Thursday, September 23, 2010
Your life, live it, love it.
Actually, I still have not found the reason why I am in this world. And I’m still looking for the right answer. I listened to Steve Jobs’s talk at Stanford University on how to live your life before you die and personally, it helped put me on the right path in achieving my goal . He shared 3 events of his life. 1st, Connecting the dots, have you ever asked yourself what will happen in the future regarding your life? Well if you did, Mr. Jobs explained his personal view on this question. When he was in college, he had no idea about what to do with his life and the school did not help him find it either. That’s why he dropped most but one subject, calligraphy. At first, he did not find that calligraphy would benefit him but he just trusted that it would all work out okay. It did when he built the 1st Apple computer and he would not have done this if he had not followed what he thought was right. Mr. Jobs is telling us that we should just trust that the dots will connect in the future, we should not think so much about it. We cannot connect the dots by looking forward, we could only connect it by looking backwards. By doing so, we would be able to find the confidence to follow our heart to do what we want and think is needed. That would surely make all the difference. Follow your heart, it might not always be correct but any consequence that will arise from it might open a door to something better.
Love and Loss. Don’t lose hope and know that everything happens for a reason. If you love something, don’t give up to the trials that come your way because if you do, you’ll regret not being able to know what should have and shouldn’t have been, don’t give up. In Mr. Jobs’s case, his company, he lost it but he never gave up, he believed in himself that he could do it, and he did, he was able to regain his company. When life gives you a million reasons to give up, give a billion reasons to continue. Everything happens for a reason, you fall so that you could stand back up, you make mistakes to be able to correct it, and you fail so that you would appreciate your success more. Everybody meet problems; it’s the person who finds a way to overcome it that makes the difference. “You’ve got to find something that you love, never settle.” This is what Mr. Jobs said and that is true to our job and lovers. If you don’t love the job you’re doing, you will never be satisfied with your life because our job fills a big part of our life. That is also true to our lovers; never settle for someone if you aren’t 100% certain that it’s him/her. Never lose faith to be better. We can be, and we will be if you just believe, believe in yourself and believe that it will be…
Death. “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” I’ve learned that death is the most important invention of life. Without it, we would not live our lives to the fullest because there would be that thought that you have something to lose. We cannot avoid death, nobody has and nobody will. This is something that all people would have to face even if we don’t want to. What’s its implication? Live your life. Never live another person’s life because you only have one so don’t waste it. Take every chance that you could possibly can because you’ll never know how long it will be there. Grab life by the horns, live as if there’s no tomorrow. Purity of actions leaves no cause for regret. And while you’re at it, pull everybody around you one level higher.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A Cafe by the Ruins
The Cordillera is a mountainous region filled with fresh vegetation and wild animals. These precious resources are the main ingredients for a very special and well-created meal for the Café. Let your imaginations come out from your mind because this is the place where it all began! It is the Café by the ruins. The human ingenuity of the people of the Cordillera has sculpted this magnificent cafe into a work of art. How? Mainly because it’s not just your ordinary restaurant that has a wall made of concrete and a solid roof. No, these masters have come up of a way to make the ordinary, extraordinary. I would think of ways on how to describe the Café but I’d rather not, It would rather be better if I show you some images that would make your imaginations feel tingly inside…
In the Café, you would really feel that it really isn’t an ordinary place to eat, it’s really like you’re in the Ruins of the Cordilleras eating its native delicacies. That is what the Café would want you to feel because in this ever changing world, you would see structures that are really constructed in its peak form, made with the exact of exacts and the best of the best. Yes, engineer-wise, it is the best of the best but this little café can attract more attention than these structures primarily because it is created by the Natives' own hands, blood, sweat and time. It might not be the best of the best but it is made with the people’s hearts, it is something that you would not see in any structure that was built with a help of a machine. You would really see the creative efforts that the people have given to this Café. The structural materials used in the place are all from the environment. Walls are made of Philippine bamboo called the kawayan and the roof is partly made of Nipa or anahaw leaves which are also used to create the very well-known Nipa hut. The flooring is made of stones and also the Café’s borders. The lighting system is not primarily needed because the sun’s natural light can easily light up the Café but when it’s night, they would open up some lanterns that are hand-crafted by the natives and also light up some candles, if you would go to this restaurant, you would feel that nothing else matters other than the ambiance of the Café and the meal that you are delicately eating.
