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My Media Consumption Chart

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Media Literacy

1.     What new and relevant information did you learn from the film shown?

I’ve learnt that people who lives in rural areas lacks transportation which makes it harder for them to go to the hospital, market, city, etc. Although despite how far the location is, they will always find a way to get there may it be using a hammock to carry patients to the hospital, walking on mud barefooted, and many more just to get there. It also shows that the Filipinos are showing “Kabayanihan”.

 2.     Do you think documentary film is the best medium to show the societal issues presented in the material viewed? Why or why not? If not, which type of media could relay those issues better? Elaborate your answer.

Yes, because by then people could view it in their TV Screens or by using their electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, laptops, etc.

 3.     How can you, as a student, help others become aware and critical of the timely issues in our society using your social media platforms?

By sharing the issues on my social media platform, but before sharing I make sure that the content is reliable and true.

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Dear dad,

      I don’t know why I’m writing a letter to you when I could just call you or send you a message. Just do a great job in your job always. From your beloved son take care always.

Sincerely,

Nashzed

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POLITICAL DYNASTY INFOGRAPH

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POLITICAL DYNASTY

    Political dynasties refer to family units with members involved in government activities. It can also be a family or group that maintains power for several generations. In the Philippines, political dynasties refer to groups of politicians who come from the same family. The group in question is usually associated with a certain province or city, which members of the family have led or represented for successive generations. This can occur in two ways. One way is for members of a family to occupy a same certain government position in every term. Once the term of the member of a political dynasty runs out, a relative of the incumbent will run in his stead, thus ensuring political dominance. The second way is for a number of family members to occupy government positions at the same time.

    The Marcoses are one of the most well-known political dynasties in the Philippines. The dynasty started with Mariano Marcos, a lawyer from Ilocos Norte who was a member of the House of Representatives back in 1925. Ilocos remains to be the Marcoses’ political stronghold today. The dynasty was at its most prominent during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, son of Mariano Marcos. Ferdinand is one of the most controversial figures in Philippine history, due his declaration of martial law and the numerous human rights violations and rampant corruption of public funds during his rule. He and his father, Mariano Marcos, were also convicted for the murder of their political rival, Julio Nalundasan, who was killed by a sniper while brushing his teeth at his home on September 20, 1935. Ferdinand Marcos supposedly declared Martial law to suppress the widespread of communism and civil strife. However, he used it to suppress dissent, and consolidate power through the ratification of a new constitution.

    Marcos family members also held several governmental positions during this period and were involved in the misuse of public funds. Though they were exiled as a result of the People Power Revolution, the Marcos family has since regained power and is currently active in Philippine politics. Imelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand and former first lady, is currently a district representative of the second district of Ilocos Norte. Marcos’ daughter, Imee Marcos, is a governor of Ilocos Norte. His son, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., was a former senator who was a candidate for vice president in the 2016 national elections. The Marcoses currently cannot set foot in any United States territory because of a contempt judgement regarding their human rights violations.

    Political dynasties started emerging after the Philippine Revolution when the First Republic of the Philippines was established. Political Administrations have for quite some time been an element of the Philippine political scene. They are ordinarily described as families that have built up their political or monetary strength in a territory and have composed endeavors to proceed onward to association in national government or different places of national political conspicuousness. Political traditions generally have a solid, merged help base focused around the area in which they are prevailing. Individuals from such administrations for the most part don't restrain their association to entirely political exercises, and have been discovered taking an interest in business or culture-related exercises.

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THE FIRST TIME I TRAVELLED OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY WITHOUT MY PARENTS

By Nashzed T. Mercado

 1.      Negara Brunei Darussalam

      Negara Brunei Darussalam is the most peaceful country in the world. A lot of people are afraid to commit a crime in that country because for example if they steal, the hand that they used to steal will be cut off and will also go to jail. While if they rape, they will cut off the man’s genital off of him, while I don’t know about women who rapes.  It is quite a wealthy country due to their economy which relies on oil and gas. It is also the country where I mostly grew up. It is where I spent most of my childhood days/years. I was four years old when my dad took me and my mom to go to Brunei. I have lived in Brunei for almost 11 years. I had so much memories in that country. In fact, I started my schooling days in Brunei and also had my first girlfriend there. It is probably the country that I’d count as my 2nd home, not because of my ex-girlfriends, but because I’ve lived there for so long.

