Change: It Starts With Me

Poverty, corruption, crimes and calamities, these are just some of the obstacles we are facing today. Many lives ended in just a minute. Lives those we human are treasures. Are there anymore solutions with these problems?

If we observe what is happening now in our country, we have lots of problems that we are encountering. One is poverty which is becoming more complicated. Poor people have no money; almost all are unhealthy and uneducated. They are hungry and harmed by diseases because of their environment. Some people commit crime because of poverty and desire to gain a lot of money or expensive belongings. Innocent people get in this situation because of the desires of these humans who have a bad mentality in life.

Corruption is also one of our problems we are facing today. This corruption affects many aspects of our life like health, education and environment. Government gets money from us for the project that they are implementing. But does that project reach us? Do we get any benefit about these projects? Some may say yes but just a few.

Calamity, that brings a terrible loss of our lives. We are the ones that should be blamed to this because of our careless acts. Our mother earth is getting ruin completely. Examples of these are illegal logging, burning of plastics that can destroy our ozone layer and throwing garbage in the river that may cause floods.

These are just some of our issues in our country that we should be aware of and need to find a solution.

We need some changes and it starts with me!
As a student, I should be responsible enough on my actions, deeds and mentality in life. I will be a good example to younger people to be a good citizen. Well, I, as a representative of an organization, we are implementing some projects that can help individuals to have a personal interest about our mother earth. There is also a seminar-workshop about crimes, drug and child abuse and others to guide us and cooperate to lessen these obstacles in our country. Starting to this little deeds and acts as a leader as well as a student; we are aiming to have a better and sophisticated country. In this, we hand in hand to face the future with determination, faith and a joy in our hearts. :)

Golden Time:))

"Time is Gold", a saying, meaning we should treasure our time and spend it wisely in order to reach our goal.

The third quarter had passed. There were learning's, experiences, problems and challenges that we have encountered.

As one of the student of IV-Rizal, I can tell that we are having fun, enjoying the times that we are still here in High School and learning the things that we might be using in College or in the future. Even though sometimes we have misunderstandings and quarrels about some issues but still solve this problems in a nice way. We still have two more months before we leave this great school that was full of unforgettable memories and in this school also, I met good and trusted friends that I will never forget at the rest of my life.

In our TLE subject, I have learned a lot. Discovering something that I didn't encountered before like using the Microsoft Front Page. At first, I am like an ignorant or more on ignorant in this thing. I didn't know what, where or how to create this Front Page. But then, as the days goes by, I have known it by asking my other classmate how to do this, do that or what is this? When you will imagine this things, I admit that it is so funny but I am thankful that I have learned another factor about the technology and in fact, if soon or in the nearby future, I will get my own job, I may use this. =) I also learned about the HTML Images, composed of the Image Tag and src Attribute, The Alt Attribute, Aligning images and adjusting sizes of images. I discovered how to make a Web Design and it serves as our project.

In everyday of our lives, we meet problems and challenges. As a student, I also encountered problems and challenges in my studies. One of this is when we didn't finished our project on time. The reason is that, we didn't understand the instruction of our teacher. Instead of saving our design in "Save As", we saved it in our folder. So, we did it all over again. It is so hard to work on it rushing and cramming. We still finished our project but it is not as good as the work of others. However, I appreciate the efforts of my group mates for they did their best for our project.

We address this challenges by helping one another aiming to finish it. We exert effort for this project. Finally, we finished it and passed.

Proving on I will continue to pursue, to improve my skills in computer and studies to be a better person. Thank You! (+_-)

Love Grows Everyday, Love is in our Hearts

Christmas lights with different colors, Christmas trees with round, shiny decors and big, small colorful lanterns. Christmas is here, Christmas is there, Christmas is everywhere. 25th of December, the day that we celebrate Christmas.

But what is the true essence of Christmas? Are those silver, gold decors and gifts?

Christmas Day is not only celebrating or about the birth of Christ but also in showing our love to others, sharing of what we have and being happy. From the word "merry" which means happy, Christmas is about happiness, sharing, giving, love and togetherness. Realizing the blessings that we had, we must share some of this to the less fortunate people. Like the saying goes, "It is better to give than to receive." Christmas is also togetherness. Together with our loved ones, we celebrate this Day as a very special day of the year. We laugh, enjoy and share meal as well as the happy memories.

Love is in the air. We must give love on Christmas Day because it is the true essence of Christmas. Did you already forgive those who mistaken you, apologize to those people whom you hurt and say thank you to the people whom they value you? Well, now is the time. The time to forgive and forget. Spread the love, the happiness and joy to the people around you.

It is not only in Christmas Day where in we should give, share love and forgive. It can even be in our everyday life. Let us make everyday a Christmas!