Now for the food, there are so many mouth-watering meals that the Café has to offer but I would like to generalize its menu. They serve freshly baked breads like basil and kamote bread. They serve it with their home-made dips like the fish roe pate and the native strawberry jams and butter of Benguet. The very popular cheese salad is made of fresh carabao's cheese. Oh yeah, and for your information, all that the Café is creating are home- made, there are no artificial ingredients and the ingredients they use are all native, which makes it more flavorful, and all these are fresh. That’s for the appetizers, now for the main menu, their rice is from the Mountains of Benguet, their slow cooked foods are really cooked with the utmost care, the native chicken with its fresh herbs and spices, the fish will taste like it just came from the sea with its mild salty flavor and the smoky aroma of the charcoal, they use wild mushrooms and fresh chilies to add flavor to their meals. The broth of their soup is made of the meat and bones of the native chicken. The pasta sauce like the Carbonara is made of fresh carabao’s milk, the very special Ruin’s pasta is made of fresh fish roe, the Pesto are made of freshly chopped basils and the tomato sauce are really fresh from the juice of the tomato. For the deserts, they only use the freshest of the freshest of ingredients, fresh carabao’s milk, and fresh fruits in season, harvested wild honey, muscovado sugar and so much more. The drinks are really Cordilleran, I can promise you that, the coffee has that special aroma of the Cordillera that I really cannot explain, and their iced tea is boiled from the leaves of the Natives' harvest, served with wild honey with a pandan leaf and to top it all of, the top of the glass is drizzled with a sweet and partly sour sugar that makes it a very Innovative drink. It is really an experience that you would never forget and it is a restaurant that you would always compare it with. This is just a brief overview of the Café and I hope that you viewers enjoyed this mouth-watering blog that would leave you wanting to crave for the meals and ambiance of Café by the Ruins!Sources of the Pictures:
Human Beings…
Human Sexuality, what is it exactly? Do we really need to understand and go into its details? Yes. The youth now-a-days will perceive Human Sexuality as the manner in which 2 opposite sexes have sex. It is not always the case. To start with, we teenagers don’t really understand Human Sexuality in its real form. Generally, Human Sexuality is the way in which we express ourselves as Sexual beings. We are all formed or developed by several factors as sexual beings, one of which is our own gender, it is the manner in which males act as males and females act like females. We differ so much not only in the physical aspects but, socially, mentally and emotionally. There was actually a seminar workshop conducted in our school, SLU-LHS, to teach us students about Human Sexuality. Basing it from what I have understood, we all need to study Human Sexuality with several reasons but I would only give my opinions and details about one, the modern world. The modern world is not actually what we want it to be basing it with the ideas of Human Sexuality. We are Christians, well most are here in the Philippines, that’s a fact. We Christians have created a simple idea of what sex really is, what its causes are and why it is done. Why do we actually have sex? Is it not for the main purpose of having a child? If that’s the case, why is it that we have multiple kinds of contraceptives that are being allowed by the government? We are contradicting to what we all believe in, we want to have sex but we don’t want to have a child, does anyone see something erroneous with what I have just stated? I did, I believe that the Catholic Church would too. The problem with our view as a modern world is that we don’t really keep in mind that sex is sacred, actually it’s not anymore for most people, it is perceived as a time for pleasure, and it is a recreational time for the people. We see advertisements of condoms and other kinds of contraceptives, it’s like it’s a good thing! One of which is the advertisement by Robin Padilla, in his advertisement, he tells us that we should prevent unwanted pregnancies by using contraceptives. There was an organization created, Trust. This organization recognizes the effects of sex in every aspect that it would need it to be. Why was this created? Wouldn’t it be better if it wasn’t created if there would be simply no reason for it to be? That is the problem; it needs to be done because the people now cannot stop the urge to have sex. The problem here is that we know for a fact that sex is done because it is a way to express our love for the other sex, but we should also take into consideration that this holy act is done by people who are of proper age. Pre-marital sex is one problem that is growing in our country, no, the world. This is one major reason why the country is trying to find ways to promulgate the effects and consequences of what these minors will get if they would have sex in these times. We see music videos which depict sex as again, a time to have fun. We should try to all change this very wrong perspective of Human Sexuality for the cause of the greater good. If we don’t, I’m sure that this world that we call it would not be the world that we would call it in the future…
Saturday, September 18, 2010
No more! This is our time! it's ours, or is it...