    When I was in grade 9, I joined an ICT competition called Brunei ICT Awards or BICTA (in short).  It was a competition about an ICT where schools could participate and choose who to present for their schools. But luckily in our school, our teacher wanted students who were willing to join the competition, as she didn’t want to force students into joining the competition. So me, 4 of my mates and 3 classmates who were girls wanted to join the BICTA and quickly told our teacher that we wanted to join BICTA. It was the month of March – July. The AITI(Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry), who were hosting BICTA had a 5 day meeting/training for BICTA. During our training for BICTA we had workshops on what and how are going to do BICTA. The meetings were hosted by AITI (Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry). In our workshops we went to AITI’s building, for tips on doing our BICTA project and Jerudong International School for a workshop that was also hosted by AITI and taught us how to program. Before we officially get registered, me and my team already had a firm idea of what we were going to build/make for BICTA, while our female team didn’t have a firm idea of what they were going to make. So because of our female team didn’t have a firm idea of what they were going to make, they decided to backed out instead. Which only left my team as the only representative for our school. After our 5 day workshop, we immediately started out our BICTA project. While we were in school we’d still do our BICTA project, we were even excused to attend other classes in order for us to focus for our BICTA project, but sadly we weren’t excused from homeworks. Every day we’d do our BICTA project from morning (starting of the classes) to afternoon (end of classes). We’d spent most of our time in the computer lab doing our BICTA project. After working on our project, we then worked for our presentation, as we had to pitch our ideas for the BICTA competition. We also then practiced for our presentation.

    It was the day that we were going to present, we all went to school to meet up. After we we’re all already complete, we then got ready by praying to our gods that hopefully our presentation could go well. My teacher and classmates had different religions, so we all prayed to our own gods. After praying, we then went to our teacher’s car and had our teacher driving us to the destination. We all talked to each other inside our teacher’s car and telling each other that the prayers made all of us much more confident. When we reached the destination, we then practiced for one last round for our presentation. Later that moment, they called our school name to present our BICTA project, we were the first group to present, and so we went inside the pitching room and pitched our ideas to the judges. There was a rule that a presentation should only last for 5 minutes, and there is a guy who’s going to send us a signal that it is already our time. While we we’re pitching our presentation to the judges, the judges we’re so interested in our project that they asked lots of questions. Because of them asking questions we have then reached our limit to 5 minutes, while one of the judges extended our time to 10 more minutes. The winners weren’t announced yet so after our presentation we then went to Jollibee and ate Jollibee as it was the favourite restaurant of my squad, then we went home. As for one of the organizers told us that the results will still came in a few weeks later. Around September I had to transfer school in the Philippines, because Brunei was already localizing. My classmates and teacher went to AITI building to get our rewards as for we won the first place, and sadly I wasn’t there with them which made me felt envy. The first and second place of all categories who won the BICTA will be presenting Brunei to Sri Lanka for APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards). I felt envy and happy at the same time because I was in the Philippines and couldn’t do anything, while happy at the same time because we won first place.

  2.      Philippines

      It was the month of September 2015 when we were in the Philippines already, a few days in the Philippines and we already started looking for schools which were I was going to enroll. I had to enroll fast because my parents were worried I might miss a lot of school works. After searching a few schools, we then found a school close to our house called EMD Carmelite School Foundation Inc. and that was the school where I got enrolled. My dad requested if I could go to grade 10 already, so then I was then put to grade 10 in which I should be in grade 9.

    A few weeks later my teacher who was in Brunei talked to my parents through calling, saying that she wanted me to go to back to Brunei and work for the APICTA project as it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to other countries to present a country for a competition. Thanks to my teacher, she really convinced both of my parents of me going back to Brunei to join APICTA. While my parents were already convinced of me going back to Brunei, all we had to do was ask permission from the school’s office and school’s president/vice-president whether I could go back to brunei to go to sri lanka to participate for APICTA. Luckily the president agreed for me to go back to brunei.

 3.      Sri Lanka

      Me and my family then went back to Brunei, all of my friends in the school were shocked because I went back to the school as a student just doing APICTA project and not involving in the school works anymore. This time our training was much tougher, if last time we worked for our project everyday from early to afternoon, this time it’s from morning to evening. We’d go to our teacher’s house everyday just to practice for APICTA. Sunday was the only day we don’t have any practice.