Cooperation, Determination and Faith in God through Success

"If we lose something, we gain something and if we gain something, we lose something"

This last month which is November, there were many activities that we have done and joined like the Filipino Values Month Celebration with the theme of "Pagpapatibay sa Pagkataong Pilipino: Tugon sa Hamon ng Panahon", STEP Club Skills and Development Competition and the Vigan City Division Athletic Meet 2009.

Sport, an activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

Last November 26-28 was the 2009 City Meet. Many games was played. The athletes practiced well for this event. The different games was held at the separate venues around Vigan City. As a Red Cross Youth Member, we assisted and acted as the first aiders. My companions and I had a duty in the Vigan Gymnasium where the basketball game was held. The athletes of our school did their best and they won as the champion. The basketball players of Ilocos Sur National High School beat the Divine World College of Vigan and the combination of Vigan National High School East and West. We stayed there the whole day so that if anyone will be injured we will be there to help and have a first aid to the patient. Thank God! No one hurts and the game was played well.

In the Step Club Skills and Development Competition, some of our classmates joined this contest. This was held at the ISNHS Gymnasium. All the TLE teachers and the students who came from different schools participated to this event. There were a competition of Mr. and Ms. STEP, table skirting and table setting, flower arrangements, marcoting and others. One of our classmate joined the Mr. And Ms. STEP. We, the IV-Rizal students supported our classmate. Fortunately, she won as the Ms. STEP. We congratulate her for that wonderful success of IV-Rizal.

The Filipino-Values Month Celebration was also held in the month of November. Where in, there were various contest that had done like Cook Festival, Sayawit, Tagisan ng Talino, Poster-Slogan contest and more.

All of us want to win but we must always remember that in a competition, there will always be a winner and a loser. We must have the determination, strength, cooperation and faith in God to achieve our goals.

All for One! One for All!

In our second grading period, I learned a lot from our teacher. I learned about the HTML, tags, how to create html file, applying the tags and many more. I discovered how does a browser display the pages, using the Html Editors like the notepad and knowing that in creating those Web browsers we use notepad and Html tags in making it. It was so cool! From the simple letters and symbols, you can create a beautiful browser display. Our teacher also told us that it is easy but when we have error and would like to edit it, we will be confused in finding the errors so we should make it organized like entering the next paragraph.

The problems that I have encountered was when we didn't asked a permission to our teacher to work on our Investigatory Project. She expected us to be there. We were so worried because our teacher was mad on us and she might not let us attend to her class from our next meeting.

I address this problem by asking forgiveness to our teacher and we will not do that again. Our teacher told us that she wasn't angry. She just want that if we will have projects that we need to finish, we should ask permission from her so that she will also know what to do. And not waiting for us for a long time that we will not arrive to her class. When she talked to us we all say sorry to her for what we have done and we were so happy that she had forgiven us.

Proving on I will continue the great things that I am doing like passing our requirements on time. I will also remember what our teacher had told us and ask permission from our teacher if we will not attend on her class because of other matters regarding in our curricular activities. I will also not forget the things that I have learned because these learning might be use by me in the future.

MY TEACHER, MY HERO

A discipline is not above his teacher, nor a servant.

Our teacher are said to be our second parent in our school. We, children, go to school to learn, read and write. To have more knowledge to the things around us. Our teachers have different characteristics observed by us students. Some of them are strict, patient, kindhearted, talented and has a sense of humor. I appreciate them for their perseverance in molding us. With their support, guidance and understanding, they serve as an inspiration to us. They are doing their best to develop our potentials, impart the necessary knowledge and skills with changed attitudes and values. Teaching is quite a hard work for teacher. They serve as a mother or father to their students as well as their family. At night, they stay late in making their lesson plans and computing our grades. Some of our teachers told us not to take this kind of profession because it is hard. But for as long as you love that job you can manage to do it well. If there is no teacher, there will be no other professions because teachers inform us regarding to the things we need to learn in this world. The things that I learned and will learn from them will prepare me well to face bigger and tougher challenges in life.

So, my teacher is my hero because of having the heart and concern for us to become a successful citizen in our country.

Adapting to Diverse Science Culture for Development

Science is systematized body of knowledge acquired through various processes such as observation, inference, making of hypothesis, experimentation and formulating of conclusion or generalization.

The application of science leads to the development of technology. Technology is the art craft and skill of harnessing scientific knowledge. Technology has improved the quality of life in many ways. DNA analysis is now used to solve crimes. Packaged livelihood technologies produced goods and provide work and income. Nuclear research has brought about technologies for treating cancer, preserving food and providing energy. Harnessing energy from the sun has brought about solar-powered batteries for calculators and batteries. The aqualungs allowed man to explore the ocean depths thereby opening the underwater world for deeper exploration. Cellular phones, computers or a television set that we need in our daily life are products of technology.

All of this are how science and technology, hand in hand influence our lives.