listening

am i a good listener?
this is the question that pops into my mind every time i hear the word listen. i understand listening by understanding what you hear from the speaker. i am more likely correct because of the reason that we discussed it in English one class last Tuesday.

ms. Siriban explained that when you listen you should do at least 5 things. these things are: receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding. with this being the basis of being a good listener, i think i can say that i am a good listener. i can say this now, because, i always listen to problems, be it my friends or politic problems. i try and find solutions inside my head. and now that i know that some girls doesn't always want answers for their problems, i would just keep it to myself. i learned that from my professor in English one.

thanks ma'am.. :)

anyway, i know now that i am a good listener to problems. but i think that i can still improve my being a good listener by trying to look at the topic in the speakers point of view. i think that by doing that, i can also be more of a good speaker. i can still improve my listening skills and that i am but another person who wants to improve his listening and speaking skills. so, i would do anything to improve them.

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anime frenzy

anime anime anime. so cool, they are. happy, they make me. all, i like. none, i hate.

ha ha. that was just to see if i can still do the Yoda grammar. ha ha. happy. anyway it is all about anime, this blog is(Yoda possessing me again!). anime's are just cartoons, that is what adults think, except for the special few who create the anime and the people who haven't lost their inner child in them. ha ha. funny, but the anime is really awesome to watch. you can still learn a lot of things by watching them.

animes have philosophical meaning in them. i guess you should watch it again and try and get the meaning. for example, FMA(Full Metal Alchemist) has a philosophy in it and it is alchemy. if alchemy existed now, we would have no problem with a lot of things. for example, using alchemy could solve the hunger problem around the world. that is one, war can be stopped and because of it, no more people would die for the sake of the greed of anybody.

i challenge you to find the philosophical meaning in every anime you watch. ha ha.

i just wanted to share this. ha ha. because it just suddenly came to my attention that it is cartoons, but they are cartoons that you can learn a lot from. although it shows a lot of violence, you will still learn a lot from them.

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comparison of high school to college

it seems just like yesterday that we were all in one classroom sitting and waiting for the teacher to come in. ha ha. but i guess that those days are now over. it is time for us to move from one classroom to the other to attend class. anyway, that being said, i would like to reiterate that college is very very much different than high school.

i can say this now because we were 'spoon-fed' during our high school days and that they said that they were preparing us for college life, they failed. that is for me, i guess all my other classmates are doing fine in college and that i am the only one to be failing algebra and PE. this is really embarrassing for me to say but PE is easy, that is what i thought, until i met the topic in PE that made me fail. ha ha. a lot of things can happen in college. it wouldn't be nice if the professor is absent. unlike in high school. in high school when the teacher is absent, they would be a substitute teacher. in college you wouldn't have one. the prof will just get your attendance and it is your time already.

high school was fun, i admit, but for me, college is much better. in college you cant go around making a fool of yourself and being the 'boss' or 'siga'. although it is fun, you have a lot more responsibilities than in high school. you might meet enemies along your way and a lot of friends.

a word of advice to the incoming freshmen college, be friendly. don't be a snob and think you can make it through college without friends, you cannot. you are lucky if you find friends who stand by your side in good times and bad times. like my friends. ha ha. i love my friends in la salle. they are cool!

anyway, that's that. ha ha. i hope a lot of people who read this can follow the advice. well, i don't know if it will work for you, but it did for me. so i say it. ha ha.

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a place

loud noises can be heard just outside of the room. you can hear the voices shouting in astonishment and joy. you can hear there voices shouting like kids, shouting as if there was someone asking another someone in public to marry him. in short, the shouting was full of 'yihee's'. i know that some of them were just shouting like that because of the performance they just witnessed. in utter amazement they were all shouting.

i went to the room to see what was happening. upon reaching the door closest to me , i could see benches, and on top of the benches, i could see bags, bulky bags. some of the benches have wet t-shirts on top and still other benches have rubber shoes. i could see people sitting on the benches that are unoccupied by bags, t-shirts, and shoes. i could make out some of the voices. i knew that one of the voices belonged to Carlito Gonzales.

upon entering the room i was called by some of my friends which were sitting just beside the window. come to think of it, there were a lot of windows inside this room, this rooms ceiling is 2 times higher than the normal classroom. i examined it more closely and then noticed that there was no air con or even electric fans. this is weird because, normally, rooms have air cons, and, even if they didn't have air cons, at least an electric fan. by the way, this room was so big, at least three classrooms put together.

i could hear all my friends shouting because of the ongoing rally being showed. in this room you will see a lot of lines, although they are separated, you can still make out the figure they are making. it forms a rectangular shape, with a lot of the lines were over lapping each other.

people were shouting much louder because the opponent missed the shot and his opponent got the score. although they were shouting, i could hear the person who got the point shout 'yes!'. both of the players were holding a racket clasped on there right hand. apparently, the game was over and they both went to the middle of the court and, above the five foot net, they shook each others hands as a sign of respect, and to say that there were no sore losers during the game.

i guess, you know now what room i am talking about, don't you?

