"End of Blogging"

I am so happy because this is the last blog entry needed so that I can already comply the requirements for English II. After this blog entry, I can already rest and be relaxed because I’m not going to think about topics anymore and I can already sleep early and rest and rest.

I’ve been stressed out for the past few days because I had sleepless nights because of this blog project. And now, I am much excited because this is the end of my suffering. I can already sleep early and I will not think about topics to talk to anymore and I will no longer compose compositions about some topics.

This blog project also helped me in some ways like enhancing my writing skills, my composition skills, my skills in using English language in writing, and so many other skills. This project is useful in that way but it is also tiring and really needs patience and I’m so grateful that I came at this point that I already reached the number of entries required. At first, I really thought that I will not make it because I’m not good in writing especially when using the English language. But because of waiting patiently, continuing to make some compositions, and asking help form others, I am able to accomplish my task which is to post nineteen blog entries and this entry is the last and final.

It really took me a lot of time composing my blog entries. It also got much of my money because I need to rent a computer in order to post my compositions and it also took much of my time because during the past few days, my time schedule was only allotted for this blog project and I didn’t think of other things but blog, blog, blog.

But now, as I reached this point, I felt a great feeling in me. I can finally rest my brain from thinking of the topics that I’m going to talk to and I can now spend my time doing other things. The past days were really hard and stressful for me because the deadline is fast approaching and I only had one fourth of the required entries and I reached a point where I can’t think of topics to talk about anymore. But now, it is a great thing to think that I have already accomplished the required posts.

It is already late in the evening but I’m still making this blog entry. But it is okay because after this, there will be no more blog entries to work on. I don’t have much to say right now but I am writing whatever I think of just to finish this blog entry. Yes! I’m almost done. Just a few more words and this is finished.

I just want to take this opportunity to thank sir Elmer because of him, my writing skills enhanced and I learned many things about blogging just because of this blog project.

"Buddy"

Buddy is one of Tiny’s first batch puppies. He is Tiny’s son. If you don’t know who tiny is, she is my pet dog. Buddy was one of Tiny’s first puppies. There were seven of them but he is the only one here with us.

Tiny took good care of Buddy and his siblings. When they grew up, it was now the time for them to be given away because we cannot afford to take care of seven puppies. They were slowly taken by people but then, nobody got Buddy. We don’t know why. Maybe because he didn’t look good that time. Honestly, he was really ugly that time. He has long nose, long ears, and short legs. Because nobody got him, we were forced to take care of him and we did took care of him until now.

As Buddy grew, we realized that he is not ugly at all. We found out that he was cute! His long nose, long ears, and short feet make him look awesome. As he continued to grow, we were able to appreciate his beauty and we treated him as a special member of the family. Buddy was a playful dog and now, even if he is already old, he still sometimes go and play with our other dogs.

Like Tiny, Buddy was also a great help to us. He was the very reason why no robber was able to get in our house. He is a really wild dog. If you look at him, probably you will be scared because of his wild look. Unlike Tiny, Buddy has bitten a lot of people. He even bit innocent people who just walk near our house. I don’t understand this dog because he will just stand until the person walking gets near and when the person is few steps away, that is the time he bites it. This dog got us into so much trouble because he likes to fight with other male dogs and he always wins the fight. It is amazing that he is still alive even if he has bitten a lot of times already. That just proves that he does not have rabies.

One time, my uncle decided to take Buddy to their house and he stayed there for a long time. We thought that he will be able to stay there without bringing any heartache to my uncle but we were wrong. Buddy destroyed a lot of things there. He even killed chickens in the neighborhood. And so, they decided to return him to us. Now, Buddy is still with us but not like before, Buddy is now chained because he just bit our new neighbor on the leg but good for us that he was just calm. Now, we make sure that Buddy is chained and we only free him in the night because there are no people walking on the streets during the night. But even if he gave us a lot of heartaches, we still love him and we will still take good care of him as what we did while he was still a puppy.

