I am a GERK

picture taken during our torch night!

This is an open letter to the following people::

Petrucci, Mortimer, Whitten and CHANG! - bet you know these guys ehhh??

Dear Mr. Mortimer, Petrucci, Whitten and Chang:

Greetings! I just want you to congratulate that you had your books published for the benefit of the students worldwide, particularly the Biology, Physics and Chemistry majors. Well, I'm just an ordinary student here in the most prestigious university in the Philippines, which is University of the Philippines, and honestly, I'm not as rich as YOU are. Our Chemistry professor HIGHLY recommends you. The reasons were, your topics are well organized and it's written in a comprehensive manner. But, as I sought your books at the leading bookstore in this country, I found out that the cheapest book of yours was roughly Php 700.00! Imagine, I saw the book and it was still tagged as LPE or Low Price Edition. Is 700 low for you?? I guess not. In that amount, you could actually buy 2 pairs of jeans or 2 penshoppe t-shirts or whatnot. And I'm talking to you, Mr. Petrucci. And to you Mr. Chang, your book contains wonderful pictures of different structures of atoms that can't be seen on our naked eyes. The pictures were far from our creative imagination. Somehow, your book roughly cost Php 2000.00!!! Imagine, in that amount, I can already pay our electric bill. Shoot.

I just want you to know that your books were highly recommended by the leading professors worldwide, but please, slash your price by about 60%! Please, oh c'mon, give me a break!


Sincerely yours,

The Crappy Gerk..


Okay okay. Enough of those complains regarding the overwhelming price of books. Anyways, I can already feel the pressure of a UP-student. In short, life must go on, rain or shine, snow or typhoon, ugghh whatever. Somehow, I observed that suggested readings were MANDATORY! God, I could hardly imagine that I'm a GERK - combination of Geek, dork and nerd. My high school friends, special mention to: JEANNINE LEDESMA, BEATRICE PADILLA, GENEVIEVE VIADO and REENA ALVIZO, baptized me with this term. Well, admittedly, I am your typical geek, or gerk, whatever. Ever since in highschool, I really love to study, read books and my favorite place in the highschool, is the library. But despite these funny accusations, I'm proud of it. Where can you find a GERK that has a funny yet weird attitude, a social animal, talkative and a musician?? Nyahaha. Well, maybe I don't belong to the group of HOMO SAPIENS, but rather to HOMO-GEEKIENS-ENGOTIEST. nyaha!

I had a hard time to squeeze my study periods on my leisure time. It's just like for two weeks, I didn't bother to watch teleseryes, big brother or even news. Okay, so right now I'm not updated of what's happening on my surroundings or what. But hell! Even on Fridays and Saturdays, I still need to study especially on Biology and Chemistry. Shoot.

But thank God, I really love these subjects so it's not a BIG DEAL to me, I guess.

So Life of an Iskolar ng Bayan is very difficult, but take note, it's a one-of-a-kind experience.


I just wanna say, goodluck to myself, goodluck to my future sleepless nights and say HELLO to the REAL WORLD!


PS: I won the BEST MALE PERFORMER on the recently concluded TORCH NIGHT! yahoo!

Chemistry : A Gift or a Curse?

I just made this for my chemistry assignment. Hope you like it.


Life as we know is the most complex gift from God. From the prehistoric prokaryotic cells, to the the most complex multicellular organisms that exist today, Chemistry plays a vital role in life even 4.6 billion years ago.

Chemistry, as what I had read in some chemistry books, is the broadest branch of science; it is the central study of all sciences, which deals not only with the elements and atomic numbers, but also with other things such as the daily household chores, hobby and even leisure. Take these for example, in cooking, Chemistry revolved in these important things in the kitchen like cooking oils, vinegar (acetic acid), fish sauce (patis), iodized salt and other important things related to cooking. We can see that there's a lot of benefits that Chemistry offers to the society, most especially in this millennium – the third millennium. Through Chemistry, scientists around the world had done with extensive case studies, countless and possibly boundless researches and they usually spent countless hours, sitting and examining their own experiments inside the monochromatic life and color of their state-of-the-art laboratory. They haven't failed to make our lives faster, easier and transactions were in a jiffy. Without them, we would still experience the life of a prehistoric nomad in a community. Life would be rather slow and not exciting.

