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Reflection about CNF’s contribution to me
Creative nonfiction taught me a lot about various things about the art of storytelling. Firstly, CNF made me realize that stories are hard to tell and describe, so constant practice is needed to create a good output. Secondly, I learned that telling stories is fun especially if you are the one who experienced the story firsthand. Lastly, authority of fact and authority of literature needs to be combined to produce a quality CNF literary text.
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LOVE. Pagkamoot kung sa Bikol apudon pero kadakol man kayang klase ang pagkamoot, puwedeng sa pamilya, sa barkada, sa boypren, sa girlpren, at kung ano pa man na iba. Ang pagkamoot sa pamilya ay iba sa ibang klase ning pagkamoot. Sa pamilya, halos garo na magsarabatan ang kiraypag inaanggotan o pagsinusugo ka. Sa pagkamoot sa bata o jowa, dawa bako ka ang sinugo ika pa mismo ang makusang gibuhon. Sa pamilya, dawa gurano ka kapasaway dae ka kayang tiuson. Sa pagkamoot sa bata dawa bako ka ang may sala, ika pa nanggad ang masuyo saiya. Halos magruluwas na ang saimong puso sa saimong hawak dahil sa kilig na namamatean mo pag sinasabihan kang I love you kang bata mo. Sa pamilya, nasusupog kang magsabing I love you Ma, Pa dawa kadugo mo man mismo. Ang bata kaya kang talikudan. Sa pamilya, handa kang tanggapon asin dae ka tatalikudan. Papadangaton ka kang saimong pamilya asin tatabangan kang abuton ang mga bituon na gusto mong makua.
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Today is the second Friday of September, Our Lady of Peñafrancia also known as “INA KANG BICOLANDIA” will be transferred to Naga Metropolitan Cathedral from her shrine Basilica, through Traslacion procession as the Bikolanos welcome the Peñafrancia Festival. This festival is considered to be the biggest and most famous religious event in the Philippines, and the devotees of Ina traveled miles away just to see her. Hindi na mahulugan ng karayum ang kalsada dahil sa dami ng tao.
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INOT
Madya, babalikan ta ang satuyang istorya. Nagigirumduman ko pa kaito kung pano ko binutasan ang mga tataramon na “kita na” kang hinapot mo ako, kung pwede na. Iyo ito ang aldaw na garo baga saro akong ulod na dae magiuntok sa kaogmahan na namamatean. Nasa balconahe mi ako, tapos garo ako kapay kang kinakaulay taka sa telepono. Iyo ika, ika si inot kong sinagot kang ika inot na aldaw kang Setyembre taong 2017.
Taga Buhi ka, taga Tigaon ako medyo harayo pero tulong oras man sana ang kaipuhan lakbayon. Ayos man sana dawa medyo Long Distance Relationship kita, basta ang importante baga padangat ta ang kada saro diba? Halos matunaw ka sa sakuyang hiling asin garo na baga mag-abot talinga ang satuyang mga ngirit, ta pagkatapos kang apat na bulan kitang duwa nagkahilingan naman. Nagdalan kitang ‘theatre play’ tapos duman na si inot na nagdukutan an palad kan satuyang mga kamot tapos nagkakan pa kita sa luwas, nag hiking dawa madalian asin nag lakaw sa banggi kaibahan ang mga bitoon sa kalangitan, pagkasiram sa pagmati pag ika ang kaibanan. Kaipuhan ko na mag uli, nagpaaram kita sa kada saro ning may ngirit sa mga labi. Paaram na muna sa ngunyan, sa susunod naman na hilingan.
Binisita ka ning pirang beses tapos dinumanan taka pa ngani sa Pili para supportahan ka sa pagkawat mo. Habang ako nagba-byahe, hinahapot ko na ang sadiri ko tano ako pirmi ang nag ja-jan saimo. Tano bako ka naman ang mag digdi samo? Sa mga nakalipas na bulan ang satuyang ibanan nag lalawig naman, tig pa bisto taka sa ina ko ta iyo baga yan ang gusto mo pero dae kita inako. Halos takwilon na ninda ako kaya gusto ko na kuta makisuhayan pero dae ko magibo.
