RESEARCH PROPOSAL

I am thinking of having a research using rice hulls. Since this material is often thrown and not used. I read an article that these rice hulls were made to become a fertilizer. I am thinking of making it a material for biofuel.

♥ Unexplainable Feeling ♥

Every one is very excited when their birthday is near. Every one is expecting and wishing of having a birthday celebration. Glen was one of those. As his best friend, I was very happy for him because his birthday celebration had gone so good and very enjoying. Before that day, he was very excited already. He even told me that his relatives from Batangas, and Amadeo would go to his party.

That morning, I woke up 8 in the morning. I was excited to the said event as well. I ate my lunch and took a bath. Tita Mayleen went in our house to do some manicure and pedicure to us. After that, my Ninang Nora and Ninang Liala arrived. Ninang Nora fixed my hair. My other classmates were starting to arrived. We planned to meet here in our house and we’ll be going in the party all together. My parents and Ninangs were busy dixing all my thins as if that I were the birthday celebrant. Before 11:30 we arrived in Glens house. We ate our lunch. Afterwards, we played basketball. We ate again and the boys went home already. We tried to cook the barbeque. I enjoyed it. When I wnet out of the kubo to get some ketchup, Myrene went in the cooking place and it suddenly burned. There was a big flame in the kubo. We we’re all frightened. I was so scared and thought something would happen not nice. Though it was scary, we just found it funny. We laughed at each other, specially to Myrene. The cake of Glen was so nice. It made him looked so childish. There was a spiderman statue on it. (I put it and I were the one told him to blow the candles. *hahaha*). His brother was laughing and teasing me. He was very naughty and quite irritating. Though it was irritating, I can’t feel any anger for him but I found it funny also. That was the start of the unexplainable feeling.

My point here is not the birthday, but the feeling I had when Grant and I started to talked and teased each other. It seems we knew each other for a long time ago already. I felt very comfortable to him. I hope he felt the same way to towards me. I really can’t explain why, when Glen’s brother, Grant and I started to talked, I really felt different. It was so cool. Since then I want to always talk to him. He even tried to put icing on my face. He teased his Kuya to me. When I threw a joke to him, he answered in the same joke where I would loose. I even told him, “Grant, paangkas naman.” Then he offered the bike he was using. He tried to scare me with the bird they caught and gave me snake’s body –without the head. Even before I went home, he was the one who talked to me last. He was calling me “panget”. The feeling I felt was really a great happiness. It seems I found another brother in Grant.

♥ 2009 Blast ♥

As I said in my previous blog post, I was not use of having my father around in holidays like New Year. The last time I could remember my New Year with him was ten years ago. I was six years old then. They would tell me, “Joyce, gising, punta tayo Mcdo.”. They usually do that to waken me up to celebrate New Year.

This year I experiences having one with him again. I stayed up late the whole New Year’s eve. At 9:30 pm we went to Rizal to greet Nanay Elma and other’s a happy new year. When we got home, I watched the New Year’s countdown in GMA7. I always do that every New Year’s eve. When the hand of the clock strike at 12:00, the whole road was very bright. Lots of fountain lights were opened. I had watched also the firework display of our neighborhood. I can here firecrackers every where. When all of those stopped, we went inside and ate. After eating eating, my Tita Neng Neng arrived and visited us. She brought some of my cousins. They chatted with us while they were eating.

After they ate, they stayed for some quite time and went home. I helped my mother in cleaning up the mess. She washed the dishes and I put things backed in place. After that, we went to sleep. Other’s said that you will experience a lot of happiness with those people around you during New Year’s Eve. I hope it’s true.

♥ Undreamed Life ♥

Usually, tele-series here in our country is full of drama. One of which is where a conflict between family members arouse. Broken family is usually the theme of those tele-series we are watching. As viewers, we felt something for what we are watching., We even sometimes laugh, cry, and express our emotions while watching but have you ever thought that those things you have just watched can happen in real life?

I had watched a movie in my friend’s house. The story of that was good. The girl had never thought that those scenes in her favorite book could happen in real life especially to her. When her father arrived from his work abroad, her mother discovered that her father was having an affair with her co-worker. Ever since, she always hear them shouting at each other. She can sometimes see her mom crying silently. That was very hard for her. There was this time when she was waken up by her mother. Her mother was very angry at her dad. She told the young girl to pack her things as well as her brother’s because they were about to live the house. Her mother was planning to leave her father. As her mother told her to do so, her father would stop her and said they were not supposedly to leave. He said that he is the one who should leave. The young girl was so confused and don’t know what to do. That was really hard for the girl. Her mother talked to her while crying. Her mother asked for their forgiveness for what had happened to their lives. She also said that she will do everything to give them good lives as well.

Hearing her parents shouting at each other was a trauma for her. Thus every time that she could hear something loud, someone crying out loud, she would always think that her parents are fighting again. For my insight, I really don’t want to experience such thing. It seems so hard. As I watched, I felt so sad for the girl. I felt pity for her. How would I still face those kinds of things if it would happen to me? Like the girl, I never dreamt of experiencing that, but still, I’m dreaming not to have one. When I’m old enough to have my own family, I would make it sure that this wont happen to my own family.

♥ Happy yet so Lonely Christmas ♥

I was used of having Christmas without my Dad. Ever since I gone to school, he was not around for special occasion except for my birthdays. That was because, every year he has 11 months of contract to his work. He worked as an OFW. I might even say that yes, he gave us a good education and life, but it was an incomplete one.

When he arrived, he and my mom usually have misunderstanding between each other. I can always hear them shouting at each other and later on, I would found my mom crying. That hurts me a lot. That terrifies me when I remember that Christmas is near. My father is here for holiday seasons, but the Christmas spirit is not present in our surroundings. I always ask myself how our Christmas would be, now that my father is here.
This Christmas Eve, my family attended the mass. After that we had our Noche Buena. We don’t usually have that. We used to sleep during times like this. When I woke up the next morning, I found a certain amount of money in my Christmas sack which I usually hang near my bed every Christmas. That is one of my childish attitudes during Christmas. We spend the whole Christmas day in our house. That night, my parents went to Rizal to visit Nanay Elma. Glen texted me that he, together with his family will come over for a visit. I was so nervous that time. Glen brought me “bibingka”. I called my parents at Rizal to tell Glen’s family was in our house. They laughed at me so hard.

I was happy this Christmas because my father is here with us. Another reason was that, in Christmas night, Glen’s family visited us. Inspite of that, I was so unlucky to experienced great love between my parents this season.