Seeing the one You Love from Afar

Hi friends and enemies! It’s me again. Please bare with me if this month, I’ve written so many blogs. Peace!
I’m now going to write again, about my life as a boy, loving a girl.
Have you ever been in love? Have you ever been so desperate to see her, talk to her, hold her with your arms and tell her you love her from the bottom of your heart? Yes, I’ve tried it and I desperately have been so in love. So in love that I felt I could die for her.
It all started during first year high school (to all UP students just guess who she is). It was the first day of classes when I first met her. I still remember that very scenario; she was standing by the door, wearing a jacket. When I saw her, as if I was struck by lightning! She was so pretty I wanted to grab her and talk to her, but I thought, who am I to talk to her when weren’t even still friends during that time. We were completely strangers to each other.
After that, I kept thinking about her. But after the many things we did that day, I just simply forgot about her.
The third week of high school came. Many students were now joining clubs and other extra curricular activities. As for me, I joined the UPSTAGE or the University of the Philippines Theater Arts Guild for Education. This club involves theater activities, many forms of dancing, and singing. But it specialized in ethnic dances and presentation as to what the club’s adviser, Ms. Ligaya Rabago Visaya’s theme is.
Before joining the club, of course we still have to audition. Many first years joined the audition. Including the VIP Delegates, a social group in our section which I am in.
My classmates, or should I say group mates sang, danced, acted and impersonated our teachers. And I, the king of impersonators in our school, impersonated some of my teachers including the club’s adviser.
Then out of the blue, I saw her, the girl I was so amazed with. I was again as if struck by lightning. What she did was, she sang. She sang a very familiar song which I recognized as the song, Happy Ending by Avril Lavigne. From then on, I had a crush on her. I thought about her always. And she just couldn’t get out of my mind.
November came, as for many universities, intramurals month. I still remembered that very day, Thursday, November 23, 2006 the whole world fell upon me and I was as if, I couldn’t breathe when I heard the news that the very person I like was now the girlfriend of my previous best friend.
There were no nights I wouldn’t think of her and there were no days I wouldn’t suffer of depression. I didn’t actually know why but it’s as if she was a very dear person to me, it was as if, I fell in love!
December 22, 2006 was a day I couldn’t forget. It was the eve before their (well you know who) monsary. For 2 hours I cried and cried. I just stayed in my romm remembering the days when we were still friends, talking to each other, hanging-out and walking to many places near our school like the College Department in our school.
The following days worsened. Her boyfriend knew I had a crush on her, so I couldn’t dare talk to her or simply go near her. I wouldn’t dare go near a person whose boyfriend is so angry at me and has a very feared group. But I told myself, “how could you be a coward, if you love her you should fight for it”! But I just didn’t have the strength to do it.
It feels very odd seeing both of them holding hands, talking to each other and just having fun. It’s like I’m going to burst! During break I would sit at our bench and watch her from there, she would be inside her room by then. I would just feel sad be depressed and sometimes cry.
I’m not very lucky when it comes to love, but somehow and in someway, I’m going to be lucky at it and I hope I could find the person who would love me truly too. I’ve learned something from this “ ‘wag hanapin ang pag-ibig, ito’y darating” as a famous OPM song goes.

