The things I've learned this school year

The things that I've learned this school year 2007-2008 in the field of Practical Arts are these: HTML, Dev C ++, Handicrafts, and blogging. In HTML, I learned a great deal on how to make websites, my own website so to speak. I love HTML it's fun and I can do whatever I want ^^ that's the fun part^^. Then there came Dev C++, I thought it was hard at first, but yes, that theory was therefore proven and it was absolutely true^^ (Why am I celebrating about this?) I got the hang of it and managed but I didn't like it, I wanted it to end and fast! After the horror, came handicraft, I never did like making handicrafts because it was so tiring to do. But, I found it fun and cool, so, I was able to do it^^ Then came blogging, I was so excited about this! I loved anything involving computer^^ So blogging was the best^^ Well, I guess that is pretty much everything I learned. What? Values that I learned? Here's a negative one: procrastination. The thing I keep on doing over and over and over again. Here's a positive one: determination, Yeouch! How did two very opposite values come together? (Beats me, I dunno)(Oh, who asked you?!) Please don't mind me talking to myself, so anyway, if you're determined at achieving something, then no problem , you got your goal set before ya! Well, I end that report here. Ja ne~~ (See you~~)

FaMiLy DaY

Family day...February 24, 2008. This day was a one-day ticket to family bonding. Yes, it was fun, but for some, they found last year's Family Day much more enjoyable(me included). This point was because of the lack of food stalls, lack of games and the fact that the canteen was closed. But what was really getting the students was the cool prizes from the draw. Consolation prizes were Php 300 load from Smart. 3rd prize was an mp3 player. 2nd prize was a digital camera, but let's not forget the most wanted prize that most students drooled over...the first prize... A PSP(Playstation Portable) Slim with ALL the accessories included. (Though I didn't want the prize because I already had one) Whoever won that prize was the luckiest ever. Why? He paid Php 75 just for that! And he or she won something worth more than Php 14,000! Why Php 75? That's the ticket price for the draw. Now the games, the games were...er... technically, fun but er... there were less games. They were all fun but they were I think less games compared to last year's. So far, this family day was ok but most the students were really expecting more.

Valentines

Valentines, the day of hearts, a day for couples, a day for love. But actually, this so called 'Valentine's Day' is the feast day for Saint Valentine. There is a concept of love in this day because Saint Valentine had a history of someone he really and truly loved. So when he died it was remembered as a day of love for everyone. But Valentines Day isn't only for lovers, it's also for people to show their love to whom they love other than their boyfriends or girlfriends, they can also show their love to their friends and family.

My 2 fave movies^^

One of my favorite movies has got to be Harry Potter, I mean, come on! Harry Potter is a best-selling book and it's also a great movie that bagged millions and millions of cash on the first screening. The movie is epic, full of action, a pinch of comedy, horror, suspense, romance (though not to it's full extent) but most of all, magic. Enter and behold the magical world and venture into the realms of Harry Potter, where the magic will always last.

Now, my other favorite movie is an anime movie. It's title? Spirited Away. Although most may not know of this movie, it is a movie about a little girl called Chihirou (or Chichirou) who moves to another house with her parents. In that mysterious far-off place she gets a weird feeling that it's not like all other places, thinking it's full of unexpected uncertainties. All her thought turned out true, the place is actually the dwellings of 'kamis' or 'gods' that the religion Shintoism or Taoism worship. Chihirou's parents anger the 'kami' and turn into pigs after feasting on their delectable, glazed, delicious, mouth-watering food. Now, Chihirou is set out to get her parents back to their true form by being with the 'kami' and battling against Yubaba, the witch. A story about life, love, valor, magic, suspense and fantasy, this movie is the best for children and grown-ups alike who enjoy these genres in movies.

Hikari minna(Light Everyone)

The crumbling booming sound of despair when we fall down
Gets them all choked up
Makes them all feel worthless...
They fall into nothingness,
The endless flowing dark abyss of failure swallows them...
Can't they see the light that shines faintly?
This light will grow tremendously immense, if only they could stretch their arms out for it
Engulfed in darkness...but then, bathed in warm light.
Yes, reach out to it, seize it and embrace it.
Hope will always come after all that despair.
The light will always shine after all those days of darkness.
A rainbow will always come after that heavy rain.
Hope will bring a miracle.
We must only remember: Don't close Pandora's box
There has to be hope
In the end....