The 10-point Agenda on education.
I cannot just base this proposition with a single perspective. I will be giving it with several views, PNOY’s, Student’s, Teacher’s, Parent’s and as a whole country. After that, I will be giving a generalization of what I think about it.
PNOY’s cause about this added 2 years of education is rather very appropriate. It is possible that people would contradict to what the president has planned for the Philippines’ system regarding education but he merely wants the Philippines to be a more productive country. We are too left behind by the modern world and we are the last one of two countries who doesn’t follow this system. What is the outcome? Our country cannot fully use its resources, specifically human resources. We all know that we are very versatile when it comes to anything and everything. The problem is, we don’t have the right “tools” to manipulate to be able to be a 1st world country. The proposition of our president will actually benefit our country because, mainly, we would be able to use our people. All the Filipinos who are really good are not staying here because of the financial instability of the Philippines. We are not actually poor, but we are corrupt. That is an idea that we should all understand, now that we believe that our government is now better, we could try to back PNOY’s proposition up mainly because what he actually doing is not for his own good but it’s for our own benefit. There are only 2 choices that may be formulated, 1 is that we could contradict to our president’s 10-point agenda on education and stay here in a very slow-evolving 3rd world country or, we could agree on this agenda and probably, be a better country in aspects regarding our financial stability, we could grow into the country that we all want it to be. We could be a 1st world country like the countries that our fellow Filipinos are right now, working their asses off for the benefit of that country, as long as we set our minds to change it and make it better.
Student’s views: Now for my fellow students. Well, if you are to see the majority of the students who have heard the agenda, it would be self explanatory what these students want and don’t want. I see their point that if it is already hard for them now, how could it possibly get better if the 10 years of education will be 12 years? Not only that, there would be major changes that PNOY have in stored for us, like the agenda, “every child a reader” by Grade 1. Is it not too hard for the kid to be pushed into learning something that should be learned in time? If I was the kid, it would make me want to shout “Stop! I’m just 7 years old!” But still, I see the point of our president that he wants to manifest the ability of the child to be able to speak better in the future. It is also good because it would probably make the child ready for the outside world. Even though this is my personal perspective about these agendas, I still cannot represent the whole population of Filipino teenagers who are in school. But if I were to think like the majority, I would think that it is nonsense that our president would want us to have a Grade 7 and a 5th Year. It would be punishment if he would continue this. That is what I believe the majority of the teens would think regarding this proposition.
Teacher’s views: I believe that the teachers of the Philippines would want to implement this but as I’ve said teachers. They clearly know that when their students go abroad to study, they would be held back for 2 years and would have to repeat the 2 years. It is because all the educational system of all the countries is in the 12-year basic education cycle. As I’ve said, we are only one of two countries who still follow the 10-year basic education cycle. A teacher of mine told me that there was a story of a student of hers that graduated and took his masters here in the Philippines, after he finished taking his masters, he went to abroad to work, he applied in a very respected company and they did not take him because they told him that he was too young to be a master and that if he really wanted to work in that company, he had to retake his masters. Can you see this liability? Filipinos are being held up for in other countries just to be able to have a good career or name. It really is a good thing if the Philippines will make the 12-years of education available. One more thing is that teachers view this as strength for the Filipinos because it will help them achieve all their goals in life mainly because they can say that they really graduated with no doubts.
Parent’s views: As we all know, the Philippines isn’t the typical country that would always think of the positive effects of something. In this case, The 10- point agenda on education. The Parent’s views are clearly seen in the news. They are clearly pointing out that it is hard to fund the education of their children because earning money is just too hard for them. It also said that if they cannot give their children the full education that they need, how could it be possibly better if they would still add 2 more years? That is what PNOY is pointing out in the 10- point agenda. People should read that because it contains all the information that they would need. The president is making major changes in the system by really making it possible for children, even without money, to have the education that they would need.
