Time is gold?????
04.20.08 (1:56 am) [edit] My summer would become boring if I don't play sports. Good thing our parish has organized a day-long event of sports so that our parish will be more bonded. I signed up for table tennis and since a neighbor, just in front of our house, plays it also and is also the head of table tennis for the day-long activity, we are "practicing" for it almost everyday. Also, thank God that we play basketball and futsal every Saturday night in the school. I can still practice my skills.
"Time is Gold" many say, but what does this quotation mean? A very simple meaning for this is that since people value so much gold, because of its price, people must value time as they value Gold. But the way people value time differs from one another. As St. Josemaria said " For some, time is money but for us Christian, time is glory." This means, as a Christian, we must use our time to give glory to God. how can we do it since we are all doing different things and we can't pray all the time? well, praying is a way of giving glory to God, but it is not the only way. St. Josemaria is known for his teaching of sanctification of daily work. His teaching tells each one of us that we can all give glory to God by doing whatever we're doing (washing the dishes, studying, reading, etc.) excellently and to offer it to God. In this way, we are doing what we are ought to do at the same time, we are giving glory to God.
Everyone must remember that the time one has in his life is the only time he can use to gain heaven. To gain heaven one must do good acts and avoid doing evil things. If one dies, he doesn't have another chance to be in heaven. So let us all make good use of each second that passes by giving glory to God.
hoping...........
04.08.08 (6:18 am) [edit]I am so glad that I have survived my first year as a college student. At the start of the academic year, my aim was to de in the Dean’s list but when the first semester has ended, I have decided to aim for an easier goal first. As many have known, I was granted a financial scholarship for the previous academic year. This means I still need to do some work for the university. So after calculating my average for the first semester which was 1.7, I have decided to aim to convert my scholarship grant to a merit scholarship because I became qualified for one. The only requirement for that grant is to have a GWA equal or greater to 1.75.
So when the second semester has started, I was very eager to do well in my subjects. In the beginning, my eagerness has failed me already in my English 102 because of our teacher. She knows what she’s teaching but the only problem is that she was boring. She can afford to just talk and talk in front of the class. She doesn’t care if people don’t recite in her subject. That’s what I found boring in her class. But in my other subjects the eagerness didn't disappear. Along with this willingness, I aimed a mark of 1.0 in my Calculus. During the first half of the previous semester, I was still on my path on getting my target grade in Calculus but when derivative was introduced to us, I was slowly being directed to a lower grade and eventually I have thought and told myself that the path towards a mark of flat 1 is already unachievable and I was left in a crossroad. One is heading toward a mark of 1.25. And the other one is not clear. It’s either a mark of 1.5 or 1.75 but surely it isn’t a mark lower to it because I can’t allow myself to walk towards that end, at least for Calculus. I am not boasting but that is what was on my mind.
As for my other subjects, I really don’t expect myself to get a high mark in Filipino because I’m still in Ginoo’s class. I still chose him even if I know that I won’t be able to get a higher mark because I know that I’ll learn in his class.
But the most disappointing thing that happened to me last semester was with my programming subject, Computing 1. I was doing very well while approaching the end of the semester. I even have bonus grade due to the previous long tests. But the final exam arrived and my hopes of getting a flat 1 in it have almost been diminished because I wasn’t able to get a perfect score in our final exam. But since I have some bonuses from my long tests, I am still hoping of getting a flat 1.
And the time is nearing to determine if I achieve my goal or not. Our final grades are one by one being uploaded to our site. And as of this writing, the registrar has uploaded already three grades. I got 2 in Filipino, as expected. I got 2.25 in English, expected also but disappointing. And lastly, I got 1 in NSTP, higher than expected. If my computations are correct, if I’ll get 1.5 in Calculus (The lowest I’ll get, I think), 1.5 in Computer System, 1.25 in Computing, if my bonuses can’t give me a flat 1 in it, and 1.75 in PE, then I’ll have a reason to celebrate because my grades will be in the requirement for a merit scholarship. So guys, pray with me. Hehe. I hope you’ll get the grade you deserve and I hope it will be high…
My passion?????
04.06.08 (9:12 am) [edit]this post will be short....
