Blog 14: Uniform... not!

Going to school doesn’t really need to have uniforms. For one thing, it is costly. It just cost the students more expenses in their studies. Besides, to most of the parents, they say it had always been a burden to them, most especially to those who had nothing to pay for, the paying of uniforms every year. Even if people say why need new uniforms, the students can’t do constant with their figure, the uniform may be too fit, or loose. Another is that, its comfort. Talking about comfort is so confidential for the students while they study. Like, what if the uniform is long sleeves and the weather is hot and they are taking long exams? They can’t concentrate, right? What if the uniform is too short and that it’s cold? Don’t tell me they won’t go freezing! Next is that, wearing of uniforms have no connection to studies. Take for example, the University of the Philippines and its students. Why do the students get excellence when they graduate, even more than to those who are studying in private schools? If not satisfied, let’s base it on other countries. America; schools in America doesn’t actually use uniforms while at school. But why do they excel? Uniform has really no relevance to studies. It depends on the motivation and perseverance of the student. Isn’t it?

Blog 13: That Had Been So Much to Me!

Traumatic events come to life without choosing; time, people and the way of life each of us have. That was a sunny day, going to be a happy day indeed! I was with my sister and cousins that time, having been decided to have a picnic and go swimming in the river. From home, we traveled through the vines and bushes that keep our feet hurt. Those bushes always hit our feet that make us feel hurt all the time. Though we step on them, the thorns always kept up and made our feet wounded. As we were walking, we heard barks of dogs which frightened us all. We tried not to let the dogs feel we were scared so that they will not run after us. But my other cousin who wasn’t afraid always tried to bark like the dogs, so they ran after us! We did our best not for them to bite us and go swimming wounded. Good we arrived safe that we were so near the river already. But that wasn’t the river I was talking about we were to swim, that’s on the other side! It was so disappointing; that going to swimming plan turned out to an adventure! Well, I like adventures, but not with this one anymore! We have to go to the other side through a swinging, swaying, old hanging bridge! Man, I am acrophobic; I had no choice then! I have nothing to do than staying while seeing them happy splashing the cool waters but go. 1…2…3…steps were made; my life was like to end, like I was to fall on the river of giant crocs! My sister tried to pinch my ear for me not to collapse. That was really a dying adventure and I’m not going to do that again! That day had turned to become an adventurous and frightening day! I’ll find ways to go where I can walk on good roads, sleepy bushes and just a ‘straight ahead’ lane. I won’t go on swinging, swaying hanging bridges anymore, unless it’s one meter apart from the soil.

Blog 12: My Dreamed Vacation in White

I have one thing that’s been always in my mind after having settled in life; having a good job. Of course, so that I may have the money to make it happened. Having an ultimate dream vacation made into reality is a great accomplishment in the life of anybody. To me, my dream vacation is being with my family; my wife, mom and dad, and my sister, in the white beaches of Puerto Galera. I want to surf the waves from end to end with my wife clinging on me and after I want to have my wife on a date. I want that, whenever we fall, I want to laugh with her and help each other get back into surfing. Another is that, I wanted to have coconut juice with them all after doing all the surfs. I want to be replenished by the sweet taste of it to continue doing the others. Also, I wanted to sit with my parents and sister on a Jacuzzi reminiscing the past. I want it like remembering the past, how we were before and that by then, how long we have become. Another is that, I wanted to walk with my father on his brand new automatic-operated wheelchair through the white, fine sand. I want him, even though he can’t really walk with me, to see the real beauty of the outside world. I want him to be happy since he hasn’t been with his family on a vacation before. Also, I want to treat my mother with her favorite sea dishes. I want her to eat what she wants by that time, because I know, she’s been longing for delicious sea foods for years. I wanted to also have my sister a good drink. I like to have a wine of glass with her and sparing time talking while sitting on the sand, looking at the old sun. Lastly, before the day ends, I wanted to have a very delicious dinner with them all celebrating everything that’s been pursued all throughout our lives! Seeing through the night on the lighted white sand reflected by the lights all around and the cold breeze of the sea. 1…2…3… I want my dream vacation as delight as it can be!

