9 - Don't Even Try

There are a lot of vendors out there that sell cigarettes. We are tempted to buy cigarettes from these vendors. There are two types of smokers: the avid smoker and the heavy smoker. The avid smoker enjoys smoking and does it for pleasure and excitement while a heavy smoker smokes a lot. Though he/she doesn't enjoy it but he/she can't live a day without smoking cigarettes.

People nowadays smoke due to peer pressure. We need to stop that peer pressure and make them open their eyes and see what they really are doing in their lives.

Asia Pacific College has an made an Anti - Smoking Campaign. It only has one goal and that is to prevent smoking in each and everyone of us. The thing is, outside the school like right in front of it, is a smoking area and our goal is to stop their students from smoking. It also might not be easy for APC to stop their students due to others already have an addiction to smoking. What these students would do is probably ignore what they are saying (since nothing has happened in their bodies yet) and only care what they are feeling now and not what will happen to their body in the future.

Smoking destroys dreams and lives of you and the people around you. Little did they know that smoking greatly affects the people surrounding them. Second hand smoking is actually worse than smoking. Its already somewhat similar to killing them.  Asia Pacific College should raise awareness of what smoking really is but then again I highly doubt that they will even take note of this. The answer to this issue lies within the smokers themselves. We just have to trust in them that they will be able to understand what they really are doing to themselves.

So for you non-smoker people, don't even try smoking as it will kill you and the people around you.

PS: I didn't even know we had an Anti - Smoking Campaign here in APC. D:

8 - Unity

October 26 - 31 marks the School of Management (SoM) week or formerly called as School of Accountancy and Business.

All students under the School of Management are required to participate in the events during the week to show their support for their chosen representatives. On the first day, we had a parade together with the Sto. Nino Catholic School leading the parade from APC to Lapu-lapu.

Afterwards, Ms. Victoria Nañagas formally opened the SoM week. The winner of the cheers and chants competition, MA151, also performed their cheers as part of the opening of the SoM week. The APC Dance Company also took part in opening the SoM week. Most of the girls were screaming their hears out when the APCDC blew the stage with their great performance. After the dance of APCDC, they showed to us our models for our Mr. and Ms. SoM.

Mr. and Ms. SoM is not only the main event in the SoM week, there are also the SoM Sportsfest, the Clash of Courses, and seminars. Everyone was excited for the events especially the SoM Sportsfest. We would be looking forward on who will be the champions for these said events. With the end of the SoM week, I hope that it was able to strengthen our unity and bonds with each other.

7 - Parasitic Beasts

Parasyte started out as a manga. Afterwards, there came out an anime series of the manga. Then came a film adaptation of the manga.

Parasyte is about a young high school student named Shinichi Izumi where a parasite entered his right hand. The parasite's mission failed since its goal was to enter to the ears and to take over the brain but it was preventing it due to Shinichi wearing earphones. However, it didn't stop there as Shinichi was wondering what entered his right hand, it started moving on its own. While searching the net, the parasite tried to eat Shinichi but failed again. The parasite disappointed, it surrendered and after a while the two became friends.

Naming the parasite as "Migi" because in Japanese it means right. Migi lead Shinichi to different "friends" and are forced to fight them since all "friends" are seeking for food. A new teacher came to Shinichi's school and found out that she is working on an experiment about the parasites and the offspring of parents that are infected with the parasites. Mr. A, the "husband" of the new teacher Tamiya, keeps and eye on Shinichi and when the two confronted, they fought. Shinichi and Migi won however, Mr. A wasn't totally dead as his body was dying he had to look for another. A woman was near Mr. A and helped him and that woman was Shinichi's mother. As "Shinichi's mother" went home, Shinichi would not believe that that was Mr. A and made him vulnerable to being attacked.

Shinichi died but Migi revived him. Migi used a part of himself to bring Shinichi back to life. Since Migi used parts of himself, there are parts of Migi inside Shinichi. Shinichi slowly changed. He changed his attitude and became braver. Slowly becoming like Migi.

