HOW TO TOUCH A GIRL

I think I could like you
I already do
Feelings can grow but
They can go away too
You're takin my hand
Lookin into my eyes
Don't be in a rush to
Get me tonight

Feel somethin happenin
Could this be a spark?
To satisfy me baby
Gotta satisfy my heart

Do you know how to touch a girl?
If you want me so much
First I have to know
Are you thoughtful and kind?
Do you care what's on my mind?
Or am I just for show?
You'll go far in this world
If you know how to touch a girl


I think I could like you
But I keep holding back
Cause I can't seem to tell
If you're fiction or fact
Show me you can laugh
Show me you can cry
Show me who you really are
Deep down inside

Do you feel somethin happenin?
Could this be for real?
I don't know right now but tonight we'll reveal


Bring me some flowers
Conversation for hours
To see if we really connect
And baby if we do
Ooh I'll be givin all my love to you
Ohh

Do you know how to touch a girl?
If you want me so much
First I have to know
Are you thoughtful and kind?
Do you care what's on my mind?
Or am I just for show?
You'll go far in this world
If you know how to touch a girl


You'll go far in this world
If you know how to touch a girl

           

An Empty Desk

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. We live only once in this world, and living it perfectly is impossible but one can always live his life to the fullest.Fulfillment may mean differently from each of us.A parent’s fulfillment in life is to grow a mature person in his child. For a student, fulfillment is equated into learning. For a teacher, fulfillment is achieved when the knowing it had rendered to his students is being applied and the willingness of that student is done. Teachers are one of the most, I say the heroes of the world. These people gives life more than what it deserves, By molding different successful people.

Last, January 2007, my school gave me the chance to mold a school of success people.
It was a different experience. I just get used to the feeling of being a student. That experience is a memorable part of my life, simply because it taught me to appreciate a teacher’s hard work. I never taught that being a teacher for 35 students in a classroom is hard. When teachers teach us at our classroom they seemed jus to be doing an ordinary talk, an ordinary discussion, no sweat. But when that job was handed into my hands I had realized that there is no easy way of becoming a teacher. There’s more than time management, pressure and families. I even felt s o busy at that time though the job was not completely given to me. My job was still being assisted. But these people do their job without the assistance of older people. I just wonder if how do they do it. Are they super heroes with super powers. Well, maybe, they have their power of passion and willingness to help others.

I think I have realized that one must do everything while he can still do it.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This is now my last entry for my blog, my last entry that is to graded. Surely I will miss all the crammings I had in achieving 26 entries, with a lot of things to be done. This is an unforgettable requirement for a certain subject. It is practically because English is not the only existing subject in the school that is also requiring projects. I am proud that such elephant in my shoulder has finally find its res t in the ground. Luckily, I did not have to carry the elephant all b y myself. There were many others who have contribute d in many ways to make this 26 blog entries an achievement. I would like to thank each of the m.

First I would like to thank , M r.Elmer Montejo,our second semester English teacher for letting us feel this w ay. This project did really challenge my whole being. For a person like me, w hose talent does not lie in writing, such requirement is really a good ground for my practice. I would like to thank him for being such a wonderful teacher to all of us. It is just uncomforting to know that you have been our teacher for only a moment,but we give you a guarantee that your teachings to us will remain forever.

Thank you also to my parents who have a very timely support for me. Thanks for disconnecting our Internet line by the time these blog projects were demanded unto us. Seriously,thank you for supporting my wicked ideas and for praising them though I know how deeply disgusted you are to my grammar. But I just want to remind you that intelligence is hereditary.

Next in line is my brother who have been my “topic-giver”. You do really have great topics but I don’t have ggreat ideas. I just wanna thank you for always contradicting mom’s praises to my works. Thanks for your honesty.

I would also like to thank my friends who are like , did also struggle in their 26 bog entries. Thanks for your cooperation.

A special thanks t o Doanne Lyre Montecastro and Daisy Ran Pacaldo for including me in their topics.

Lastly, I want to thank God Almighty for I know that he had been my number one supporter.

A COLORFUL FESTIVAL

People often interpret festival as government’s way of promoting tourism. Partly yes, but behind this tourism promotion, lies the talent, hardwork and the creativity of it’s people showcasing to the whole world the rich history a place can have. Our country has a lot of this to offer. We have the talents, hardwork, creativity and most of all we have a rich history of our beginning. Sinulog, a colorful festival presenting how the Spaniards brought Christianity to Cebu is an example of this. So as the Ati- atihan in Kalibu, Aklan, the Kadayawan festival in Davao, and the Dinagat festival in Cordova, Cebu. All of these festivals show the diversity of talents of the Filipino people offering their thanks to their patrons but there’s this one place in Cebu that has a different purpose for having their festival. Mandaue City, the “Emerging Convention City in Asia” celebrates a festival that offers a different purpose.

Mandauehanons take pride in presenting to the whole world their Mantawi Festival. This is celebrated annually not only by the Mandauehanons but also of the rest of the world. People from different places find their way to Cebu to join the festive mood of Mandaue during the festival. It showcases not only the creativity of the mandauehanons but also the beauty and intelligence mandauehanon ladies possess’ through Ms. Mandaue.

LONELINESS

It is definitely true that nobody w ants to be lonely. Who would want to live a life of loneliness. As the saying goes “no man is an island”. NO man will truly survive all by himself. He will always need somebody. Even our supreme creator, he created another living creature that could help the man. As based simply on what I can view from this poem, loneliness is indeed a lonely word.

From the poem I have realized that letters alone cannot give you the real meaning of a message . That letters with no definite construction will give you nothing but loneliness. Imagine yourself in this kind of situation. Imagine yourself as one of the letters in that poem which cannot give it’s purpose because of it’s loneliness. Could you call that a life. That is actually misery.


I can say that living alone will really be a miserable thing to do. You have no one to communicate to except yourself. You have no one to interact to but your self. No one except loneliness.

The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.

-- Sara Teasdale

Kisses can be easily come across but the power of eyes is so much more passionate. I think that is the message of the poem. The poem proves that the eyes are indeed a window to somebody’s soul. In the poem, one can say how powerful the eyes can be. Eyes can be deceiving and it can also give us truthfulness. It is of no question why it is considered as a human’s window of soul. The e yes are the only bod y part that can show emotions. When somebody is sad, one can look into the eyes of that sad person and without even asking that person you will know that he is sad. The eyes can also be very deceiving. You may think that the person true to you because of his looks but regrets will just come ahead, too late for you to realize that you have just been deceived. In the poem the woman was seemed to be much awed to the look that Colin had given her. Colin’s look lasted in her mind longer than the kisses that Stephron a and Robin gave to her. Kisses are truly a passionate way of expressing love but looks is a lot more passionate because it gives woman the affirmation that they a re respected .
Looks can also be different in different persons point of view. One may see a different view from what one sees. But looks do not gie it’s value in that way. It existed so that we can communicate and understand each other in a much better way.