The lies of the mirrors

I stare blankly at the clod reflecting glass

I wonder what I see...

Is it my face, full of innocence, foreboding, guilt even?

Or is it myself as me, full of lax, contempt, or even deceit?

I do not know what lies there in the pool of my reflection

Is it my achievements that show?

My pain and my anguish,

Joys and sorrows,

Triumphs and victories,

Fear and bravery,

Love and hate?

Then, she appears... her dark aura flowing tumultously

Flowing, seeping through my veins...

Who is she? She grins broadly like a mad man

She's mocking me painfully...

Why?! Why is she mocking me?

Have I ever wronged her?

Then, I fall, the chill of air blowing my hair and my blood-shed

tears away. I'm sobbing terribly for what she has done.

When I open my tear-filled eyes, I see her crying as well,

When I gaze upon her eyes, racked with guilt,

I realize, she was me.

Me? How could that be? I don't understand...

It seems I'm falling in a parallel dimension.

Falling and falling into the abyss from the utter realization

I realize that it was actually me causing my torment

Me, causing my pain,

Me, causing my anguish,

Me causing my blunders...

So I have turned into a monster.

The chill of air grew stronger,

I look around, I fall down

Hold myself tight and I continue to sob

Tears trickling down my moonlit pale face.

The silence, my refuge.

The chilly breeze, my sanctuary.

My tears, my family.

My mistakes, my friends.

My monstrosity, my love.

Insolent,

Impudent

Me...

The lies of the mirrors,

struck to the heart,

two blows to the heart

the throbbing feeling of pain...

Claver Overnight 2008

Though I thought it was going to be boring seeing how our other activities turned out to be, it was actually what I least expected. I never imagined that my thorough calculation of how I was going to put it was wrong, but I was happy that I was wrong, who would want to enjoy man's worst enemy?

That night was the time of my class's lives, we enjoyed ourselves to death! Even our moderator had the time of her life with her naughty class, though despite being naughty, we're really close with each other even if you count our occassional arguments with each other, but still, we learn to forgive.

I was feeling down when I hadn't brought my portable DVD player, it was essential for our film viewing, which didn't push through -_- but we had our share of a good time.

First, our moderator made us do some parlour games before we feasted our dinner. We played the game "The Boat is sinking" as time passed, we had already done at least 5 rounds of it when finally our moderator said, "That will be your group for tonight". So that's what her plan was, to divide the class into small groups for another activity. So then she made us play yet another parlour game, "Paint me a picture". It was puzzling me and I was anxious to hear. The instructions were set and we were told to paint different pictures, or should I say 'portray' different pictures. We had so much fun and the enjoyment was beginning to stir.

Afterwards, we played the third parlour game, 'The longest line', we were to form the longest line out of what we had, whether it went to clothing or your entire body was going to be used to go and try to triumph. Unfortunately, my group lost, but at least we lost with big, broad smiles on our faces.

Well, after our parlour games, we ate our dinner, thanks to Jollibee. Then, our moderator took us ghost hunting. That was the most thrilling part ever and it brought shivers to most the girl's spines (including mine). We were being told all sorts of weird and creepy ghost tales. Some of them, I thought, came out from a book; I didn't believe most true. I thought I wouldn't sleep that night because we were taken to dark places in our school, I hated and feared dark areas.

After all that excitement, now came the tear-jerking moments, confessions... it wasn't at all bad, but a lot of people said their apologies to people they have wronged in the class. Aside from apologizing, we also had to thank those classmates who made a great difference in our lives. Sadly, no one had thanked me or apologized to me, so I never had my say. But at least, my classmates were all happy and very pink in the face because they were moved or at least touched, or maybe was it the cold chill of air?

Well, I'll just have to leave it here, telling you guys that all was great and my whole class never whiffed a word of 'boring'. That was why our class overnight was the successful one, not the outing, it was boring. Not the Christmas Party, it bored my class to death and I had to make some people tell me I was corny with my speech.

After the overnight, the bond of my class grew stronger, closer and better. We all departed home with smiling, eye bug filled faces.