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‘’ REFLECTIVE ESSAY ‘’

                                         By: Rei Angelie Olahay

      Life is a full of surprises ,sometimes we cannot handle it properly. The reason why is because I’m not that good at handling a problem, I’m to weak to face them. I felt that maybe i will give up and don’t trust myself anymore. I also experienced losing self confidence towards myself. I didn't make an effort because I know that I didn’t do it properly. Aside from that being a leader of a group I lose myself to the point that I disappointed them. I didn’t  give myself a chance to proved how much I wanted to change because of my fear. I don’t know what to do in myself. failure is one of my biggest fear. failure is the reason why I cannot show my true self. How I am good at giving ideas to others. However, I’m scared to those people who judged me on who I am. I am scared to the point that I experienced losing myself. I don’t know what to do. I know that some people trust me that I can do it, especially my family. They prove that everything gonna be alright if I tried my best for every single thing that I will do. Until now, I experienced that fear. Fear of being hurt I know that when they saw me, they see a strong woman that didn’t experienced getting hurt but inside I don’t what I really do to conquer my fear. I felt that failure is the best word that suits me and for my whose self. Sometimes, I cried because I don’t have a person to talk with my problems. So that its makes me a hard time to think what I gonna do. The philosophy that I believed is ‘’ I can do all things through Christ, which is strengthen me- Philippians 4:13 ‘’. This philosophy really helps me to try my best every time I feel fear and experience failure.  It gives me strength because I trust him, I trust him so much. Every time that I do I always pray and talk to him so that he will guide me and save me to the failure. I also read a philosophy of Henry Ford ‘’ That failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ‘’ This philosophy makes me realize that true essence of failure. Failure comes because it test you on how you handle and surpass every situations that you encounter and what strategy you will use to conquer every fear that you face. This problems will makes us stronger and give us a values to lead the path of better life. It helps every people to be strong so that they not give up on life.  

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                                    A taste of Zambales

                                      By: Vergel San Gaspar

The best-known product of Zambales—whose coastal towns are named after saints and alluring islands facing the West Philippine Sea—is the mango. The Guinness Book of World Records has declared the Sweet Elena mango from this province the sweetest in the world (though not recommended for diabetics).

From the mango has come manifold products like mango nectar, tart, wine, pie and cookies, jam and dried mango.

There are many kinds of mangoes: “Piko, kalabaw, Indian mango, ’yan ang totoong mangga (these are the real mangoes),” says Manang Mauricia Santiago of the Island Grace Beach Resort. “And there’s the apple mango, kulatipot, which is small and sweet and is also found in Bulacan.”

There were dancers and floats galore, with each town trying to outdo one another in coming up with the best and the most attractive float. The young dancers gyrated to the pounding rhythm of drums, waving red and white flags, and often caparisoned in green and yellow colors.

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Personal Narrative by Dennis Berunio

                                            ‘’He’s not mine ’’

                                                 Eyes that talking,

                                                 lips that speaking

                                          in me made me blushed.

                                     just remember that your not mine

                                     and you a girl that you deserved.

     Good day! by the way I’m Dennis or just call me Denden, 18 years old, a grade 12 student at Dela Paz National High School (DPNHS). And I believed that age doesn’t matter performance does and I thank you.

     Born a man but suddenly want to become a woman. Being youngest to a family is absolutely the best because all of attention will be totally focused to you financial, effort and time is all yours. Since I fully awake to this world I knew to myself that I felt different my body tells I’m a man but my heart and mind loudly shout that I’m a girl not by physically but deeply in me I feel girl. Undoubtedly yes I’m Gay and I’m proud of it because unconditionally my family is unquestionably accepted me.

     Being different is not easy because you need to be ready to the eyes and overcritical opinion of society because they will judge you that you did dismissive to them. Be brave to survive even applying a job is critical you will be judge by your appearance and gender not by your special skills, talent and what you can contribute to them. Be sensitive even small mistakes will become big deal to them mostly they will remember negative action you did rather that the positive one. Just live in what your heart says because I believed that God created us equal to live this wold.

     To fall in love with someone is simple nonetheless to beloved in return is a negative probability. Man to Man relationship in Philippines. People here is not openly liberated about this issued unlike to the other country. I remember a boy that feels me so special that I never felt before I can’t explained it but I know I’m in loved. He’s kind, cute, and accept me in what I am. He got mad when I missed or seen him on messenger even if chatting to other boys . When I go to computer shop just a minute he will go too just to support and play with me to be a duo in League Of Legends (LOL). Each day is feel blessed. But I awake one day became different no chat from him and seeing him for a whole month in first I think that he’s just only busy because were same student. In the middle of the night I cried at exactly November 23, 2017 I stalked his timeline looking at his profile picture made my body weak his with someone I’m just force my self that is only his friend, continue scrolling down made me loudly cried I asked my self, I though he loved me, I though his mine but I realize he’s in love with a girl. A girl that he deserved It’s not easy to forget all the memories or to move on because I believed that it will taking an infinite process came from the word move we’re only taking steps not forgetting all things I just accepted that we’re friends and I’m contended to it.

