Stress After Vacations

Life is a continuous learning. In other words,  is a continuous process of your life. Every day we learn from many things like in our daily experiences. Life is about continuous learning, discovering new things, and growing. Successful people don't think they know everything. They are open to new ideas. And it’s just the right reason why students go to school. If we only depend on experience, there’s no such thing as discovery at all.

Third quarter! As usual, stressed. Summative test, not enough days to discuss, thematic projects, and after the vacation, Third quarterly examination, and many more requirements to finish.

 Unlike in the last quarter, it is easier compared to the last quarter. All we need to worry is the examinations to be done on January. Also the other requirements to finish. 

Like in the last quarter, all we need is time management and review. Managing your time is very important. Mix it with a good review and it’ll make a perfect potion for the third quarter.

Moving on, I will continue to pursue my dreams by pushing myself to achieve my kind of success in which my parents would be proud of me.


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Love, Family, and God: The True Essence of Christmas

"'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la..." as the song goes. Every year, it is in our tradition to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25. Here in the Philippines, we have the longest Christmas season starting from September up to December. 

It is truly indeed the most wonderful time of the year where people only thinks about happiness. It is the season of giving. It's not the gift that we want to give but actually we want extend the warm greetings, our sincerest gratitude, and most important of all, we want to give love.

We cannot measure ones love by the their gifts, the price, and whatsoever. Back then I realized the true meaning of the saying, "It's better to give than to receive." Even though you don't have any money, gifts, or delicious food to eat at Christmas, as long as you have your family to accompany with and rejoice, I tell you, you have the best Christmas celebration ever.

Slowly the snow filters to the ground 

The air is filled with a glorious sound 

Caroler's singing their praises of Joy 

Of a New Found King in a baby Boy 

Baby in a manger swaddled with love 

God sent His Son from the Heaven's above 

He sent a King to Reign over us all 

The angels spreading this beautiful call 

I see them flying through the darkened night 

The North Star appears as a guiding light 

That star still shining brightly in our sky 

Still guiding us to where our souls should fly 

Worshiping the King in this baby sent 

To fulfill the prophecies he was meant 

to seize our souls and fill them with His love 

There is nothing greater than His Reign above 

We can only imagine this great scene 

Walking across those hills what did it mean? 

Sending a message for all man to hear 

Our glorious Lord He has now drawn near 

To this day we sing His praises on High 

To gather us all to His name we cry 

In honoring that day so long ago 

Love for the Lord in our hearts to show 

I can imagine the Joy that He must feel 

Pride in His people, to Him they reveal 

United in His Spirit on this Day 

His message Spread through a World wide way 

To me this is the true Christmas Essence 

The power of souls touched in His presence 

It's a festival for Christ that we throw 

In Honor of His Name our praise to show 

We don't worship the trees that we adorn 

We Worship the day that Our Christ was born 

The Bible says the Lord gets our Glory 

Praise the most treasured Day in History!

*The poem is an original composition*

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No Hate, Just Love

Women and children often experience different kinds of violence. These take in the form of emotional, mental, and the most common one is physical. We often hear in the news about battered women, raped women, and abused children – especially in tabloids. News agencies often exploit stories like these, because these are great controversies, and readers often enjoy reading controversial news. Sometimes, these abuses also pushes women to commit suicide. We see many forms of kinds in police stations also. It’s also rampant in our communities, but we chose to be silent. After all, these are personal and family matters. It’s none of our business, so to speak. We have the police to protect them, supposedly. These are the rabid flaws of our system, brought about our wrong beliefs and culture here in the Philippines.

Women and children are supposed to be loved. We do not hurt them. It is important to teach everyone about nonviolent behavior. Like teachers should do to their students. It is very much needed because of the contemporary exposure of children to violence is immense. Television, computer games, and media had continuously give the weak child’s mind of aggressiveness and violence. Sometimes children do experience violence themselves in the environment they are living. Nowadays, the personality of teachers is more valued than their knowledge. Violence Against Women and Their Children Law had save many lives. Most victims of VAWC did not seek help from the police.

The forgoing narration above are all true. It is the obligation of the government to protect its people, especially those who are powerless, and prone to abuse such as women and children. In fact, a law to address this concern has been enacted by the government, with the aim to lessen these occurrences, and most importantly, protect our women and children. This is called “The Republic Act 9262 or Violence against Women and Their Children Act of 2004, or otherwise known as VAWC.

According to Atty. Rainier Mamaňgun, “This law establishes the parameters and guidelines, in keeping with the fundamental freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution and the Provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international human rights instruments of which the Philippines is a party”. The internet also defines Violence Against Women and Their Children as “any act or series of acts committed by any person against women who is his wife which result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such act, assault, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.”

Yes, we have the Republic Act 9262. Maybe the more important question now is, does the enactment of this law has really served its purpose to protect our women and children? As my own observation tells me, and if you take a further look deep in our community, I can say we still have to see the full effect of this Act. I still see many abuses happening around us. Maybe lawsuits have been logged against the perpetrators, but the very slow judicial system of our country, coupled by the very inefficient law enforcers- the police force, and is taking its toll on our abused women and children.  The dragging system allows the perpetrators to roam our streets, leaving the abused women and children at more risk from these bad people. I hope that in the near future, the Act would soon be fully implemented, and we will see a country with fully empowered Women and Children in the societies.


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