I have passed feeling the obnoxious excitement with relates to sports events. Long ago, I was once a player myself as a part of a team in volleyball who competed in the regionals. Having to feel the thrill coursing through your veins in the anticipation of facing a strong opponent, having to feel that madly beating heartbeat of not only myself but with the rest of my team mates resembling that of an elephant's parading and having to feel that unexplainable joy and elateness when having been able to win against a specially strong opponent. I mean that is what Intramurals supposed to mean isn't it?

      It is as if people nowadays treat Intramurals as a means of  having been able to get away from studies and watch different sports matches. That may be partly correct, yes. But for me Intramurals is not a day only for the athletes but also for us battle spectators to feel the same thrill that they are going through. Unfortunately, it was like we had our own different worlds with some watching the games, some participating in the booths set up by the different clubs and organizations of the school, and some seems to be not giving a care at all. Add to that, the disastrous second day full of black skies and harsh angry howls of the winds of Super typhoon Mario.

It is not a bad thing to actually try something new and enjoy ourselves while at it but I think Intramurals should be treated with more respect by actually being able to connect with one another through the use of the central piece: sports. 

       I once read something in one of the books of Nicholas Sparks that teachers, they inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it. To be different, I would like to fill this entry with something not about the usual gratitude that we all feel for them, not about having to see them as our stepping stones, not about seeing them as our molders or someone to lean on, but someone, someone who is just there, a hero.

       Throughout our younger years, who would break childish fights between us pupils? Who would wait for our parents to take us home from school? Who would see to it that everybody is well and present just upon entering the pristine walls of the school? Who would it be but our dearest teachers?

I've spent my younger years thanking them, apologizing to them and wishing something from them relating all about our education. Intellectually, yes, the chances are nil that we would be half of what we are today without our teachers. Imagine that, not knowing how to read, how to count, basically just not knowing how to survive. But what we are missing is behind all the technicalities, the patience, understanding and care that they shower upon us is just as much as all the lessons we've learned from them. And I can tell that beyond all the stiff and disciplinary methods, lies a heart full of compassion that wants us to be better and to be  stronger individual.

       I would bow to you teachers like the Japanese do, or salute you in terms of military ways, but still I thank you for without you, I wouldn't be half the person as I am today, intellectually and a person as a whole.

       As we all now, we celebrate the Science Festival every September of the year. Naturally it depicts the use of Science to further help our nation and actually aims to include us youth nowadays as well. This year's theme is about, "IMMUNATION: Arming Science Clubbers with Healthful Defenses towards National Wellness."

       The group PSYC, explained the rational of the theme which is about how it is a play on words on ammunition and immunization. They wanted science clubbers to be armed/ to be immune against diseases through imparting knowledge about disease, how they spread, etc and they aimed not only the science clubbers that benefit from this knowledge but also their school and communities and thus leading to national wellness.

       Even with the explanation, one could say how difficult it must be to internalize and truly understand the theme. But upon reading between the lines, I found quite easier to understand, and I found what simple but heavy meaning it ought to impart to all of us.

In verbatim, ammunition means a material for use in attacking or defending a position, while immunization is to give (someone) a vaccine to prevent infection by a disease. Ostensibly, when we further play with words, we could conjur something like immunity defense or screen immunity and whatnot. The main point is, with the two of them combined, the meaning in actuality deepens and for the lack of better words levels up. To have words like arming, defenses, and natural wellness backing it up, it wouldn't be too hard to come up with a deduction that the message behind the theme is all about guarding, fighting and living life the best way we can.

       Superman, Wonder woman, Iron Man, and Spider man- they are the icons who first and foremost come into people's minds when we speak about heroes. How do you define a hero? Or rather, at does it even take to be a hero? Does it require one to have superpowers and super strengths and super flying skills or such? Does it require one who would recklessly jump into the face of arduous danger to save mankind? Or does it require one to have the passion to do hard work and push to overcome many boundaries and limitations wholeheartedly? Even with all of these "requirements", there is but only ONE hero for me. And that is none other than my beloved family.

       My father may not have super strength like Superman, but he is my hero because he ensures that I could safely get to and from school everyday, because he gives me all the reason to work hard and be a better person and because he imparts all the lessons for me to feel contented with what I have, and what I am today.He is like a fortress that I could hold on to if ever I'm in need, like a stronghold perhaps.My mother is not a flyer like Wonder woman but she assists me every morning for me to get to school, she worries for me when I get sick, from morning until dawn, still, she's there for me every time I couldn't sleep. She's an all around worker, I just can't help but wonder how she could do all that so flittingly.Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man has his riches and his super armor, my brother doesn't have all that but he started to work early and somehow even help our family financially, he is my confidante with my more informal activities and he is so overprotective over me to the point of resembling and armor engulfing myself.

       My reasons may come out as little things but that is why they became my heroes in the first place. Those little things containing more love and care and compassion. I would become a hero myself who will weave and sew all these little things as long as I can, to the best way I can because I'm going to be your friendly little neighbor, Spider man! Or is it Spider girl?

       Ngayong Buwan ng Wika 2014, ibinabandera ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) ang halaga ng wikang Filipino bilang wikang nagbubuklod sa bansa. Filipino: Wika ng Pagkakaisa ang tema ng pagdiriwang ngayong taon na magtatampok ng mga gawaing pangwika at pangkultura na pangungunahan ng KWF sa buong bansa.

       Sa pamamagitan ng pagsusulat o pagsasalita, ang wika ang pinakamabisang paraan upang maihatid ang kaisipan at mapanatili sa madaling hakbang ang kasaysayan at tala ng sinaunang Pilipino. Sa ganitong pagkakataon, malalaman ng mga kasalukuyang mamamayan ang mga hakbangin na ginawa noong una upang maituloy ito sa mabuting paraan at maiwasan ang mga hindi magagandang pangyayari noon. Ito ang ilaw na magiging tanglaw ng mga Filipino upang mapabuti pa ang mga gawain. Ito rin ang magsisilbing lakas upang maisakatuparan ang mga naudlot na pangarap noong simula pa.

Malinaw na ang wika ay isang mahalagang kasangkapan na ginagamit upang maiparating ang mga nasasaloob na ideya at damdamin ng isang tao. Hindi lamang ito isang paraan ng pakikipag-usap niya sa kapwa kundi ginagamit din niya upang makipagkaibigan, makipagtalakayan at maibahagi ang kanyang iba't ibang opinyon at kaisipan. Sa buong kasaysayan, maraming mga bagay, sitwasyon at pangyayari na tumutukoy sa kahalagahan ng wika sa mga tao, sa kanyang kapaligiran at higit lalo na sa kanyang bansa.Dapat Nating Gamitin ito..