Sa sarong taon na may duwang bulan tang pag-ibanan halos kada bulan igwa kang iba, pero binalewala ko ta sabi mo barkada mo lang ito. Ginibo ko naman ang gabos para dae ka magloko, pagkamoot baya talaga ini? Garo kaya dae. Sabi mo mayo sana ito, pero tano nauutro? Nadakop taka na, tano nagigibo ka pa ning rason dawa aam mong may nakukulugan kana? Pagkatanga ko, nadara mo na naman ako sa mga suyo mo pero pahaloy ning pahaloy nawawasak na ang tiwala na tinao ko saimo.
Sa pautro-utro mong panloloko nag-abot man si aldaw na natatauhan na ako. Nag desisyon ka na mag suhayan kita, ta sabi mo sadiri mom una. Nag tugot na ako na mawara ka, siguro nawaraan naman akong gana na ika makaibahan pa. Huna ko nakalaya na ako sa gabos na panloloko mo pero dae pa palan, ta naaraman ko na sana bigla na bago naging kita may bata kana palan talaga.
Anong ugwa saimo tano ika pa ang naging inot ko? Ika na bako man si ideal guy ko, tano? Inot kong mamatean na mag kabata na kapareho ko. Inot kung mamatean na maloko. Inot kong mamatean na halos kada bulan igwa ka bukod sako. Inot kong mamatean na sala palan si pagpadangat ko. Inot na beses na mayo na akong tinada sa sadiri ko para sana maitao saimo. Inot na beses na nag laog ako sa relasyon na bago pa palan naging kita, ugwa naman talagang ika,kamo at siya.
Pero salamat man giraray saimo na ika ang naging inot ko, ta saimo ko man nahiling kung ano ang halaga ko bilang tao. Duman ko na naisip na bako itong pag padangat, saro sana itong pagkamoot na bakong pang haluyan. Salamat sa pagtabang mo para maging marhay ako na tao. Salamat ta kung bakong dahil saimo dae ako magiging makusog. Sana mag abot man si aldaw na kaya taka ng patawadon pero dae ka nungka mag-asa na malilingawan ko ang mga salang nagibo mo sako.
Sana magtubod ulit ako sa pagkamoot, si pagkamoot na imbis na wasakon ka ning pino, tatabangan asin sabay kamo matalubo.
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#KAKANON
Nangyari ang “Community Merienda” kang Biyernes, Pebrero 20, 2020 sa Xavier Gymnasium pakatapos kang Mr. and Ms. orgullo 2020. iba-iba man ang samuyang mga hinalian, nagkakasararo pananggad pag-abot sa karakanan. Ang mga kakanon na nasa ibabaw ay mga halimbawa kang kakanin igdi sa samuyang lugar. Tangkilikon ta ang satuyang kultura.
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#WORTH
The artwork above is created by Bernadeth Lumanug and Kaye Ariola from HU21 and it was exhibited last February 19, 2020 of the Belardo grounds. Two poems that talk about how women should know the worth of her body and a guy who doesn’t know how to be a man.
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#ORIENTATION
An orientation that happens here at HB315 in the Belardo building for HUGAS students who want to pursue the political science program. Ma’am Marie focuses about how a political scientist analyze and make an action or solution in a certain situation. A political scientist specializes in strategizing, SPEAK IT OUT.
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#CONFIDENCE
Dominique Tabagan is the newly crowned Ms. Orgullo 2020, held last February 21, 2020 at the Xavier Gymnasium. She was the girl who got degraded because of her imperfections; she may not have that conventional beauty but she always has the courage and determination to make her dreams into reality.
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Bat Soup Pa More, Wuhan No More!
What comes up in your mind when you red or hear the word “virus”? A lot of people might say that it is a threat or danger, well it is; this is an example of biological hazard. Last year, in the month of December, a virus was found in the province of Wuhan in China, which is called the “Novel Coronavirus or NCOV.” Since the “wet market” in the said province keep on selling exotic food like rats, grilled cockroaches, bat soups, and the like, this virus came from the bat soup. This virus does not only reside in the province of China, but it keeps on affecting the different parts of the globe and one of it is the Philippines. Only this year in the morning of January we had the first case of NCOV and also the Philippines had the first patient who died outside China. As a student, I am really worried that’s why I always have alcohol and some first-aid kit on my bag. I have a feeling that when a person walks down the street his/her shadow is coming nearer to him/her. This disease is a snake to us humans, it is because that we never know who and when will it bite who will be the target of the snake. In my research, it seems that the target are those people who have weak immune system.
