ANALOGY (SPEECH 2)

            Life is a two-way road

There are many choices you will have to make in life, there are may paths to choose from, there are moments that you have to sacrifice what you love most, to gain something bigger or something more.

Life is a road, there are many obstacles and bumps that you have to get through. To reach the end of your journey, there will be friends, you have to left behind, but there are more to come and meet as you move forward. Every once in a while, there will be choices you have to make, which path you will take. We can never know which road is the right path for us unless we are threading on it. I am sure there will be moments, when we will regret the path we have chosen, but it doesn't mean that we can not choose another road to take. 

Sometimes, we could turn our backs from the path we have chosen, to choose another path again, and start over. But there are some people who will still go down the path they have chosen, even though it is dark and lonely. To be brave, you must stand for what you have chosen and see to it that you will reach the end of the road, no matter how dark, lonely and scary it is. No one but yourself will help you decide which road to take , which path to thread. You have to believe in yourself that the road you will take, is the road that will take you to the place you wanted to be. So be wise and be patient for every choices you will make, be careful for the path you will take, because it is up to you and you alone, if you have the guts and courage to choose from the two-way road.

Diary (August 22-29)

Dear diary,

               I am in trouble, I just started doing this project yesterday, and so far there are a lot of essays I have yet to write, because of this stupid procrastinating. I have been lazy to do my blog, but thank god that I am good under pressure and while I’m writing here at this diary, I have already finish all of the essay I needed, those that left are the flash news, I already have a story, I just need another one, I also need a Biography, an essay about my life in NCBA, a speech, and another free essay of mine, then I am done. So diary, let us finish this conversation quickly, aside from my troubles there are nothing much that happened this week, aside from the fact that I had to stand on the weighing scale to see If I lost any weight this week .

              Diary, congratulate me, for I have lose 5 kilos in 2 weeks, I just have to lose more at the end of December, then I could stop buying my herbal life products. To be honest, this products are pricey, they better help me lose some weight, I am trying my best not to eat a lot and not to eat junk foods and drink soft drinks, so far I think it’s working, since I already lost 5 kilos, I hope to lose more next week, so I may have to start jogging every morning.

                                                                                                                                     xoxo

                                                                                                                                   Katrina

ESSAY COLLECTION (1)

Discovering Myself

         I discovered myself through all of my pain, struggles, experiences, and achievements. I have discovered myself through the people around me and a part of me. I loved my God since my parents introduced him to me, and to fully love God and the people around me is that, I have to love myself first. If I love myself, I will know what I hate, and I hate the smell of cigarettes, I hate the type of people who doesn’t take care of themselves, who drink too much alcohol and be abusive to other people, those who uses drugs and kill people, then blame the drugs for what they have done, I hate those who bully others just to prove to themselves that they are powerful and dominating than others, those people who makes fun of other people’s flaws and disabilities just because they’re different, and most of all, I hate the type of person who doesn’t keep their words and promises.

          I have discovered myself through my achievements, for all my struggles of battling my inner-self every day for the decisions I have to make, either good or bad, but the thought most fulfilling is that, I have won my battles not by myself, but with the help of my family, my friends, and my faith to God, without them, I would have succumb to the dark embrace of depression and loneliness. For I have discovered the source of my pain, and that is my pride, and where there is pain, there is love, for I have found my strength in knowing my weakness, and that is my family, my friends, and to my God. For they have accepted me, as I have finally accepted myself.

EULOGY (SPEECH 2)

For the late President of NCBA

         I dedicate this speech for the late President of National College of Business and Arts, Mr. Cesar Menez. I never knew Mr. Menez and now, I never will. Some of my classmates and I only found out of his passing months after it happened, and we only knew this news because of professor told us to make this eulogy for him. I never knew him personally and I will always remember him for the fact that he was once a President of this school, and nothing more, which saddens me. Although he is just the late president for me and nothing more, but for some people, he was someone, a very important person, a husband, a father, a friend, and a mentor. According from the staff and employees from this school who knew him, he is a very private and an introvert of a person, he was an approachable person, he was strict but kind and he really cared for his employees and subordinates,  and he was well-loved by them.

