Start of Something New..

It was almost 2 years since I wrote my last blog in this site. I suddenly remembered that I have this kind of blog. I was really amazed that I did this kind of exhausting thing. Right now, I'm bored and I think this will help me a bit. I am planning of writing one blog per day with a minimum of 500 words. I think it would be a lot shorter now. During the days of writing my previous blogs, I thought 500 words will be a lot tiring one but now, since I'm already used to writing papers and stories about myself, I think it 5oo words will be short but I will try my best to reach that quota.

A lot of things has changed right now, but I'm thanking God that in all of these years, he has guided me and my family. I realized that days are so fast. I realized that my first years in college is finished and now, I'm in the second semester ans actually celebrating Christmas vacation. Our fiesta has already passed and before, I was really thinking and planning for it but when it came, I felt that what I did was an impromptu. Well, anyways, right now I'm, in the second year in college specifically second semester. It is indeed a stressful one. It seems that my metabolism did a lot of work and this stuff always gives me a headache and backache. I never expected Psychology course will be this a great effortful. But this is my personal choice and I am glad that I sticked to this course. I realized that when I graduate in this course, soon, I can be of great help to a lot of people. I am planning to be a researcher, working in an HR department or having plans of working abroad. I am not saying that I will go abroad not because I want to leave the country, but to help our country. I want to be one of those people who will send remittances to this country to further make our country rich. I am hoping that by the time I graduated in college, our country will be at least stable and I hope that the leader who will be seating in position will be of great service to the people. Corruption can never be eliminated because it is part of our human nature. We just want to survive. I didn't say that I'm into corruption. Actually, I've conducted a study about the concept of corruption in the province of Barili in Cebu. This is in line with our Filipino Psychology. Thanks to my partner Shauna, we were able to present it at least in an orderly manner with statistical tests involved. I really felt that I was a pro back then but what I thought was wrong. As I encountered courses in Psychology, I said to myself, "I still have a lot of things to learn, and never will I be consider a genius for everyday is an addition of knowledge". No one is genius. The ones that we consider genius are those that specializes on one area only or those that we don't see as faulty people. Oh, I think I'm going away a lot from the topic. But I don't have a topic right now. What I specified in the heading is "start of something new". I want to share with you these new things that I experienced and I guess this is what I am expressing right now. As I am writing this blog, thoughts of mine are spontaneously flowing. Never mind the wrong grammar I committed. I felt relieved. Oh my God, I was saying that I should not go beyond too much but I realized that my words reached up to 611 words. Magnificent! Amazing! During the early days in high school, I was hesitant to write this kind of things because I felt that I couldn't do it but as days past and as I encounter more trainings, unconsciously I learned things and my skills were enhanced.

Christmas is indeed coming to town and I think there are only 5 days to go before Christmas. This is the first Christmas that I am not together with my mom. My mom is in London right now and he's with my step dad. I thank God that my mom married such a good husband and I am praying to God that they will keep their promises and vows to each other. So much of that. I don't want my entire life story to be publicized. haha.. There are a lot of good things that is happening to me right now and what I am praying is that God will continue to guide us always,my family, in the decisions that we will be making and the actions that we will be taking. I also expect that since we are receiving blessings, bad things will also come in return and if those trials will come, I pray that God will be there to guide and protect us always... That's all and I'm happy that I discovered this blog again... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance.... MWAHHH!!!!!!!!

I'm All Done!

At last I'm done with my blog. "Graveh, kapoy!".

Exhausting!

Tiring!

Pressure!

I'm done with the blog project and it was fun but exhausting too. "Laliman mo 500-words and 5 entries per week. Mura na siya ug equivalent sa two periodical test".

"Salamat, kaginhawa na ko ug tarong kay mana ko!"...

P.S.
Sir dedication ra ni ha!!!

Poem on Us!

