Where I Learn is Your Business

Saint Louis University Laboratory High School is where I study and in this particular blog post, I would like to share with you all a very short history and description of my school (Saint Louis University Laboratory High School) and the university it belongs to, (Saint Louis University).

It all started in the year 1911 when a CICM missionary, Rev Fr Séraphin Devesse, opened up a small room so he could teach a couple of young boys. That start was what sparked the development of Saint Louis University. Now, SLU has a college campus with more than just one small room and also, SLU has more than just a couple of young boys as students. Now, thousands of students study in SLU and they’re not just boys, now SLU also has girls studying on its grounds. Now, SLU is about to celebrate its centennial and looking back, it’s really been so far since the start of SLU’s development because the development of SLU is, up to now, ongoing. From a small room to a very large University we can see how fast a developing institution thrives to become excellent and to live up to the title, The Light of the North.

So with all these facts, you can now see that my school started from scratch and now even I am part of it. In every fellowship, group, committee, sisterhood or brotherhood, and the like there must always be a leader who keeps that certain unit together; without that leader, that unit is T-O-A-S-T (Truly Overly And Seriously Toast :). Currently, the leader of the university I belong to is not other than Fr. Jessie M. Hechanova. I am very thankful for him because without him Saint Louis University would be TOAST.

For me, I am currently in the high school department because of the fact that I can’t be accelerated into being a college student because I’m not really that smart. Now each of the departments of Saint Louis University are like branches branching out from a big trunk of a very big tree and for each branch there would be someone who would be holding the pieces together so that he and the leader of the main trunk would work together to make everything work. For the current branch I’m in, the leader is Dr. Joel Cabanilla. I don’t really know that much of the other branches but at least I was able to give you a better understanding of my school.

So for now, enough about the tree talk. Let’s talk about the other things about Saint Louis University.

Every once in a while – whether in elementary, high school, or college –, masses are held to help each and every one of the students to be closer to God and in these masses, our very own parish priests are the ones who celebrate the masses with us which makes me very thankful to them for without them there would be no Christian Spirit in this institution.

In every branch, there are also the teachers and/or professors who are those behind all the excellent students teaching and coaching them for the future. These people are like the muscle and bones that make all the parts of the body move same as through with us, they are the ones who keep the students moving, working, thinking, studying, and doing other things like sports or something. They are there to develop a student’s Creativity and Competence (not one without the other)

So we’ve mentioned the President, the Principal, the Parish Priests, and the teachers. The only thing s left are the… students.

The students are like the blood that flows through the body, without blood – or should I say students – the body can’t live at all. Students are the ones to be trained, to be crafted, to be taught how to be good people for the world and for the community in the future. They are responsible for each other and with each other they learn to be Socially Involved.

So as you can see there are 4 main values that I’ve pinpointed in my previous statements and these are having a Christian Spirit, Creativity, Competence, and being Socially Involved. These four main values are the 4 core values of Saint Louis University. These values are responsible for the honing of not only the student’s attitudes but also that of the faculty and staff’s values and attitudes.

You could probably see that we can’t be what we are without one or the other so I say that we can’t be what we are now without everybody else’s help. As they always say ( I apologize for the cliché) “There’s no ‘I’ in team.”

As expected I’m going to include here my short poem.

School it’s not just about children

That would be just too much of a burden

Everyone is here to help

No one will just sit down and yelp

It’s hard to do things alone

And sometimes we just want to stay at home

But really, we can’t

Then later on we realized that we went

Because in school it’s just like that

We just don’t stay and ask the question what

We stay because there’s the why and why not

And this is what will help us easily untie the “knot”

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Just for You, SLU

I’m just so proud of my school because it will be celebrating its one-hundredth year as an institution of education. Saint Louis University started as a small school teaching the local boys about basic education and about Christian Religion and now it has its own elementary, high school, and college branches. For almost a hundred years, my school has been teaching so many children and young adults about how to be a better person for the community and this will have helped them to have a better future. My school has done so much for all the students who have gone and studied on its grounds. My school has been labeled “The Light of the North” which makes me even more proud of it. My school has helped so many people so as a student of SLU, I am in great debt to it; I must have something to give as a gift to my school, so I could show my appreciation for my school.

