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Estudyante sa Disyembre

Humahakbang ang mga paa. Kumikislap ang mga ilaw. Tumutugtog ang kampana. Nagsasayawan ang lahat sa kanta. Sumisigaw habang sila'y nag-iintay.

Bumubulong sa hangin

Langaw siyang humuhuni

Titigil at magbabasa siyang muli

Nagtitipon ang mga tao. Nagtatakbuhan ang mga bata. Nagtatawanan sila't nagkekwentuhan. Kinukuhaan ng litrato ang isang puno. Puno na pinuno ng ilaw.

Bumuntong hininga

Ipo-ipo ang buga

Kumukunot ang noo ng bata

Bumibilang na, tatlo dalawa, isa! Nagsisigawan at nagtatalunan ang lahat. Patuloy ang pagtutugtog ng kanta at pagsasaya. Pasko na!

Didilat-pipikit ang mata

Kwago sa gabing mulat siya

Nakatingin sa malayo...

"Pagod na 'ko, matutulog na 'ko"

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Art, Art, Art

We made a compilation of definitions of art. But can we really define art? It's hard to define art, because defining art is limiting its sense and losing its real meaning.

In the link is a compilation of our group's definition of art, Filipino artists' view of art, and also the creative presentation of art made by our group. Enjoy!

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Tableau

This was the tableau made by our group (Unique/Talagsahon) It's just a random set-up of typical students chit-chatting with each other. Wearing the masks that was made to describe ourselves.

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Unexpressed Emotions

limitahan mo ang iyong kilos

umupo ka ng maayos

pinya ang mundo

pinapaligiran ng mga matang nakatingin sa iyo

Sa mundong ating ginagalawan, napakaraming taong huhusga sa’yo. Wala namang naging tama sa mga taong magaling humusga ‘di ba? Kaya ang magiging solusyon mo na lang ay ang manihimik at ‘wag umimik. Itago sa dilim ang mga emosyon para maka-iwas sa gulo.

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Self-expression

Imagine holding a color on your hand, and there’s a paper. Then music plays and you start shading and moving your hand all over the paper with that color in your hand.

A painting was made. 

An art was made. By that music. By that rythm. It leads my hand to make that shades.

And so I named it “The Falls”. It looks like waterfall, don’t you think the same? I made a waterfall out of that calmness of a classical music played by our professor. Likewise, Seeing waterfall makes us calm, too,right?

This photo was taken last year, we’re at Bani, Pangasinan, and that is the Busay Falls.

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Itak sa Puso ni Mang Juan

Subukan mong ipinta sa iyong isipan...

Ang isang lalaki na nakasuot ng polo na kulay abo, may kuwelyo, butones, at may bulsa sa kaliwang dibdib. Nakapantalon siya ng kulay brown. Disente ang pananamit, hindi normal na kasuotang pambahay ng isang tao. Siya ay nagtatrabaho sa pagawaan ng kilalang inumin, ang Coca-Cola. Ang lalaking ito ay may kapayatan, makikita sa kanyang pisngi ang buto ng kanyang mukha, mapapayat na braso, at may manipis na kulay itim na buhok.

Bahagya itong nakayuko, ang katawan ay nakakurba na wari’y tandang pananong ”?” na katulad ng kanyang itsura na punong puno ng katanungan, naguguluhan, at nahihirapan. Makikita sa kanya ang pagod at hirap na dinanas niya sa labis na pagtatrabaho, dagdag pang matanda na ito at may kapayatan. Maaari ring ang bahagyang pagkakayuko nito ay ang unti-unting pagkakuba dahil sa sobrang daming ginagawa sa trabaho. Nakatungo na nagpapakitang wala itong lakas ng loob, nasa mababang estado ng pamumuhay, at/o maaaring nasa bingit na ng pagsuko sa buhay. Sinaid na ng kompanyang kaniyang binubuhay sa matagal na panahon ang kaniyang lakas, maging ang lakas ng loob. Siya’y nakararanas ng pamumuhay na kung saan inaalipin ang mga nakabababa, at ang mga nakatataas lamang ang mga patuloy na umaangat sa buhay. Ang pagtingin sa lupa ang tanging nagawa.

