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

What Can We Do For Our Mother Nature?

“Simply having convention which says you must not make species extinct does not make a blind bit of difference.” Earth is full of plants whether those are in water or on land living with all animals before the man came on earth and interacted with plants and animals. 

            As time passes by, the knowledge of human being is getting smarter and their population increases until it became one of the most common problems of nature that causes its destruction and some parts of wildlife extinct.

            Nowadays, ecological crisis is getting more critical. The number of endangered species increases. It is because of excessive hunting, exposure to pesticides and other pollutants, as well as ongoing competition of species. The most important cause is habitat loss as a result of human exploitation and encroachment.

            Most of the countries are having open season to avoid excessive hunting. Countries like Philippines are having programs and laws to contribute and to help in saving or conserving the Mother Earth such as “One Billion Trees” by President Noynoy Aquino. Having floods in most part of the cities of the Philippines during rainy or stormy make some of the Filipino citizens be aware to our Mother Nature, but most of us still don’t. The number of undisciplined Filipino citizens is greater than the number of disciplined, so some agencies of the Philippines are enforcing laws which concern a lot about our mother nature. 

            I am hoping that our government can still maintain their confident desire for disciplining Filipinos in order to make our environment better than before. We must also encourage the others to open their eyes and enlighten their minds about the occurrence of our environments, so that they’ll be aware, too, and they’ll help us to solve our problem.

            In present, it seems that it’s impossible to return our nature to its former state, but if we are with God, nothing is impossible to recover our nature and to live with it properly as long as we can. And if we are with Him, we can gain stronger hope, guidance, and wiser brain to think and to have ideas for solving the problem, such as ecological crisis.

            I, as a Filipino and science student, will always be ready to obey the rules of our government for a better life, better country, and better future and especially for our environments and health.  The best things that we can do to solve our problem are praying, planning wisely and applying the actions. 

Rico Jeremy G. Hernandez 

Informal Theme/Blog #6

We Are In the World of Communication

Greetings everybody, I’m here to call your attention
Give you some ideas and new information
First, I would like to ask you a question
Have you ever realized the importance of communication?

For me, I think it will be too difficult to have progressive nations
No proper way of living and unpleasant relations
or may be there’ll be no reproduction for the next generation
that’s the world I imagined with no communication

Communication is defined as exchange of information;
It is an outgrowth of methods developed over centuries of expression.
It was started by our ancestors by different ways in different locations.
Until it reached the world of modernization

Nowadays, the act of communicating is being developed by inventions;
Being improved by technologies such as cell phones, computers and televisions,
Even though it take miles away from each other, they still keep better communications
But some of these invented technologies emit radiations.

Humans are not the only creatures who can exchange information.
Animals also communicate to each other through their sounds and actions;
In order to survive and to strengthen their connections,
But If they can’t understand each other, it may start the competition.

It appears that our life is boring and it’s inadequate to live without interaction.
And it seems that human are well blessed by God to communicate appropriately,
Because in real life, half of our lives is communication
There’s a saying, “No one lives and dies merely for himself respectively.”

Rico Jeremy G. Hernandez

Informal Theme/Blog #7

I Hope My Plans will Work for the Next Father’s Day

 Hugging fathers and kissing their cheeks by their own children can make them feel that they are really important and their children really love them which can be one of the best gift for fathers every Father’s Day. When I was younger, hugging and kissing my own father is no problem for me, but as I grow and get older, I realized that I’m getting shier to kiss my father on his cheeks. Maybe it’s also because of being a son that made me to think of causing bromance between us. This means that for the next coming Father’s Days or for the next birthdays of my father, hugging and kissing him won’t be one of my gifts for him, instead, I’ll find another good ways to give him a gift that will make him to be surprised. I think obeying, respecting him more, and giving him a better inspiring father’s day card than before can make him feel better.  

From now on, I’ll try to study well to attain high grades to make his feeling better and to make him very proud of me and if I’m going to keep this attitude, this will serve as my gift for him, not for Father’s Day only, but for a very long time. I will make him believe that I’ll be a good son to them, especially by studying well, respecting and loving my family, so that I will be sure that he will not refuse to continue in protecting, supporting and loving me since birth.