Seasons of Life

I found my friendship on spring

It was like a flower blooming to the extreme

Where everything was in harmony

No one dares to ruin everything

When friendship occurs on summer

The sun was hot and still warm

Feeling the warmth of each other’s love

Caring for those who are in shiver

In fall, I saw leaves falling

Leaves and soil are just becoming one

Wind is beginning to blow on us

And leaves of trees try to peel away

During winter, coldness blankets the air

Things get frozen and chilled

Including important things for us

Causing us to go on our separate ways.

- Tany-

Loneliness: A Poem Critic

Loneliness is such a sad word, isn’t it? It is not new to us anymore, for we experience this feeling almost every day. At the end of every day, when warmth of love disappears in our life we feel loneliness in ourselves. We feel this situation wherein we feel down, experience a feeling of depression and low self-esteem.

Loneliness is a universal phenomenon because all living experiences this kind of situation wherein there is minimal of human contact physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically and socially.

Our existence also causes existence of loneliness. We all need each other and if we don’t fulfill this law of nature, we experience loneliness which is a very difficult and very unexplainable word.

What does loneliness means? Here is a poem, which does not follow poetry but it still does for it connotes a meaning. Every symbol reflects something and this something that we input in our minds are being interpreted by our minds creating a story and therefore understanding the topic more.

A poem does contain a lot of interpretations and the poem I am going to interpret will be just one of the many interpretations. The difference of our interpretations does not matter, for it expresses and lets our individual minds to work in an imaginative way. The topic will be about loneliness by E. Cummings:

l (a

le

af

fa

ll

s)

one

l

iness

Would you believe this is considered as a poem? Well you should believe that this is a poem for it expresses a meaning to the readers, which is one of the aspects of a poem.

In the first stanza, the letter “l” which means one, meets letter “a”, an article, that also means one or single. If you are only one you are lonely. The apostrophe means that they are separated from each other or they come from different worlds.

The space means that there is really loneliness going on between the two of them.

After they meet which is in the third line, the letter “a” turned into another letter which is “e” and the “l” still remains. The second person already adjusted to the environment.

In the fourth line, the letter ”l” turned to letter “a” and “e” turned to “f”. There is somewhat like an adjustment between the two. The first person adjusted to the second person while the second person also adjusted to the first person as well.

In the fifth line, there is like an exchange of something. This something could be love. There is a mutual relationship going on among them.

In the sixth line, the letter “f” and “a” then turned back into letter “l”. The letter “l” is in typewritten form which outputs the number one. The personas then go back to being alone as what is shown in the next line. This loneliness may be because of some misunderstandings or even a great conflict between the two of them.

In the eight stanza, we see that the letter “l” change to letter “s”. It means that the persona is adjusting to the environment despite the fact that his/her friend is not their anymore.

The ninth and tenth stanza shows the same meaning, one. The persona is still experiencing the sorrow of being lonely. This is also showed in the space after it.

On the last line, we see that the letter “l” changed to small letter “i” which means that it becomes humble. Together with the letter “i” are letters “n”, “e”, “s”, “s”. The persona already gained new friends. For the persona, it is really a need to be humble and adjust really to the environment to attain friends and to acquire happiness and not loneliness. Through the persona’s experiences with his previous friend, he learned a lot of things that in order for a friendship and happiness to last, he/she should be humble enough.

Loneliness is a very painful condition wherein we try to avoid it as much as possible. To disregard loneliness, we try to make new friends and adjust to the new environment. This person will try to be open and to be humble in order for him/her to meet new friends that will make him/her happy again. For a loneliness that we feel, a leaf falls for it is a self-destructing process. Once a leaf falls, all the others will also follow to fall. It is very contagious and we feel that we are not of self-worth.

LOVE: An Act of Will, Not of the Heart!

Love: A very deep and hard word that cannot be explained by people who experienced it. Even I cannot explain what love really means. When we fall in love, our heart beats faster. We say that when our hearts beat to the extreme, it means that there is love. But the question is, is it enough to say that when our heart is involved in this kind of feeling we can call it as such?

