Me as an Anime lover

Even when I was still young I really love to watch anime. Sometimes I feel very different from the others especially from the children af my mother’s friends because they all watch cartoons from cartoon network and I always watch Japanese Manga or those anime made by the Japanese. Sometimes I would ask myself how they could make such a wonderful work and I can’t draw correctly a tree. Well even if I don’t know how to draw but I am contented in watching others work. At first I was very interested to know how anime came to be, maybe it is because of the hard work of the painters.

Even when I am still young I really love to watch anime. I could still remember that Ghost Fighter was the first anime I have ever watched. I even got posters of it and my family and we watched Ghost Fighter the movie in the cinema. My parents really know what would make me happy at that time. After ghost Fighter I always watch Flame of Recca. It is a story of two brothers of different mothers that were fighting for the throne of their father but then their father died when they were still young in a battle and after the fight their place were burned and all of their tribe members were killed but they were able to escape and they went in the future. And there they met each other.

After Flame of Recca I watched Naruto and then I also watched Hikaru no-Go. I first read the story of Hikaru no-Go in my Shonen Jump magazine because I bought one during 2003. It was a story of a ghost who was a Go instructor before of the Emperor during the Heian period. His co-Go instructor cheated him and when he lost his position he threw his self in the river, but his soul was trapped in the Gp board and it was searching for a child which would let him play once again. First he met Honinbo Shusaku of the Edo Period then 140 years after Honinbo died he met Hikaru.

But right now on the present I was crazy watching forward for the Prince of Tennis, it was a story of a tennis player (Ryoma Echizen) who’s dad happen to be Nanjero and was once the best player. The story was turning about the life of Ryoma and its Adventure in the Seigaku Tennis club, with his co-regular members and his handsome captain, Kunimitsu Tezuka, who had an injury in his left arm because of what had happen to him when he was still in his first year level.

Well I admit that I really like Kunimitsu Tezuka because even though he had an injury he is always serious with what he is doing actually he was able to win many games against Ryoma Echizen even if he had an injury. It is really funny because me and Joni were always quarrelling about Tezuka and our other classmates were also crazy about Fuji Syusuke who is also a cute guy that happen to be so close to Tezuka and he is also very handsome. And there are many more things that you will love in the prince of Tennis. Right now I was looking for a DVD of it, if you know some stores please tell me where.

My First Intramurals In High School

It was my first time to experience my first Intramurals in High School and there are really many things to remember about it. A month before our Intramurals we were all very busy preparing for it especially for our cheer dance. It was hard for the choreographers to teach us with our steppings because we were very many and some of us are hard headed and the number one reason why it took us so long to be taught with the dance steps was because of a conflict between the two freshmen sections.

I could remember that our classes are always shortened because we have to practice. I think half our subject in Science and the whole period of Reading And Filipino was always given for our practice and we always had special classes on Saturdays for our practices. Before I was afraid of my insomnia but during that time there is no more insomnia because whenever we reached home by the time we lie on bed we were all knocked out to sleep because we were very tired.

Every day we have to extend our time in school because we have to practice in the games that we are going to attend like for example I have to go home late because I have to practice table tennis and soccer base. You really have to spend so much time especially when the game that you will be participating is not familiar to you.

I’ll always remember that day when I auditioned for the duet I was very uncomfortable because I was very nervous especially when I heard Dan and Leejee sing the same song that we are about to sing. At that time I was about to change the song we have prepared but Kevin told me that I can do it and that there is nothing to worry about it even if we had the same song. So I went in and then when our turn came we sang together. But our burden in auditions has not stop yet, the next day we were asked again to sing the song in front of the other section’s students and in front of Madam Gallo.

After that they decided that it will be Leejee and I who were going to sing the duet and fortunately we won the first prize.

It is not the only important thing that I could remember in my intramurals, I could also remember the booths we had during that. Well we were all in panic because we don’t have any idea about the booths it is just that we thought of naming it a “Gotcha”. At first nobody was interested of it but after that day many costumers came and paid us to catch a certain person. I could also remember the booth of the fourth years where in I was about to be catch because it happen that I was in the quadrangle with many fourth years roaming around but thanks to one of the ates she let me go and hide. There are many things that happened during my first intramurals that I will never forget in my life.