LOVE: AN ACT OF THE WILL , NOT OF THE HEART

A famous poet had once said that, “To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that that one candle will continue burning as long as you live”. That poet created such a tricky quote. Note that in his quote the word “can” existed. A three letter word that could change the quote’s meaning. For me that quote proved to me that love is always a choice, a product of one’s will.

I always believe that real love is fated. That it has been arranged before time. That real love is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. But this does not mean that you do not have control of your of your love life. Of course you have for we choose our own destiny, cause if we don’t then life would not be worth living for.Life is a matter of choice and love is life’s most colorful part. Therefore love is not just fated, it is also a matter of choice. Same as we ca n always choose your own destiny.Choosing our own destiny will surely teach us whom to love. Only fools can say that love is an uncontrollable feeling. Of course you can always control love. You can even choose to love a person or not. If you think you like a person but you feel that something is holding you back, you can always hold back your feelings.
I deeply believe that love is an act of the will and that a ll aper son must do is just to trust in the Lord with our hearts and lean not on our own understanding;in all our ways acknowledge him and he will make our paths straight.

WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT FRIENDS

Friends are one of life’s bonuses for they can always be relied on to:

1. Providing a shoulder to cry on
One comforting fact about having friends is that you are assured that somebody will really be there for you. Life is not always filled with happiness, some times life gets challenging and that you will sometimes feel so hopeless. When you have a friend you are lifted a little by them for friends will always be there to support you.

2.Feed your self-esteem with comments about how intelligent or deserving you are
A famous Japanese saying “One kind word can warm three long winter months” will best explain the second great thing about having a friend. Imagine your life without a friend. Imagine yourself in a world where everyone is me an and every people in there don’t know how to praise good things.Well, you have just imagined yourself in a friendless land. Obviously nobody wants to live in that world. It’s good to have friends because they will always make you feel special.

3.Making yourself a real person, with them you can laugh like a gorilla and eat fods grossly.
You will only know that the person beside you us your friend if you will feel comfortable with him. When you are with a friend you feel just yourself, no pretensions.
Being with them you can always show the truth in you.

4.Supporting your dreams,even your dream boy
If there will be a person in this world who will totally understand you, then that would be your friend. Your friend will always believe in your dreams and they will never bring your dream into a fantasy, they will even help you to reach for your dream.

5.Listening
The greatest thing about having a friend is that somebody will really listen to you. Speaking is the easiest way of communication but listening is quite hard. This is where your friends excel. They can always listen to you.

If you have a friend who has that five characteristics, better not let go of that person.

MAGNIFICENCE IN EVERY MAN


In this article, allow me to tackle to you the magnificence that each of us have. Allow me to express my amazement to the most complex and the most well-done creature in this world, man.Allow me also to praise my glorious being, your beautiful soul and our life in general.

The bible says that every man is created in God’s image and likeness. Science, on the other hand, tells us that once a sperm and an egg cell unites, an offspring will be formed, thus creating man. Both Science and the Bible give us good reasons why man should be considered as a magnificent creature.

First, the bible gives us an idea of how special we are to God. If one would only take time to analyze what it means to be created in His image and likeness, I doubt if you could still dare to have your face in surgery. I feel so special every time I am reminded by this belief from the bible. I just can’t think of any way to praise God’s gift to me. I am a magnificent creature not because God created me in His image and likeness but because God breathed life unto me. Humans were created by God in a very special way.Remember in the first part of the bible , wherein god created all the things in this world, including us the humans. Notice that we were the only creature that God created not by words but He did really breath life unto us. So many words that he have uttered just to complete the world. But by the time that God created man, he did not uttered any word bur instead He molded us and breathed life unto us. Isn’t that great?

Science gives me another reason to appreciate man. Imagine how intricate a human being came from. Just try to imagine how small a sperm and an egg cell are. But at yourself in the mirror you just can’t belive that you are once a minute thing. It is just simply amazing that man are separated from other creatures in the earth by the knowledge that it has. Still, man in this way is created in a magnificent way.

Next time you’ll see yourself in a mirror and you feel so ugly, remember how magnificently you were made by God and how intricately you were explained by Science.

MEMORIES IN A BOX
(An answer to Doanne’s “Inside my Memory Box")

What if everything that have passed into our life will be kept in a box? What if every cloth that we have used in wiping our tears and for the counsel of others are all to be gathered in a box? What if memories in our lives are to be placed in a box? Those were just some of the silly questions that I have once asked myself. Those questions were I thought of all joke and it cannot be answered seriously. Back in my elementary years, I can remember how I deeply treasure things that were given by my classmate. That strange characteristic of mine, awaken me to the truth that not al people are given by that chance to put value in a person’s gift for you. It was in my high school years when I started to officially call my collection in a certain place as my “memories in a box”. I have learned to value things more, more than just its composition or price. When I started to place my things in a box,I did also started to segregate them. Literally, I segregate them because I want to keep my memory box as a real memory box, not a trash can. So what’s inside my memory box? Well, here are some of the things in my box that did really made a memory.

1. NAME TAGS
I have always been an active club member and I also love to join seminars and conferences. And every time I joined to such activities, a name tag will always come with it. I keep my name tags because they remind me of the activities that I have attended.
2. LETTERS
I love to keep letters because time will come that when you will read them months or years from now, you will be reminded by how that person who gave the letter, felt about you at those times. I always do that one, and it is actually very fun, sometimes you cannot help but laugh for you will realize that each year you are really growing.
3.CANDY WRAPPERS
Keeping candy wrappers in my box was such a big challenge for me, because these things are small and I don not want my box to look messy. But I just can’t help myself but feel so special every time a person who is not close to me will give me a candy. It’s really a surprise for who do not know me that I love to ask candy from them because I want them to be a part in my memory. I want to be reminded that he had been my friend.
4.STATISTICS BOOK
This is the only book that I have kept in my memory box. Same as this is the only book that I will never forget in my entire life. That book did really made a special part in my life. Why? Well, people know that I am really an intellectually challenged person in the field of Mathematics. But during my Junior years, I felt different in my Math subject. That math subject was the only math that I have learned to love because I have understood that course. The book is that special for me.
5. DIARY
If there is one thing that I value most in my box, that would be my first accomplished diary. I love to take note to everything that had happened to me. Just like letters they will remind you of your feelings in the past. It is actually good to keep a diary because we can never turn back time and that all that we can do is to reminisce it.

