chayn's last blogging entry:))

Last Tuesday, was supposedly the deadline for our Sentence Outline and Note cards. And luckily, Ma’am Lynnie extends it until this week, which is on Tuesday (March 2, 2010). Thank You Ma’am Lynnie! I felt really happy because I haven't checked my note cards if they fit with the outline I already made. At least I still have two days to check, since I'll have consultation on Monday, scheduled from 1:00-1:15 in the afternoon. After my Jeep class, I’ll be going directly to Ma’am Lynnie’s office.


Aside from the extensions of deadline and announcement of consultation hours, Ma’am Lynnie also announced that this will be our last blogging entry. My first blog was on November 17, 2009. I’ve been writing this blog for over three months and it felt great because my grammar and sentence construction are improving…unlike before. It is time for me to live life away from the blogging, to focus on writing my term paper. I cannot imagine I will stop writing, but this is a chapter that needs to end. .I will continue to write maybe in the future, but for now it’s time to say Goodbye. I will miss this-blogging, students who visited my blogging site…but it is time. To everyone, the readers, commenter’s, and to Professor Lynnie DeOcampo…Thank you so much.:)) This will be my last blog entry…for now!


God Bless to all of you! ^^

Tough week:)

Last Tuesday, Ma'am Lynnie announced that she was going to postpone our note-taking and the deadline for our outline to next week. She discussed about the how to write and the right indention of our note cards. After that, she also talked about quoting and paraphrasing in the note cards. Ma’am Lynnie also announced that we had to submit our draft by next Friday. Oh my! How can I do that by one week? Hopefully, I can finish writing my draft before Friday. In addition to our deadlines, we also have a term paper to finish in Filipino and a panel discussion in English 3 for our midterm. It will be a tough week this week!:)) Good luck to me.:))

Last Thursday, Ma'am Lynnie was not around because she was going to a convention at Cagayan de Oro City. But, she had already assigned pair activities for us to do today. Sheldon and I had an assignment about paraphrasing and outlining. In addition to our deadlines, we also have a term paper to finish in Filipino.

Activities to remember :)

This week, we were assigned a topic and tasked to formulate a specific topic, specific claim and thesis statement. Ma'am Lynnie gave few corrections on our thesis statement. The next meeting, our next activity was to make an outline of the topic were assigned. And we were also tasked to comment on another group's sentence outline of their assigned topic. My group, which is group 3, was to comment to the work of group 2 and group 4 will give comments on our outline. We had an impromptu outline and we were all cramming to come up with a suitable sentences for our outline. It is difficult to come up with a good outline when you're not thinking critically and honestly, we really had a hard time on that.


This activity gave me a lesson-that life is easier to handle when you THINK CRITICALLY!:))


God bless everyone! HAPPY HEART'S DAY! LET'S LOVE-LOVE-LOVE:))

Writing in an APA format

This week Ma’am Lynnie gave us a 6th edition of the APA system. We were given a couple of minutes to read through its contents and to familiarize it. Ma'am gave us 2 sets with each set having 4 different books and internet sources, where representative from each group would copy all the details given in the sources. After collecting all the necessary information, the group would give its APA format and write it in a manila paper for five minutes. It was fun and a nerve-racking experience because it was under time pressure. The funniest part was seeing my group mates panic in posting the manila paper on the board for we have only 15 seconds left.:)) We did all finish the activity but sadly we did not get a high score. Hopefully we can do better next time.


Ma’am Lynnie also asked everyone about our specific topic and thesis statement. I was a bit tensed, because after hearing my classmates topic and thesis statement she would then reply “So what?”, and “What is the relevance of that to us-your readers?”. And luckily, I wasn’t questioned like that. She even told me “Ok. Very good.” :) Thank you ma’am. You make my heart jump!


Thank you God for all the blessings! Have a blessed week everyone. Don’t forget GOD LOVES YOU!

Learning blog(Jan 25-29)

Hi blog.

Last Tuesday, Ma’am Lynnie wasn’t around so we went home early. I worked for my sources. Whew! Im so happy to learned that I had 15 sources. And on Thursday, Ma’am Lynnie gave us things to do. Some of these are to bring manila paper, pentel pen and masking tape because we will be having our activity this coming Tuesday. She also told us to write our references in an index card and read page 109 and give the topic, specific topic, specific claim and thesis.