Reflections of Teachers in Teaching

On our no year school day I played the role of being a Social science teacher but before I will tell you what happen during that day I would tell you first what happened two days before the no year school day happened.

Two days before the No Year school day had officially started we were given two forms for those who were applying. At First I was thinking to apply for Science C handled by Mdm. Gallo and for Health handled by Miss Maquilan. When Mdm. Gallo spread the news that the interview for those who where applying on her subjects will be in the afternoon of that day, what I did is that I ran towards Jeziel to get my application for Science C because I am afraid to be interviewed. So I proceed to Health that afternoon. Even if Miss Mquilan was very busy I sis still try to catch up with her so that I could apply for the position.

When I saw miss Maquilan she told me that I can not apply for health because our health subject is not covered for the no year school day, so I Have no choice but to apply for another and that is for Social Science and Filipino subjects. When I applied for Social Science and Filipino I was accepted right away.

When our no year school day had officially started, we were welcomed by everybody with a recognition or giving of ID’s for us student teachers. Then after that noisy event we returned to our classrooms. When the class for Social Science started we prepared a set of Questions for them to report within 15 minutes. But some students were complaining about the questions because some does not have enough resources to answer the Questions, and I was sorry for offending one student because I told her that we can’t do anything about it because it was Mdm. Logarta who gave the questionnaire and I think that she was offended with the tone of my voice but I asked sorry about that.

After 15 minutes everybody was ready to report and we asked each group to right the important things that everybody had to know because we were planning to have a test about that. Well actually I would like to have a very hard test because it is also open notes, so I was thinking the more notes they take the more chance for them to have a high score. But it was not me who made the questionnaires and I didn’t know that it was very easy so I accidentally told them that it is open notes. But then I was still very disappointed about their behaviors because they were all complaining as if the person standing in front of them was an ordinary student.

During my Filipino time unfortunately I was not able to teach my students because I have to attend our math preparation for the MTAP. So I asked Permition from my co-Filipino student teachers. And fortunately they were able to understand my situation so I was not able to teach at that time.

My first Experience

This last Christmas vacation, it was my first time to go to other places in the city without my parents with me. It was only me and my co-members in our group research were together for our project in Social Science. Well our project is about the women in society’s standards, how they were abused and etc.

That was the first time that I realized that having a research is very hard. First we went to DSWD but we can’t interview anybody without sending a letter of request. So What we did is that we have to return by the next day to hand our letter of request. After that day we were all very tired so we went to Ayala to go to the national bookstore to look for some books to buy if we have money.

The next day we return to DSWD to give our letter but it was not accepted because it does not have any signature of the subject teacher. It was very tiresome thinking that I could always enjoy if I was just staying in the house relaxing and watching Prince of Tennis and Hikaru no-Go but what can I do, if I will not do it early I will suffer in the end because I will have my research all alone. So I sacrificed my happiness for my project.

It was also very funny because we went to places which were not familiar to me that much because we were searching for “Lihok Pilipina”. We were lost in our way there and it was very hot and we were all very thirsty, hungry and tired walking many kilometers just to reach that place and we never thought that we were going to the wrong side of the street so we have to go back from where we started. Then at last we reached it. But we have to pass our letter too and fortunately we were scheduled right away.

When we went back to Lihok Pilipina to be there for our scheduled interview we waited there for an hour but they told us that the person we were about to interview had already left for manila the day before and we were again rescheduled for another interview. All of us were regretting on what had happened. So we returned home with a heavy heart thinking about what we thought before we went there that day that we will finally be done in all our burdens for that project. It is not only us who were sad with what had happened but also our parents who were expecting that after that day our burdens would be finished.

So again the next day we went there and thanks to God our interview was finished, infact they gave us some resources so that we would know more about everything that we have to know with regard to their program. After that we divided the work equally among us. A day after that my mother arrived from Manila and on the next day we left for Carcar and there I spent the rest of my vacation days with my cousins, uncles and aunts and of course with my family also.