Those were just some of the things that you will find in my memory box. There are still a lot inside it, but keeping them in secret is my choice. So, you, why don’t you try having a memory box? Just try it! I swear it’s fun.

.....iNtRoDuCtOrY sPeEch........

If you’ll notice, this is now the third speech that I have posted. Are’nt you wondering? Well, it is primarily because I cannot think of any good topic that I can share to you.
I decided to make this as one of my entries because this speech gave me a chance to experience the feeling of being a professional. In this speech I am assuming of a special role. That is to introduce a very successful person, who have attained a lot of success. I remember that when I delivered this speech, I have pictured myself as a person who is very grateful in the given to her. But I know that such feeling will not be far from my reach. I know that somebody I will not just introduce a very special speaker, but I believe that time will come that I will soon be the speaker. This is the introductory speech I have made to a speaker for a high school graduation.

Introductory Speaker:

A pleasant afternoon to everyone.

“Let knowledge grow from more to more”. I could s till remember these words from her valedictory speech. It has been a decade since a lady stood in the same spot delivering her speech in front of her batch mates. She was just a simple lady then./ Now, she currently owns the ELAINEE clothing line with its boutique that is located at Italy as it’s main branch, with 15 branches all over the world. After graduating from this school she studied in UP Diliman taking up Business Management and graduated as a Cum Laude. Her riches, success and achievements are definitely countless and for sure, naming all of them will not fit in this piece of paper that I am holding right now. But despite all of her attained success, she still remained humble and never forgets her high school alma mater that molded her into a person right now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are honored to have this successful woman right now. Help me welcome, Ms. Elaine Reina Miranda.

ANOTHER SPEECH

The next entry I am going to post is another speech that I have delivered during our promenade. I was asked to deliver a speech for our candle lighting ceremony. I made the speech by myself. This how my speech goes.]

Speaker:

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.

Light, to a physicist it is a form of radiant energy. To a photographer, a flash of light creates a product of an art. To an actress, fame and to a blind, Light is hope. These people have defined light in their own ways. But for me light was best defined neither by them but by that little creature in Rizal's famous story “ Ang Gamo-gamo at ang Lampara”. Remember when the moth flew near the lamp? Many think that it was just all about how one should obey his parents. Looking it in a brighting side, I see it as a courageous act of the moth to for taking the risk to know what light really was. That moth had defined light as knowledge. As Joseph Addison had once said that, “knowledge is, indeed, that, which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.”
Tonight let us all reflect to light flickering in the burning wax at the center and remember the knowledge that God ha breathed unto us. Reflecting to that light, let us all not forget it's very essence. Let us all not forget that knowledge does not rest in everyone's mind. Therefore it is our prime responsibility to share our lights to others.
Ladies and Gentlemen you may now share the light of your candles.

LITTLE PATIENCE

When I was still young, I often hear my mom telling me that all successful people have that habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They do not like doing them either but successful are the people who knew that success is something that does not just happens. That it is a process and that you have to get there. Being still an elementary student at that time, I do not realize the importance of those words,I merely considered themas as my mom's morning rituals every time she is trying to wake us up for school. But now that I grow a little more old and now that I realize that my turn to think about the world has come, I took my mom's morning rituals as my guide on my journey towards success.

I am currently a high school student, a graduating high school student. I am in a stage in my life where I should make a choice, a choice that will determine my future. And that choice is all about being a student or a lost brat. I chose to be a student. At first I thought that it will just be easy. As easy as counting numbers from one to ten,but I never thought that my decision to become a student would bring to a place where even my patience will be tested. I think every one in our batch admits that we will not be able to reach this far, being a graduating student, if it weren't for our patience. Patience in reading our books , sleeping late at night just to study for a grueling exam for tomorrow. Patience for the thousand stretching we have done to relax our tired muscles for balancing our studies and our extra curricular activities at our school.

Now, I have realize what my mom means, that choosing your road to success is not easy. There are things that you want to do but you just cannot because of something that is hindering you. Like, we often want to play computer games, but we cannot do that one at all times because we have to study. Do you think we like it, mow we do not like it really. But we have learned to love it because we know that we want to succeed in our career.
You see anything is possible as long as Patience is your driving force.

HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERRED BEFORE LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL

One of my favorite quote s, which, by the way always makes me ask, is, “ On their deathbed nobody has ever wished they had spent more time at the office.” That quote often leads me to ask myself, “What do they wish they had spent more time doing?” Probably they want to spent more time with the people they love. On the day of my graduation, I don't want to be charged guilty by that quote. I don't want to reach to a point where in all I can say is that “I wish I could have done that one”. My high school life is a period of experimenting. I have tried to be a serious student, though it did not last for a quarter. I have also tried to be a mean friend to others, but I swear it's of no use. But my most unforgettable part was in every time that I fail in Mathematics. A part of my sorrow for failing in such subject is the gratitude for letting me experience a failure. It helps to be a failer sometimes because it reminds you that life is not always a success, and that is the reality. Of course I don't want to remembered in that way. I want to leave no butt prints into my school, I want to leave a footprint , a re minder that I have once stepped into that school and that I a m a part of the U.P. High school family.
What could be a great memory I can leave to U.P.? The Ella in the stage, an emcee, an actress or a dancer? Or the Ella and her fears, singing, earthworms and darkness? I think those memories are not for a lifetime. Maybe I can be remembered in that way, but surely it will just be in a moment. So what could really it be? Let's see... I'll think of my best trait. Oh, yes! Got it! I wanna be remembered in two ways.

First I wanna be remembered as a friendly Ella. I wanna be remembered as the person who will suddenly say nice things to you when your day turns upside down or when you feel totally depresses. I want to be remembered in that way so that my memory will be a comfort in somebody's mind. It's good to have a memory in that way so that I can also remind people that sometimes the smallest thongs -a hello, a kind note, a smile, a compliment, a hug- can make such a big difference. For if somebody w ants to build friendships, one should always, try doing the little things because in relationships the little things are the big things. Having many friends in school is not for popularity sake. Friendship is priceless yet a precious thing. When you find a true friend you will have that friend forever. True friendship is forever. I want to be remembered as a true friend because I want to be remembered forever.