          Mr. Menez studied at San Beda College, he was the husband of Mrs. Cory Menez. It was really sad to think, that some of the students here at NCBA did not have a chance to see and meet him personally, and that includes me. If I ever met him, I am sure that I will be one of those people who idolized him and love him. Even though I did not know him, he has my respect as a student and also the respect of my fellow classmates here at this class. He will be remembered for all of his achievements, his mistakes, his compassion, but most of all, he will be remembered by those people whose lives he had touched, those people he had shown compassion, and the students he had mentored to be an upstanding citizen of this country. Mr. Cesar Menez, may you rest in peace.

FEATURE STORY

Horror Manga Before VS Today

I love to read novel, but I also love to read Japanese comics or “Manga”, especially the shoujo and yaoi genre. But there are days when I got bored with shoujo and yaoi, that I seek different types of mangas. So, one day I decided to try the dark side of mangas or the Horror genre. I realized that there are not a lot of Horror mangas compared to shoujo, and only few are very good and interesting, but it did open my eyes for the great and classical horrors  that we can’t see most these days, especially with the current horror genre.

Corpse Party: Blood Covered

I am very, VERY disappointed with the current horror mangas today, especially to those authors that think, blood everywhere would be scary enough, and what the HELL is with the clothing of the characters these days? Is it scary to see high school students with their skirts almost non-existent? And come on, their breast? What’s up with those? So annoying. Here is a example:  

This is the manga titled “Corpse Party” I have only read the first 2 chapters, but it’s about a group of friends who wanted to stay friends forever so they stayed at the end of school to tell ghost stories to scare themselves, after that, they tried this “Sachiko ever after” charm which would make their friendship bond go stronger, because apparently some of them are going to leave the group. Then an earthquake happened out of nowhere, and the group got divided and started looking for their missing friends. Apparently they are in a different dimension called “nirvana” where Heavenly Host still exists and is haunted by the ghosts of the school's murdered children. The students try to figure out the truth behind the mystery of the cursed school, in order to find their way home and try to survive the shadowy forces that haunt the school.

Let us tackle about the old and classical horror manga. I love them, they don’t need much blood or dialogue, the drawing itself is scary and creepy enough to make me not want to turn off the lights in my room. My favorite Horror manga are made by Junji Ito and the father of Horror manga, Umezu Kazuo. I really love their works. Here are their Best works:

uzumaki

Junji Ito's "Uzumaki" is about a curse town, hunted by the "spiral". In this story, some people get obssesed with anything related to spiral, or some weird things happened in a form of it. I love this manga, this is the first manga of Ito that I have read, at first, it was confusing, then disturbing, then brilliant. If you want to see people turning into snails, talking babies, blood-sucking pregnant women, people with holes on their faces, typhoon falling in love, a stalker zombie, then I recommend this manga to you!

God's left hand, Devils right hand

  God's left hand, Devils right hand is one of the classics by Umezu Kazuo. It's about a boy named Shuu, who has supernatural abilities he uses to save his family and friends. What I like the most about this manga, is the thought of a child having the abilities of a god and a devil on either side of his body, the left hand with the ability to heal, and the right hand to banish evil. The manga is a little bit confusing at first, but mostly it's creepy, but what makes this manga special is that, you just can't stop reading it even though it's creepy and disturbing. If you don't believe me, you could try reading it yourself.

whispering woman

yami no koe

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Past, Present and Future Me

          

           My parents named Katrina. I am raised to be an obedient, God-fearing and polite child. I am raised in a loving and caring family who encourages me to try new things and to explore my limitations and boundaries. As I grew up, whenever I wanted to try something new, my parents would be supportive and encouraging. When I wanted to try painting, they bought me a full set of coloring materials. When I wanted to try playing the piano, my parents bought a keyboard. They enrolled me to good schools, so that, I could have a good education. They raised me to work hard in my studies and to the activities and hobbies I had decided to take up, to be grateful for all the blessings that God gave me and to my family.

         

            Upon entering college and deciding which university to apply to, my mother has been my constant moral support, she would come along with me to show support while I’m taking my entrance exams in Manila. They did not force me to take any courses that I didn’t want to, they were supportive when I told them that I wanted to take Physical Therapy, which is for 5 years. I finished a whole year of that course and shifted to AB English, my parents were okay with the transferring, because they saw how much I was struggling with my transportation from Bulacan to Manila, and how early my classes are.

