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|Personal|

I know I have not been that active for the past months of 2019. My last and latest post is my 2018 year-ender and I haven’t got to posting any new contents for this blog of mine. I know that I don’t have that much supporters and readers that read my blog but if you are reading this, I apologize for just creating a new content again and I thank you very much that you are one of my supporters that keeps coming back supporting me; and if you are new here on my blog, welcome!

First and foremost, I apologize for not being that active on creating contents for my blog especially during these past few months due to the fact that I don’t have that much free time to do anything outside of my academic life. Now I can say, college life is really no joke and yes, I know that I am still new to such a thing and that it would soon get worse as I progress more into collegiate level but it is really no joke. One reason why during last summer I was so active on creating contents was because it was summer plus I didn’t have that much to do so all my effort and time were spent on creating contents. But that all changed when college came knocking on my door and took all my time, the only free time that I get I spent it on relaxing or rather sleeping just so that my human body and mind can rest for a bit before it is beaten up again by the academic life.

Yes, I am now telling you that this is more of a personal type of content because I have a lot on my mind and inside that I would like to let out and I know that writing about it can help me last through the struggles that I am going through right now.

The biggest struggle that I am going through right now is about my academic life, specifically with my History subject. I am not really a big fan of all that subjects that would require you to be a bookie or more efforts into memorizing and reading a plethora of information, but I do appreciate and adore History. For me, what makes history exciting for me is that I get a glimpse on what the world was back then plus discovering exciting facts and information that would help us learn why our world is what is right now. But with this issue, I am really struggling plus the professor is really not being of help at all. I an giving him the benefit of the doubt that he is really intelligent and amazing just to be intact with all this information BUT the way he teaches history – Philippine History – is nothing. Instead of giving us reliable readings or references where we could read and learn more about what he is talking about, he would only spit out all this information to us, not knowing if what he is talking about is still in align with the course module or not anymore, and then expect us to excel in his course. I mean that is just nonsense.

Personally, from a perspective of a student from this generation. Teachers should also ask themselves if their students nowadays are still learning from what they give their students or how they give it out. Teachers should realize, especially teachers that have been teaching for a long time now should think about changing the way that they teach their subject because they are not teaching the past generation that they know such ways worked; they are now teaching the future generations which we came with change and are here for change, so if the teachers would want change from us, they should also change first for the betterment of the students that would eventually affect the future better.

I know that this content would not really have a lot of attention, but if any one of you would like to share this content to people that are feeling the same way to how students or some students are being taught then share it because I know that it would help them also have a light on them knowing that they are not alone in feeling such ways towards certain types of teaching ways.

I’ll end this content with this for now, I still have a lot to share with you guys about my life and realizations that I am having in my life but that would be on another content - hopefully soon. So, thank you guys for reading and hearing out one of my major struggles in life right now.

|Personal| I know I have not been that active for the past months of 2019. My last and latest post is my 2018 year-ender and I hav...

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|Personal|

I do runs, I can jog for a good 30 minutes or do 20 rounds of jog if necessary. I am athletic as much as I can be – I’m once a member of one of the most prominent Cheerleading Teams here in the Philippines. I can do and be all those things if needed or if I want to. But why the heck is it more tiring when you choose to chase and run after Love?!

Okay, this is my first time writing a content that is really personal, especially coming from my point of view and being posted here on my blog.

So, I’ve been chasing for the ones that I like or had/have a crush on since I became maturely conscious to this world of ours. And to all my friends that knows me and all this shenanigans that I’m writing for this content — PLEASE KEEP QUIET! SOON LET’S MAKE GOSSIP HAHAHA! So the idea for this content actually came to me on a spontaneous note. Spontaneous being me whilst at the gym, then after my program for the day then it hit me *boogsh* then snap - over think.

I replayed all my puppy love and infatuation moments through the years, and I know I'm still young (just 18 years old) to do a content like this. This replaying happened during my break after the workout, fyi. And this lowered my mood through the entire afternoon, until the night.

It got me thinking: how the hell did my stamina kept on going? How did I manage to chase them for a good period of time and never get tired? And YES I know you'll think "You should keep on going, for it is Love." Yes I know that it "might" be Love, but I'm only human and our species tends to get tired on a normal basis, right?

