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MY PHILOSOPHY 10 EXPERIENCE

March 18, 2014 Leave a comment

For a good example on living out love, we don’t have to look very far – my
Philosophy 10 class this semester has been a good example on how to live out
love. To be honest, Philosophy 10 is not how I imagined it to be. It has proven
to be more demanding than I expected. In fact, perhaps I can be permitted into
making a (false?) analogy: Philosophy 10 is love.

Love is always unexpected. We may have certain expectations on love, but all
these are blown away and surpassed once we experience it. This is just like my
experience in Philosophy 10. Before the semester, I imagined a class full of
awesome lectures, after which students would debate heatedly on the topic for
the day. I imagined a serious classroom full of intellectually riveting
arguments. But did I get any of these? Not really. What I did get was a
classroom full of friends, whom I have shared a lot of memories with. What other
GE makes the class stand in a ring for a “dance-off”? What other GE has a
professor that constantly pressures and inspires his students into giving their
very best (with a few baits of bonus points)? What other GE has 2 field trips,
the first to make the class bond, and the other to give love for the elderly?
Sure, I may have felt that Philosophy 10 was too demanding or costly at times,
but looking back at it all, I can see that it has been a worthwhile learning
experience. So, while my expectations may not have been met, I can still say
that Philosophy 10 has been worth the trouble, and that I have grown as a person
because of it.

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AN ADVENTURER’S SHOES

October 25, 2010 Leave a comment

After a day of quests, an adventurer was flying home, aided by his magical
shoes, when fatigue overcame him. Looking around, he spotted a leafy tree and
swooped down to rest.

However, being immensely tired, he had failed to notice the hungry eyes that had
followed his descent.

It was a dwarf, who exclaimed, “I must have those shoes! Only then can I escape
that suffocating mine and go on wonderful adventures!”

An hour later, the adventurer woke up to discover that his shoes were gone.
Lost and with no means of returning home, he almost sank into despair, when a
bell-like voice suddenly spoke to him.

“Through yonder valley, near red-leaved tree, seek and ye shall find your
heart’s desire,” proclaimed the voice of the fairy, before she smiled and
vanished.

Doing exactly as she said, the adventurer journeyed for three days nonstop,
before he located the tree. As he staggered close, a peculiar sight met him.
He found his shoes, but they were on a pair of short legs that waved and
protruded from a newly-made hole in the tree.

After retrieving his belongings, the man quickly flew back home, leaving the
sorry dwarf to his sorry demise.

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QUICKWRITE: MISUNDERSTOOD

October 22, 2010 Leave a comment

The boy goes off to school with a large grin on his face, ready and raring to
face the day with all its joy and excitement, but as soon as his grandparents
drove off in a cloud of covering dust, this face was quickly shed off as he sees
his new group of supposed friends hanging out by the garbage dump, where they
stayed for the whole morning until lunch, when they grew hungry and politely oh
so politely asked the boy for some money, after which they ate and left the boy
to his lonesome, who stayed for five minutes more before going back home, where
he, with a shivering body, a recently bloodied and torn uniform, and a fresh
black eye, worriedly limped past his home for the umpteenth time, desperately
searching for an unwatched entrance that was as close to the washroom as
possible, as he thought of an excuse to tell his ignorant, close-minded and
controlling grandparents as to why he had lost all his lunch money, believing
that they would never understand him anyway.

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JUSTICE POSTER

September 8, 2010 Leave a comment

by Brian Lim and Mario Onglao H4B

Picture from:
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MY TOP 3 IDEAL JOBS

September 7, 2010 Leave a comment

1.) Professional Video Game Tester

Imagine being able to go to work in your own home, with no one to boss you
around, and no one to watch you do your work. No one to bother you, nothing to
dictate a dress code or a set of regulations. Total freedom.

Imagine being able to do work that you actually enjoy, and that you can do with
a smile on your face. Even though your eyes will be exposed to massive waves of
radiation…you wouldn’t care. It’s your passion – your eros.

Well, that is the job description of a professional video game tester. Honestly
though, it’s not going to be an easy walk in the park. You’ll have a lot of
deadlines to catch, a lot of games to go through. And, possible, you may not
have enough time to seriously enjoy the game you are testing. With all these
negative connotations that accompany the job…it’s starting to look really bad,
but, if you are a true video game fan, you wouldn’t care.