In my junior year in Southridge, our final requirement in Filipino was a short story. At first, it was hard for me to think of a plot for my story for that was my first time to write one. Then, inspired by a story, i have thought of a very good plot. There is actually 4 different settings in the story with 4 characters. the first setting was during the Spanish era in the Philippines. the next is a basketball game. the 3rd is a room with genius people conversing. and last and the only real one was in a hospital. the only real one because the character in the last setting is a soldier that became crazy after being traumatized in a war and was brought to that hospital. And he has thought himself to be a propagandist during the Spanish era, a basketball star and a genius.
In my final year in Southridge, the final requirement in Filipino , as it has always been, was poems. It was hard for most of us in the batch to finish the required number of poems but as we approached the end of the school year, i was with the first quarter of the batch to have completed the requirement.
last semester, I was again required, in my Filipino class, to write a short story. but unlike in my junior year, it has not been difficult for me to think of a plot. So i have produced a very good story(i think, as what my friends have told me). It was about abortion. Actually i got the concept of the story from one of my poem in fourth year. The one telling the story was a child inside the mother. and in the end, the speaker said goodbye because he is getting weak after his mother drank the drug for abortion.
I really don't know if it is my passion to write, but now, i am thinking of creating another short story. i am just in the first part. thinking the plot of the story. so guys, wish me good luck. i am also wishing to write a script for a play or a even film. hahaha......
Thomas, the Angelic Doctor....
04.06.08 (4:51 am) [edit]Atheists are people who believe that God or simply a being higher than man doesn't exists. "Drink and be merry for tomorrow you'll die" this is what most of atheists believe. They say that there's nothing after dying. When you die, that's it. "It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men." - Carl Sagan. This person together with the other leaders of Atheism must be so intelligent because it is surely more easy to defend and more believable that there is someone higher than man or that there is God.
Another saint that I like, together with St. Josemaria, is St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas is considered one of the greatest Christian philosophers to have ever lived. I like this saint not only because my teacher has said his name many times in his discussions but also because of his famous five ways, five logical ways, without putting Christian doctrine in it, to prove that there exist a higher being which is God. So to continue reading this post, it requires you to make use of your reason just like the atheists, the only difference is that they have didn't make good use of their reason. Also, be open-minded. (Pls. try to finish it. It's quite long)
1st way: The Argument from Motion
St. Thomas Aquinas has said, after studying Aristotle's work, that any object that is moving, for example the planets in the solar system, is put in motion by other object. St. Thomas believed that there must have been an UNMOVED MOVER (GOD), who first put things in motion. Follow the argument this way:
1.) Nothing can move itself.
2.) If every object in motion had a mover, then the first object in motion needed a mover.
3.) The first mover is the Unmoved Mover, called God.
2nd way: Causation of Existence
This Way deals with the issue of existence. Using his common sense, St. Thomas concluded that nothing can create itself. It simpler terms, an object must have been caused by something that has existed before it. He believed that there must have been an UNCAUSED FIRST CAUSE (GOD) who began the chain of existence. Follow the argument this way:
1.) There exist things that are caused (created) by other things.
2.) Nothing can be the cause of itself.
3.) There can’t be an endless string of objects causing other object to exist.
4.) Therefore, there must be an uncaused first cause called God.
3rd way: Contingent and Necessary Objects
This way defines two terms, contingent and necessary being. A contingent being is an object that can’t exist without a necessary being causing its existence. He believed that the existence of contingent beings would ultimately necessitate a being, the NECESSARY BEING, which must exist for all contingent being. Follow he argument this way:
1.) Contingent beings are caused
2.) Not every being can be contingent
3.) There must exist a being which is necessary to cause contingent beings.
4.) This necessary being is God.
4th way: The Argument from Degrees and Perfection
Given two paintings, one can say that one is more beautiful than the other. One has a greater degree of beauty than the next. This is referred to as degrees or gradation of quality. From this fact, given any quality there must be a perfect standard by which all such qualities are measured. These perfections are contained in God.
5th way: The Argument from Intelligent Designer
St. Thomas said that common sense tells us that the universe works in such a way, that one can conclude that it was designed by an intelligent designer, God. All physical laws and the order of nature and life were designed and ordered by God, the INTELLIGENT DESIGNER.