it was true fun :)

Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Seven days before school officially ends. This fact is too good to be true and too sudden for all of us. I am happy and sad all at the same time. I still remember myself wishing for a vacation. Now, here I am, feeling quite sad to have a long escape. That sucks, right? I'm suppose to be happy but I'm not. Anyway, I just want to say that this year was memorable. Being brutally honest, this year was not a waste. I remember myself screaming, shouting, singing, dancing, slipping, sleeping, drowning, jumping, cramming,running and.......eating. Those sort of things made my second year in high school a blast.

The people around me, especially my classmates, were the best persons I've ever known. They were strange at first. But I got to know a lot of them. I've made new friendships, and even renewed friendships. My classmates and I cried tears, and laugh our heads off. Never will I forget Jea's infectious laugh, Kimberly's nervous acts, Marion's Bieber fantasy, Roselle's dance moves, Kylie's Boy Abunda impersonation, Apol's Kris Aquino impersonation, my three angelic friends: Jacque, Allyza and Janina and so on........I'll never forget everyone.

Thank God for this school year. I wish this school year to repeat itself but I know that it will never be. So be it. But, the last thing I gotta say is that I had fun. True fun. :)

Say Yes to Life!

Life. A four-letter word with a lot of meaning. They say that this word is nothing but wealth. This word describes all living things. Some would say it is a nuisance. Some would say it is a pilgrimage to heaven. Some would say it is a grace. Whatever they say, life is simply beautiful.

Poverty worsens as the population grows enormously. These two are becoming superior problems in our country each day. Thus, the Reproductive Health Bill is born. According to Wikipedia, it is a Philippine bill aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. The stated purpose of the said bill is to aim for improved quality of life through a “consistent and coherent national population policy.” Pills will be the way to control the growing population. But these pills are the ones which will kill young human embryos! I was eleven when I first heard of this bill but of course, it did not matter to me at all. I thought it was just nothing. “Some junk again”, I remembered saying to my sister. But it wasn’t a nothing to me anymore. To think that we are killing young human embryos who are purely innocent! They have not yet experienced the world and yet we stole their only chance. Who are we to decide on matters such as this? Are we God?

To all mothers in the world, do you want your daughters to engage in premarital sex? Many are sure that this is the consequence, if the bill pushes through. This should not be it. Premarital sex is a sin. Sex is sacred and it is created by God only to produce a baby and a means for the man and his wife to be as one. According to Kaiser Fernandez’s blog post, if the initial goal of the act is not to bear a child only to gain pleasure, then we are contradicting its true purpose and can be considered simply an act of lust. Sex is beautiful, as Mrs. Rhodora Clement says. The product of sex is a precious gift from God. My parents and my grandparents told me that you should do the act with the person you truly loved.

This bill is not the answer to decipher our country’s greatest and extreme problems. If truth be told, population is not the problem. Our government is! Do we know where our resources go? Do they go to a place where they could be a help? Or to a place where they become the source of nuisance and pain? Corruption should be erased from everyone’s heart. A stain that should have been removed before. This bill is not the way to opulence. This bill is not the way to unity. This bill is against life. This bill is against God. This is not the way. A big NO. As stewards of God’s majestic creation, we should value life, especially our own lives. This is our one and only life. We should love it, enjoy it, and cherish it. As Hans Christian Andersen quotes, a human life is a story told by God.