Next, is that I want to a living proof of my own quote,” A thousand stare of a cover is just a glance at the skin under”. In high school, you will meet all kinds of people and yo vcannot stop them from judging you. From the time you step your first step in U.P., you must first open yourself to criticisms, for they w ill complete your day. Just like me, my first day at my school was of no good, people were all saying that “oh, could she be my meanest classmate?' or those “ S he;s so liberated” and “ she looks strict” but those criticisms did not bring me down neither did I live in their beliefs about me. I honestly look liberated because of the way that I dress but underneath those clothe is a Filipina culture of decency. I could really look mean and strict but deep inside of me is a patient heart that listens. I want to leave to my school that quote and my own definition to that. For high school is a very exciting roller coaster ride. I hope that the future students of my school will also live to the words that I have lived for. It is a guarantee that, that quote is a key in building friendship. Why? Simply because instead of taking time to look at that person a and judge him or her, you will take no time in waste and get to know that person.
That is how I wanted to be remembered before I leave the most colorful part of my life, my high school life. Together with my batch mates, we will soon grow up into mature beings but UP will definitely always be a part of our lives. UP ha left the biggest footprint in our hearts.

IT'A GUY THING AND IT'S US GIRLS
(The problem with men and women)

Human race is a diverse collection of different people. A collection of no alike beings., from the color of the skin to the beliefs that each have. We are all born to be different and separated be a yellow line. Humans are distinct from each other for a man and a woman will always be different. The difference is of many factors. It could probably be because of the hormones, the capacity or just simply because he's a man and I am a woman. Our differences create a line that separates us women from men. We see them differently, and so do them.
In this article I would like to point out some things that could lead us to the problems with men and the women.
THE PROBLEM WITH SAMSON IS:
1. He thinks that he is strong and that he will always be
Men are oblivious. They forgot that in the bible a woman was the one who defeated the strongest man. Okay fine, I wont be talking about the bible. But I hahte the fact thhat men will always consider themselves superior from the women. They are assuming too much from that role. Women admit that men are physicallly stronger than them, but women can always do what a man can do. The problem with them is that they often under estimate a woman's capacity. But tell me boys, when you cry, who is your number one comforter? Please do not answer that i a guy will be your number comforter cause if ever, that guy could probably be liking you. Seriously, it is the women who will comfort you and never will that woman say that he is weak just because that man cried. But when women cry and men will try to comfort us, what's their say about our tears? “Sus para kana ra.” Damn them!
Well boys these goes out to you, you just look physically strong than us the women, because you are by nature born with larger muscles than us; but other than your muscles, women will be a lot stronger than you are.
2. Men are “dirty” people
Calm down boys, “dirty ” people is define by me not in a harsh way. I say that you are “dirty” people simply because you do not know how to arrange your things. Men are very unorganized species. They just throw their shirts everywhere every time they change their clothes, especially before and after a basketball game. I always see a lot of that from my batch mates. They are as if living only for that moment or as if they really value time that much and it should not be a wasted in arranging their clothes. It just show that men are in nature untidy people. I want to challenge you guys. Open a girl's bag, put it beside your open bag and see how a trash your bas is compared to a woman's bag!! Calm down guys, control your emotions. That's just still your second problem.
3.Men are by nature proud people
“ Bai, wa ka nako” or “Bai, mas grabe jud ako”. What the? These words sounds to be a cliché in every womans ears every time we hear the guys talking. Answer this guys, How many of your exaggerated stories were true or how many of them were “unyeasted”, as in stories that were originally true and with no addition or subtraction? Hmm... That's quite tough! But your next problem is a lot tougher than that question.
4.Men are lustful
Oh, yes you are lustful and no man is exempted from this sin. Before you angrily react to you fourth problem, I will first define what lust means to women. For us it is lust when a person is vehement in his longing for affection or desire. I know of a guy who loves his girlfriend just bec ause she can give to him everything that he needs. Men obviously have low regards towards “love” and “lust”. For them it is already love when they feel good about that opposite sex. Another thing that leads me to the realization that men are lustful beings, is that men love to watch pornographic materials. They are happy people when they see people kissing in the scene. Not just that, boys, don't you know that it is already lust when you day dream about a girl and picturing her as your kissing partner ar anything morbid you can think about her.
Anyways, I do not want to leave men a mean statement . So I am going to present to them their fifth problem in a little kind way.
5.Men are insensitive beings.
This is probably what women minorily hate about men. They are insensitive to the feelings of a woman. They cannot tell if when does a woman likes them, same a s they also cannot tel how a woman badly needs their disappearance. Men are insensitive beings that they do not know that by simply doing that they are already hurting somebody's feeling.

THE PROBLEM WITH DELILAH:
1.Women, in contrary to men are sensitive individuals
Yes, a part o f a girls system is being emotional. Attached to that word is their sensitivity. Women can not actually help themselves but be sensitive to small actions that for them is unexpected.
Women are unpredictable beings
2.Women are practically hard to handle.

One can never predict a woman's reaction to things because she an unpredictable person. She seemed to be in ecstasy by a minute, then a an untamed tiger the next minute. Women are just like that, unpredictable.
3.Women are vain
I admit it myself, I am definitely a vain person. I cannot live without a lotion and lip gloss. And that is just a proof that women are vain. Women are vain because they simply cannot go out the house without combing their hair.

The Seven habits of Highly Effective teens

(a book by Sean Covey)