To keep this job, a few conditions must be satisfied. You must possess enough
knowledge to criticize video games objectively and constructively. Your eyes
must be sharp enough to catch any bugs that flicker across the screen. Most
important of all, you must possess true love for the world of video games. From
endless days filled with television radiation to painful blisters on your
fingers, all these must be overcome by your love for games.

Sure, this job is fun, but it’s not exactly perfect. Money would pose a
problem, and your social life just practically committed suicide. If I had this
job, I wouldn’t enjoy it that much, and my future may be in jeopardy. However,
that’s only because I am not that much of a die-hard video game fan. I lack the
most important requisite of the job.

2.) Random Inventor

No, you cannot take out that “Random”; that’s part of the job description. You
must be random, and what you invent must be random…in a way. Of course, you
still have to have some goal in mind, but no boss would force it on you. The
idea comes from within, and you have absolute freedom. Will you spend your days
cooped up in a lab, surrounded by massive mounds of spare machines parts and
rough, barely understandable drafts? You could, if you wanted to. You will
still be able to go out and have a social life, though. So no worries.

This is my ideal job because I love, or at least think I love, machines. I love
trying to see and understand how things work, and that is what this job is all
about. You must possess enough curiosity capable of killing of all feline
species in the whole universe to be able to stay in this job. You must have the
perseverance and dedication to improve upon your ideas and drafts. You must
possess the self integrity needed to be able to plow through 99 failures just to
attain one masterpiece.

3.) Civil Engineer

A job where you build infrastructures for a living. In this job, you will have
to apply various Physics concepts to maximize the materials and circumstances
given to you. The lives of a million people literally rests upon your carefully
planned out project. As such, salary is considerably high, as you will be
handling the construction process of all your projects.

I think this is the ideal job for me because I like Mathematics, especially how
it is applied to real life. I also like thinking about the possible situations
that infrastructures may undergo in the future.

To be eligible for this job, one must possess the Mathematical skills, as well
as sufficient knowledge of Physics. One must also be familiar with the
different properties of the different materials that can be used in
construction.

GENERAL:

I believe that work is not just about earning money; rather, it is about being
able to work with passion in your life. Monetary incentives can only push a man
so much to do his tasks the best he can. Work must be filled with passion, and
not be forced upon anyone. This is because if passion is present, you will not
mind doing the same thing over and over again. Be you a game tester, a random
inventor, or a ___, if you have enough passion, life becomes full of meaning.
This is another aspect of work; it must lead to a meaningful life. No one
would dedicate their lives to something which has little value for them.
However, work is not just about your own wants, it’s also about what others
need. True meaning in life is often found through acts of care and sacrifice
for those around us. Work is for the self and for other people as well.

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ODYSSEUS VS SWINE

August 11, 2010 Leave a comment

(Picture from:
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00034/homer_34395b.jpg)

Imagine being away from home for 20 long years, and after all your toil and
sacrifice, coming back to find your house inhabited by swines and lowlifes who
are trying to woo your wife. You see them smile and laugh joyously with their
wide, toothy grins that are encrusted with months-old leftovers that they took
from your own supply. They stole your property, harassed your loving family,
abused your innocent servants, desecrated your humble abode, and so much more.
What will you do?

This is what Odysseus experienced after 20 years of loneliness and isolation.
The moment he expected to find joy and comfort, he instead found indecent men
sullying his house. So what did he do? He killed them all. He was not a
pushover; he was not forgiving. Being wronged, what else could he do but fight
for his own rights? In this manner, he shows how the Greeks had the mentality
of “an eye for an eye”, or how everyone gets what he deserves.

When Odysseus acted upon this justice, he, however, did not let anger take
control of him. He calmly devised a plan that would ensure victory, showing the
cautiousness and intelligence that set him above the rest. He first surveyed
the situation, with a little makeover from Athena. Next, he talked to the
Telemachus and the swineherd to ask for help in the upcoming slaughter. He did
not act out of plain emotions; he did things with certain victory as his goal.

Another factor that affected his ascertained victory is the will of the gods.
Without Athena’s help, it would have probably taken him a longer time to reach
Ithaca, and who knows what events could have transpired during this time.
Blessed with her divine protection, he reached Ithaca safely, and was able to
venture into his own home without being recognized by anyone. His reunion with
Telemachus was also brought about by her divine intervention. As we can see,
the gods controlled everything during the Greek era; their anger or love for you
determined how your life would play out. Fortunately for Odysseus, with his
intelligence and cunning, he won over Athena’s favor, which proved to be an
essential factor in his journey.