     Your curious to his name? His name is the first letter of each line in the poem.

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The Journey of My Wounded Hand By: Jiovane Anacan II

Life is full of surprises and a lot of opportunity to make good and memorable thing which can be the way to discover the new one. When I was in junior high school, I still remember when my classmate tutor Ildefonso intended to throw the ball to me and when I first to touch it, I can’t really explain what it, I felt it was mine and there something spark in to me then suddenly I realize that Volleyball is my passion.  At first, I don’t expect that I can be a Volleyball player, though my sister Divina convince me to play this kind of activity. The journey of every play I had is so much good and hard to forget because a lot of happy and unforgettable times with my friends is valuable for me. I just wanted to share my best experience in Volleyball. There is a time that I don’t really wanted to play anymore because I think I don’t deserved to become a volleyball player and I will never to improved, I guess I’m loosing my hope to continue my passion and journey towards playing this beautiful game but, Instead to give up, I found someone who really inspire me most to keep holding my dreams to become a humble and good player of a volleyball. When I was playing volleyball, I also do encountered discrimination against other people who judge me based on what they think. Some plays that I already had is when I directly hit the ball into my face and that is really embarrassing. I also do experienced trouble because of unfair game, like Leo who’s the one that violent me in just a simple mistake that I did before. I really hate the way I used to be, because I can’t really understand how people perceived the world that way it was.  My sister Divina told me that, never mind those negative perspective of the other people instead make them to be my inspiration and motivation in the way I play a Volleyball. So, I let everything to pass on into my ears and just continue soaring high and to spike the ball even it’s wounded but I will never stop to play because this is the only thing that makes me happy that anything else. Every time I hit the ball, I really feel so much good like how I’m enjoying every single moment of the play. I’m lucky to meet this wonderful thing which I used to keep on while I’m still existing in this world. Today, I’m still playing even time will fade away but the passion of my heart to play will never end. As far As I believed that everyone of us has a great motivation in life, just like how I supposed to be with my dear compassion in Volleyball. Thank you for this game of life which I will never ever forget til’ I die and to keep this as the best journey of my wounded hand in the way I perceived the beauty of the world.

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José Rizal Biography

Activist,Journalist, Poet, Doctor(1861–1896)

José Rizal called for peaceful reform of Spain's colonial rule in the Philippines. After his 1896 execution, he became an icon for the nationalist movement.

Synopsis

José Rizal was born on June 19, 1861, in Calamba, Philippines. While living in Europe, Rizal wrote about the discrimination that accompanied Spain's colonial rule of his country. He returned to the Philippines in 1892, but was exiled due to his desire for reform. Although he supported peaceful change, Rizal was convicted of sedition and executed on December 30, 1896, at age 35.

Early Life

On June 19, 1861, José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born in Calamba in the Philippines' Laguna Province. A brilliant student who became proficient in multiple languages, José Rizal studied medicine in Manila. In 1882, he traveled to Spain to complete his medical degree.While in Europe, José Rizal became part of the Propaganda Movement, connecting with other Filipinos who wanted reform. He also wrote his first novel, Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not/The Social Cancer), a work that detailed the dark aspects of Spain's colonial rule in the Philippines, with particular focus on the role of Catholic friars. The book was banned in the Philippines, though copies were smuggled in. Because of this novel, Rizal's return to the Philippines in 1887 was cut short when he was targeted by police.Rizal returned to Europe and continued to write, releasing his follow-up novel, El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed) in 1891. He also published articles in La Solidaridad, a paper aligned with the Propaganda Movement. The reforms Rizal advocated for did not include independence—he called for equal treatment of Filipinos, limiting the power of Spanish friars and representation for the Philippines in the Spanish Cortes (Spain's parliament).

Rizal returned to the Philippines in 1892, feeling he needed to be in the country to effect change. Although the reform society he founded, the Liga Filipino (Philippine League), supported non-violent action, Rizal was still exiled to Dapitan, on the island of Mindanao. During the four years Rizal was in exile, he practiced medicine and took on students.

In 1895, Rizal asked for permission to travel to Cuba as an army doctor. His request was approved, but in August 1896, Katipunan, a nationalist Filipino society founded by Andres Bonifacio, revolted. Though he had no ties to the group, and disapproved of its violent methods, Rizal was arrested shortly thereafter.

After a show trial, Rizal was convicted of sedition and sentenced to death by firing squad. Rizal's public execution was carried out in Manila on December 30, 1896, when he was 35 years old. His execution created more opposition to Spanish rule.

