tO bE oR nOt tO bE . . . ?

tO bE oR nOt tO bE . . . ?

To be or not to be?

I cannot understand what’s happening to me

I do not know what to do anymore

Will I just forget what had happened before?

To be or not to be?

I cannot make my mind you see

It’s possible that this one is right

But why on the other I can also see the light?

To be or not to be?

Yesterday I’ve felt life’s beauty

But today the only thing left is hurt

And it is because you broke my heart…

To be or not to be?

To forget is better than to remember, maybe?

Remembering is like being tied to the past with a chain

While forgetting makes you face tomorrow without pain…

Nobody’s Perfect

Nobody’s Perfect

        Comedy of Errors, what do you expect? Of course it would be funny and full of errors. The first time I read the summary of this play, I kept repeating the lines to myself then going to the list of characters. It was really confusing to tell who’s who.

        You see, there are two set of twins, the first twins have the same name, Antipholus, while the other twins were named Dromio. They got separated and one Antipholus and one Dromio grew up together while the other Antipholus and the other Dromio grew up together. Now, that was just one out of the hundreds of confusing facts and parts of the play.

        But, even though the story was funny, it shows golden lessons. One of those is that you can gain your liberty by telling the truth instead of money, which is by paying the bail. This happened to Egeon, the father of the Antipholus twins. Another lesson was the way you correct your mistakes weighs greater than the mistakes themselves. We should remember that nobody’s perfect. We should not see a person’s imperfections and focus in the best part of him.

NCAE : Guide To Our Future

NCAE : Guide To Our Future

        NCAE, an acronym for National Career Assessment Examination, is like a golden map that leads us to our future. It can help us choose what vocation we want to take after high school.

            This exam was created to determine the students’ assets that could help him/her in the near future. With NCAE, we could more easily choose the course or courses we want to take in college.

           NCAE helps us choose, but it is not the one deciding for us. Even if it says that you are good in clerical jobs, but you want a field job when you grow up, you can ignore the exam’s result and pursue your dream.

Intramurals: an Oasis in School

Intramurals: an Oasis in School

        Homeworks. Projects. Seatworks. Exams. Where’s the fun?

        After months of brain-draining school works, intramurals is one of the ways to replete the students’ spirit. This event does not only ensure the physical fitness of the students but their mental fitness as well.

        Intramurals can give the students to excel in their chosen sports- or even discover the sport where they have talent in. we could guess that most athletes played the sport where they shined during their sweet high school days. Who knows maybe as we conduct the yearly intramurals a student found a missing part of his soul in the sport he played and will soon shine as the newest representative of the Philippines in the international Olympics.

        Intramurals can also build bond between students and develop their sportsmanship. We win, we lose. It doesn’t matter- what matters is that we had fun and enjoyed ourselves while playing.

Intramurals must be enjoyed because, first, it’s just once a year. And, second, because it is one of those blissful breaks from schoolworks. ;)

Nationality or Practicality?

Nationality or Practicality?

        English, the universal language may just be the second major language in the Philippines. But most Filipinos will not be able to communicate clearly without uttering a single English word. We use English language more often in our everyday activity than our mother tongue. So, we may say that being fluent in English is better than being able to master our mother tongue. We can use it to get a better job. It is also “cool” to speak a foreign language fluently.

        On the contrary, mastery in our mother tongue shows nationality and patriotism. Some may say that we should master our native language first before learning foreign ones. We could say that it is fun being quaint, knowing deep native tongue words that others don’t even know.

        In my opinion, it is better if we have fluency in English, even though it is not our own. I love my country but, I’m a practical person and I can say that fluency in English can help me in the future than mastery of my mother tongue.

Love's Promise

Love’s Promise

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” ~Corinthians 13:4-8

Nathaniel glanced at the house, no, mansion, where she used to live. It is a different world from his. He will wait for her while slowly making his way to reach her world. She lived in a mansion with sparkling chandeliers, maids that were summoned by just clapping and a coupe with an ever waiting butler to attend to her every need. But it is also a world where everyone’s under surveillance, people can’t be themselves because the elite society demands elegance and finesse – a faitour to appease the affluent crowd.

On the other hand, Nathaniel’s world is full of knave people, a world where only the strong ones survive. It was where people just have enow money to last a day- a day with only a single meal. He lived in a vacuous and grungy house, no, hut- just enough accommodation for a night’s sleep and a shelter during harsh weather.

But fate has its own way of twisting lives. One day, Nathaniel was hired by Rachel’s mother to fix a ruined part of their garden. He was focused in his work when he heard a sweet tune of flute filling the air. He glanced at the window above him and saw a pair of hazel eyes staring back at his dark ones. She has long black hair that was currently dancing due to the wind. His heart skipped a beat when the soft pink lips curved into a gentle smile. He unconsciously smiled back and dropped the tool he had been using. She raised her hand as if to tell him to wait for her. After a few minutes, she emerged from the mansion into the garden.

That was the beginning of their secret rapport. They were having a tryst, a rendezvous in the mansion’s garden in the midst of the night. They had tried to make their affair inconspicuous. Rachel always wore a babushka in her hair to appear like a servant whenever she escapes. She liked being with Nate, as she calls Nathaniel, because he is a buffoon, most of the time he will blurt out a random topic and start funny piffles. Whenever she was around him, she knows that she can drop her façade, being taciturn and coy, and be herself.

      But happy moments do not last very long, because Rachel’s parents discovered that their contumacious daughter had a secret relationship with a boy who lived in a slum area. Her mother vociferated that they did not give her a superfluous life just to have it ruined by a gold-digging poor rat. They decided to send her to US as soon as possible and let her study there.

      That night, Nathaniel found a letter in their old meeting place. A promise that she will return to claim back the love they had shared. “Even jokers do cry”, he muttered as streams of tears run down his cheeks. “I promise to persevere and cross to you world. I will wait for you . . . even for a lifetime.”

Second Quarter