Kids nowadays

I, as a kid, still experienced the joy of playing street games especially, marbles, "patintero", "paunpaun", slipper game, etc.. But nowadays, kids don't even want to go out of their way to play. They just sit on a couch and play computer the whole day. These is how technology creates many couch potatoes.

When I was still a kid, I really enjoyed playing street games. I even sneak out of the house just to play them knowing that I would get scolded later. Playing these games made me happier that time. But now, through the influence of computer and television, I only go out to play once a week. I just face the computer and do everything I want with it. I would get tired of going out of the house. Television also influenced me in they way I interact with my friends. We sometimes imitate television actors just for fun, but some of their actions are never forgotten. One of these actions is how we talk to each other. I am proud to say that my parents raised me up as a good child but media influences me in a bad way. I would sometimes forget my parent's teachings and imitate the actor's bad tongue.

What I could to media is that it is bad influences to kids raised as angels although there are also parts of the media that is influences a kid in a good way. Technology is also the reason why the kids are getting lazier every generation. Seven-year old kids nowadays are already playing computer the whole day. When I was still seven, I haven't even touched a computer. I played always played games outside the house.

The City of Majestic Waterfalls

In the Philippines, there are cities that catches the eye of the foreigners. One of them is the City of Iligan. Iligan also called "The City of Majestic Waterfalls" is a must visit city of Mindanao. You couldn't finish visiting all the tourist spots in just a day. I assure you if step on Iligan, you wouldn't regret it. 

Iligan City is found in the Northern part of Mindanao. Its area is more or less 81,000 hectares. It has 44 barangays containing about 300,000 people. This city was the former capital of Lanao del Norte because of its high earning industries. It has 11 major industries; PGMC-Iligan, Iligan Cement Corporation, Pilmico Foods Corporation, Global Steelworks International Inc., Petronas Energy Phils Inc., etc.

In Education, Iligan City has a popular university namely, MSU-IIT (Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology) which is the top seven of all the universities in the Philippines. MSU-IIT has two colleges that are centers of excellence which is a high ranked college. A college that is a center of excellence is considered to be a college of international standards. Even though other colleges are not centers of excellence they could still be compared to some outstanding colleges of universities in Manila (Capital of the Philippines). There are many other examples of outstanding schools in Iligan. La Salle Academy and St. Michael's College are also schools with high rankings.

Iligan City also known as "The City of Majestic Waterfalls" because of the abundant number of beautiful waterfalls found in the city. The most amazing waterfall of them all, which is considered the highest waterfalls in the Philippines is the Maria Cristina Falls(picture on the left). This waterfall is amazing in the picture but when you see it personal, you would be stunned of it's magnificent features and its power. Even from a considerable distance, you could still feel the droplets of water reaching you. Because of its power, it is already used to generate electricity by using turbines. That's why the Maria Cristina Falls, together with the Tinago falls, is a must see tourist spot of Iligan City though swimming isn't allowed you would still enjoy the sight of the waterfall.

Another magnificent waterfall is the Tinago falls. From the word Tinago(Visayan term for hidden) it is found in the depths of a hill. You wouldn't regret your long journey to this falls because when you find it, you would be amazed of its sight. You aren't allowed to swim at the Maria Cristina Falls but here, you can even experience the power of the falls. You can use a raft which leads you to the center of the falls. The experience of being showered by a powerful waterfall is very refreshing. It takes away all your problems for a moment that you wouldn't want to leave.

















Aside from waterfalls, the City is also known for its amazing pools. The Timoga pools of Iligan are known all throughout Mindanao and even to some parts of Luzon and Visayas. These pools are using flowing water that's why when you dive into the pool, the refreshing feeling of the water makes you more energetic. It doesn't use any chlorine or any other chemicals applied to pools in other cities. Slides, diving boards, olympic-size pools, are available here. The fun will never cease if ever you come in.


Now, I hope you would visit Iligan City. You can experience many amazing things in this city. Things that you haven't experience ever before. You will never regret your trip here, you may even think in coming here again next time.

#7 Iron man's Courage

I always watch movies that are related to Marvel. Marvel is a comic series that contains many superheroes and super villains. When a new Marvel movie comes out, I will always watch it before the day ends. Marvel always intrigues me because of their super powers and other superhuman abilities. Marvel is also interesting because of the new arrivals of superheroes.

The latest Marvel movie that caught my attention is the “Avengers”. This movie contains many super heroes; they are Iron man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, Hawk eye and Black Widow. These heroes formed an alliance to stop the plan of Thor’s brother, Loki. Loki’s plan was to form a portal to let the army of aliens attack earth.

My favorite part of the story concerns about Iron man, so I want to introduce him to you first. He was the member of the Avengers that made the movie lively. He always cracks a joke when the mood becomes gloomy. He didn’t have super powers but his intelligence, together with his money, gave him the ability to create weapons that were powerful enough to fight enemies. His best invention was his own armor or suit that has many abilities. He can do many amazing things when he is wearing his suit like flying, shooting missiles, and emitting fire.

