the outline

Title:

Bringing the Green Back in Laguna de Bay

Thesis Statement:

Laguna de Bay as a natural resource and environmental landscape has deteriorated through time but there are many ways to preserve it.

Although Laguna de Bay has deteriorated due to pollution, there are many ways in which Lagueños can improve the state of this natural resource and preserve this important element of Laguna’s environmental landscape.

Outline:

I. Introduction

a. Living Beside Laguna de Bay

b. The Beauty of Laguna de Bay

II. History of Laguna de Bay

a. Where is Laguna de Bay

b. Why is it Called Laguna de Bay

c. What happened to Laguna de Bay

III. Natural Resources

a. Marine Life in Laguna de Bay

b. Livelihood in Laguna de Bay

IV. Environmental Landscape

a. Physical State of Laguna de Bay

i. Before

ii. After

b. Pollution in Laguna de Bay

i. Cause

ii. Effect

V. Conclusion

a. Why revive Laguna de Bay

trying to find stars.

I'm just here outside. trying to find stars.

but I think the mosquitoes have better sight than me.

they easily find me and then bite me to their satisfaction.

well, I'm back to trying to find stars tonight. they seem to be busy travelling.

because i can't seem to find one right now. I'm trying to find some light. even though there are lights everywhere.

the light from our house, the light coming from the windows of every house nearby. Lights from the passing vehicles. cars, jeeps, tricycless, motorcycles, trucks. lights from the lamp posts. there are lights every where. but I seem to be looking for some other kind of light.

*sigh*

I want to see some light from above. (after I typed this line, there was lightning. i am shocked. and in awe.)

maybe I won't ask for other lights. haha!

enough blog for tonight.

ciao!

Classify.

BOOKS. I used to read a lot when i was younger. and I'm trying to revive my passion in reading. I've been reading and buying a lot of books lately. From BOOKSALE.

I classify the books i read.

Before, I have a smaller room. And it amazing how so many people could fit in that little amount of space it has. It has a hanging bookshelf at the foot of my bed. Everyday I wake up, and literally see books. They are the first thing I see every morning. haha! I have lots of books. but not all types of books. Let me try to enumerate the books.

1. Encyclopedias - These where the first ones I used to read.

a. Medical Encyclopedias - These are my favorites. I badly want to be a doctor. But here I am an engineering student. haha!

b. A-Z Encyclopedias - The usual encyclopedias filled with lots of information. My favorite is the H encycclopedia. why? it has Hologram. haha!

2. School books - from elementary to High school. But a lot are disposed now. I should have kept them and donated them to schools.

3. Magazines - the only magazine I have is National Geographic. I never bought fashion magazines or the likes.

4. Digests - Yes. I am a Reader's Digest Subscriber. My favorite. hehe :D

5. Pocket Books/ Novels - not the Pinoy version of pocket books. haha! I am starting to collect books now. They're good investments. For me. :D

6. Visual Books - Children's books with lots of pictures and explanations of the things around us.

7. Dictionaries - I have the big dictionaries. The heavy dictionaries. Small ones. and English - Tagalog Dictionary. haha!

there. I don't have a lot. but i think they are many. hehe. :D

I have to design a new bookshelf to fit all the books :D

Commute or Drive

There are two ways of going to De La Salle Canlubang, commuting and driving your own car, but which is better? There are a lot of pros and cons in both ways. I used to commute during my first years in college. Today, commuting means you are a hundred pesos richer for a day compared to driving. From my house, I would only need at least P40 – P58 one-way, and P80 – 98 two-way. It is easier to compute the cost of computing than driving. I approximated the distance of my home and school and computed the cost of gas I have to burn, I would need at least P100 for a one-way trip. Gassing up your tank cut really cut down your allowance for a week. That is one point for commuting.

Travel time is another factor you have to consider in transportation. Travel time is dependent on daily traffic situations. Commuting means you have to take several rides in order to get to your destination. Commuting means it would take 45 minutes to 1 hour and a half before I get to school. While in driving, I would only take 30 to 45 minutes to get to school. That is one point for driving.

Driving and commuting are tied, each with one good point. There is another factor you have to consider to tell which is really better. It is the preparation before going to school. This is one big factor, especially for students. Commuting means I have to wake up extra early so I can avoid traffic during rush hour and not get late in my first subject. Commuting also means I have to expect the unexpected because so many unexpected events can happen in the range of 45 minutes to 1 and a half hour travel. Even if you have been a long time commuter, you really cannot approximate time and control traffic. In addition to that, you can take the free black powder from smoke belchers in front of the tricycle you are rding and come to school as if you didn’t take a shower for 3 days. Driving, on the other hand means, I get to wake up early enough, just to prepare myself and drive my car and take my best route to school without rushing and running in the corridor and still I won’t get late and come as fresh as I can be. That is another point for driving. So if you ask me, driving is better than commuting, because i would spend that extra money than to waste my time and effort in preparing myself.

Used to Listening, not Hearing

I am used to listening and not hearing.

i believe i have evolved from one type or have been every type of listener there is.

First, the static listener. I can recall being a static listener.

I become static when I am talking to someone I don't really like or he/ she is talking nonsense. So I just let them talk and finish up so I can say bye and get as far away as I can from them.

Second, the monotonous feedback giver. haha!

aaahhhhh....

okaaaayyyy...

uhhhuhhh...

hmmmmm..

Those were my usual responses when I am usually talking to friends on the phone. Specially when they are telling stories about how their day went, or about anything. haha! but now, I learned how to react and say something relevant to what they are saying.

Third, the overly expressive listener. I become the overly expressive whenever I am excited or hyper or we are talking about something we are interested in. the exaggerated lumalaki yung mata at tumataas yung boses kapag nagreact dahil sa sobrang excitement. haha!