The first part ended as a cliffhanger. Someone was taking a picture of Shinichi and Migi after Shinichi said that his mission was to kill everyone that is infected by the parasite.

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When the movie started, I wasn't really expecting to watch something like this. Horror. We don't usually watch horror movies that is required in school. All of us were surprised.

I actually asked my brother if he had a copy of the Parasyte anime, he did have but he asked me why am I looking for such thing since I don't usually watch anime. I told him that we watched it during our EEP class and he was schocked that why would Ms. Eliz have a copy of this movie. Haha.

Anyways. The movie was great however, it ended in a cliffhanger. It made me want to look for the second part of the movie.

I hope that we would watch more movies that would intrigue us again. :))))

6 - Life in the League

League of Legends is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena or MOBA game for short. It is a game similar to Defense of the Ancient 2 or most commonly known as DOTA 2 and Heroes of Newerth wherein two teams of 5 fight each other to destroy their opponent's base.

I've started playing this game since its first season (around the year 2010) and I was still in 7th grade that time and I'm still playing it till now (It's already season 5). Lol. I didn't really imagined myself playing this game until now since I'm not really fan of games such as DOTA 2 and Heroes of Newerth. I don't really know what made me continue to play this game, honestly.

Of course, playing from the 1st season until now, I've encountered a lot of ups and downs. My 1st big achievement would probably be reaching the max level (Level 30) during the first season. My 2nd big achievement would be when I was able to reach the Diamond Division during Season 3 until now. (This is the 3rd division out of 7 divisions in which the 1st division contains the top 200 players here in the Philippines). Since you make your way up to the 1st division, you can also go back down to the 7th division. I was able to experience dropping divisions due to my teammates and it was so depressing that it actually made me stop playing for like 2-3 days.

I've also met a lot of friends (Real life friends) by playing this game. There is one that I found out that we were schoolmates (High School times). Another is, my classmate then his cousin. We really had no idea that we were playing together and when we were able to found out that they know each other and told us that. We were stunned actually. We then became friends and we are still playing together until now. Another one is another classmate of mine and his cousin. We are actually 'more friends' or in Filipino they say "mas close" than my classmate (his cousin). Yes I know, it can be confusing. Haha.

League of Legends has made a big impact in my life. Meeting new friends and learning to have determination in life and made me more responsible in life. :D

PS: League is also known to be League of Legends or so they say.

5 - Even Nonsense Has A Meaning

Last Saturday we watched a play entitled "Ang Tatay Mong Kalbo". I honestly

didn't get what the play is all about. I still have no idea until now the message

that they are trying to convey. Haha. However, the play was interesting.

I was with my friends (Leslie, Nicole, and Bianca) last Saturday and was really

looking forward to watch the play since my classmates who watched it last Friday

told us that it was really worth it and funny. It was worth watching. 

The play started with Mr. and Mrs. Santos talking about how great it is to live 

in Makati. Then came Maria, their maid, who actually made the whole audience laugh.

Mr. and Mrs. Reyes came next with only knowing this time that they are actually "married"

Later came, Hepe, a fire fighter or a chief, who is secretly in a relationship with Maria. 

It ended with Mr. and Mrs. Reyes mimicking how Mr. and Mrs. Santos were doing in the first part of the play which made it more confusing for me to understand.

All of them were telling a story which really had no sense with the play but I'm sure they 

are trying to show us, the audience, a message. We just have to find it but it seems that it is impossible for me. I've been thinking all night (Saturday night) on what was it all about and I got nothing. It's been bothering me until now on what was it all about. It didn't even revolved around a bald father. It was mentioned in the play but it wasn't really focused on the father.

Anyway, the play was good. My friends and I enjoyed it. With that, I hope Theatre Phileo will make more plays like this. Plays that would entertain us and intrigue us with what the play's hidden message.

