FIRST PERIODIC EXAMS FINALLY DONE AND OVER WITH!!!

Still smiling after the storm.

Finally the first periodic exams in Psalmshill Christian Learning Center is done and over with today. All exams were taken by the students. The next step is checking the test papers. oh yes. It does not end there. After checking the test papers is the computation of grades. After the computation is the making of the class cards. then distribution of class cards. still a lot of work to do. But see I can still smile about it. Well this is the life of a teacher. Its a tough job but somebody's gotta do it. No one but us the teachers. How I wish all teachers do is just teach and the checking of test papers and computation of grades is done by another person. Wishful thinking I guess. That will not be possible. Because if somebody else computes the grade we might have some problem as to the accuracy of the grades. Grades computation is the sole responsibility of the teacher. No one else. So I have no right to complain. I have no right to grumble. I choose to be a teacher and I have to do my duties 100%. No ifs. No Buts!

I wonder who will be this period's first honor in my classes. Will they be the same as last years honor rolls or a new honor roll will happen this period? I am so excited. 

Oh yeah after the exams the school will take effect the Buwan ng Wika celebration. So we will be practicing our Filipino Dances again with Filipino Folk Songs. Complete with costumes and all. The kids are so excited about it already.

Well I'll just end here for a while. I will be updating you as to the results of the Grades computation on who landed on the Top Honors for this grading period. Okay? 

So Hang in there Guys!!!

PLAGIARISM (GAYA-GAYA) TRENDING IN THE PHILIPPINES?

Plagiarism is a big insult to the Filipinos.

I am bothered by this latest development happening in our country's  government and the entertainment industry. Plagiarism seems like a normal thing already.

The first big issue on plagiarism was the Department of Tourism's Pilipinas Kay Ganda logo which they admitted was BASED on the Polska logo. Based is used but not copied. Where if you put both logo side by side...they really look the same. This is so sad why? Because the government is paying millions of pesos to pay this people with peoples money to be creative and all they give us are copies of other people's work. That is the greatest insult of the decade. Insult to the Filipino people. Insult to people they copied their work at and insult to these so-called creative people with high paying jobs who, are expected to produce original works but succumbed to copying.

Another big blow in the morale of the Filipinos is the outright copying  of Senator Tito Sotto's privilege speech against the RH Bill from an article of a Blogger named Sarah Pope. All I can say about it is this. Why copy? He is an opinionated person why not say his OWN opinion about the issue? Why resort to copying? which is the cheapest form of writing. Does his own opinion does not matter. He is a senator and he should be highly knowledgeable about this bill. You can never go against something if you do not know what it is all about.The big question there is "WHY DID YOU COPY?" Again we pay this senator people's money to create laws and implement them. NOT TO COPY.

And then there's this movie coming out this August 29 (I think). It is called Guni-guni. It is a horror movie produced by Regal Films. Regals Films has been in the Film Business since time immemorial (the 70's i think). They have made TONS of movies and most of them are big hits especially in the 80's and 90's. They discovered stars that became Big Names in the industry now, like Maricel Soriano, Gabby Concepcion, Aubrey Miles. They made big movies like Shake Rattle and Roll and the like. And this latest movie they did which is Guni-guni. A suspense thriller. They copied the poster of an Indonesian horror movie entitles alone. The copying is so obvious from the color scheme to the actual subject of the poster. Mother Lily, the movie outfit's producer, paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of pesos to produce a movie. Now why would you pay millions for a non-original work?

Plagiarism is an outright insult. Stop insulting your public. Stop Insulting the Filipino people. Stop insulting yourselves. BE ORIGINAL!!!