A lot of teenagers read books,especially the teenagers at my school. Every time our class will have a discussion about books , I am always in mute, it feels like you are surrounded by Chinese people talking in Greek.Yes, most of the teenagers at our school read books, but I was not one of them.I don not really read books because I often have hard times in imagining or picturing the scenes in the story, that is why television has been my best bud at home,well next to our phone. But my lac k in interest for reading does not mean that I haven’t read any books. I have, but all of those books were non fictional, they talk about life in general. Just like this book that I have read, the book that made a different impact to my teenager life. This book that I am going to share to you caught me in surprise for it was an easy to understand book full of interesting stories. It is easy to relate to stories in the book, despite of our cultural differences. It’s author, Sean Covey has his own way of communicating to the teenagers like me who are not book readers. He knows how to keep his book as a good adventure. I love it and that made me finished that book in only a day.The coauthors of the book “Chicken soup for the teenage soul” have once said that the book by Sean Covey entitled “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens” is a true gift to a teenager’s soul. It’s undoubtedly a true gift for my soul. The book did really made a place in my mind. I will share to you my learnings from that book.
Habit I: BE PROACTIVE
I view life as a very long journey, and always consider myself as it’s own driver. I choose my own road and would always take the responsibility for my decision. Habit # 1,from Sen Covey’s book, surprisingly fits on my perception of life. With this first habit I realized that the failure of somebody should not be blame to others. People who fail are not victims for they were the one who chose their own road and should put no blame to others. The problem with most teenagers , is that , we always react on things that looks so different. We usually jump into conclusions and oftentimes, we cleanse ourselves from failures. We don’t want to accept failures and instead blame it to the people around us. Habit # 1 is simply all about taking responsibility for your own life.
Habit II: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
Teenagers love surprises. We love to handle unplanned things. But trust me this kind of of habit will bring no good to you. Habit # 2 primarily talks about how good it is to have planned things.It sows how comforting it is to think about tomorrows or just simply being ready for our actions’ consequences. Define your mission and goal in life.
Habit III: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
Time Management is often hard to achieve, especially in a teenager’s life. Parties, homeworks, TV shows, computer games...uhh can’t somebody y give us a break? Which is Which? It is hard to find the equilibrium of such things when you fail that everything is important. Habit #3 will surely make you realize the importance of proper prioritization of things. This habit is primarily about doing the most important things first.
Habit IV: THINK WIN-WIN
Habit # 4 is a bit hard to achieve especially when one has the attitude of seein life as a vicious competition. Human in nature are win-lose thinkers. We have that belief that if others win then you lose and that if you are going to lose, however, make sure you drag that sucker down with you. Such attitudes are defective in a teenagers development. Thinking win-win will make you feel a winner, no matter how badly you fail. This attitude has an “everyone can win” attitude.
Habit V: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
Habit #5 reminded me that I have two ears and a mouth. It reminded me that before people can understand me, I should be able to understand them first. Listening to people sincerely is the key.
Habit VI: SYNERGIZE
Let’s face it, other people are weird because they are different from you but isn’t it better to have a diversity in a group. In this life, no one will ever succeed without somebody else. People need to interact inorder to survive in this world. People will always need the help of someone else and achieving success, we have to work together to achieve more.
Habit VII: SHARPEN THE SAW
It is simply renewing ourselves regularly.
The book truly defines the seven characteristics that happy and s successful teens have in common. I love that book for I have learned a lot from it.

SPILL A BIT OF HER PART II

( A revenge e to Daisy Ran’s Spill a Bit of Her)

CAUTION: The following entry is a response, no, revenge would make it a proper term. Again the following entry is a revenge to my bestfriend’s revelations about me. she was once inspired to write about me (ewww!) now I’ll try to be inspired by her. So to my bestfriend if ever you are reading this one now; remember that emotions are perceived in somebody’s eyes, not in his nose. Prepare yourself , for the beast who knows the beast in you is now ready to reveal a part of you.

One best word to describe her is “unpredictable“. She’s unpredictable in her whole being, physically, psychologically and emotionally. She’s physically unpredictable not because you see her beautiful by a minute and ugly for he rest of the day, but because she has an unpredictable respiratory system. She seems to be energetic a while ago and the next thing you’ll know is that s he’s already running out of breath. Another thing that proves how physically unpredictable she is, is her hair. Normally, my friend has a curly hair but sometimes her hair would straightened as if it was relaxed in a salon. It’s just simply amazing. My friend is also psychologically unpredictable because of her always unsure answers. So if ever she said yes to you in an agreement,ask her a thousand times for you might just be hearing the exact opposite of that. Lastly, my friend is emotionally unpredictable because human in nature are emotionally unstable. I think that’s the biggest proof that my friend is a human being, not a turtle (as how our batch mates would tease her).I don’t want to be unfair to my best friend, she praised me once in her entry, so I’ll pay her twice. So now, let’s talk about the good side of my friend.My friend is a good communicator. Literally, it means that she is both a good speaker and a listener. She has good training in this field. She practically has more time for talks rather that her number of steps. So next time if you’ll find yourself doing nothing, try calling my friend and yo’ll find yourself talking to a two-mouthed mammal. She talks a lot. We love to do a lot of phone talks, regardless of the time. Be it on dawn, afternoon or even midnight, it’s from sun up ‘till sun down. We talk about everything, from our school to the universe, Yes. that’s how wide our range is. But there is still one thing that we haven’t discussed in our talks and that’s the world of politics. She hates that world and so am I. My friend and I have so many things in common but our differences are also very noticeable. Maybe you’ll see us as almost the same in every aspect. Now that is because we always share our non sense thoughts to each other and also we don’t see ourselves as the same in each others point of view. We don’t want to accept that we are the same because it’s not true.Like this one, my friend has a different taste of music than I. She loves rock alternative, reggae and acoustics, a contrary to my pop and RnB. Speaking of music, my friend loves this world that I hate the most. She can play the drums, guitar and she can sing too. My friend also has an active braincells for memorizing lines of songs. That is her unusual talent.A side from those aspects, my friend is also artistic. She loves to draw and I believe that she can draw too.

Words are not enough to describe my best friend. Knowing her whole being will absolutely take you years. So if you want to know her, better start it now.

...SpeEcH...

The following entry is a speech that I made for our public speaking class. I was made to deliver a speech wherein I am a candidate of the Student Council’s chairperson. This is my speech.

Speaker:

Professional Education Division Chairperson, Dr. Josefina C. Carvajal, our principal, Prof. Purita T. Baltazae, faculty and to my fellow students, a pleasnt afternoon.

“ The very essence of leadership is to have a vision.” Politicians live by these words. And that could probably be the reason why our country becomes a “ Land of Promise” during campaigns and election periods. I call it a “Land of Promise” because politicians are undoubtedly intelligent and persuasive that they are able to deceive millions of hopeful souls to believe in their promises. How may of them promised a better education for our youth? How many of them have courageously said that “ I will be your defender”? How many of these people have captured our senses by promising us towards a better country? Almost all of them, almost all politicians. They may have the intellect to make visions but they don’t know how to put those visions into work. Anne LaSalle, I think have forgotten to attach the word reality in her quote. It could have been better if she said it this way, “The very essence of true leadership is to have a vision ad have that vision in reality”. If only these were the words that politicians in our country has lived for, then our country will not be “ A land of Promise” but instead “A Promise Land”. A land that ever y Filipino wished to be a part of.