In the modern day, maybe this explanation will be accepted. We don’t see love as a romantic thing but rather it is a trend in the society nowadays. It is such an instinct for a human to love. We seldom see people involved in such kind of relationship lasts for a lifetime. Love is not a thing that we can just throw when our hearts doesn’t feel the extraordinary feeling anymore.

We discover love by accident and not just when we feel it. Love involves two people. We can call it love if there is mutual relationship. It can either be to your lover, mother, father, brother, sister, classmate, friend and many other people that make them special in your life.

Love is mutual. You feel it because there is willingness between the people involved. You cannot call it love if only one person loves and the other is not. It is love if there is sharing. It is love if it is true to your heart. It is true love if you’re open to one another and most especially, it is love if you are willing to accept the person as a whole-his/her strengths and weaknesses.

Love is really blind for it sees only the good side in you. It doesn’t look on the bad side for you accept the person as who the person really is. As what I’ve said it is not acquired only by one person but rather it is acquired by two people. Love is beneficial for it comforts someone in times of the difficulty. Your love for other person doesn’t bring you down but rather it inspires you. We can really say that love excels a person and never discourages one from achieving from his/her dreams in life.

The beating of our heart is only the result of the love that we acquired from the mutual relationship between two people. The willingness of the two people to accept each other makes the heart grow fonder.

Love is a thing that is being shared and not only experienced by someone. We try to love the person because of the love he/she has given and shared to us. He/she teaches us how to love by doing something that makes us happy and appreciate that thing that he/she does. By this appreciation, we acquire love.

Love is a very contagious thing that cannot be treated unless no one will practice to love anymore. If people learn and share love, love will still exist in this world.

Love is an act of will and not by heart!

Opinion On Being An Only Child!

I really envy those families who are complete: a father, mother and children. My family is not complete physically but I am fully satisfied of my situation now. I have a loving mom and a caring grandmother. My mom is a single parent. Since 1 year old, my father already left us. But having no father is not a hindrance in achieving my dreams. I don’t think myself as an incomplete being having no father at all. I am in a situation where my life is stable even though there are a lot of misunderstandings between my family. Well we can’t really take that away because that has been always constant in our lives.

It really comes to a point that what if I had siblings? Based on my experience as an only child, my mother misses me immediately even though I’m seconds away. She really takes good care of me because she’s afraid that I might get into danger. Sometimes, I really get irritated with my mom because I want to be independent in the sense that I make my own decisions. She thinks of me still as a little boy but I’m not. I’m now big and I can do things on own. I don’t want to be treated like a small child because it only makes me dependent to her. My mother has been so overprotective with me. She still thinks that I cannot make good decisions on my own. I want to prove to my mom that I had already grown up.

I understand why my mom is doing this because she doesn’t want to lose me but sometimes we need privacy and we need to work on our own. We will not succeed if we depend on others. I really don’t like to be treated this way because it only makes me futile. I want to decide on my own and to help them in the near future through my own efforts.

This is also what I learned being an only child that I became more independent because I realized that I will not succeed if I will always depend on my parents. Because of the over protectiveness of my parents, I want to acquire freedom. I need time to decide on my own and I need privacy. I realized that this is my life and I have the control of my life. It is I who will face the consequences of the decisions I make. If they make my decisions, it will not be that sincere for me to accept the consequences.

Those are just some of my opinions. Despite the reasons why I don’t like being an only child, I still thanked God that even though I am in a broken family, I still have my mom and my loved ones beside me who are still there to support me. I also considered it lucky for me to be an only child because my entire parent’s attention is in me.

My mom and I became close friends because we have the opportunity to share each other’s opinions, problems and comments. I treat my mom as my best friend. I tell her my problems and because she knew that I’m already big enough to decide on my own, she let me decide on my own provided that I would also look on the possible consequences that I will be encountering. My bonding with my mom is so much strong. I am very “lambing” to my mom whereas if I have siblings, I will not have the chance to be that close to my mom because the love she will be sharing will be equal to all.