AN UPDATE ON PLAGIRISM

Here's an update on Senator Tito Sottos speech...this is just in today. I know Mr. Sotto hasn't recovered yet from his last mishap from the plagiarism issue from Miss Pope. Well it seems this same Senator hasn't parked his pen yet from copying. Another netizen (thank God for them) has discovered that the Senator Tito Sotto copied from another source and tagalized the english speech of the poor guy. I am talking about THE late US Senator Robert F. Kennedy. I have a photo here that captures the tagalog speech of Sotto and the english speech of Kenndy and my gosh the contents are exactly the same only Senator Sotto's speech is in tagalog. Wow thats a double whammy! Boom! Boom! Double blow insult to the Filipino people. I wish this will stop. Let us be original! Please. Let us continue guarding our dignity. Thank you for all the people who make an effort to investigate this. Thank you for the internet, we now have easy access to search and research real quick. Filipinos! Let us continue to be very vigilant especially to these elected Public Officials who are suppose to do their jobs. Original Jobs. Not copied jobs! Let us not vote them again. PLEASE!

HOW DOES IT FEEL BEING 46?

Being 46. Boon or bane?

Oh yeah! I am turning the big four-six EXACTLY a month from today! I still could not believe i am in that mature age already. Being in this age is full of responsibility. And based on observation from other 46 year old guys out there full of stress and problems. But what's good for me is I am enjoying my life right now. The life God gave me is the life that I really wanted. God's plan for me is so good I am experiencing it right now. And I am happy with everything that's been happening with my life right now and for the years to come. I don't feel the pressure of getting older and older every year. I thought turning 45 last year was the worst? but it turned out great. Now I am leaving my 45th year and moving on my 46th year. I don't know what to expect with this new year of my life. But I have full trust and faith with God. I know he will not leave me no matter what age I may be.           

         
46. I am only four tumbling away from being 50. WOW!!! me at fifty? Only 4 measly years away? That will be 2016? I wonder how I would be? How I would look like when I am already 50 years old? will I look older? How will I think? How will I talk? How will my career will be? Will I get married? have kids? So many questions?

Its not for me to know for now. All I know for now is I am 46 years old this year 2012. What will happen four years from now when I turn 50 is all up to God. Because my future, my life, I gave it all in God's care already. I do not worry about it anymore. Thank you Lord.

         
 Thank You Lord God...for this life You gave me. I love You. And I am happy to know that You love me too.

TODAY IS REVIEW TIME AND COFFEE

Me drinking coffee.

Today at school I reviewed my pupils with all the subjects they will take as an exam starting tomorrow. I felt so sleepy the whole day because I only slept 4 hours. but I managed to stay awake. I drank 2 cups of coffee the whole day. One in the morning and another one in the afternoon. It kept me perky and up the whole time.  The review of my students are in the form of quizzes. instead of recitation I quizzed them in the past lesson we had covered for the exams. Some of them did great they got good scores. some did not. I am hoping for the best tomorrow that all of them will get high marks for this first grading periodic exams. Lord please help my students get high scores in their exams this week. I am especially concerned with one student John Ralph. He seems not to be exerting any effort to pass the exams. All for him is just like nothing. He doesn't care if he pass or not. Is this how he was trained in his past school? He studied in a public school last year. and according to his grandma he did not care for his studies in his old school before. I hope and pray He will change for the better soon. And for my other students in Grade 6 Rizzi and Haevertren are striving really hard to get high scores in theri exams. In my Grade 5 Angelica Joi is the consistent top student seconded by Nikki and Kyleen Audrey. Makie is improving thou. Hope his new found enthusiasm will not fade as we progress to to the 4th grading.

Well here is looking forward to a fruitful test tomorrow. May I harvest the fruit of my labor tomorrow. May I harvest good grades from this day on.

Thank you Lord. In Jesus name. Amen

OH YEAH!!! I AM DONE TYPING THE TEST PAPERS

The books that we read.