Despite the knowledge that we've acquired through Chemistry, we failed to realize that there are still numerous limitations regarding the technology of Chemistry contributed by the pioneering scientists in the world. People are technology oriented through this years, thus they tend to forget the side effects of a certain technology which remained the scientists puzzled. Scientists today are still perplexed of how to make a certain technology without harming the environment and to the people involved in this area.

I can state this one good example of a certain technology which wreaked an almost unimaginable havoc in the planet earth. We are all familiar with this compound named CFC, or chlorofluorocarbons. This complex compound is very essential on manufacturing refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosol sprays. In the early 70's and to the late 90's, CFC became the main issue on televisions, newspapers and other forms of media. This made CFC as an instant celebrity for just one main reason: it destroys our Ozone Layer, the protective layer in our atmosphere primarily to shield us from the harmful UV (Ultraviolet Rays) emitted from the sun. Ozone Layer is made up of free Oxygen atoms (O3), a highly reactive atom. When CFC is released in the air, just only one CFC can be proved fatal in our Ozone Layer which destroys almost a million particles of O3. During that time, the society had an intense usage of CFC they didn't have any proper understanding of CFC. Nevertheless, the concentration of O3 decreased drastic manner. The hole in the ozone layer is very visible, even today at the South Pole of our planet.

Let's not just concentrate with the ozone and CFC issue. Primarily, there are many unsolved issues in our environment regarding Chemistry. Inasmuch, we must take a part of it and have some serious actions on it like the proper knowledge of chemicals and their effects in the humanity and to the environment. Through this, we can solve these issues partially though.

In other words, Chemistry is a blessing to all of us. We can use its significance in our daily lives just to make our living fast and hassle-free. But it's up to us if we consider this a curse. Chemistry can't be a curse, it's our carelessness which made it a curse.

Chemistry benefits us in our daily life but it could wreak an unimaginable havoc which could be possibly Earth's apocalypse in the near future. We will not know this but there's an endless possibility of this feared day. Infinite inquiries from countless people remained scientists, particularly chemist to sit in their respective lab stools, looking at their experiments, as if their looking for a certain ant in an endless horizon of green meadows.

Reunited and it Feels so good!

Last monday, June 4, 2007 marks the first day of classes in Stella Maris Academy of Davao (well actually 80% of schools in the Philippines had their first day of classes) and almost half of my batch, the Marisian '07 went to the school and parang get together ta-ta's and stuffs. And the most common thing that we did is the kamustahan things with our former classmates and also to our friends in the lower years. Awww. I miss you guys!

The following who went to school last Monday:

Louie Cocok, Carmi, Krista M., Beatrice, Jeannine, Bebang, Jeff, Luigi, RJ, the whole PND gang, CALLIOPE gang, CTJ squared! grabeh!, Chrysolite '07 people, Lapok!, Opalian, Meiko!!, Miguel Nemo, SCT BOYZ `06, Miggie de Gracia, Liz, Geoffrey, Maineyyy, Jule, and a WHOLE LOT MORE!!

In short, namimiss ko na kayong lahat!


PS: sa mga hindi na mention dito, please inform me right away. Okay??

Sayonara Marisian '07, welcome to the new world!

"WE EMBRACE OUR DESTINY SHELTER EACH OTHER'S MISERY.. WE RISE AND FALL, YET THROUGH IT ALL, WE FEEL WE'RE STRONGER NOW, AMIDST THE CRIES AND BROKEN SMILES WE FOUGHT TO STAY THIS TRUE, NOW HERE WE ARE, ON THIS SPECIAL DAY.. THE DAY OF OUR GOODBYES"

Adios Amigos, 'Til we meet again!