There was a part in the story that a missile was launch to destroy the city that was being attacked by the enemy. This missile had the power to destroy the whole city. When Iron man knew about this, he used all of his remaining energy in catching up to the missile and leading it inside the portal including him. I like this part because he didn’t even think twice in doing this which could even sacrifice his life. He decided to give up his life for the many lives he could save. His courage is what I admired most in the movie.

#5 MingMing

I had an experience of watching IPAG theater performance when I was still in high school. The title of the performance was Suhi. When I was watching Suhi, At first I didn't understand the story because of many exchanges of conversations and point of views. But when the story progressed, I began to understand the story. My experience in watching Suhi was the same when I was watching the MingMing performance also by IPAG. This story was very hard to understand. Even at the last part of it, I was still not sure of what the story was all about. I just understand that the story was about a muslim family in the Japanese occupation period who had family problems.

I want to explain everything that happened in the performance. At first, when the performance was still not starting, there were two persons who were laughing and shouting and acting at the side of the stage. I realized that they were part of the show since they were dressed all white and had tattoos all over their faces. I assumed that they were representing deities or gods that the people in the story were believing in. I sometimes get frightened because of their reactions. They were just by my side and they have really weird voices and movements. They didn't stop acting until the show started. Now they were the ones who initiated the show. They went to the stage and then I noticed that there was a person, covered in white cloth, lying on the floor. There were also people sitting on the table. I think they were a family. The deities took of the cloth from the person lying on the floor and the person was a young girl. The young girl slowly stood up and the show started.

The family was discussing issues about marriage. The one's discussing were an aged man, a woman, and an aged woman. The young girl was just like a spirit, they didn't notice the girl even though she was already shouting just to let them notice her. The man was telling the woman to marry someone she doesn't want to because he was very ugly. They forced him until she finally gave in. She married the man but they didn't last long because she found out that her husband was sort of gay. Her husband was always with boys, doing sweet things. So she left her husband and went to another place were she met this a guy that she fell in love with. The guy was a professor of a institute. She like the guy because he was good-looking and the guy had naughty hands. After quite a while, the woman got pregnant. When she returned home, the old woman and old man were very angry with. They punished her through their own arms but they didn't abort the child. The child was named Mingming.

All throughout the story the young girl from the start was just following this woman, talking, shouting, doing anything just to make this woman notice her. But that didn't even let the woman even glance at her. It was as though the woman can't see her. So she cried and cried at the corner.

Back at the story of the woman, she left her child with the old man and woman so that she could work at another place. After sometime, the japanese attacked their place and they were forced to evacuate their area. But they were also wanted because the old man had crimes. So they fled to the mountains. But at the mountains, Mingming was captured. When the woman was informed about this, she cried a lot. She didn't know what to do. Then It was shown in the story that Mingming died due to sadness.

Remember the young girl from the start? She was the one acting in this scene. That's when I realized that the young girl from the start was Mingming. That's when I understand the story. After the story was performed, It was still explained by the leading man and the story writer. The story was very hard so understand but when you understand it, you can really say that it had a very interesting story.

#4 A day as a College student

Before sharing my story, I want to start by sharing what I had encountered during my early days as a college student. Even though it was still summer, I was very excited of the thought of finally becoming a college student. I was excited of the new things to come, new friends, new environment, and a new school lifestyle. Since I’m already a college student, there are many adaptations to make. One of them is how to spend your free time. I was already trained in high school that I would have a class from 7:30 am – 5:30 pm but in college, there are many lapses in between classes. I didn’t know what to do in those times. But I just spent it by hanging out with my friends, doing anything that’s fun. We spent most of our free time at a internet café, playing dota(A strategic computer game). This made me more addicted to the game. If we wouldn’t play, we would just get bored and won’t feel energetic in coming to class. We also played some ball games to exercise our bodies and not to make us computer geeks. That’s how we spent most of our boring free times.

It was a Tuesday when I went to school, running, because I was almost late. When I reached the room, I was already sweating early in the morning but at least I reached the checking of attendance. Our teacher told us to get a ¼ sheet of paper. I was nervous of the thought that he was going to give us a short quiz about his past lesson. I didn’t have a clue of his lesson because I slept through it. I didn’t even know even one topic of the lesson. The test ended with bad results. I got 1/10 from the quiz and that was depressing. But I was very happy to hear that he wasn’t going to record it because that was just a test if we were really listening to him. At least now, I can be ready for surprises.

After that class, we were supposed to have an English class but we still can’t meet since there was no room for us to use. So now, we have a very long free time, from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. I wanted to go home but I was dragged by my friends to an internet café to play dota. But actually, I really wanted to play. So when they told me to play, I agreed directly. So we played dota until 2:30 pm and after playing we ate our lunch. It was already 2:30 pm so I was very hungry. I ate lunch at a cheap eatery but I bought many foods to fill up my stomach. We waited until it was 4:15 before going back to school for our math class. After the class, we went back to the internet café to play dota again. It was fun playing the game because of the verbal fights between teams.

I ate dinner outside because I still wasn’t satisfied in the game. I wanted to play again after eating. This time I played the game so focused that I only have little mistakes. I was so happy to stay late outside the house just to play dota with my friends. I arrived home at almost 10:00 pm. I was scolded because of coming home late but I was still smiling after. I studied a little before going to sleep so that I would be ready for school tomorrow. Well, that’s how my day ended. And it goes on and on like this till the present time. 

