okay, here we go:

1. 
   
   

   

   my first love :D

   1. Belgian chocolates
    Whoever would tell me that he/she hated chocolates, I'll hate him/her. Because that is obviously not true. No matter what you do, there is still that part of yourself that you would get to love chocolates. The sweetness and the softness of the product would not only turn you from wild to calm but will also turn your world upside down.
    The best chocolates that I ever tasted were those from Belgium. My dad once went there and came back home with a lot of these chocolates. I miss them so much. Seeing it in pictures right now reminds me of how mouth-watering these chocolates were.
   
   
   
   

2. Strawberry Refrigerator Cake

  Well maybe, this kind of food is not that common to you. But you know it is really one of the greatest things I wanted ever to eat. My mom is fond of making cakes, cookies and recipes. She makes me one whenever I had my birthdays before...Oh! How damn I miss those days. I don't get to have them now because of too many more important things to do. So i just get to eat them only during long-time vacations...

3. Lansones and Pear 

3. Oh yeah, these are damn healthy and yummy. I loved these fruits. Whenever I wanted to eat these fruits, I can never go to sleep and simply forget how I crave for them. Even in my dreams, I could see myself eating these fruits. This causes me to feel hungrier rather forgetting about it. So it is better to not sleep unless I eat even just a part of the fruit.
    There was even one time when my friend gave me a kilo of lansones and a pack of pear with a letter that read: “SHARING as a virtue”. He even emphasized sharing. He knew at that time that I would keep it only to myself because, obviously, they were my favorite fruits. And he was totally right, I ate them all. How guilty did I feel afterwards... 
   
   
   
   
    4. Kare-Kare

  This is a major major recipe that I have always wanted. This is a special recipe in the Philippines. And it makes me feel proud knowing that this came from my country. I like that this recipe is filled with a lot of vegetables and is best eaten with alamang[yeah]. Even just by smelling its delicious fragrance makes it more appetizing. It seems as if you are already tasting it. Oh, I can imagine it again. My stomach's growling now...

 

 

 5. Shabu-Shabu and Sushi

  Ooh! I love these foods so much. 

 

 

I know most people, like my sister, thinks that Korean, Japanese and Chinese foods are disgusting. But excuse me, these are really amazing foods. They taste kinda weird but is very delicious. It is also healthy since most of their ingredients are vegetables.

  The best part that I like most when eating shabu-shabu is the part where I just get and get and get food from the pan and immediately putting them into my mouth. It tastes good. You can really taste the flavor of every ingredient. I always enjoy eating them. We just ate some of these just recently and in just some matter of days, I gained a pound... Great right? 

 

6. Fresh Lumpia

 Fresh Lumpia is the best lunch I could ever have. Even without any rice, this food is very accessible to eat. I always ask my mom to cook these recipe in special family-get-togethers in our compound. It is not only me that likes very much fresh lumpia but most of my cousin too. Maybe it runs in the blood.
 Simply seeing those vegetables popping out of the wrapper makes me feel that  it is calling for me to it them.
 I don't remember myself ever having hated this food. EVER...

  I promised myself that someday, somewhere, somehow, I would make sure that I get to eat more of these. And crave for it till I die. No matter how fat I'll be in that time...? I don't think so I can do that. I suddenly though that food is just one of the greatest thing in life and it is not life itself. I'll still eat more of them but not too much, Diabetes now adays is dangerous to oneself.

  These are only my top 6, there are much much more.

  So there you go, my favorite foods... Ta-da!

 

sources: 

http://www.picknmixsweetshop.com/guylian-finest-belgian-chocolate-sea-shells----250g-673-p.asp

http://www.figis.com/images/products/large/113227_lg.jpg

http://kemalandsheila.com/2010/08/no-bake-strawberry-refrigerator-cake/

http://www.pbase.com/image/33274412

http://checkitoutavesta.blogspot.com/2008/09/brie-with-caramel-pecan-pear-sauce.html

http://forum.philboxing.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=138738&start=75&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

http://www.japan-i.jp/food/sukiyakishabushabu/

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It's High School, Deal with It

 High School… Adolescence… Teenage Love… Those are probably all familiar to you. These are all interconnected to each other. Whether you agree with me or not, that wouldn’t change. High School is the best and worst part of a person’s life. And surely, everybody would go into this process. 

 

  Actually, I really don’t like this part of my life. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s just because of my own experience. Relationships aren’t in my vocabulary, really. But no matter what I do, I can’t just say that I haven’t been in one. Yes, I’m honest. Oh... Yes, I am.

 

  How about you? Do you have any idea about sexuality? Do you like the sense that you must be aware of it? In that age? I don’t think so you must. But you do, right? In our generation nowadays, its just right for a teenager, probably even an elementary student, to be aware of these things. Well, sexuality not only refers to the pleasure and infatuation one feels when he or she meets a person of the opposite sex. Sexuality is always inside us. It only differs in each person. And that’s what makes each one of us feel that burn inside us. 

 

 Teenage love is what everyone in high school experiences. That’s why high school is the best place for emo’s and lovers...you can say that. Here, there, in front, at the back, upstairs, downstairs, seems like everywhere… you would even grew tired seeing those teenage lovers who seem to be so sure ‘bout themselves and like forever will hold them both. Well, yeah, it’s out of my business. I’m just saying… just saying.  And that's just my opinion...

