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Kuwento Ni Sonia

Mahal ni Sonia si Greg, isang binata sa kabilang ibayo ng ilog. Gustong tumawid ni Sonia para makapiling si Greg, kaso puno ng bwaya ang ilog at sira ang tulay. Kaya nakiusap siya kay Jose, isang mamamangka, na itawid siya ng ilog. Nag-low-cut na blouse at mini skirt siya para maging maganda sa paningin ni Greg. Pumayag si Jose, pero natakot si Sonia sa kahina-hinalang ngiti ni Jose. Sinalaysay ni Sonia kay Bong, kaibigan niya, ang kanyang suliranin. Ngunit ayaw madamay ni Bong sa kalagayan ni Sonia. Sa akalang wala nang ibang paraan, sumakay si Sonia sa bangka, kahit hindi siya nagtitiwala
kay Jose.
Sa kalagitnaan ng ilog, sinabi ni Jose na hindi na niya kayang pigilin ang kanyang sarili at gusto niyang sipingan si Sonia. Nang tumango si Sonia, binantaan siya na itatapon sa ilog.Pero kung pumayag si Sonia, nangako si Jose na itatawid siya ng ilog nang ligtas. Ayaw ni Sonia ang makain ng bwaya, pero wala na siyang makitang ibang paraan, kaya pumayag siya sa gusto ni Jose. Nagpakasaya si Jose kay Sonia bago niya ito inihatid sa kinalalagyan ni Greg.
Nang ikwento ni Sonia kay Greg ang buong pangyayari, sinisi siya ni Greg dahil sa kanyang pananamit Inisip niyang malandi si Sonia at tinakwil niya ito. Sawi sa pag-ibig at nagdadalamhati. nagpasaklolo si Sonia kay Lito, isang mahusay na karatista. Hinanap niya si Greg at binugbog ng todo. Masaya si Sonia ng makitang tinamasa ni Greg ang nararapat sa kanya. Lumubog ang araw na tinatawanan ni Sonia si Greg.

Pagmumunimuni:

1. Anong tingin niyo sa kwento?
2 Ano ang ginamit niyong basihan ng pagsukat ninyo sa bawat tauhan ng kwento?
3. Bakit itinuturing na higit na mabuti ang ibang tauhan at ang iba'y higit na masama?
4. Aling mga gawa ang maituturing na krimen na pwede sampahan ng kaso?

Reflection:

Sonia - represents a child of society
Jose - abuser, perpetrator, offender
Greg - a selfish person who thinks only of himself and blames other for their fault or action.
Bong - a passive guy who doesn't care about other people around him.
Lito - an aggresive person who wants to correct mistakes by making another mistakes.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The synopsis for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button reads something like this: “I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any mans life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.”

I was never curious about this movie. I said, boy, that's one long movie title! I got bored one night, went to the mall with my husband and thought, hey, let's watch this Benjamin Button. I had an idea that he was born odd. But that's just it.

So there we were, for three long hours, we sat and curiously watched it. It felt like I was watching Forrest Gump but the story was different. It was darker and sadder. But yeah, there were happy moments,too. As what the line of the story goes --Life is not measured in minutes but by moments (or something like that).

In technical aspect, it was superb. You know that CGs and heavy makeup were used but you barely notice the transition. For the lack of better term, it was just Uaaahmazing. The actors did their part very well, too. I love that Mama Queenie character. Makes me feel she was my mum.

I'm a sucker for good dialogue/script. This movie has it. And to point some:
Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss.

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could wear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

So yeah, that sums it up.

I say whoever hates this movie probably had a real bad childhood and can't appreciate good things.

My New MSI Core2Duo

I was really having a hard time to choose a laptop to buy for my own personal use. I wanted something small and easy to bring but I want something efficient and have high specs unlike the Asus EEE. My friend Rupert helped me out find the laptop I'd been looking for. So I have decided to buy MSI VR340 without hesitations. Aside from it being a low-cost product, it is very useful compared to other leading laptops. It is an Intel Core 2 Duo, 13.3" LCD display, it weighs 2.2 kg, 1Gb of RAM, a DVD DL burner, and a 5-in-in card reader. But you can only choose from a wireless connection or a bluetooth connection. But of course, bluetooth device is much cheaper that it can be bought easily and available in the market, so wireless connection was installed on my laptop. I used this laptop for 16 hours and the tempt doesn't exceed to 60 degrees.

The specification are the following:
Intel® Core™2 Duo T5300
1.73GHz, 2Mb, 533MHz
ATI RC410ME Chipset
ATI Mobility Radeon X200 Graphics 256Mb Shared
MSI Wireless 802.11G
1.0Gb DDR2 Memory (Maxed Out !!!)
80Gb Hard Disk Drive
Super-Multi DVD+/-RW/Ram Dual Layer Drive
Superb Glare 13.3in. Widescreen Display*
Card Reader 4-in-1 MMC/SD/MS/MSPro
Firewire Port /10/100Lan / 56K Modem
3 x USB2.0, Express Card Slot
Weight : 2.1Kgs.; Battery life: 3Hours (6-Cell)

With free MSI bag....