As for my view, I believe that the president’s cause is truly amazing. He really wants to make the Philippines rise again. As a student, I see the liabilities of it but I would not mind it if the assets are far better. If I can freely state what I want, it would be to continue this because, mainly, it is really productive if it would be implemented. But, here’s the catch, I would really want it to be put into action but is the Philippines ready? Are we ready? That is the question that is contradicting everything that I want and believe would happen. Our country isn’t put up for this. It is not ready to step up in the next world yet mainly because it has other problems that need to be attended to before this could be “active.” I feel that our president should first put this aside and fix the other problem of the Philippines, corruption. If we would be able to fix this, there is no doubt that it would be easier for all of us to implement the 12-year system of education. Another thing that we should fix is unity, we should all work together to make this happen, we should all stand and fight for what we believe in. If all the people are united and the country isn’t corrupted, surely there would be great outcomes so let’s start now for a better future.
I cannot just base this proposition with a single perspective. I will be giving it with several views, PNOY’s, Student’s, Teacher’s, Parent’s and as a whole country. After that, I will be giving a generalization of what I think about it.
PNOY’s cause about this added 2 years of education is rather very appropriate. It is possible that people would contradict to what the president has planned for the Philippines’ system regarding education but he merely wants the Philippines to be a more productive country. We are too left behind by the modern world and we are the last one of two countries who doesn’t follow this system. What is the outcome? Our country cannot fully use its resources, specifically human resources. We all know that we are very versatile when it comes to anything and everything. The problem is, we don’t have the right “tools” to manipulate to be able to be a 1st world country. The proposition of our president will actually benefit our country because, mainly, we would be able to use our people. All the Filipinos who are really good are not staying here because of the financial instability of the Philippines. We are not actually poor, but we are corrupt. That is an idea that we should all understand, now that we believe that our government is now better, we could try to back PNOY’s proposition up mainly because what he actually doing is not for his own good but it’s for our own benefit. There are only 2 choices that may be formulated, 1 is that we could contradict to our president’s 10-point agenda on education and stay here in a very slow-evolving 3rd world country or, we could agree on this agenda and probably, be a better country in aspects regarding our financial stability, we could grow into the country that we all want it to be. We could be a 1st world country like the countries that our fellow Filipinos are right now, working their asses off for the benefit of that country, as long as we set our minds to change it and make it better.
Student’s views: Now for my fellow students. Well, if you are to see the majority of the students who have heard the agenda, it would be self explanatory what these students want and don’t want. I see their point that if it is already hard for them now, how could it possibly get better if the 10 years of education will be 12 years? Not only that, there would be major changes that PNOY have in stored for us, like the agenda, “every child a reader” by Grade 1. Is it not too hard for the kid to be pushed into learning something that should be learned in time? If I was the kid, it would make me want to shout “Stop! I’m just 7 years old!” But still, I see the point of our president that he wants to manifest the ability of the child to be able to speak better in the future. It is also good because it would probably make the child ready for the outside world. Even though this is my personal perspective about these agendas, I still cannot represent the whole population of Filipino teenagers who are in school. But if I were to think like the majority, I would think that it is nonsense that our president would want us to have a Grade 7 and a 5th Year. It would be punishment if he would continue this. That is what I believe the majority of the teens would think regarding this proposition.
Teacher’s views: I believe that the teachers of the Philippines would want to implement this but as I’ve said teachers. They clearly know that when their students go abroad to study, they would be held back for 2 years and would have to repeat the 2 years. It is because all the educational system of all the countries is in the 12-year basic education cycle. As I’ve said, we are only one of two countries who still follow the 10-year basic education cycle. A teacher of mine told me that there was a story of a student of hers that graduated and took his masters here in the Philippines, after he finished taking his masters, he went to abroad to work, he applied in a very respected company and they did not take him because they told him that he was too young to be a master and that if he really wanted to work in that company, he had to retake his masters. Can you see this liability? Filipinos are being held up for in other countries just to be able to have a good career or name. It really is a good thing if the Philippines will make the 12-years of education available. One more thing is that teachers view this as strength for the Filipinos because it will help them achieve all their goals in life mainly because they can say that they really graduated with no doubts.
