My REFLECTION

Ber months already, just like yesterday was the first day of school. Next week is the beginning of the 3^rd grading period. I can now feel the cold hug of Christmas’s air. It’s another problems, challenges and difficulties that I will encounter this next grading period.

It’s not easy for me to move on because of the learning’s I’ve missed. This quarter, there were many competitions I’ve joined and also to my classmates and friends, such as sabayang pagbigkas elimination to finals, folk dance, statistic’s jingle and many more. It’s just okay for us to the days we were excused or absent at least we gave the honor of our school. We also met many other people from different schools here in Vigan. Like in our statistic’s jingle, it’s hard for us to move on because we expected and we predicted that we will be the winner, unfortunately we lose. That’s just a challenge for us to stay strong for the next difficulties or problem.

Thanks to my classmates who helped me and guided me to know our lessons in ICT. We did some activities about the hypertext markup language. For that activity we have learned how to edit HTML documents using editors like the notepad. I already know how to make texts in the webpage bold, italic, underlined, center, aligned, right, left and etc. I found also the secret and easiest way to use it. this kind of secret is the one who gave deeper meaning how sharpened my thinking on this subject.

This quarter makes me defiant and resourceful because of the challenging works and times. This next quarter, I will change everything especially my negative sides for me to become better.

You’re Hero! My Hero!

Not only true heroes wear their costumes like underwear outside the pants, mask on their faces, a cape at their back, a gorgeous names and every costume they wear at different part of the body. We grew up knowing all kinds of heroes, the type of heroes you will idolize, or seen on TV. Heroes don’t always dress in superhero costumes. A hero can wear simple clothes as a simple mankind.

These heroes I’m talking about are the teachers. Or commonly known as the second parents of students. I will describe them like a social networking (internet) because all what I want to know they have it all. Day by day they are the one giving and sharing knowledge. They are the one who is molding me as a better student, who has been guiding me in my way; who scolds and corrects my negative behaviors, they are the one who are always there as I face some problems in life, they are the one who appreciates my work and shares their knowledge and wisdom that I might use for my future. They are the heroes who saved me from the people around me, the people who can’t accept me as I am. They never lived me alone while I’m walking through the way of the brighter future.

The most important part of being a teacher (hero) is to change the world. Teachers changed my world by teaching me how to solve, spell, write, read, think, analyze and count. They are the one giving colors to my life with knowledge. The path they are sharing for me to get my number one dream to become a Manager of a Hotel and Restaurant someday. I may also become a hero by the help of our teachers.

Teachers are the number 1 hero to the students and who graduated by the help of the heroes (teachers). We need to love them, take care of them, respect them and idolize them. Without teachers, you can’t achieve what you want!

Unravel the Causes. Build the Solution

Empower Science Clubbers through Action

Can’t you imagine what’s happening in our world right now? It’s getting worse and worse. Day by day we’re experiencing a hot weather in the morning, lunch time, evening and even at night. We people are suffering this, just because of our doings.

As a human living on earth, I observed that every day, every hour, every minute, every second and every mil second our earth are slowly destroyed. Do you want to destroy your home? Absolutely NO! No one dreamed to destroy his/her/its home. Because of our negative attitudes and behaviors, our home is slowly destroyed. We need the 3R’s such as to recycle, to reduce and to reuse garbage for segregation to helping mother earth. This 3R’s is just a simple way but it can change one’s life. It can lessen the affection to the earth, not only for the earth but also to the health and wealth of living things. By this 3R’s (recycle, reduce, reuse) we can save energy, money and natural materials. This kind of process, all of us can help to solve our number one problem on earth, pollution. Pollution, where all living things may destroy their healthy life. Us! The Science Clubbers, we people living on earth are the Science Clubbers. We are the one to Empower through Action. It means that we should help each other in order to make the world healthy, the earth, our only home.

So what are you waiting for? Go! Go! Go! And move for the healthy world, healthy plants, healthy animals and healthy humans. Take note, it is not yet the end; we can still save the world by the use of our bare hands. 