All I can say that being an only child is not that boring. Even though, you have no siblings to share your problems with, your secrets and your crushes, your mom will be the substitute and in return will cause a more strong family relationship.

Cebu City Sports Center

The Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC), then known as the Abellana Oval, had a rich history before it attained its present form.

In 1993, the whole country was gearing up for the 1994 Palarong Pambansa (National Games) and the Visayas region would play as host. Among the Philippine cities and municipalities, Cebu City came out on top as the prime choice. Through the efforts of Cebu City Councilor Augustus Young, Congressman Antonio Cuenco, and Congressman Raul del Mar, Cebu won the bidding for the hosting of the event after they justified Cebu's feasibility for hosting the games.

The foremost question on the mind of the organizers at that time was "Where would the games be held?" The answer that hardly required any thinking was Abellana Oval. The next logical question was "Could Abellana Oval handle the number of guest athletes and competitions from all over the archipelago?"

The organizers realized that, in its state at that time, Abellana Oval could not take on the task. So, the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports (DECS, now renamed to DepEd, or Department of Education), together with the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) proposed the renovation of the Abellana Oval and the construction of additional facilities which could accommodate the different events of the upcoming 1994 Palarong Pambansa. Cebu City, being the host city, spearheaded and supervised the construction and was given full funding and support by the national government. Cebu City Councilor Augustus Young was appointed overall director of the project.

Detractors of the project doubted whether the project could be finished on time. Councilor Young, though, was quick to assuage the public's doubts through various media, especially in the local print and broadcast media. The project was finished on time, indeed, true to Councilor Young's promise. (A similar pattern of detraction and doubt with regards to finishing a construction project on time arose recently last year during the building of the Cebu International Convention Center.)

Among the improvements made to the Abellana Oval was the rubberization of the oval itself, consisting of 400 meters of world-standard material and specifications. A stadium that could accommodate 12,000 to 15,000 people was also built. Other facilities built in the complex included a 50-meter by 25-meter swimming pool with ten lanes, a 15-meter by 10-meter warmup pool, a gymnasium, a ballroom, a workout area, and multi-purpose rooms for various indoor sports and games such as chess, karate, and scrabble.

The successful construction of the new sports center, now appropriately renamed to Cebu City Sports Center, gave way to Cebu's hosting of the 1994 Palarong Pambansa—CCSC's first successful hosting of a major event.

CCSC's second chance at a bigger event came in November, 2005, when Cebu City played host to the 2005 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. The sports center was the venue for the opening ceremonies, as well as for seven game categories. Brandon Velasquez said that the preparation for the 2005 SEA Games was very tedious and took up a lot of the organizers' time. Everything went well, though, and the Cebuanos were hailed once again by the international community as a very hospitable people.

With the new Cebu City Sports Center, Cebuano athletes now have a place where their skills could be for future local, national, and international competitions. In fact, from being tenth or eleventh in the rankings for different events, Cebuano athletes rose to fifth place on the charts. The increase in ranking surely gave the Cebuanos much pride in their athletes. The Cebu City Sports Center would hopefully encourage local athletes to perfect their skills and inspire them to excel in sports.

Besides being a sports facility, the Cebu City Sports Center is also the venue for the culmination of the annual Sinulog mardigras held every third Sunday of January.

The Cebu City Sports Center has made a lot of difference in the sports activities of Cebuanos. Because of its accessible location and its world-class facilities, the sports center has encouraged the development of different kinds of sports, as well as inspired many Cebuanos to engage in fitness and health-improving activities. Many go to the sports center for an early morning jog (or walk), or an early morning dip in the swimming pool. Many others go there to play badminton, or to work out at the gym, or to practice ballroom dancing.