One of the problems in women is that there are times that they are so sensitive and there are also times that they are so insensitive. They are sensitive because they cannot handle a joke well. They easily get offended because they take the joke seriously. They are also insensitive because, when there is something that you want to say and you cannot say it, and the only way for that something to be noticed is through actions, they cannot easily get what you mean through your actions. What is worse is that sometimes, they misinterpret what you say or do.
Another thing that I consider a problem with women is that they are so dramatic. As observed, when there are quarrels, quarrels that end easily are quarrels among boys (the boys do not like to quarrel among ourselves in the first place). The long quarrels are always quarrels between girls, or any quarrel where one or more of the parties involved are girls.
The problem with men, also, as for me, is being hot tempered. I do not know what really causes me to be hot tempered. Sometimes also, we are insensitive to the feelings of others.
Unlike girls, boys seldom cry. Crying does not mean weakness. it is the way of letting feelings out. This, I consider, is a problem with most of us men. We tend to keep feelings to ourselves. We keep emotions that should not be kept supposedly. Maybe, this is because of our pride. This also is one thing that is a problem to some boys.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Love Is An Act of Will
Sometimes, when we talk about love, we easily associate it with the heart. For some people, for them, heart is the most special part of the body because it enables them to feel different kinds of emotions. People think that the heart can feel the emotions they have but according to scientific researches, heart is not the organ that can feel these kinds of emotions. The word “heart,” is always used in conversations about love like; “take care of my heart,” “my heart belongs to you,” and etc, but is love really the act of the heart?
When you love a person, you always want to be with her and you will do your very best to spend quality time with her. For us students, we try to fit in to our busy schedule the time that should be spent with the people we love. We want to be with the person because we love them. We want to do things that make the people we love happy. So, therefore, I can say that love is an act of will.
Love is an act of will because love is something you want and this is our will that we do these things for love. Let us take this example of a guy courting a girl. He courts the girl he loves because he loves her. You are willing to get hurt when you love someone. You are willing to do this, do that, in the name of love. You are willing to work hard for your family because it is your will to make them happy and give them a better life. When you are loving someone, your will is to make that person happy. Like the song with the lyrics-“I will do anything for love.” The word “will” there signifies that love is an act of will. It means that we want to do these things for love, wether it is right or wrong, wether it is easy or not, what we know is that we are loving and when we love, we try to give them everything they want and need, because we are willing to give it to them. We even give them the authority to break our hearts.
One thing that we should remember when we love, we should love a person expecting nothing in return. We should not think that because we have loved them, they will also love us back. It is our will that we chose to love them, and not their will.
When you love a person, you always want to be with her and you will do your very best to spend quality time with her. For us students, we try to fit in to our busy schedule the time that should be spent with the people we love. We want to be with the person because we love them. We want to do things that make the people we love happy. So, therefore, I can say that love is an act of will.
Love is an act of will because love is something you want and this is our will that we do these things for love. Let us take this example of a guy courting a girl. He courts the girl he loves because he loves her. You are willing to get hurt when you love someone. You are willing to do this, do that, in the name of love. You are willing to work hard for your family because it is your will to make them happy and give them a better life. When you are loving someone, your will is to make that person happy. Like the song with the lyrics-“I will do anything for love.” The word “will” there signifies that love is an act of will. It means that we want to do these things for love, wether it is right or wrong, wether it is easy or not, what we know is that we are loving and when we love, we try to give them everything they want and need, because we are willing to give it to them. We even give them the authority to break our hearts.
One thing that we should remember when we love, we should love a person expecting nothing in return. We should not think that because we have loved them, they will also love us back. It is our will that we chose to love them, and not their will.
Loneliness
The poem is about one person who opened the world of another person. To make it clear, I will assume that the first person is a girl, and the second person is a boy.
Although the boy closed his doors and closed his world, the girl still managed to open it. The boy likened himself to a rose. When you force open a rose bud (the rose is closed), you cannot do it without damaging the petals or the rose itself. But the girl, impossible as it may seem, opened the world of the boy, without force and without damaging him, just like a rose bud that is opened without hurting its petals.
