Feeling MAJOR MAJOR pressure right now.

With the end of the semester closely approaching, everybody has so many things to do. And for BSTM 3-2d?

Ecotourism Case study - October 4
Rizal final Paper - October 4
DEFENSE. - October 4

I really don't know what to do first! Seeing the deadlines makes me feel so much time pressure...

I am REALLY exhausted. But I still believe I can do it!

-- I love OPTIMISM --

:)

Childish, Childlike, Immature.

Don’t act like a kid anymore...

Someone told that to me last Saturday night. Ouch. It made me think…

I encountered these words when I was in highschool..

CHILDLIKE - means like a child. Positive.

CHILDISH - means immature. Negative.

I am a self-confessed childish person. Yes, I know and I admit it. Like a kid, I am really STUBBORN. I am CARELESS, I am TACTLESS, and most of all, I don’t act like what a lady should be. I will be turning 18 a few months from now, but still, I am not yet growing UP – I mean, mentally, emotionally, and… uh… physically (hahah, yeah, I’m not that tall, but it’s not the topic here…).

But I believe I do also have a lot of good qualities… because I know I am just being ME. And I think it’s also nice to be a child. No pretensions. No major responsibilities. No pressures. They are just being HAPPY…

Still, I know I HAVE TO CHANGE SOMETHING. I’m not getting any younger, and I have to be more mature in order to face the real world and successfully deal with problems and challenges that I will encounter. But then, how can I do that?!

How can I be mature if I am still young at heart? Hahah… :)

What a dilemma.

Explore… Angono, Rizal

In our major subject Ecotourism, our professor tasked us to do a case study about a potential ecotourism site. In our group, we decided to do our case study in Angono, Rizal. There, we can find the Petroglyphs cave; and last September 8, we decided to go there and see it for ourselves.

Our meeting place is in SM Taytay at 9am. I left our house about 8. I thought I was going to be super late because I don’t know how far it is from our home... But I arrived there only a few minutes after 9. Margareth, Anna and her boyfriend were already there. We still waited about 45mins. for April and when she arrived, we rode a jeepney going to the Municipal Hall of Angono.

Upon arriving, we already don’t know which way to go, because our classmate Krystel who knows the place didn’t arrive. And so we went to URS Angono where April’s brother is studying, which is just beside the hall. We stayed on the front of the school to ask for directions on how to go the caves. Luckily, the man in the front desk of the school who just asked us what we are doing there helped us. He said we can ask for help in the municipal hall. So he accompanied us to the office.

We went to the Municipal Tourism Office and there we met Mr. Patnubay Tiomson, the head of the office. Supposedly, he will just ask a municipal shuttle to bring us to the caves, but unfortunately the shuttle was not around. That’s why he decided that he himself will accompany us – using his own car.

We are really lucky because Mr. Patnubay accompanied us, because the road is really steep and full of zigzags… probably we will spend hundreds of pesos if we just rode a tricycle. After about 30 minutes we arrived at the cave.

We saw a passage by the mountain, that we thought is the cave itself. But Mr. Patnubay said it is just a manmade passage for easier access to the real caves. We walked through the passageway and a few meters more, we founded a small museum. There we were greeted by the OIC of the place.

We went up to the caves and saw it closer… It was really amazing. Petroglyph means “earth writing”, and the drawings here were said to be written about 3000 years ago. The drawings portray the life of the early inhabitants of the place; and they drew the significant rituals that they do. And another fact: the one who discovered the caves is the pride of Angono: the National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco.

After touring the caves, we went back to the municipal hall and took our lunch. After eating, we decided to go home, but Mr. Patnubay invited us to see other attractions of Angono. We went to Mr. Orville Tiomson’s house, who happened to be Mr. Patnubay’s cousin. Mr. Orville is the Presidential Artist of the former President Arroyo. We entered his gallery and he showed us some of his artworks. I don’t know anything about “ART” but I admired his works which are all very artistic.

Afterwards, we went to the Blanco Family museum. The Blanco Family is really famous in the town because all of them – Mr. and Mrs. Blanco, and their seven children – are really great artists. We toured their very big house-turned-museum and we saw all of their works. I saw their amazing talent because all of their artworks are really beautiful and drawn up to every single detail. Some of them started painting at a very young age, which made me admire them more.

We decided to go home after. It was indeed a very tiring but at the same time an unforgettable day. And I am also very grateful to Mr. Patnubay… thank you so much!! Truly, Angono is a very beautiful place and really deserves to be called the “Art Capital of the Philippines”.