Kannawidan: A Showcase of Culture and Arts

Just after the Vigan City Fiesta, here comes Kannawidan which Ilocanos are celebrating. Kannawidan means "tawid" and they are trying to portray the different culture of Ilocos Sur like the native dances. We are celebrating this event yearly. By this activity or celebration it reminds us that we inherited this cultural dances to our ancestors so, we must take good care of it and improve it. We are now living in a modernize country so we must not forget those cultural dances and our traditions because these are one of our identity here in Ilocos Sur. We have a lot of traditions and because of that, Ilocos Sur became famous.                                                  

In our place, Ilocos, we Ilocano have different and very unique products. In every municipality in our province, they have their very own products and some of them are can be exported in the other places. And this is the reason why tourists were attracted in our places not only for the historical places that can be seen in our region. And during January 31 until February 6, Ilocano celebrate the KANNAWIDAN YLOCO FESTIVAL to much more introduce the products that are made by the artistic and creative hands of Ilocanos. And this is the main purpose why they are celebrating Kannawidan Yloco Festival. Kannawidan Ilocos Festival means feast of practices in Ilocos. 

                                                    

Kannawidan is very important also because through this Kannawidan Ilocos Festival, we are preserving and sustaining our old traditions, attractive products and practices to promote our tourism industry that redound for the increase of the demand of our products, create more job opportunities and generate more income. Therefore kannawidan is a unique festival.

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New Year, New Me.

8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 … HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

            It is a part of our tradition to celebrate New Year. It is the time for us to bid goodbye to 2013 and say hello to 2014. Some of the Filipinos will celebrate this event by making noise, lighting up the sky with fireworks, filling our stomach with food and many more. But the most important thing for me to do for now is to change. To change for the BETTER and not for the WORSE, right? We can’t deny that we have made some resolutions for this New Year. But is it matter if we make our resolutions every New Year? For me, it doesn’t matter . You can change your bad attitudes anytime of the year. There’s no need of making those resolutions on paper if you can do it. As I had observed, I didn’t change a lot. Maybe some of my attitudes changed but I think it change for the worse and not for the better. This year, I used to make my home works at school instead of doing it in our house. I also used not to submit my requirements on time. But as we look onto the bright side, I became more sociable. I learned how to voice out what I feel.  But my goal for this year is to spend more time on the things/ persons that are important to me – my family and studies. I want to focus my attention on them and lessen in using gadgets. This year, I’ll try to study harder so that I can be able to achieve my dreams in life and most of all I’ll try to change my improper lifestyle so that I can be able to have a desirable figure.

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I just don't like it. I love it

"Every second counts."

Time tends to move faster and faster. And, I’m finding hard to catch up with it. Three-fourths of my last year in high school had ended. Eight months of laughter, gimmicks, and trips will soon come into an end and it will be just a part of my sweet memories. It is very hard to accept that I am about to leave the four corners of the room where I spent most of my time with friends, IV-Maxwell. Life is just like a coconut tree. Despite of the different phenomena, the coconut tree stays strong. Like for example, in life, we all know that it is filled with menace and frustrations. We don’t know what will happen next but the only thing that we can do is to keep on going.

I was asking myself “Did I make the most out of this time? Most especially, that I have only one quarter left to stay in high school.” This grading period gives me more knowledge in making a webpage. Because it’s teaches us how to create a links to the webpage that we had already done. And most especially, I find myself easily in making our project because it helps me in making of the different the exercises that we had done in the last grading period. And in this grading period, it gives me a lot of improvement because I submitted my project on time and also my draft I posted it on time and not doing it on rush not just like what I am doing in the past grading period. And now I think I had improved myself from the first grading period up to now. So thank God I make it!

 Moving on, I will still try more harder to achieve higher. Listening to every instructions of my teacher will help me do that. I wish I will acquire more knowledge about blog next grading period.

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Responding to Climate Change. . . . . . . . .

" Once you damage the environment, it will take a long period to recover. " ~ Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.

GREEN Your Community
BE ENERGY EFFICIENT
TRIM Your Waste
Let Polluters PAY
Get INFORM
Get INVOLVE
SUPPORT and DONATE!

 Are you conscious of what’s happening nowadays? Different problems are striking our life like economic crisis, crime, corruption, global conflicts, wars and of course the most dangerous scenario that may totally damage one’s life is the climate change.

            Obstacles and problems to human had been brought by the climate change or the so-called global warming. Evidently, global warming is the measurable augment in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses. Scientists consider that Earth is currently facing a period of rapid warming brought on by rising levels of heat-trapping gases, known as greenhouse gases, in the atmosphere.

            One of the reasons why we are now experiencing climate change is because we are not taking good care of the environment. We keep on doing such things that can damage Mother Nature. Birds cry for they are doomed to die. What would become of humanity now? A forest takes in carbon dioxide and takes out oxygen for humans that are needed for the humans to survive. What will happen if trees will stop breathing? What could humans do? Surely, they will suffer then dies

            Many people are concerned that we are losing time to make a difference. Climate Change and its effects may be irreversible. Life could become very difficult for some populations, plant, animal and human. Species, cultures, resources and many lives could be lost.

            We must unite to stop illegal doings for we are one people, one planet, one earth. We must all remember that God gave us Mother Nature to give it care and love. We can help Mother Nature to boost back her greatness and magnificence. We should now respond to the challenge of controlling and preventing global warming

     
       

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LOVE: REAL ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS

            Gifts are things that can make others happy. It is not so much the size or the quality that counts. Rather, it is the thought that matters. A gifts is a symbol of love, of thoughtfulness, and a sign of one’s thankfulness in return for the good done.        