P.S we also had our JPIA Annual Regional Convention. It was fun and a totally different experience for me.

God bless us all. Have a happy week!:)

reaction essay--SHOW OR NO SHOW?

On January 19, 2009, the Senators was supposed to take up a recommendation to censure Sen. Manny Villar for unethical conduct in connection with the C-5 road extension project. But Sen. Manny Villar did not appear. In fact, there was no session at all because 12 senators, including Villar, failed to show up. Some senators, who were absent without any notice, were Senators Edgardo Angara, Joker Arroyo, Alan Cayetano, Manuel “Lito” Lapid and Villar himself. While the others went to an official business like Senators Pia Cayetano, Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., Miriam Defensor Santiago, Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Francis Pangilinan, and Panfilo Lacson. All senators who were absent were allies of Sen. Manny Villar, except Sen. Ping Lacson.

A week before that, The Senate Committee of the Whole issued a report saying that Sen. Manny Villar should be criticize for failing to reveal that his real estate companies benefited from the Las Piñas-Parañaque link road and the C-5 road extension projects. The report said the government spent P6.2 billion on the C-5 road extension project, including the realigned P4.28 billion for the extension project, the P1.8 billion spent for the original project but was wasted due to the realignment, and the reportedly overpriced payment of P141 million in right-of-way for Villar's real estate companies. According to the report, there is a substantial evidence, based from documents and testimonies of several witnesses, including former Adelfa senior VP and general manager Anastacio Adriano Jr., showed that properties owned by Villar's real estate companies that were acquired for the road right-of-way projects were overpriced and given zonal valuation for different areas from the areas where they were situated.

Senate President Enrile also said in his interviews that there was a conflict of interest when Sen. Manny Villar failed to divulge that his real estate companies stood to benefited from the road projects. But in an another interview, Sen. Villar explained his absence in the Senate session. According to Sen. Villar, he refused to appear in the Senate because some members of the panel were his opponents in the presidential race. But for me, not appearing to answer the senate verdict on him because panel members opposed to his candidacy is so shallow and foolish.

learning blog:))

Jan. 18-22, 2010

Last Tuesday, ma’am told us about our preliminary exams. Since a lot of us wasn't able to finish the last part of our test, Ma'am decided not to include it, which is the essay part. After that, she began the discussion on how to write an essay, specifically a reaction essay. She also discussed the basic structure of an essay, kinds of paragraph in an essay, and expanding the essay to make a longer composition.

Ma'am Lynnie told us also to search for at least 10 references that will be very useful for our term paper. And luckily, I was able to find 15 sources. The eleven came from the internet and the four came from books in the CBAA library.

On our next meeting, Ma'am Lynnie wasn't around because she had to go to Marawi for a very important transaction, so she assigned students to collect our assignments and let them conduct a survey. The survey was all about online games since, I don't play online games so I wasn't required to take the survey.

God bless everyone!:)) AJA!!!

learning blog

"A week to remember".


We had done a lot of discussion and activities. After meeting last Saturday (Jan.10, 2009), we continued discussing on sensory word bins, fragments and run-on sentences. Sensory word bin gave me really a hard time.:)) And maybe I should put more effort to that. Like what most people say, "The more you hate, the more you love". :-) Oh well, As I was mentioning early, Ma'am taught as how to correct run-on sentences and to differentiate fragments from a complete sentence.


On January 14, 2009(yesterday), we had our prelim examination. Ma'am Lynnie, according to the guy that substitute Ma'am Lynnie, was busy. We took the exam and had given 1 hour to take it. The guy(Mr. English) told us to extend the time because we started late, but sad to say some of us didn't finish it due to other students, from a different teacher, who will have a class-next to our class(at 12 pm).


And to end this learning blog. I would like to share to you all a message from PETER PAN.:))

"No matter how we try to be MATURE. We will always be a KID when we all get hurt and cry".


Live well, laugh often and love much friends!:)) God bless everyone!

learning blog

In our first meeting this week, which was on Tuesday, Ma'am Lynnie required us to submit a SPECIFIC TOPIC for our term paper that is related to our field. I had a really difficult time in choosing a topic because of many topics to choose from. And finally, I end up to this "The Importance of Accounting System In Business Performance and Management." I hope this will be approved.:)) She also gave the coverage for our upcoming Prelim exam and told us that we will be having a make up class on Saturday(Today) at 3 in the afternoon.