A Love Affair with MV Doulos and Books

Helping – a very strong word. It is the act when one takes pity to anyone. This is what the crew of the MV Doulos has been doing ever since it was made. They have been crossing nation to nation, helping the people who are poor, oppressed, in war, or even the most corrupt people they have been helping.
Here are some facts of MV Doulos…
The MV Doulos is the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship. She is now owned by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle (Good Books for All), and is used as a floating bookshop. Over the years, she has been known as the SS Medina, the SS Roma, and the MV Franca C.
History
The Medina was built in 1914 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company for the Mallory Steamship Company of the United States. She was a freighter serving the Atlantic; during World War II she served with the United States Coast Guard.
The Panamanian company Naviera San Miguel SA acquired the Medina in 1948; they renamed the ship the Roma, and converted her into a passenger ship with cabins for 287 people, and dormitories for an additional 694 people.
In 1952 Naviera San Miguel resold the Roma to Linea Costa, an Italian company. At this time the SS Roma, a steamship, was converted into a motor vessel and renamed the MV Franca C. She carried passengers between Italy and Argentina. In 1959, the Franca C was adapted into a cruise liner, principally cruising the Mediterranean.
In 1977, Gute Bücher für Alle acquired the Franca C, and renamed her the Doulos. In her current role, she is manned by a volunteer crew and visits sea ports world-wide.
Did you know that it was built only 2years after Titanic?! Wow this boat does has something to be well remembered about.
Why would we say, love affair with MV Doulos? Because this boat is full of love, it takes with them love from every country they go to and in turn they also give love to every country they visit through helping and caring for the pity citizens.
Actually, last February, we visited this historical ship ‘cause it visited us here in Cebu after several years. It docked in Pier I near the South Reclamation Project. We, the students of the University of the Philippines High School Department, were lucky enough to have the special treatment when we visited the boat.
We had so much fun! We read books, ate ice cream, talked with the crew, drank juice, and enjoyed the scenery of the ocean! Actually I was so sad when I saw my crush hanging-out with his male classmate, just enjoying the wind and the scenery of the ocean. Well that’s life.
After enjoying the books we bought and read, the crew made a program just for us and this lame lame school, the Asian College “chuva” something. The crew had several games for us, and our host was Brazilian.
We went home with stomachs full and with books from the boat. (their books were very high quality).
Well that’s it for today….BBBBByyYyYEEEEEEEEeee!!!!!!

Wanted: Perfect TEACHER!

We students, often say that teachers aren’t caring, we say they are very rude, annoying, boring and sometimes we often say they’re mad! Yes, it is very true that we often say these words and talk about it to our friends. And yes, teachers are sometimes very much like this. But do we know why they’re doing it? Do we know what they have to endure to teach us? Do we know that they are only doing this just for………………………….KIKAYS! Joke only!
No, they aren’t doing this just for, “kikays”. They aren’t doing this because they are angry at us, but because they truly and dearly love us!
Being a teacher is no easy job. You have to be strict, well disciplined and at times be the superior of all, to show a good example and leave a good impression to your students.
Here is my experience on being a bad boy to my teacher…..
Once, I had a teacher, my favorite teacher! Her name was, Ms. Madelin B. Tinapay. She was also a mother, so, she well knows how to take care of in obedient children like me. She had two children, Rendel, and Renelin, who we, her students, treated her like our own brother and sister. We would usually call her, teacher “Madie”.
Teacher Madie was a kind, thoughtful, caring and lovable teacher. She graduated Magna Cumlaude in College. She was such an achiever. Then, she chose to be a teacher at the Lahug Elementary School, my school. At first, she was still a teacher for the regular class. Then, when our adviser at the Science Class was promoted to become our Assistant Principal, Teacher Madie then became our new adviser.
Our first impression on her was that she was very strict. We though she wouldn’t be as good as our previous teacher.
But we were wrong. She was in fact better than our previous teacher. She was very kind to us that we would treat her as if she was our best friend. She would sometimes jam with our jokes and would always spend time to “chika” with us.
We all know that Math is a very boring subject, but not for our class. Teacher Madie would hold mini Math Challenges to ignite our energy and to make Math so fun that we would sometimes wish it would be Math that we learn everyday.
She was also very good at Math, because of her expertise in this field, we won 3rd in the Division Finals, DepEd, MTAP, Math Challenge. We were so happy with our place despite the many very good schools that joined the competition.
Now let me tell you what bad thing I did to this very wonderful teacher.
One time, we had an exercise in Math that involved decimal points. Our class decided that instead of writing .1, we should write 0.1 to lessen confusion of the teachers. The problem was I didn’t listen (‘cause I was busy drawing my crush in my notebook). My score for the exercise was (I could still remember the exact score), 15/20, just because I wrote .1 instead of 0.1 as to what the class decided. I really expected I would be perfect on the said exercise.
After learning that I wasn’t perfect, I cried and I cursed my teacher just for one exercise. I said many mean words to her; I cursed her for so many times. I didn’t talk to her for a week!
But in the end, I said sorry to her because I realized that I was the one who was wrong and I was the one who had been unreasonable.
So this one thing I can only say to you people, never treat your teachers as if they’re just your servants.
I leave this saying to you:
“Do not do to others what you Don’t want others do unto you.”

