REFLECTION

This grading period I learned a lot in using more html tags, thanks to those Exers that were given to us that trained us.

This grading period was way much challenging than the past grading. Making your own web was a great experience and challenge to me. I never thought that they will give me the responsibility in making our web design, which is our project. So I pursued to finish and make it beautiful.

I made research for more tags in the internet. I asked my friends who knows something about this. I put lots of effort in making our project because it was my punishment for not helping in the hardcopy. And I survived I finished it and I am glad that I have applied what I have learned.

          Upon making a web design I find enjoying and I think it will be my next hobby. It is very challenging to make a web which is cool, awesome, beautiful, and satisfying. Moving on I hope that our last grading would be more challenging and learn more about web designing.

NEW YEAR! NEW ME!

Year 2011 was a history lots of things happened. Happiness that I thought i will never lose, problems that I thought it will never end, friends which I trusted because they do trust me, failures which I will never forget and met a special person that I will never give a chance to lose her. Yes, it was a year full of unplayable experienced and lessons in life that I can apply to a new year which just started by.

It’s 2012 a year they call disaster, a year dated to be the end of the world. But for me who do believes that the destiny of our end depends on what we do to our society. What we need is a change and I’m going to start with myself this year I will be a model of good discipline to my fellow youth. I’ll try to do my best to help in the conservation of our mother nature. Instead of wasting my time playing with my gadgets I will join a group of students who go out hiking to plant trees to help in stopping global warming. Yes, I will be that person this year.

2011 taught me something that I’ll never forget, let’s start with studies last year I have been so playful in my studies so boastful that my extracurricular activities would give me high grades but it didn’t instead it pulled my grades down now I know that I should balance my AKA and EKA.

Failures which I made last year made me stronger, it taught me to be tough and fearless in facing those challenges that will come ahead. Yes, this is the new me.

Keeping in Mind Our Mother Tongue

          Dialect is an identity of brotherhood of different cultures.  For me I was taught of speaking with our native language ILOCO. And I am proud to use it though sometimes I always use English or Filipino in communicating with other people to train myself for the future. I dream of becoming a lawyer someday and attached to it is that I can only use two languages to defend my case which is English and Filipino. But still bear in mind I am an Ilocano born to speak with my own mother tongue which was trained by my society.

          To use our own dialect is announcing that we are proud of we are proud of who we are. Let us all use our mother tongue for building better community, because for real if we communicate with others using another dialect when and there is a lack of information to the about that dialect you are using can irritate them and will create a misunderstanding. And probably it will create a fight against to people who were born with the same culture because of a dialect.

          So I conclude that we should  always be reminded that it is better for us to use our mother tongue when we are to speak with others in the same culture.

TRUE CHRISTMAS

Once a year we are celebrating this very special day. A when our lord Jesus Christ was born in a stable, surrounded by animals in Bethlehem. Christians and non-Christians celebrate Christmas as a major festival and public holiday in countries around the world. Others celebrate Christmas with gift-giving, decorating there Christmas trees and also caroling which is very much doing by children.

Christmas is not for one day only. Every day is Christmas if we practice giving, loving and peace. Our heart wrapped by darkness learns how to forgive our enemies no matter how bad they are.

 Children are excited to receive their Christmas presents, but most important is let us be a role model to them, and explain the true essence of Christmas as a good time for forgiving those persons who left a scar on our hearts, time for being charitable to those persons who are helpless, and a pleasant time to have a strong bond with our loved once.

NOW IS THE TIME

“Climate change impacts affects water availability, water demand, water quality, storm water and waste water infrastructure, flood and coastal storm infrastructure, wild lands fires, ecosystem functioning, coastal zone functioning, navigation, and energy production and demand.” In short if we will not make a move, calamities will continue to destroy our homes and natural resources.

If we are going to realize why don’t we response to these life treating climate change. And to give me an idea on how to response to this climate change I have asked some persons on how they are going to response to it.

