"Ang Aming Buhay ay isang Libro, mayroon tayong Kalayaan na Sumulat ng Anuman"

 "Ang Aming Buhay ay isang Libro, mayroon tayong Kalayaan na Sumulat ng Anuman"

    Nakatira kayo sa mundo kung saan ang sinuman ay maaaring maging anumang nais nila, iyon ang paraan kung paano ko isinasaad ang aking kahulugan ng salitang "Kalayaan". Ang bawat isa ay may kalayaan na mag-desisyon. Walang pumipigil sa kanila sa kung anong uri ng desisyon ang kanilang gagawin, pinili nilang sundin ang isang landas na sinimulan na nila. Ang bawat isa sa atin sa mundo ay nagsusulat ng aming sariling kwento. Iyon ang dahilan kung bakit nakikita ko ang aking mundo bilang isang libro. Maaari kaming magsusulat ng anumang bagay upang umunlad at sumulong sa ating buhay, ngunit may kalayaan din na magsulat ng anupaman at maghanap para sa hinaharap.

    Bilang isang kabataan sa henerasyong ito ng oras, naghihintay pa rin ang kalayaan doon para maabot ko ito at agawin. Gayunpaman, maraming mga paraan upang magawa ko ito  ngunit magtatagal upang magawa ito. Tulad ng, may ilang mga bagay na sinusunod ko pa rin at iniiwasan sa lahat ng oras. Hindi ako ang uri na tumalon diretso, nais ko lamang itong antayin nang kaunting sandali hanggang sa magawa ko ito. Kinukuha ang aking quote bilang isang halimbawa, dahan-dahan akong nagsusulat kung paano uunlad ang aking kwento. Iyon ay isa pang paraan ng pagsasabi kung paano ang aking buhay ay magiging progreso at sumulong sa hinaharap. Ang ideya ay ang pagpaplano ay ang pangunahin na unahin para sa akin na sumulong sa hinaharap at dahan-dahang pagbubukas upang malaman ang mga bagong bagay mula sa iba at higit pa. Nais kong ipahayag ang aking sarili para sa kung sino ako, bilang isang kabataan at bilang isang taong nagsusulat ng kanilang daan patungo sa kalayaan sa kanilang sariling kwento sa buhay.

    Anuman ang ating ginagawa, kahit anong sabihin natin; lahat tayo ay may opinyon sa buhay na nais nating ibahagi at kailangang marinig ng marami. Ang kalayaan ay isang bagay na maaaring mangibabaw sa ating sariling mga tinig at kilos. Tulad ng nakasaad sa quote, sa sandaling muli, "Our Life is a Book, we have the Freedom to Writing Anything", nangangahulugan ito na ang bawat isa ay nagsisimula pa rin at nagtatrabaho patungo sa kalayaan sa pamamagitan ng karanasan sa kanilang sarili na may isang kwento na sasabihin at kanilang paraan ng pagsulat nito.

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For ESP 10 - Kalayaan

20th Century Inspired Art

 

    The artwork that I have created is inspired by several works of abstract art. After looking at a few works of abstract artworks, I noticed that in those artworks, from what I have seen, have spaces in between different parts of the artworks and making it more abstract, literally. So I decided to go with that art style as my inspiration to make my own, By combining abstract and my love for drawing and designing different flower designs, I decided to draw an abstract flower with different colors that go well together and combine into my first abstract artwork.

    The meaning behind the design of the flower is because I can see each and every one of us as a flower petal in a different color. Showing our colors differently means that even if we are different from each other, we are all perfect in any way possible and show our talent to the world with our true colors.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince © Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Walls of Intramuros

The Walls of Intramuros

HISTORY OF THE WALL

Intramuros (Latin for "Within the Walls")is the historic walled area within the modern city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The name Intramuros refers to the fortified city founded at the mouth of the Pasig River shortly after 1571 by the Spanish Conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The walls were constructed in 1521. It was destroyed during an earthquake and was never rebuilt. Built in the 18th Century during the renovation of the riverside defenses, it opened to the river wharves, but the American engineers tore down the gate and part of the walls in 1903 to open the road to Intramuros from Magallanes Drive. Urban congestion during the late 19th and early 20th centuries gradually encircled the site (the moat was filled in 1905) and wore down and replaced the distinctive Spanish colonial architecture with government offices. In 1994, U.S. Bombing completed the reduction of the city to rubble. The site was cleared after World War II, but reconstruction proceeded slowly. In 1951, Intramuros was declared a historical monument.

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The purpose of building the Walls of Intramuros was to be the Spaniard's political and military base in Asia. Grand administrative establishments, as well as religious and educational institutions, thrived within Intramuros, where only the nation's most powerful clans (mostly from Spanish descent) could settle.