..why am i in school..

i am in school because i like to learn new things and meet new friends while i'm at it. in school i am also being prepared to become a responsible human being. i go to school for my parents who love me so much and i go because they want me to have a good future. but, i tell you now, even if they do not ask me to go to school i will surely insist them to enrol me for school. i dont know why but i like learning new things.

i am studying, like what i said earlier, to be prepared of what is ahead of me in the near future. i also have the task to handle our family business when everyone else is too old and cranky to continue handling it. i take studying as a burden for me, but i shouldnt be taking it for granted, should i? i know a lot of kids in the world doesnt have the privelage to go to school like i do and now that i realize it, i wouldnt like to have some hindrance from me and my school. this is because, i like my school very muh. here, i can talk to my friends and ask for there help in some things i do not know about.

i also like DLSU-canlubang because it is surrounded by trees and green stuff which is calming and a very nice studying place.

this is why i go to school. although not all my answers are direct to the point, i guess you could understand.

Comparative Analysis

shaman king opening theme song (northern lights):






hunterXhunter opening theme song (Ohayo):






Full Metal Alchemist opening theme song (ready, steady, go)






what they all have in common is, although it is obvious, that they are all coming from anime shows, for example, northern lights comes from the anime show 'shaman king', ohayo is the song of the show HunterXHunter, and ready, steady, go comes from Full Metal Alchemist.

shaman king song (northern lights) - although it is in Japanese, you can understand its meaning by the video. in the video, it shows how much yoh asakura(main character) had to do so that he would be able to defeat his rival hau asakura(his evil twin brother). it can also be seen in the video that yoh asakura, along with his friends ends up defeating his evil twin.

HunterXHunter (Ohayo) - it is shown in this video that the anime is all about the friendship they have with each other and that nothing can keep them apart. they became so bonded together that whatever their friend is in trouble, they would go to him and help him. no matter what. they end up going to greed island and they are looking for something that one of their friends need to find his father.

Full Metal Alchemist (ready, steady, go) - this talks about Edward elric(the main character) and his brother Alfons elric. there journey is to find the philosophers stone that is needed, so they say, to bring back the dead. they end up encountering a lot of military people who lets them become a soldier. it is very very interesting to watch and you would really get into it.



speaking about the music videos, my favorite is ready, steady, go. this is because it almost tells the things that the elric brothers will go through. unlike hunterXhunetr's theme song that only shows the four of the friends closely bonding together. and just like the FMA's theme song, i like the shaman king's theme song. i like it because it shows their trials for them to achieve their goals and for them to defeat their enemies.

i exceptionally like the theme song of full metal alchemist, second would be shaman king, and lastly would be hunterXhunter.

welcome to my mind =(

i define dying as a loss of someone who you love dearly. in short dying for me is having to break up with the perfect woman or having to watch your father die in the middle of the night. that is dying for me.

i feel like i am dying all over again. i know i haven't got much time left before she kills me again but i don't think i would want to die again after i died three times for her.

i know my friends keep on telling me that i do not deserve her and that i should forget about her and whatever relationship we had. but i say to all of you, you do not know how much i love her. i am very sorry for having done what i did and that i am always here for my friends. but the question i am asking myself now is, till when will i be here for my friends? till i die, maybe. i wish i was never me. i wish that i was somebody else for a change. i don't know why i am like this. however i try to change, i simply cannot change for anybody.

i know people take me for granted, and i don't like it one bit. but whatever happens i will always be here for them. i just don't know why is it that i am being taken for granted when i value my friends so much. i would gladly take my own life for a true friend.

a true friend.. does it really exist? do i even have one? if a true friend is described as someone who takes you for granted, then i have a lot of true friends. why should i love my friends who take me for granted? i don't deserve them. i believe i am doing the best i can to be a good friend to everyone.

i have a lot of friends, 2 of them became my girlfriend and one of them ended up killing me. though she may say that i am the one who keeps hurting myself, i don't believe her. because if i do hurt myself, i would gladly kill myself.

"all good things come to an end"

how true.. for me, and for almost everybody i know believes in this statement. i tell you all now, i have a lot of problems, none of them i could think of consciously, but i know that at the back of my mind i am trying hard to fight the urge to commit suicide.

i may be weird for other people, i maybe smart to some, i may even be cool to the few, but i see myself as a boy who nobody cares about. that is how i see myself. i don't even think that my real problem is the girl, i think my problem is myself. i don't know why i am like this but a lot of people like my personality.(i think)

but who cares about the 'other people' shouldn't everyone just care about themselves. i don't think that people should become popular just to win other people's attention, but i think that everyone should be of equal importance to anyone. i don't treat people for what there status in life is, i treat them the way i should be treating them. i was never fond of people arguing about me, of what i should have and shouldn't have. i am happy with what i have.

i thik i act like this today because of what happened to me when i was i kid...

i was never the popular kid in school. i was the kid who didnt care what the other kids thought about him. i knew back then that it would have some effect when i grow up. and guess what, i was right. i was the one always being teased at school, you would think that i am this bully when i was a kid, but you would be wrong. i was a pushover when i was in schol and i was never the popular one. i never took vengance to the people who teased me and made my childhood a living hell because i know that it would be wrong.

being an only child you would think that i got all the attention i needed. you would do good to think again. i rarely asked my parents for anything. i dont think they know but there were times when i was really envious of my nephew because he always got everything he wanted. in short, he was spoiled by his parents. i dont know why but i guess my mind was a bit advanced when i was 5 yrs. old. i can say this because i knew that my parents cant afford the things i wanted and that i, saving my breath and salive, didnt bother to ask them. because deep inside i knew what there answer is going to be. it would be: 'nak, wala pa tayong pera eh. next time nalang kapag nakaipon na tayo.'

back then i already understood what they were saying unlike the other children around our neighborhood. i was always the sort of child who would think twice before i would do something. i would think about the consequences if i did that thing.



*this are just random thoughts. you can just not mind it.*