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THE GREAT BALANCING ACT

August 10, 2010 Leave a comment

Life is a difficult balancing act. From the moment of our inception until the
present, and even until we breathe our last, we must continue on balancing the
potential weights of our life. These weights may be social, financial,
spiritual, or even physical in nature. Nevertheless, they are factors of our
life that we must strive to keep up with in order to live out our journey.

Such an example exists in the balance of love: in eros and agape. Our love for
neighbor cannot overshadow or destroy our love of self, and vice versa. Both
must complement each other, thus improving the person as a whole. Love is not
selfish, it is not only about what you get from the relationship but what you
can do to develop each other’s spirituality as well.

In addition, we have to defy the norms that society has imposed on us. Even if
this is like defying gravity, it is not always impossible. We must exercise our
true freedom in judgment in everything that we do. In addition, our vocation, or
our commitment to doing what we are good at, improving ourselves at the same
time, for the betterment of society, is something that a human person must. Even
though it is a really difficult thing to do, we must never give up in our quest,
for the end result will ultimately be something worth marveling at.

Amidst the hardships that life offers to us, it is ultimately our choices, our
vocations that shape who we become in the eyes of God.

Sources:
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYlWNn7YtqIQwG-ounlxd-XcwRvpPN_Lecjfzy9_bLAfFyazo&t=1&usg=__jJDOEUrnPKs2JkQ5Ezv_ZrDF3_k=

Group of Brian Lim, Joshua Collado, Mario Onglao

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SYNTHESIS: FREEDOM FORCEFIELD

August 10, 2010 Leave a comment

From
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/Z2/invent-4-0508.jpg

Whenever people think of freedom, they imagine vast images of birds soaring into
the endless sky, so why did I pick a force field, which commonly represents
suppression or containment? I chose a force field because, rather than being
used to suppress, a force field is actually used for protection, for detachment
from the outside world. This picture shows a woman being able to go her own
way, with a smile on her face, whilst not letting the outside world, represented
by the insects, affect her. In this manner, freedom is also expressed because
freedom is about choosing to do what is good, even though the whole world may be
against you. Freedom is about being able to sustain your own image of good no
matter what forces buffet you. However, this picture is incomplete as freedom
can only be called true freedom if it is used for the greater good, not just for
personal gains.

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PERSEUS: BEATING THE ODDS

July 21, 2010 Leave a comment

Whenever I think about Greek Mythology, images of jealous, angry and interfering
gods flash through my mind. I visualize gods running around, falling in love
with human women and generally causing trouble. However, this vision of Greek
Mythology is one-sided, for it is not just about gods abusing their powers doing
whatever they want to do; from their crazy antics comes forth the aspect that
most people love about mythology: the quests. Like Newton’s Third Law of
Motion, for each and every moment of godly recreation, a demigod is born who
will go on a journey, a quest, to save the world.

Demigods are half-god and half-human heroes who, from birth, are destined to
perform great deeds that no pure human can accomplish. I’d like to talk about
one particular demigod: Perseus.

Perseus was the son of Zeus, the god of lightning, and Danae, a beautiful
princess fathered by King Acrisius. Before Persues was even born, there came a
prophecy that King Acrisius would be killed by the son of his daughter, and
so,when the news came that Danae had bore a son, Acrisius did what every
paranoid father would do; he stuffed his daughter and her infant son into a
coffin, and chucked them into the sea. However, be it through luck or divine
intervention, they managed to survive long enough to reach Seriphos, the kingdom
of King Polydectes, where they were taken in by a fisherman, Dictys, who was
also the king’s brother. With a strong and simple model, Perseus grew into
manhood.

One day, Polydectes heard about the beautiful Danae (for a king, he’s pretty
slow with the news) and immediately fell in love with her. Too bad for him
though, Perseus stood in the way and was against it; Polydectes had to get rid
of him. Thus, pretending to be in love with a different woman, Hippodameia
(poor girl), he asked every person in his kingdom for a wedding gift, knowing
full well that Perseus had nothing to offer. With a little pressure from the
king, Perseus found himself stupidly promising to get Medusa’s head as a wedding
present.

This quest would have been impossible for normal humans, but, luckily, Perseus
was no ordinary mortal. With gods for his uncles and aunts, Perseus pretty much
had everything planned for him. Sometime on his journey, Hermes and Athena flew
down from the heavens and told him exactly what he had to do. Go to Atlas, who
will point you towards the Graeae, who, with a little persuasion, will tell you
how to find the nymphs who will give you what you need to kill Medusa. As a
parting gift, Athena gave Perseus a mirrored shield while Hermes even gave
Perseus a sickle of adamant and a pair of winged sandals to boot.

