POEM

“FRIENDS ...FOREVER”

They were someone I didn’t know before

But as time goes by

They were someone I get along with

They were someone giving me happiness

They give me strength

They were helping me through bad and good times

They were someone giving me will to face all my problems

They were someone that I treasure so much

They were someone that I love very much

Like my family

They were my angels

And they were my FRIENDS…

Friends… that the best gift of God

I know we will go separate ways

I wish this will not be the end

But as long as the memories keeping us together

We will still be….

FRIENDS…FOREVER

ESSAY

“FRIENDS”…
by

Ma. Bernadeth H. Malicsi

A person has always had a problem encountering everyday. Some are minor problems and some are hard to solve. In all our problems we usually have our family helping us but when they are not around we have friends that are always willing to help us. A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. In life we come across many people. Some will hate us while others will adore us. True friends are always by your side that when you are in need they always there to help, give you strength, courage and hope. And is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Friends make you laugh, cry, joy in your every day life. They are there to comfort, to laugh with, and to create wonderful memories.

College is a place where one develops skills in meeting new people and creating new friendships. This skill is not just learned and then lost. It is a skill that can be used anywhere and any time thought life. The hardest part is to get the ball rolling and start meeting new people. Making Friends is the process, which is a very unique one. It depends on the person one is trying to become friends with, it depends on one's gender, it depends on one's age, but most importantly it depends on one's own personality. It's a complex, magical process, which must contain fluid that will start spinning the wheel. Friends are the people you chose to spend that time of your life with, and these are the people that cultivated who you are. Everyone has certain expectations of what a valuable friend should be like. What I think makes a friend is loyalty, personality and availability. A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Good friends are wonderful. They're there to support you and to help you. That’s why I am very thankful to God that I have many friends. I am so very happy that I have all this friends because they were one of the reasons why I am living here on earth. They were one of the reasons why I loved my life, reasons why I am so very happy and still making through to all my problems. They give color to my life. As friends, we all make sacrifices for each other. And I know that all my friends now are will be my friends forever.

SHORT STORY

Tears…

by
(Ma. Bernadeth H. Malicsi)


Once there was a girl who almost likes a servant in his family. She feels that she doesn’t love by her family and nobody wants to be her friends but still she think that her family loves her even though she treated her bad. She has a brother and sister who always making her cry. She always bullying by her classmates in her school were she was studying. She was a good, nice and a kind person to all but she feel like nobody cares for her. She always crying at night and always asking herself that why she needs to suffer like this. She always think that no one love, no one cares for her even her family are treating her bad.

Since she was in elementary and in high school she has no friends and always alone and lonely. But when she is now in college she, because of her good attitude she found her friends and best friends, her true friends were she can tell about her life, were she can lean on every time she has a problem. From the time she met her friends her life becomes brighter and gives meaning to her life. When she ahs a problem she has now friends that she can turn to, and always ready to help her. Friends that are always making her laugh, cares for here and love her a lot. Giving her hopes, strength, and will to her life. She is now very happy because of friends even though her family still doesn’t care for her.

One day she became sick. She said it to her parent but it seems that they don’t care again. So, she went to the doctor alone to make check-up. She was shock when the doctor said that she has cancer. Her tears fall from her eyes. No words coming from her lips. She doesn’t know what to do. She didn’t tell it to anyone even to her family, best friend and friends.

She asks her best friends that, “what if she died what she will going to do?” Her best friend doesn’t know the reason her best friend asking a question like that. Her best friend did not answer her questions and said that she will not die, and if it will happen she will be going to cry.

In the school her best friend notices that she look like sick, but she said she’s not. She still hides her sickness to her best friends. But one day she can’t hide the pain that she feels. She tells it to her best friend and while saying it tears fall from her eyes. Her best friend shock and cried also. Her best friend asks if her family know it and she said that they don’t know about it.

Her best friend was very worried about the situation of her so that is why she decided to tell it to her best friends’ parent. Her parent was also shock for what her best friend said. Tears fall from their eyes and don’t know what to do. They feel so sad for their daughter and feel sorry about it. When they know the condition of their daughter they make sorry to their daughter for treating her bad and not giving her the love of parents that he did not feel and asking for her forgiveness. She forgives her parent for all the bad things that did for her because even though they treated her bad she still love her family a lot.

When she was now in the hospital, she feels like her body was giving up because of cancer. But she was so very happy because her life now was complete. All her friends and family visited her in the hospital and saying that she needs to get well soon but she smile at them and thanking them for accepting her for what she is and for their cares, and for loving her that she never felt before. While she was saying it her tears fall again. But her eyes slowly closing. All her friends cried and her family because she died in front of them.

She died having tears in her eyes. That tears are that joy she feels in a lat minutes of her life. Her family and friends was so sad because they lost their good, nice and very kind friends but at the same time they are still happy and very thankful to god for giving them a good friends and daughter that make their life change.