 

 As what was said in the seminar, these relationships seem to start from common point and ends up mostly in just the same end point. Starting from “friends” and would either end up with “marriage” or “heartbreak”. Okay, so what leads to marriage or heartbreaks huh? Well, of course, it starts with a little friendship, and then comes infatuation, and slowly getting to love... and boom, there it goes. You could choose, marry or break-up. But marriage is still too early for you… too bad, your gonna end up with heart breaks...right? 

 

 Okay. So enough with those stuffs. Pregnancy immediately came to my mind. I’m kind of afraid of that. Especially seeing the video of giving birth during the seminar makes me really freak out! Wooh! I have seen a lot of women who gave birth to their tiny winy look alikes. And felt the love that surrounds them both. But maybe the thing about me being afraid is not really the fear but it is just the status of my self. That I still am not ready for those things. That I don’t want to experience that at this very early stage of my life. That moment isn’t yet mine to have. And that is influenced and affected by what happened to my sister… Do you want to know about it? I bet you won’t, or you will, or you won’t, or you might… no, I you wouldn’t. 

 

 Okay, I’ll just won’t. Probably, you are good in guessing. I’ll leave you with that. I can’t take the risk of sacrificing the name of my sister and her life just for this blog, you know. 

 

 The thing is: why do something that you know what consequences you can have? You must know when and where is the right time and place to do such an act... please... keep your zippers shut... I am sure that there is quite the exact moment it can be applied, and that moment is far, far in the future. Juts wait for it. 

 

 Anyways, the seminar made things clear for me. And that’s what matters most. I don’t remember much of the seminar discussions… I easily get bored. And in that case, boredom really threw me up. At least, most of it’s lessons came to my mind. I would really apply them.

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10-point agenda of Pres. Aquino-good or bad?

 Pres. Aquino's 10-point agenda is a subject to be talked on town. Especially on the changes to be made on the 10 year basic education. Probably, Filipinos would think that this is a major major problem to them. Thinking that 10 years of basic education is a burden to Filipino parents, especially if they are not in a good state of life, then what more can two more years of education bring, right? But this is even more striking to Filipino students. They are already exhausted in 10 years of basic education, so, adding two more years, probably, would just be a reason for some to drop out of school. They would just be so tired and would give up.. probably..

 On my view as a student, I would think that this is even worst than eating raw horse meat. I don't want to go to school for 2 more years. That's crap! I wanted to learn, that's true, but its too much burden, pressure and stress in high school. Thank God that I still can manage them by now. But for 2 more years? I don't think so.. And, I am already excited to go to college. If you'll be having a survey, I'm quite sure that majority would agree with me.

  But that is looking in the bad part. If we look into the bright side, there is even better than what I have been exaggerating earlier. Well, technically, this would just be applied on students. But if we come to think of it, it is also for the benefit of not only the students but also of our country in the future.

 By now, you could see our country going down. This is actually one of the steps that should be made and applied in the country.

 Only the Philippines together with Somalia is having the 10 years of basic education and all the other parts of the world is using 12 years of basic education. Looking at these countries, they both have not that good economical status. And that's not good. Having the 12 years of basic education as a medium in the Philippines is a step ahead. Just so you know, others who are now finding jobs in the other countries after graduating here in the Philippines are having a hard time being employed in their chosen professions. Why? Well, mostly it is because they are questioned why at the age of 20 that they already have graduated college. These Filipinos are actually told to repeat their college degree thinking that they are undergrads and have less education than those of them there. So thinking about that, it is still better to have 12 year basic education here in the Philippines, don't you think?

  Of course, that's not just the topic of the 10-point agenda of Pres. Aquino. All the others are very agreeable ones.  We could see that by this agenda Pres. Aquino truly cares for the future of the country. That just great! This make us look at a bright future ahead of us. As we believe, Great education leads to great progress. I hope it would just be used in the right way.

How about you? What do you think about it?


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Me Here

Hello dear visitor! Well, you might want to get to know me first.

Well, where do I start? I'm really not the typical kind of blogger, you know.  Neither am I a writer. So probably by now your wondering on how the heck did blogging came to me. Actually, talking is my greatest fear ever. I never wanted to talk in public. In class, I don't recite that well.

Probably, looking at me right now blogging, is the worst view you'll ever see. But you know, I'd like to experience this. It's a part of me that's kind of mysterious. I don't know why I like it, its just how I felt, I guess. 'Cause honestly speaking, I kinda like to break out of the shell of shyness and make through the world of brightness. I have ideas, and I just have too find a way to express it. And that's how I came to like 'Blogging'.

It's a good start for me to understand myself, to express myself to others, and to turn that fear into a talent. Through blogging, I would get the chance to understand myself so that others would understand me too. Through blogging I would have the chance to dig up those ideas stored deep inside me.  And through blogging, That fear would be changed into a talent that no one would ever thought, including me. I know blogging is a great thing, and that's the reason why I ever wanted to try it. I have never done blogging before, till now.

The world around us is revolving, changing, and developing. What my blogs would contain is about what revolves in the world, what changes are happening, and what developments do we have and will have. And not only that, of course, my blogs would have to revolve about who I am. It would also have to change, because practically, I mustn't stay on just one subject, that would be boring. It would also have to develop, because as what I said, I am just beginning, I know that when time comes, I'll be a much more better person-probably, a writer too.

I'll be honored if you'll be interested to read some of my blogs. And if you'll join me in my journey through blogging, I'll be much much more grateful to you.

This is just the start. There would be much much more.
Have a nice day! May God bless you! :)


Me Here by Monica Flores is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.