    Amongst the 5 of us, only 3 members in our group including me we’re allowed to go to Sri Lanka because their parents didn’t allow them to go to Sri Lanka. AITI made a sponsorship that they will only sponsor 2 participants and 1 mentor/teacher for each school. I was supposed to be one of the participants to be offered but sadly they said that at least 1 local must be in the team, so that’s why the local in our group took the spot while the other spot was taken by our leader. So what my teacher did was that she convinced the principal that I had to be sponsored by the school. Thanks to her again I was sponsored by the school.

    On our flight day to Sri Lanka, at the airport we met the other Bruneian teams who were also going to represent Brunei in Sri Lanka for APICTA. We were even then also taken pictures in the airport for the News magazine in Brunei. The airlines that we rode going back and forth from Brunei to Sri Lanka was Singapore Airlines. Our flight was not a straight flight from Brunei to Sri Lanka. We still had to stop over in Singapore, then Sri Lanka.

    On our day to present for APICTA, we all wore suits to present. We felt confident as usual, and the day after our presentation we had a gala night, where they would present the winners and give certificates to the merit awardees. Our school received a merit award placing 2nd most best presentation, even tho we didn’t win the first place, we were still happy, because at least our hard work paid off. When we went back to Brunei, we then already went back to Philippines immediately. Sometimes when I miss Brunei I’d reminisce all the memories that I’ve done there.

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MOVIE CRITIQUE

The movie’s title that I’m going to make a movie critique about is “PATAY NA SI HESUS”. Before I watched the movie just by hearing the title of the movie “PATAY NA SI HESUS”, I thought it was a religious movie but it turned out it wasn’t. I thought it was something relating to Jesus Christ. But instead it turned out to be a comedy movie. The director of the movie was Victor Villanueva.

    It is a Cebuano comedy movie which is a story about a family who went on a road trip from Cebu to Dumaguete City to make it to their father’s funeral. Their family that went on a road trip consists of an estranged wife/mother named Iyay, 2 sons (1 with down syndrome named Hubert and the other was a normal one named Jay), and a tomboy daughter named Judith Marie or so called Jude. Their family are somewhat, somehow like my extended family in my mother’s side, a savage family who roasts each other and do jokes by flaming each other. I think it’s normal for visayan families to be a savage and flame each other a lot. On their way to Dumaguete, during their road trip they’ve encountered lots of hardships, where at the starting of their road trip Jay and Jude really didn’t want to go to the road trip but was forced by their mother. He even tried escaping the road trip by making an excuse that he wanted to pee, and after taking a pee, he started running away but was chased and got forced to go back by his sibling Jude. Their mother wanted to go back to cebu city because of the problem of their house and lot, but Jay forced his mother to stay with them to go to their father’s funeral, just like how he was forced to go to his father’s funeral. On the other hand, Jude saw his girlfriend having an affair with another woman. Which broke his heart as to what all of the things that she has done to her, such as buying her an ultra screen tv hd, sharing of the bills and payments of the house & lot that they were renting, and many more, and all her girlfriend did was cheat on her. At a time that they went for a stop to go to the restroom, Hubert had a plan to go to Dumaguete, so he then took their dog with him and rode a bus going to the boat terminal, while he never informed any of his family members, so his family members kept on looking for him. As soon as they heard that Hubert rode a bus going to the terminal, they then rushed going to the terminal hoping they would still catch Hubert in the terminal. When they reached their old house in Dumaguete, where Hesus(their father) was still in his coffin, they also had talked with Hesus’s 2nd family. In conclusion, at the day of Hesus’s funeral, their dog was missing, and when they found their dog it was already dead as it got run over by a truck. So they were all crying about the dog than to their father who was just behind them passing by for his funeral.

    The things that I liked about the movie was that, it was funny, by the way how Jay used the exact same words from his mother to his mother, when his mother was scolding him and in turn he’d scold his mother. And also by the way how the ending of the movie ended. I wasn’t expecting that the ending would end that way. I was expecting more of a sad ending than a funny ending.

    The thing that I didn’t like or dislike about the movie was in the starting part of the movie, where it got weird to the point where Jay was in their bathroom and he swallowed his own semen, which made me cringed and disgusted. Ever since I saw that scene, I then lost my appetite for being hungry, because I was quite hungry while watching the movie. I also didn’t like their aunt who was a sister of the church. As for she was really weird, she made jokes that only she would laugh, she undressed herself naked for no reason at all which was very weird. She’s also quite childish. There are a lot more things that I disliked about the movie, than liking it.