My Father

When I was still young, I could always hear people singing songs especially when your neighborhood is big and crowded. During these times, people were still very poor and they can’t afford having a VCD or a Karaoke for their own. So I could say that the main tool in music of our neighborhood during these times were their guitars.

My father was a member of a choir on a church, which at the same time also serves as a day care for children. I have been there ever since I was a kid, my father would always bring me there on Sundays because their choir was asked to sing songs of praise to the Lord. Well I could say that their choir was extremely good especially the projection of their voices together, and you could always hear their harmony. Imagine a choir and all members were males it is very hard to look for male singers now a day.

I could always remember those sleepless nights without my father because he is practicing their songs on our small “Kapilya” together with his co-members, I could say that those are sleepless nights because I can not sleep without my father, he was the one who took care of me ever since because my mother is always at work. All their choir had during that time were their voices and their guitars, and even though they are poor it did not became a hindrance for them to form a very good choir, with very good voices.

Even when I was still young I was so Impressed with the way my father play his guitar. His songs have never failed to make me cry. Every time my father would sing me a lullaby though he wanted me to sleep, I always turn on the other side of the bed to cover my eyes and cry. Then my father would say that he will stop singing lullabies for me because I always cry. And even now it still makes me cry. Sometimes I laugh at my self for the reason that I cannot still hear those songs with a smile because I always cry.

On 1998 my father was forced to stop going again with the choir because we already moved to another place far from Bario Luz, and it is quite expensive having a ride from our new place to Bario Luz especially when he have to attend the practice thrice a week and it has to be during the night. Right now the choir was still alive but with new members, I haven’t told you that my father was one of the first member of that choir and you would hardly believe that the manager of that choir was once a maid but because of her hard work she was able to provide the choir with new instruments like the very big guitar, I don’t know what they used to call that, new guitars and a keyboard.

I am really sorry to say that I am not that good in playing the guitar like my father because I sometimes forget to hold it even once in a week because I am always busy studying my homeworks.

Devastating Experience

One summer morning Ate Christine, a maid in Carcar, woke me up because of a bad news. She told me that my lolo is already dead. That news really hurt me a lot. I never thought that that thing would happen, I thought that he’s going to survive. After a minute of thinking I went down the stairs and I heard my aunt cry very hard, when she saw mw she hugged me very hard and told me that my lolo is dead. So I told her to stop crying and not to worry because where ever my lolo is right now I know that he is already happy

It happen after my cousin’s birthday party we went together for the city because we are going to admit him in the hospital. So as we expected every body was expecting us to take care for our lolo because we were living in the city and it is very hard for the other siblings of my mother to go every now and then in the city to watch for him.

I felt at that time that my home is the hospital because every now and then we were always there to take care for my lolo. Twelve hours of being there and when we arrive home I am already very tired. So it happen that as time pass by my lolo’s condition is getting worse than before. He always had a Kimo therapy until the time came that we have to wear a mask whenever we have to go there.

And the funny thing is that my cousin who is really my lolo’s favorite is still 3 years old at that time would not be allowed to enter the hospital especially for the cancer patient’s room. So what they did is that whenever they would like to visit the hospital they would hide him so that he could still enter the hospital. One time when he went to the hospital we really have to call the nurse so what we did is that we hide him in the cabinet but he is always crying if we will close the door so we put him in the bathroom. When the nurse arrived she said that she is going to throw or flash the blood in the toilet bowl then she attempt to open the door pf the bathroom. Thanks to my uncle that he told the nurse that he is going to do it by himself. So we passed the challenge successful.

As time passed by his Cancer is getting worse so my parents were forced to leave me in Carcar because it is too dangerous already for children like me to stay in the hospital. So there in Carcar I heard many news that my lolo is transferred in the ICU and that my mother and her elder sister had a quarrel in the hospital. I could hardly describe my lolo’s feelings at that time. Maybe he would really want to stop the fight but he can’t because he can’t already speak a word and move his body. I think my lolo would like to say sorry to her first born for what he did to her before.

So when we heard the news that he is already dead of course I cried. Then I heard my aunt that she had calling a store because she want to make every thing ready before the dead body of my lolo will arrive in the house so our days of staying in Carcar was extended.

