Friday, March 12, 2010

HOW TO UNDERSTAND YOURSELF

  I was quite “intrigued” or got interested as I read the title of the group’s PowerPoint presentation which is “How to understand yourself”. It’s because there were certain times or instances in my life when I would ask myself, “Why am I like this?” or “What’s in me/what do I have that they could think of me that way?”
            The PowerPoint presentation suggested eighteen tips on how to understand yourself. One of the tips or ways has stated or suggested, rather, to “Understand your thought process”. From this, I paused for a moment, and then slowly evaluating myself, recognizing how I react to certain situations especially to the consequences or problems arising or dropping by in my life road.
            “Understand your response to stress.” I became quite attentive at this tip for I have been experiencing stress almost all the time especially in this quite “torture” kind of school year semester, although I’m still in my first year course in IIT. When I get stressed, I easily get irritated or hot-tempered. But as soon as this tip is shared to us, I’ve learned that getting irritable or hot-tempered when you get stressed is normal; all you have to do is to understand it and know how to control your temper that it would not fall in a wrong place when it gets exaggerated or whatever.
            “Understand what pleases you most.” I know that there are things which I’m fond of or pleases me but opposes the “wants” or “likes” of others. But instead of copying their likes or the things that made them happy or pleases them (especially when you are in a circle of friends), I learned that it should not be that way, for you’re like wasting effort in giving or promoting them happiness for their sake only. All you have to do is just accept and understand what pleases you the most, even when it becomes a wall to others. Just like what most people say, “Do whatever that makes you happy”.
            “Understand you privacy. “ Yes, there were times when I get too verbal or open when it comes to the bad emotions or hurtful feelings or some experiences and confess/share it to others that sometimes would end up in finding my whole self regretting in a corner; for then I got betrayed, hurt or lose trust. Maybe I was just too “overloaded” with these intense or deep bad emotions/feelings inside that I wanted to just burst out loud, without thinking what would possibly happen, than keeping it to myself letting the wound inside get worse than ever. But as time went by, I began to understand my privacy and limit it after those experiences, where some of them were quite bitter, not better.
            Well, these are only some of the tips that the group has suggested on how to understand yourself. I’ve learned a lot from this topic that I could conclude everything I have learned from this topic in seven words, “understand yourself by accepting who you are.”

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Time

Time is the most deceptive thing..

It ticks when you're happy but prolongs your agony when you are waiting in vain..

It speeds up when you are hurrying but slows down in your solitude..

It can't be broken..

It can't be stopped..

Once it has passed,

You can never go back and changed what has already been said and done..

The worst thing is when you hear that
 "Time is up",
 You can do nothing but just accept everything..

Friday, February 26, 2010

Checking Stuffs

I was looking for my old Chemistry notebook in my cabinet after a 20-minute nap after I checked my to-do list on my cell phone and saw that our exam in Chemistry 11 is approaching. The books and some of my high school notebooks are placed on top of our shelves but I was quite lazy to look for it  in the highest shelf since it was a hot hour and I just don't feel like climbing; so I checked my boxes on the lowest shelf first hoping I could see it there. As I was looking for it, checking each item, I found my Participant I.D. last year when I joined the Intel Philippines Science Fair (Regional Division) in Cagayan De Oro City. I paused for a while and then smiled. In that moment, I remembered the unforgettable memories I've spared  as a researcher in the said event.

I learn to talk in front of people with new ideas confidently; hared some related facts with regards to technology and most especially, in my research; presented our school in the regional level; done stuffy and some never-happened things; mingle w/ the people around, both known and unknown ones; live without the family for 3+ days; and most of all, proved our school's excellence and made its mark in the field of Scientific Research..

 I was busy reminiscing those wonderful moments when my brother suddenly opened the door and showed a new DVD on me with his tongue out. My reminiscing moment then vanished as I stared at the DVD and run towards the living room to see what movies are in that DVD. Well, about the chemistry notebook? I'll just look for it tomorrow after my class.

Quite Exasperated

What a day! Although It's a holi-holiday, I woke up early in the morning for our practice in our P.E. festival this coming March 8, 2010. Come to think of it, 7am??
I tried my best to wake up as early as i could for first, I have slept already at about one in the morning for i have been editing our tarpaulin design and second, I live in Fuentes, Iligan City, which takes about thirty minutes of time travel. It also happened that this day is also the start of our Psych Days, and when the clock strikes at seven in the evening, We will be going to watch the MusiCause of the Echoes at the gymnasium; so I was quite sure that this will be a exhausting day.