Now, before you is a someone who wants to change in her own little way the definition from every UPian mind about our school as a “School of Promise”. I firmly go to the belief that this school becomes a “ School of Promise” w he n times like this come. I am not afraid to say that the welfare of this school has touched my heart so deeply. Now, as I stand here along with the promise to serve every citizen of this school is a hand and a heart ad a dedication to give you what you moist deserve of in your coming here to learn. I am prepared to carry the responsibility no matter how heavy it might be, if you will let me to. This school will not be a “ School of Broken Promises”, but a school run by a good leadership and a glorious discipline. I am aware of the challenges leadership might give me and I am more willing to accept it. I will be strong and remain truthful to my words but never will I become a rude leader to you. I will open my heart to become a kind person b ut to be weak will never be its ending. I will be proud but not arrogant, be thoughtful but not timid. As ironic as it is but being a leader will never be as easy as you might be thinking of. In this coming election, I humbly ask for your support in helping me fulfil the betterment of the school. Do vote wisely because your vote determines the fate and the future of the school. Vote straight! Vote w wisely! Vote ACTS! Your welfare, our commitment

LiTtLe VoiCe

Last 2006, the the only hope of the poor but intelligent Filipino students, like us have declared its tuition fee increase and mind you my fellow iskolars, the increase is as much as 300 percent. Our institution and it’s administrators have been claiming that quality education must come with a cost, a very ridiculous idea! Let me remind everyone that our school is a state university, and by this tuition fee increase the idea of a state university is being demolished. And next school year, instead of welcoming more and more deserving students we will be seeing more students who come from well-off families.Where is equity in there, where will the lower class students study now? We can see that this proposed tuition fee increase is a strategy of exclusion and is a burden to all students. I call it a strategy of exclusion since many of the supposed future students who come from a poor family will be deprived to a better access of quality education.Our school must have realized even before that there are many people who want to study yet they cannot because of the high price of college education and our school has served as their only hope to a quality education but at a very accessible price. But now all the dreams and hopes of these people are all gone, just because of this proposed tuition fee increase. I once heard my mother asked me if why I am reacting much to this issue. Simply because we are taught on how to become concern citizens of this country, simply because our institution have taught us to exercise our freedom of thoughts and simply because and most of all I am also affected in this increase. Next year I , you and everyone of us from this school does not anymore deserve the title of "Iskolars ng Bayan", next year our school will soon be competing with Sacred Heart and San Carlos in attracting and educating the children of the rich. It hurts to know that the hope of many poor students is now also finding its way away from us.

I am definitely an anti-TOFI. Not because I am one of the products of the persuasion but its because I am a deserving U.P. student. I just could not understand why our school is having this increase in tuition fee when in the very first place, i is the government that has been supporting us. They say that because they want to improve our school, but why such big increase?now I think they must know that even the annual tuition and other fee increase in private schools is a problem to students and parents, especially with the current economic and political crisis. Note, that they are the students from private schools, most students in there come from a well-off family,yet they still find the increase a burden to them. How much more to the families who are only earning enough to support their basic needs. Many of today’s youth are compelled to drop out of school because of the inability of their parents to support them in their studies and with this tuition and other fees increase , are they expecting to educate more students or are they prepared to face the consequence of their decision, that there will be more Filipino youth who will not be educated.

I am only a voice but I am just one of them,there are still a lot of us.

An UnFoRgTtAbLe ReSeArCh StUdY

Our study compared and showed the effectiveness of the Animated Simulations and Basic GUI in teaching projectile motion to the third year students of the University of the Philippines f or the academic year 2006-2007. This study also showed the positive attitude of the students towards the the computer programs as a teaching tool for learning projectile motion. The effectiveness of the said computer programs were determined based on the students performance level in Basic Physics’ concept of projectile motion before and after they were exposed to the said programs, the attitude of the students towards the two computer programs was also used in determining the computer program’s effectiveness.

The subjects of the study were the third year Basic Physics students of the University of the Philippines, SY 2006-2007. The subjects were grouped into two based on in their sections, specifically section Bocobo and section Sison.The two groups were exposed to two different computer programs. Section Bocobo with Animated Simulation and section Sison with the Basic GUI. Using Tuckman’s technique, the subjects were match-paired according to sex and to their second year grades in Biology and Chemistry.

The following are the findings obtained fro our study:

1. Students exposed to the Animated Simulation got the pretest mean of 3.269 while students exposed to Basic GUI obtained a pretest of 2.739 meanwhile posttest mean of students exposed to Animated Simulation is 5.4348 and students exposed to Basic GUI garnered a posttest mean of 3.6957.

2. The subjects from both groups all got a significant increase in their mean scores after using the programs. The group exposed to the Animated Simulation got a mean gain of 2.1739 while the group exposed to the Basic GUI obtained a mean gain of 0.9565. Although, the Animated Simulation group obtained a higher mean gain, Ho_1, which means that there is a significant difference in the mean gains of the scores of the students before and after being exposed to both teaching tools.

3. The Animated Simulation Group yielded a greater mean attitude of 3.7217 than the Basic GUI Group, which obtained a mean attitude of 3.5087. Although, both programs yielded different mean attitudes, students showed the same qualitative description, which is positive.

4. There was a significant difference in the comparison of the mean gains for both of the groups. Ho₂ was rejected which means that students exposed to the Animated Simulation performed better than those exposed to Basic GUI in terms of achievement.

Since there was no significant difference in the comparison of attitudes for both groups, Ho₃ was accepted.showed that both computer programs were effective in teaching projectile motion. Consequently, it presented that Animated Simulations was more effective. The study also showed that the subjects find the two computer programs helpful in their understanding towards projectile motion.

Our study showed that both of the computer programs were appealing to our subjects. However,Animated Simulation was found to be more effective.

DoN't wAnNa HaVe A dEJaVu

Last week I had the weirdest experience in my life. It was so weird that my certainty for remembering that experience is a 100% sure. It was weird, but as weird as it was, it still did not deprive to me my price, the learning. The story of my weirdest experience goes like this...

It was almost dark and it was a Friday.I tried to stretch my tired arms to give me a little relaxation from out controversial CWTS class. I did also try to give myself a massage,when suddenly I heard somebody calling me. It was my friend asking me to accompany her in buying something. I really don’t wanna go with her, but minutes later I already found my self with her. We went to a store near our school and it was a bookstore. It was so weird because when I entered the store, I felt that I already know what’s going to happen next., it’s as if I had all of those in my dreams. I expected that my friend will not buy a book but a long yellow folder,and guess what,she did. I felt scared and I closed my eyes. When I opened my eyes, I was already surrounded by all the people in that store. I screamed and tried to call my friend, only to found out that she already had left me. In my fear, I immediately ran back to my school and as I was running, I knew then that I am going to bump to somebody. My intuition did not went wrong. As i was running to my fullest speed, I crashed into our Physics teacher and he asked me about the difference of the Contraction and Expansion. I did not have enough time to answer him because I heard a sound...It was my alarm clock,waking me up. I woke up that morning feeling so week and full of what if’s/. I just could not believe it that my dream is very close to reality. Realizations were on my mind.

