REFLECTION IV

         It feels like yesterday, I just walked into the four corners of Ilocos Sur National High School as a little innocent freshmen being bumped by the older, taller and bigger students, and today, i am saying good bye as a senior student. My journey in this school had come to an end.

        But lets not count the days, instead lets make the days count. Lets make the most of it, it is saying goodbye time. But in this last quarter I enjoyed my class, I enjoy Photoshopping, Color Correction, Changing Hair Color, Turning photos to black and white and many more stuff. Graduation is near, thank you teachers for the help, and knowledge you've given us.

       This is it. We want it or not, we have to say goodbye. But before anything else thank for the joy and experience you shared with me, we laughed together, we cried together, we did a lot of crazy things together and I will surely treasure the moments I had with you. But we have different dreams and goals in life and we have to go on our separate ways to fulfill those dreams. So farewell to you my friends, hard to accept but we must move on to continue our journey. Goodbye doesn't mean not seeing each other again, instead it means we'll see each other again. I'll see you again and by that time I am sure that our dreams we're no longer dreams, we've got what we wanted.

        Goodbye Ilocos Sur National High School.

Change. It Starts with ME.

       In the world there is nothing permanent except "CHANGE". Do you agree with that statement? Well, nothing we can do about it, things changed, people change even the climate changes. One can change into two ways, Change to be good or Change to be bad.

       Today, we are experiencing a serious problem in our Government. It looks like there are no more good leaders in our country, and if there is maybe only some. Our leaders nowadays uses their position for personal gains. There are now only some who really does their job without any anomaly, based on the readings on the newspapers, what we hear in the radio, what we watched in the TV there are more politicians who had deceived the nation.
      Now is the time for change to be good, now is the time to change those who are in the position today, now is the time to correct what is wrong. As a teenager I'm already aware on what is happening in our country, there were corruptions and stealing of the Country's fund which has to be use for the improvement of the Philippines.
       So how can the CHANGE we want be achieved? Change must starts first in ourselves, it must start in me, you and then everyone will follow. For us the new generation, in some time we will be the leaders of this nation what was happening today may be an eye opener. We must serve in will, be in that position to serve to help the nation and not for our own selves.

KANNAWIDAN: YLOCOS FESTIVAL

        As we all know, technology is fast approaching, almost everything in this world is run by a machine. Innovation isn't bad at all, it is not bad to patronize modernization, but we must see to it that our beliefs and traditions will not be forgotten and that these should still be practiced.
       The province of Ilocos Sur led by Governor Ryan Singson, has its own way to preserve these kinds of tradition and how to introduced this traditions to the newer generation. Kannawidan means a feast of heritages, practices and products. During the Kannawidan Festival, all of the products of the municipalities of the province were being showcased, their different indigenous dances were performed, and there were a lot of programs to watch for.
      Saniata ti Ylocos is like binibining pilipinas, the most beautiful ladies of the different municipalities, were to compete for the crown. Of course during this festival Celebrities are always there, Rocco Nacino, Enzo Pineda, Jonalyn Viray and Gladys Guevarra Band,  Raging Divas, Pretty Triszia, Winnie Girls, Joey de Leon Look-a-Like, will be there to entertain the viewers. There are a lot more programs, KANNAWIDAN is definitely One of the best festivities in the country.

IN THE NEAR FUTURE....

        There is always a time we asked ourselves, "Hey what do you want to be in the future?" or "What will I be in the near future?". Of course every single individual in this world wants success, it is a dream for everyone.
        After kindergarten I was asked by my mom what I want to be, I said.. I want to be an architect, because back then I like drawing, I draw a lot before. And then on grade 3 I change my mind, I said to myself I want to be a Nurse and go abroad. And then in grade 6 this ambition of mine again was changed, as technology arises, and as computers gradually taking over the world I said I want to take I.T..
          I've had a lot of dreams, but finally today, I figured out what I really wanting to be and to do in the near future. I wanted to be an engineer, specifically a CIVIL ENGINEER, ever since I found building structures a really nice job. I want this to be the ONE THING I'm looking forward to do everyday I woke up. Someday I'll be a successful engineer, I'll build one of the most famous buildings not only in the Philippines but in other countries, I wanna build bridges that will amazes people who crosses it.
        This is the one I am gonna be after N-years. But of course I must have to finish first my education, thank God I'm already graduating in the secondary school, one more level to go. I promised to myself that this dream of mine will happen, all I need to do is to be determined, stay focus and always have FAITH IN GOD.

New Year.......New Me?

        Every New Year, we always have this this thing called "New Year's Resolution", it is having resolution on your attitudes, habits and even looks to others.

        This New Year I planned not to have any New Year's Resolution, because everytime I planned to, just like in the passed years I'd never done any of the resolution I planned. And I don't want anymore to be upset by not achieving any of those.

         There's no need to change, what we need is IMPROVEMENT. This new year I want to develop the attitude of saving money, because I noticed as I grow, the more thing I want to have and it is not good that if you want something just tell it to your parents and they will give it to you. It is about time to save and be practical so that whenever I wanted to buy something I could use the money I saved.

        One more thing I would like to develop is to be independent, I wanted to do things with no one's assistance.

        This New Year, I would not say NEW ME, I would prefer NEWLY IMPROVED ME.

REFLECTION III

        I would say that this third grading is the hardest quarter so far. Also it is the quarter where i went on different seminars that gave me a lot of lessons in life, as a student, human being and as a citizen.

        As mentioned above this is the hardest because of the hectic projects and requirements that were given to us. One of the most difficult that I have done this quarter is the term paper, it is like a work of a college student, instead of enjoying my Christmas vacation, I am working on this term paper, and one thing that made this difficult is I don't have any notes on this, meaning, I don't know the parts and their details. But thank god, I have finished it.

        Well, if there were annoying things, there were good things. This third grading also I have attended some seminars. One of those is the Ryla, This is the best, we went to Baguio City and stayed in a high class hotel, I learned a lot of lessons in here, like be sociable, how to manage task that were given to you with people you don't know, and how to be a good leader and citizen.

         In life there will always be challenges, and it is not bad to fail, as long as you'll keep trying you can do things you want to achieve. True failure is when you stop fighting.

TRUE ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS.

Christmas, as we, the Catholics, know that this is the birthday of Jesus Christ, our savior. Most of us believe that it is the giving and receiving of gifts, day of parties and games.

God gave his only son Jesus for us to be saved from sin, and that is the gift we received from our creator, but in my opinion its not just only a gift, but it is his way for showing his love for us, he wanted to save us from sin because he loves us so much.

So for me Christmas is not only about material gifts, it is not only celebrating it by parties and games. For me it is a day to set aside the hate, and think about loving and caring for each and every one of us. For me it is a day to share happiness, help those who need help, and love those who needed love.

May we the true essence of Christmas be always in our hearts and minds, through out the year, not only in the month of December or in "-ber months". LOVE our fellowmen, forgive those who have sin with us, care and help those who are in need of help.