"My dog Tiny"

When I was in grade four, a classmate of mine gave me a puppy. This puppy was very cute. It was small when I first saw it that’s why I named it Tiny. The puppy was a girl. Her fur is like that of a tiger. And her ears make her wild.

I took good care of this puppy. In fact, she is still living with me. I fed her always and let her drink milk. There were also times that I let her sleep in my room. I really took good care of her until she became bigger and became a mother. I was there during her first time of producing puppies. I can still remember what happened that time. It was early in the morning and I was looking for her because she was nowhere to be found. But then, in our empty pig pen, I saw her head looking outside the hole of the wall. I immediately went near her and shockingly, I saw seven cute puppies. Tiny takes good care of her puppies. In fact, she gets mad when our other animals go near her puppies. She also let her puppies drink milk even during the time when they already have teeth. Now, it is her fifth time of producing puppies. But still, she is not tired of taking care of her puppies. Tiny is a very loving mother. She makes sure that her puppies are secured and she leaves the others if one puppy is missing. She doesn’t let other animals go near her puppies but she allows humans to go near because she trusts humans.

Aside from being a good mother to her puppies, Tiny also has been a great help to us in protecting our house from robbers. Almost all our neighbors have been robbed but us, there were only attempts but these attempts were hindered by our guard dog, Tiny. She really helped in barking those strangers passing by our house. But she never did bit a single person. She only barks on them.

Tiny has also been helpful in killing the rats in our house. She has a good sense of smell. She immediately knows if there are rats hiding nearby and she will look for them and will never stop unless she catches them. Tiny has killed a lot of rats already and the rats that she killed are really enormous rats.

Tiny is a very brave dog! She is not afraid of anything. She is not afraid to die. In fact, there were already so many instances where she almost died because of fighting with other dogs but still she continues on fighting with them. There was also a time when she was hit by a car but it was not that hard. She was still able to walk after that but you can see in her look that she is hurt. But, she really is not afraid to die because today, he continues to cross the busy streets and it seems like she is playing with the cars.

Tiny was indeed a great help to us. She also inspired me in many ways. But now, I have a really big problem. We need to get rid of her because we will transfer to another house and no dogs are allowed in that house and it will be very hard for me to let go of her because she’s already part of my life and she was with me as I walked this world through the years.

"What a UP student is not"

Many people say that UP students are bright, smart, intelligent, and so on. In fact, if they hear the word UP, it seems like they are shocked or something. Maybe, they think UP is the highest school in earth and that UP students are the masters of the universe and that UP students are head of all. That’s a big mistake! UP students are not the head and masters of the world. They are just ordinary students trained well and taught well. Yes, we are a little advanced but that doesn’t make UP students head of other students in other schools. Maybe they just think that way because they don’t know what UP students really are.

UP students for me, are violators. Yes, we are violators. I can say that because many of my schoolmates, including me, violate the school rules. The rule that most UP students violate is the wearing of ID. Inside the campus, students should wear his or her proper uniform and that includes the ID. But as what I have observed, many students don’t wear they ID. It is also a violation if boys don’t comply the proper haircut. But many of the boys in UP don’t comply the proper haircut and that includes me. UP students are also not allowed to bring cell phones. But many of my classmates and schoolmates bring cell phones in the campus. With that, I can say that UP students are not good followers.

Up students are also copiers. I can say that we are copiers because if we have assignments, we don’t do it at home. We do it at school so that we can copy the answers of our classmates. Up students are also dead liners. Yes. It is true. Whenever we have projects, there are just few students who pass their projects ahead. Most of them pass their work during the deadline and some even pass their projects days after the deadline.

Another is that, UP students are not good in all subjects. In fact, many of us in our classroom are struggling to get a high grade in Mathematics. This really is a hard subject for us. There are also students who are struggling in English. Not all UP students are good in speaking English. Many of us don’t know much in speaking English but we are still practicing and we are doing our best in order to develop our speaking skills. There are also many students especially in the second year who are struggling in the subject, Social Science. When I was in elementary, our social science was very easy but now in UP, it is very hard!