I will remind him of bonding, memories and experiences that we cherished, important things, such as ideas, skills, and values that I learned from him. I will force myself to keep on applying those right things that I learned from him and I will compel myself to study hard from being very lazy. 

Rico Jeremy G. Hernandez

Informal theme/ Blog #2

Meaning of Family to My Life

For you, what do you think is the true meaning of family? How important is your family in your life? Do you think that your family is ideal/perfect? Some dictionaries say that family is a group of people who are closely related by birth, marriage, or adoption, others say that it is a group of people living together and functioning as a single household, usually consisting of parents and their children, and some of those dictionaries say that it is a group whose members are related in origin or characteristics. In point of fact, all of those meanings are true, but have you ever tried to explain or to elaborate the meaning of family in your own words?

            Well, for me, family is one of the most important blessings in the whole universe. Family may be the best thing that we got since birth. I call a group of people where I do belong as my family to whom I may lean on when there were times that I need them most and they are ready to help, to support, to guide and to love me.

Actually, there’s no perfect family, we argue and we fight. Sometimes, we even stop talking to each other, but in the end, family is family. The love will always be there. This means that our family isn’t too ideal and perfect. To be kept strong, a relationship must be attended to regularly, like a plant. It doesn't need constant attention, but it does need regular attention. If not, it will wither after a while, but can be revived. If neglected too long, then no matter how much water you put on it, or how much care you show, it's just not coming back, so that we must always make time for those we love. There are times that our families are too far from us but they're still very near to our heart.

Family may be just a term which is easy to define and to look for the meaning of it, but for all of us, we define or give the meaning of it differently, because of our different experiences and involvement with our family.

Rico Jeremy G. Hernandez

Informal theme/ Blog #3

My Life Still Needs Adjustments

          For being a high school student, they must obtain different knowledge and information. By brainstorming discussions and doing researches, high school students are supposed to broaden their knowledge especially in Science High Schools. They are instructed with every aspect of knowledge and concentrate mostly on textbooks. Most of the times, they recite the content of topics that they studied and memorize formulas to finish and to pass the examinations. As time passes by, every student grows and develops. All high school students who have all passing grades in every school year are going on their way to explore more, to level up, to develop, and to improve their knowledge and skills. As they are levelling up, topics or lessons are getting more critical.

At present, I’m a new third year student of Cavite National Science High School. At this year level, I think we’ll have more challenging topics and subjects to make us study harder. Having new set of classmates, new set of teachers, new classroom, and new surroundings are making me to adapt to new circumstances. Some of my friends who are former third year students of CNSHS told me that it’ll be harder than before. During that time, I realized that there will be more challenges to come if I’m going to be a third year student. I also thought that we’re going to have more strict teachers. I slightly felt happiness, because our classroom’s floor won’t need to be polished by floorwax, instead, we’ll just use mop for it. I needed adjustment, again, for having new classmates, because I knew that most of my close friends won’t be my classmates if I’m going to be third year student, so on the time when I knew that, I slightly felt sadness and at the same time, I felt excitement. “Imagining the people I see everyday right now, the people I would least expect to not see tomorrow, in a year, college will come and with it new friends, and new experiences, the people I see everyday, my friends, and some of them, my best friends, will disappear from my life, each of us are going on our own ways, I'll see them once every ten years at some random reunion if that, these are the people I have grown up with, and friends with them or even if I’m not, there will come a time when many of them won’t even cross my mind, the truth is, I'll see my best friends maybe once a year, because time goes by so fast and everyone is so busy”, I set them all in my mind, so that I’m used to it (having different set of classmates yearly).

                As third year student of Cavite National Science High School, I must start studying hard for the topics that will be hard for me.  I also started looking back for what I had, because I noticed that we have only two years left to stay in CNSHS with my batch mates. My anxiety began, too, because I might not see nor meet most of them again in the future. Realizing that these are also part of my life where difficult challenges must be faced is one of the things that I also did.  The adjustments for me are making my feelings stronger, so that I realized that those things that happened to my life made me stronger and to be ready for my future.  

Informal Theme # 1 

Rico Jeremy G. Hernandez

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