Parent’s views: As we all know, the Philippines isn’t the typical country that would always think of the positive effects of something. In this case, The 10- point agenda on education. The Parent’s views are clearly seen in the news. They are clearly pointing out that it is hard to fund the education of their children because earning money is just too hard for them. It also said that if they cannot give their children the full education that they need, how could it be possibly better if they would still add 2 more years? That is what PNOY is pointing out in the 10- point agenda. People should read that because it contains all the information that they would need. The president is making major changes in the system by really making it possible for children, even without money, to have the education that they would need.
As for my view, I believe that the president’s cause is truly amazing. He really wants to make the Philippines rise again. As a student, I see the liabilities of it but I would not mind it if the assets are far better. If I can freely state what I want, it would be to continue this because, mainly, it is really productive if it would be implemented. But, here’s the catch, I would really want it to be put into action but is the Philippines ready? Are we ready? That is the question that is contradicting everything that I want and believe would happen. Our country isn’t put up for this. It is not ready to step up in the next world yet mainly because it has other problems that need to be attended to before this could be “active.” I feel that our president should first put this aside and fix the other problem of the Philippines, corruption. If we would be able to fix this, there is no doubt that it would be easier for all of us to implement the 12-year system of education. Another thing that we should fix is unity, we should all work together to make this happen, we should all stand and fight for what we believe in. If all the people are united and the country isn’t corrupted, surely there would be great outcomes so let’s start now for a better future.
Vantage Point
Actually I plan my blog to be an interactive blog spot. There would be a spot for news, updates and some games. I don’t want people to just look at my site and read, I would like them to be part of my blog. I’ve seen some blog spots and in my own opinion, some are quite boring. The owners of these blogs just give news and articles that are so long, I can’t see how people would want to read them. If I were to reach my viewers, I would do my very best to keep it as short as possible and as clear as I can. I would probably put up a chat room, so that we could socialize. It will contain updates regarding upcoming movies, new gadgets, etc. Sports news, business and so much more are also on the blog spot.
If you would read between the lines, you would be able to see that the blog spot that I would like to establish isn’t just for young teenagers like me but It could also be of interest to people of all ages and professions, Sports fans, Businessmen and students. This is sill the start and I would try to add more applications for more people to be interested in my spot. This is still an ongoing operation so don’t worry, It would most probably be better in the future. I’m looking forward to the site I will be creating because I know that it would make people interact. I would like it to be easier for viewers to see all the necessary applications that they want to see in one website. That is why I thought of all the applications that internet users use in a daily basis and I try to incorporate it in my site. I would also want to create my blog site as a conduit for internet users to other websites in the internet like social networks and search engines. It is an ongoing process that is why it is still not application-ready as of now.
Let me now introduce myself, I’m John Aaron Go from Baguio City, Philippines. I live and not merely exist in this world. How am I able to say this? Well, I am a human being who, in simple words, lives his life in every possible way. I don’t try to be someone I’m not. I am easy to get along with, just be yourself. In the future, I plan to live as an entrepreneur. So much concepts are in my head I believe could help me become a success. That is the concept of my blog, I would like to start to help young entrepreneurs see the assets of the internet and set aside the liabilities of it. The internet could be easily utilized by these entrepreneurs in a way it would make them view the manner in which they perceive business differently, both in the internet and out of it. If I may, I believe I have the capacity to move forward in the field of business mainly because I know what I can handle and what I cannot. This is very useful for every person who wants to have a business-related profession because I now know what I can do, therefore I can exercise it, transform it to become better. I know what I cannot do, I know my weaknesses, it is a big deal because as we all know, weaknesses are the main reasons for the downfall of anyone, no, everyone. I know what It is, that is why I have the vantage point in which I can make these weakness, become my strength. Again, I am John Aaron Go and I want the world to see the beauty of the internet.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Welcoming Commitee :)
Hey Guys, just started to use Blogger and I'm still trying to find out how to use it. In time, don't worry I'll be able to utilize all it's applications :) For now, it's still a profile that has absent apps.
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