CORDILLERA AUTONOMOUS REGION

CORDILLERA AUTONOMOUS REGION
(CAR)

The Cordiller Autonomous Region is one of the regions in the Philippines. It consists of Kalinga Apayao, Benguet, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and Abra. The main city of this region is Baguio City. Cordillera has abundant mineral reserves. These include metallic ores such as gold, copper, silver, zinc, and non-metallic minerals like sand, gravel and sulfur. Mineral reserves are found in all the provinces. This region is the home of numerous indigenous tribes collectively called the Igorot. The region is rich in ancient culture because the people's way of life in this place existed ways back to the ancient Filipinos before the Spain colonize the country. The people live amidst the rice terraces that is towering the Northern Luzon. The Igorot, Tinguian, Apayao, and the Kalinga Tribes reign over Luzon's Mountain Terrain.
The CAR region has many different ethnic groups which have different way of living. One of the tribes in the CAR region is the Ibaloys which are the ethnic group lived in Benguet Mountain Province. They are industrious and horticulturists. They raised all kinds of vegetables, which supply the needs of the different parts of the Philippines and Souteast Asia. Isneg are the people lived in upper half of Cordiller Province known as Kalinga Apayao.they were described as slender and graceful strucuture and they were also kind, generous, hospitable, sel-reliance, have courage and clearly artistic in their temperament. They have been known to be as head hunting society. The Tingguian was the other inhabitants of Abra which also know as Itneg. Most of them are farmers who intend rice in kaingins and rice terraces. The Ifugao are the people living in Ifugao Province located in the Central Cordillera Mountains of Northern Luzon. They are known as Igorots. Their ancestors built the famous rice terraces over 2,000 years ago without the aid of metal tools. Bontoc refers to the people of the Mountain Province. They are the only people in this area known to have laws on warfare. Their main agricultural product is rice. The Kankanayan or kankana-ey lived in the Mountain Province of Benguet which is the largest community in the Mountain Province. The Kalingas are some of the major ethno linguistic groups inhabiting Nothern Luzon and they lived in the southern half of the Province of Kalinga Apayao. They were feared for their head hunting activities.

This different ethnic group has their own different way of living, culture and traditions. In their spiritual world some of them believe in anitos and spirits of their ancestors. They also have their own kind of literature which are origin myths, fables, stories, riddles, tales, epic, legends, and songs which reflects to their cultures, traditions and history.

"Biag ni Lam-Ang"

Biag ni Lam-ang is a pre-hispanic epic from the Ilocos region of the Philippines written by the father of Iloko Literature, Pedro Bukaneg. As time goes by this epic has been translated to different languages from Ilocano Language.

Lam-ang is a brave and strong man. He was the son of Namongan and Don Juan. Lam-ang never see his father because when the time his mother give birth to him his father need to go to the mountains to punish an Igorot band. When Lam-ang learned that his father was killed by the Igorot he makes revenge to the Igorot band. He slew them all except one whom he tortured first before releasing. When he returns home in Nalbuan he heard about the beautiful maiden named Ines Kannoyan, daughter of the richest man of the town of Kalanutian. He told his mother if his desire to court the maiden. Lam-ang took a white rooster and a dog with him as he went to court Ines. When Lam-ang reach the Kalanutian he made his dog growl and the house that collapsed erected again. Dully impressed Ines and her parents invited him. The rooster acted as the spoke person of Lam-ang. And from the rooster, Ines and her parents learned the true intensions of Lam-ang. The parents of Ines Kannoyan asked for a bride price. They said that they will bestow the hands of their daughter if Lam-ang could equal their wealth consisting of lands and golds. He was able to bring gold more than the wealth of the Kannoyans and he married Ines. Lam-ang reminded by the head of the town of their tradition where he needs to catch Rerang. Lam-ang told his wife that he has a premonition that he was bitten by the giant fist called Bakekan. Ines became so sad and lonely but the rooster said to her that Lam-ang can be alive again if all the bones of Lam-ang will find. And then they find all the bones of Lam-ang and because of the rooster and the dog life began to stir in the assembled bones of Lam-ang and because of that Lam-ang and Ines lived happily ever after.

This story shows the drama, romance, magical and adventurous life of Lam-ang. It also shows the culture, tradition and belief of the Ilokano people. It presented the fact that life is full of trials and problems. One must be strong and just accept the reality that is already part of life.

"Who are you? "

I am Ma. Bernadeth H. Malicsi, 18 years old. I live in Rafaela Ponce Apt. C. Kapitolyo Homes Bambang, Pasig City. I’m now a third year college students at Rizal Technological University in Boni, Mandaluyong City taking up Bachelor of Science in Office Administration major in Office Management. I’m the daughter of Charlita and Arnolfo Malicsi. I have three brothers, the oldest brother is Allan, a fourth year college, Charlie, a first year college and the youngest is Christian, a grade six students.

I love to listen music and in radio. My everyday life will not be completed without music because it’s part of my life. I love to sing but I think singing doesn’t like me. I want to learn how to play piano but I think it will take to long for me to learn playing piano because I can’t afford to buy a piano. Now I’m learning to play guitar. Playing guitar is now one of my hobbies. I love to play guitar now. With the help of my two brothers I can now play some chords and with the help also of my best friend I can now also play some songs that I like. And I wish that someday I can play all my favorite songs and any songs that my friends like, like a professional guitarist. I like also watching television and to draw an animated or cartoon characters. When I’m just a little girl before drawing is the first thing that I love to do but now I don’t have time anymore to draw. The only time that I can draw things is when it is summer vacation.

I’m nice, friendly and a shy type of person. I’m happy when I’m with my friends. If I’m with them I forget all the problems that I have. If we are all together it seems that we don’t have any problem because of the joy and laughter that we share to each other that people see in our face. Because of my friends, best friends and classmates I discover the real me.

When it comes to my family, I am so glad that God gave my family to me. I am happy that I have a nice and responsible parent and three brothers although sometimes we are fighting but we love each other. With all the problems that we’ve been through we still can laugh about it and make through it. so I’m very thankful for having them as my family for without them I will not be good person as I am now. I am thankful also to the persons that are supporting our studies for without them me and my brothers will not be able to study in college so I’m very thankful to god for having them as part of my life.

I’m thanking God for letting me live in this world with my family and friends, for guiding us in our everyday life. Thank you very much Almighty God for everything.