Also, for me, the boy is living his life for the girl. If the girl wants to see him gone, he will die willingly. Willingly will he die because of his love for the girl. There will be sweetness in the death of the boy if he can make the girl happy.
The title of the poem was meaningfully separated. The first line of the title which is “l(a” emphasizes singularity. The letter “l” is like number one, meaning alone, and the other letter “a” is an article that means only one. The following lines, when put together reads ”leaf falls.” For me, it is a tragedy. Imagine you are a leaf, and then you fall. It means it is your end. What is more tragic is that you fall alone (leaf falls). The third to the last part of the title (one) means loneliness. It means you are alone. It is the same with the word after it (1). The letter “l” again is like number one, meaning, alone. The last part of the title which reads “iness,” for me again, signifies loneliness. If we break the word into “i” and “ness,” we can put it this way: “i” is a Roman numeral meaning one. If we put them together, the final word will be “oneness” which means loneliness.
Although the boy closed his doors and closed his world, the girl still managed to open it. The boy likened himself to a rose. When you force open a rose bud (the rose is closed), you cannot do it without damaging the petals or the rose itself. But the girl, impossible as it may seem, opened the world of the boy, without force and without damaging him, just like a rose bud that is opened without hurting its petals.
Also, for me, the boy is living his life for the girl. If the girl wants to see him gone, he will die willingly. Willingly will he die because of his love for the girl. There will be sweetness in the death of the boy if he can make the girl happy.
The title of the poem was meaningfully separated. The first line of the title which is “l(a” emphasizes singularity. The letter “l” is like number one, meaning alone, and the other letter “a” is an article that means only one. The following lines, when put together reads ”leaf falls.” For me, it is a tragedy. Imagine you are a leaf, and then you fall. It means it is your end. What is more tragic is that you fall alone (leaf falls). The third to the last part of the title (one) means loneliness. It means you are alone. It is the same with the word after it (1). The letter “l” again is like number one, meaning, alone. The last part of the title which reads “iness,” for me again, signifies loneliness. If we break the word into “i” and “ness,” we can put it this way: “i” is a Roman numeral meaning one. If we put them together, the final word will be “oneness” which means loneliness.
Loneliness
The poem is about one person who opened the world of another person. To make it clear, I will assume that the first person is a girl, and the second person is a boy.
Although the boy closed his doors and closed his world, the girl still managed to open it. The boy likened himself to a rose. When you force open a rose bud (the rose is closed), you cannot do it without damaging the petals or the rose itself. But the girl, impossible as it may seem, opened the world of the boy, without force and without damaging him, just like a rose bud that is opened without hurting its petals.
Also, for me, the boy is living his life for the girl. If the girl wants to see him gone, he will die willingly. Willingly will he die because of his love for the girl. There will be sweetness in the death of the boy if he can make the girl happy.
The title of the poem was meaningfully separated. The first line of the title which is “l(a” emphasizes singularity. The letter “l” is like number one, meaning alone, and the other letter “a” is an article that means only one. The following lines, when put together reads ”leaf falls.” For me, it is a tragedy. Imagine you are a leaf, and then you fall. It means it is your end. What is more tragic is that you fall alone (leaf falls). The third to the last part of the title (one) means loneliness. It means you are alone. It is the same with the word after it (1). The letter “l” again is like number one, meaning, alone. The last part of the title which reads “iness,” for me again, signifies loneliness. If we break the word into “i” and “ness,” we can put it this way: “i” is a Roman numeral meaning one. If we put them together, the final word will be “oneness” which means loneliness.
Although the boy closed his doors and closed his world, the girl still managed to open it. The boy likened himself to a rose. When you force open a rose bud (the rose is closed), you cannot do it without damaging the petals or the rose itself. But the girl, impossible as it may seem, opened the world of the boy, without force and without damaging him, just like a rose bud that is opened without hurting its petals.
Also, for me, the boy is living his life for the girl. If the girl wants to see him gone, he will die willingly. Willingly will he die because of his love for the girl. There will be sweetness in the death of the boy if he can make the girl happy.