ITS IMPACT TO THE CITIZENS/COUNTRY/WORLD

Due to constant attacks from foreign invaders, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, defensive features surrounded the city, including moats, cannons, and fortified walls, from bulwarks to ravelins. Within the walls was Fort Santiago, which was significantly served as military headquarters of Spanish, British, United States, and Japan during different eras, throughout Philippine history. It is known for it's defense structures and protecting the citizens within the walls. Because of that, the people appreciated the arrangement of the defense structures, such as the bulwarks, ravelins, and redoubts are strategically located along the massive walls of Intramuros following the design of medieval fortifications.

ITS IMPACT OR CONTRIBUTION TO HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS

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The contribution that the walls were built was the protection and safety of the people living and staying within the Walled City. With the defense features and structures to Intramuros, it builds up a connection from the people living there and how much it has done since it was built it 1521. Ever since World War II, the Walled City had major damage with some of the buildings destroyed, the people proceeded to rebuild the fallen walls as a way to show their respect to the original builders and paying their condolences of the walls protecting them, especially from the invaders outside the country that are creating massive destruction to the area, from dangers that have come their way.

"GOOD FENCES MAKE GREAT NEIGHBORS"

With this statement, "Good fences make great neighbors", the Walls of Intramuros has kept the people within the city, but it made the citizens living there to respect each other's property. This would also talk about the citizens that live outside the wall. The people would be paying their respect to each other, inside or outside the wall and staying on good terms. Maintaining a good fence, like the Walls of Intramuros, means that the citizens living within the walls are all respectful to each other, just like the great neighbors that they are.

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"MENDING WALLS"

The poem makes a relevance with the wall is about the territorial rights that a person can between their neighbors. At first, they would be questioning that they need to have such a wall in the first place, they would think that the people living outside the Walls of Intramuros, would be much different, making them realize that they are keeping themselves apart, including the people living within the wall. However, they would realize a wall was just blocking themselves and having a good fence instead, they would become great neighbors and keeping in good contact with each other is showing each other's respect towards one another.

My Experience during Family Day

My Experience during Family Day

                Last January 26, 2020 was the Family Day for the ACT-IS Regular Program with the theme "Stronger Families, Stronger Asianista Community". All of the students from the Preschool Department to the Junior High School have all gathered together with their families for this yearly event that takes place in ACT-IS Bulacao Campus. All of the booths were decorated to the corresponding tribes that they have picked for each grade level, and they were all beautiful to look at from a distance.

          Before the program officially began, we had a Sunday Mass with all of the students and families together so they could all spend time together within the rest of the program. After the Mass ended, all of the students were gathering and planning together for the praising dance for Sr. Santo Nino as a way to celebrate Sinulog. The students were dancing with joy and excitement together to praise to the one and only Sr. Santo Nino. Once the praising dance was finished and done, the Family Day has now officially started and everyone from the different grade levels are preparing for the dances of their respective tribes. Of course, on my side with the rest of my classmates within the Grade 9 Level, we were all preparing for our dance as well but we focused on not messing up on any of the dance steps from the routine as we will soon begin our dance performance. However, we didn't want to hesitate ourselves to the dance performance, but to also have fun with the family because all together, we are one, big family that always keep on trying and helping each other out.

          As were waiting for our turn to do our dance performance, we were watching all of the Grade Levels doing their dance performances and they all did it well. Obviously, we were worried for the other Grade Levels in the Junior High School to perform even better than us, but we didn't think negative and just had to dance the way that we normally do, along with working together. So now, what can I get from the experience during this year's Family Day? Well, there were a lot of things that I want to say in this blog, but the one thing from Family Day is that we had fun and we were all united together as one, dancing and performing well together and spending some time with friends and their families. All in all, I had a great time this Family Day and knew that I was in the right place to change and improve myself, along with my other classmates that were with me, especially during the dance performance.

          I will never forget this moment of how time we've practiced, day after day, to prepare for this event to come. But I have to say is that we were all united and knowing that we give it our all for our performance. We showcased our cooperation towards one another and making sure that we'll make use of this in the near future. That's what the theme is going for: Stronger Families, Stronger Asianista Community.

Ang Pamilya ay Palaging Magkasama

Ang Pamilya ay Palaging Magkasama

                  Noong Enero 26, 2020, ay ang Family Day sa loob ng ACT-IS Regular Program at ang tema ay "Stronger Families, Stronger Asianista Community". Sa mga estudyante mula sa Preschool Department, Grade School Department at ang Junior High School Department ay nagsasama-sama lahat, kasama ng kanilang pamilya upang ipagdiwang sa malaking kaganapan na ito kasama ang mga mag-aaral at mga magulang na magkakasama.