I was quite mad when i reached the gym at almost 7:15AM for i found the gym closed, and there were only few people sitting, chit-chatting, roaming around and whatsoever.. without ma'am PE's presence or the sight of her turtle car at the corner of the gym. We've been waiting for an hour for our PE teacher, some of my classmates get mad because they haven't eaten their breakfast for the fear of getting late and be scolded by our ma'am. Our practice started past eight already and some of us Psych students in our PE class are getting uneasy for the Opening of the Psych days is already getting started at the ground floor of CASS. Just right after we finished performing inside the gym (We were having a hard time in adjusting and we lacked coordination due to the music we had which is only a tape), we were scolded by our ma'am PE and made us practice outside the gym, under the heat of the bursting sun. I was feeling bad at that moment for I did not like the way she utter those discriminating words on us for I find it irreverent or wrong. "Of course how can we adjust properly  at the big space of the gym ma'am that we don't even have a practicum on our presentation on the gym ever since you announced about the PE festival? and you're also using a tape which is almost obsolete or rarely used nowadays especially when performing dance presentation, and etc. wherein, when placed in a radio, only the two rows of the performers( in front of the radio) can only have the chance to hear the music itself, for the fact that the gym is so big and so noisy; and you're there, shouting at us this and that without thinking this things and realizing your faults..!", I said to myself. Another thing that made me quite confused is why she's so fond of the boys who only perform on the mass dance that she even announced that all boys will be given flat one for they are only the ones who performed well. how absurd! Well, to cut it short, we did our best to prove her wrong and soon we were dismissed at about ten in the morning. After the practice, we went to the CASS grounds for our Psych days until past four in the afternoon. It was fun though exhausting (Especially the Amazing Race that made my throat itchy and made my stomach grumble because of disgust or whatever). The concert as i said earlier, will start at seven, so we decided to roam around the city and buy some stuff. I went home at past ten in the evening and sleep soundly as I lie down in my bed after eating for today was enjoyable yet  quite exasperating day.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Expect The Unexepected

It was an unpredictable day. The weather was fine (Thank God! It didn't rain!), but I don't feel like going to school because first, I went home exhausted from our P.E. class yesterday; second was able to sleep at around twelve in the morning already for using the computer for motivation before I study and reading the "Prince of Tides" before I retire to sleep; and lastly, we will be going to have our mid-term examination in Mental Hygiene today.

As i was walking in the corridor in our college just before our classes start, I noticed that a lot of students is feeling panicky about their school works. It felt like they have been wandering in a domain of abyss. In that moment, I sensed that I will be loaded again with too much pressures not to mention the lessons that will be covered throughout the exam. I just scan and skim notes, definitions, and some topics from chapters seven to twelve after lunch break. It's not just merely to avoid cramming but honestly, I just don't feel like studying it thoroughly at that time. Three o'clock came, and we soon nervous that some of us prayed that our teacher won't come. But unfortunately, she arrived 25 minutes later--and it surprised us a lot for we never expected she would come from her travel in Kauswagan where she fixed a certain case at the said place. Worst is, the exam goes like this: "Write everything you have learned" given eight main topics  below the said instruction. And believe it or not, it covers the chapters one to twelve!! As of now, it seems that I still haven't felt my Adrenalins and other neurons rushing throughout my system recalling that the exam's over and i missed some topics which i must have written in my paper after I have submitted it to our teacher. I only consumed two pages back-to-back in a hour and half. But it's okay, at least I've written 80% of what I've learned in those chapters-- whole book to be exact.. Nobody knows, I'll bring the bacon home...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

About Montalvan

I have read an article entitled the KRIS-CROSSING MINDANAOThey’re at Malthus again by  Antonio J. Montalvan. This is what the article said:

 I AM REFERRING TO THE ANTI-LIFE AND ANTI-family advocates who seem not to run out of clever ways to insert their Western-based agenda into every conceivable legislation they can think of. Now they would have 21 bills of various concerns consolidated into an omnibus law covering reproductive health, population policy, two-child policy and sex education for the youth. Of the bills, at least three promote the use of artificial contraception in the guise of promoting “women’s health.”

These advocates have turned a valid societal concern into a euphemism for their real agenda-population control. If they really want to address women’s health, why is there no attempt to include Senate Bill 319? The bill seeks to ban abortive drugs and devices. The bills exclusion gives away outright the sinister intentions of the advocates.

The basis of their arguments of course, is the erroneous belief that a decline in population means economic growth and development. Thomas Robert Malthus was an English demographer from 1766-1834. It was he who introduce the rather pessimistic principle that foresaw the world’s population out running food supply, leading to decrease food per person.

To check population growth, Mathus advocated, among other solutions, what we called “moral restraint and vice.” This population control strategy called for the late marriage and sexual abstinence; but is also advocated infanticides, murder, contraception and homosexuality. But there’s the catch in the Malthus proposal: these solutions would apply only to the poor and working classes. In the Mathusian argument, only the lower social classes would assume social responsibility for societal ills.

Since then many have misinterpreted Malthus, even overlooking other aspects of his argument. For example, there are those who ignore for the fact that Malthus himself, even as he pressed for population control, stated that we cannot denigrate man’s capacity (he called it power) to increase food supply.

Those who do cling to Malthus’ theory up to this day misinterpret not just for his thought. In there vain desire to adopt the western culture of licentious behavior in the name of freedom and self-determination, they have put up their own smokescreen to keep them from seeing a succession of various scholars and students that have effectively debunked Malthus since 1960’s. At least one such study, published in 1966, was not only a pioneering initiative at that time; it gaves its proponent a Nobel prize honor. Since then, up until 1990’s and the present, a progression of other studies has only pointed to the emerging reality: there just is no population bomb.