The title of the poem was meaningfully separated. The first line of the title which is “l(a” emphasizes singularity. The letter “l” is like number one, meaning alone, and the other letter “a” is an article that means only one. The following lines, when put together reads ”leaf falls.” For me, it is a tragedy. Imagine you are a leaf, and then you fall. It means it is your end. What is more tragic is that you fall alone (leaf falls). The third to the last part of the title (one) means loneliness. It means you are alone. It is the same with the word after it (1). The letter “l” again is like number one, meaning, alone. The last part of the title which reads “iness,” for me again, signifies loneliness. If we break the word into “i” and “ness,” we can put it this way: “i” is a Roman numeral meaning one. If we put them together, the final word will be “oneness” which means loneliness.
KYSD 2007
The Know Your School Day 2007 was a great success to us UPians. The Know Your School Day is an annual activity in the UP High School in Cebu where the students can experience how it feels to be a teacher, a clerk, a principal, assistant principal, and others.
This school year, I did not apply for any position in the Know Your School Day activity. I just sat down on my chair doing the casual thing as a student. As a student, I must listen to our teacher’s discussions. There were times that my eyelids are drooping down but I managed to be awake. I listened quite well because a student lecturing his or her classmates does not happen everyday. It happens only once or twice in a year and it only happens during Know Your School Day. If there were questions regarding our lessons, we can question our student teacher in a more casual way. For me, it was more or less the same feeling because I was still a student not like my other classmates that had a “change” from a student to a teacher. But I also know how it feels like to be standing in front of the class lecturing classmates.
When I was a junior student, I was a student teacher in trigonometry. I also experienced to be a student teacher in geometry when I was a sophomore. Using my experiences as my bases, I can say that the Know Your School Day activity is beneficial to us students who act as teachers. It enables us (the student teachers) to practice responsibility. Having been a student teacher, I realized that being a teacher is not so easy. You feel the pressure on you. You must not just recite some formulas and equations but you must also see to it that the students will get to understand what you are saying. You need to explain and elaborate some points that may seem hard to be understood by your students. When I was a student teacher, I realized that teaching is one of the best professions. It is one of the best in the sense that in teaching, you give what you have, and you share what you have. You cannot give something to someone if you do not have that something in the first place. Teaching also taught me on how to be patient and considerate. It taught me patience because since unnecessary noise cannot be avoided during our classes, I must be patient in handling their behavior. It taught me how to be considerate because when we checked our seat works, most of the errors of my students (my classmates) were just on rounding off numbers (I taught on Geometry and Trigonometry subjects). After teaching, I told myself that teaching is not an easy thing to do.
I am so thankful to the one who proposed this activity. We were given a chance to cultivate our being responsible. It also made us students understand the things the teachers do to us for the betterment of ourselves.
This school year, I did not apply for any position in the Know Your School Day activity. I just sat down on my chair doing the casual thing as a student. As a student, I must listen to our teacher’s discussions. There were times that my eyelids are drooping down but I managed to be awake. I listened quite well because a student lecturing his or her classmates does not happen everyday. It happens only once or twice in a year and it only happens during Know Your School Day. If there were questions regarding our lessons, we can question our student teacher in a more casual way. For me, it was more or less the same feeling because I was still a student not like my other classmates that had a “change” from a student to a teacher. But I also know how it feels like to be standing in front of the class lecturing classmates.
When I was a junior student, I was a student teacher in trigonometry. I also experienced to be a student teacher in geometry when I was a sophomore. Using my experiences as my bases, I can say that the Know Your School Day activity is beneficial to us students who act as teachers. It enables us (the student teachers) to practice responsibility. Having been a student teacher, I realized that being a teacher is not so easy. You feel the pressure on you. You must not just recite some formulas and equations but you must also see to it that the students will get to understand what you are saying. You need to explain and elaborate some points that may seem hard to be understood by your students. When I was a student teacher, I realized that teaching is one of the best professions. It is one of the best in the sense that in teaching, you give what you have, and you share what you have. You cannot give something to someone if you do not have that something in the first place. Teaching also taught me on how to be patient and considerate. It taught me patience because since unnecessary noise cannot be avoided during our classes, I must be patient in handling their behavior. It taught me how to be considerate because when we checked our seat works, most of the errors of my students (my classmates) were just on rounding off numbers (I taught on Geometry and Trigonometry subjects). After teaching, I told myself that teaching is not an easy thing to do.