The Drum

Before I thought that the drum is the worst instrument that the world has ever had. With all kinds of noise, unpleasant noise rather, all put together in a single instrument. Well I really hated it before but everything changed when I was in Grade five, I never thought that the instrument I hated most will be considered as one of the most wonderful thing that had ever happened in my life.

I have many classmates especially the boys who were involved in our school band were playing the drums. At first I was looking at them from a far thinking that they were all insane because they were always tapping the table even if we were in the middle of the class.

One day my friend Rema and I were climbing the stairs. Then she told me suddenly that that she wanted to play the drum, so I was shocked because I never thought that a girl as smart as her would be interested in playing the drum. Well I felt at that time that I was different from the others because I think all of my friends are playing musical instruments in our school and I don’t have any interest in playing an instrument. So I said yes even if I am not on myself at that time.

Ten minutes later our school’s musical instructor happen to pass in front of us, so Rema ran towards him and told him that she and I would want to play the drum, and fortunately our musical instructor was very happy to say yes and he even told us that we could start by tomorrow. So I asked him if we could play the snare drum, but he told us that we cant play the snare because the school is running out of snare drums, so we have no choice but to play the parade drum.

When we wee walking back to our classroom Rema told me that it is very hard to play the snare because our hand should be very fast and she told me that it will also be very hard for us because we don’t even know how to play figure one in the snare and if we would be able to know it, it will take time. So I told her that I don’t know ho to play figure one in parade either, but she told me not to worry about that because it is very simple. So she taught me everything I have to know before the day ended.

So it happen that as time goes by I was also insane because of the drum and you know I even had an accident because I was very insane at that time. It happen when I was already late in the flag ceremony so I ran down very fast in the stairs because I thought I could still make it, so what happen to me is that my ankles was injured because I fell from the stairs. When I was able to learn figure 10 I did not proceed anymore for figures 11 and 12 because I was already insane in playing the snare’s figures especially figure seven. Even if I was not able to play the snare at least I was able to learn its figures.

The Past

Months before my graduation in elementary, I have already felt that days are passing very fast that I cant even notice that it is already the end of another month. I’ll always remember those days when my friends and me are very happy together, laughing together, and even crying together. I can’t just help it. You know? I have spent eight years in LCS together with my friends. Well LCS is really not big, that’s why I always see the same faces every year, and that it also the reason why we became very close with each other during those eight years of being together.

There are many things that happened during those years that I will never forget like when we and my friends would quarrel with each other, would laugh with no reason at all, and all those childish things that happen in lives of every child.

I could remember when we were still in Grade five, it was my neighbor who became my adviser and that was my first time to be very close with my teacher. Maybe it is also because their family was very close to me because her younger sister was my best friend even before we transferred in that place.

We shared a lot of moments during my grade five days. It was my first time to be interested in playing the drums. Well it is not really a drum set but those drums that a school uses every time they sang a national anthem and it is really fun. Actually they call me “Addict on Drums”, because they always hear me tapping the table every now and then.

It was also in the same year that I saw my classmates being panic because of a big rat. Well it is really very big, I think about 9-10 inches long and it made my classmates shout very loud that I think the whole school heard it, and the funny thing is my teacher is also afraid of it and she was the one who jumped first on top of a chair and as usual they all laughed at me because I really screamed very hard and I was also in the first line because all the girls had already ran on the back, well actually I was not about to shout at the time but it make feel me panic when I saw the rat running towards me, and all the boys were chasing the rat as if they were very happy.

Remembering all of these would really make me cry, although I didn’t mind many things or events that happened when I was on my last year it also made me regret one thing, that I have missed the remaining days together with my friends. Maybe because I was upset with the turning of events, that’s why it made me feel stressed, and nightmares always visit my dreams. So I said to myself that I will make my best to use my remaining days to fill those empty days which I have regretted very much.

During my graduation I thought that I am going to cry but it seems that there are no more tears that is coming out from my eyes but its my heart whose crying very hard. Then I asked myself a question “How can I turn my back from the past if it had taught me of many wonderful things that a person could never expect”.