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REMINISCING YOLANDA: THE NIGHTMARE NEVER-TO-BE-FORGOTTEN

Still remembering how I and my family were once battling with “one of the strongest typhoon ever happened on Philippine records" — the Super Typhoon Yolanda (International Name: Haiyan). The day of 8 would always remind me of the shocking nightmare which cannot be deleted in my psyche. A whopping experience taught me numerous learnings.  ©️Sunstar November 8, 2013. The Super Typhoon (ST) Yolanda rammed the entire Visayas including our very own province of Capiz. That day was the very first time that I have experienced such terrible onslaught of "bagyo". And due to not expecting that ST Yolanda would be as dreadful as happened, I did not mind it. Seeming that I am just waiting for the arrival of weak enemy— which on the contrary—a mighty evildoer. It was only my parents who were into worries and hardly prepared for said approaching storm. In fact, I felt guilty of being idiot—because I really did not treat the forenamed catastrophe seriously.  Morning of that day, around...

PROCRASTINATION TO AMBITION (Speech)

©️Dreamstime.com Are you a type of student who would wastes hours browsing social media before finally managing school works? Do you feel guilt being trapped in scrolling FB newsfeeds then later pressured by last minutes of deadlines? Is it you? To everyone here, a pleasant day! Thank you for having me as I am going to be speaking to you today about "Procrastination", a matter that matters. Something that stops us from living our ideal life. It prevents us from achieving our full potential and it is the thing that destroys our dreams and makes us fail at our goals. But foremost, what procrastination really is? The term procrastinate coined from Latin word pro-crastinus which means "belonging to tomorrow". As common knowledge, procrastination is the act of delaying or putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline. Procrastination also exists when you are delaying an important task, usually by focusing on less urgent, more enjoyable, and easier activ...

STAINED FILIPINOS

©️Rappler.com We are Filipino and we are separate identity. However, we cannot deny the fact that as time passes by we are not already a pure Filipino as other country's stain soiling our whitey identification. Way back Hispanic period up to this contemporary times, our identity which tend to be in unison dramatically ruining.  Presently, our fellows are notoriously fond of Korean cultures, for instance. On the way are millennials getting addicted to K-dramas and K-groups. BTS, Blackpink etc. For so many! But are all of these just and right? Are Filipino youth fully mastered the distinction between "ng" and "nang"? How about "raw" and "daw"? Probably, they still struggled on the latter but skilled on the cultures of former. How gloomy!