Sa kanyang gilid ang Coca-Col(a) na hindi kumpleto ang pagkakapinta na maihahalintulad sa mga ibang parte ng paggawa sa produkto nito na itinatago sa publiko. Maaaring ang kakulangang ito ay katulad ng kakulangang ginagawa ng mga namamahala sa kanilang mga manggagawa. Inaalipin at pinahihirapan nila ang mga ito na hindi sapat na kapalit ang sweldong ibinibigay sa kanilang paggawa. Ang mga letra ng Coca-Col(a) ay maputi kumpara sa nakapaligid ditong kulay pula, na mula sa orihinal na kulay ng mismong produkto. Ngunit hindi, ang pagkakapula nito ay kulay dugo. Ang dugong ito na nagmula sa mga manggagawa na labis ang pagtatrabaho. Hindi maayos na pagkakapinta ng kulay dugo na nagpapakita ng hindi maayos na pamamamahala sa produktong ito. Sa gitnang bahagi ng sining na ginawa ni Antipas Delovato ay ang dulo ng letrang C na nakatusok sa dibdib ng lalaking ipinakilala sa itaas. Sa parteng ito ay mas makapal na kulay ng dugo sa may dibdib ng matanda na tila tumatagas mula sa kanyang puso.

Masasabi kong kung titignan ang detalye ng sining na ito ay hindi ito isang simpleng obra lamang. Napakaraming pagpapakahulugan ang mabubuo sa pagsuri sa pintang ito. Ang bawat Pilipino ay alipin ng kapitalismo ng ating bansa. Si Mang Juan ang sumisimbolo sa hirap na nararanasan ng Pilipino, kung saan nararamdaman pa rin natin ang pananakop ng mga dayuhan kahit ang totoo ay matagal nang natapos ang pananakop ng mga ito. Sa kabilang banda, tayo rin naman mismo ang patuloy na nagpapaapekto sa pagsakop sa ating bansa.

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“Rosas ng Digma”

The song “Rosas ng Digma” was written by Musikang Bayan. Musikang Bayan is a band with four members who composed songs about Philippine’s society and history. They released an album in 2001 entitled “Rosas ng Digma: Mga Awit ng Pag-ibig at Pakikibaka.” A year after the first music album was launched, they officially formed the band in 2002. The song “Rosas ng Digma” is part of the Rosas ng Digma album with 11 other songs.

The title of the song may directly say that it was about war or the setting was during the period of war. It also has the “rosas” in the title which often symbolizes something like love, hope and promises.  Hence, before listening to the song played during the class, I concluded that it was about the love of a person to someone during the war era. Then, the song start playing, with a short instrumental, and I can say that the music was nice with its arrangement of notes. Every music really have that effect to calm people’s mind, and took everyone’s attention, right? Like who wouldn’t?

Its first line was “Sumibol sa isang panahong marahas.” So, it justifies my conclusion that it happens during the war era. “Tulad mo’y rosas sa hardin ng digma, At di maiwasang sa’yo ay humanga,” this line states that the singer was confessing his love to someone. He compared his loved one to a rose which we can positively view as beauty. In contrary, we can negatively view it as a rose which is weak and should be taken care of. Likewise, he promised to take care of her within the lyrics “Taglay ang pangakong iingatan kita.” The lyrics was written mindfully using figures of speech with “Ang kulay mong angkin, sintingkad ng dugo,” that tells us that during that time they really see fresh bloods everywhere that is still bright red in color. Also, rhyming words was used that makes it more match with the rhythm of the music, “sigla”, “digma”, “humanga”, “mandirigma”, etc.

Generally, the song “Rosas ng Digma” is a good song with a fine form of the lyrics and the music. Musikang Bayan composed a good song that shows the suffering and joy of the people in love experienced.  A song that talks about love that happens during war period. <1>

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Hey! It’s Me!

Have you ever doubted yourself in doing things because it’s not really your forte? You asked, “what if my best isn’t good enough?” You feel sad and cry so hard because you just fail everything you do. Worse is you just sat there thinking nothing but, you, failing everything even if you thought you did your best. You’re not alone. Everyone fails, and some people take that failure as a lesson or a challenge in doing their best, but some people really have no courage to fight again. I myself had experienced the same.

