Monday, 31 August 2015
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Thursday, 20 August 2015
10 Reasons Why I am the Best Choice
10 Reasons Why I am the Best Choice
1. I am capable of loving.
2. I am a descent woman.
3. My family honed me to become a good individual.
4. I can be trusted.
5. I can be a good friend.
6. I can be a good listener.
7. I can be happy with simple things.
8. I can be creative and innovative.
9. I accept my mistakes and learn from them.
10. I am a fighter.
1. I am capable of loving.
2. I am a descent woman.
3. My family honed me to become a good individual.
4. I can be trusted.
5. I can be a good friend.
6. I can be a good listener.
7. I can be happy with simple things.
8. I can be creative and innovative.
9. I accept my mistakes and learn from them.
10. I am a fighter.
10 Qualities of my Future Partner
10 Qualities of my Future Partner
1.
Loving
2.
Supportive
3.
Responsible
4.
Has a wide range of patience and
understanding
5.
Good cook
6.
Has a job that could support our family
7.
Gentleman
8.
Kind
9.
Romantic
10.Snob to other girls
10 Things that Make me Smile
10
Things that Make me Smile
There
are a lot of things that can make me smile. These are the following:
1.
The life that God gave me.
2.
The love and support that my family gives.
3.
The trust of my friends.
4.
Food
5.
Books and pocketbooks
6.
Wattpad stories
7.
Internet connection
8.
Clean and descent clothes
9.
Pictures of my crush
10.
Allowance
Monday, 17 August 2015
10 Ways to Make my Life Better
1. I have to smile.
2. Be more expressive with my feelings towards
my family.
3. I should accept my mistakes and learn
from it.
4. Forgive
5. Build self-discipline
6. Share what I have
7. I should learn to take risks.
8. I should be more confident.
9. I should manage my time and money.
10. I should stop being lazy.
10 Reasons Why
my Life is Beautiful
1. I have
God.
2. I have a
healthy, loving and supportive family.
3.
I have true
friends.
4.
I am studying
in NORSU.
5.
I am healthy.
6. I am now a
graduating student, hopefully I can really graduate.
7 Despite of the
things I need to accomplish in school, I still have time to bond with my family
during weekends.
8.
I have a voice
and the freedom to make decisions.
9.
I am given a
chance to experience new opportunities and learn more about myself.
10.
I don’t have
to pretend to be someone else.
Sunday, 16 August 2015
Footnote to Youth
by: Jose Garcia Villa
Setting:
The sun was salmon and hazy in the west. Dodong thought to himself he would tell his father about Teang when he got home, after he had unhitched the carabao from the plow, and let it to its shed and fed it. He was hesitant about saying it, but he wanted his father to know. What he had to say was of serious import as it would mark a climacteric in his life. Dodong finally decided to tell it, at a thought came to him his father might refuse to consider it. His father was silent hard-working farmer who chewed areca nut, which he had learned to do from his mother, Dodong’s grandmother.
Characters: :
Dodong- a seventeen-year old boy who wants to get married
Dodong started homeward, thinking how he would break his news to his father. He wanted to marry, Dodong did. He was seventeen, he had pimples on his face, the down on his upper lip already was dark–these meant he was no longer a boy. He was growing into a man–he was a man. Dodong felt insolent and big at the thought of it although he was by nature low in statue. Thinking himself a man grown, Dodong felt he could do anything
Blas- Dodong's father
His father remained in the room, sucking a diseased tooth. It was paining him again, Dodong knew. Dodong had told him often and again to let the town dentist pull it out, but he was afraid, his father was. He did not tell that to Dodong, but Dodong guessed it. Afterward Dodong himself thought that if he had a decayed tooth he would be afraid to go to the dentist; he would not be any bolder than his father.