BYE!

:-) Friendship (-:

Many people will walk in and out of your life.
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.

Friends

Anger is only one letter short of danger
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.


He, who loses money, loses much;
He, who loses a friend, loses much more;
He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others
You can't live long enough to make them all
yourself.
Friends, you and me...
You brought another friend...
And then there were 3...
We started our group...
Our circle of friends...
And like that circle...
There is no beginning or end...
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called the present.


Show your friends how much you care...
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND.
If it comes back to you, then you'll know you
have a circle of friends.

When you receive this letter,
I recommend that you send it to all your friends,
including the person who sent it to you!
You don't have to send it to your friends, it's your choice.
I don't want to force you to do it, but trust me;
it's always good to tell your friends
some nice words now and then
and that you care...

...When History Began…

How did the world begin? Where did we come from? People have been puzzling over questions like these for thousands of years.
The Bible tells of the Creation of the world in the Book of Genesis. It tells how God created the world and all living things.
But there are other stories about how the world began that have been told by people from many lands and with many different beliefs. These stories, which are very old, tell us a great deal about the people who first told them and the places where these people lived.
There is also a new story that scientists from different land are still trying to put together. Some people do not agree with this scientific story. But most scientists think it is true.
Scientists tell us the earliest man-like creatures were alive about 14 million years ago. They were more like apes than people, but they did move about on two feet looking for fool.
Some types of early people, like Nutcracker Man, did not survive. Those that did had changed their way of life. They moved out of Africa, into Asia and Europe. They became meat eaters and they learnt to hunt in groups and to share their food. They used sharp flint and stone tools.
About 40,000 years ago, modern people appeared. Their brain was the same size as ours today and they behaved more like us. They were able to make finer tools to help them to hunt; they buried their dead, and painted the walls of the caves where they lived. Prehistoric paintings have been preserved in many parts of France, Spain, North Africa and Australia. Some of them are as much as 30,000 years old. They have been preserved in the caves, where there is no wind, rain or sunlight to wear them away, for all those thousands of years. Most of the paintings are of prehistoric animals like woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses, and of bison, horses and deer. Very few show people. No one knows exactly why these pictures were made. Some scientists think the prehistoric people used the paintings to make magic - magic they believed could help them when they went hunting. Others think the animals were meant to stand for something else, like spirits of gods.
Later, about 10,000 years ago, people began to farm. They stayed in one place and began to live in groups called communities.
Think about all the things you’ve been doing lately. Have you been reading? Writing? Studying? Praying? Playing? You are sure to have done some of these things. Most people’s lives today are filled with such activities. They are the activities of a civilization. But it hasn’t always been like this.
At first, (as I said) people were only hunters or farmers. Then, as time passed, farming began to solve the fool problem. People grew more food than was needed each day. So they could store some away. Now there was time for new activities and skills to be learnt.
The next big step was for people to get together and work out laws to live by and ways of sharing and recording their knowledge. This was the beginning of civilization.
The first civilization grew up about 6,000 years ago in Sumer. Today this area is called Iraq. Other early civilizations followed in India, Egypt and China. The Sumerians developed farming machines and skills. Cities developed and here the earliest forms of metal work, brick building, writing and money began.
In India the Indus Valley civilization developed along the banks of the rivers in western India and Pakistan. Later civilizations also spread along the River Ganges.
The Egyptians believed in everlasting life. The Egyptian kings, called pharaohs, built tombs inside enormous stone pyramids. The records of their lives are still being unearthed today from these burial places.
The great area of the Far East had been divided by wars. Now the Ch’in tribe succeeded in uniting everyone into one vast empire called China.
All these places had something in common- they all had great rivers, which made the land good for farming. The easier it was for people to farm land and get food, the more time they had left for other things.
People have certainly made an impact on this earth. We’ve been around for a long time, but in the history of the earth we’re really late arrivals.
Imagine all of earth’s history squeezed into one day. On this scale the tiniest living things probably first appeared at about 4 am. But the first animals with backbones – fishes – don’t appear until about 9:20 pm. Man-like apes appear one minute before midnight – and modern people less than one second before midnight strikes.