See all those books in the photo? I took all my test questions from all of those books. I feel drained right now. Its almost midnight. but hey I still have the energy to type on my new found blog! The happy blogger! Yey! I feel happy.Why because I am so done with my test papers!!! I haven't printed them yet. That will be done for tomorrow, for tonight I will lie down and rest. Guess what I type 28 grueling test papers with charts and drawings and pictures and tables and numbers and lot of lots of words!!!! my shoulders are aching. My fingers are all tired. My eyes...they feel tired too. My butt...is so tired sitting and typing all day. Thank God Kempee came and cooked dinner for me or ill end up eating noodles again. just last night. But despite of my tiredness and aches and pain I still enjoy writing on my little diary. My little blog. Hello Blog. I never thought I would know how to use a blog. People should try using this. Its so easy. So user friendly and hey its free!!! and most of all its very therapheutical because at the end of the day you can always look forward to telling your story on something so accessible as a blog. I am loving it.

What do I write in my Happy Blogger Blog? Well only happy things in my life. My daily experiences that is worth telling and typing. Like the movies that I watch. The food that I ate. The status of my diet and weight reduction plan (do I have that?). Happenings at Psalmshill. Happenings in my methods class in RCC. happy stuff like that. So I am looking forward to more stories in the future so hang in there...THE HAPPY BLOGGER!!

Nighty night!

I AM ALMOST FINISH TYPING MY TEST PAPERS

Hi this me typing again in my classroom its almost 

lunch time!

That is so true. This is my second day of typing my test papers for the first periodic exams of my pupils in Grades 5 and 6. I forgot to tell you I am a teacher. I am teaching in a Christian School. It is called Psalmshill Christian Learning Center. This school was founded by our family last year 2009. We are on our 3rd year of existence now. We never planned to build a school it just happened. Well, it came about in 2009. Me and my sister were already teaching then in a Christian school also owned by a missionary from the states. He did not support what the school needed so in short the school closed down. We are left in a dilemma what to do with our students then. Thus we created Psalsmhill. We started with with 3 grade levels. Prep, Grade 2 and Grade 3. Our students numbered to only 20 then. The first teachers were me and my sister Teresa. Then we hired Lani Sertimno. We occupied the former house of my sister. We converted their house into classrooms. We were encouraged by the support of the parents and our pioneer students then. What's more encouraging is that same year, the application we made in SEC was approved immediately. So we made the school a GO!!!

Now its 2012...our students are more than 60 now and we now have a complete grade levels from Nursery to Grade 6. We have two new teachers...Mam Trina and Mam Melissa. Mam Lani Sertimo gave birth to her 3rd child so she has to take a leave. And our other teacher Mam Divina Isip has to resign for economical reasons because she is too far from the school. And whats more encouraging is that our application to the Government's Education Department, DEPED, is now almost approved. we are now recognized by DEPED. And more good news! I am almost done with my methods. I am taking up my Education course in RCC Republic Central Colleges. And I hope next year 2013 I will take up my board exams and have my license as a teacher.

Isn't that amazing!!!

Well enough of me blogging for now. I have to finish typing my test papers for this thursday's exams. CIAO!!!

I FORGOT I HAVE A BLOG???!!!!

I am so happy to have a blog!

Yes literally i forgot i have a blog ever. I remember in 2010 i made this blog and tried it out. I posted some pictures. My computer then hanged..... and got frustrated and I just gave up and forgot all about it, that I have a blog. I just discovered it today 2 years later August 21, 2012, at 2:55 am when iI read friend's Blog. It was Paula Rollo's blog titled "Hopeful Future" I made a comment and it redirected me to register first. So I registered with my google account and the blog just unfolded right before my eyes!!! wow!! I forgot I have a Blog!!! Now it is open I guess I will be blogging more often than facebook. Thanks Pau for your Blog. It opened my really old blog. and I forget it is titled I-Love-It! Amazing. This blog is MY SPACE!!! better than the real Myspace. Yes this is my space. I can write everything that I want. Anytime. So I am thinking and I am so excited where will this blog will take me. I never had a blog before. What will I write? What stories am I willing to share? Hmmm So excited. I am glad I don't have followers yet. So good luck to me. And if ever I have followers hope you enjoy my posts from now on.