A Prayer

Without lips, we cannot smile

Without nose, we cannot smell

Without eye, we cannot see

Without You, we cannot be.

Lord, have mercy on us

Come and please fill our hearts

Fill our lives

Stay with us.

We have sins, we feel pains

We disobey and so we fail

But we help and we care

We love and we share.

Typhoon destroyed the victims' homes

Destroyed their wishes and hopes

And so we pray asking for Your help

And for more strength to stand.

Let them feel Your presence

Let them feel Your love

For new life and hopes

For new beginning and challenges.

Amen.

Ganito Ka rin ba mag-English?

The following is a letter found at a certain bar in Manila and has been preserved in its original, unedited form.

To Marije,

I am not surprised 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 “ Beautiful Girl” 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.

Reaction:
              Everyone of us seems to hate reading this letter because of the grammar including the tenses and the redundancy, the words that the sender used and the meaning of the letter. The letter obviously shows insult, disrespect and pride of what she got and their relationships between Dennis. For me the only purpose of the sender to Marije is to insult and for Marije to know what's wrong to her physical appearance. I also noticed different mistakes such as the wrong used of tenses, grammar, choose of words, etc. Even she committed different mistakes in grammar, the receiver will surely get mad or maybe she will laugh at the letter.

Revision:

To Marije,

I was not surprised why did Dennis leave you. The reason that I thought was because of your very fat body. before I thought that Dennis only use me for his toy but later on, I realized that he really could not be with you anymore because Dennis said that he did not want your attitude particularly whenever he is busy and your habit of calling him in his house about the things he did not want to talk about.
And then he said that he was ashamed to me in school and in his family. then he asked you to exercise your very fat body but you did not listen to him. Though you’re the preetiest girl he knows. What do you think you are, “ Beautiful Girl” of Jose Mari Chan?

Even you have beautiful face, you do not have the right to call me in different name just for you to insult my personality because I never call you in different name in front of Dennis or in the back of Dennis, but if you start to call me in different name, I don’t have choice but to call you in other names too, like you are a PIG, FAT, OBESE, OVERWEIGHT, AND UGLY SHAPE girl.

You cannot blame Dennis for choosing me because I am sexier than you when you look us in the mirror. I repeat that you are like Lozada when she is a girl.

Love,

The sexiest Girl of D.M.

P.S.

You said that I’m the bad girl but who do you think Dennis want to kiss with? You or me? And the answer is me. There you go.

Blogging: My Informal Theme

“A page has been opened on the path to modernization” a simple quote but has a lot of meanings. We have entered a new face of life and world. Just one type, one click and one smile, everyone can learn, everyone can read, everyone can watch and everyone can communicate. Technology is one of the important things to us today. We can do almost everything with these improved equipments, machineries and tools. For me as a student, technology helps me a lot. Blogging is one of the products of a part of today’s technologies. Blogging is also one of the most effective things to do if you want to express your feelings and share your experiences just like our informal theme.

For me, it is a very good idea in making our informal themes as our blogs. It is easy for me to construct a theme or blog compared in manual writing of our themes. It can also be made neatly and I can assure that I construct correct grammars. I can also customize the designs of the page to make it more interesting for the readers. A reader can also post a comment or reaction about the theme or he can also follow the BlogSpot and he can be updated for new blogs to come. It has also an auto save so if the internet connection is gone I can recover my blog.

However, if there are advantages in blogging, there are also disadvantages. First is the person, who does not have internet access, it is difficult for them to construct and for their money to spend for it. Second is that, it is better for the teacher to see his students make and construct their own themes lively for more honest grading system.

          For me, we need to follow the flow of our universal system or our modernization so let us make our life better. But “Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness”