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IDEAL FAMILY!

After watching those three videos, the Kwentong Jollibee short film that touched my heart is entitled "Kwentong Jollibee:Pamasko".

Christmas is one of the most important days to celebrate with our families. Receiving and giving gifts from people that are special to us makes us feel special and loved. In this short video is all about the loved ones of the Filipinos whose family who work abroad, sending them a box full of gifts to make their presence felt on Christmas as they celebrate the holidays away from their families. The sacrifices of Filipino migrant workers in order to give their children a better life even if it means being away from each other while their children enjoy and are grateful for all the gifts they receive, they don't know that the only wish of their children is to celebrate Christmas with their parents, as one whole family.

This Kwentong Jollibee:Pamasko shares to us the true meaning of Christmas. It is not just about material things we usually receive but more than that, it is about sharing our time, joy and love with our families.

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LOVE LANGUAGE TEST!

"In Quality Time, nothing says "I love you" like full, undivided attention. Being there for this type of person is critical, but really being there—with the TV off, fork and knife down, and all chores and tasks on standby—makes you feel truly special and loved. Distractions, postponed activities, or the failure to listen can be especially hurtful. Whether itʼs spending uninterrupted time talking with someone else or doing activities together, you deepen your connection with others through sharing time."

After taking the Love Language Test, the result I get in my primary love language is Quality Time. I do agree with the results I get because I love spending time with my family and friends, that even my leisure time, I would likely to spend the rest of my time with them. Spending time with my love ones are ways of creating a memorable moments with them. I love how they listen to my stories even it is long as well as I love listening their stories too!Having time with them is a privelege and should never be taken for granted. I cherish all the quality moments I have with them and I will bring those memories with me forever.

"Spending quality time is not about what you doing or even how you are doing it, it is about spending time together with those who are important to you. "

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MY LOVE STORY!

This story that I'm going to share to you is about my puppy love to someone way back in my highschool days. It was in Grade 7 and there's an event that happened at school which is school intramurals then, I have this friend who participated in sports chess. They need to play chess every afternoon at our room so in their first day of playing at our room, I was also there not because I want to join chess sports and also I don't know how to play at that time hahahaha! I was there because I stayed and waited for my friend. All participants who join the chess sports enters our room and I lazily looking at them because I am so sleepy at that time, later on my teacher told us to call one of my classmate who's at the backside of our room and me who had nothing to do, stand up from my chair and call my classmate's name but at that moment there's someone besides me calling the same name. I look at him with a smile in his face and it was the time that I feel something in my heart. After that, I started getting information about him like name, grade level and etc. And because of him, I also enter and join chess sports so I can see him every afternoon. Funny right? I don't know how to play chess before but becuase of him I am able to learn how to play it. He's Grade 9 at that time when I first saw him while I am Grade 7. He's cute and I like his smile. My friend says that I already have a crush on him and I don't need to deny because it is true. People says if you have a crush on someone because of his beautiful behavior but soon that you found out his true nature and you turn him off, so suddenly you lose the admiration you feel for him. But at the time goes by and I am in Grade 9 and he's Grade 11, my admiration for him was not changed when I already know who he is. Is this love? because they said that LOVE is accepting someone whether their behavior is positive or negative. I always talk about him to my barkada and they told me that it was not a crush anymore but love because it lasted 4 years. Yes! he's my crush since grade 7 up to grade 10, my highschool crush. Why do I like him? because even he is not into me since he have already someone in his heart, he knows that I like him and he appreciated my feelings for him. He is always a good guy to me and I am happy that I met him.

So here's my thoughts about the word love. Love is something that can never be bought. It is the most powerful of all God-given things. It can change you into a good person or a bad person depends on what love means to you but for me love is love for a person no matter how it is included, whether something is missing from him or not and not seeking anything that is not in him. Isn't it sometimes that even if he doesn't love you you still show him that you love him? Because love includes sacrifice. It is not selfish but it is generous. If your loved one is loved by others, for his happiness you will let him go even if you are hurt.

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PAUSE FOR A THOUGHT!

We all want to be happy that we may learn how to be happy with each passing day and if only we could no longer feel sadness and frustration and also we wish we had no more problems coming to us. But happiness depends on ourselves, on what we say, think and do, not on anyone. It depends on our behavior, on what we have learned from our experiences, and on what we can do in our lives.

So, here's the question for today:

What makes you happy?

Everything that I love to do makes me happy. I love playing board games, have a bonding moments with my family and friends, playing some tricks with my pets, eating my favorite food, watching korean drama, seeing other people happy also makes me happy. I am happy if I achieve something that is important to me. It also makes me happy if someone asking questions about me and I feel their care and love towards me. Even in small things and efforts from my special ones, I also feel happy about it. I easily to cry when someone talk to me in insensitive but if someone do everything and try to make me happy by showing me their jokes, I easily laugh at them and all the negativities I heard are slowly vanished in my mind and it is already covered by the happiness I get from them.

When are you happy?

I am happy when I am with my favorite people and seeing them laughing are already gives me happiness. I am also happy when there's nothing to worry about and I just enjoy everything such as watching korean drama and eating my favorite food at my leisure time.

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”. -Mahatma Gandhi

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LEFT AND RIGHT BRAIN DOMINANCE

After doing this activity about checking which side of my brain is dominant and I found out that I am more on left dominant of my brain and I belong to the 'people of science'. According to the video that I watch, you are said to be left brained if you're mostly analytical and methodical in your thinking. I think I also belong in this group because I like numbers more than words. I like being logical and love to solve problems involving math and numbers. I also consider myself as naturally good in math. I also like setting up my own goals.

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FOUR EXERCISES TO TEST HOW FAST IS YOUR BRAIN IS

Our brain is involved in everything we do and like any other part of the body, our body also needs exercise. It will improve your memory, focus that can make your daily tasks quicker and easier to do, and keep your brain sharp as you get older. From the video that I have watched, it gives four exercises to test how fast our brain is. There are four exercises namely: Multi colored test, Schulte Table, Finger gestures and Bimanual synchronous writing. These exercises helps us to prevent alzheimers disease by improving concentration. It increase the reception and processing infornation speed. It also beneficial as it trains to develop switching abilities and it also helps our brain on how to handle multiple task.

"System of exercises is to keep our brain to maintain its function into ripe old age." Lawrence Katz

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PAUSE FOR A THOUGHT!

Everyone of us experience of having a problem. It can be problems with health, education, love, family, money, and so on. We can not say when it will come. Although, we do not give up right away and we always remember that in every problem we encountered, we needs to be stable in life.

Here's the questions for today:

What are the challenges that you face and how can you manage them?

As one of the adolescent people and a student, one of the problems I face is having poor sleep habits that will leave me ineffective listening to the class and the cause of why some of my activity had lower score. But l always keep in mind that every problem has a solution. The solution will begin with the decision we make. The decision we make will measure our defeat or our victory over the solution we have created. To avoid having this problem, I have been managed my sleeping habits by keeping a regular sleep schedule even on weekends. I practiced waking up at the same time every morning. I love coffee but I need to lessen drinking coffe before bed time so I can sleep early. It also helps me to have a good sleep if I limit my afternoon naps because according to what I know most students sleep better if they avoid naps, but some sleep better after a nap. We will have different problems in the future but the only thing we get here is what we learn from our problem before. When we know how to solve the problems, we learn something from it, so our hearts and minds must always be open to the lessons we learn after the problem. With every mistake we make, with every trial we face, it is important that we learn from it and apply it to the future.

Do you believe that adolescence is a period of stress and storm? Why?

Yes. These period of stress and storm in development of adolescents have various effects of what kind of problem they face and how it is being dealt with. These problem can be either physical, emotional or social. These stress and storm can be related to the pressure and expectation from society, media and also from the peers that caused by the demand and responsiblities that attached to it. Adolescence period is a very important and exciting stage in life that are ruined by many stages of development and challenges and most adolescent exprienced this process of storm and stress.

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EXPECTATIONS

We all have certain expectations to others and also to ourselves. We all create a scenario in our mind of how life should look and we firmly believe it. Some people have unrealistic high expectations of themselves or others and are unaware of it. We often do not know how it can affect our mental well-being. As we strive to fulfill our expectations, we become stressed and neglect all the other important things in our lives.

How do you handle expectations?

We all know that we expect a lot of ourselves. But some of our expections are too unrealistic that makes it impossible to happen, which this can cause a lot of stress so we need to manage our expectations well. For me, I give my self a time. I make sure that I chose a realistic plan so I can reach my desire goals and objectives in life. Even I have my own personal expectations, it can be difficult to change what others expections that's why I invest some time and energy so I can slowly improve my relationships with others and also to myself. If you can understand and manage your expectations, it will help you to start to pursue your own goals in life.

Do you see them as challenges or potential failures?

I see them as both challenges and potential failures. Our expectations hold onto influence where our focus and attention goes. These expectations influence on what we will or won't attempt to do. Also these expectations influence attitude, decisions, perspective and also the interactions with others.

Do you thrive on challenges or do you shrink away from them?

I sometimes shrink away from the challenges I encounter before because of the stress they give to me and also be fraustrating but now I realized that the more challenges you have, the more you learn, and the more you grow. It motivates us to get started and to keep going and it also can make us strong and gives us the confidence to attempt great things. When we seek out challenge, what we end up finding is an opportunity.

"Teachability comes when we take something that we learn and apply it." by John Maxwell

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PAUSE FOR A THOUGHT!

There are things in our lives that are good to go back to and one of them is our childhood memories. Who would forget those times where our mind was naive from everything in this world. The time when we learned to appreciate simple things like toys and our friends.

Here's the question for today: What are some things you have done during your childhood that you are not doing anymore?

During my childhood days, I had so many experiences that happened in my life. When I was young, I always go out and ask some of my neighborhood friends to play with me. I often ask my parents to give me money to buy food and if they won't give me some, I ended up crying so they will give what I want. There's nothing else to think about but playing with my friends are important for me before. With my friends, we often bathe in the rain and jump tirelessly every time we play a chinese garter and sit under a tree when we feel tired for a while and then quickly run towards the house when we see my mother carrying a stick. But when morning comes, we are back to the old meeting place and there, it will be filled with laughter, teasing, and endless storytelling until the time passes without realizing it.

Childhood experiences are different than they are today. As we grow older, I realize that there are so many changes, from games and even the friends I have formed with fond memories, I just smile every time I remember that I was once a child. I used to be naive about everything but now, I know what was going on around me. Being as one of the adolescent people has a lot to learn. There is the hard work and perseverance especially I am studying since my parents have a dream for me and I will never forget that. These things that I have mentioned are those I have experienced when I was a child that I can't do it anymore. We can no longer bring back the times of the past and we need to move on with the life we ​​are living now and let just continue to cherish the happy memories of the past.

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PAUSE FOR A THOUGHT!

Adolescence is the period, age, or time between being a childhood and adulthood or the period of time when a person is physically adult but emotionally immature. During adolescence, all teenagers faces various of changes. It is also a time to develop knowledge and skills, learn to manage emotions and relationships, and acquire attributes and abilities that will be important for enjoying the adolescent years and assuming adult roles.

Here's the questions for today:

How would you describe your current situation as an adolescent?

Inside the 18 years of existence in this world, I have seen the changes in me as I grow from a child to teen and to the legal stage which is the age at 18. In the stage of being a teenager, I have seen the changes in my physical formation and also on how I socialize to others. If I would describe my current situation as an adolescent, it have been difficult for me because it gives a big responsiblities. I take time to develop independence from parents while remaining connected to them. I have been explored different roles, behavior and ideologies. I also experienced being emotional and more sensitive to stress. But the important thing of being an adolescent is I learned to make good decisions on my own.

Is it a period of stress or are you slowly stregthening your identity?

During adolescence, we, the adolescent continues to grow physically and emotionally, changing from a child into an adult. This is a period of how I slowly strengthening my identity where I develop more on advanced patterns of reasoning, being aware to my self and I also want to build up my own identities. Although adolescence can be a time of stress for me, such as all the problems I have been experiencing before. When I feel stressed out, I just want to eat a lot food alone. But despite of the things that is difficult to handle when I am in the stage of being an adolescent, I have learned a lot of things about it such as I don't let my self-esteem drop. Instead, I use this opportunity to enrich myself. I have to start right because here in lies the success of dealing with the next stages of my life and this also leads to happiness.

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PAUSE FOR A THOUGHT!

Forgiveness by Matthew West

This song talks about a person who learned how to forgive someone who made her feel all the hatred and bitterness inside her heart.

