Assignment # 9 My Top Five

5. My fifth favorite book is called Moby-Dick or The Whale. It a journey of good and evil and God's existence. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels.

4. My fourth favorite book is The Last Lion. The very first book I have ever read with my father. A story of one of the greatest politician in our nation; their flaws and secrets.

3. My third favorite book is Aesop's Fables. The author is a slave and a story teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece. A self-taught english speaker and writer and his ancient works are filled with moral lessons.

2. My second favorite book is The Da Vinci Code. It is the very first book I lost back when I was a junior. My father and I always laugh every time we talk about the book: we both full understand what everything meant and how some things are changed that ordinary people couldn't understand.

1. My first favorite book is the Holy Bible.

Assignment # 8 Stranded

If I was stranded in an island, or anywhere I go, a knife is a good thing to have. You can defend yourself to anyone, you can kill any creatures you see, make a boat out of it, open coconuts if there's any.

I'd bring a piano with me and compose songs. The serenity of the ocean, the sound of the waves, the wind that blows like voices; you never know when inspiration might strike.

I can never live without a paper and pen. Writing is a habit of mine, write down words when knowledge strikes: its the only memory I can leave to this world.

Assignment # 7 Role Model

My role model is Johnny Depp. He is an American actor, producer, and a musician and despite his famous reputation and richness, he still look out for other people. Every now and then he donates charity to children that can't afford education, he tips huge bucks to waiters and waitresses in every restaurants, and loves his family which is rare in this modern world when you have everything you have. He never abuse drugs, he reaches out to teenagers who suffers from alcohol and obsessive gambling, and visits old patients in every hospital he passes by. Johnny Depp is a man with a clean heart, a caring mind, a lovely soul. He is a man we all want to be.

As an actor, his works made major successes. In every movie he roles, he never fails to charm the public. He gets nominations and awards like no one ever have, and because of that, he is considered to be one of the most-paid actor in the history.

A a musician, he never failed as well. As early as 12 years old, he started playing guitar and never stopped. He dropped out of high school to become a rock musician, and two weeks later, he attempted came back, but his principal advised him to follow his dream to become a musician.

I always admire him since I was young and have always tried to rival his level. His my role model.

Assignment #6 Being Charitable

I would support Children's Scholarship Fund.

The Children's Scholarship Fund aims to maximize educational opportunity for all children. A program that would help low-income parents to send their children to private schools for four years and grant children the time and attention needed to accrue proper education.


This charity is very important to me because our children is our future. We want children to be competitive, to speak their mind, to encourage them to strive for higher education, and to follow their passion. Education is the key to success, and their success starts from us. Their future begins with me. you.

Assignment # 5 Politics

As a son of a politician, I definitely must keep up with politics. Read current events, watch the news early in the morning, and write my own opinions of issues I'm interested. I do this to impress my father. Early on, he takes me to his business meetings, political agendas, and radio interviews. The idea of politics and how it works is an experience I witnessed on a very young age. And I am definitely voting this coming election.

I am re-electing the President of the United States Mr. Barrack Obama. My father is a democrat and has clouts all over united states. The party helps my family in a way, and whatever helps us, we will do in return. My father is a political asset in New York City for the upcoming polls, and we will do everything to re-elect our President.

Assignment # 4 Dream School

After graduation, I would go to UCLA and pursue psychiatry. I'm interested in the study and treatment of mental disorders. A relative of mine suggested the school is the place for me, the studies and research they do is far more advance with the help of state-of-the-art technology and with many reputable great minds. They offer tuition deferment as long as you participate and get A, free rooms without rent for 3 months, and laptops to use for students in a state of confusion what college is like. That being said, I believed I will get the attention I want, and assistance I need in UCLA.

Depart of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Assignment #3 Expertise

Everyone of us is unique and know something that most people don't. Me, I know a lot about tennis. I grew up playing with my parents every morning and never stopped playing until now. If you don't anything about tennis, it wouldn't hurt if you try.

I play tennis because I believe its a healthy daily exercise. But for the most part, tennis makes me smart. It helps a part of my brain called cerebrum to develop more and more everyday. It teaches me to control my muscles and smash the ball low or high, soft or with force. And the more you play it, the more you get good at it and next thing you know, youre pro.