Most of all, UP students are not shameful. In short, we have no shame! In fact, one fourth year student before told me that, if you enter UP, you should have no shame. Before, during my elementary years, I am a shameful kind of guy and I am ashamed to show what I’m really is but as I entered UP, it seems like my face doubled! I have slowly developed and got rid of being a turtle hiding in its shell. I now show people what really Aiden is and what my real attitude is.

Now, think about it. Do you think UP students are that good? You better think twice.

A summary of Max Schulman's "Love is a Fallacy"

The narrator in the story is logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, and astute. He is very brilliant and he was only eighteen. He has a room mate, named Petey, who is dumb. He is an emotional type, unstable, impressionable, and worst of all, a faddist.

One afternoon, the narrator found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face. The narrator told him not to move and that he will call a doctor. But then, Petey mumbled the word raccoon. The narrator asked him what he is trying to say and he said that he needs a raccoon coat. The narrator asked him why he wants a raccoon coat and he said that raccoon coat are not nice but then he replied that he will do anything just to have a raccoon coat. Then, the narrator thought about Polly. Polly is Petey’s girl. The narrator likes this girl. Polly is a beautiful girl, gracious, and had an ease of bearing but not that smart. But he puts into mind that he can teach Polly about the things that she doesn’t know.

Then, the narrator asked Petey if he has a special relationship with Polly but he said that they are not in a relationship but they are meeting sometimes. Then, the narrator got a bag and placed some things in it and he told Petey that he will go home.

When he came back to the dormitory, he brought a raccoon coat for Petey. When Petey saw the coat, he was delighted and was very happy and he immediately asked what the payment is if he will have the coat. Then the narrator told him that he will have the coat if he can have Petey’s girl, Polly. Petey replied that he doesn’t agree with him. But not long after, Petey could not stop his self, he really likes the coat. And so, he agreed with the narrator and they made a deal.

Then, the narrator immediately asked Polly for a date out. First, he took Polly to eat dinner. After eating, Polly said, “Gee, that was a delish dinner,". Then he took her to a movie. "Gee, that was a marvy movie," she said as they left the theater. And then he took her home. "Gee, I had a sensaysh time," she said as she bade the narrator goodnight.

He felt bad and decided to give Polly back to Petey but then he decided to try and teach Polly. He wants to teach Polly how to think. In their next date, he took Polly to the Knoll and Talk. "Oo, terrif," said Polly after hearing that they’re going over to the Knoll and Talk. Polly asked what they will talk about and then he said that they will talk about logic.

"Logic," he said, clearing his throat, "is the science of thinking. Before we can think correctly, we must first learn to recognize the common fallacies of logic. These we will take up tonight."

He taught Polly about fallacies and cited some examples but at first, Polly was confused and did not understand but in the last kind of fallacy, she was able to think and answer correctly. This fallacy was about “Poisoning the Well”.

After that night, the narrator decided to ask Polly’s decision to go steady with him. But in every thing he said, Polly was able to answer him a fallacy that he taught her and he was really impressed. But Polly said that she will not go steady with him. She told him that she will go steady with Petey. Then the narrator compares his self to Petey. He said that he is brilliant and Petey is not but Polly told him that he is poisoning the well. The narrator then asked why she chooses Petey and she said that "He's got a racoon coat."

"Reaction on Max Schulman's Love is a Fallacy"

After reading Max Schulman’s “Love is a Fallacy”, I had many reactions regarding what happened in the story and what the characters did especially on the narrator. According to Max Schulman, love is a fallacy. And for me, love really is a fallacy. It is something that is believed to be truth but is erroneous. Many of us don’t know that there are times when love, which we think to be truth, is erroneous just like what happened in Max Schulman’s “Love is a Fallacy”.