I am so thankful to the one who proposed this activity. We were given a chance to cultivate our being responsible. It also made us students understand the things the teachers do to us for the betterment of ourselves.
How I Want To Be Remembered...
I know that I have a lot of mistakes in the past and I hope that people will forgive and accept me; after all, I think nobody wants to be remembered as the “bad guy in high school.” I want to be remembered in a way that people see the good side of me.
First, I want them to remember me as the guy who loves to make nonsense jokes. I want them to smile as they look back in the old days and remember that they used to laugh at my jokes not because it was a nice joke but because it was “corny” and nonsense. I would really like if they remember as the guy who sings in a different way because I have different style and a different tune in singing it. They may laugh at my way of singing but it is all right as long as I can put smiles to them as they remember me.
Second, it would be nice if they also remember me as the “soccer guy.” I admit that I am not good in playing basketball like most of the guys in the campus do, but I am quite good in soccer. I may not be the best soccer player but I always try my best to score for our team and have a nice game. I may be hot tempered at times, but I hope what they will remember in me is my passion in playing the game, my every fall and the way I run just to have a goal for the team.
As my batch mates would recall the days when we were younger, the times when we were in high school, they will remember me as one of the guys who always fall asleep during class hours. I would want them to laugh at the idea that I am sleeping safe and sound while the teacher is discussing a very difficult lesson and then, I only wake up when someone wakes me up to take up the test. I myself laugh at the thought that no matter how I rub my eyes and slightly slap my cheeks so that I cannot sleep, but still I fall asleep unintentionally. My girlfriend used to pinch me every moment she sees me sleeping during classes especially in our Practical Law class and during attending masses.
People may always remember my mistakes and the bad side of me, but I hope to find it in their hearts the right things that I have done and the good side of me. I hope that they will remember me as a tough guy with a heart. I hope that they will also appreciate the small things I have done. I hope they will remember me as me. I pray that they will remember RICHARD as a guy who wants to change for the better. I hope my friends will remember me this way (the good side of me) after so many years after finishing high school.
First, I want them to remember me as the guy who loves to make nonsense jokes. I want them to smile as they look back in the old days and remember that they used to laugh at my jokes not because it was a nice joke but because it was “corny” and nonsense. I would really like if they remember as the guy who sings in a different way because I have different style and a different tune in singing it. They may laugh at my way of singing but it is all right as long as I can put smiles to them as they remember me.
Second, it would be nice if they also remember me as the “soccer guy.” I admit that I am not good in playing basketball like most of the guys in the campus do, but I am quite good in soccer. I may not be the best soccer player but I always try my best to score for our team and have a nice game. I may be hot tempered at times, but I hope what they will remember in me is my passion in playing the game, my every fall and the way I run just to have a goal for the team.
As my batch mates would recall the days when we were younger, the times when we were in high school, they will remember me as one of the guys who always fall asleep during class hours. I would want them to laugh at the idea that I am sleeping safe and sound while the teacher is discussing a very difficult lesson and then, I only wake up when someone wakes me up to take up the test. I myself laugh at the thought that no matter how I rub my eyes and slightly slap my cheeks so that I cannot sleep, but still I fall asleep unintentionally. My girlfriend used to pinch me every moment she sees me sleeping during classes especially in our Practical Law class and during attending masses.
People may always remember my mistakes and the bad side of me, but I hope to find it in their hearts the right things that I have done and the good side of me. I hope that they will remember me as a tough guy with a heart. I hope that they will also appreciate the small things I have done. I hope they will remember me as me. I pray that they will remember RICHARD as a guy who wants to change for the better. I hope my friends will remember me this way (the good side of me) after so many years after finishing high school.
Memories
The school year 2006-2007 is about to end. Also, our time here as fourth year students is about to end.
It is now almost four years of struggling here in high school. Indeed, time flies very fast. It seems to me that everything that happened in the past is just like yesterday.