Not only that, countries that have been lured by the Malthusian myth into running a “successful” population program now have to address the grim reality of diminishing human resources. Japan, Germany and Italy are now in the throes of the so called “ demographic winter.” The governments of Russia, Singapore, South Korea, and Bulgaria are now offering incentives to encourage childbearing in the attempt to curb population decline.

Yet here in the Philippines, anti-life advocates-usually pikon when criticize despite the fact that they have access to the legislative powers-that-be-cling to an out-of-touch, outdated and archaic thinking that even their Western gods have failed to prove in their respective countries. The advocates seem not to hear the alarm bells ringing in countries where the demographic winter has set in, countries that are now repentant at having toyed with Malthus theory.

Why the recalcitrance on the part of our anti-life advocates? There clearly a colonial agenda here that is tied to Western purse strings. These agenda-makers may not be obtrusive with their presence. It is even possible that some advocates are aware of them or have not yet notice them. But I won’t be surprise if there lurks in the shadows such anti-life giant octopuses as Planned Parenthood, whose tentacles may have spread far and wide to influence Philippine legislative efforts.

Population control is simply not the solution to poverty. The Philippine population control program, in place since the 1970’s and funded by billions of pesos of public money, has brought down the population from 3.08 percent during the period of 1960-1970 to 2.36 percent during the period 1995-2000. Despite the population decline, however, poverty incidence has not been reduce significantly. Clearly then, there are other factors that are not being address. Try curbing graft and corruption, as we expects legislators to do.

The proposed bills are premised on the belief that we are poor because we are too many. Fewer births may (or may not) mean less expense for a family, depending on its priorities. What is certain however, is that less births means less people for the labor force in the next 20 years. Higher population densities do not necessarily translate into lower personal income. We have certainly seen this in thickly populated areas that exhibit higher incomes and greater economic activity (the National Capital Region, Southern Tagalog, Cebu, Davao, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea; as opposed to Bolivia, Kenya, Ethiopia, which have lower density but also lower personal income)

Finally, when must we put a stop to the use of the term “reproductive health” which, in international forums, is simply a catch-all jargon that includes abortion; but which local advocates have repeatedly denied? The attempt to redefine a term that has become part of an all-encompassing political definition is a lame method of deceit and dishonesty.
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Well, in my opinion, belittling the family size is not the solution of poverty. Smaller family members don't always promise either comfortable lifestyle or economic stability. nonetheless, poverty for me is a pure sign of laziness and the apathetic behavior of individual. You see, there are couples of two children only but still economically unstable worst to say that there's still these families with one child but suffers emotional and economic set-ups. Why? some parents rely too much on their fixed income vs. the escalating prices of communities and everything in the market. Others fail to oversee the emotional needs of their offspring aside from economically sustainable responsibilities.

On the contrary, there are big families' scenarios but still successful both in thier careers and socio-economic stability. corruption is another factor of poverty. Government programs for the people and especially the needy are not properly facilitated by the concerned officials. Sad to say, that we're not getting the "right" support from the government because of corrupt people around the different sectors of the governing bodies.

Thus, the idea of poverty and birth control contradicts to what is normal nowadays. Each of us individuals should sacrifice, labor and be determined to meet not only to our family's needs but as well as to achieve what is appropriate in this changing world.

"Population Control is simply not the solution to poverty"

Thursday, January 21, 2010

New Technologies: A Threat or a Promise?

I chanced up to read an article about new technology when I was spending my vacant time at the library late afternoon. I have been intrigued by the latest gadgets on its contents. i didn't really read the whole article since it was quite long but the last line of it gives me an interesting thought. New Technologies: A Threat or a Promise? hmmm, i find it kinda confusing especially it may be either of the two but this is what i can say about it.

Nowadays, it is very visible yet tangible that everybody is apt to new technology. new gadgets and inventions are coming out in the market such as IPhones, laptops, hi-tech machines, DigiCams.. and a lot more! you see? even there's global economic crises most people save money just to buy one new and sophisticated gadget to satisfy one's necessities. although we are very fortunate to experience this new technology, on the other hand, it is also harmful in one way or another, because though it helps men a lot having its main objective: to lessen the effort of Man in terms of work, it has negative effects on the environment.

Technology contributes a lot in human race. they say it's a promise for a better future because of its application. But come to think of it, if every now and then, new tech. discoveries will be introduced in our lives then, what will happen, let's say, 30 years from now? Men on offices, shops and other business centers or places will be replaced by robots? will men just sit all day facing on a gadget which gives what you like in just a touch? [i remembered the movie Wall-e :D] what will happen to the employees then? new technology may or can lead to laziness of mankind; it can be a threat, it we use it in a way that can destroy our Mother Earth and perhaps, the lives of men.

This is a promise to a better future, but we must take the right step and wise decision in using them in a rightful manner, so that it cannot be a threat! :)