tHE SoUnD Of MuSiC , tHE SoUnD Of LoVe

"Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm.It exist to keep you comfort,
it is there to keep you warm.Even times of trouble and you are most alone,the memories of love will see you through". wOw!!! Love songs really strike my heart and especially this one. I think the title of this song is "Perhaps".I remembered that I sung this particular song with my classmate when I was in first year high school. Anyway,I really don't care because I'm more concerned on what the lyrics imply. There's so many love songs that I hear nowadays. Songs made by different composers with different personalities and of different message written about love. LOVE. . . LOVE. . . LOVE. . . I always hear it from other people from various places.
What I saw in their faces when they talk about it is happiness and excitement.They are not
tired of talking about it even all day long. what's the word again? LOVE, but what is the true really the true and real meaning of love? Does it really exists? From the Webster English Dictionary,it means warm affection or a sexual passion but for me , love is the most wonderful
and important thing in this world when we talk about not just physical, psychological, mental and spiritual but most especially emotional needs. The of loving someone and of you being loved is like you won more than one hundred million! No, not just that, right? It's like you are in heaven amd you feel so alive, so happy and you are so inspired. Your heart is full of happiness
that it will burst into BANG! Isn't that inspired or expired ? Well anyway, back to the topic.
Where did we stopped? Inspired? Absolutely ! ! ! So when you are more or less in love and you are one hundred percent ( 100 %) sure of your feelings , you get inspired and double the effort
you exert in studying. You would like to join any activities where in he also participates just to impress this person. But I have two questions to ask. Does this love worth fighting for? Are you willing to give up all the things that are important for you before you had met him? Anyway, so when you are totally in love, to a person , you even do so many things that you don't usually do.
You are willing to do everything that makes him happy,even though you'll be laughed by others
and end up hurting yourself. It's absolutely not like that. All I know is that the two of you share
and discuss secrets and problems. Caring and showing passion is just only part of it. True love is a real love. A man shows it by being your night and shining armor. He's always there for me , anywhere and anytime.
He's with you through thick and thin. He understands things about you, your family, friends and other things that you consider to be your precious treasures. There should be love and trust for each other because if ther's enough of these two, instead of goimg stonger,
a relation will be destroyed and will never work. Do you believe that love exists in different colors? I myself believe that too.One example is our love of God. We don't praise and ask God his guidance if we don't trust him. Trusting is one sign f showing love.The love and respect of
a child to his parents is another example. Parents show their love by giving the things that you needed.They become when you do mistakes because theylove and care for you. They eve get worried when you go home late.Related to "trusting" is the love we give to our beloved friends.
Friends can be trusted with our secrets. We can always count on them even when the world seems to fall apart. They are the ones that we can we lean on when we feel so alone an depress.
They comfort us and we enjoy each others company.Love exists in a boy-girl relationship.
Honestly,I've never had a relationship with a guy before so it's too difficult for me to share things. I didn't experienced things like mutual relationship either but all I understand about it
is that both of you try to kno each other first.Then follows the realization that you are both under a situation called mutual understanding or M.U. in short. As time passes by, your will
jump into next higher level meaning it grows deeper and deeper. Problems and arguments are
normal so you encounter these things and together you face them.The last thing will happen is matrimony.It's a sighn of everlasting love and your rings will justify.\it really sounds awkward to me but I will not deny that I;m looking forward for the guy who is destined for me. the truth is that I also envy my friends because they have sex appeal, beauty,brains,guts and most of all good hearts. I love and I'm proud of myself. what I learned from other other people's experience is that loving oneself to the highest level will become hindrance for you to become happy and contented . When you are damn too proud of yourself, you'll envy and destroy life.Love God, your family, friends, your special someone and all the other persons ans things that you value most.Turn on your radios, listen to love songs because the sound of music is the sound of love.

Karen is my name!

I guess that introducing oneself is the first step in knowing somebody.It really doesn't matter if who asks your name first or if who approaches you first.So many ifs right?So now people,let me introduce myself.Well,my fullname is Karen Varquez and not Karen Davila...

You probably know her since she's one of the most famous t.v.reporters here in our country!

I'm a very friendly person and that'strue.You can even ask my bestfriends,Kristine,Christlyn,Emilyn and Donna.We call ourselves as "Kalapati girls".Yup! "Kalapati"which is dove in English language.I really enjoy their company.We are together in times of happiness and in times of sorrows .There's always a special place for them here in my heart.

By the way,I'm fourteen years old,young and beatiful...we are ten in the family and I'm the fifth one.Yes!!!Ten as in capital T-E-N. Ten!!!I'm already in second year high school.wHat?Oh Yeah...

sOrry guys I forgot to tell you that I study in UP.The University of the Philippines,the school of

iNtelligEnt and very "cool" people!I'm proud that i'm one of them.I was born on Oct. 25,1992

here in the beatiful city of CEBU!Since you already knew my birthday,i'll really expect more gifts.uHmmm... I read pocketbooks a lot especially romance.I usually spend my Saturdays and

Sundays watching t.v, listening to my favorite radio and hanging out with friends... Sometimes

I go to the mall alone and have window shopping.I play soccerbaseball,softball,badminton and tabletennis but I'm planning to have guitar lessons and to practice lawn tennis this coming summer.