          

             Now, I am happy with my course AB English, I’m in my third year now and my grades are great, which makes my parents both happy and proud. I am still trying to learn new things, like knitting and learning other languages like French. When I can finally graduate in college, I would find a job where I could learn, discover and explore new things, since I love to read. I would like to do something I am good at for my job, so I am considering a job in the Publishing Industry, either as a Commissioning Editor or as a Copy editor. This is how I am raised and this is how I wanted my life to be.

TRAVELOGUE (2)

Family Vacation in Tagaytay

This 2015, my parents decided to go out of town, so they assigned me to search some places but to make sure that its near Bulacan, I was excited with this task and the thought of “Out of Town” since we have never done that before.

We decide to go to tagaytay, then of course, my parents assigned me to look for Hotels that we’re going to accommodate, again, I was really excited with the thought. I made sure to choose affordable Hotels, so I settled with One Tagaytay Hotel, because they have a spa and a club, which is a MUST for my parents. But of course, I am not going to settle down with just any room, especially when I found out that there is a discount for the PENTHOUSE,  I immediately told my parents about the penthouse and convinced them, and thanked my lucky stars when they approved.

We left early that day, to make sure we won’t be late for the check in. when we arrive at the hotel, my first thought about the place is that “This is it?”, because the building was simple, but when we enter the place, WOW, it’s really elegant and the atmosphere is friendly and comfortable.  On our way up to our room, we almost got lost because we can’t find our floor room, fortunately we did.

 

When we entered the Penthouse, I was really excited and elated, the place looks like an elegant condo. Of course me and my brother hurriedly pick the room we’re going to sleep in, we chose the room with T.V and with its own bathroom.

After lunch, we decided to go to the picnic grove for sightseeing, the temperature is okay, I guess, not too hot and not too cold. My brother and I also tried our dream of riding some horses, at first we were excited, then after 10 minutes of just walking around in circles while the afternoon sun shine down on us,  kind of evaporates the fun, especially when I looked at the horses, I’m glad they let me ride a 

horse that compliments my big stature, but it was really hot that time and I felt really bad for the horse because of the heat and my weight, so I told my parents and some staff that I want to get down because I’m bored now, and told them to go at the Sky Ranch instead.

TRAVELOUGE (1)

   My Vacation at Antique

     

      It was on May of 2014, when my parents decided to go home to their hometown province for a vacation, it’s been years since we last saw our relatives in Antique, and they mostly wanted to visit this new resort near their hometown, which is called Siraan Hotspring and Health Resort.

     

Siraan Hotspring and Health Resort

The place was great, it was really spacious and really elegant looking, but what I loved the most about the place is their Natural HOTSPRING, its natural because the place is near a crater, but
don’t worry it’s inactive. The place is really relaxing and my nieces and nephews were really having fun, there’s a moment when they didn’t even want to come up from the pool to eat.

After lunch, the adults decided to visit the neighboring island of the resort called Siraan Island. The Island was so beautiful, with its white sand and clear waters, especially the peacefulness of the place since we’re the only ones at the island.

The great thing about this island is that the government owns it, that is why the place is peaceful and untouched, because only few people knows this place and they are mostly the locals.

Swimming on the islands sparkly clean ocean was AMAZING! the temperature was right, its shallow, so you could easily see the corals. I was really amazed by this place, and grateful that there are no people besides my family and relatives, I really enjoyed this Island.

                                               

Kalachuchi Trees

Aside from the Islands's clear water, is the inside of the Island itself, upon entering the Island, there are ALOT of Kalachuchi trees aligned on either side of your path, so it feels like walking on a park, I really loved the flowers of the Kalachuchi trees, aside from its pure white- colored flowers are their fragrant smell, my mom said that it would be nice to have our own Kalachuchi tree at home. 

I hope that someday, I could go back to that Island, and I hope that it would still be as beautiful as it was, the day I first visited it and if that day comes, I'm hoping that I would be with someone where I could spend the night with at the Island, to look and gaze at the stars.