OPAL - THE funny GEMSTONE PART 2

Okay opal people! Here's the second part (and possibly I can make the third episode of the SAGA-filled OPAL power) of the OPAL's pensieve. Naks, parang Dumbledore.

Anyways, here's what I still remember in this section. And fortunately, it's still vivid on my brain or to my subconscious mind, rather.


The following unnamed comics occured almost everyday in this classroom. Now, you could guess who said this??

"Oh my god si SI MARTIAN! nigunit sa grills!" (Oh my god, Martian touch the grills!)

"unahan ta kung kinsa ang makagunit sa grills! one-two-ready.. GOOOO!" (Who touch the grill FIRST, wins! okay, one-two-ready, GOOOOOO!)

"Aaahhhhhh!"

"Ako ang nauna, blehh!" (I won! ;p)


**Hay, almost all the girls in OPAL went crazy whenever they see this dude. Hay naku. Hahaha. =)

And all the girls melt when a lone martian conquers their HEART. yikes!


Okay. memory number 2: Who could ever forget our morning-til-night FAREWELL PARTY?? Hay naku. I arrived at the resort (what's the name again?? grrrr..) around 8am - it was an inland resort or near-mountain resort. Then, the girls paddled the pool, applied their sunblocks with matching bikinis, bathing suits and etc. --UNTIL-- when they learned that PACATANG arrived in the resort, all the girls immediately dived in the pool and they didn't care whether they still wore their tshirts. Hay naku, he'll NEVER rape you naman. hahaha. But who knows?

Then, I videoed PAUL AñORA when he danced to the beat of "I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE..." Hahaha. Sadly, wala pang multiply sa panahon na iyon so, I erased it after 2 weeks. And besides, it was only 9 seconds and it's not worth it to watch.

And PAPA DOMZ even borrowed the swimming trunks of the life guard! Is the life guard gone insane?? I mean, he's papa domz and he loves to squirt his GAS in the pool and even in the classroom. Worse, he even leaked his NITROGEN with HYDROSULFIDE (im not sure of fart's content, basta it sounds like this) gas inside the computer lab (imagine, it's a closed area, fully air-conditioned and you can smell the stench of his fart for about 3 seconds after his LAUNCH! oh my god. You can definitely see the molecules and atoms of NITROGEN and HYDROSULFIDE diffused in an amazingly fast rate! My gulay - no doubt, he is OPAL's BOMBER MAN!

Enough of that eekie stuffs.


Ahhh, FOOD FOR THOUGHT - this is the most memorable Christmas party that I've experience in my entire life. You could imagine a party with no FOOD! Well, actually, the food was delivered LATE - as in 11 am! By 8am, Kevin bought his lechon manok, courtesy of Delongtes. I could remember that the chiken was consumed by us and after 5 minutes, only the chiken's bones were left in the platter. The table was so big yet the only food in their was the lechon manok. Then we played a game, just one game and after that, we're exhausted, thinking and waiting patiently for our food. Hay naku.

RELIEF OPERATIONS flocked us by 9.30am. It came from the different sections in the class. Hay naku. And most of our relief goods came from Sapphire. Thanks talaga!

We all PROTESTED and WALKED out by eleven.

We went home together with our HUNGRY STOMACHS. And my mom was confused because I was so hungry and I even ate the WHOLE FAMILY SIZE GREENWICH SPECIAL. Call me a pig but that's true. Hay naku. Ewan ko bah. =]


NUMBER THREE!!!

And maybe this would be the last. Yah, UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED we FALL is our undying motto for our section. Even in cheating, we're still united.

Who could ever forget Ma'am Cyndie's unique style of teaching - by group (RT). Well, I admit, Sometimes, I'm biased when it comes of reviews for PT and UT. Like for example, I'll call Bebang, Meiko or Beatrice and I'll tell them the answers for my reviewer and poof! AS if nothing happened. Hahaha. I'm yer lil devil in here.

