#5 A short reaction to "Ming-ming"

It was not my first time to encounter a play hosted by the Integrated Performing Arts Guild or IPAG, when i was still in Highschool our school required us to watch the show performed by IPAG every year with a bill of a hundred pesos.Each year IPAG has different plays and different strategies of delivering the play.

This years play was headed by their director Steven Patrick C. Fernandez, It was entitled "Ming-ming".It was July 23, 2012 when i bought a ticket for mingming and watched the play ,live at the mini theater of MSU-IIT. This years  performance was amazing and I think it is one of their masterpiece.There were 4 main characters of the story there was R,I,P and Mingming, the names of the characters somewhat gives us a clue about what happens in the story.

This years mood of the play was serious and based on real life. The play was about the muslim culture, it was about parental marriage or "buya" where both family agrees to marry their children by force. It was about pride and honor of the family. The story all started with 2 spirits wondering around a dead body, It was the body of the young woman named Mingming. Ming ming was confused because she can see her Grandmother "R", her mother "I", and her uncle "P" but none of them can hear her, she doesnt know that she was dead already. Mingming suddenly started seeing flashbacks about how she was born and how she died.

The play was like a flashback with many twists, It started with her grandmother who was also a victim by parental marriage then up to her mother on when how she started bearing mingming on her womb and on how mingming spent the rest of her life.

Back on the generation of mingming`s grandmother R, "maratabat" or parental marriage was a must. Her grandmother was forced to ironically marry the older brother of his love just for their family to be more powerful and honored, then next is mingmings mother when she was allowed to study alone in college but ended up getting pregnant. It has affect her family`s honor and pride, They did not abort the baby, they raised it secretly. Mingming was the outcome,mingming done the same mistake as like what her mother had done,she indulged with illegal vices and was forced to go home to their home town. Mingming was then put in a room and was not allowed to go out. Mingming was discouraged on what has happened to her life so she decided to commit suicide.

Muslim families are very strict and very conscious in terms of the name of their family, they dont want any dirt on their names. But i think it was not appropriate to do such things on your relatives on like what happened to mingming.Any way, the play was very entertaining and was worth it.

#4 How i learned to ride a bike

Learning something can something can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things Ive ever had to do was to learn how to ride a bicycle. I was always afraid of falling to the ground when riding a bicycle, but i decided that biking was an important skill that i should learn. I also thought that biking would be a good exercise and help me become physically fit. What i didn't realize was that learning how to ride a bike would also make me become a confident person.

New situations always make me nervous, and my first time riding a bike was not an exception. After  I tried to get on the bike, i was having difficulty with balancing my self, I became embarrassed because every time i get on the bike I always end up falling, So I decided that I needed wheel supporters to help me learn how to balance.

As I constantly practice day by day, I experienced many things, like scars, bruises, cramps but these things didnt stop me. I was so desperate to learn how to ride a bike, because of the thought that i was the only kid on the neighborhood that doesn't know how to ride a bike. I promised my self that someday i would not only learn how to ride a bike but to be good at riding a bike and when the day comes that i would have a son, i would teach them immidietly on how to ride a simple bicycle as soon as they are able to ride one, so that they will not experience the shame that i had experienced being the only kid in the neighbor hood that doesn't know how to ride a bicycle.

Little by little I learned how to ride a bike, I tried different types of terrain whether it be dry,slippery,rough/bumpy.I am not fast learner but it was no problem at all. After days of more practice i finally decided to take off the wheel supporters so that i can prove to my self that i had overcome my weakness of biking, I was so surprised that for the first time i did not have to fall off from my bike. I was very proud of my self, Since that day on I never fell of from a bicycle ever again.

Learning things are not quite easy for me, but in the end my persistence paid off. Not only i conquered my fear of riding a bicycle but i also learned that patience and constant practice is the key to everything. Now when I am faced with new situations I am not so nervous, not like before. I may feel uncomfortable to begin with, but I know that as i practice being in that situation and as my skills  get better, I will achieve a goal you have set for your self.

If you want something, you should dream for it, if you are going to dream for it, you should dream higher than it so that if you dont reach your expectations at least you wont be dissapointed by the result. Things are achieved by patience and practice and not by giving up.

#3 reaction tot the story "Sweet and Unforgettable day"

I sometimes think that right now I am still able to make people laugh, cry, smile and comfort others but what if the day comes when God has decided to take me away from this wonderful place. The day when my death comes. I wonder what will happen to us humans after death, Will life still continue after we die?these were the questions i had in mind while reading the story "sweet and unforgettable day".I think all people are afraid of death, because death is full of uncertainties, no one on earth can tell us what really happens after death.