With that dream I have realized that a knowledge about what’s going to happen next will make one’s life dull. Yes we can anticipate on the effects of what we are doing now, but to know the exact detail of our tomorrow makes life unworthy to live. Unworthy because. life life lived in a script is a life with no color. Who wants to live a life with no excitement? we may fail a thousand times but its not the fall that counts. It’s the times that you have stood up. I often hear people who are regretting for something say like this...”if I only knew”...well, I can say that those people still does’t know the very essence of life. And what is that essence? Well for me, the very essence of life is the knowledge that we don’t have for our tomorrow. Life is a book, a book yet to be completed. It’s the longest of all diaries, most colorful and interesting of all magazines and most of all the wildest of all the adventures. Life is a complex word, hard to define.

a BeAuTiFul SoUl

She sings, dance and act. She’s my friend and one of my special friends. She’s a woman of simplicity and beauty. So much for her perfection, she’s Doannne Lyre Montecastro, a beautiful soul.

Doanne has been my friend ever since my rollercoaster high school life began. Our friendship started with all those “I thought you were’s” and those wrong impressions for each other. It was on June 2003 when she first saw me as a strict and an unkind person. But it did not bother me because the feeling was mutual. But I guess that the days come so fast, the earth’s rotation around its axis is practically inevitable. The exact position of the planet leads us to the right time of realizing of who we are to each others. From then on we became good friends. Her honesty and her sincerity to her words were her key towards me. I know of only a few people in my life who remains truthful to their words and surprisingly she’s one of them. Doanne was open about her rushes and feelings of “dislike” to other persons from our batch. It just feels good that God draw me to a person who entrusted some of her secrets to me, despite of my unsealed lips. Doanne has never been a judgmental person to me. She carefully took time to know me and respected me with my whole being. I greatly admire her because only a few people in our batch sees the real me. Doanne accepted my liberated and “city-girl “attitudes though I know that she is clothed with strong Christian views. I know how hard it is for her to have a friend who perceives tings different from what she has. But she never let me feel that we don’t belong or that we canot ride. She continued to accept me until I have realized that my turn to accept her has come. Looking unto her, I see a beautiful person. Beautiful not because of her hairstyle trademark or her very long and beautiful fingers and fingernails but it’s because of the beauty she has under her skin Doanne was my first Christian friend, same as she was the first to invite me back to Christ again. She did no preaching or a session about the bible; neither did she persuade me to believe in what she believes. She did not even know that she already have invited me. Doanne’s path towards Christ was a road worth to be followed. I made no regrets that I took her path.. I know how surprise Doanne will be as she will be reading this, because I am sure that she does not know that somebody is taking the rod that she is right now.

Doanne Lyre Montecastro is a beautiful person simply because he walks not by her feet but by her faith I know that I am not the only person who admires Doanne. There are still a lot of us. It’s of no surprise because for a person admirable as she is , it is not hard to be inspired by her beautiful soul.

Special note:

I don’t care if you’ll say that I am mushy, just blame it on my hormones working while I am writing this one. I also don’t care if you’ll think that I am just writing this one for t he sake of a blog entry just blame it on my empty brain which cannot expound ideas regarding social issues like alleviating poverty or prostitution. Lastly, I don’t care if you cannot separate fact from fiction because I don’t know too. Just like now I’m starting to be senseless.

tHe RiGht tHiNg aT tHe WrOnG tiMe iS tHe WrOnG tHiNg

“Love should not be stirred up before it's proper time , because the love relationship unless carefully guarded may cause grief instead of the great joy it should bring to the human heart”. A passage from the bible that that opened my eyes to the reality that love depends on time. I wish I have read that passage earlier so that I may not have done my mistake.

Loving someone does not just happen and does not just come by chance. Love to be engaged in a relationship is a choice. When you want to love someone, you've got to love that person with all your heart, mind and soul. I envy the “true love” shared in a same-sex relationship. These people have loved each other not by what they are made but they see each other as a soul, having no gender. I know many of you will present ideas that will contradict mine, but I guess there's nothing wrong if I believe in what I believe. Just like you, you believe in your own definition of love. Learning from my mistakes in the past made me realize that love should be patient and should not be governed by emotions. Right now I can see the question marks in your faces asking me if what's that past. Well, this is what happened.

It felt so strange seeing him everyday completes my day. When his far from me I wanted him to go near me but as he moves closer to me I wanted to grow wings so that I can fly away from him. That strange feeling of mine continued to grow until he and I were brought to a fate to know each other but a worry in my mind that that would be a start of a “ friend zone” relationship was actually bothering me. Knowing him actually feels good, I swear. I felt that my limbic system was very alive and it was jerking! Call me whatever you w ant to call me, I'll accept it, but at those times I knew it that I wanted him not to be my friend but something more than that. As strange as it is, I never thought that it was already the start of my mistake. I started picking the unripe mango and tasted it. It was sour but I love the taste. I've fallen for it and continued picking more of it. I was thankful at those times that he also wanted more than friendship from me. We thought that we felt the same way , so we started a relationship. We were both young and innocent about this relationship, so we kept it as a secret. But I guess that there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed or hidden that will not be made known. The secret was revealed to my family. My brother accepted our relationship( I know he's doing the same thing too) but my parents especially my father cannot accept our relationship. He thought that we were too young to define love in a relationship. Words spread so fast that even my aunts and cousin deliberately opened that topic during our reunions or any family gatherings(couldn't they just mind their own dumb businesses?). That topic would always end with a hurtful advice that I should break up with my beau. I wanted to hold on but I grew tired of the hurtful words thrown to me. The season of harvesting the unripe mangoes was over, but I guess that the tree has it's own life and grew more of it's fruit. They were so green and looked so perfect. He and I continued our communication but with no special relationship attached. I knew even from the start that letting each other go will not be that easy for us. I know that it wasn't again the right time to pick the mango but still I did. We revived our relationship but now in a more secretive way. We rarely see each other but still we communicate through text. We thought we can survive but time came that he had to go abroad to study. We talked about it and decided to finally end it up. The taste of the unripe mango soured my stomach. It's already hurting me and I cant continue to pick more of it and taste it again I guess that if I had just waited for that mango to ripen, then maybe I have tasted it's sweetness. If only I have waited for the right time then I could have not made my mistake.

I have learned something from my past and now taking things so slow is my way.I wanted to be sure that the next mango I am picking up is the ripe one. Patience is the key .