Bolg 11: Me Amor

Seeing myself ten years from now, will I be having an ideal job, having helped my family and relatives, and have had pursued my goals. By then, for me to continue completing the rest of my life, it is my time to look for myself a good gift for the things I’ve done; a gift that’s forever, a gift that’s precious, a future wife of mine. I am a person who’s kind of a little complicated to understand, that’s why I have to look for a woman who can understand me whenever I am to be understood and that she won’t leave me in times of my incapability. I want a wife whom I can share my problems with, and even the secrets. Second, my future wife has to be loving and caring, not only to me as her husband but so to our future kids. She has to be good to my children like my mother did to us; supporting and taking the responsibility as a mother. I also wanted to taste the goodness of life, so my future wife has to be a good kisser. Of course, like what they say, whenever you kiss with someone and that you taste the feeling of heaven, he/she could be the one you’ve been waiting for. Anyway, it may be as good a kissing hundreds rather than kissing one whom you can’t love with all your heart. My future wife doesn’t need to be so gorgeous and beautiful. She may be has to be pretty outside, but I am looking forward of her to be having it inside as well. She has to be good to not for the all times, but should know how to handle things well with a good heart. Above all, my future wife has to be that someone whom I can taste, journey, and love with. That, I hope, she could be the one I’ve been searching for and that we’ll be together even until death do us part!

Blog 10: Before, Today and... Communication? (Point by point)

Outline:


1. Apology
Before: Sensitive
After: Inadequate

2. Values
Before: full of sense
After: senseless

3. Information
Before: concise
After: shortcut

4. Saying “I love you”
Before: not a text template
After: a text template


By the time communication technology has emerged, things made to be enacted were meant to be changed. Before, saying an apology is sensitive. Someone to apologize must be taking some efforts and by then he’s get more possibilities of being forgiven. Not like today, saying sorry seemed to be inadequate. People just usually say sorry through texts and chats which made people disrespect the value of apology. Speaking of values, before, values are full of sense. People really try to make values valuable and that they respect not only it but also the feelings of the people. But it’s different now; values are getting senseless. People are trying to get things through shortcuts and that sometimes, information disseminated is getting hard to understand. Another is that, information before is concise and accurate. People disseminate messages and information through efforts and sweat, and even with their dignity in it. But today, it has changed. People just send information and messages just by one click on their phones and keyboards. Above all, before, people say “I Love You” very sincerely; that they really approach the person they love and make them feel they are. But it has changed a lot. Today, people send those difficult-meant words as text templates and like the feelings not in there anymore. How sad it had been. Is it really meant to be like this? Or just people are getting too tired of showing and letting know they love? Or not…

Blog 10: Communication: Before and Today (One-side-at-a-time)

Outline:

Before:

1. Apology (sensitive; tact; compassionate)

2. Values (full of sense)

3. Information (concise)

4. I love you (not a text template)

Today:

1. Apology (inadequate)

2. Values (senseless)

3. Information (shortcut)

4. I love you (text template)

Nowadays, communication has been out from its real meaning. Before, saying an apology had been very sensitive, intact and compassionate. Someone to say an apology has to really meet the person whom he/she had sinned. There he/she explains more about the mistakes done and getting a greater possibility of being forgiven. Also, values and feelings are full of sense. When you say some things to someone, it’s very pleasing, more convincing and appealing. Another is that, information before is concise. It is accurate and that it is taken time to be delivered; by then, it is being understood more by most of the people since it is very detailed. Saying “I Love You” has never been easy. It takes time for a person to confess and say to the other whom his/her heart’s beating for that he/she’s in love. However, things have changed. Today, saying an apology is inadequate. Through texting, chatting and other means of communication technologies, saying sorry is done by just one click. Another is that, values have been senseless; well, maybe having sense but it’s just in the “office”. Everything that we wanted to say, do and express is all by shortcuts; even the spelling. Speaking of shortcuts, information is so. Nowadays, information is just very short that it makes the people’s thinking hanging. Lastly, saying the most important and difficult words has been easy. It’s sent, not relayed. And why in a world would someone put that on text templates?