AN ICT STUDENT

              Well, you don’t have to be a computer expert just to be an ICT student. In our class, almost all of us are starter in making html files, making blogs an even learning or using Adobe Photoshop. But, I think all you need was the interest to do all these things. You also need to be patient. Being these kinds of works needs patience in working. And, be open minded. Try to listen on the opinions of your classmates and remember to ask help from your classmates, who are said to be experts in these, and not just making a solo flight scene, learning all by yourself.

            The things that I’ve mentioned here are some few things that I did to achieve what learning I gained this time. And the thing which helped me most, is the thing that I mentioned last, being open minded. I usually approach someone if I have problems. Just like now, in learning and using the photoshop, all I do was to say the name “MATET” and approach her in her place. She’s the one I always try to approach because she is the best in using the photoshop among others. And we, are her apprentices and at this level, I couldn’t even say that I’m an apprentice instead, a novice. In making an html, the best thing is patience especially in finding some mistakes which makes your desired taste obviously wrong.

            What I do for now is just foreseeing myself, being an expert and doing like an experts like the others. And I think all I need is practice. It is again an attitude to be an ICT student. And again, you don’t have to be an expert, because, as a beginner, you have the luck just by learning more than you learned before.   

“MY DREAM, MY FUTURE”

My vision for the future entails many goals that I know I will have to work hard to achieve. I feel that the path to accomplishing my goals will be though hard work within my education.

　          

My formal education is a factor that has been the basis for my success throughout high school. I believe that it will continue to be the tool that will lead me to success in the future. My first and foremost plan is to graduate from high school. I consider this to be a huge accomplishment considering that many people don't make it that far. After graduation I will be attending one of five Colleges and Universities to which I am still waiting for a reply from.

　

I will attend my chosen school for the following five years. During that time I will obtain the knowledge that I will need for my future career. I hope to graduate after those five years with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. My dream job is to become a computer engineer, software engineer or any hardware or software. I have been interested in trying to fix CPUs of computer and try to discover and improve it in the future. And also, the long sleeves that usually wearing. It’s nice, I mean it’s cool.

Well all in all, success is my total goal. And I believe that this work mixed with passion, perseverance, patience will be the formula for my success. And the first step, my education. I just can’t stop foreseeing myself wearing sleeves, daily going to the office and the two big mansions for my parents.

　

"KANNAWIDAN - ILOCOS FESTIVAL"

     Kannawidan means traditions and this province got to showcase all what she has. It aims to harness Ilocos Sur's rich historical values and products in order to attract foreign and local tourists and investors. It became an annual festival that aims to create awareness on the preservation of the province' rich cultural heritage, practices and traditions, and a showcase of the different agriculture and industry products. And there were many events day by day which were visited by tourists.

      There are dances particularly ethnic dances which were performed by many natives from other towns here at Ilocos. They displayed their talents as well as their costumes. Also, a trade fair that showcased the products of the province such as bagnet, bibingka, furnitures, foods from the natives and others. There were also eating contests and drinking contests. Traditional games were played and bingo as well. There were stage performances such as Sarzuela and Komedya. There was also a beauty and brain contest which they called Saniata. Art exhibitions and competitions were also conducted. It was a fun filled week of celebration of the Kannawidan festival in Ilocos Sur and for many Ilocamos, it was a very significant event.

NEW YEAR. . STILL, THE USUAL ME

New Year to me is a celebration. A celebration, like Christmas, that we family, would be with each other, shopping, preparing the foods and most of all, we’re together to welcome the New Year. There are also things that are to be done during New Year. New things to have, New Year’s resolutions, and other things that make you differ from now to a new one.

As a student and a teen, I also have these resolutions, specifically, endless resolutions as in, no one had ever changed or fulfilled at all. I actually think that I can’t change these attitudes of mine into a nicer or a worse one. It’s so hard, for me to be thrifty so I can save money, be nice so that everyone would be nice at me and be good. Maybe I can say that its hard, but I can still do these things or change them. But the fact is, I can’t really change myself. On the past days until now, I always planned to be different, be serious and a decent man. Even not allowing myself to have joy and happiness just for that. But I really found out that this is so hard for a guy like me. Again, I can’t really change myself. This usual self of mine, I think, will be forever. Being a stupid and an idiot, even like that, is just me. I’m me and the usual me. And this new year, it would always be THE USUAL ME.