Usually we give gifts, and more often than not, I see that gifts are mostly given during a person’s birthday. In this blog’s case, it’s not a person who would be receiving my gift; it’s for someone – or something – else; it’s for my school.  When someone tries to find a gift to give to someone special, it would take hours and hours and HOURS to find the perfect gift for that someone. Now I’m having exactly that problem. I do not know what to give as a gift to my school.

So let’s try to look at my options:

1.       Money? (not so special)

2.       Food? (schools don’t eat)

3.       A corny song? (one; it’s corny, two; it’s not needed cause we already have a school song)

4.       Fist fight? (not such a good idea, plus I can’t pick on someone not my own size[I’m large])

5.       A cat? (there are too much cats in school [and proof is the poop in places] thank you very much)

What a waste of options. Well, I guess the very best thing I could give (not to mention the best I could think of) is a prayer.

A prayer is nice, right? For me, it is just right and it’s not just because I can’t think of anything else but because one; my school is a Christian school, two; the Almighty Being who would be listening to my prayer – I hope – would be pleased, three; my school deserves to be appreciated, four; I would really like to thank my school, and – last but not the least—five; maybe those who would be reading my blog would actually thank my school too. So I guess it’s decided that I’m gonna offer a prayer of thanks for my school as my gift to it. I’m going to TRY MY best to make the best thanksgiving prayer for my school ever!

                So instead of my usual poem, I would be posting in my blog my “gift” for my school for you to read.

Father God who is good and loving,

My school is one that is very giving. I’d really love to see the day it would be celebrating its very own 100^th birthday. So there’re so many things I’d like to say. But for now, Father, I would like to show my thanks for my school.

I would like to thank my school, because it has trained me with all its rules, because it has protected me from being too ignorant, because it has kept me from being part of chaos that’s rampant, because it has given to me the very best and that is knowledge about the world and how to live in it. These things it has given are what I am very lucky to receive. I would also like to thank You, Lord, for my school has given me the privilege of being called a Louisian and being one is no joke.

Father, may most, if not all, know more about what my school does for them and may they also realize that my school really deserves their appreciation. Father, I also thank You for blessing me with the opportunity to be able to study in a private school known as Saint Louis University Laboratory High School.

May You continue to hear me out and may You also continue to guide my school as it will be striving to achieve another hundred years of service to the young people of Northern Luzon so that it may continue to live up to its title, The Light of the North. Amen.

(Fine! So it may not be the best prayer ever but it’s the best prayer I could give)

Home? Which Home?

My School :D

I spend almost 10 hours every day for 5 days in a week (that makes, more or less, 250 hours a month for 9 months every year) in the same building, same room. This year I am now studying in a classroom called 3 Mapagpakumbaba containing 19 students. I have 11 teachers; each having a subject to teach us and every day we have 2 breaks (one for recess [20 minutes] and one for lunch [an hour]). The 30 people I meet every day were the ones I met the day before today and the day before that. So if you think, “Hmm, I’m thinking that you’re talking about your home, with students and teachers and subjects” you’d be so wrong.

You’re probably wondering why the heck I’m doing all this Math here. You’re probably not minding my blog title and still wondering why I’m doing my Math. Well, I’m doing my Math because I’m trying to give you a better understanding on the school I am currently studying in. My school, Saint Louis University Laboratory High School, is where I study, where I learn.

School, school, school. It’s always that and sometimes, almost always, we just wish that it would be vacation already; however, with all the hours we spend every day with our classmates and teachers, we can’t help but find more reasons to go to school aside from just to get a good education. In time, we get closer to everybody, we form bonds and links that – after time passes – will be harder to break. We are relational beings who, in a way, easily connect with our fellow beings. School’s where we find friends and new family, aside from the one we already have at home.

In school, we get to discover things. Especially in this school, there are many great things that are learned and are put into our minds that would eventually stay in our heart for the rest of our short lives. We find lots of reasons for getting out of bed and taking a cold shower and eat cold food and everything else that’s cold and those reasons aren’t just about learning things. We can call our school our other home.

When I was young, I was always taught that a home is a house but is different from a house because there are people living in it that love each other. To be more technical let’s take a definition from the internet. A home according to thefreedictionary.com (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/home), a home is a dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it. A school is a place where we dwell with social units occupying a room called a classroom, so technically a school is a home.

