First Day High!

Do you remember the movie First Day High starring Kim Chiu, Gerald Anderson, Maja Salvador, Geoff Eigenmann and Jason Abalos? Do you relate with the events happened during their first day of school? Me? Yes, absolutely! We don’t have same scenes but we were likely in related to what they felt during their firsts.

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I have lots of what ifs when I take my first step on the ground of Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). What if I can’t win friends? What if I can’t go with our lessons every day? What if someone bully me? See, I have so much “ifs” but these ifs are “ifs from my imagination”.

The first day of school was the best day of the whole school year. New uniforms, shoes, school things, to wear and to use but sometimes, new school, classmates, teachers and environments to encounter and interact with. Others might say it’s just easy to adjust with these “new things” but for some people, it was NOT.

Not because it will always depends on the people you’ll going to meet and hang out with. How people will treat and accept you. But don’t let these “problems” put you down, cheer up and enjoy your first day high!

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My Super Man

When we were a little, there was a hero who always lifts us just for us to feel that we were flying, a thief, who will run as slow as he could just for us to catch him easily, a coach who will never fail to teach us all the good things that we should learn. A policeman that will correct all the wrong doings that we may possibly do, a billionaire that can give all the luxuries that we want and lastly, an army that will fight for us in times of trouble and adversity.

All of these “profession” can possess by only one person. A person, who always spoils us, disciplines us and loves us. The most important guy in our life, our “FATHER”, “DAD”, “PAPA”, “TATAY” and “ITAY”. We all know, no one can take their part as our father because without them, we don’t have a mother and honestly, we will never see this beautiful world that God created for us.

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I am taking this opportunity to thank my father for all the things that he brought (even bought) for our family. I know Father’s day is still on Sunday, but I want to do this on behalf of my father’s birthday tomorrow, June 13, 2013. I want him to feel through this blog of mine how much I love him even though I’m a lady now. And I will continue to love him even I’ll get married and have kids.

                             

Left: Me and Papa
Right: My Sister and Papa

He’s the best father in this whole wide world. He will sacrifice everything just to make us happy. He will never forget the things that we want, like or dream of. He will just not forget but he will find ways to make it in reality (in a good way).

That’s why, in time, I will took off my hat and pass it to him just for him to feel that without him, I will never be successful as they wish for.

Araw ng Kalayaan, sa Bagong Henerasyon!

“Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Mabuhay!”, iyan ang mga kataga na isinisigaw ng ating mga ninunong Pilipino nang tayo ay naging malaya sa kamay ng mga mananakop na dayuhan.

Sa panahon natin ngayon, naririnig pa nga ba natin ang mga iyan sa ating mga kababayan? Taas noo pa rin ba tayong nakatingala sa ating watawat na sagisag ng paggalang natin sa ating Inang Bayan? O tayo’y kibit balikat na nga lang ba kapag sumasapit ang Araw ng Kalayaan?

Hunyo 12, 1898, Kawit, Cavite- Idineklara ni Heneral Emilio Aguinaldo ang Kalayaan ng Pilipinas mula sa pananakop ng mga Espanyol. Ang pagdedeklara ng ating Kalayaan ay sa pagitan ng ika-apat at ika-lima ng hapon sa nasabing araw sa tahanan ni Heneral Aguinaldo. Alinsabay nito ang pagtaas ng Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas na itinahi nina Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, at Delfina Herboza sa Hong Kong.

Itinanghal din sa unang pagkakataon ang ating Pambansang Awit na Marcha Filipina Magdalo na ngayon ay Lupang Hinirang sa panulat at komposisyon ni Julian Felipe. Itinanghal ito ng San Francisco de Malabon Marching Band.

Ang Deklarasyon ng Kalayaan ng Pilipinas ay inihanda, isinulat at binasa ni  Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista sa lenggwahe ng mga Espanyol. Ang Deklarasyon ay nilagdaan ng siyamnapu’t walong katao karamihan ay mga Amerikanong sundalo sa panahon na iyon.

Ang Deklarasyon ng Kalayaan ng Pilipinas ay napalaganap lamang noong Agosto 1, 1898 nang maging organisado na ang karamihan sa mga lungsod at probinsya sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni Heneral Emilio Aguinaldo.

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Sa ika-isandaan at labinlimang taon na paggunita ng Araw ng Kalayaan, tayong mga Pilipino ay sama-sama, taas noong ipagmalaki sa buong mundo ang katapangan, karunungan at kabayanihan ng mga magigiting nating mga bayani na ibinuwis ang kanilang buhay para sa kasarinlan ng ating bayan.