A Prayer - For the Victims

An Everlasting Power

Almighty God, Creator of the Universe

In Your glory, this is where we will immerse

You are the mightiest and strongest of them all

You are the one that always saves us when we fall

We apologize for all the wrongs we have done

For the sins we have committed in the long run

We wish forgiveness from You and Your Holiness

We are truly sorry, our minds full of regrets

O God, thank You for all of the blessings You gave

All of us are thanking You for making us brave

You are the one who has guided us from the start

All of us are really thanking You from the heart

Lord God, we are asking for Your glory again

Please help all of those who are suffering in vain

Please give them a new start, a new life, a rebirth

So that we could live in bliss and delight in Earth

Typhoon Maring had caused lots of houses destroyed
Please do not let them be absorbed by the dark void
Please give the victims of the storm Your sacred light
To all of us, so that we could survive the fight

Thank You again for being our sanctuary

During severe times when things get really scary

We write to You this prayer, in our hands with pen

This is what we all ask, in Jesus' name, Amen.

English - Ganito Ka Rin Ba Mag-Salita?

ENTERTAINMENT

Ganito Ka Rin Ba Mag-English?

(To whoever gets to understand this letter, CONGRATULATIONS!)

The following is a letter found at a certain bar in Manila and have been preserved to its original unedited form. Enjoy reading and you may try to direct translation in Tagalog, Pls. read with feelings……

October 1996,
To Marjorie

I am not surprise or wonder why Dennis leave you why? What reason can you think about but you’re very fat body. I thought before that Dennis only use me to his toy but sooner and later I’m realize that he really can’t not beared or stomached to be with you anymore because at first, Dennis say he could not stand you’re habit of making pakialam all his walks (lakad) and always calling to their house what he got home or this or that.

And then he say he get ashame to me either in school or in his family and then asking you to exercise you’re very very, very fat body. But you hate it. Thought you’re the most preetiest girls he knows about. What do you think you are “ BeautifulGirl” of Jose Mari Chan?

Even you are beautiful face ( to your think) you do not have the right to called me whatsoever or else difference name one time or the other for the real purposed to insults my personality because I’m never call you names either in the front of Dennis or in the backs of Dennis, but if you start already to calling me different name, I don’t have any other choice but to call you other different name to. Like you are a PIG, FAT, OBESSED, OVERWIGHT, AND UGLY SHAPE girl. Shame to you’re body that is to a BUDING.

You can’t not blame Dennis for exchanging you to me because I am the more sexier that you when you look to us in the mirror. I’m repeat again that you are like Lozada when she is a girl.

Love,
The sexiest Girl of D.M.

P.S.
You say that I’m the bad breathe but who is Dennis want to kissed. Me or you? And the final is me. There you go.

       Reading the letter made my head ache. It was full of grammatical and spelling errors and it was very hard to understand. It took me more than two times to understand what the girl wants to say. From my understanding, the girl who wrote the letter is the new lover of Dennis, who had a former lover named Marjorie. Dennis left Marjorie because Marjorie is fat and the writer of the letter compares herself to Marjorie.

My revised version of the letter is below:

ENTERTAINMENT

Ganito Ka Rin Ba Mag-English?

(To whoever gets to understand this letter, CONGRATULATIONS!)

The following is a letter found at a certain bar in Manila and have been preserved to its original unedited form. Enjoy reading and you may try to direct translation in Tagalog, please read with feelings……

October 1996,
To Marjorie

I am not surprised of the reason why Dennis left you. Why? What reason can you think of but you’re very fat body? Before, I thought that Dennis only used me as his toy but later on, I realized that he can't bear being with you anymore because first, Dennis says he could not stand you’re habit of meddling with all of his trips and second, you're always calling their house asking what time he got home.

And then Dennis said to me that he was ashamed of you both in school and his family. He asked you to exercise but you don't want to. You think that you are the prettiest woman Dennis knows? Who do you think you are, the “Beautiful Girl” of Jose Mari Chan?

Even though you think that you are beautiful, you do not have the right to call me names just to insult me because I never called you names in front or behind Dennis. Well, if you start calling me names, I don't have any other choice but to call you names too like PIG, FATTY, OBESE, OVERWEIGHT, AND GIRL WITH AN UGLY SHAPE. Shame on your body that is like a BUILDING.

You can't blame Dennis for replacing you with me because I am sexier than you. I repeat, you are like Lozada if he was a girl.

Love,
The sexiest Girl of D.M.

P.S.

You say that I have bad breath but who does Dennis want to kiss, me or you? The answer is me. There you go.

Blogging ~ Our Informal Theme

          Before, when we were in our younger years, we also had an informal theme. We wrote our compositions in our notebook and our teacher would check it but this year, it was different. We had to do our informal themes using a blog. I really loved the idea and it made me feel happy that we will type and post our compositions through this.

          For me, a blog is some sort of outlet where we can express our thoughts, insights, feelings, and other more. A blog is defined as a site consisting of entries or posts shown in reverse chronological order, the recent posts appear first. Even before I reached high school, I already had an idea of what a blog is because I have been searching a lot of things in google related to games and I always saw them having ".blogspot.com" at their URLs. I was thinking to myself, how can I make one? Will I learn how to use it in the future? All of them were answered at my first year where we had a little discussion about blogs in our computer class.

          I already knew that blogging will be fun and interesting so I was really excited when I found out that we will use blogs to place our compositions. It really lifted me up: there will be no informal theme notebooks that will be hard to do. I will admit it, I was shocked when we didn't need an informal theme notebook but I was really happy about it and was even more happier when we had to do it in blogs.

          I prefer blogs much more because in blogs, I can show who I really am by putting designs, pictures, music, and other more. One can also easily organize their thoughts, well at least for me, in blogs. There was no pressure while doing the blog unlike in informal theme notebooks, there is a time limit and you are limited to only what you can write. I could express more my feelings instead of just writing them in a piece of paper that might even get forgotten. The internet is forever and it will last for centuries and the blogs we made will still be there alive unless we delete our blogs which is a really horrible idea because blogs hold certain memories. In blogs, I could also look at my classmates' blogs and posts. Seeing there posts makes me feel like I know them more and deeper. It's like I am connected to them. Another great thing about this is because of my handwriting. My handwriting is not really that good and I like it so much better when we just type and type.

          We are living in the future. We should embrace technology. We should leave those papers and pens. I mean, this is what it should do, right? We use technology to make our lives easier. What is technology for if we won't use it and stick with the items used before. The world is really evolving. Did you ever think that maybe we will use what cavemen have used before? No right? It is because of advancement and change. Change really is the only permanent thing in the world so we should embrace change because that is a part of life. I hope that in the future, especially in fourth year, if we will have an informal theme, we will still use blogs.