I consider my school as my other home because right now in my current stage of development, I hate being alone, I don’t want to be left out I need my classmates and teachers to show me the way, and by way I mean the right way of course. My current teachers and classmates now are the BEST that I have had during all the 10 years I’ve already been spending in going to school and having my education, so far, so that makes my life in this school a life in a home.

Let me now bring to you another short poem about my blog post.

My home not house, my school

Some people don’t think it’s cool

Sometimes this makes progress fast as a mule

Everywhere they imply a rule

To be followed and taken seriously

Or else we’ll start to think deliriously

This education we have is a true and useful gift

And might just be the big shift

Form a bad future to a good one

Just like going out from darkness and finally seeing the sun

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Is It Just a Crush? (A Crush [talk] on TED [.com])

 

(If your a dude, just read it in a dude's view by changing gender related text to your liking but in your mind only not in technical terms like actually changing what I wrote here )

This video I embedded is one of the videos from TED.com where Mr. John Rives is telling a story using many different emoticons that show how a boy… or a man tried to impress a girl who passed by that he seemed to like but has some problems in achieving his –let’s call it– “wish”, so he tries to and just when things seem to be looking… okay, he says, “I’d like to hand-paint your picture on a coffee mug.” Oh jeezeys wheezeys! Of all the things you could say to a person you’d like, you say… “I’d like to hand-paint your picture on a coffee mug.” So yeah, he tries to impress the girl who he freakin’ likes in a way that she doesn’t freakin’ care about because she goes, “whaaa-?” Then after more of the I’m-trying-to-impress-you-in-a-way-that-you-don’t-want-to-be-impressed talk, he calls himself a monkey. A freakin’ monkey. Who calls himself a monkey in front of the person he likes? NOW, here comes the nice part. He makes a metaphor and calls the girl a butterfly. How sweet is that? I’d really like to hear that from a guy. He was sweet for that, so he eventually asks her out, but what did the girl say? She says, “No thank you” without even smiling a bit or at least frowning. A harsh girl was liked by the wrong man, poor dude.

So let’s get to what I want to say, what I want to say is that sometimes, if you like someone, you get the feeling where you seem to do nothing that’s right, so you get all nervous and start to act stupid around that person (even if you act stupidly around everybody, the way you would act around that person is still different compared to how you usually act stupid around others). You could call it whatever you want to call it, but I’ll call it a simple crush.

A crush (I’m referring to the crushes we have on other people not on things) is what we get when we take our time staring at a person, had to have similarities with a person, or when we just simply like that person for no apparent reason… at all… not even one. In the site kids health.org (whose URL is http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/thought/crushes.html) , an article there says that, “A crush is a word used to describe special feelings you have for another person, a classmate, or friend that you really like.” Crushes happen, life is a package and in that package, there we’ll find crushes, we can’t avoid having them.

Crushes are there for a reason (and I mean the right reason) because they sometimes just go next to you and spontaneously combust a conversation concerning you and no one else and this event will be the most memorable of the day because if ever you were feeling sad, he made you happy and you would then start to be happy around other people too.  If you really like that guy, you would probably just look at him and then if he would look back, your day would be completada. No need for other people to look back at you? NADA, nada, nada. Then it’s either you start to smile a lot or start to talk gibberish or feel like you’re flying or you feel like you’re so so soooo light or any other perk that comes with the express ticket you’ve purchased for a trip to Crush town.

So if ever you…  

·Have Cooties

·Feel as light as a feather

·Can’t stop looking at your phone just to see if he texted you

·Can’t keep you mind, eyes, and words off of him

·Want to have a picture with him like a lot of pictures

·Want him to notice you

·(you know the rest, it’s up to you to continue the phrase)

                            ...then you have a crush on that “him” whoever “him” is for you. Just hope no one else likes your “him”.

If you find it hard to talk to him and sometimes you eventually go “gaga” over him, I present to you a step-by-step program to help you with your boy troubles.

Step 1 > Try to be yourself. TRY as hard as you can. You’re the one who’s gonna have problems later ‘cause you wanted to lie and be his Ms Perfect.

Step 2 > Remember, you like him, no love him.

Step 3 >Don’t let everyone know about it unless you want yourself to let “himself” know that you like him.

Step 4>Hope for the best if you know what’s best for you.