Tennis.com

Assignment #2 Favorites

I listened to a lot of bands my teenager life yet there's only one band that caught my eye. OneRepublic. The lead-singer is Ryan Tedder, a sough-after songwriter in today's music industry. He wrote songs for Adele, Beyonce, Leona Lewis and  more other artists.

My other favorite is Chess. Its a very complex game, you must think logically and it trains the human mind. You must know when to attack or hold back, you must learn an opening, study all the weak points, and read the history of famous players.

chess.com

Assignment # 1 My Last Summer

I don't know how to describe how my summer went last June. To whoever who might read this, I'll let you decide.

Last school year I stopped for a year and I went travelling. I went to most parts of East Asia namely India, China, and the Philippines. For nine months or so, I toured all over the world seeking for enlightenment, inner peace, and live this world from the perspective of my heart.

When I arrived in India, I visited my old buddy's house. We had libation moments gladly because it was legal to drink and lit a few cigars as we poured along. We had laughter and conversations we never did for a very long time. By the morning, we did a little charity on the street. Gladly offered free food with a little money to old women that are starving and half-dead men playing banjos calling Buddha to end their suffering.

I toured in India for pleasure but I never found it. The people I met, the homeless children on the street, the river filled with human trash crushed my soul and killed my existence. If I could just carry the world over my shoulders, if I could just wave my wand and diminish each and every suffering that exist, but sadly, how can I ? how can we? On the way home, inside my car I cried. Cursing the gods, "why them?" Why not me ? What have I done to deserve freedom, education, friends, and money?  In America we throw away food, televisions, phones and talk crap out of each other while a father, a mother, a child in the streets of Mumbai can't eat anything, never had a minute to sit and watch television his whole life, and got no friends to talk over the phone.I lived in this world for eighteen years and its the very first time I had an epiphany so great and deep that scarred me for the rest of my life.

A week after, I hopped on a plane bound to the Philippines, my hometown. Born and raised as a filipino, yet both my parents never speaks the national language and passed down the belief to me and my older sister that English is the language of success. Growing up being fed respect for academics and the pursuit of higher education was a treason against my heart, my beliefs, and my unparalleled life path. Arriving home again brings back memories that I never can erase, although I tried. My childhood friends never seem to changed, the public highway across our house that use to be my playground  is still full of dust and traffic and polluted with noise. Everyday, I wake up and the first thing I do is to look in the window with a sigh. Everything I see hurt me and if only there's no such thing as human necessity, I'd give my all.

Learning a lot by staying in the Philippines for months,  I still crave for satisfaction. Packed toiletries, clothing, and set my financial resources, and by sunrise my journey began again. China! The place you don't want to miss. Chinese gives you respect, love, and hospitality you can never imagine. They can make you wish to be a Chinese yourself. For short amount of time, I still managed to study religion. The topic that everyone close to my heart always fight over. The monks I met talks deep, kept my gears running like solving a puzzle that takes one minute before you get it. Lectures about happiness, love, inner peace, wisdom and knowledge sounded like music to my ears. They comforted me with words, they inspired me by gaze, they loved and cared for me without a sound.

A stranger taught me a fable that I will never forget. A story about the dog and the water dog. A poor hungry dog traveled far in quest of a meat for his supper and obtained a very fine shoulder of mutton. Happy and on his way home, he passed on a bridged casting an eye beneath and found another dog with the other half of the shoulder of the mutton. He made a sudden spring and snatch at the new temptation; in doing so which he slipped of the bridge, found no dog in the water but himself, and lost his meat at the same time in the passing stream. The fable goes like this : So those who plan dishonest gains, Oft have their labor for their pains, and go, like him whom you've read, greedy yet supper-less to bed.

In life, we seek for a connection. Either a stranger passing by, a lover, a friend. The moment you find that connection, you feel again. I wept and torn myself on my way to California, but when I saw the whole picture, that connection put me back together so easily.

I can't find the right words to describe my last summer, but I guarantee you, it was life-affirming.