#3 Believing in the Dead

Believing in the dead depends on the person's experiences with it. If the person haven't felt, heard, or seen ghosts, of course they wouldn't believe in them. But in if you have encountered them in anyway, ghosts will always exists at the back of your mind.

In the past, I have always believed in them because my older siblings had told many stories about them. Well, I was still little so I was so amazed at their stories that I was so cautious about ghosts especially at night. But as I grew older, I questioned their stories. Some of them could be true but many of them were very impossible. I thought about how stupid I was to believe in them. Especially the ones that my friends told me. My siblings always scared me that ghosts would be waiting for me outside the gate if I would go out to play. That was the reason I didn't enjoy much of my childhood.

At one point, I stopped believing in them but when I started to feel their presence, I was afraid that they truly exists. My most common experience is when they have fun in teasing me. They hide my things and when you had already searched everywhere and give up, it would just appear at the place that could be easily seen. It makes me angry especially when your in a hurry then when your ready to go, you notice that your cellphone or ID isn't with you anymore. I also had an experience in my room. When I was sleeping early, I woke up at 2:37 am and noticed that someone or something was slowly pulling my blanket off of me. Have you ever felt very curious but too afraid to look at something? That was how I felt. I wanted to know what it was but my body wouldn't listen. I was too afraid to know who or what it was. I just forced myself to fall asleep and take that thought out of my head. There was also a time when I was walking home very late and on my way home I passed through a gazebo and I saw someone, whom I  assumed was a girl because she was sitting like a girl, wearing all black. The only thing I saw was her eyes and when I looked at it clearly she had read eyes and worse, it was looking straight at me. I was stunned for a moment and I ran for it.I kept silent about it because I didn't want my siblings to make fun of me, believing in ghosts or other things.

And now, I still believe that ghosts do exist but I am not that afraid of them like how I was back then. Hearing voices, Feeling strange things, or seeing something wrong, I wouldn't mind them anymore because if you do, they would just like to play with you more until you wouldn't want to be alone at night.

#2 Introducing Myself

Hi! I am Gregel G. Redublado Jr., currently studying in MSU-IIT as an ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering) freshmen student. I live near the campus in Zone 1-B Puroksudlonon Brgy. San Miguel, Iligan City. I graduated as an elementary student at La Salle Academy situated in Iligan and as a high school student at MSU-IIT Integrated Developmental School.

Grade 6 pic 

I'd like to start sharing at my life in grade school. I could only say that my early years in grade school was boring because I spent most of my time at home , library and at the classroom. I didn't have much friends because I wasn't that friendly to people and I get easily irritated when distracted or being picked upon. If they tease me a little, I get annoyed and would pick a fight. I only enjoyed grade school when I was at sixth grade. When I had trustworthy and fun-loving friends. We played basketball, soccer, dota and other things that boys do when they hang out. That's how my life started to become fun.

In my high school life, there were so many ups and downs. In my first year I got addicted into playing dota. For boys, it is normal especially when it's your first time playing the game. It makes you challenge yourself to be better to beat other good players. I found many friends because of playing dota. We had playing the game because it requires strategies that could make you use your head. I got so addicted to the game that I almost forgot about studying. However in my second year, I stopped playing the game because I had a girlfriend. At first we were so happy with each other but in the end we broke up because we don't seem to go well with each other. Well, that's how I got to play dota again. And this time I also wanted to join the basketball team to have an experience in inter school competitions. I am athletic so with luck I got in the team. Everyone should try being in an inter school competition, it boosts your confidence and takes away all the stage fright you have.

In my third year, I found this girl who was very ideal for me. I really liked her but I don't want to share much about it because we didn't end up with each other for so many other reasons. But in this year, I was free to do anything I wanted because no one would tie me up anymore. I enjoyed the year because of new friends and new enemies to look up to. To me, in this year I was very competitive. I challenge some other dota players in playing 1 on 1 and I also wanted to be better than our top scorers in the classroom. In my fourth year, since it was my last year in high school, I gave it my all. I studied hard to have excellent grades, played dota to the max, continued playing basketball, and still have time for family bonding. It was hard balancing everything but I did survived the struggle. It was like doing everything you wanted without relaxing. I would go to school from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm   then play dota from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm and then study from 10:00 pm to 12:00 pm. Then on weekends I would spend my time with my family. This was how my life went. It was hard but it was very fun and exciting. It was very fulfilling when you still have high grades even though you still played dota, played basketball, and would still have time for your family. But I also want to share one part of my fourth year. it was when I had this girlfriend who is till my present girlfriend. I really like her even though she also have many flaws because she makes me smile when I'm down and she really makes my day just being with me. She's very fun to be with and she has this aura that makes me feel comfortable. Her name is Mykhaela Aubry T. Saladaga. I really want to know more about her and I really want to continue living my life with her.

Now that I'm in college, I expect many things. I want to enjoy my life here just like how I enjoyed my life in high school or even better. I still want to give it all because I still want to be a part of the Dean's list students.