                  Sa mga sayaw at dekorasyon sa panahon ng programa, ipinapakita namin ang ating "Tribal" panig sa loob ng programa, at ang lahat ng mga booth ay maganda ang tiningnan. Ang dekorasyon ng booth ay isa ring kompetisyon sa panahon ng programa, kasama ang iba pang mga kompetisyon. Nang makarating ako doon nang maaga, nakatulong pa rin ako sa dekorasyon at paghahanda para sa sayaw sa lahat, kasama na ang mga magulang. Ngunit lumilipas ang oras, lahat tayo ay nagtutulungan sa dulo at tiyaking walang masamang mangyayari.

                  Pagkatapos ng Mass, nagsimula ang programa at nagsimula sa ating pagpupuri ng sayaw para kay Sr. Santo Nino bilang pagdiriwang sa Sinulog. Matapos ang pagganap, opisyal na nagsimula ang programa. Sa aking bahagi kasama ang nalalabi sa aking mga kamag-aral, lahat ay naghanda sa aming sarili sa aming pagganap sa sayaw kasama ang iba pang estudyante sa Preschool hanggang Junior High School Department. Ako ay medyo nasasabik na gumaganap, ngunit magkakaroon ng isang oras na magiging gulo ako ng isang sayaw sa pagsayaw. Ngunit sa tulong at pakikipagtulungan sa aking mga kamag-aral, nagawa naming i-pull off ang aming pagganap.

                  Ano ang maaari kong makuha mula sa taong itong Family Day? Maraming bagay ang nais kong sabihin, ngunit mayroong isang aspeto na maaari kong makuha mula sa kaganapan. Lahat kami ay nagtutulungan nang malaman na ginagawa namin ang aming makakaya para sa sayaw na sayaw. Ngunit ipinakita rin namin ang mga kasanayan sa loob ng aming sarili upang maisagawa at kumilos sa panahon ng kaganapan, at ang pagiging sama-sama ay sinusundan kasama ang tema ng taong itong Family Day. Maaaring magkaroon kami ng aming mga pagkakamali, ngunit nagtulungan kami bilang isang malaking koponan at pagtatapos ng kaganapan na may isang mahusay na pagtatapos.

Love Comes In Many Ways

Love Comes In Many Ways

             

            Love is an expression that connects through different branches and shown in many ways, whether to your family members, friends, or even people that just wants to feel love about themselves. Many people around the world expresses their love as a way to show their true identities of how they feel towards other people, knowing that their personalities are like that. This expression shows many more other emotions for that certain someone you care about in your lifetime, and changing who they really are, to the point that all of the weight has been lifted off his shoulders and, as stated, love connects through different branches in anyone's lives. Like they love to have the freedom that they want, to love God because he's always with them, to love their family because they all stay and work together as one, or to love your friends if you are going through bad times in their lives. All in a sense that love comes in many different ways that people can express that feeling.

           Many say that love doesn't make sense and it was always unpredictable to people that they would have this feeling towards someone else, but it all starts within the family. All families stick together and love each other, despite many differences and disadvantages that one person can have, they always care for each other and goes through many challenges in their life to make it a better place. With that being said, people spend their time during the holidays, especially during the Christmas season. Everyone would be getting themselves ready, have their presents prepared, and spend time together as one big group and sharing the love too. Many Filipinos say that the time of the Christmas is the time of love; as stated in the previous sentences, everyone would be spending time together with their friends and family, giving gifts for their personalities and who they are, knowing their showing and sharing that love through the gifts and recreational activities together. Speaking of which, within the statistics of how much time people spend time during the Christmas season is recreation and culture with 40 percent on the stats, which means that many people enjoy recreational activities and having family traditions and culture together during Christmas season. However, Christmas season is not the only time of the year where each and every one can show their love; any time at any place and moment, people share their love to show that they care for other people that needs help or a push in the right direction. Love is not all about romance, which is common to all people, but love is the way that people show their affection and change their behavior for caring, for who they are, and that they are always there together.           

          At the very end in my opinion, Love is the greatest gift to give to other people. Because showing and sharing the love means that they are appreciating for who they are and not masking themselves to be someone else that they thought they wanted to be. Showing love to the others is always a good thing, but showing love to yourself means an important of your life and knowing that you need to love yourself before you love other people for who they really are, including yourself. What I want the readers to know and get from this essay of mine is that love doesn't always show the affection and romance towards one person. That's just one of the different branches towards this expression, and it comes in many branches and shown in many ways other than that significant other, but it's always shown through friends, family, people within the community, online friends, and many more. Remembering that other people still love and care and getting from this essay, this is just my opinion of how I see love as an expression of many different branches.