My Inspiration

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My Source of Strength

In this world there are many types of heroes. We grew up knowing all kinds of heroes, the type of heroes you will idolize, or seen on TV. Even a cartoon character can be heroic. Hero can be something to you that is a hero. There are heroes like Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Iron man, Wonder woman, and many more. You can even call your favorite singer a hero like Miley Cyrus, Justin Beiber, Nicky Minaj, Miranda Sings, Katy Perry, or other singers out there. They all can be heroes but only HIM recognized my hero.

In all your ways acknowledge God and He will direct your path. God is the source of everything we have so whenever I need this guidance a always seek His refuge. When I was still a child my love and faith in Him was developed. My family and I are always o to church. I’ve learned more about Him and my love for Him was deeper when I enrolled at Dudley S. Lara. They taught us about God, how He loved us and sacrificed His life for us to redeem us from our sins. During my elementary years at SVCS, we had our religious instruction; my Christian way of life was more developed. I’ve learned to pray fervently. Until now I’m applying the bible readings and scriptures I have learned. Whenever I’m down and confused, I’ll ask God’s help after that I felt relaxed and relieved. Trials challenges, difficulties that come our way are God’s test for our faith in Him.

      Jesus is someone who I can always go to in my time of needs and who is always there for me. My hero in my life where ever I am. He is and will always be my number one hero in my life. My hero that lives in many people’s live. God, Lord, Jesus, our father, friend, brother and savior……… My inspiration, my savior!

Wika Natin ang Daang Matuwid

Language, every country has its own language. Like us, Filipino. We’re celebrating this month of August the Month of Language or in Filipino “ Buwan ng Wika.” Every year we’re celebrating this for us to realize how our language is very important to us Filipino citizens. Returning overview of our history of how the Filipino language. We have many languages ​​in the country such as Cebuano, Boholano, Ilocano, Tagalog, and so on. We have many different languages ​​because of the shape of our archipelago nation separated for the areas and islands. By the help of Manuel L. Quezon they selected that Wikang Filipino is our national language.

Wika! Wika! Wika! Sigaw ng bawat Pilipino, binibigkas ng bawat Pilipino. Pero ang tanong, lahat ba ng Pilipino ginagamit niya ang sarili niyang wika? Lahat-lahat ba ng mga mamamayang Pilipino ipinagdiriwang ang buwan ng wika? Gusto o tinatangkilik ba ng mamamayang pilipino ang ating sariling wika? Mga katanungan gumugulo sa aking isipan. Ang isang bansa na may sariling wika ay nangangahulugang malaya ito. Ano bang kahalagahan ng ating sariling wika? Marami, isa na diyan na ang wika ang siyang paraan para makipagkomyunikasyon. Ginagamit ng tao ang wika sa pagpapahayag ng damdamin at kaisipan. Sapat nang maipahayag ng bawat isa ang konseptong nais nilang iparating sa wikang pareho nilang mauunawaan. Ang mahalaga sa komunikasyon ay pagkakaunawaan. Ito rin an siyang nabubuklod ng isang bansa.  Dahil sa wika, nagkakaintindihan ang lahat ng tao, nasosolusyonan ang mga problema sa pamamagitan ng wika. Iba't-ibang wika sa bawat lugar, komunidad, at bansa. Mahalaga ang wika ng isang bansa katulad ng Wikang Filipino. Ang Wikang Filipino ay sumisimbolo sa kultura ng mga Pilipino kung sino, ano, at kung ano man ang kinalakihan nila. Hindi naman masamang gumamit ng wikang banyaga, pero dapat lang naman na mas pahalagahan natin ang wikang ating kinamulatan. Hindi porket Wikang Ingles na ang internasyonal na wika ay di mo na gagamitin ang wikang Pilipino.  Wikang Filipino parin ang napakahalaga dahil ito ang sumisimbolo sa ating katauhan bilang isang Pilipino, makakaya nating mapaunlad ang ating sariling bansa kahit ang ating sariling wika lamang ang ating gamitin katulad ng bansang Japan. Sarili nilang wika ang kanilang ginamit at pinahalaahan, tignan natin ngayon ang bansang Japan ay umunlad dahil mismo ito sa kanilang sariling wika. Kaya dapat tayo ding mga Pilipino, paggalang at papapahalaga dapat an atin pairalin makamtan lang ang pinakaaasam-asam na maunlad na bansang Pilipinas.