Then on that day, while I was thinking of all the chasing I've done. The weight of each came crashing down, all the tiring that came with those chasing came crashing down on me during that day when I decided to think about it. Then there I felt tired.

I don't plan on making this long, I just want to say that I'm tired. But maybe for this time only, my perspective on this content may change through the course of time because everything in the world changes, even us. So yeah, for the mean time I'm tired but I can't wait for those chasing moments again but I wish that it would be me now that can and would be chased at. J

|Personal| I do runs, I can jog for a good 30 minutes or do 20 rounds of jog if necessary. I am athletic as much as I can be – I’m...

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Here’s the next part of my Travel Diary entry for when I was in Palawan. Maybe this will be my last entry for my trip to Palawan but if ever I’ll get the chance to recover some memories of my trip there and also some more photos, I might do another or other entries for when I was there.

For this post, I am here to share to you what my experiences were for when I was in Puerto Princesa. I’ve already posted my trip to El Nido prior to this entry, if you wanna take a look at that 1st then click here - El Nido. So we went first to El Nido, before having our stay at Puerto Princesa even though we landed at Puerto Princesa International Airport and not at the airport near El Nido.

Pertaining to what I said, we were already at El Nido so in order for us to get to Puerto on time we left our hotel at El Nido at around 5 am due to the travel time to El Nido to Puerto is approximately 5 hours. I actually slept the whole trip because truthfully there was nothing to see along the road but trees and more trees because it is a province anyway.

Technically, we didn’t head off first to the place where we’ll be staying in at Puerto. In the middle of the journey, we were dropped at an intersection along the road and the reason for this was we were already scheduled to take a tour first at one of the Seven Wonders of Nature — Puerto Princesa Underground River. My mom already rented a private vehicle for us via a travel agency, so the driver picked us up at the junction and luckily we were the only ones in the vehicle so more space for us. I don’t know if you would call it luck, but the weather that day was a gloomy one. Once at port we rode a boat to the main entrance of the underground river where the perpetrators and handlers of the place are located. Here we were welcomed by a ton of people and once you’re ready to head out to your own bangka, we were given special devices with a sole purpose of being out virtual tour guide inside the underground river. The cool thing about this is the virtual tour guide comes in different languages from french, spanish, chinese, korean, and etc. and we were also given safety vests.

I can assure with this one — the exterior of the underground river was breathtaking, I mean yes we’ve already seen this view from postcards, television, and pictures, but the mere fact that you’re in front of the real thing is quite different I tell you. I can’t really describe to you the feeling and experience of what it's like to be inside the underground river but it gave me chills and it still does now even just by remembering it, because the fact that I was witnessing and seeing one of the Seven Wonders of Nature is no joke. Imagine the years of its existence and the vitality of its value for our nature is really beyond. I tell you, head out to Puerto Princesa, Palawan and experience the Underground River for yourself. What’s good about the tour package was that it comes with its own accommodation for your lunch, and mind you it was a lunch buffet so yeah I am guilty that I went all out on that lunch because of exhaustion and severe hunger after witnessing the Puerto Princesa Underground River. Then after that we head on off to our hotel.

Actually we didn’t do a lot of exciting things at Puerto Princesa, although the next day we went to a butterfly farm and also a crocodile farm where Lolong (conceived as the world’s largest crocodile) while he was still alive but nonetheless that’s it.

The main highlight of my stay at Puerto Princesa was really my experience while I was inside the Underground River. The aim of the tour was actually not about you mesmerizing and gazing upon this Nature Wonder, but making you realize that we need to preserve our environment because once we did this right, a beauty like the underground river can be achieved. People nowadays tend to steer off from anything nature related because they deem this as dirty or inappropriate for someone who has money, and that’s the downside of this generation’s people.

The tour made me realized, that my gahd! This is what we are missing?! This beauty of what Mother Nature can give and provide for us?! It made me realize that we need to start changing our antics and be a better version of ourselves for our environment because this will not just benefit us but also benefit future generations to come.

While I was writing this content, chills were continuously running up and down my body due to the content and purpose that I am sharing out to you who is reading this post. And I hope it shall make a difference on you and for everyone else.