             Christmas is the season when we celebrate the first coming of the Lord as the Savior. He is the Promised Messiah. He is the Son of God who became incarnate. This means He became human like us. He is like us in everything except sin.

            The day of the Savior’s birth is called Christmas which means “Christ-with-us.” The Savior chose to be born poor in a manger in a humble city of Bethlehem. He was visited by the poor shepherds who were then watching their flock by night. The angels and the poor shepherds were the first visitors.

            This was the first coming of Jesus as a savior to fulfill His Father’s plan of salvation. This was the first Christmas.

            Every year the Church celebrates the Christmas season to recall the birth of Our Lord. After the four-week preparation in Advent, we rejoice at His coming. We believe that He came to bring us Light for we have been in the darkness of sin. But now he came to be our Light. He brings us joy because He is the gift to the Father when He comes again.

            During Christmas, we make everyone happy especially the poor people. We remember them most because Jesus loves them most. Whatever we do to them, we do it to Christ. We give gifts to one another as a sign of love and to give joy to one another.

            Jesus expects that we do not only make others happy but he wants that we become a light to others. By being good, kind, and generous to others, we make others see the goodness and kindness of God. By our good examples, we can lead others to lead good lives. By sharing out time to make others happy, we are giving them hope that life is not that bad at all and that we can be happy despite of difficulties in life.

            Christmas is the time when we commemorate the birth of our Lord. Before the feast, we have the nine days novena called the Simbang Gabi or the Misa de Aguinaldo. On the eve of the last day of the novena is the midnight mass to commemorate the time when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. We also have the “Dawn Mass” when we recall the first visitors of the Infant Savior. Then we have the “Morning Masses” when the whole nation come to adore and worship the Savior. This is the reason why this birth of the Lord is called Christmas.

            Every celebration of the Mass is Christmas because Christ is present among us. He is also present among us. He is also present to us in the Eucharist. And above all, He is present in each and every one of us especially among the poor people.

            We make our celebration joyous with Christmas songs and Christmas carols. Through these songs we are filled with joy that motivates us to accept others with love and joy. This the spirit poured on us by Jesus who came to be the Light of the world.

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From Babel to Babble . . . Everyone is Speaking English

         For the past few years, the English language conceded the million-word mark. That shouldn't come as a surprise since over a billion Earthlings speak English that makes for a lot of word-coiners out there. And where are all these new words coming from? Hollywood? Technology? In the Internet? Youth speak? How do world events--from tsunamis and hurricanes to political doublespeak and presidential linguistic bumbling--influence the words we use on a daily basis? What do e-mails, text messages, and emoticons contribute to the language? Let me take this opportunity to take you into a global tour of English-speaking worlds. From different countries like Japan, China, Philippines, Singapore to Spain, U.S and Greece. From movies, film, radio, games, business, politics, sports, technology and science. And from every contributor that contributes to the universal embroidery of English. Get ready for a tumultuous tour of our progressive global culture and how it becomes that way.           

          According to what I have read online.  Podcast, Chinglish, truthiness, and crunk were nonsense to most English speakers just a year or two ago. But nowadays, they are just popping up in everyday conversation worldwide. In a statistics where it says “Stimulated by the universality of the Internet-where it is the de facto lingua franca-and the global reach of its media, English is growing at a rate unprecedented in its 1500-year history. Indeed, in the spring of 2007, the English word count surpassed a million—over ten times the number available in French”. This only means that the English language is globally affected by the modern technology like the internet. Because of the modern technology, people are also having new lingo. But as we discover new language, we’re also deteriorating our proficiency in English. Like for an example, the Jejemon style or the Jeje Monster style is now invading the texting world. Instead of using the right word, people do use of Jejemon words which can be a huge factor in the deterioration of our English proficiency. Maybe those people just want to express their creativeness but they should limit it.   

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EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

           

          Galatians 3:28, “There is not a male and female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ. Let us follow the example of God, to be perfectly fair and just at all times.

          

          It is fact that there’s only one Creator who made all the things and living organism on Earth and created us, human beings. We are so exceptional and blessed for we were given that high standard of thinking ability which was not given to other creations. "We are all born naked and no one is born with clothes." Do you know what it means? It means that we are all born equal and no one is superior to the other. He created us equally so that we can continue and go on with this journey of life. We all have equal rights and opportunities whether you are rich or poor, thin or fat, man or woman, or even young or old. We were all once born in this world and given an equal chance for us to write our own story of our life.  He didn't want inequalities among each of us.

          All of us have the right to learn and expand our knowledge about everything. All of us have the right to love and be loved. All of us have the opportunity to be successful in life. All of us have our rights and opportunities and no one have the right to take it from us.   

          But ever since, discrimination has always been a part of our culture. Let’s return back to the time long ago before women were discriminated. Women were not permitted to study; they stay at home and just do the household chores. It’s good that today at our times there is what we call gender equality and gender awareness. Now, women are free, nobody holds them by the neck and they can fly as high an eagle could even soar.

          In the other hand, discrimination always invades. During these days, people are classified into classes according to the financial status which should not be. Rich people look at poor people lower as them. They are showing them that they are much higher and can buy or eat everything they want. We are all people. Even if they’re rich, they do not have the right to step on the rights of poor people. Look at what is happening now about the Pork Barrel Scam. Our government allotted a house for the criminal Janet Napoles even if she stole a large amount of money.  They should treat her the way they treat those criminals on the prison. This must not prevail in our country.

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