Sunday, January 18, 2009

CHANGES can help our SOCIETY

Me and my two of my classmates have searched and conducted a survey about our society and how it will change and affect by a single course of action. In our interview and survey, many of the students, worker, etc. believes that the changes in oneself can make a difference in our society and they are open to changes that will help not only the society but the world... After that, we came up to this conclusion:

Changing can be agonizingly slow and hard-noticed, but the best thing about change is that we can always work towards more. If you are awake and aware in the modern world you're probably trying to change your life and your situation. That's an extravagance we
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ave in our society. We have time to try to change ourselves as people for our society. Let me share what i have learned about these movies ("The New Guy", "Whatever It Takes", "Schindler's List"--these movies are different genres, but it taught me the different roles of people in our society), our society is a changing place, it is constantly developing new characteristics in culture, visual aspects and history. As it changes, many views are lost and may never be found again.
We have to start changing for us to see what we want to see. This is not an easy task, because we are the creatures of habit, we follow the flow of thought and behavior that we have carved over the course of many lives. Changing must begin in us. Like changing a simple bad habit may change and create a big transformation to our society, and to replace bad habits, with better ones, we need to keep a constant watch on what is going on our minds and how we act and react in our daily lives, and to check ourselves whenever we find ourselves indulging in some selfish or undeserving thought or deed. The problems that afflict or upset our society — from drug addiction and violent crime to economic exploitation and the destruction of the environment — are generally symptoms of more deeply rooted causes. The way we act reflects the way we think. Most we can do is change ourselves, even though you are a leader, a parent, a teacher, a pastor, a worker abroad or locally, an artist, a servant, or a student. We have to screech truth, justice, honesty, and oneness. Let us remember that country’s oneness is the country’s integrity, and without these, no government can be trusted, and when there is no trust, governance worsens into subornment or corruption and compulsion. So to wrap up this blog, we can change for the better or we can change for the worse, when we change for the better, we help improve our society, it’s like this, changing ourselves is changing the world. So don’t wait for tomorrow, let us start today.

Acknowledgments:

Sandy Francisco-photographer
Ywok Francisco-model


Contributors:

Jefferson Barte
Giller Mojica
Jamell Salvador

Monday, January 12, 2009

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button..learnings.



I watched this movie with Sandy and Lorraigne. "Life doesn't work this way. We are an observer of our passage, and so are others."- i felt after watching the movie... The only constant in life is change and it happens whether driven by fate or chance. One delicious scenario provides an explicit example as a car accident results from a series of small, seemingly unrelated interim incidents. Remove any one and that accident would not have happened. And, take away the accident and the rest of the movie would have moved on a different path toward a alternate ending. Life is like that. We never know whether any given action will vanish like a stone tossed into a pond or whether the ripples of that toss will build into a tsunami... What Button shows is that Ben is ultimately not the hero of his own life or his own movie. He gets inside our head, that's for sure, but, frustratingly, we never get inside his. Really nice. Great movie.

Monday, January 5, 2009

random random


Its another year for me, and am still finding what really can make me happy. Yeah, you might ask 'are you not happy with your life?'... I am, I have my mom, my brother, my dad (though he is not here, because he is working abroad, i can still feel his presence), am with my girlfriend, there's my cousin whom i love to play with and my friends whose there to support me and am so thankful with that. But still, there's an empty room in me thats need to be filled out with somethin'. Something that will make me complete or whole.
Theres a lot of things in my head right now. I am confused. A lot of questions are popping out. Its so random. I can't even pull one and answer it. Damn. Hard.
Shocked? (for all the HUMANS who knows me) I may seem easy going person, but deep inside, am screaming for answers. Dang! I guess, right now, I am in my most difficult stage, finding my self, and finding my purpose in this world. Yeah yeah, i know, its too cliché, but hey! I don't give a damn, this is my blog. LOL.
Where is my voice of reason now? Is it lost because i forgot i have one?
Now, for the reason that is it lost, am all alone, left by the last angel (my inner voice) that already flown. I am so lost.