Change: It starts with me

Life is a journey in which one often faces lot of hardships. These hardships sometimes changes the person by making a great impact on his or her life. Such experiences gives a person an opportunity to understand what life is. Accordingly, change is defined as the act or an instance of making difference to something or to give a different course or direction to someone by means of alteration or modification. For me, change is a process that effect transformation, becoming different as time passes by, and these changes generate new experience throughout your life. Change can be a good thing when you have control over it but it can also be bad when it is forced on you and you have no control of it. Everyone had experienced change and will experience many more in the future because change is a natural part of life, and the only thing that is constant in this world. Change affects everything, from small things that touch everybody’s life, like a new friend, to big things that affect the community, like changes in technology. 

People everywhere go through various experiences in their whole lives. Every experience affects a person’s journey in life in some ways. Our voyage through life involves a series of changes, some major and many minor. Change has always been a part of everyone’s life, although some people try to resist change and as a result get crushed by it. There are several types of changes that one can experience in their life, these include physical, geographical, health, social changes, etc. One person cannot live their life without experiencing one or more of the changes. When you mature with age, your attitude towards life changes, your physical appearance changes, your brain capacity changes, and nothing you do can inhibit it from happening. Therefore some changes are inevitable or you cannot predict or it is unexpected when it will happen to us.

With all these changes that are happening everywhere, the people are the group of actors making these changes possible, and the roles I play is predictable and expectable. Every simple thing that changes me is part of a greater change in the place I lived. Consequently, all these changes starts with me.

My Dream My Future

When I was a child, my teachers and parents said to me, ‘people who have no dreams of the future will not fly far away’. Because of those inspiring words from my parents and teachers, I tried to make inspired and do what I can do to reach my goals in life.

Some people may talk about me because in my age I have no idea where I want to go from high school. I on the other hand, have most of my future already planned out based off of goals, hopes, and dreams. Knowing what I want to do with my life relieves a lot of stress and worry. I have no idea where I’m going to go, but at least I know how I want to get there. I know my college goals, how I want my lifestyle to be and what I want to do with my free time. I planned in my future that first, I will study harder and I want to pursue my dream to become a Medical Technologist. And after my studies I would like to build a laboratory for those patients or ordinary people who wants to know what are they want to know inside their bodies like disease. Now, time to talk about my lifestyle. Being so busy with all this school and trying to pay for it will really affect my life. I will not have time making a family, not like I really want one anyway. That would just get in the way, and make a tight budget tighter. Even after I finish school I will be too occupied with work. I’m so set on success that even marriage sounds like it would be in the way. I just don’t have the responsibility to manage that. Looks like a bachelorette life for me! Another thing about my future life is I’m in high hopes I’ll have a good job. That will get me a decent home, money to spend on traveling, or other things I’d want to do to keep myself happy. I just don’t want to ever get too lonely. Last thing about my future is what I’m going to do in my spare time. One hobby I have is writing, like I said earlier. Writing for me is like documenting all the important times in my life worth remembering and how I feel about them. If I get a degree in that, it’d be even better because I could have a job doing something I do all the time anyway. I really want to travel a lot when I get older too.

I will try my best to do my dream job in the future, and if I fail or I have problems with my studies, I will keep on dreaming to overcome the problem and keep believing I will have a good life in the future. So that’s what I want my life to be like all wrapped up, I want to reach my goals in college, live my dream lifestyle, and keep up with the hobbies and pastimes I have always loved. A spontaneous, yet laid back life is perfect for me. Do you know what you want to do with your life? Or did you, and did it turn out as you had hoped or expected? 

2015 Kannawidan Ylocos Festival

             Ilocos Sur, as a province, has its rich and spectacular cultures and traditions that the Ilocanos have and must be proud of. And as an annual festivity, the Local Government of Ilocos Sur has arranged an activity that would exhibit and promote products of ours and precious cultures of Ilocanos to entice and invite tourists to come and visit Ilocos which is now called the “Kannawidan Ylocos Festival.” Kannawidan Ylocos Festival is a week-long bustle of happiness for local and foreign visitors as more entertaining events are included in the festival. Also, the festivity showcases the different products of the different provinces which is called the “OTOP” or the “One Town, One Product.”
             The festival was established and launched in 2008 and is already the leading festival of Ilocos Sur under the leadership of then Governor Ryan Singson to honor the 197th foundation day of Ilocos Sur as separate province through the approval of a Spanish Royal Decree on February 2, 1818. This 2015, Ilocos Sur celebrates Kannawidan on its 197th Celebration as a separate province from Ylocos. This festival showcases different products like foods, furniture, and the pinakaka-ibang produkto. But this is not the only purpose of this festival yet it discovers talents.

       This Festival aims to create awareness on the preservation of the province’s rich cultural heritage, practices and traditions, and a showcase of the different agricultural and industry products.

We Have Learn A Lot

This year 2015 was supposed to be the year of our graduation and few months from now, we will be called high school graduates from the institution of learning, my alma mater in the secondary level, Ilocos Sur National High School. Many subjects I had like in our fourth year life in school because I learn a lot but most of it, the one that became a part of my high school life is ICT or Information and Communications Technology. I really like this subject because it talks all about computer and such things connected to it is the internet.