Perseus set of on his predetermined journey, and accomplished everything. He
found the nymphs who gave him an invisibility cap and a magic pouch. So, with
everything he could possibly need, he donned his cap and ventured into Medusa”s
lair. When, luck of lucks, he found her asleep! Better safe than sorry, he,
still invisible, used the mirrored shield to watch her reflection, and slowly
crept up to her. Slash. End quest.

As he flew back towards king Polydectes, he stopped by Larisa and participated
in a small sports contest. For some reason, he misfired and flung the discus
into the throngs of people, hitting someone on the head, instantly killing him.
What a coincidence! This person was no other that King Acrisius, Perseus’ long
forgotten grandfather. In the end, the prophecy still managed to fulfill
itself.

After this little detour, he flew on towards King Polydectes. When he landed,
he found out that his mom had been abused in his absence. In his anger, he
charged into the palace, shouted, “Let all who are my friends shield their
eyes!”, and held up Medusa’s head. Amazingly, every single one of his foes
immediately got turned into stone. With all his enemies dead, Perseus lived
happily ever after.

Perseus was one babied demigod. From birth until death, he managed to
miraculously live through challenge after challenge. He survived being lost at
sea inside a wooden box, and was saved by a fisherman. On his quest, he was
constantly being guided by gods and other immortal beings. After finishing his
quest, as an added bonus, he even accidentally fulfilled the old prophecy that
was the source of all his troubles. Coincidence? I think not; it was divine
intervention. His story is an example of how the universe goes out of its way
for one person, for the fulfillment of a prophecy – a classic case of Deus Ex
Machina.

Perseus’ character and situation is reflected in our present times in a piece of
fiction that has recently grown quite famous, the Percy Jackson series. Percy
was named after Perseus, and is also a demigod. He was named as such because
Perseus was the only hero to have had a happy ending.

Aside from Percy Jackson, Perseus is once again seen in the recent movie, Clash
of the Titans, a movie loosely based on the story of Perseus. While the stories
may differ greatly, there beginnings and ends still have one common theme.
Through all odds, both Perseus manage to come out on top and live happily ever
after. In the movie, Perseus’ love was revived towards the end as he managed to
stop the destruction of Argos.

Through the ages, Perseus’ characteristic of uncharacteristic luck is still
remembered and sought after.

http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Heroes/Perseus/perseus.html

http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/perseus/index.html

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BACK TO THE BASICS

July 20, 2010 Leave a comment

Ever since video games first came out and wowed us, they have gone through
various evolutions to become what they are today: visually and acoustically
mind-blowing. In fact, this is the common trend; throughout they years, video
game companies have been competing to make games with better graphics, clearer
sound quality and captivating stories. From time to time, however, we see games
that deviate from this trend, games that focus not on making use of
technological advances we have today, but on age-old, but awesome, ideas that
have been forgotten throughout the years.

Some people think that companies do this to take advantage of the nostalgia that
old players still feel for the old games. One could say that people think that
the companies are only “jumping on the bandwagon” and banking on sentimental
feelings. This may be true, but I’d like to believe that companies go back to
the basics not only because old fans will buy it, but because new fans will be
able to enjoy it as well.

The old games had substance; they did not need mind-blowing images and audio
tracks to make ancient video game fanatics squeal like little girls when the
releases came out. The old games, while short on visual oomph, were chockful of
tantalizing ideas. By going back to the basics, present companies can make use
of these forgotten ideas and, when combined with visual art developments, turn
them into something that kids of today can still enjoy and love.

Let’s look at this game, Chocobo’s Dungeon 2. When I was still a child, I had
this game for the Playstation One console, and I loved it. This game is still
my favorite game to date, even though it is archaic, and I am sad to say that
through the years, no game like it has ever come out. It felt like a waste.
Here they had a good game with innovative ideas, and they weren’t even going to
make use of it?

Until now, that is, with the release of Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon.
This game plays out similarly to the old version, except now it has more
appealing graphics and sounds.

However, most players have never even played the old version, so this game
appears to be something that is different and new, not a souped up version of
the classic game. New players would still be able to enjoy this game, because
that’s how awesome it is. Square Enix makes use of the classical ideas that I
love and bring them into our time today, where people can still love them.

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