Teang- Dodong's lover and later on became his wife
Teang did not complain, but the bearing of children told on her. She was shapeless and thin now, even if she was young. There was interminable work to be done. Cooking. Laundering. The house. The children. She cried sometimes, wishing she had not married. She did not tell Dodong this, not wishing him to dislike her. Yet she wished she had not married. Not even Dodong, whom she loved. There has been another suitor, Lucio, older than Dodong by nine years, and that was why she had chosen Dodong. Young Dodong. Seventeen. Lucio had married another after her marriage to Dodong, but he was childless until now. She wondered if she had married Lucio, would she have borne him children. Maybe not, either. That was a better lot. But she loved Dodong…
Dodong's mother
Dodong’s mother removed the dishes when they were through and went out to the batalan to wash them. She walked with slow careful steps and Dodong wanted to help her carry the dishes out, but he was tired and now felt lazy. He wished as he looked at her that he had a sister who could help his mother in the housework. He pitied her, doing all the housework alone.
Plot:
Exposition
Dodong started homeward, thinking how he would break his news to his father. He wanted to marry, Dodong did. He was seventeen, he had pimples on his face, the down on his upper lip already was dark–these meant he was no longer a boy. He was growing into a man–he was a man. Dodong felt insolent and big at the thought of it although he was by nature low in statue. Thinking himself a man grown, Dodong felt he could do anything.
Conflict
Dodong said while his mother was out that he was going to marry Teang. There it was out, what he had to say, and over which he had done so much thinking. He had said it without any effort at all and without self-consciousness. Dodong felt relieved and looked at his father expectantly. A decrescent moon outside shed its feeble light into the window, graying the still black temples of his father. His father looked old now.
by: Jose Garcia Villa
Setting:
The sun was salmon and hazy in the west. Dodong thought to himself he would tell his father about Teang when he got home, after he had unhitched the carabao from the plow, and let it to its shed and fed it. He was hesitant about saying it, but he wanted his father to know. What he had to say was of serious import as it would mark a climacteric in his life. Dodong finally decided to tell it, at a thought came to him his father might refuse to consider it. His father was silent hard-working farmer who chewed areca nut, which he had learned to do from his mother, Dodong’s grandmother.
Characters: :
Dodong- a seventeen-year old boy who wants to get married
Dodong started homeward, thinking how he would break his news to his father. He wanted to marry, Dodong did. He was seventeen, he had pimples on his face, the down on his upper lip already was dark–these meant he was no longer a boy. He was growing into a man–he was a man. Dodong felt insolent and big at the thought of it although he was by nature low in statue. Thinking himself a man grown, Dodong felt he could do anything
Blas- Dodong's father
His father remained in the room, sucking a diseased tooth. It was paining him again, Dodong knew. Dodong had told him often and again to let the town dentist pull it out, but he was afraid, his father was. He did not tell that to Dodong, but Dodong guessed it. Afterward Dodong himself thought that if he had a decayed tooth he would be afraid to go to the dentist; he would not be any bolder than his father.
Teang- Dodong's lover and later on became his wife
Teang did not complain, but the bearing of children told on her. She was shapeless and thin now, even if she was young. There was interminable work to be done. Cooking. Laundering. The house. The children. She cried sometimes, wishing she had not married. She did not tell Dodong this, not wishing him to dislike her. Yet she wished she had not married. Not even Dodong, whom she loved. There has been another suitor, Lucio, older than Dodong by nine years, and that was why she had chosen Dodong. Young Dodong. Seventeen. Lucio had married another after her marriage to Dodong, but he was childless until now. She wondered if she had married Lucio, would she have borne him children. Maybe not, either. That was a better lot. But she loved Dodong…
Dodong's mother
Dodong’s mother removed the dishes when they were through and went out to the batalan to wash them. She walked with slow careful steps and Dodong wanted to help her carry the dishes out, but he was tired and now felt lazy. He wished as he looked at her that he had a sister who could help his mother in the housework. He pitied her, doing all the housework alone.