Actually, i don't like that kind of sport but my crushis a tennis player. He's good at it .

No,not just good but he's an expert.Believe me guys,he's really a genius! He was even called the

"Prince of tennis". Isn't that amazing? Anyway,my father is a musician.He's Alfonso Varquez

and he's the one who taught me how to play flute.oF coures I have also an interest in Music.

Although I can't sing that well doesn't mean that I have talent in music so don't extenuate me.

I can play some musical instruments.Unfortunately,my mother died three yares ago.She's Carmelita Varquez, a very responsible and a lovable mother.She's the best mother in the whole wide universe.No one will ever replace her here in my heart.It's really sad because she left us at a young age.We will treasure the happy and sad moments with her.What else can I say about myself? Well,I have really no lovelife for now maybe because of the reasons that I hate boys.WHY? It's because they are fond of breaking any girl's heart .They are so unpredictable,

sometimes they're approachable and sometimes they don't want you to talk to them or to even go near them.But that's for now only... No ,just kidding. I have to tell you something guys,the truth is I once admired a guy.He's intelligent , handsome and he's so gentleman.He's the man of my dreams.He became my friend at first but eventually we became best of friends.The times that we spent together was the time that I had realized that boys could be trusted with your deepest secrets.The next thing happened was that I realized that I have fallen in love with him.

Maybe it's not really love but only a simple attractiion to a guy.Sad to say,He didn't feel the same way too.At first I was hurt to know that and started to avoid himbut I couldn't stand to see him also hurt and the reason was. . . ME . I apologized and told him that even if he don't like

me as a girl who like him very much, I would still love him as a friend.So boys. . . keep your distance from me because I fall for a guy easily . HA. . . HA. . . HA. . .

TEACH…TEACHER…TEACHES…

The teacher is the one who teaches his/her students not just lessons in Science, Math, and other subjects... Teachers are expected to be role models and students would also learn good manners , right conduct and appropriate discipline from them... They are the ones who impart knowledge and guide their students to the right path, the path of a brighter future... Without teachers, I believe that successful persons will not achieve their goals. It depends on how the teacher's approach is to his or her students and how he or she teaches them. In addition to that they mold us to be a good and responsible human beings. Because of that we will be successful enough for us to be proud of ourselves. A program was launched in the University of the Philippines which was called KYSD. It started last January 17, 2007. You might be wondering what KYSD means. Well, it means Know Your School Day. It is also the same as Teacher's Day. The students were involved in this program. This served as a day- off for the teachers. So the students would act as the teachers for their chosen subjects in one or two days. But first, they should fill up a given paper and what they would do was simply to fill up pieces of information.

This paper served as an application form. Once this form was signed by the teacher in charge to that subject they would give you the topics that you would discuss to the date you were assigned to report. I chose the subject Filipino. My co- teacher was Donna. The topic assigned to us was about FRIENDS. By the way, on that day the teacher would just observe the assistant teachers which are actually the students. Some mentors would grade them while others would just listen. I was really so nervous because I'm not used to do stuffs like standing and talking in front of the class. I was told by Ma'am Rabago that I should speak Filipino and that made me feel uncomfortable. Donna told me that it would be all right and I should not panic. Honestly, I easily freak out. Together, we prepared an activity. We enjoyed and we thought that they also enjoyed, I guess. . . . . . When we asked their opinions about who friends were to them, they participated so I was so relieved. Thank God Donna was also there to help me. But anyway, what are friends indeed?

My classmates listened eagerly as if they were children who first time heard those things. The truth was that the definition of a friend for me was as simple as ABC. A friend is the one attached to another by affection and esteem. But if you really research on it deeper, It would become as complicated as operating a patient who is already struggling for his life. We talked about so many things. They enumerated some characteristics of a true friend. Some of them shared some experiences and others related a friend's characteristic to their friends. Even though some of my classmates were so noisy, I learned that time that our mentors should also have patience. That time I'd realized that the job of our teachers was not that easy. They would sleep late just to finish their lesson plans and sometimes they would spend their Saturdays at school instead of spending time with their families. Everyday is always easy for them. God! Their work is so tiring. Just the thought of it already made me exhausted. I know that being a teacher is not really for me but I'm very, very glad that my teachers are so kind and they have long patience. You know what I had discovered? Teachers can also be our best pal and can make a bonding out of this friendship. I just wanna say thank you to my beloved teachers. They became one of my inspirations. I really study very hard just to show them that I have something special and I want to prove to them that I'm worthy to have this kind of education. I would also like to thank them for the knowledge that they've shared, and for the time that they had spent with us. Thanks a lot for the love and care. They are like my second parents.......