PrEdiCtioNs? InteRpreTations? XD

"Once there was a woman sitting in her old shattered house. She knows she's alone in the world. Every other thing is dead. Suddenly, the doorbell rings..."

Did you get the hidden meaning behind this text? Surely you find it hard to understand. This is the lines given by Mr. Gochuico, our professor in English. We were tasked to work in groups and visualize this text. We also need to make an illustration of it based on our own interpretations. At first, we were shocked because as you can see, the text completely describe what he is talking about. Yet after thinking, we realize that there might be a hidden meaning behind this. Besides, the text is left hanging. What the heck was that supposed to mean?

Some of my groupmates were already in hysterical mode, because we don't have much time left. We can only do it before English class and that's an hour and a half to be exact. We should have surf the internet for the true meaning of the story, but we would rather be honest. Interpreting the exact meaning of the short story is really hard for us specially the part, "the doorbell rings." There are so many possibilities. Could it be her family, a stranger, or is it even a human being? We seriously don't have any idea but we tried to interpret everything in the story. One of my group mates said that the police was the one who rang the doorbell and he will arrest the woman for killing her housemates. Another said it was God, inviting her to come to his kingdom. These were some otheir ideas but were stuck on the idea that the woman was old and left alone by her family with a shattered house and the doorbell was rung by some stranger. Only some of us drew but all of us participated in making the assignment. The old woman really looked like old and pitiful. The window is broken and the floor was messy. Even the sofa was ragged. It's a good thing that our clasmate Leira was in the group because she is the one who made final touches to make it look more real.

We're able to passed it in time and hopefully, our professor will give us a high grade. :)

.. The TRUE ESSENCE of CHRISTMAS.. :))

The most awaited time of the year is near- the season of Christmas day. Everyone in the campus is very much excited and getting busy for the preparation of this much awaited event. We, the BSA12 students, are pretty much excited for this day. Eventhough we have our very busy and hectic schedule, we still find time to enjoy and feel the breeze of Christmas.

Despite of our busy schedule, assignments and projects to be passed and most especially, despite of the fact that our major exams is on our way now, we can still find time to manage how to celebrate this 'special' day. For we, as christians, know that this day is the most special day for us. Why did we tell it so?? Because we all know that this is the day that Jesus Christ was born. A savior who save us from death and take away our sins. That's why we really have to celebrate this most special event of the year because of the grace from God we can have the chance to feel the fullness of our lives. And as a students of DLSU-D we can feel the heartfelt gratitude and thanksgiving of the campus to our almighty GOD. As you go around at the university, you will see diffrent kind of decorations at the different colleges and buildings. It only shows that they really find this season a very special one. Serving and giving are one of the good things that we must practice on our lives. We must learn how to serve other people as what Jesus Christ did for us. We also have to share our blessings for that what's God want us to do and most specially let's give love not only during of christmas season but in every second and minute of our lives. As what He said in His word, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself"..

And BSA12 trying the best that we can to pursue this great commandments from our Almighty GOD.. for we really love and care for each other ..

And it's really not a big deal how and where you'll going to celebrate the Christmas season, what matters most is that we love at all.. :)))))

Indeed, the TRUE ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS is to Serve, to Give and to Love one another.. :)))

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ADVANCE PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL!!! :))

THE CREATIVE SIDE OF US :)))

Our last week before preliminary exam was nerve-racking. Few days from now, we would be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. This means that as of this moment, we should all be relaxed and delightedly waiting for Christmas to come. However, most of us can’t even feel the breeze of Christmas. Because of the upcoming major examination, we were assigned to do a lot of tasks like assignments, projects and even activities. As if all of these are still not enough, we were also scheduled for various examinations. We have nothing left to do but be geeks and spend time looking at our notes. We were so busy and stressed to even notice the days passing by. Yet despite of these “hardships”, we also enjoyed some of the activities done this week. One activity that I think most of us enjoyed is the collage making. Last December 15 and 17, we have been designated by our beloved REED professor – Mr. Eduardo Panulin to do a collage about our perception when we here the word “church”. Aside from the collage, we should provide an essay that explains our work. We, as accountancy students, have been familiarized to be the “busy people” as we are doing different assigned school tasks and combining them with the creativeness needed which is also accompanied by wild realistic imaginations. That is why when we heard that we are going to make collage, we don’t feel even the slightest bit surprised. We are getting used little by little at our overload schedules.

December 15 - Tuesday, it was the start of the activity. Every student in the classroom was very busy doing their group task showing their cooperation, but due to the limited span of time, most of us weren’t able to finish them up. Because of that, we were allowed to take it home and do some additions to make it more presentable. Some groups even want to continue and finish their collage but because it’s almost 7pm and it’s already late, we have no choice but to stop doing it and just take it home.

December 17 – Thursday, it’s our time to present it by speaking in front of the class and show the collage. We were allowed to code switch because it’s very comfortable to speak and express ideas in that way. During the presentation, everyone saw the unique ways of how the collage was made and that is because of the own interpretations that everybody have. We all made it with full efforts and the finished product was the result of unity and creativeness that each member of the group shared.

Honestly speaking, we enjoyed listening to our classmates presenting their own made collage. We showed that Accountancy is not everything about Brains. We all have our own talents to be proud of. There is even one collage made by our other classmates that amazes us until now. We think that it can even win at a contest :)). At the same time, we also prove that no matter how busy we are, we can still enjoy every precious seconds we spend with each other. These little activities serve as a great bond as well as an amusement to all of us. Even at a devastating week like this, we can still have bonding times together and appreciate the breeze of Christmas. :)))