Spain's control of the Philippines ended in 1898, though the country did not gain lasting independence until after World War II. Rizal remains a nationalist icon in the Philippines for helping the country take its first steps toward independence.

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Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Under Jobs' guidance, the company pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone and iPad.

Who Was Steve Jobs?

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Net Worth

In 2011, Forbes estimated the majority of Steve Jobs’ net worth at around $6.5 billion to $7 billion from his sale of Pixar to the Walt Disney Company in 2006. However if Jobs had not sold his Apple shares in 1985, when he left the company he founded for over a decade, his net worth would have been a staggering $36 billion.

Movies and Books on Steve Jobs

Several movies inspired by the computer icon's life have been released as well — namely the critically panned Jobs (2013), starring Ashton Kutcher, and Steve Jobs(2015), starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle.

A number of books have also been written on Jobs' life and career, including an authorized 2011 general biography by Walter Isaacson. The book was critiqued for the depiction of its main subject by Apple's chief executive Tim Cook, who succeeded Jobs. Karen Blumenthal also wrote a 2012 young adult biography, and Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli wrote 2015's Becoming Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs’ Death and Last Words

Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade. He was 56 years old.

In Mona Simpson’s eulogy for Steve Jobs, his sister said Steve Jobs looked at his sister Patty, kids and wife, then said his last words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”

Wife and Children

Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell married on March 18, 1991. The pair met in the early 1990s at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.

Although he remained a private man who rarely disclosed information about his family, it is known that Jobs fathered a daughter, Lisa, with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. He denied paternity of his daughter in court documents, claiming he was sterile. Chrisann struggled financially for much of her life, and Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was seven years old. When she was a teenager, Lisa came to live with her father.

When and Where Was Steve Jobs Born?

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.

Family and Early Life

Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students, gave up their unnamed son, Steve Jobs, for adoption. Jobs’ father, Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor, and his mother, Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.

As an infant, Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View, California, within the area that would later become known as Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in young Jobs.

Education

While Jobs was always an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs was a prankster in elementary school due to boredom, and his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school — a proposal that his parents declined.

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.

In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left the company to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling further and experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

Steve Wozniak

Back when Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School, he was introduced to his future partner and co-founder of Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak, who was attending the University of California, Berkeley.

In a 2007 interview with PC World, Wozniak spoke about why he and Jobs clicked so well: "We both loved electronics and the way we used to hook up digital chips," Wozniak said. "Very few people, especially back then, had any idea what chips were, how they worked and what they could do. I had designed many computers, so I was way ahead of him in electronics and computer design, but we still had common interests. We both had pretty much sort of an independent attitude about things in the world.”

Apple Computer

In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs’ family garage. They funded their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers.

Wozniak conceived of a series of user-friendly personal computers, and — with Jobs in charge of marketing — Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million.

In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to take over the role of CEO for Apple.

The next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws, however, resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple in sales, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC-dominated business world.

In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM-compatible. Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and the company's executives began to phase him out. Not actually having had an official title with the company he co-founded, Jobs was pushed into a more marginalized position and thus left Apple in 1985.

Pixar

In 1986, Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money in the company. The studio went on to produce wildly popular movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles; Pixar's films have collectively netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.

Reinventing Apple

After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs began a new hardware and software enterprise called NeXT, Inc. The company floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America, and Apple eventually bought the company in 1996 for $429 million. In 1997, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Just as Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970s, he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s.

With a new management team, altered stock options and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. Jobs’ ingenious products (like the iMac), effective branding campaigns and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again. In the ensuing years, Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which dictated the evolution of technology. Almost immediately after Apple released a new product, competitors scrambled to produce comparable technologies.

Apple's quarterly reports improved significantly in 2007: Stocks were worth $199.99 a share—a record-breaking number at that time — and the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion profit, an $18 billion surplus in the bank and zero debt. In 2008, Apple became the second-biggest music retailer in America — second only to Walmart, fueled by iTunes and iPod sales. Apple has also been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's list of "America's Most Admired Companies," as well as No. 1 among Fortune 500 companies for returns to shareholders.

Battle with Cancer

In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pesco-vegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine months, Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stock if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Jobs' confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health.

Early in 2009, reports circulated about Jobs' weight loss, some predicting his health issues had returned, which included a liver transplant. Jobs responded to these concerns by stating he was dealing with a hormone imbalance. Days later, he went on a six-month leave of absence. In an e-mail message to employees, Jobs said his "health-related issues are more complex" than he thought, then named Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, as “responsible for Apple's day-today operations."

After nearly a year out of the spotlight, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event on September 9, 2009. He continued to serve as master of ceremonies, which included the unveiling of the iPad, throughout much of 2010. However in January 2011, Jobs announced he was going on medical leave. In August, he resigned as CEO of Apple, handing the reigns to Cook, and in October he passed away.