In my Senior High School experience lalo na sa FEU (Proud Tamaraw here!) madami talagang Performance Tasks asahan mo na yan. But making these activities, ‘di ako nagrereklamo because it’s another experience for me. At kapag HUMANISTA ka mas marami kang activity relating to public speaking, research, o kaya naman creative outputs. Ako personally, ‘di ako magaling sa arts kaya I’m having a hard time pag arts na ang kailangan sa P.T. ‘Pag HUMSS palagi nang inaasahan ang creativity plus thinkers pa! Kaya I don’t understand kung bakit “bobo” ang tingin nila sa mga nag-HUMSS. To think of it HUMSS makes teachers and teachers make all professions. Joke’s on people who think that “HUMSS is just for those who can’t take up other strands because they don’t have the enough ability to take it.” well, it’s completely wrong! The HUMSS strand takes a lot of courage, strength, and capabilities. Ang hirap kayang mag salita sa harap ng maraming tao while proving a big point oo ‘di lang basta opinyon kundi mabigat na topic that has a big effect on our society plus researches that are almost impossible to even defend with the deadlines that are also impossible to reach.

Yet having these experiences made a big part for my evolution, I mean I get to do a lot of things that I haven’t done in my life, making of decisions that are sometimes rational pa nga, dealing with other people, socializing which I didn’t even like doing before but I had to because of this strand and it resulted to a better ME. Kaya for those who are planning to take HUMSS or maybe it’s just one of your options, don’t hesitate. The strand will open a lot of doors for you for your future. I am glad to promote the HUMSS strand for the up-coming senior high school students.

Yours randomly,

Danese Miranda, 2018

 

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For another blog today, I’ll be sharing about a journal I submitted into one of my journals in my subject Personal Development. It asked if we were to rewrite the ending of any historical event mainly in our country, the Philippines.

If the Spaniards never invaded our country and land, everything will be different. The Philippines will be a whole different country and culture. It wouldn’t even be “Philippines” as well. Let’s start off with our language, we wouldn’t be able to adopt such words like imposible, peligro, libro, and many more! Although the Americans also invaded our country we could adapt their language that uses similar words with Spain like ‘integrity’ and integridad which are almost similar we won’t still adapt the Spanish version because we only learned english.

But what if we weren’t colonized by any nations or countries? The Spaniards had big impact to our country. Sad to say but they’re almost the one who made the Philippines as it is, the culture, language, traits, traditions, and even beliefs so almost everything. Plus the other nations like America and Japan. If the Philippines was never colonized what are we gonna become? We even have our own way of writing before and it is the ‘Baybayin‘ and I wish I knew how to write it. Today we all have our dialects which is also amazing but also kinda sad because we are so diverse when it comes to language that we don’t even understand our own fellowmen. I’m actually originally from Bulacan (proud Bulakenya here!), as an example, the thing that amazes me or also the people I know there is that Pampanga and Bulacan are just nearby each other but we differ from language. Pampanga speaks Kapampangan and when you compare it with Tagalog they’re really different. It may be kinda cool but sadly it had an effect to our history. But anyways, I won’t talk about it any further.

How about Traditions and Beliefs? If so, I think we’re not gonna be a Catholic country even. Although in our modern day today we may become Catholics even if we weren’t colonized at all but at least we’re not gonna be considered a Catholic/Muslim country maybe. There are still Filipinos who still believe in Animals and Nature as their God but I’m not sure if it is considered exactly as ‘Paganism’ though. Most of us still believe in such mythological bodies such as ‘Aswang’, ‘Tikbalang’, ‘Manananggal’, and other more especially in provinces. To believe it or not but there are actual experiences of ‘Engkanto‘ of people I know. Plus Philippines also have our own Mythological stories and deities which aren’t really given enough attention especially in our education system, schools don’t teach these to students but rather discusses other countries’ instead specifically Greek and Egyptian. With traditions, we’re not even gonna celebrate ‘Fiestas‘ nor recognize ‘Saints’ as well just like what I said we’re not gonna be Catholics and practice their traditions and beliefs.

Lastly, we’re gonna be an independent country standing on our own feet not considering any other countries as superiors, just minding our own business, benefiting on our own resources, not taken advantage of other countries. I suppose the question gonna be left is that “If we weren’t colonized or even just influenced by any culture of nations, will we be a better developed country or just worse?”

Yours randomly,

Danese Miranda, 2018

Another blog for this week! For this short blog I’ll share about what is really the “love” that is best for me. This also appears on my journal notebook in one of my subjects-Personal Development and I thought I wanted to post it here too.