During the third grading period, I find that the lessons we tackled is very interesting and sometime boring because many of our classmates were out for some important activity and they are not attending the classes and they’ve missed a lot of the discussions that are applicable for some real life activities like business taking. Yet, I still listening to the lessons what our teacher is discussing. I learn a lot from this subject especially in the part of project making, that I’ve learn it is better to do works early than doing it just a day before the submission. Just like in our group, we start doing this project so early, we plan what we will put in our blog and we start searching and finding information to be used in our project but badly to say that we will need to stop this because of many interruptions like the press conference that they will be attending and sadly to say that one of our group mates and one of them is our leader, he will attend also.    Nevertheless, we continued making it after they will comeback. We rushed doing it and finally we've finished although it is not beautiful and perfect but we are proud to make it because we also learn in our project. Thank you Ma’am Evelyn Vera Cruz for giving us this kind of project because we learn a lot.

           This was another journey of learning ICT and I hope that I can do better and all will be improved this third quarter and for the last quarter also.

New Year, New Me

         

        Every one of us has different characteristics, different assignments, different missions, different tasks, and different responsibilities in life and we should do it in our own ability to accomplish it. But if we cannot do it in our own, then we can seek help from our parents or guardians.

         The year 2014 gave me a lot of challenges and trials but I did all my best to undertake it. I learn a lot from the challenges I pass through like being independent in my works and seeking help if I need some support and comfort. I've never imagined that time really flew or pass by so fast because of the happenings in my life. It’s like an air go pass through in my face. So, we are in the year 2015. As we enter the year 2015, it's like that it was only yesterday when we got to the year 2014. This year is known to be “The year of the Wooden Sheep” but I know that everyone of us is aware about the New Year’s Resolution. This was traditionally taken every before the coming of the New Year’s Eve. These are the things that we want to change within ourselves. This are the inappropriate attitudes or manners that others didn't want to see from us in the past and we want to change to become a good one.

         New Year, New Me. This words had meanings to me. Every year I have a lot of resolutions that I want to change and the others will be improved. Every one of us has different resolutions and hardly practicing and doing them to reach the goal that we are calling “CHANGE”. However, what I want for this year 2015 is to be more respectful to other person because I am the kind of person that I fight for my own right but I am not thinking for what others can feel for what I am doing. Next is to be more independent like in my works or assignments given to me. Next, I want to have more knowledge about everything, everything in my surrounding. Lastly, I want to be a better son for my parents because sometimes I am being disrespectful to them and so I want to be a good one.

         These are the things that I want to be this year 2015. I want a change in my life. I know that this were just simple resolutions nevertheless very important to achieve. 

#Christmas Feels!

As with any festival, Christmas too has many traditions and customs which are being carried forward by families the world over. These traditions and customs may be as varied as the diversity in cultures. Some, though are common to everyone celebrating Christmas in any part of the world.

One of the most popular traditions on Christmas is exchanging gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. Everyone loves receiving gifts on Christmas. Children, with their innocence wait eagerly for Santa Claus to bring them gifts. In many countries children hang stockings or socks believing that it will be filled with goodies by Santa Claus. But, as adults we understand the significance of giving more than receiving and plan way ahead to get something thoughtful for our near and dear ones.

The tradition of collecting and passing on Christmas ornaments from one Christmas to the next helps in creating fond memories for years to come. Christmas ornaments can be homemade or bought from a store. But a commercial ornament can never compete with the personal touch of an ornament handed down a family tree.

Christmas tree is one of the symbols most easily associated with the festival of Christmas. The Christmas tree takes the pride of place in every living room of every home from Christmas and right up to New Year. Decorating a Christmas tree spells family time as it brings the whole family together right before and at Christmas time. Usually decorations start way ahead of the eve of Christmas. People, irrespective of regions and cultures plan on beautifying their Christmas tree. One can get as creative or individualistic as they want to in the process of looking after and decorating their Christmas tree. 

Christmas Dinner is the primary meal eaten on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Though the menu of this meal may differ across regions or cultures but some of the essential items which are Turkey, Christmas pudding, and Christmas cake are present more or less in every menu. The whole charm of cooking and eating Christmas Dinner with family and people close to you is what makes it different from any meal.

These are the traditions that have undergone a lot of change with time. The plays usually depict the Nativity scene associated with the birth of Jesus Christ but may consist of adaptations to the same theme. The word carol represents a festive song mostly associated with the festival of Christmas. No festive occasion can be complete without music. This holds true for Christmas as well, people sing carols and songs to create the perfect atmosphere for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Traditions and customs are the special flavor of any festivity and that holds true for Christmas as well. It is a festival that is known for its spirit of joyousness and its celebratory atmosphere. These traditions define the gladness and spirit of the season of celebrations that we know as Christmas.

“CLIMATE CHANGE”

           Nowadays climate change is the biggest problem of the world we are living today. It is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social, and economic threats facing our planet today.

        The warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperature, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level. Most of the warming that has occurred over the past years is very likely to have been caused by human activities. The global average surface temperature is likely to rise. The climate can affect every person and our health directly through the increasing of earth’s temperature. Such increases may lead to more extreme heat waves during the summer while producing less extreme cold spells during the winter. There can be also extreme floods and droughts and typhoons/hurricanes. Nowadays there are also factories that really destructive to our health and pollute the air, water and all body surfaces of the world. Another massive problem is that the sea levels are rising and other parts of it was destroyed and/or polluted by dirty materials used by humans or the factories or establishments. Also the expansion of ocean water is caused by warmer ocean temperatures. And the one that is a big issue today is the Green House Effect where it destroys the natural beauty of our Mother Earth.

          I think it is better to stop the changes in climate and then gradually reduce the hunger in the poor countries. Because if we stop the changes, we are going to be healthier and everything around us will be cleaner and it will be how it actually should be. I believe harmony between nature and human beings will return and we will be avoiding all diseases that can harm our health. Let’s go and help save our Mother Earth before anything will happen to us.