This month more we understand the importance of the Filipino language Filipino. Not only in August but should celebrate every day because we using our language every second every minute and every day of our lives. Filipino language is really important nowadays because it proves that we have a proud own language. Need to protect, defend it, love, and most of all we should respect of our Filipino language. Language is important because without language, vain world and life.

            "First Quarter Knowledge in 

         Information and Communication Technology"

                       Freshies, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors life at Ilocos Sur National High School. Many things I've learned in every subjects. Like the subject ICT, its all about information and communication technologies. Since grade 8, I've learned on how the computer works and parts of it, parts of a Microsoft Word and the use of it and how to use the Microsoft Excel. In 3rd year, I've learned on how to use PowerPoint, how to make movies, how to use a Microsoft Access and etc.
                       This 4th year life, first grading period, all I've learned about the ICT subject was the Internet timeline about the years, developers and was developed by the developers. I've learned when Sputnik was launch (1957-1960) ; 1st paper on packet switching by Leonard Kleinrock (1961) ; MIT introduces the Galactic Network Concept by JCR Licklider and W Clark (1962) ; more studies came out on computer networking and packet-switching (1964-1966) ; first design paper on ARPANET by Larry Roberts (1967) ;  first four nodes: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, U California Santa Barbara and University of UTAH (1969) ; fifteen nodes (1970-1971) ; e-mail was born ( 1972) ; first international connection to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) via NORWAR or norway (1973) ; TCP/IP protocol was developed by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (1974) ; Elizabeth II, Queen of United Kingdom, send out a e-mail (1976) ; emoticons :-) and :-( by Scott Fahlman used in e-mail (1979) ; 1st virus attacked on ARPANET (1980) ; Domain Name System (DNS) introduced the number of hosts breaks 1000 (1984) ; Computer Emergency Response Team Formed (1988) ; Tim Berners-Lee of CERN develops the concept of hypertext (1989) ; actual release of the World Wide Web (www) by CERN (1990-1991) ; Internet Society (ISOC) was chartered L Janvary (1992) and when the Philippines connects to the Internet (1994).
                        I've found also what's the meaning of Internet; its major components; how web servers and browsers worked together; data types; multimedia and parts of it. I've learned also on how to use blogger for us to share messages, letters, videos, pictures and more that are happening in our daily lives. I've learned also the meaning of blog; types of it such as personal blogs, corporate blogs, question blogging, by media types ( vlog, linklog, photoblog, sketchblog, tumbleblogs, MP3 blog, phlog) ; by device (mobile blogging) ; by genre (political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs, legal blogs, splog) ; community cataloging (blogosphere) ; blog search engines (bloglines, blogoscope, technorati) ; main parts of a browser (toolbar, address bar, web page, downloading indicator) ; a browser fetch the web page from a server by a request ; page address is contained in the HTTP request ; protocol is a set of rules that defines the format of the data packets and the semantics of their use ; domain name also referred to as the web site's "address", the domain name pinpoints the location of an entity on the web : levels of domain name ( 3rd level domain, 2nd level domain, top level domain (tld) ) ; top level domain examples (.gov- government agencies, .edu- educational institution, .org-organizations, .mil-military, .com-commercial, .net- network organization, .bit- business ; portfolio of metrics (# of visitors, # of posts, # of comments, # of inward links, geographical distribution of of users, # of feed readers, # of aggregators) and etc.
                          There are no problems that I have encountered this first quarter, but there were challenges that I had overcome while gaining our lessons. In the first lesson, it was hard for me to memorize directly the internet timeline, afterwards I reviewed this as much as I want to memorize, then the result was better 'cause I had memorized the dates, the discoveries and the developers. It was hard for me also to understand about the types of blog, I decided to read what our teacher gave us about blog for me to know all the details about blogs. And I address this by annalizing our lessons so that I can understand what's the importance and uses of our lessons.
                          Our eyes are in front because it's more important to look back. Don't dwell on thing in the past. Learn from them and keep moving forward. Move on it's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book. Just turn the page. I'm hoping that this next quarter, I will learn more things about ICT and  more discoveries in this subject.

