Thursday, November 5, 2009

Month of August, Month of Filipino Language

Philippines is composed of 7, 107 islands and more or less five hundred tribes. Philippines is called the Pearl of the Orient Seas and because of the great number of tribes we have, there is always a difference in dialect. There’s Iloko, Cebuano, Chavacano, BatangeƱo and others. But however great the number of dialects in the Philippines, still, we understand each and everyone because of having a national language.

From Baler, Aurora, former President Manuel L. Quezon assigned the Filipino dialect as the national language. More than a century has passed since this act was made and was approved by our very own President Quezon. That’s why it is also of the same number of years of approving the Filipino Language month and the celebration itself which so happens during the eight month of the year, the month of August. Like the feasts, there are so many agendas to be done during the month of Philippine language. A few are games, singing and dancing contests, the only thing isn’t available at this celebration are foods. There are balagtasan, which is like a debate between to person, jingle, and paggawa at pagbigkas ng tula and sabayang pagbigkas (speech choir) and tagisan ng talino. These are only a few for us to remember and to the Filipinos the importance that our forefathers has given to our national language. Let us not only use Filipino language but also, let us love it whole – heartedly.

...An Angel To Me

It was the first morning, that month of June,
An angelic face, in front of us shone.
Lady of love was my first impression,
Soft – spoken lady who’ll bring salvation.

The way she teaches, I admire the most
Our lessons, she explains, like a good host.
Every detail, she tries to clarify,
Doesn’t want to leave us preoccupied.

She’s a teacher and also a mother.
She sees students as his sons and daughters.
She has more than what they call “empathy.”
A lady to some, an angel to me.

Her ways and her words no one can deny,
She is someone who will bring us up, high.
Our future is her only concern,
A hero of pride, to us will govern.

A Blast From the Past

I have learned a great many deal of things at school. I learned how to socialize with the others and do this and do that. For having stayed at Ilocos Sur National High School, I have learned so many things most importantly concerned with computer technology. Second grading has been fun for I learned how to make a HTML or Hypertext Markup Language to which will I be having a clue on improving my social page to make it more fascinating and attractive.

Though the lesson was quite fun, I had trouble with encoding, for the Notepad doesn’t have a spell checker which makes the work time – consuming for I have to read the whole text all over again just to see if there was an error. That was the only problem I encountered and I hope that Microsoft will release a new version of Notepad.

Having such problem, patience or temperance is the foremost thing that I needed and I am glad I have a good temperance. After all, it is such a delight to see your hard – worked project aside from the great deal of tags that you have to put every now and then.

This grading exceeded the number of school days it should only have but it’s a good thing for we have learned more than what we should know. I have good rating in this grading, I guess, but I should persevere and concentrate on the last two quarters to come. Good luck to me and to everyone!

From Rugs to Richest!!!

The world we are living in at the moment is in fact a modernized one. Modernization that will not only fulfill the wants of our luxurious lives, but also, will fulfill our daily needs to survive and sometimes, to indulge us.
For more than a decade, people of my age have witnessed a lot of things that already came and go. Things that were connected in everyone’s lives even for a short span of time that no one can explain the hows and what’s, but science. Mind – bugging queries that we have can now be possibly answered. Curiosity will no longer be an issue and the rise and fall of man can already be explained. Form rugs to richest, that is how I see science. From broughams to bicycles to buses to trains to planes. From mails to walkie talkies to faxes to emails to mobile phones. We cannot deny that we see these things every day, everywhere. Inventions and improvements have been made and the only things we have to do now is to adapt these changes, these diverse science cultures. Adapting to these cultures will not only be ring us out of ignorance but will also make a better place for us to live in. a place where everyone could dwell.
There are still many things to come and let us not forget the past that brought us to where we are now. Let us take science as a memento of how great GOD is for having given us the knowledge to do wonderful things.