Meiko and Maine were seatmates at that time as well as Jeannine and Beatrice (Naku, they're super seatmates, like beatrice is using the right armchair while jeannine is using the left one.) - they're the best buds when it comes to cheating. Hay naku. Well, I also cheat in UTs and in PTs also. Hahaha.


Oh by the way, OPAL is the home of the talented. Like when Dayos portayed APL d Ap, Angelo Mariano really look like the drawing in AP UT - Lee Kwan You.

And when Creamsilk visited our school, dayos went to the stall and have his hair pampered - that's why amoy shampoo ang buhok niya after recess. =)


Well this is the part TWO of my Pensieve in OPAL. Stay tuned for the third episode. Sayonara!

Double Trouble

Numerous people keeps on pestering me when I'll publish another post! Well, guys, here is it, the moment that you have been waiting for!

So, I really can't wait during the Miss Universe Finals. Imagine, I slept at 2.30am (as usual) then I adjust my alarm clock to 9.00am. But then, I woke up at 10.00am. Huhuhuhu. But luckily, I still managed to watch the prime time showing of it in studio 23. Hay. Anyways, Ms. Philippines didn't made it even to the final 15 but she still won the Ms. Photogenic Award. I really hope that Philippines would be the next recipient of the Ms. Universe. Hay. Keep your fingers crossed dude!

So, Ms. Japan was crowned as the Ms. Universe 2007, followed by Ms. Brazil, Ms. Venezuela, Ms. Korea (I love you Honey Lee!!! You're so gorgeous!) and by Ms. USA. I think everyone saw Miss USA's (Rachel Smith - Ms. Tennessee) humiliating butt-dive in the stage. But, despite her fall, she still managed to finish her walk and even made it to the final 5. I pity her because she already fell on her walk still she was even publicly humiliated in Mexico - she was booed by the mexican audience (majority of the audience are Mexicans). When Ms. USA answered, all of the Mexican audiences were shouting (or chanting) Mehiko - Mehiko. Donald Trump, the president of Ms. Universe Beauty Pageant said that the Mexican's unusual behaviour was triggered by USA's tight rules on immigrants - paticularly Mexicans (because their country isn't that far from the US). And because their bet, Ms. Mexico didn't made it to the final five, they can't accept their 'defeat', so they went all to Miss USA, uttering harsh remarks on her. How sad :(

And this is Ms. Japan - the Miss Universe 2007 title holder - a ballet teacher of Japan - RIYO MORI!



Okayokay. Let's go to another topic.

Hmmm.. I've read Timeline by Michael Crichton and it's one of Michael Crichton's best novel so far! Now, if you're an avid fan of modern physics (Quantum Physics to be precise) and history (like me!), then this novel suits you. Though, the only drawback on Michael Crichton's novel was, it contains a few grammatical errors which made the sentence senseless. But heck! that doesn't matter! The story, the plot, the ending - SUPERB! 10 THUMBS UP! (If I had 10 thumbs though..)



I'm really pissed on Sun Cellular's Service!

Bullcrap!

I can't send outgoing messages but I can call! Fuck it! I mean, SUN really drives me that crazy and puts me into the deep abyssial soltitude of boredom!

Hay nakakainis! I called the SUN customer care SERVICE and the male operator told me that their network engineers were trying to fix this problem. Even Miggie De Gracia has the same problem of mine. Arrrgggghhh!

I can't do nothing but to wait - or should I buy another SIM? or can I use dad's SUN sim (which hindi naman niya ginagamit, why not??)? Errgghhh.. Hay naku, mom told me to use dad's sim nalang and we'll buy a load for it this SUNDAY. Keep your fingers crossed SUNSTERS!

I really hope that this would be the FIRST and the LAST dipshit that would occur to me!