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Keeping Up
“As a gay teacher, I have to prove that I am good.” said by Sir Pot. A statement that can get off the eye of the readers. People have standards just like when looking for a partner in life and people gets to be disappointed whenever they did not meet those expectations. We all have that ideal relationship, ideal future and ideal self. In short, a society that fulls of “ideal and expectations.” Just like the societal standards that each and everyone of us should adjust in order for us to be appreciated, but are these standards really help us to view the positive outlook in life? Or its just giving us confusion and doubt which may lead us to negative thinking. If you asked several people if they already experienced having this thinking may it be in their work, studies or in their lives, almost all of the answers that you will get is a yes. Those standards were like a performance task that has criteria or rubric in order to have a good and satisfying grades which may give us confusion and disappointment if we were not able to follow it.The feeling of not being able appreciated might result to overthinking that maybe a person thinks that he/she has this negative trait that makes people act that way.
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The Shackle of Thoughts
In the past three years,
I bloom like a flower
And I did not expect that to happen
But He gave me so much to remember
The heavens poured out blessings upon me
And as the time walked by
I asked myself like a roller coaster
If I can really go to the place where I should be.
I want to enter in the two doors of my dreams
Yes, I am doubting my capacity
If I can open those doors simultaneously,
Or should I let go one of them?
At the core of my thoughts
I asked myself, if where all my sacrifices will go?
Maybe so that platform, where I want to be
I can find what I really want to be.
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Get Me Out
It was a sunny morning when I am about to go to school, and I am so nervous because of the impromptu speech that we are going to present on our first subject. When I am in front of the class, ready to speak, I told to myself that I can do it but it did not go with the expected process as I have planned before. I immediately ran to the comfort room and it feels like my own home. I cried for almost an hour realizing all the failures that I had in my life and all I want was to get out in there and be ready for the next impromptu that we will be having. One of my classmates went there and waited for me to go out in this corner of the cubicle, however my mind was telling me that I am such a disappointment to anyone. When I go back in our room, I always tell to myself to stop crying over spilled milk because I should improve for another fight. But Ma’am Kim gave message to us when she saw me crying and it triggers me to cry all over again. The message that she gave to us conveyed that it was my fault and she compares her generation to ours. I saw my friend from junior high and told him that I can’t take it anymore; I hugged and just cried like a little baby in front of him and he told me that I can make it - this statement served as my motivation to conquer the impromptu speech. There, I saw myself not as a failure but a person who constantly glow like a beautiful butterfly waiting for my moment to shine and fly so high that even failure would fear to haunt me and thanks to my friend, it turned out well.
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High Hope
Ako’y nahulog ng isang beses sa paligsahan, natapilok habang rumarampa. Madaming tao ang nakakita ayoko na sanang ipagpatuloy pa. Ako ay bumangon upang ipakilala ang aking sarili, akala ko katapusan na ng aking mundo ngunit tingnan niyo ako ay nanalo. Ako’y kinabahan kaya ‘di ko na muling sinuot ang “high heels” ngunit ako ay muling sumaya dahil sa suporta ng aking pamilya. Patuloy akong ngumiti kahit may pighati.
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Constructed Response Composition
Reality is often stranger than fiction for the reason that reality will throw you several failures and lessons that may affect your living. There are problems in fiction that can be easily solved and be forgotten but in reality there are things that we just need to accept what happened and move on. Everything here on Earth is temporary and maybe we can edit our lives through writing fiction but we can never go back to the things that we want to change in the past. My fear in reality is haunting me because i know that everything has an end. I might fail or succeed in life but it is the only options that I have I might be on the top but there is a possibility that I’ll be at the bottom. In reality, the only thing that matters after a failure is to stand, accept, and continue moving forward. It is the only way to face the challenges of reality.
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Why is there a need for people to read fiction and poetry?
Fiction are imaginary stories like fantasies and the like while poetry composes of imagery, diction, rhyme, symbol, and mostly figures of speech. As a student, we should read fiction because even if it is just on imaginary stories it will still give us lessons that we can apply in our daily living. Poetry is the oldest form of literature and with that people express their emotions, feelings, and ideas. In addition, reading poetry helps us to think more critically and some poems are based on the experiences of a person that we can also relate to. Authors will give us confusion wherein we can able to look beyond those words that they used.
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