“Uhaw sa Karangalan”

These were the words my dad gab at my mom before he went away. Very early in the morning he woke me up and asked me – - no… he commanded me – -to help mommy pack her clothes… Then he asked me – -no… he forced me – - to say yes about my transferring to St. Joseph College this coming school year… I immediately told him I don’t want to study in that school. I don’t want to be laugh at sooner or later. Anyway, he isn’t the one going to study, right? I would rather want to be spoiled at Cavite National High School. If ever I’m going to transfer schools, it would be better if I’d end up in a special science class so all my hardships would not end up for nothing. Besides, I made up my mind that I would graduate at Tanza National Comprehensive High School. I don’t care if our house there is small, as long as we can live there a peaceful life. He told us that my mom is just ‘uhaw sa karangalan’ that is why she is pressuring me to study hard. He is wrong. My mom is not forcing me to study well. It is I who is fulfilled whenever I garner awards. I know my parents, too are kind of proud or happy whenever they are invited to the Recognition Day yearly, but the real reason I study is because this is my happiness. Learning is my happiness. I don’t aim to have millions of medals, or what, that’s just a consolation. Since I’m not good at anything, I am already happy whenever I learn new things. I am not good at sports. I always mar myself whenever I play outdoor games or any sport. I don’t sing very well. I like to sing, but the song doesn’t fit my voice, eh hehe! So learning is the way I fulfill myself. I try to challenge myself by learning…

Ralph, hailed hero

After my dad, mommy, Nylma and Josh went away to Bicol, and my mom went for school, I prepared myself to school, too. I remembered the individual project-for-clearance Mrs. Bunag announced just yesterday which is, I think is impossible. So, since I know my mom won’t allow Mrs. Bunag summon individual projects-for-clearance, I just went to school with my board. When I got to school, I was surprised because I saw my classmates busily working on their individual projects-for-clearance. Whoa! While me, I was spending all my time in the world watching them. It was about 30 minutes or more when I decided to work from my classmates’ scrap, since I don’t want to go to the hardware and busy myself walking to and fro. I started working when some of our classmates planned to test their motors. After a while, some of them went back and shouted at us that they were also cleared thanks to our leader. I told myself that he should have told the name of the whole group since he is our leader, right? He is so avaricious… Well, don’t grudge him…He is always like that since ********… Anyway, the REAL hero finally came!!! Ralph saved the whole III – Acacia by passing his wonderful motor… REAL thanks to Ralph Jayson Asahan… We were all cleared, except for the perpetrator, who is Angelo Domingo that insulted Mrs. Bunag yesterday that started the individual project-for-clearance…

Thank you Ralph!!!

‘Death of a loved one’

I missed the Ghost Whisperer!!! I hate it!!! I was just able to hear Melinda’s doctor friend telling her that he misinterpreted the code. He told her that the code says ‘death of a loved one’. I hate it so much!!! I’ve waited for the whole week just to watch the show, but what? I missed it… I just missed it!!!

I told Aunt Daday everything that happened in the house. I think there is nothing wrong for her to know what happens to us. She is my aunt. She is my mom’s sister. So I think she has the right. I hope she reads this. I hope everything would be okay. I hope my mom won’t be angry with me for telling Aunt Daday the happenings in the house. I just couldn’t vent it out to my mom. I think she already carries too much. I don’t want to be another pain for her. Anyway, Aunt Daday told me that I can tell her everything. So I won’t hesitate. Besides, I think she knows the answers for my questions. Aunt Daday is very understanding and knows everything in life. I want to be like her someday – - so firm, beautiful, hard-working, intelligent. And now her life is good.

I hope for us to live a peaceful life. I hope I can still achieve my dreams. I hope to be successful someday. I hope to pass the UPCAT. I hope to live in a quiet place away from pollutants. Then I will build my big modern-type house. I will buy my own shiny car. If not a black McLarren, it would be a silver Volvo, or gray Porsche. I will buy my own island in the Pacific or Caribbean, where I will create a successful Nuclear Power Plant so my island will have its own energy source. I will build my own rest house. I will build my own school just like the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I will invent the first vortex that will take you to a different dimension. I will also make the first eye-lens that serves just like a computer. So much hopes…