Plot:
Exposition
Dodong started homeward, thinking how he would break his news to his father. He wanted to marry, Dodong did. He was seventeen, he had pimples on his face, the down on his upper lip already was dark–these meant he was no longer a boy. He was growing into a man–he was a man. Dodong felt insolent and big at the thought of it although he was by nature low in statue. Thinking himself a man grown, Dodong felt he could do anything.
Conflict
Dodong said while his mother was out that he was going to marry Teang. There it was out, what he had to say, and over which he had done so much thinking. He had said it without any effort at all and without self-consciousness. Dodong felt relieved and looked at his father expectantly. A decrescent moon outside shed its feeble light into the window, graying the still black temples of his father. His father looked old now.
“I am
going to marry Teang,” Dodong said.
Rising action
Dodong stood in the
sweltering noon heat, sweating profusely, so that his camiseta was damp. He was
still as a tree and his thoughts were confused. His mother had told him not to
leave the house, but he had left. He had wanted to get out of it without clear
reason at all. He was afraid, he felt. Afraid of the house. It had seemed to
cage him, to compares his thoughts with severe tyranny. Afraid also of Teang.
Teang was giving birth in the house; she gave screams that chilled his blood.
He did not want her to scream like that, he seemed to be rebuking him. He began
to wonder madly if the process of childbirth was really painful. Some women,
when they gave birth, did not cry.
In a
few moments he would be a father. “Father, father,” he whispered the word with
awe, with strangeness. He was young, he realized now, contradicting himself of
nine months comfortable… “Your son,” people would soon be telling him. “Your
son, Dodong.”
Climax
When Blas was eighteen he
came home one night very flustered and happy. It was late at night and Teang
and the other children were asleep. Dodong heard Blas’s steps, for he could not
sleep well of nights. He watched Blas undress in the dark and lie down softly.
Blas was restless on his mat and could not sleep. Dodong called him name and
asked why he did not sleep. Blas said he could not sleep.
“You
better go to sleep. It is late,” Dodong said.
Blas
raised himself on his elbow and muttered something in a low fluttering voice.
Dodong
did not answer and tried to sleep.
“Itay
…,” Blas called softly.
Dodong
stirred and asked him what it was.
“I am
going to marry Tona. She accepted me tonight.”
Falling Action
Dodong rose from his mat and
told Blas to follow him. They descended to the yard, where everything was still
and quiet. The moonlight was cold and white.
“You
want to marry Tona,” Dodong said. He did not want Blas to marry yet. Blas was
very young. The life that would follow marriage would be hard…
“Yes.”
“Must
you marry?”
Blas’s
voice stilled with resentment. “I will marry Tona.”
Dodong
kept silent, hurt.
“You
have objections, Itay?” Blas asked acridly.
“Son…
n-none…” (But truly, God, I don’t want Blas to marry yet… not yet. I don’t want
Blas to marry yet….)
Denouement
But he was helpless. He could
not do anything. Youth must triumph… now. Love must triumph… now. Afterwards…
it will be life.
As
long ago Youth and Love did triumph for Dodong… and then Life.
Dodong
looked wistfully at his young son in the moonlight. He felt extremely sad and
sorry for him.
Theme
Teenage marriage and its consequences
Point of View
Omniscient
Thursday, 13 August 2015
I want to travel and explore new things, places and know a lot of people. I want to know the different cultures in different places and see whether it is similar with mine. I want to know the different practice of each race and discover their common behaviors. If only I can but I will strive hard to make that dream a reality. Someday, I will be able to tour around the world.
Modern Courtship
I am not against of women courting men because nowadays women are empowered and they can't be underestimated. They can be great leaders, workers, educators and so on but one thing that I think girls should not take over is courtship. Given the fact that women can do almost everything, they still have to preserve the femininity in them in terms of romantic relationships. They should be the one being chased and not the one chasing.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Face It
You always complain on how will you solve your problem but you never try on finding a solution. You keep on running away from it where in fact; the right thing to do is face it. You keep on thinking about it before sleeping but you never have the couarage to confront it. Living a life like this will never make you happy.
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