...And again

I haven’t submitted a term paper and… that’s all I don’t have it. Really, I did plan of dropping my English 2 subject. But s since our teacher gave us chance so I just take it. We had our removal and I hope I could pass. But if unfortunately not, then there’s nothing I can do but take it next semester. I did my part except for the term paper and I want to thank our teacher, professor Lynnie Deocampo for having us in her class and of course for giving us the removal even for the less assurance of passing I still thank her. I know some of us didn’t take this blogging project so seriously because they’re more linked with the facebook, twitter or whatever sites are of today’s most visited but I did. You know what? I just go to an internet café’ just to open my blog and see who my new followers are. I open my blogsite more than I visit facebook. That’s how serious I am with this job. And I thank again maa’m Lynnie for introducing us blogging. And about our teacher, hmmm… there’s nothing I can say but short. Short hair, short in height..Oops! no offense maa’m ( if ever you’ve read this hehe..) but she’s a very nice teacher to us but not as nice as she’s giving assignments . She is stunning that really Im amazed every time she speaks like she’d adopted the language. I want to talk as fluent as her. And to all of my classmates even if I don’t know you all, I thank you.

"I don't have a topic yet ma'am"

I don’t have a topic for my term paper yet and I don’t know why it’s hard for me finding one. We also have this in our high school but it’s not the same as what our situation now. Really I find this job hard much more now that is has a lot of process to be done with the references and contents that made it more difficult for me. Citing for references too becomes a little complicated. What we always did in high school is that we just keep on copying articles in the net then we make our own references and that’s it! You’re done. My teacher knows all these stuffs in researching still she accepts all our works and I know that she knew some of our plagiarized works but then she just tolerate it. Maybe she noticed that some of us find researching a bit harder too so just accept our works for no clear purpose.

As a result we find this thing now hard that’s supposed to be mastered in high school. But we don’t have this thesis statement in high school so I was really confused when I faced it in college. I didn’t mind it at first but now it becomes an everyday discussion for some of us find it hard to understand too. And just this Friday, ma’am Lynnie asked each of our topics with the thesis statement. Some haven’t defended their chosen topic with its corresponding thesis statement very well while others just did it better. I have no topic so I have nothing to defend only but myself giving false alibi to our teacher.

We will be busy doing term paper this whole month of February and by the beginning of March, we will then begin defending on what we have research or what ma’am call the oral defense. As what I expect, this surely is a tough semester for all of us.

Enjoying while Learning

We end the week learning a lot and at the same time gaining laughs from our activity. Most of us really enjoyed with the result of our activity. I kind of enjoyed it too but seem girls react most on what happen like they were really very happy we had that kind of activity. What really this activity I’m talking about focused on the APA citation style. APA (American Psychological Association) is a widely recommended format whenever it involves citing references. We had this activity as a group. It’s like training and familiarizing more on this format and at the same time we gain points and I must admit it now that I did really enjoy it. Well, all of us enjoyed with what our score’s result. It’s like were just playing but for sure ma’am did that as her purpose that we’re like playing as we learn.

I should now move

I noticed all blogs I’ve read talked about school work problems. And also this is the same thing I’m going to talk about now. I see my English 2 subject more difficult than my Math 17. I just don’t know why it’s hard for me to move with jobs I need to get done. I have my plan on working my topic for the term paper but then I just tell myself there are lot of tomorrows still so for now, just relax. I then noticed I’m almost getting left behind with everyone especially on this blogging activity. English 2 leads me to realize that minor subjects are not as easy to handle as we always thought. They are challenge to us yet very tiring. Of course! that's the nature of challenge. Well, this is part of our role as we’re still students. Doing stuffs for school but still enjoying every little thing while studying and enjoy little time of freedom for those others who are far from home. Despite all, It’s still a good feeling to be called a student. I wish I could make it up until the end.

2010 Election

Candidates are eagerly moving on their early campaigns for the nearly coming 2010 election. Different new faces for the same old positions they’re fighting and Filipinos are again hoping not just for new faces of leaders but also for a new face of government.

It will be different this time also for a fully automated election is going to be held. Seem we’re just forced to have this automated election because we were in hurry as the proposal of this project was declared. It’s like the government officials are just merely kidding that surprisingly they came on having the plan of putting the entire islands on fully automated election. It’s not the whole island actually; some remote areas will still use the manual style of voting. See how the cycle of these people’s mind goes straight without even looking in either way, thinking if all could benefit what they’re trying bring within the people. It was said on the earlier discussions that really we need to have automation to avoid the old practice of cheating. It’s good to hear these words from someone on the higher rank. But to think critically, who really are these cheaters? First, the candidate himself and second are the people....who were paid. From this moment on, Filipinos should begin identifying the real threat, slowly wake up and open our eyes from the real happenings what we are facing now. Choose the candidate that are not just covered by lot of campaigns and gain respect for yourselves by not just being forced by someone buy your votes. It’s time to break the chain of curse in politics and give the real meaning of what really politics is.

We are looking forward for better tomorrows and we need leaders that do not stay only for their positions but stay as what the position is really for. We now begin and hope to last.

Writing in English is a challenging way to learn

Everyone can write. What just matter is how good you think of ideas and how these are organize and use in building strong compositions. I’m not best in writing indeed, but for the long time that I’ve studied since elementary up until now on my first year in college (not so long actually), I noticed some factors that really made writing hard for me. Firstly, the confusions on word usage. Sometimes I can’t distinguish some words in a way that I can use them in right manner in a sentence. Mostly these are words that aren’t so familiar to me or words that either are verbs, adjectives, or nouns that really confused me when the right time to use them and the correct placements of these words in a sentence. I encountered words sometimes that look like nouns but then realize they are adjectives and also nouns that look like verbs. Second thing is the grammar. If it’s hard to identify adjectives, nouns or verbs, then definitely it’s not easy to present a well made grammar. What I just did always is make a simple sentence to be sure that I’ll derive a correct grammar. And third is the use of another term for a word. What I mean is the synonym of a word to create a much mature grammar. That is why it is recommended reading a lot to widen more our vocabulary and improve more writing. This sometimes also is the reason that took me so long when writing that I just spend all my time looking for an appropriate word. I’m actually that kind of writer who took so long in just revising my work. I think a lot of times choosing appropriate word whenever I write. Sometimes I came to a point where I write nothing. Everything feels blank that I cannot think of new ideas to continue. Compared to those people who are brilliant enough like they’re machines with unlimited thoughts; people that are born writers. But for someone like me, practice is necessary and I believe that practice is always present in writing. Of course! Well it’s normally hard to write when you are not native of the language used. That is why writing in English is a very challenging way to learn.

We now begin

Thinking of a topic for our term paper was the thing we’re busy of the past week. Thesis statement for our topic then was asked by our teacher and decide if she’ll accept each of our topic entry. After her acceptance, then that’s also the signal to begin looking for our references. But unfortunately, I haven’t presented a topic yet because I haven’t fully understood thesis statement. Aside from the term paper thing, professor talked for a while about fragments and run on sentences which she said would surely come out in our exam the Friday coming. At that time also she gave the final coverage for our exam. We have then taken the exam last Friday and it's not that difficult. But I’m not so sure with some of my answers mean not so sure with the result. The part IV of the exam I admit was quite tough for it is time consuming and really you need time to think making your essay.

ROTC

Begins at 6:00 in the morning and ends at 4:00 in the afternoon. That’s the life of an ROTC (Reserved Officers' Training Corps) student since second semester started. Leaving very early in the morning that sometimes you don’t remember if you've eaten properly or just never eat at all. Wearing battle dress attire like every Sunday we’re going into a war and with us is our heavy fake rifle. From top to bottom, dressed with an oversized long sleeve fatigue like I’m almost rapped into it with matching large pants and heavy black boots that every time I faced a mirror, I look like an old fashion hip hop dancer. We fall in line within our company executing every command the officer says. Every time you’re on training better stick with the rules or experience lying in the center of the hot cemented pathway of IIT. Marching, jogging, raising rifles in every direction, facing right, facing left, facing back, facing everywhere like we’re just keep on repeating these things the whole day until we get bored and exhausted. Under the heat of the sun or fall of the rain, we still keep on going until one by one some of us slowly fainted. And by the end of the day we go home with our face very ugly like we’re regretting what we’ve done the whole day. And when you go to bed, you would probably go to sleep immediately and wake up just the next morning. They said ROTC is discipline. But it's just a waste of time if I were to say. Still, it is required and I can do nothing but have it.