Uniting and Taking Action For One Goal

                The past months were very busy months for me. We had a lot of work to do. Tough works, difficult tasks, and several hardships came across me and my team or group mates.  We joined the National Cyberfair that was launched last February 2011. Although it was hard to create a website, it was also a lot of fun and it was a very enjoyable experience.

                This experience I had was the first time that I joined a competition involving many schools and a lot of fellow students. I enjoyed it although at first, I was hesitating in joining the said competition. I was hesitating because I’m not really good at creating a website. It’s a good thing that I took the challenge and accepted the tasks that were waiting ahead of me.

                Our Category in the Cyberfair was the Local Culture, Music, and Arts. We chose to create a website about a very famous festival in my hometown Baguio City. It was called the Panagbenga Festival. It focused on flowers which were very common in our place. I enjoyed gathering more information about this festival and I also enjoyed taking pictures of the festival. Of course, I had some difficulties in helping create the website but it was all worth it. I am very thankful to all my friends and group mates who helped in creating our website. Through this competition, I was able to be more close to my friends. I am also thankful to Mr. Vincent Tabor for teaching us HTML, CSS and helping us in a lot of ways.

The theme for CyberFair 2011
is "Take Action and Unite!"

Youth are challenged to publish original research projects that focus on how the positive actions and contributions of their local citizens have the power to improve, preserve and unite their community.

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy

In partnership with the World Future Society, students are also encouraged to also prepare for the future - by thinking about the possible future, the probable future, the preferable future and the preventable future. Projects that best illustrate "future thinking" are invited to the World Future Society international conference in Vancouver, Canada, July 2011, "Moving from Vision to Action."

Source: http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsncf/

                I learned a lot during the Cyberfair competition. It helped me be more cooperative. It also helped me spend more time and be closer with my group mates. I learned the important value of teamwork. It also helped me realized the importance of flowers. I will never forget this experience. I will value it for the rest of my life. :D

                By the way, the site we created could be seen in http://baguioinbloom.info/ 

The Magical Feeling of Love

Valentines day just passed and I just thought of making a blog about what's celebrated in this day, LOVE. What is love? Why is it so important? Different people have different opinions. I would like to share some of my thoughts and experiences about this topic, love.

Love is everywhere. There are several people whom we could love. These are our family, our friends, our relatives, and many others. We love them because of the love and care they show. But have you experienced feeling a different kind of love? A love wherein you feel extreme happiness, joy and it seems like you want a person to be beside you forever?

There are several definitions and quotations about love. Two quotes really caught my attention because these quotes are really true based from my experiences. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." and Margaret Walker once said, "Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." These two quotations are really true. I experienced and felt these.

There is this person that I have fallen in love very deeply. She always brightens my day and completes me. I couldn't be happier whenever I'm with her. The first thing that comes into my mind when I see her is that I love her and I hope we could always be together.

The first time I saw her, I really didn't expect that I would fall in love with her. At first, we were just friends, not even really close friends. When I got to know her better, I didn't realize it but I was starting to like her. I found her so beautiful, inside and out.

As I realized it more and more, I decided to tell it to her. I told her and I was surprised because she told me she had a crush on me too. I felt so happy and it felt like my heart pounded for joy. We became even closer and this crush that I felt started to develop into what we all call, LOVE.

I courted her and showed that I really loved her. She responded to me with a "yes". This "yes" changed my life. It made me feel like the happiest guy on earth. Since then, we became even more close. Our relationship became better and better. She also showed me that she really loved me. I never felt this way before. She showed me deep affection that would make me complete. She made me feel loved.

Today, we've already been together for almost two years. In these times, we had problems but we were able to solve them all together. Right now, I know that my love for her is true and I really care for her. I could feel that she also feels the same way too.

I know that right now, we need to focus our studies first. I understand it and I know that we need to do this in order for us to have a bright future. But I will be able to wait. When the right time comes, I promise that I'll be the one to hold her tight and never let go.

My love for her is true and I know that it will never change, no matter what happens. The first thing that I want in this world is to make her happy.

I love you, Shermaine.

There is nothing to fear as long as COURAGE is here.

John Maxwell's blog gave me realizations on something in life that could never be avoided, FEAR. In my 15  (nearly 16) years living on earth, I experienced this terrible feeling. Sometimes, I find myself very scared of what could happen. Sometimes, I feel that life is so cruel and unfair. But what could I do? Fear is something experienced by everyone. As long as you're human, you would surely experience fear. Some people might seem "fearless" but deep inside, they also feel fear. Wonder why they seem so strong and fearless? They just know how to face their fears and have the courage to go on.

We should all face our fears. If we continue to be scared, nothing will happen to us. We must all have the courage to go on even if we have fears. COURAGE is all we need