So now let me end my blog post with my “blogly” poem… :D

If I knew what to do,

I would have told you

If you cared about me

I guess there’s no one I’d rather be

If you liked me enough

You’d see past all my fluff

And I’d see past all your buff (body buff, as in “machoness")

Then know that if you really didn’t, it’s tough

But it’s just a crush anyway

I’ll just have to find another someday...T_T

(Sorry to be so sad and moody if you think that I am):P

(Image Links)

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McIcey + McCreamy= McIceCreamy

 Yep, it’s McIceCreamy. What is it with ice cream and why the heck am I talking about it? Look, I’m sorry if I’m getting you hungry, but I happen to like ice cream you know and I hope you like it too. See, ice cream comes in thousands of flavors and one of the weirdest flavors I’ve heard of is… Horse Flesh ice cream. “Really?” you say. Well, yes. There really is horse flesh ice cream. Just by the sound of raw horse flesh flavored ice cream makes me quite nauseous. Ice cream shouldn’t be wasted with horse flesh or whales or octopi or tuna. Ice cream should have nutty or creamy or non-meaty flavors. These nutty, creamy or non-meaty ice cream flavors are what I’ll be blogging about so don’t you worry.

                 What is ice cream really? Ice cream is something frozen that is quite sweet when fruity but would probably not be like that if there is a bucket of horse flesh ice cream waiting to be tasted and eaten.

                Ice cream. We eat it, we let it float on our sodas, we put it in our mouth and try to withstand its very cold temperature, we love the little nuts that come with it, we sometimes even add cherries and bananas on top. What is it with ice cream? Why is it so fun to eat? Why is it so yummy (The nutty, creamy or non-meaty flavored ice cream is what I’m talking about)? We love it so much because it can be as simple or as complicated as we want it to be. It can simply be some strawberry ice cream with no bits, no sprinkles, or it can be a complicated dish of… Triple Chocolate Terrine with Raspberry Coulis. It’s your mood that helps you pick one of the many thousands of flavors there are. Whether you get a simple vanilla ice cream cause you’re feeling a bit plain, or you’re getting a chewy, crunchy, and mallowee rocky road ice cream, you will still enjoy these freakishly delicious ice creams and their freakishly tasty flavors. They have their way in making a person happier by the bite or suck or whatever you call the way you eat your ice cream (sometimes, you sip if the ice cream's already melted). These ice creams are there when you’re sad, when you’re with your friends, when you’re with your significant other, when you're sharing your pieces of information with each other, when you don't know what to eat, when you know what to eat but you don't eat it because you like ice cream more, or just when you came from a fight with your best friend or neighbor.  Ice cream seems to be the type of snack you would want (and I’m not saying that I‘ll be eating it during my snack time) to have when it’s hot or when it’s boring or sad. Ice cream’s there to let you eat it and then feel a bit better. 

With the many flavors of ice cream available all around. There is also that one flavor, that one special flavor, that for you, it’s the one you want the one flavor you think that best suits you and it’s the one that you will keep on seeking and craving for after you eat it. Every one of us has it. Every single one has a favorite ice cream flavor.

My favorite ice cream flavor is probably Black Forest, mainly because I really like that Oreo taste with the addition of cherries. Sometimes I even like experimenting and start making my very own Cherry and Banana ice cream which I’d name Hubaba ice cream if I had the chance to recreate it again.

So, how about you? What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

I hope this poem will help you answer my question,

A nut and a berry for you

Put it in some ice cream, don’t worry no one will sue

If you want it, go and eat it

Also go add a wafer and add a choco-bit

Choose Strawberry, melon, maybe mango or milk

Don’t forget to wipe your mouth with a napkin that’s silk

Try some syrup or some caramel to go

If you wanted to, you could just say so

Remember to try some marshmallows too

But don’t try to put in some of the glue

Don’t forget the Cherry and the Banana

Like my blog whose name is also Hubaba

 Here are the links of the images I used:

http://www.who-sucks.com/food/101-frightening-ice-cream-flavors-from-around-the-world

http://beyondwonderful.com/recipes/desserts/other/terrine_chocolate_raspberry_coulis.html

http://www.healthforthewholeself.com/2010/02/serving-size-distortion/

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Black-Forest-Ice-Cream-Pie

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