I’m Angelica, a Civil Engineering student in University of the Philippines-Los Baños. I’m not really the smartest kid in town so I’m not sure if enrolling in the university is really a right thing. It’s my freshman year in the university and for the record I already cried hard five times.

First, Los Baños is more than 3 hours away from my home residence so it’s hard for me to travel from home to university back to home. So, renting a dorm in Laguna is the most convenient way, right? I super love my family. I am the youngest in the family for 14 years, before my youngest sibling was born four years ago. It’s my first time living away from them, so my first cry happened then. You feel alone, no one to speak to and to share a meal. People are cheering you up but you yourself have doubt in you that you just want to stop, go back to your home and study at the university near.

And the other cries are for acads related...

Self-doubt is self-wrecking. As a teenager, we possess an exaggerated version of every emotion. There is no day that I can not say the phrase “pagod na ako.” It’s nearly the time that the good mornings and hi’s will turn to that phrase. You met a friend while walking and instead of saying “hi,” you both said, “pagod na ako,” and I think that’s the sad part of being a student.

The following blog is part of my ARTS1 activity. Yea, that’s the point here. You delay your breakdowns to make requirements up for the deadlines. But it’s not just a requirement for me, as a ‘talkative’ person, doing blogs was fun (I used “was” because I’m not doing it anymore now because I forgot my password saved on a lost phone). These blogs contain arts activities we did in our class. I’m not really good at art thing since then, I’m into numbers (math), and acads readings make me sleep. Ironic it is as I like talking but not much in writing.

That’s how I enjoy the art of literature, talking. Not much in writing. Talking with people personally is much expressive than talking with them in blogs. You’ll see how I really feel and the emotions of my face by seeing me talking. I can also act scenarios when I’ll tell you how’s my day. That’s me, I think. Speech is way better than writing. How ‘bout you? Do you think the same way? Or the other way?

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My friends 💕

Em, Joys, Sel, Pernan, Paoii ~

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” - Winnie The Pooh

They are my sisters and brothers from different mom and dad. They became my family as we started interacting and sharing talks, laughs and memories. It’s a great feeling having people to share my thoughts and feelings with during bad days. My friends have this ability to make me feel safe whenever I’m with them. They are the people I can trust, telling them deepest secrets, thoughts, and fears. They have no problem telling me the truth when I need a reality check in life. There is no need to be shy or hide emotions because they will not see me differently, they are the people I’m comfortable around. They sense personal problems and are always there even sometimes without asking for it. They brighten me up when I’m feeling down. We give each other a push we need for us to be better. We support each other, emotionally and physically.

Friends are great company. As social individuals, we need to have interaction with others. Not seeing your friends for a while is so sad and boring, and the feeling after going out with them is so great and fun. Make efforts to get together with them and enjoy your friend’s company all the time.

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My First Concert (May 07, 2017)

First Concert Feels ~

It has been 18 weeks since global sensation K-pop group Bangtan Sonyeondan, BTS, took Philippines by storm for the third time. They returned to the country and held their two-day concert “2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour” last May 6-7 at the Mall of Asia Arena. But still, every moment was unforgettable. This is the night I will never forget. I was so excited and the crowd was really amazing. The crowd was something I’d never experienced before. My seat was too far because the concert ticket prices are expensive. I really cannot properly hear them and see them. The fans voices are louder than the speaker that we were hearing in the General Admission part of the venue. Me and my sister were so excited and were screaming so loud like the whole time at the top of our lungs until the next day we weren’t able to talk. I recorded most of it and all I can hear on the video was me and my sister’s voice shouting and singing with the love of our life, BTS. It was really amazing since you can feel the crowd were so hyped. For years I had an aching to attend a concert, but the concert ticket prices are really expensive and my parents said “It’s just a waste of money and time.” but I really wanted to attend so I saved enough money to purchase my general admission ticket to see BTS live in Manila. Everything in the concert was really lit. Like how music binds everyone inside that arena. I really enjoy the concert. Hoping for a same feels again. A perfect first concert 💕