Hay naku. Enough of those resentments. Before I publish this post, let me leave you this funny question that keeps on bugging me for 4 years:


WHY DOES MAY FEELS LIKE SUNDAY??

Today is the first day of June, and it's gonna be a LOOOOONNNGGG day next week. Time to review those chemistry and biology lessons of mine. Gotta go!

OPAL - The Funny and Memorable Gemstone

Okay. I already miss my highschool life up to this point, ohhh, most especially my second-year life. Little did I expect that I belong to this section, OPAL. What's with this word? It's a red gemstone (sometimes green or, otherwise), then as I peered through the chalkboard, wherein the sections are posted, I sought and found that almost all of my classmates are intellectually good and I'm quite afraid on it. Somehow, when I continue of my eavesdropping on the board (because many people flocked at the board), I've learned that some of them would be my classmate for the FIRST TIME!! Oh shoot. Our class valedictorian and salutatorian also belonged to this section.

Despite this 'academe aura', I really enjoyed this section so much that I (well almost all of us) cried during our final paraliturgy. Ahhhwww ;,(

Well, our section's motto was:

UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED we FALL!

Below are the following memorable experienced that I ventured with this section:

(During our English period, we just sat on our armchairs and we wrote our formal theme. It was so boring that an "informal debate" was opened at that particular time. Our english teacher didn't mind the mild commotion because it's a constructive debate. And besides, she's very busy - with tons of workloads needed to check!)

Anyway, the motion for that debate was:

"KAPAMILYA or KAPUSO??"

Characters:

Jeannine (the only Kapuso fanatic)
Ma'am Espanto - our English teacher
Meiko - our funny, bubbly half Japanese classmate
and the rest of the opal gang..

Jeannine - Kabalo mo? Gwapo kaayo ang GMA ba. Astig! (You know what? GMA is a cool tv network, astig!)

**Then everyone reacted**

Everyone - Heh! Saba dira! Mas ayos ang ABS-CBN oie! (Shut up! ABS-CBN is way too better than GMA!)

Jeannine - Wenkwenk! Oha oha! Tan-awa ra gud! Mas tigulang pa gani ang GMA kesa ABS! Asa ka pa ana?? (Just look at this, GMA's older than ABS! Duh!)

Me - O lage, pero wa gihapon TFC ang GMA! Yuckz, low-tech! (Yeah right, but GMA doesn't own any tv branch on abroad. Yucks! Low-tech!)

**And everyone giggled**

Jeannine - Tan.awa ra gud, pangutana n ato si Maam. Dibah Ma'am mas gwapo ang GMA kesa ABS?? (Just look at this, let's ask Maam Espanto. Okay, Ma'am, GMA's better than ABS, right??)

Ma'am Espanto - Sorry Kapamilya ako! (And she smiled)

**Everyone clapped and cheered**

Jeannine - Ngyeeehh. O lage! Naa koy iingon. Una tanan ang GMA oie labaw nang anime! Asa man daw gikan ang anime beh? Daw beh! (Ngeeehh, 'ya right. GMA's the first one to show top-rating shows in the world especially anime! I challenge you - where did anime originated??)

Meiko - (without sheer realization of what she'll reply to Jeannine..) SA JAPAN!!!

**And everyone jumped right through their seats an laughed so hard like crazy hyenas. And the bell rang. Oh well**




(During the ORATORICAL SPEECH of JEANNINE about CONSERVATION of WATER)

one contestant: Kick the banana, kill the banana, squish the banana!

US (Please refer to the picture) - DUHHHHHH!

another contestant - And the starfish told me that water is the best remedy..

US - Like duhh? A Starfish? Talking to you? Sino siya? Patrick Star??

Jeannine didn't won but we believe that she's the champion. She did her best naman.


And the most controversial event of OPAL ::

The mother candida song composition

Because we spent too much on the props, our music teacher got mad on us, we only won the second place (Nicole made the lyrics and I made the melody). Because of those stupid technicolored umbrella. Hay naku.

