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Friday, July 30, 2021
Monday, May 3, 2021
Dream of Knives” by Alfred A. Yuson
Last night I
dreamt of a knife
I had bought
for my son. Of rare design.
It went cheaply
for its worth—short dagger
with fancily
rounded pommel, and a wooden sheath
which
miraculously revealed other miniature blades.
Oh how pleased
he would be upon my return
from this
journey, I thought. What rapture
will surely
adorn his ten-year princeling’s face
when he draws
the gift the first time. What quivering
pleasure will most certainly be unleashed.
When I
woke, there was no return, no journey,
no gift and no
son beside me. Where do I search
for this knife
then, and when do I begin to draw
happiness from
reality, and why do I bleed so
from such sharp
points of dreams?
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud By John Donne
Death, be not
proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and
dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom
thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor
Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and
sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure;
then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our
best men with thee do go,
Rest of their
bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave
to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with
poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or
charms can make us sleep as well
And better than
thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep
past, we wake eternally
And death shall
be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Problem Is By Conchitina R. Cruz
Lament for the Littlest Fellow By Edith L. Tiempo
The littlest fellow was a marmoset.
He held the bars and blinked his old man’s eyes.
You said he
knew us and took my arm and set
My fingers
around the bars with coaxing mimicries
Of squeak and
twitter. “Now he thinks you are
Another
marmoset in a cage.” A proud denial
Set you to
laughing, shutting back a question far
Into my mind,
something enormous and final.
The question
was unasked but there is an answer.
Sometimes in
your sleeping face upon the pillow,
I would catch
our own little truant unaware;
He had fled
from our pain and the dark room of our rage,
But I would
snatch him back from yesterday and tomorrow.
You wake, and I
bruise my hand on the living cage.
Deception By Antonino Soria de Veyra
Be Beautiful, Noble, Like The Antique Ant By Jose Garcia Villa
Lyric 17 By Jose Garcia Villa
Thursday, March 18, 2021
The Sick Rose by William Blake
Moonlight on Manila Bay By Fernando M. Maramag (1893 – 1936)
Day on the Farm By Luis G. Dato
I've found you fruits of sweetest taste and found you
Bunches of duhat growing by the hill,
I've bound your arms and hair with vine and bound you
With rare wildflowers but you are crying still.
I've brought you all the forest ferns and brought you
Wrapped in green leaves cicadas singing sweet,
I've caught you in my arms an hour and taught you
Love's secret where the mountain spirits meet.
Your smiles have died and there is no replying
To all endearment and my gifts are vain;
Come with me, love, you are too old for crying,
The church bells ring and I hear drops of rain.
Order For Masks by Virginia Moreno
To this harlequinade
I wear black tight and fool’s cap
Billiken*, make me three bright masks
For the three tasks in my life.
Three faces to wear
One after the other
For the three men in my life.
When my Brother comes
make me one opposite
If he is a devil, a saint
With a staff to his fork
And for his horns, a crown.
I hope for my contrast
To make nil
Our old resemblance to each other
and my twin will walk me out
Without a frown
Pretending I am another.
When my Father comes
Make me one so like
His child once eating his white bread in trance
Philomela* before she was raped. I hope by likeness
To make him believe this is the same kind
The chaste face he made,
And my blind Lear* will walk me out
Without a word
Fearing to peer behind.
If my lover comes,
Yes, when Seducer comes
Make for me the face
That will in color race
The carnival stars
And change in shape
Under his grasping hands.
Make it bloody
When he needs it white
Make it wicked in the dark
Let him find no old mark
Make it stone to his suave touch
This magician will walk me out
Newly loved.
Not knowing why my tantalizing face
Is strangely like the mangled parts of a face
He once wiped out.
Make me three masks.
The Spouse by Luis Dato
Rose in her hand, and moist eyes young with weeping,
She stands upon the threshold of her house,
Fragrant with scent that wakens love from sleeping,
She looks far down to where her husband plows.
Her hair dishevelled in the night of passion,
Her warm limbs humid with the sacred strife,
What may she know but man and woman fashion
Out of the clay of wrath and sorrow—Life?
She holds no joys beyond the day’s tomorrow,
She finds no worlds beyond her love’s embrace;
She looks upon the Form behind the furrow,
Who is her Mind, her Motion, Time and Space.
O somber mystery of eyes unspeaking,
O dark enigma of Life’s love forlorn;
The Sphinx beside the river smiles with seeking
The secret answer since the world was born.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Reaction: Breathe by Alessandra G.L. Gonzales
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Reaction: Games by Noelle Q. De Jesus
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Saturday, December 5, 2020
Reaction: Of Fish, Flies, Dogs and Women
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Reaction: Touchmove
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
Reaction: The Use of Force
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Monday, October 19, 2020
RIVERHUT & SWING CAMNORTE
Friday, October 16, 2020
CALAGUAS PARADISE RESORT
Visit Calaguas Paradise Resort.
A place of relaxation, rest, and tranquility to make your visit a safe and comfortable travel experience.
This is my fourth voice-over project promoting an Island resort in Camarines Norte Province.
Calaguas Island - Camarines Norte
Sharing with you my third Voice-Over Project In GoCamNorte tourism of Camarines Norte.
Palanas Falls
Brgy. Pag-asa, Labo Camarines Norte
Proudly present to you my second video-edit and voice-over project for tourism in CamNorte.
Friday, May 25, 2018
7 Health Care Principle
1. Autonomy or Self-Determination
• Capacity to be one’s own person, make decisions on one’s own resources, and not be manipulated or dictated to by external forces.
–Competency
–Ability to act on the decision
–Respect for the autonomy of others
2. Beneficence
• Promote health for the patient above any other considerations.
–Perform acts to help people stay healthy or recover from illness.
3. Nonmaleficence
• The duty to “Do no harm.”
–Technology has made this principle difficult to follow.
–Many drugs and treatments have the power to heal but may also have serious side effects.
4. Confidentiality
• Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
–Mandates privacy and confidentiality of medical records
• Health care professionals are in the most likely position to violate confidentiality rules.
5. Justice
• What is due an individual
–Many would argue that everyone is entitled to health care regardless of ability to pay for the care.
–Others argue that people must take responsibility for their actions before assuming they can have justice.
6. Role Fidelity
• Being faithful to the scope of the services for which you are licensed
• Health care practitioners have a specific scope of practice for which they are licensed.
–Practitioners must be true to their roles and not practice in an area in which they are not licensed.
7. Veracity
• Truth-telling
–Has always had an ambiguous place in the health care practitioner’s world
• Consider the role of placebos
Saturday, March 24, 2018
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Friday, January 19, 2018
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Monday, December 18, 2017
"Born In The Trough"
Long lived the King!
Long been trailed by huntsman and ferreter,
A long journey that is already written and will never fade or die.
Breakthroughs after breakthrough, the prophecy will come true.
To others, it may come as strong omen,
While other’s thought of a curse coming into their lands.
Us who believe of his coming are in tears of joy.
Huzzah, the sound of love and mercy.
Don’t they know, when the doom will came
A light will shine in this land,
Water will cleanse its stains,
Fire will sterilize infirmity,
And the wind will heal those who are sick.
In the womb of his mother;
He is protected and covered by the cloak of love and purity.
The chosen one? No! He is sent from the neverwas to
Just to kiss our foot for our salvation.
The life of this man is hard as the rock from the mount sienna
And have most indecent natal day in the world history.
The world becomes beautiful when he was born in the trough.
The camels and the three kings, singing silently inside the barn.
When the cry of the baby was heard inside the trough.
The star becomes gold,
The sky becomes blue and
The water flows brilliantly like a shining diamonds.
Long lived the King!
Long been died in his human form,
But His Spirit stays in our heart.
We are the temples of our souls,
Dream that you were once born in the trough.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
"Donate Blood Save’s A Life"
Did you know that you burn about 650 calories when you donate a blood. Bloodletting is related to iron since our body need iron for a whole host of metabolic processes. Its primary function is to help carry oxygen from our lungs through the bloodstream and release it to the body where needed. It also helps enzymes in the body to detoxify poisons and convert sugars into energy but when you donate blood, you’re reducing the amount of iron in your body but don’t feel worried for the iron in the body will grow and survive.
It is really important to donate blood because blood cannot be manufacture by any company, the only way to supply this need is via generous blood donors. It helps balance Iron levels in your blood and appear to live longer. Repeated blood donations may help your blood to flow better, possibly helping to limit damage to the lining of your blood vessels, which should result in fewer arterial blockages. What is clear is that blood donors seem to not be hospitalized so often and if they are, they have shorter lengths to stay. Less likely to get heart attacks, strokes, and even cancers.
