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Pink Heels :]
Saturday, May 5, 2012 @ 3:15 AM | 0 Comment [s]
Out of nowhere, my mom asked me if we could watch some movie together- so I immediately said yes. We ate Takoyaki before we went inside the cinema- we'll be watching the Avangers. Takoyaki is a special Japanese ball that is filled with vegetables like cabbage and carrots among others. I picked a mix of sweet and hot sauce to go with it but I just felt the hotness in it. Good thing my mom bought some drinks- i thought my mouth would blow up. Anyways, after watching the movie, we went inside the Department Store and I took her to the ' Shoes' Section to show her those Pink shoes I've been wishing for. We went browsing for a while then she told me that she'd go buy it for me. i was so happy after getting my hands on those pair of heels. I thanked God because He used my mom as an instrument to get that Oh-so-Sweet Material.. I'll post a picture tomorrow because I didn't bring my camera. :].. Labels: Blog, Cute, Movie, Pink, Shoes, Shopping A Little Insight
Thursday, May 3, 2012 @ 6:29 AM | 0 Comment [s]
The
existence of language is essential to mankind for it serves as a medium of communication
and, a source of survival for the majority. In the Philippines, both the
Filipino and English language are used as media of instruction in public and
private schools, government agencies and, local and national corporations,
among others. The English language has played a substantial role in the lives
of the Filipinos, but its partial abandonment would not cost us that much.
Our
dependence to English proficiency might actually be the cause of our country’s
underdevelopment- and that is more expensive than not being an expert in the English
language. Majority of our countrymen advocates the use of English as an
exclusive medium of instruction in our local schools, which serves as an
advantage to schooled Filipinos. But let us take a closer look at our
neighboring country, Thailand- whose people are not as adept as Filipinos in
terms of speaking in English. They may seem uncompetitive in call-center
English but Thailand had surpassed the Philippines in every area of
development. The locals of Thailand are not known English speakers yet they are
better at promoting their country’s tourism than us, Filipinos. Moreover, they
don’t need to send tens of thousands of their countrymen in a foreign country
to keep their economy stable.
Did you know why the Philippines is still located at the bottom of the hierarchy? It’s
because we don’t understand one another. Perhaps the 1987 Bilingual Policy in
Education has its drawbacks. The said policy aims to improve the use of
Filipino and English by teaching and using both languages in all levels as
media of instruction. However, we neither cultivated nor promoted, to its
maximum level, the use of both languages. In fact, the continuing pre-dominance
of English for teaching has produced a labor force that is barely literate in
English or Filipino, and that this constitutes mediocrity in the workplace. It
is not anymore a surprise that foreign investors set their production
facilities in other countries that may have poorer English skills than we do
but, by far, surpass us with technological developments and labor productivity.
Furthermore, it confuses me how our Philippine presidents, and our government,
expect to gather the entire nation to work towards unity when they are speaking
in a foreign language that only an educated elite can fully decipher when
majority of the Filipinos are not that familiar with the language. We cannot
work towards unity when we don’t know what the other party is saying. I am not
saying that the use and practice of the English language must be abolished
because I, as a student, still acknowledge its importance. But what is more
significant than the ability to speak the English language or communicate with
foreigners is our capacity to innovate and grasp abstract ideas, and the
ability to unite towards common goals. These qualities can be acquired more
efficiently and effectively if it is taught in a language that everyone can
naturally understand- like the language a person grew up with. As our former
President Joseph Estrada, with his carabao English, once reminded us that the
Japanese and many other developed nations have the difficulty in speaking the
English language but that was never a hindrance to their development. The
Japanese built their economies on the ability to make things that other nations
want- to spark new ideas, invent products, and develop systems to manufacture
them, rather than serving foreigners. The Philippines’ educational system need
to teach the students more than a foreign language- they must teach them how to
think critically.
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