              "President Benigno Aquino 

         4^th State of the Nation Address"

                      Last July 22, 2013, President Benigno Aquino registered to his 4^th State of the nation address what he have done and success for his administration. It is not allowed that it will not noticed that the difference, for the right, of the administration of the president, success was became stronger to the election and high trust of the citizen. To the aspect of education, work particular to the graduates of TESDA, projects that was delerict by the past administration, reformation for the charity including Philhealth, SSS, conditional cash transfer, health and modernization of the police and military. There are persons he commended of his Cabinet for the good work that they have done to the citizens and compliant for his right road. Three police also were commended for their good works. And the 1st  time, he criticized some of the agencies under his administration for being a bad workers- Immigration because of the escaped suspects, Customs because of the continuous admission of the contraband or not paying for the right tariff, and the National Irrigation Administration that he commended during their anniversary. 

                     Because Aquino is in the middle for his term as the President, he decided to mention that all the success of his regulation of the government, similar to the agreement to MILF and the good economy that were perceptible some institution in the other country. He also mentioned the cases of the past administration- anomaly of TESDA where he named the suspects, the anomaly of PAGCOR and also to the PNP. I'm glad because he mentioned the accusation of the PNP right now. The incident rub out in Atimonan, and the present investigation for killing to the head of Ozamis Gang- Ricky Cadavero, that rub out was the angle.

                    But he cannot make us all happy. There are common "kilos-protesta" of the common agencies and groups, he mentioned the common complaint to any sitting official in the Palace. There are hot issues that were avoided, like the hoaxing to the government that P10 billion was the amount together with the pork barrel was used by some of the legislator. President relatively kept this issue. Only one person can't do this alone, or any one administration that 6 years only all of the problems of the country. Large cause of this were the left or inherited or defect of the past administration, more on his agreement. But he specified that his all reformation and programs should be continuous moving, and it will not be hard for the citizens to suspect. He threatened all the disruptive and all of the unknown anomalous in the government, and their days was already numbered. I'm hoping so. I want to see that all the guilty will be pent, not only filing cases that still not working or creeping. And I want like the three police that were commended all the PNP. Hoping that this will be the words to his 2 last SONA.

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"Gutom at Malnutrisyon Sama-sama nating Wakasan"

                  Hunger and malnutrition are the common problems of developing countries like the Philippines. We cannot easily eliminate these problems due to the rapid increasing of the poor people in our country. Day by day many Filipino citizen were suffering because of the less amount of budget and high prices of food products for the mass. Poorest of the poor are the people who are not eating because of the political corruption.

                    Hunger and Malnutrition resulting from the situation tend to increase more and more each year. The government and people concern must find solutions to solve the problem. Jobs should be created to help people meet their needs. Training adults in cottage industries will help them earn extra money. People must plant vegetables in vacant lots or in their backyard to have nutritious food which are readily available and at the same time save money for other needs. Vegetables such as camote, pechay, squash and beans can be grown and harvested in a short span of time without much skills, money and time needed to grow the nutritious vegetables. Livestock such as chicken, goat, duck and pig can also be raised in a limited space and can be good sources of protein to solve malnutrition with resourcefulness, positive attitude and simple knowledge we can fight hunger and malnutrition. 

                     Let us all do our share to eliminate this problem. To move on and start the day healthy and to be energized.

                   

Ilocos Sur National High School

Gomez St. Vigan City

June 26, 2013

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III

Malacañang  Palace Manila

JP Laurel St. San Miguel Manila 1005

Dear Mr. President,

                     We the students in the countryside are having a hard time in stretching the daily allowance given to us by our parents. The price of school supplies w/c we use frequently is increasing time and again. We have to use these supplies wisely if we want to save something for our snack and food.

                     We heard that the main reason why prices rise from time to time is the weekly increase of petroleum products. Please help us out from this problem by stabilizing the price of gasoline and other petroleum products.

                       We know that you are always on the side of the masses. May you act on the said problem the soonest possible time. Thank you and more power sir!

Respectfully yours,

Luigi