To sum up with the bloodletting program not only gathers blood donations but also promotes the health consciousness and lifestyle of every Paulinain as a responsible and different one.
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
As we know speaking in public involves preparing, thinking, and acting confidently, also it needs attentive comprehension using one's language. A little bit of practice and a confident outlook can help you out to be a fantastic and effective public speaker.
How to improve ones’ public speaking skills? Here are the three essential methods.
First, do research about your listener’s interest and level of communication before engaging in any form of public speaking. Learning about your audiences can help you try to be able to answer their disputes and concerns regarding age, gender, education, religion, companionship and by that way you can easily verify what’s happening if you are an effective speaker.
Second, alter your horizons. You can see the chance to speak such compliments but always construct what you will be going to utter in an affirmative way. Always be careful with your words and hook the attention of your listeners so they will take heed attentively.
And lastly always remember that we learn more when we are having fun. You have the choice to break out silence and shine like a diamond, stay calm and smile confidently
"Life Made Gray"
I feel that life is a gift that I don’t deserve
while there are abundant beauty and infinite wonders.
It’s a like a painting you can stare at for hours,
once done makes unending embarks.
At least, certainly it seems to be that way
yet it creates the pain day by day.
But it exists in the realm, of its own true perdition,
when pacing of the parasites begins to swell
Why did heart’s blood flow, and no seers cried,
to a man who was beaten, and his humanity denied
That the innocence of her eyes that appeared wild
her soul took form and revealed her a child
Stop! Why do you have to say go when it was no?
They’re just images acted as the friend yet lived as foes.
Life suffers only in silence yet demands to be heard
it will never survive without its bevy of words.
“We believe that health and well-being of mind, body and spirit is a fundamental human right.”
PROCLAMATION NO, 539 DECLARING THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER OF EVERY YEAR AS NURSES’ WEEK AND AUTHORIZING THE FILIPINO NURSES’ ASSOCIATION TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE OBSERVANCE THEREOF.
2017 College of Health and Sciences is taking steps that will have an effect on the health and well-being of all who reside within the borders of St. Paul University Surigao, and of all Paulinian. At this moment in history, we call upon nursing and psychology students to stand together, act to resist that which harms health and well-being, protect those who are harmed and provide a harmonious relationship that moves toward the ideals we seek. We stand on a long legacy to actively promote health awareness to assure social/health equity. Our actions are grounded in the premise that health and well-being depend on healthy environments and just communities.
Students from College of Health and Sciences pledged to join with others to engage in determined action to protect the health and embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experiences, regardless of age, social/economic circumstance, religion, skin color, race, sexual orientation or gender identity.
As future nurses and psychologist, we are committed to providing care for all people – care that promotes and supports high-level wellness, prevention and treatment of injury, disease, behavior consciousness that may change the way you understand yourself and restoration of health when it is compromised.
Inspite of the fact that some progress has been obtaining and succeed in the field of health and nursing nowadays, there are still many people who do not put to practical use the services of nurses in times of their infirmity; and in order to fully develop consciousness and understanding among our people on the importance and availability of nursing resources in the country, it is essential that a period be set aside for the observance of the nursing profession; and so the nursing students of St. Paul University Surigao celebrates the nurse’s week from October 23-29, 2017.
Last October 23rd the celebration opened the nurse’s week by a ribbon cutting, go beyond the nurse’s EXPO that broadens and gave highlight information’s for all those Paulinians who’d joined that said event, held in front of the Administrative Office. On the second day a contest of an essay writing, painting, poster making and quizbowlevard happened, which was participated by each department concluded its completion as very accurate that satisfies the proficiency of those participating students. At night of the last day of the celebration at SPUS main gymnasium, a solidarity night was produced by the college and health sciences. The said momentous event was so electrifying sorted by the full package showcasing the talents of nursing and psychology students.
The Solidarity Night was an event to unify the Nursing and psychology students and the highlight of this event was to polish the feeling of togetherness united as one community and family that marked difference as a Paulinian Identity.
Also, a whole day bloodletting activity happened and was held at the SPUS main campus clinic. The bloodletting program not only gathers blood donations but also promotes the health consciousness and lifestyle of every Paulinian with a happy heart being able to help save lives through their donated blood.
The success of the celebration of the nurse’s week distinguished an important role of nurses play in health care emphasizes how important nurses are in our lives — at every age, in all health situations, recognizes the profession for their dedication and commitment to make St. Paul University Surigao a healthier institution