TEACHING A NOBLE PROFESSION

Well, just as what many people quoted about being a teacher, a noble job to be exact. I think it’s more than noble.. if, there is still a word to describe more of what is noble. I can say this because i have a first hand experience of what they’re talking about. People just don’t know how hard the teachers were striving as this point in time (im not saying this because i’m a teacher). I can really see the picture of a typical teacher, from my experience and just by mere listening to my comrades of what they’ve been going thru… and believe me I don’t know where to start… im not talking about all the teachers from the whole wide world but the public school teachers from The Philippines… Many people would say that we are priviledged… maybe in some ways… but the negative ones surpasses the positive… Maybe at this point I will start my list… Our main goal is to give quality education to young children. But sad to say… this goal is often times set aside because of tons and tons of paper works the teacher must prepare… 1. forms; 2. bulletin boards; 3. grades; and other things I dont know the purpose and the importance of its content… The only thing that comes into my mind is that they are just so eager to give us all those meaningless works just to make us busy… and in fact they are so demanding of us giving quality education to little ones… But how? We don’t have time anymore… sometimes I envy those who are working in offices coz they won’t be bringing any works at home… while us… we can’t even make our lesson plans, grades, forms, etc. in school coz they always insist on quality time with the children. What about our personal life… Our family, our self… No wonder most family of teachers are problematic or worse… broken, and the root cause of that is no time for the family…

Not only that… the main reason why i’m writing this blog is about the expenses that we have to bear especially in times like this… at this time of year, we will have an evaluation. They (supervisors and other big bosses of DepED) will check our classrooms… our bulletin boards if its updated (We have to change it every grading period), trash cans, feeding materials(spoons, plates, glassess), mirrors, towels, soap in a soapdish… my list will go on and on… Because of that, we have to shell out some of our cash (if there is) just to comply with the checklist given. I keep on telling my co-teachers why they are so demanding of us when in fact they’re not giving us allowances for that expenses… We are spending our own money for that… and mind you, they’re giving us deadlines. What about our priorities? Oh God! But u know… im also aware about what President ****** ( i forgot) " Don’t ask what the government can do for u, but what u can do for the government" (correct me if Im wrong) hehehe… but what im trying to say is that they must be understanding to us, too. We are giving favors to them right, coz we sweat out for the salary we earned. No wonder most teachers are drowning with all the credits… Just like what they’re always saying.. por-loan nalang ang wala pa. Heheheh… I’ve got so many things pa sana to share about our system but it’s too long already…

I’m so sorry ha… this is just my opinion and that is my right. Im entitled to my own opinion… If anybody wants to comment on it… everybody’s welcome…

THE PARABLE OF THE COFFEE BEANS

There was once an intelligent teacher who experimented the boiling water. She put three pots of water over the fire. In the first pot, she put some carrots. In the second pot, she put some eggs. In the third pot she put some beans that had been grounded into coffee powder. She boiled all three pots for 15 minutes. Afterwards she took out what she had put in the pot of boiling water. The carrots which were hard became soft. The eggs which were soft inside became hard. The coffee powder disappeared. But the water had the colour & the wonderful smell of coffee. Then, she thought of her life as a teacher.
Life of a teacher isn't always easy. Life of a teacher is not always comfortable. Oftentimes, life of a teacher is trying & difficult. Things don't happen as we wish. People don't treat us as we hope. We work very hard but get few results. The boiling water is like the problems in our life as teachers.We can be like the carrots. We go in tough & strong. We came out soft & weak. We get very tired. We lose hope. We give up. There is no more fighting spirit. We can like the eggs. We start with a soft & sensitive heart. We end up very hard & unfeeling inside. We hate our job. We don't like our students. We become hard-hearted. There is no warm feeling only bitterness. We can be like the coffee powder. The water has become different because fo the cofee powder changes the water! You can see it. You can smell it. You can taste it. The hotter the water, the better the taste. We can be like the coffee beans. We can make something good from the difficulties we face at school. We have the potentials for changing the lives of our students for the better. We can make our school a better place for work.
To succeed, we must try ....and try again. We must believe in what we are doing. We must not give up. We must be patient. We must keep pushing. The problems & difficulties at school give us the chance to become stronger....& tougher....& better teachers.
What are we like when things do not go well at school? Are we like the carrots....or the eggs... or the coffee beans?
Be like the coffee beans! Change the people around you at school. Influence them with your good work. Even if in return they will harbor ill feelings against you. Even if they will rock you out of yur wits. After all, in the final judgement, it is between YOU & GOD anyway.
I just compared the parable to the life of a Teacher. Hoping in this way reader's got inspired, touched & understand us as their teachers.