When we die we leave many things behind including our family,friends our treasured stuffs but the ones that will be very affected will surely be our loved ones. They are the ones who will cry us a sea of tears and would do the mourning and grieving.When we die we will miss A lot of things like how our grandchildren`s children will look like and more stuffs like that.

I have many relatives who had passed on to the next life,I think its normal to be sad when you loose someone important because for sure you will miss that someone but before you cry many tears and start to loose your world, I think you should look on to the bright side too. Imagine that someone who passed away would be sitting right next to our only loving God safe, contented than he/she had ever been, and very very happy.And that he.she will now start to live in the paradise that God has made for us in the afterlife, that would somehow make us feel security and relief and atleast be somewhat happy for that important person who had left us away.

And as for my reaction to the story, I think the story is not very convincing. I think it is just make belief because for the fact that why would a house boy`s marriage be so important to a family that is not related by any blood with him. I still admire the main characters courage because even though i had not experienced the same supernatural event that had happened to her, If i were in her place at that time i would've fainted or something worse had happened to me even for the thought that it was my mothers spirit trying to communicate with me.

I feel sorry for the main character because of her longing for a mothers love, she never experienced how a mother cares for her children, Im lucky i still have my mother and i love her very much.

#2 self introduction

Hi everyone my name is Kyle Sola. I was born and raised in the Philippines and i am 17 years of age. I am studying at a renowned school here in our country, The Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology as a freshman college student and currently taking up Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

I have a broken family.My mother and father are separated since i was still a kid, but they still communicate with each other. My mother is working abroad and my sister is with my father in his home town General Santos City, leaving me here at Iligan City (both cities are found in the southern part of the Philippines).

I am currently living with my grandmother, she being my guardian.

My hobbies are listening to music, watching television and playing computer games. I am very fond of music, In fact, when i am free its either i listen to my favorite kind of music with my iPod or i am at a computer shop playing computer games with my friends.

I also spend an hour or so after dinner watching news, television shows or movies just to let the time pass and to be ready for bedtime.Day dreaming is also my hobby too, I daydream alot especially on weekends when i got nothing to do and when things get extremely boring. I usually daydream about things like how the sky turned blue, how deep is the ocean, how vast can the sky be, how big the universe is, how God managed to create this wonderful world, what happens to humans after death and many more things that a typical daydreamer would daydream about. These are the questions in life that i would want to be answered, I know its still impossible to find answers to these kinds of questions right now but thats what makes daydreaming fun because u get to use your imagination and create your own world which you yourself can only enter and understand.

I may be the most happy, outgoing, lovable, honest, caring, friendly Kyle Sola youve ever met but even though how good you may look at me right now, i still have my flawses. Im selfish, impatient,spoiled and I make many mistakes, I am out of control at times and hard to handle but if you cant handle me at my worst, then you sure do not deserve me at my best.

We are humans after all :).

#1 I stop to say thank you to God

When i came out from my mothers womb, maybe i was the happiest person in the whole world for i received the gift of life from God, he gave me the chance to see and appreciate his wonderful creations, he gave me a wonderful family that would help me and be with me through out the journey of my life.I used to thank God for giving me a wonderful mother that has been always beside me even from the   beginning when i first opened my eyes, when i started to talk and walk until i started to have a mind of my own.

I have a broken family, i was still in grade school when my parents had this misunderstanding and decided to separate.I was too young and naive back then to understand anything, after the separation my father went home to his home town to have a life of his own while me and my sister were left with our mom, she decided to continue life, she tried so hard to supply our needs as a single parent. I was 8 years old when my mother started sending me to different schools because of her ambitions to give me a good education even though her salary is so small to support the three of us.My mom decided to work abroad to have a better salary to support the education of me and my sister, she left us with our grandma as our guardian while she will be working abroad.Each and every day i wake up i wonder why my mom is not beside me, she is nowhere to be found when i got home from school, I started to long for a mothers love.I missed her, but i showed no trace that i was scared, i learned how to be strong at heart. I grew up without a her, At a very young age i learned how to become partly dependent.


My mom hasn't come home till this year, she came back to attend my high school graduation but faith did not permit.She was 5 days late , but thank God she has still came home safe, she was away from us for a very long time.
I am now big enough to understand the sacrifices my mother has done, and i admire her for that, She endured the longing and misery of being away from her family, she survived all those trials given to her and I thank God for giving me a wonderful, responsible and loving mother that anyone could ever have.