You Can’t Ever Be Sure What Others' Decision Will Be

“It’s time to care, it’s time to take responsibility, it’s time to lead, it’s time for a change, it’s time to be true to our greatest self, it’s time to stop blaming others.” Based on the quote of Steve Maraboli, we can relate this to the point of view of couples from Aeneid, Aeneas and Creusa, and Illiad, Hector and Andromache. This can be related on the scenes in Aeneid when Aeneas again prepares to fight the Greeks on the night of Troy's fall, his wife Creusa begs him to consider her first and her son Ascanius and in Illiad, when Andromache pleads with Hector.

Farewell of Hector and Andromache

From the two mentioned epic stories, Creusa and Andromache were the two characters who showed how much a wife must love and care for her husband. They were both very good models for the wives. At the same time, Aeneas and Hector showed how much a father, husband or warrior should be when his nation and family are in danger, such a being very brave, protective, etc. But, Hector didn’t listen to his wife, Andromache, instead, he still tried to fight against Achilles, while Aeneas followed his wife, Creusa, to be with his family, instead of fighting against the Greeks, Aeneas just escaped from Troy with his family.

The escape of Aeneas, Creusa, Ascanius and Anchises

All of the four mentioned characters were good models. There were characters that showed their true love and care, someone followed his responsibility when it comes to call of duty and someone followed his wife to be with his family. There were two epic stories, Aeneid and Illiad, that differ in some plots, but similar in the particular or mentioned scenes of the two showing which the better decision in a certain request.

Blog 4.3

What I Feel for the Fall of Troy

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” Based on Aeneas sorrowful story, Trojans suddenly lose their power, position, own city (Troy), king, etc. It might not happen if there was no traitor to Trojans whose name is Sinon, the Greek youth. For me, being traitor to somebody was only a part of his cleverness to defeat you, so I don’t trust anyone much.

Having highly elevated and strong walls for city of Troy was a very good idea but the problems with Trojans are being very kind-hearted and feel pity to the youth from the opponent even though they were at the middle of the war. This became one of the ways of Greeks, Trojans’ opponent, to make their plan successful. As I read the Book II of Aeneid, I felt sympathy for Trojans because they accepted and welcomed Sinon for their side very well. Because of feeling pity for Sinon, they never thought that this youth would be one of the causes why Troy will fall.

One of the problems of Trojans is also accepting the Greeks’ gift, wooden horse, easily. I believe that most of them never thought that it would be used to trick and defeat them. At this time, I wasn’t able to feel sympathy for them, instead, I felt angry to their stupidity because they took the wooden horse to display in their city as their pride without thinking that it might be a trap or something. But, as I imagine how the Troy falls and how Greeks attack the sleeping city of Troy, I really felt sympathy.

The Trojan Horse inside the walls of city of Troy

When I put myself on Aeneas’ point of view, I knew the feeling of relinquishing own native land and through encouraging myself by thinking that gods and goddesses have better plans for me, such as building a new hope by building a Roman Empire, made me to realize why I was forced to do that.

Blog 4.1

They were Wright!

     One pleasant afternoon, I was roaming around at North Carolina until I met Wilbur Wright who came from Smithsonian Institution to send his letter of request for information about flight experiment. I asked him to join them in flight experiments and he accepted my request. I went with him at the park and I met his brother, Orville Wright.

     The Wright Brothers and I spent a great deal of time observing birds in flight.
They noticed that birds soared into the wind and that the air flowing over the curved surface of their wings created lift. Birds change the shape of their wings to turn and maneuver. We believed that they could use this technique to obtain roll control by changing the shape of a portion of the wing.The Wright Brothers started to design series of gliders which would be flown as kites and can be controlled or piloted. I tried my best to help them in assembling the parts of glider until we’re done. We realized that controlling glider would be the most crucial and hardest problem to solve. Testing that biplane glider was successful. They chose Kitty Hawk, North Carolina as their test site and we had a triumph for the successful biplane glider. I tried to ride in it and I enjoyed it while it’s flying.

     I realized that having cool moments with cool inventors will be very fun and unforgettable. With the cool stuff that they invent while they trust each other, they became a very important part of the next generations for good communications. I also learned from them that being observable, hard working, positive thinker, giving your best while working and cooperating with others will bring you to a triumph. 

National Career Assessment Examination

            On the 28^th day of August 2012, I took the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) 2012 that made me nervous on that day. Even though this examination is not graded, this still made me nervous and I don’t know why. They say that this examination may help us, third year students, to know our destination for our future job.

            On the day when I’m going to take the exam, all of us, boys and girls of third year students, were arranged alphabetically and were assigned to the room where we are going to take it. During the distributions of booklets and answer sheets, I was praying to God to guide and help me while taking the exam for my own destiny. While taking, I encountered easy and difficult questions and I realized that this exam is just like taking the usual periodical test.

            Actually, I really don’t know how this examination will help me. But I think, the results will just be benefited by the universities to know who the students who will be possibly qualified are. 

Informal Theme/Blog 2.4

What is the Question?

To be or not to be? That is the question.
For every decision, there are always available options
Questions in your mind, seek answers for you sake;
So choose wisely and avoid mistakes.

To be or not to be?
To deal or not to deal?
Dealing with a certain decision should be supported
But decision should always be with care

To be or not to be?
Must be done or not must be done?
Accomplishing something leads to achievement
But achieving something doesn’t always lead to happiness

To be or not to be?
Decision making is so important.
Deciding wisely and being careful with it
Always lead to success in life.

Informal Theme/Blog 2.6

The Experience During Intramurals 2012

Fun, excitement, bond, etc. were experienced by students of Cavite national Science High School, once again. Loud cheers were done by most of the students to show their full support for their batch mates.

I, as a third year student of CNSHS, had experienced the happy moments during intramurals. I saw the full support of cheerers and the players doing their best for their batch. As one of the players for the Intramural 2012 of our batch in our school, I also tried my best and we won. I felt the very happy feeling for winning for our batch that made me and my teammates proud.

Because of the many benefits of sports, it is imperative to continue the athletic programs available for students. Encouraging students to speak up about their desire for athletics may also affect the behavior, such as having self-confidence, self-discipline and believing in his/herself.

Informal theme/Blog 2.3

Which One Do I Prefer, English or Filipino?

Language is one of the most important things for human beings in order to communicate with each other. It has different versions invented by different people from different countries during ancient times.

I, a Filipino citizen, live in a country where there are two official languages, the Filipino language and the English language. Those two languages are both useful in my daily life. I use Filipino language for communicating with other Filipino citizens, listening to the news, etc. While for English language, I also use it for communicating with others, reading the warnings, etc. But there’s a difficult question to be answered and that is “Which do prefer, fluency of the English language or mastery of native language?” The question that was asked to made me to think for choosing the deserving language wisely.

The first thing that came in to my mind is choosing our own native language. It is, because it is the first language that I used to use, it is the language that my ancestors invented that made me proud of using it and without it, I won’t be able to learn how to speak in English.

As what our national martyr, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, said, “Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay mas masahol pa sa malansang isda”. If we are going to translate it in English, it’s like “The one who does not love his own language is worse than unpleasant fish” that means to be a better person, you should love your mother tongue, instead of loving the foreign language/s.  

Informal Theme/Blog 2.2