"I want finally set it free

Show me how to see what Your mercy sees

Help me now to give what You gave to me

Forgiveness, forgiveness"

Forgiveness is not about giving punishment to the person who wronged you but giving apology to them. We know that forgiveness is one of those words that is difficult to let go of, especially when one's guilt is heavy and unforgivable but if you serve God, He commands that we must forgive others as much as He forgive us from our sins and He will show you and you will learned how to forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness and forgetting the mistakes committed by others is the way you are freeing yourself. Relieving the pain you feel, the anger, sadness, hatred, and the resentment towards that person. Forgiveness is not a sign of weakness, but rather a demonstration of strength. Strength because despite of what happened, you still go on with your life and we all need to think about how forgiveness can set us free.

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There are some people who have complex character traits that can be both naive and knowledgeable, stern and immature. Here are the questions that makes me think:

Have you ever met a person who seems to be so complex that it is difficult to fully understand him or her?

I have met few of them who have a complex personality that makes me wander why they are so hard to understand. They are so hard to deal with because they are so difficult to explain why are they like that and why they do that. I am trying to understand them for some things that they want me to figure it out why are they so complex. Their words are different from how they act and this is one of the things I dont understand about them.

What makes this person a complex character?

Everyone has character traits, both good and bad and it depends on person's behavior. Person's character and personality are intertwined and these two are quite distinct. Personality traits are easily to observed because it is visible from the outside but we don't know what they are in inside and this is the character traits which is the person's attitude that is not immediately obvious but developed over time that is why I find them so difficult to understand because there are some of their personal traits that are still hidden and unknown from people surrounds them. These character makes them as a complex person.

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Personal Development

What is your take away with the lesson?

My take away from this lesson is that I have learned about why we should be aware to ourselves by taking care and mindful for it. I able to understand the meaning of cognitive development refers to how a person perceives, thinks and gains understanding of his world and also I able to learn the two aspects of cognitive development which is the attitude and cognition. I also learned about the Holism and Dualism. This lesson help us to understand, learn and aware from what we are doing. We should know and understands our own character, feelings, motives, and desires.

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KNOWING YOURSELF!

There are times where we can be proud that those who know about ourselves are also ourselves and that somtimes happens to me. But without knowing, it also causes misunderstandings and eventually we seem to jump into conclusion that what we are proud of about knowing ourselves is wrong. There are some questions that I also want to ask myself such as Do I know myself? How did I learn these things about myself? Where did the information came from? and Do I like what I know?

The first question is Do I really know myself? Well, what I only know about myself is that I am a simple positive person. I also have dreams like everyone else. When I have the desired things that I have achieved, there are new dreams that will arise in my heart and mind. When it comes to other people, who am I? As a friend, I think I am enough of who I really am, to be called a good friend. Happy at the time of laughter, and sad at times when one of my companions is in trouble. Sometimes, I feel like I should change some of the things I used to make for others to like me but I still want to be accepted in the way of who I really am even if there are few of them, I am sure they are real and if i don't have one, there are also my families that I know they will never turn their backs on me.

We, people know that the only thing in the world that is constant is change right? and I know that there is changes in me, especially in my personalities. I noticed that I get angry easily often without no reason unlike before that I have all the patience in me. I realized that there's a lot of changes that happened to me as I grow older and that makes me think if I really know myself.

How did I learn these things about myself? According to Aristotle, "knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom" and I learned these things because of curiosity and being inquisitive is a normal habit of human. I am a person who at every turn wonders where I should go. Sometimes I even ask myself why I did choose the path I took but whatever my choice offers me, I know and i hope it belongs to me.

Where did the information come from? It comes from the self-knowledge and through the things I have experienced. Self-knowledge helps to learn which things fits to me and which is don’t. It requires an understanding of both past and the current self. Unfortunately, we are not born knowing ourselves fully and there's still a lot of things needs to be known and lacks needs to be fulfilled.

Last question I have is Do I like what I know? It is not that I don't like what I know but I know for sure that everything has a reason. What I don't like is knowing all the changes in me that leads from hurting other people by my action without knowing it and because of this It feels like I am also hurting myself. And Everytime I feel hesitation for all those things I have done before, I know there's another path for me that belongs to me. At the end of the day, I will always want to know who I am because I am myself and what I write here is what is inside my head and not those from people who are good at judging people. BECAUSE THIS IS ME, MYSELF AND I!

"It is important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself." - Diane Von Furstenberg