We almost didn't perform in the stage during the novena. But we performed together with First year - Garnet.

Oh yeah, before I publish this, let me leave you a certain POEM which made the OPAL won against the almighty SENIORs during our Communication ARTS day.



COMMUNIATION - A TICKET to the WORLD!


Break the chains of isolation
Open doors in distant land
Share our knowledge and experience
Message ringing loud and clear

Gain access to other cultures
New horizons, broader dimensions
Forge concord with our fellowmen
Building bridges across the continents

We belong to the same race
The same race, the same race!
One bread one body one people
United we stand, divided we fall
If we put our trust in the Lord
There'll be melody, one in harmony
In every heart

Yet...yet amidst us is the immense barrier
Let the regions of the world be ilummined
Understanding one anothers
Speech and writings

Let us all be united as one people,
One cultures to have unity
Nani, nani???
Daragum pagada???
What what???
Keh keh???
Shi me shi me???
ANO ANO???

Misunderstanding keep people
From mutual association
We cannot be in sympathetic touch
When our thoughts our lock
A universal language is the masterkey
When we learn how to communicate
Nothing seems hard to implement
We need our eyes to see
Ears to here and mouth to talk
Hey! there are plenty of things in this world
In this country that are beautiful

I dreamed that someday the world
will embrace despite of their differences
Through the use of...COMMUNICATION!

May there be oneness of humanity
And good fellowship among races
Make this planet one home
For human advancement
Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying
If we care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
You and for me, for you and for me

Let communication unify the...WORLD!!!



Reminiscing such memories made me feel that I'm with my former classmates. Ouch :,(

Cliques

I'm very very very (owwzz) excited on this day: JUNE 7, 2007. What's this day by the way? Well, it's my FIRST DAY in UP! Yahoo!

Though, this day is like a program or some sort of welcoming us (the freshmen of course) so, no LECTURES (I think so??). Anyways I believe that I'm gonna be that shy kid, waiting for someone in vain to talk to me. Mind you it's very difficult for me to talk to someone whom I didn't know (call me snobbish but that's true). Meanwhile, I believe that college life could be so demanding compared to highschool life. It's a new phase of my life and I should pump my brain for the upcoming lessons most especially BIOLOGY and Chemistry. Hay naku, I need to reread my chemistry book since this subject is quite heavy - 5 units pare!

Oh by the way, students would be divided of the following cliques:


a] BRAINY HIGH - Obviously, this clique belongs to geeks! Well, not actually. Those who excells in academics particularly in Science, English, History and Math. Luckily I belonged to this clique (as what I've surveyed this a year ago) though I'm not your typical geek! Nyahaha. And most of all, not all geeks wore this particular attire - squeeky rubber shoes with loose-fitting shirts, shorts, multi-colored socks with their shirts tucked in. Ngyek, parang CLOWN??


b] SOSSY HIGH - Sons and daughters of rich business tycoons belonged to this clique. Armed with techie gadgets, make-ups, hair wax/clays and other beauty paraphernalias. They're the most famous in terms of their aura. (Huwwwaaat??)Okay okay, that's because they can spend their treasures doesn't mean they don't have brains, well that's what I've noticed in some movies related to college life. They can be as smart as those brainy kiddos.


c] REBEL HIGH - They can be obnoxious like a lone devil but they can be a nice dude. Though, they are rebels who seeks pleasures on peers, and other stuffs (don't tell me, pati drugs? oh no that's bad). They're troubled and they don't care about who they are and how they dressed. Being unique is their number one priority. Some sort of just being the center of attraction (or do they??)


d] NICE GUY HIGH - The most common of all possible cliques! And mind you, it's not easy to be nice though especially if you're mean or worse brutal. But don't get me wrong. I can be a nice guy if I want to!


