blog # 13

Phantom of the Opera is a wonderful play. A play filled with mystery, wonders, thrillers, comedy, and a bit of tragedy. More words are required to describe such a wonderful play.

The play was beautifully written and organized. The actors were amazing. They played out their roles with so much grace and elegance. Their voices were load yet gentle, fierce yet audible. You will feel the emotion of each character and will know what they were thinking. The music was spectacular. It matches with the atmosphere of the play and is ever changing like liquid. Soft and divine at the same time load and proud. The cast really did a great job performing, playing, and prepping for the play. I would say that I was stunned and it instantly caught my attention from the start.

The story was really amazing. It focuses on Christine, an aspiring actor and singer for the play, being tormented (or guided) by the infamous “Phantom of the Opera.” The way she started and the way she resolved her problem with the phantom was superb. It started out with Christine being a singer. She could hear The Phantom whispering through while she was alone in her room. She was being guided and also being thought. She referred to the phantom as “The Angel of Music” because of his beautiful voice. However, The Phantom was slippery as a snake. He tried kidnapping Christine and making her his wife and own angel of music. Once Christine figured out the truth to what kind of person the phantom is, she began to resist and seeked help to her fiancé. It all adds up to a confrontation between Christine and The phantom. She was given a choice. To let her fiancée live and stay forever with the phantom or let him die. In the end phantom was the one deciding their fate. He had a change of heart and has accepted who Christine’s true love is.

A wonderful story it was and I would really like to watch it again. You would learn a lot from the play. Loyalty, Bravery, being courageous, and learn the true meaning of love through music.

Blog # 14

Plagiarism is one of the most common acts of thievery that most people do on purpose or by accident.

What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone’s work and idea by copying it and stating that it was your own work. This may cause a lot of problems. Plagiarism inspires laziness, lack of creativity and originality, and lack of credit is given to the original author of the plagiarized work.

Plagiarism promotes laziness because it lets someone do nothing but copy other people’s work and nothing more. The person who plagiarizes other people’s work tends to be lazier and less productive. In other words, plagiarism is an easy way out in doing one’s assignment or work. They gain and learn nothing from said actions and in some worse cases; plagiarism may become their usual routine in doing important tasks and assignments.

Plagiarism makes people less productive and creative. If students always use plagiarism on their homework and research papers, they would learn nothing, and if they do, it will only be a small amount of knowledge. For those students who avoids plagiarism, their assignments and research are more unique than those who uses plagiarism. Not only that, compared to those who uses plagiarism, those who don’t use plagiarism would find their vocabulary more diverse.

Not enough credit is given to owner. Everyone would agree that they would feel sad if someone stole their money and belongings especially if it’s hard earned. Same goes to essays, poems, speeches, and almost any other documents found in the internet or any other sources. The author deserved that acknowledgement from the readers and listeners because they poured in their blood, sweat, and tears in making those wonderful work of art. And if you just take their work without stating who created it and you claiming it as your own, it would be very disrespectful for the author and you will be depriving the credit he/she deserves.

Blog # 12

Zombadings, a great movie with a very funny and entertaining atmosphere. It has the ability to crack a joke in the big screen without actually hurting someone else's feelings.  The movies ability to make so many jokes that are still appropriate for the audience and also have the ability to maintain its story line while still doing all the jokes and shenanigans.

Our story begins with Remington when he was a child. He teased an old person who is actually gay. The old man who is actually gay cursed Remington for teasing him. The curse was that Remington would turn gay on his 21st birthday.  In the movie, we follow a 20 years old Remington struggling to control himself from turning gay. He had to cover up so many times so that the girl he loved won’t figure out at the same time trying not to have feelings for his male best friend. The way he’s trying to fight his feelings and trying so hard so that his crush won’t figure out that he’s gay was so well played. Not only that, he was also trying to hide from a serial killer who is just hunting gay people.

The storyline of the movie was already great however; they also included zombies to the equation. These zombies are not ordinary zombies; they are the killed gay people. Whosoever gets bitten by these zombies will turn gay as well. The way that they inserted the zombies in the film was so smooth that you will actually see the connection of the serial killers action to the rising of the zombies.

In the end, Remington had to face the killer. The killer has a weapon that has the ability to detect a gay person. Not only that, the weapon can shoot lasers that can burn the person. He eventually won the confrontation but the curse wasn’t broken. His father sacrificed himself so that Remington would not be gay. It was a happy ending for everyone even for his father that was understood by his mother.

All in all, I would say it was a great movie. The way how they showed Remington’s situation and how they solved the solution was amazing. The actors also did a great job playing their characters.  

Blog #11

The Aspiring Author

Kerima Polotan Tuvera

Born on the 16^th of December 1925, Kerima Plotan Tuvera was an award winning Filipinofiction writer, essayist, and also a journalist. A few numbers of her stories was pseudonym under the name of “Patricia S. Torres.”

She was born in Jolo, Sulu. Her christened name was Putli Kerima (where Putli means princess). Her mother teaches home economics and her father was an army colonel. Because of her father’s frequent re assignments, she lived in various places and studied at different schools.