    Overall view, it’s not that I’m being biased or what, but I don’t like watching filipino movies in general, as for me their quite cringy in some ways. If I were to rate the movie out of 10, I’d probably give it an 8 out of 10, because of their comedy, their special ending, and that I also didn’t understand some of the words of what they were saying, I’d prefer watching English movies because I’d understand them better.

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Passion for Dota Do what you love, love what you do I have other passions But you..., You became one of them You, You make me happy, You make me angry, You are like my mom who could change my my emotions from 0-100 real quick, You have allowed me to play with strangers, You have allowed me to select a choice of my own skills, and an item of my choice. You made me competitive You are my stress reliever and my stress giver You are the cure to my boredom You have also helped me escape through anxiety and reality You have helped me procrastinate, in such a way, that i'd forget to do my homework We'd play every single day, with/without school As long as i have data cap

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MY HOME

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What makes a home? Four walls and a roof. No, a home is much more than that. A home is a place that one love to live in. A home is a place, where you feel comfortable. Home is a place full of so many stories and where memories are made. Home is a place I can feel safe and secure. A home is built with a family. A home provides you with the community that will always be there for you. My home is made up of a very important group of people; my family. My family consists of my mom Zenaida, my dad Nolasco, and I, myself Nashzed. Home is where I was raised. Where I played, laughed, cried, and learned. It is where I grew. Where I became me—a strong, intelligent man—confident in myself, in my future and in my past.     Home is not just a house, it is a place. A house is just like a shelter where you live but you don't love it. Home is where you love to live in because you have your belongings in it, your toys that you grown up with your childhood memories and many more things. Even if you move to another house, you still have these things which will remind you of other homes that you have lived in. My home is wherever my family goes. As long as the three of us are together, it always feels like home. Even when I was travelling abroad for international competitions, I never really felt homesick, as for when i travelled, I didn't travel alone, but travelled with my teammates and mentor which I would also count as my 2nd family. Based on my experience, I never really felt homesick even tho when one of my parents goes to abroad, or when i'm living in abroad and one of my parents goes back to our home country. I think what makes a child not feel homesick, is that as long as the child receives as much support and motivation that he/she needs, and that the parents are teaching their child/children to be independent, the child wouldn't feel homesick, as for the parents would be the inner voice of the child.     Home is a place where my family are. Home is where you feel safe because no one is a stranger in your home. In my home, I have my parents who teach me many things and I learn most of the things from my parents before I realize anything on my own. My parent's personalities are the first basis for the way I live. The way they live is the first thing I will see and learn from before I can actually acquire my own home. My parents created the home I lived in originally. They physically put all of the objects I grew up with in the home. As I grew older, I came to a realization for which I am very grateful for having such cool parents,or just parents in general, because I, myself has both parents (mom and dad), while others only have 1 parent or neither. I have cool parents because everytime me and family are together or just one of my parents are away, I'd always eat 3 times a day or more in which I will be served food, from both of my parents or just one of them, when one of my parents are away. As a child, I already saw their sacrifices for me as to not suffer from anything. For example, sometimes when my family is broke and that i'm hungry, one of them would buy me food from their savings and they'd take a small portion of the food that they bought and give the rest of the food to me. I saw through their eyes that one of them were actually hungry/starving and they'll just take a bite and just give the rest of the food to me, just for me to eat something and be full. No matter what toys, clothes or any materialistic things i want, I'd always tend to get it, but not the exact day that i want it. It's not that i'm spoiled, but my dad told me that if i already have all of the things that i have in life, i'll already be contented and be happy with my life. There was also a time that I was admitted to the hospital, because it so happened that i caught dengue in me and my dad was working abroad by that time so it was only me and my mom for most of the days in the hospital. She really sacrificed her time for me, there was even like a straight couple of days that she never went home just to take care of me in the hospital. Luckily that she got my relatives to substitute her to take care of me in the hospital, so she can also rest. Growing up I realized that my personality is being created by the people whom i surround with, but most likely it came from my parents, such as my behaviour, habits, being confident, becoming interested into businesses, martial arts and many more.     When I am sad, or things are not going right,I can leave all my stress, and worries behind because I have a home to look forward to. I believe home is where the heart is, because it is a place where memories are made, security is found, and where I have become who I am.

Nashzed