‘Love’ can refer or pertain into a lot of things. Love is such a powerful word that can be expressed into a lot of different ways in different languages. So what exactly is the ‘love’ that is best for me? For me, of course the love of my family and friends they are very important to me because they are the people that provides love and care for me in a physical and visible form. But the ‘best’ love? It is surely from God and His son Jesus, His love is immeasurable and unparalleled. The fact that He sacrificed His son for us is just beyond every love someone can give to someone but because of His undeserving kindness He did even though it means seeing His son suffering and also Jesus’ love that he is very willing to do it without complaining. For me this is the best love I’ve ever received and I am not even worthy of it but I had it so all I had to do is to be all grateful and do my best to give everything I can in return. The only love that will never hurt me and break my heart into pieces.

Yours randomly,

Danese Miranda, 2018

here’s another journal for my subject Personal Development.

I’m pretty sure this is not just about the movie of course. This has something to do with ME. Yes that’s right, me. Putting myself first before anyone else but you may ask isn’t it like almost being ‘selfish’? And being selfish is bad right? Well, this is not about being selfish nor being self-centered or whatever this is more about an individual putting themselves first meaning you wouldn’t care whatever other people would say. Prioritizing your own feelings about a certain situation rather than knowing what are the opinions of the others. It’s like this, when you’re about to make a decision of course you’re gonna ask yourself first but also you’ll ask other people their opinion but in the end it is still your decision and it’s up to you to decide the final decision. Don’t let anyone dictate who you want to be or what you want to do as long as you’re happy and you’re not doing anything wrong and not hurting anyone. This is how I understood the quote. Me first before anybody else.

ps. but God first before myself too..

Yours randomly,

Danese, 7/12/18

This quote was the first quote for my journal in Personal Development subject, we had to explain how we understood the quote and I wanted to put it into my blog because why not.

The quote already explains itself, and I totally agree with it. The thing is, we may say that we experienced something because it happened to us but actually it is about how we react or respond to a certain situation. So technically ‘experience’ is not a thing that we experience instead it is an action that we do towards actual happenings. Confusing but you sure do get the point. I liked the quote personally because it states that we are the ones who are responsible for what is going on on our lives. The quote shows that we can have a lot of situations or experiences based on how we address it whether if you respond or do another different reaction. So that is my thought about the quote.

Yours randomly,

Danese, 7/10/18

This was my first personal journal ‘cuz our teacher told us to write random thoughts as well in our journal, we can put personal writings so it’ll be not just reflections from quotations he’ll give us and also told us to put “Dear Journal,” but it’s not graded yet it is still part of our Personal Development (which he never checked i think?) but it’s fine with me.

Dear Journal,

I’ve experienced doing journals or diary before ‘cuz I was inspired by Charlie in the novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” so I thought of doing it as well but later didn’t continue anymore because I figured it wasn’t really my thing at that time (saka tamad din kasi ako noon saka madaling mag sawa? lol). The book is about Charlie writing letters to a ‘friend’ (the readers) from time to time whenever he feels like it or whenever there are happenings in his life and there the story goes on. I liked reading that, I remember I was in 8th grade when I bought the book in NBS I was so happy because got it way cheaper than the one with the movie cover and duh the original cover is way cuter and also it was the last one in the store. The book helped in my sophomore year, that phase of adolescences really sucks doesn’t it?

3 or 4 years ago I graduated 7th grade survived the first year of Junior 4 more years to go and 2 more for Senior thinking I will still study at the same school because where else am I gonna go? But in my surprise, “Danese lilipat na tayo, kailangan ka na naming hanapan ng school doon.” It was almost start of the new school year. And just like that I had to leave all of my friends and family as well. From that time it was not syncing to my head that I’m really moving away. In my mind it’s summer and I have no idea what’s gonna happen next school year. So then they found a school, it was nothing like my previous school. It was more of an international school, yeah sure I’ve studied in an international school before when I was in elementary so I thought okay it wont be that bad. On the plus side the uniform is cute it was like from the Japanese animes or whatever so I was like okay it’ll do. It was a bit of a shock for me, I still remember going in the room on the first day of classes I sat straight to the seat beside the window, it was really cold and I forgot to bring a jacket. Everyone seems to know each other already because it’s the 2nd year of Junior. I grabbed my book “Paper Towns” and just read it I’m like screw these kids take me back home, HOME. I don’t know but I still remember that first day, only that first day. Maybe because it was the first day for an entire new beginning, new residence, new place, new people, new school, new uniform, and new haircut.

The book “Perk of Being a Wallflower” helped me cope up with my new environment ‘though I had friends instantly, surprisingly. But I still had a hard time knowing what I really wanted. I guess, I became friends with them for a reason, and that is to just survive my High School. Given that I’m not totally friends with them anymore now.

I read the book (Perks of Being a Wallflower) again in 10th grade kasi nakita ko siya ulit sa dati naming bahay and everything just flashed back to me, so I decided to read it again and at some point I understood it better than before and I’ve appreciated it more, perhaps the thing is when you re-read a book or even re-watch a movie after a couple or few years it wont be the same because obviously you grew as a person, experienced and learned more compared when you were younger. So I guess, that’s all. ‘Til next time.

Yours randomly,
Danese