She graduated from the Far Eastern university Girl’s High School. In, 1944, she decided to enroll at the University of the Philippines School of nursing, however,  the battle of manila put a halt to her studies. In 1945, she continued her studies at the Arellano University. She attended the class of Teodoro M. Locsin. She edited her first issue of the Arellano Literary Review. She worked with Your Magazine, This week and The Junior Red Cross Magazine.

She has received many awards because of her literary skills. For example, her 1952 short story, The Virgin, won two first prizes: of the Philippines Free Press Litarary Awards and of the Palanca Awards. She also edited an anthology for the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with English and Tagalog prize – winning short stories from 1951 to 1952. In addition to her rewards, her stories, The Trap, The Giants, The Tourists, The Sounds of Sunday, and A Various Season all won 1^st prizes of the Palanca awards.

Her awards shows and proves not only in our country, but also in the world that she is one of the best artists in our time. She never gave up and just went on doing what she loves to do and practiced and homed in on her talents. I can proudly say that she is part of our country’s greatest artist.

Blog # 10

I remember when I fell in love. It was like a dream. I remember this person walking into the front door and also walking into my life.  I have learned a lot from my past experience. The way that person treated me and also how broken I was after we were done. I honestly didn’t know. Why did it happen? Why did this happen to me? And how could I have ever known?

It was amazing until it lasted. The walks on the beach, the endless talks we had, and the way this person treated me.  Love sometimes takes you by surprise, you’ll fall for someone who you least expect it. It all began with one hello, we talked and chatted, we became friends. He started coming over to my house every single day, and I admit, I really liked his company. Then his visits became longer than usual, he would stay at my house for a longer period of time and we would just talk about anything under the sun that would interest us. Those times were amazing, we would just laugh our way through our lives not worrying about anything, and sometimes we would even play the piano together. But everything has an end, even how much you want it to stay.

I didn’t even know, he didn’t tell me. He was an engaged man, I was a mistress, and I can’t believe I stepped down on that level, but yet I still love that person so much. It was up to me to make a choice, I chose to leave, and I needed to be back at my home town anyways, so there’s really no point in staying. Still, I still think about how we could have been. I still think to myself, would I be happier if he stayed beside me?  Or is this for the best? Those questions still lingers in my mind, and they grow even louder each time I think of that person, But I guess it is better to love and have lost than to never had loved at all. 

Blog # 9 The origins of ice cream

Ice cream, we treat this food as a snack or desert, which ever you prefer. Ice cream has been part of our lives and gives it more flavor than we could ever imagine. It has vast numbers of flavors and different designs to satisfy not only our hunger and cravings, but also it looks appealing to our eyes, making it more appetizing. A lot of us have eaten a lot of ice cream in our lives and yet we don’t even know the desert’s origin.

Not much is known about the origin of this delectable desert; the only thing known about its history is that it reaches back as far as second century B.C. With no specific date or inventor. However, it is known the Alexander the Great enjoyed ice and snow flavored with nectar and honey. Biblical references also state that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting.  During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavored with fruits and juices.

After a thousand years later, Marco Polo returned to Italy from the Far East bringing with him recipes that closely resemble that to a sherbet. Some historians say that the recipe for our ice cream today originated from this recipe. In the 1800, ice cream was still very much just for the aristocrats and people with higher rankings until insulated ice houses are invented. In 1851, manufacturing ice creams was started by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell. With the help of the advancement of technology, this sweet flavored desert became more known to us as it reaches stores all around the world with the help of the advancements of cars and trucks as transportation. Refrigerating   systems helps preserve the tasty desert and making it lasts longer in the stores as a stock or for later consumption for us.

Ice creams has gone through a lot of challenges to get where it is now, but it is no doubt that it is one of the most delicious desert ever known for mankind.

Blog #8

 

SoM week is a very memorable event for all the AC, BM, and Tourism students. It is a event that celebrates this particular school of studies. Many events has taken place from this very special week, games, sports, music, and it all ends with a party. It was a very memorable event because we got to know our fellow student in the different blocks and schools, and  also we got to experience our first SoM week for us freshmen.

The SoM week has been a very memorable week for all of us, not only because of the lesser number of classes, but also with all of the memorable events that has happen during this week. It all started with a fun walk. Most of the students participated in the walk and eve though some of us find it hard, I still think that it was a great way to start of the week because it symbolizes of how proud the SoM students are and that they are not afraid to show it. The way the students proudly showed how proud they were while walking down the Magallanes street was very heart warming. After the walk around magallanes st., we all witnessed the amazing dance group of our school and their breathtaking perofrmance. We have also witnessed our beautiful and handsome contestants for the Mr. and Ms. SoM. Yes, the beginning of the week was very exciting and full of life and excitement, but the rest of the week was also very exciting. seminars, games, olympics, and bands performance happened all around the APC campus. This is surely an event to remember and I cant wait for the next SoM week with new events to happen. The rest of the week was filled with plentyful events such as the olympics, seminars, band music, and the pageant for Mr. and Ms. SoM. The entire week was full of joy and excitement and i hope that the next event will also be as exciting as this one.