Fourth, the reader/writer type of listener. I become this type of listener whenever I am travelling. I usually read while we are travelling, when they talk to me, i rarely look at them straight because I am so into reading.

Fifth, the eye avoider listener. I am the fifth one, in classes. hahaha! I usually avoid the teacher's eye so they won't ask me to recite or answer anything. Sometimes, when I am not in the mood to talk or I don't like the one I'm talking to, I avoid eye contact.

Another one is the thought completing listener. I am not really a thought completing listener, i am more of a thought guessing listener. I try to guess where they are going at. Most of the time, i guessed right. haha!

The waiting listener, I used to be the waiting listener, because I don't want to interrupt someone while they are talking specially when they are at their peak of the story. I usually wait so I can react to what they are currently saying, but I end up reacting at the end of their story and forgetting about the things I wanted to say in between. hahaha!

The last, the pre-occupied listener. Lately, I have been a pre-occupied listener. I am always pre-occupied about so many things. I hate being pre-occupied because i neglect listnening carefully and tend to ask them to repeat what they are saying. I hope I don't offend them, but I know I am fairly offending them, because it shows that my mind is floating around thinking about something else. *sigh*

I used to be a good listener, but I don't really know now if I still am a good listener.

I hope to remain a good listener.

my right side of the bed :)

4:00am...

5:00am..

Awakened by the sound of my cellphone. Hearing it's loud sound, a razor running through the head of my brother, chopping of his hair until it is no longer visible. I opened my eyes, seeing it's still dark, I lazily, grabbed and pressed snooze and slept again for a few minutes. Or maybe several minutes, until I can see the rays of the sun coming through my window. I always wake up on my right side of the bed.

What is my right side of the bed?

Literally, the right side of my bed is a blank leche flan-ish-yellow wall. Seeing the blank yellow walls, feeling my pillows, under my head, another one between my thighs and another one that I hug really tight, I knew I was awake and saw the sunlight that tells me it's already 530am. I stretch a little bit, bury my face under the blanket and feel my bed for the last time until I jump out of bed and sit at the foot of it. I like sitting at the food of my bed. Right at the foot of my bed is my window. I can hear my aunt and our neighbor talking and laughing, at the bakod where we call it bakod-online. I shouted, "online nanaman kayo. ang aga mag-online eh." then laughed out loud. :)

my other right side of the bed is, when I sit near my window, and feel the heat of the sun touching my face. And when I peak and lean outside my window, you will see the mountain and Laguna Bay sparkling at its foot and feel the rays of the sun, hearing the early honking sounds of the jeepneys and cars passing by, birds chirping cheerfully and smell freshly baked pandesal from our neighboorhood panaderia. Then, I start to say my thankful morning prayer.

That's me, waking up at the right side of my bed. :)

How about you?

guess what? emotions.

......

Walking in a hot summer day is like walking on the deserts in Middle East. Thirsty. It was all I could feel right at that moment. My body was slowly dying and started to feel numb, until I saw McDonald's. I hurriedly ordered a Coke Float over the counter. As soon as I sipped my drink, every bit of me felt the soothing coolness of my drink. From head to foot, I felt that every bit of me was filled with energy. Every part of me rejoiced. At last, my thirst is quenched and I am alive again.

......

As I entered the room, excitement filled my heart. Seeing all those people in different cubicles, looking smart and sophisticated, I suddenly visualized myself in their position. Working with them, looking smart and busy, applying all my skills and so. Designing, creating, editing, suggesting, meetings, and all engineering and business stuff I have imagined. Then, I was back to reality, when I started looking at my resume.

......

My heart is thumping. I can hear and feel it while I'm breathing. Goosebumps run through my body as if someone spilled a glass of ice cold water on my back. I started writing and tremor was found in my handwriting. Then I was asked to state my message, I stuttered.

......

Heat was getting into my nerves, it was so irritating. Then I saw a billboard, and I started smiling. I was smiling while I was walking and thinking, then suddenly I felt gloomy. I remembered something bad. Then I saw a friend, I started smiling again.

......

My facial expression changed every second while I was thinking. Looking at my exam questionnaire, jumbling x, and y, and z on my mind, negative and positive integers floating around my head and i just couldn't find the right formula to solve this equation. Thinking, should I use the quadratic formula or should i just use plain algebra? Can somebody help me?

gloooooommyyy

rain rain go away.. come again later tonight.. :D haha!

its been raining a lot these days.. its getting a little colder now..

every morning it rains and it makes me want to stay in bed..

haay..

sometimes rain makes me happy..

but most of the time, rain makes me sad..

it makes me muni-muni about so many things..

most of them sad memories..

i have a lot in mind.. and i hate the rain for making me think of those unhappy thoughts i have..

but i love the rain for making me feel the colder breeze..

i don't what to say.. and i don't know what to do right now..

maybe things are better left unsaid.. so there won't be any regrets..

my blog entry's a mess.. a lot of thoughts.. and a lot of unfinished thougts..

i'm just letting things out.. maybe share a little more on my next blog..

see you later blogger :D

Freewriting

this is my first blog entry. i will try freewriting again for my first post. Food. I chose food for my topic for our freewriting exercise earlier. food is a positive topic for freewriting. that's what i thought. maybe ill chose another topic now. exercise. i don't really exercise. people can tell. i'm short and stout. haha. im trying to change my lifestyle. trying to change it into healthier lifestyle. start exercising. eat less fatty food. eat more vegetables and fruits. eat raw food. eat animals alive. kidding! haha. no stopping even if you don't have anything to say. keep typing even if it doesn't make sense. 3 minutes is almost over. a few seconds. 6..5..4..3..2..1..

free writing is done.

i'll try to write a better blog next time.

Goodnight everyone.