4 - Fate Exists

The plot of the movie “Turn Left, Turn Right” is actually based on the book “A Chance of Sunlight” by Jimmy Liao, a Taiwanese author. Where a couple that is only separated by a wall. They are always close to each other wherever they go but never get to see one another.

When the two exchanged their phone numbers and went home. They found out that the number were smudged. This is where the movie starts to get interesting. We have mixed emotions. We feel hopeless that they won’t be able to contact one another yet we feel excited that we as the audience see both of them nearby but the actors themselves don’t. We feel sad that the movie showed a split screen of the two doing the same thing and only being separated by a thin wall. However, in the end one prayed to have a miracle and the other cried to let her see him again. It was granted. An earthquake occurred and destroyed a part of the wall. Both were stunned, when they saw each other. 

They talk to the same people, they do similar things but there is only a small time difference that prevents them from seeing each other. Sad. :c 

This movie shows that there are things that are meant to be together. Like how this movie showed it.

Both are convinced

That a sudden surge of emotion bound them together

Beautiful is such a certainty

But uncertainty is more beautiful. 

3 - Wake-up Call

Passing over the 200 million mark, Heneral Luna is considered to be the highest-grossing historical film made in the Philippines even though at its first week a lot of theaters removed this movie from their list due to other mainstream films to open. It is also one of the most expensive historical film ever made reaching about 80 million Philippine peso. Heneral Luna also made it to the Oscars, it will be our country's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category. Heneral Luna is truly a success.

I can say that I don't really much know the things happening back then but with this movie I was able to know and understand well what was happening during the Philippine-American War. A lot of conflicts were happening during the war. The line "Bayan o Sarili?" shows that we don't care for our country but only ourselves. Filipinos were too blinded with their self - interests, self - interests that would not actually help the country. General Luna said in the movie that we, Filipinos, are our biggest enemy, lacking in resolve and torn by self - interests. I agree with that statement. Heneral Luna also said in the movie "Ganito ba talaga ang tadhana natin? Kalaban ang kalaban. Kalaban ang kakampi. Nakakapagod." Again it supports the idea that we, Filipinos, are our biggest enemies. 

Another thing is when General Luna is looking for someone who is willing to fight for our country and invade the Americans and only one stood up and his name is Lt. Garcia. Out of all his people, only one volunteered to fight for our country. This shows that only a few really care for our country and that few is not enough or us to change the country. General Luna also mentioned that we need more people like Lt. Garcia. It is true that we need people like him who can fight for our country.

2 - World Championship 2015

October of every year, Riot Games organizes an event where the top teams around the globe compete to be the best team in the world. For this year or season (Season 5), there are 16 teams competing. There are 3 teams from Korea, 3 teams from China, 2 teams from Taiwan/HongKong/Macau, 3 teams from North America, 3 teams from Europe, and 2 teams from the International Wildcard Qualifiers. They will be divided into four groups. A group contains 1 team from each of the regions. There should be no two teams of the same region in 1 group.

World Championship 2015 has two stages, the group stage and the knockout stage. The group stage is the first half of the event. In this stage, teams from each group fight each other twice. The top two teams from each group advances to the next stage while the bottom two teams will be eliminated. The knockout stage is the second half. This is where we will see who will be crowned the world champion of season 5. In here, teams fight teams from other groups as they advance to the semi-finals and eventually the top two remaining teams will fight in the finals. Games that will be played in the knockout stage are Best of 5.

As of now, the group stage is still happening. Group stage will end at October 11. It is assumed that the knockout stage will begin on October 15 and it will end on October 31. I am looking forward on seeing the World Champion 2015. I can hardly wait. :) Here are the standings of each team as of this day (October 7, 2015).

If you want to know we also had a team here in the Philippines that was able to enter the World Championship. It was in the year 2013 (Season 3 of League of Legends). Unfortunately our team, Mineski, wasn't able to reach the bracket stage and finishing last place in the worlds but they were able to gain good experiences and a chance to fight their favorite LoL players coming from different regions around the world.