I liked the story especially the last part because the girl, who is Polly, really learned and put in mind what the narrator taught her and she was able to use those information in answering what the narrator said. Her answers were exactly the same as what the narrator taught her. For me, the narrator made a really big mistake. He shouldn’t make the deal with Petey. What he did was really not good. He made a deal with Petey just to get Polly. Even though he knew that Polly was Petey’s girl, he still looked for a way just to get Polly form Petey.

Polly was not that brilliant. Fore me, what the narrator did, which is teaching Polly about Fallacies is good. But I think he should not do it so that he could take Polly from Petey and be his wife. I saw that Polly really took what the narrator taught her heartily and she really placed all the information in her head. Because she really took them heartily, she was able to answer what the narrator told her when he was about to ask her decision to go steady with her. And what she answered really fit what the narrator said. It was like what he taught Polly was coming back to him and he was not able to debate with her because he taught Polly to think and answer those kind of things.

I really like the last part especially the part when Polly made her decision to go steady with Petey. The narrator had nothing much to say but to compare his self from Petey. He said that he is more brilliant than Petey and that Petey is dull. But Polly told him what he taught her, which is “Poisoning the Well”. He was indeed poisoning the well. He was destroying Petey’s reputation just to have Polly but she still chose to go steady with Petey. And that’s the part when the narrator was really mad at Petey and he was saying words against Petey. Then the narrator asked Polly why he chooses Petey and she answered that she liked him because he has a raccoon coat. And it is sort of hurting because he was the one who gave Petey the raccoon coat when they two made a deal and it feels bad for the narrator because he really did a great mistake and it was his entire fault. If only he did not long to take Polly from Petey, what happened might not happen and he might still have a chance to go steady with Polly.

"Our Pets"

We had a lot of pets before. But now, we only have dogs and cats because the others are already dead. The pets that we had before are chickens, pigs, goats, and fishes but now we only have three adult dogs and two cats.

Before, we had a lot of chickens in our backyard. We started from few chicks and they grew up and produced new chicks and again they grew up and produced another batch of chicks. We had chickens that are colored gray, orange, white, black, and others. But some of them died because of rats and others are already eaten by us.

We also had two goats. They were male and female. We were hoping that they would produce baby goats but unfortunately, the male goat died because of a certain illness that’s why we sold the other to the eatery near our house and they cooked it and sold it.

We also had a lot of fishes before. We had fishes colored orange, white, yellow, red, and others. But they one by one died until the only one left is the janitor fish and we still placed it in the aquarium and we didn’t buy new fishes because we were afraid that what happened might happen again to our new fishes. But not long after, the janitor fish died.

We also had two pigs before. They were all female pigs. We were also hoping that they could produce new pigs but the babies were premature because the mother pig was very scared of the fireworks because it was Christmas that time. Many of the baby piglets came out dead and there were some who were alive. But not long after, they died until only one piglet was left. When the night came, when the mother pig was sleeping, she accidentally rolled over the baby piglet and so it died. Because they didn’t produce any babies, we just decided to cook them and sell some of their parts.

We also have many pet dogs. Our very first pet dog was Bogs. But he is already dead right now. Next to Bogs, we had Tiny. Unlike the pigs and the goats, Tiny bore a lot of puppies and I think she bore more or less five generations of puppies. One of her first puppies, Buddy, is still here with us right now. Next to Buddy, we had a lot of puppies and some of them died and some were given away. Now, the only dogs that are with us are Tiny, Buddy, Razor, and two puppies.

We also had many cats before. But now, we only have two. We also had many kittens before but most of them died because they don’t have any mother because we just found them by the road. The others died because they were run over by a car. And some died because of sickness. Our cats never produced any kittens but we had a lot of them because they just came into our house and lived with us the rest of their lives.

These pets have special memories to me and I will never forget them because I had a hard time taking care of them because I was assigned to feed them every morning and every night.