On Thursday, Ma'am Lynnie do a lot of discussion about Descriptive Writing. She introduced to us the different types of descriptive writing and things to avoid in writing, namely Run-on sentence and fragments. She also told us the points to be observed in a descriptive writing, by first creating a main impression, organizing details(Order of importance, chronological order and Spatial order) and lastly using vivid words to make the language more precise and clear to the readers.

God bless everyone!

Descriptive Writing-Travel Brochure

AN ISLAND ESCAPADE

May was a fun month for me. We, together with my father and mother, rode a bus that transported us to Cagayan de Oro terminal. From Cagayan de Oro City it took us one and a half hours to Balingoan, Misamis Oriental, and take any of the hourly scheduled barge across the channels of Mindanao Sea, which dock in either ports of Guinsiliban or Benoni. The barge seems to me as half-century old. But, I couldn't help but appreciate the view of the pear-shaped island from a far. It's so green that gave me a sure impression of how peaceful and virginal our destination will be.

CAMIGUIN ISLAND is said to be Born of Fire. It has seven volcanoes unmatched anywhere else in Southeast Asia. As a matter of fact, the Province has been identified by the Department of Tourism as one of the top 25 tourist destinations in the Philippines, and Number 7 diving spot in the world. After a short ride to Camiguin, we were left with the predicament of traveling 20 km to the capital of Mambajao. We almost waited 20 minutes for the jeepney to fill up. Thankfully we arrived safe and sound to my great grandfather's house. After putting all the luggage, we went out and had an evening meal followed by an early night.

The following day, we rented a multicab to have a pleasant ride at the coastal road of Camiguin and go around the island. I really find the island really charming and clean as we pass its provincial scenery. The First stop was Katibawasan Falls that has been developed into a park and has a minimal fee of Php 10.00. Cemented steps and a few cottages are already placed there. Fortunately at that time, we were the only one at the place. The falls has a majestic height of 250 feet.

After a brief look we decided to take a look at White Island, which is just a sand bar in the middle of the sea. It is sometimes called Alphabet Island as the shape of the sand bar keeps on changing the whole year round depending on the waves and the wind. We went to Secret Cove to have a beautiful view of the island from afar and just outside the resort, there are a number of Sari-sari stores and eateries to eat and buy supplies. It’s also nearby a public market where a number of habal-habals (motorcycles) are waiting to be hired. While we were there, we inquired about the standard of diving on and around the island. Unfortunately, we end up at another location.

From the resort, we drove then to the western tip of the island at Barrio Bonbon where the Sunken Cemetery was found. We timed it exactly on the sunset to get the best light on the place. A huge cross can be found just off shore to mark the location of the community cemetery 20 feet under water that sank when the island volcano erupted. The platform of the large cross was floating and anchored to the sea bed, that's made of concrete. The cross was established as a commemorative gesture for the graves that were lost to the sea. A viewing deck was also constructed at the shore entrance.




We then went on to look at the old Catarman Church ruins, which had also succumbed to the same eruption. Inside the Church are markers and ruined walls. The remains of an Old Spanish church, ruins of adobe walls, belfry and convent are mute witnesses to the wrath of nature. It also allows us a glimpse into the culture of Spanish-era. We decided that it was best to call it a day as drops of rain began to fall and the sun was setting.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION ",)

I would like to share to you all my New Year's Resolution. New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want or need to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.

1. To be Organized.

2. I will give up on eating chocolates. Maybe 50%.:)

3. Become more environmentally responsible. We should all protect our mother earth.

4. Lose weight. I want to be fit and also preventing others from calling me "chubby".

5. Concentrate more on studies. I'm sure everyone wants this.

6. Save Money. For future use of course.

7. Be Less Clumsy. I'd like to know what my mama would say about this one because I frequently break glasses in the house.:)

8. Say no to fast foods and colas. How can I do these?:)) (Strive)!

9. Have more and more friends. Friends are an important part of having a great life. I guess I should clarify that and say that having great friends is part of having a great life.

10. Spend more time with God. Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God, a famous line by Eugene L. Clark.


Let's not only celebrate, but also repent & start afresh. Let us unite the more & let God be with us throughout the New Year. Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Happy New year everyone. God bless.:)