Combine these F O U R would mean another chaotic (or memorable??) college life. I'm really excited. Sobra!

UP HERE I COME!!

Angat ang Pinoy

I was born in this third world country wherein poverty, violence and malevolent corruption exist. Despite these frequent accusations from other countries like states, European countries which they imposed several travel advisories in our country, we still manage to live peacefully and in reality, (or generally speaking, otherwise), Philippines is a peaceful country, though we still imposed that we're not perfect, right?

Filipinos or Pinoys are people who lived in the Philippines (well it's kinda obvious though). Filipinos are scattered in different parts of the world, most especially in USA, Europe and in the Middle East. Filipinos are highly unique in many different ways.

Filipinos are hospitable.

Ika nga, "Onli in da Pilipins." This was proven even in the olden times. Somehow, even in the new millenium, we sought and found that Filipinos are STILL hospitable. Just like the Big Brother Swap that happened just recently. You can see the difference between Philippines and Slovenia. Slowly, we begin to recognize how warm Filipinos were especially when the Slovenian visitor visited us. Filipino housemates made sure that their visitor had a homey feeling, despite the nostalgic feeling of the visitor. Likewise, when Bruce was sent to Slovenia, he was not treated like the Filipinos did in the Philippines. Needless to say, they are not that hospitable compared to us. Worse, he was given a racist remarks from the two Slovene housemates. Truly, we had a respect even in our visitors no matter what.


Filipinos are known to be innovative.

Needless to say, when a problem arises, they'll find certain answers or possible solution whenever a problem starts even if it's surreal.

Filipinos are born to be an intelligent being.

Ever wonder who invented fluorescent lamp/light? Well, he's no other than Agapito Flores all the way from Cebu City. The moon rover, which was used during the lunar exploration by Apollo 11 was created and designed by a Filipino (sorry I forgot his name). Their are many useful and significant inventions which Filipinos invented it, though unfortunately, our government had no time for them, and their lame excuse is that they didn't have enough budget to patent their inventions. So, with such desperate attempts, they sold it to American inventors and have their inventions patent by another name. That's a sad sad story.

Filipinos are STRONG.

We are strong in every different ways. Somehow, we were the first Southeast Asian country to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. We can't deny it, were strong physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Filipinos are known to be HONEST.

Ladies and gentleman, I had a good news on you. There are still lots of honest people who still exist in this country. And I really admire them. :)

Filipinos are BRAVE.

No doubt why we had so many heroes which are listed in our history like Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio and others.

Filipinos are CREATIVE.

We had so many artists in our country. Likewise, Filipinos are born to be talented. In the field of sports, arts, music, and other related media, we are famous for it in the whole world.

Filipinos had a Sense of humor.

Pinoys are known to possess this sense of humor, well almost all of us! Had you compared the sitcom of America to us? I bet in the states, their jokes are that awkward and worse, not that funny. We Filipinos had this mentality that despite of heavy problems, trials and dilemmas in life, we still managed to laugh like a silly hyena! I tell you. And their common reason for that? "Pampaalis ng pagod."

Filipinos are RESPECTFUL.

Yes and yes we are very respectful. Example of these are:

Saying po and opo when we talk to the elders, our undying sign of respect, the "mano po" and most of all, we say ate or kuya in our elder brother/sister or even for those who are not related on us. As long as respect is present, we can live harmoniously in our country.

Filipinos are HELPFUL.

Well, we lend our hand especially for those people who needed help badly.


What else can you add? Masipag? Masunurin? Cheerful?

I guess we Filipinos possess almost all of the positive traits in the world.

I hope even in the next century or millennium, Filipinos will still practice these good traits that we could be proud of.

We may not be the first world country that everybody's dreaming of, we may not own any nuclear weapons, we may not be the richest country in the world, but we still live as a Filipino - who lived in a colorful country.


Let's show the world what a true Filipino is!



**PS: thank you for those who greeted my mom! I love you guys!