I do not know why, but whenever I think about my life in UP High and how time flies fast, I remember myself sitting in my chair in Villamor, watching the drizzle outside while tapping my “not working ball pen” against my LN (lecture notebook) in Earth Science. I can remember also that I was somehow glad that my pen was not working so that I can have the reason not to write. I can also remember the first time I slept while there was class. It was also in first year in Math subject. I finished my seatwork earlier than my classmates, so I busied myself making figures on the ceiling. Unfortunately, I fell asleep and I was waked up by my seat mate. All my classmates were laughing at me and someone told me that our teacher made fun of me when I was asleep. I can also remember the puddings that we ate when we were in first year. That pudding of our Home Tech teacher made our stomach “twitch” and it feels like everyone who ate the pudding wanted to go to the comfort room, only we were shy. That same teacher also forced six of our boys to dance for an invocation of an event. She blackmailed us by saying that we would have low grades in Physical education if we would not join the dance. Afraid of a low grade, we gave in to her demand and dance as “aetas.”
When we were in second year, the most terrible thing that happened to me was when our Algebra teacher scolded me for sleeping in classes. That really scared me. Another thing to remember was the science jingle contest. Our presentation was very horrible and we lost on that contest. In second year, we were also tagged as the worst section.
When we were in third year, the highlight was the “Kwentuhan” where each third year section presents a mini play. We had some internal problems within our section but it was solved and even resulted to unity. We lost on that contest but what mattered to me was that we were able to show our unity even when the time was running out.
ABAKADA, drama fest in theater arts, intramurals, drama fest in Filipino, and retreat were some of my highlights in my last year here in UP. We won awards in the ABAKADA (play where we enact a part of Rizal’s El Filibusterismo). I was the best actor (although there were three of us who were hailed as best actor, scores showed that it was me who got the highest score)in the Drama fest in Theater arts subject.. We won champion in the two games that I played and the seniors were the over-all champion of Intramurals ’06. We also harvested awards on the Drama Fest in Filipino. We had a successful retreat at Saint John mission last March 24-25, 2007.
There are so many things to cherish in our high school life. If given a chance, I will re-live my high school life to enjoy again and experience again things that I remember.
It is now almost four years of struggling here in high school. Indeed, time flies very fast. It seems to me that everything that happened in the past is just like yesterday.
I do not know why, but whenever I think about my life in UP High and how time flies fast, I remember myself sitting in my chair in Villamor, watching the drizzle outside while tapping my “not working ball pen” against my LN (lecture notebook) in Earth Science. I can remember also that I was somehow glad that my pen was not working so that I can have the reason not to write. I can also remember the first time I slept while there was class. It was also in first year in Math subject. I finished my seatwork earlier than my classmates, so I busied myself making figures on the ceiling. Unfortunately, I fell asleep and I was waked up by my seat mate. All my classmates were laughing at me and someone told me that our teacher made fun of me when I was asleep. I can also remember the puddings that we ate when we were in first year. That pudding of our Home Tech teacher made our stomach “twitch” and it feels like everyone who ate the pudding wanted to go to the comfort room, only we were shy. That same teacher also forced six of our boys to dance for an invocation of an event. She blackmailed us by saying that we would have low grades in Physical education if we would not join the dance. Afraid of a low grade, we gave in to her demand and dance as “aetas.”
When we were in second year, the most terrible thing that happened to me was when our Algebra teacher scolded me for sleeping in classes. That really scared me. Another thing to remember was the science jingle contest. Our presentation was very horrible and we lost on that contest. In second year, we were also tagged as the worst section.
When we were in third year, the highlight was the “Kwentuhan” where each third year section presents a mini play. We had some internal problems within our section but it was solved and even resulted to unity. We lost on that contest but what mattered to me was that we were able to show our unity even when the time was running out.
ABAKADA, drama fest in theater arts, intramurals, drama fest in Filipino, and retreat were some of my highlights in my last year here in UP. We won awards in the ABAKADA (play where we enact a part of Rizal’s El Filibusterismo). I was the best actor (although there were three of us who were hailed as best actor, scores showed that it was me who got the highest score)in the Drama fest in Theater arts subject.. We won champion in the two games that I played and the seniors were the over-all champion of Intramurals ’06. We also harvested awards on the Drama Fest in Filipino. We had a successful retreat at Saint John mission last March 24-25, 2007.
There are so many things to cherish in our high school life. If given a chance, I will re-live my high school life to enjoy again and experience again things that I remember.
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