The Hardest Part

Communicatioin is hard enough by itself. You need to do alot of thimking,understanding and listening.Speaking is I think the easiest way to communicate but listening is the hardest. When you try to communicate, you do not just simply talk just to share your views and opinion to someone but it's more into listening to the thought of somebody. Communication is present everywhere but not in our house.We live in one roof but we have different atmosphere at our house.I have a good relationship with my two brothers but not to my prents.I was once even convinced that they have aliens living inside their bodies.That they are not happy with everything that makes me happy.I feel that they do not understand me or respect me as an individual.This thought of mine created a space to our "already-spaced" relationship.

I may say that me and my parents does not really get along well, but saying this doesn't mean that I do not love them. I love my parents because they gave me life and whether I'll like it or not they will still be my crying shoulder soon.I do not really know if how does this relationship of ours started so wrong. When I was still young, as I have rememberred, I feel so pampered by them, but when my mom started to work, nobody was left for us because my dad is also working abroad.Yes I know that they really want to give us the most comfortable life in this world but my parents did not realize that life without a parents personal care is bare. And that's exactly how I felt until now. As a child by then, I grew up in the care of my aunt.And you know what,I became more comfortable sharing my secrets to my aunt than to them. Sharing my problems to somebody is really a big deal to me as a teen ager. I mean I'm growing and I need a support.It's just so sad that I can't turn to them.I envy my classmates and friends who have good relationships with their parents especially with their mom .I could just think of the times when I feel so down and that how much I wanted to talk to my mother and share my feelings to her.I want to establish a friendship with my mom,a deeper friendship,but it seems that we are from Earth to Pluto apart. My friends have told me to try to talk to her but how can I start?
actually I have tried once but she just made me feel more uncomfortable with her. I tried to share something to her but instead of listening to me she give a talk and told me that the talk was useless(ouch!). From then on I have learned something."Listening is really the hardest way to communicate but finding a listener is the hardest part."

A World of its Own

Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. This is the stage in every persons life where changes are always the challenge. I don’t know if it’s really because of the hormones in our body that changes or is it just really because we are growing up. I really don’t know but one things for sure it’s always fun to be a teenager. In this time of my life, I feel that I’m really a youth. This stage defines the statement….”I’m not a girl not yet a woman.” It’s the time in our life where we conquer not only mountains but ourselves. If there’s one thing about being a teenager that I will never forget, it would be my high school life.

They say high school is tough. It think it’s fun. It’s where we make life long friends. And

meet our first loves (well maybe for some). High school is a little world of it’s own.

It has its own people who laughs for same thing and cries for one thing. My high

school life at my school is definitely a special part of my life. I’m from a school

where school life is not ordinary. Being a senior student at my school makes me feel

so proud because I know that it is really a big achievement. I know that many

students wished to be a part of our world, and that is why I’m not loosing

this opportunity. Being an “iskolar ng bayan” an d a teenager is not easy. You must

really have to understand the word prioritization. And I think all of my classmates

and schoolmates would agree to this. As much as we wanted to go malling

every weekends, we just can’t. I could just have thought of the thousand times

I have wished to have a night life with my cousins, but still I can’t. You know why?

Well it’s because I’m haunted by my guilt that I still have a test tomorrow or I still

have a research deadline tomorrow. If I were not just patient, then I could said this

many times……schooling sucks!. But I can do nothing more than that because my

dream of becoming successful someday lets me forget how tiring and boring schooling

is. The only thing that excites me about going to school are my friends and of course

my long list of crushes (oh c’mon I’m not a hypocrite). My friends at my school

are great. We are maybe different from each other, learning differently, having

different styles, traits and religion; we’re all a minority of one. And now that we’re

soon graduating and will soon be leaving the world that we have established, I

feel a little pain in my heart. High school at my school is definitely not an

ordinary world of it’s own. This world defines friendship, love and most of all

success.

They say high school is tough .I think it’s fun for it has a little world of it’s own.

Listen to what I’m not saying

Don’t be fooled by me., Don’t be fooled by the thousand masks I wear. I give the impression that I’m secure but the truth is that I’m not. I may give you a feeling that everything within me is sunny and unruffled, that waters are calm and that I’m in command and needs no one. Don’t dare t o believe what you see outside of me because no matter how hard you look at me you’ll never get to know me that way. When you want to know me…….then you’ve got to listen to what I’m not saying.

My name is Ella Beverly Sarmago. I’m 16 yrs of age and born on March 8, 1990(huh! what’s the big deal?) .Obviously I was born under the sign of the fishes, Pisces. Pisces women are said to be intuitive and creative. The first one maybe true but the latter one…….me creative...don’t wait for my answer. Anyway were getting out of the topic, I decided to make this entry as my first because I want the readers to have a little idea of what kind of a person I am. You know, to avoid being prejudged. I am really afraid of being prejudged because people always do that to me. They say that I am “maarte” and that’s always the first impression of the people I meet. It hurts me a lot especially when you’ll know that their basis is just the way that you dress. I often get to ask myself that, is there really something wrong about being a “fascious” (fashion conscious) person. I’m not denying the fact that I’m a vain person and I think that there’s nothing wrong with that. I mean every woman has the right to feel beautiful and those people can’t take that away from me. I love to satisfy myself by looking good in front of the mirror. And besides, what do they expect from me, to dress as if I’m a boy. Hey! I maybe an unpredictable person but I’m definitely sure about my sexuality. I’m a certified female. My favorite color is pink,uh no ,it’s pink forever. My celebrity crush is Brad Pitt(yeah that brawny man) and I may forget my notebooks for school but never my lip gloss and lotion.. Take it or leave it, that’s me. I’m vain but I’m not “maarte”. If those people just took time to know me then maybe I can prove them wrong. My friends at my school say that I’m “kalog” and I’m not denying that. I really have a crazy mind especially when I’m with my best bud. My best friend and I have been crazy friends foe almost four years. And trust me when were together, always expect the worse from us. We even have our motto….”For worse or for worst…..till failures do us part” Quite famillar.isn’t it? My friend and I almost have the same traits but one thing that differs me from her is that I’m a very secretive person. I rarely share my secrets to her but I often know her secrets because she wants to share it. It’s unfair for her part but she got used to it.We love to do a lot of talking, that has actually become our hobby. Aside from talking we also love to watch t.v. We may be doing the same thing almost everyday but I do one thing that she does not. I read and she rarely do it. I read but I’m not a bookworm. I love to read books that talks about the real world, I’m not a fan of fictional novels, I get easily tired of imagining or picturing scenes. What else could I share? I think I’ve shed enough information about me. Maybe you still think that it’s just a little information, but remember I’ve told you before that I’m a secretive person. Sharing a part of me to the public is already a big deal.

So who really am I, you may wonder………..I am every woman, every man, every child….every human…….I am anything but ordinary.