OUR MOTHER TONGUE, OUR POWER

     Language defines the type of person we are generally and it has had an effect on our choices as well as our lifestyle. Language has become our way of seeing life in a different perspective. It has everything, our culture, our family and even our home.

     As a student, I can’t just resist myself to become ambitious and love other language, feeling high in speaking it and looking down on the language that I usually use. This is just a trait of me and even many people in this country. We didn’t knew, its importance to us. In other places, it is just like a shame if I use it because for many, they seem to react weird just like asking themselves “What are they saying?”. This is the main cause of out anxieties in speaking our mother tongue. But I just realized, there’s nothing wrong. This is our form of speaking and most of all, our trademarks. The honors this language gave to us, products of this language, presidents who use this language and who became president with this mother tongue. It made me say that without language, one is voiceless, with imperfect language, one is perceived as imperfect, and with standard language, one is superior, at least from the perspectives of those who possess the standard command of language.

     Language is many things: the arrangement of words in a particular order, uttered in a certain way, denoting a certain meaning; it is a political instrument which evokes images and motion. The learning of one's mother tongue will provide an individual the right to study their culture and will also preserve family bonds and lessen cultural conflicts between generations. Language gave honor to us, we ILOCANOs in the Philippines and in the world.

LOVE - - - THE TRUE ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS

Everyone wants Christmas to be meaningful. Christmas is definitely the season for gifts and giving. During Christmas, a lot of people go to malls to buy various gifts to be given to their friends and loved ones. People just need to spend more during Christmas season but most of them have their own purposes and that is to give. Give gifts and give love to their fellow and most of all, to their loved ones.

Since June, I had also planned something about this Christmas. Especially when my arm was broken and I was that hopeless for it. It undergone surgery and it was so hard for me but someone lend their hands to help me. They never stop to call me, ask about my situation and even visiting me here at Vigan just to see me and my injury. They are actually my savior and they are my parents.

Well, this Christmas I actually planned for a gift for them. Because of all they did for me. I am thinking of many gifts or a special gift. Maybe a something for parents, a ring or a cake. But the problem is MONEY. . . ! I did so thrifty through these times because of that gift. I even tried not having my merienda at school  just to save enough money for them. But what I did, or what I am supposed to do is to ask money to them and just add my savings and whatever what I’d save, that can be enough for a gift. I just realized that gifts are not only at material things but in the love within it and that love may be most enough for them.

Honestly, when I will be giving that gift, I am that anxious because it’s my first time ti give a gift for them. I first wrote a letter to them, unexpectedly, they were so happy and that made them to give me a hug. That inspired me to be confident for what I would be giving. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is at least, I gave a gift for them, which I can be considering special. Because anything that I will be giving to them even how cheap it is, as love flows within it can be considered special.

Love means making time for others, even if you end up with fewer gifts and less than perfect Christmas events. The less you clutter your Christmas season, the more time you’ll have for what’s really important, what really matters, the essence of Christmas----love!.

EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUAL DIFFERENCES

     On the past decades, we all know that men have more rights than women. They were more powerful, they can just turn women into toys as well as slaves. And honestly, I don't have any regret of that because of my gender, I'm a boy and I know, I have all the advantages of being it. But of course, even if how selfish I am, I also have conscience. Thinking of it makes my pity for women and suddenly, I realized that my thinking was wrong. The advantage, and inequality that I taught before was wrong. GOD MADE US ALL EQUAL.

     On the other phase of life, we almost achieved that equality. We were all living in a simple life w/ the same type of life. But ever since materials came up, jewelries, gold, silver and sinful money, this equality faded. Humanity was divided into two, rich and poor. Realizing it makes a disadvantage in me because they're my fellow, the poor ones. And its obvious, rich people are on the top while we poor, are seeking help for the rich that made us always in the bottom. I pity on us and at the same time anger when i see people starving, sleeping on the streets, dying. It's just like, just because of we're poor and always at the bottom, that doesn't mean that they would abandon us and continue their selfish works. They forgot what they nature is. All of them came from rugs to riches. All of us created by our God, are ALL EQUAL.