“One of the characteristics of living organism is the ability to adapt to their environment. We can adapt to climate change by doing sort of things. To sum it up, we can “think and do green” one of the best things we can do is to plant trees. These absorb co2 from the atmosphere which will prevent global warming. We should lessen the use of plastics for they have very destructive effect. We should stop burning waste and practice 3r. We should also have compos pit so well have organic fertilizers. We can do a lot with less effort. What we should have is discipline and cooperation.”

-       Sir Ricky

“Well, as a professional and advocate of student’s dev’t, climate change really affects us. It might be neither direct nor indirect; the responsibility is on our hands. Remember the 7 principles of nature, we, human were given the responsibility to work for everyone’s welfare specially the lower form of organism plus our environment. As indicated, let us work hand on hand to educate the youngster. Now is the time!”

-        Sir Jeff

See my friend; let us make our move now for a better tomorrow. Let us discipline ourselves and cooperate, let’s be resourceful in many ways to reduce the growing number of waste. Let’s know our responsibilities and work for it. NOW IS THE TIME FELLOW EARTHLINGS, wake up and be true to yourself.

CHEMERGY THE LANGUAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

            One of the most hated and hardest subjects in both high school and college is Chemistry and it has proven itself to be more difficult with each one’s advancement in the academic ladder. It has dumbfounded even the brightest minds I’ve come to personally know, and it possesses to some extent this shroud of mystery which no one seems able or at least interested to crack.

            One possible reason why many people cannot understand the basic of chemistry is the fact that this field of knowledge uses almost different language. Math uses numbers, English and Filipino uses letters and numbers, but Chemistry uses an inexplicable mixture of these, woven into complex patterns almost to the point of irrationality. But in reality, Chemistry is not to be feared; sometimes it only depends on the teacher, or instructor or professor to enjoy this subject. If he/she put his all in teaching the basics of Chemistry-especially the hard ones, no doubt you’ll learn to love this subject. But falling in love with Chemistry is no easy thing. It takes determination and real ardent desire to learn. Admit it, not everybody can love Chemistry as it is. So what now? Are we just to resort back to the old attitude towards chemistry? Of course not.

            What we need is to incorporate it with something enjoyed by people at a stage when their minds are very flexible, malleable, and ductile. This stage I’m talking about is childhood. And what is that activities do kids like more than being with each other? So there we have it: a harmony between chemistry and science clubbing among kids or simply called Chemergy. By Synergy, it is meant that together, chemistry and science clubbing can do something that they cannot do when separated. And this something is changing the world. But how? Chemistry is one field in science that’s very use in almost all fields of development. We need a thorough understanding of Chemistry if we are to make significant advancements in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Biology, Medicine, Forestry, Environmental Conservation, and a host of other activities. Chemistry is the language of our development.

            And what other time to start inculcating love for chemistry than during the early learning years of man? Thus the compatibility of science clubbing and Chemistry, while having fun, kids can learn the wonders of this field. And while learning, they can be paving the way for better advancements and a brighter future.

MY TEACHER, MY HERO

                  He teaches well, he can change the negative attitude of a student.  He was able to touch the life of his student, this are the skills a teacher does possess to be considered a hero.

     I have seen this skill of a teacher of ours today but soon will be retiring.  He is known as a terror one, but for real he is not really that terror.  He's just strict, strict enough for his student to respect and listen to him.  He is a funny guy, you can learn a lot from him, foolishness and good things.

     If you have a problem you cannot open to others.  You can always run to him, he is a good listener and a good adviser.  To prove it you can always come here at Ilocos Sur National High School.  In his more than 30 years in service, he has touched not 10 or 15 lives but almost a million lives of his students.  He also met a student using drugs and he has courage to talk to this student without forcing and he was able to straighten this road of his student. See how powerful he is?

     According to my experience, there was a time during our duty as a CAT officer, during a program there were lots of male students who were hard headed. And we cannot drove them away to go to their lines, then this teacher came when he was still walking maybe 10m away from those hard headed students. They rushed moving/going to their lines just seeing the posture of this teacher. See how powerful he is?

     Now tell me is this teacher not considered a hero?