Time Machine

If they were given a “time machine”, the part of history that I would like to go back are the War Years. The Japanese Occupation. The ten-year preparatory period, known as the Commonwealth regime, was rudely interrupted when the Japanese, looking for territories. On December 1941 Japanese naval bombers attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The United States declared war against Japan and the war in the Pacific are formally on. As a consequence of this war, our belove country was occupied by the Japanese. For three years the Filipinos suffered the rigors of war.

Quezon in Corregidor, my friend Manuel L. Quezon, was very sick man when the war broke out. The suffering of people increase his worries which to a large contributed to his physical breakdown. Thousands of Filipinos were killed as a result of indiscriminate bombings of the enemy and thousands more are hospitalized from wounds received from enemy bombs and bullets. On December 24, 1941, my Ninong McArthur informed my friend Quezon that he and some of his officials, as well as members of his family were to leave fo Corregidor at two o’clock afternoon. My friend Quezon immediately leave the Corregidor.

Jose Garcia Villa

Jose Garcia Villa is the author of the Footnote to Youth. Maybe he experience that kind of situation during his being a youth. Beside that maybe it is also happened to his son/daughter so that he wrote the footnote to youth to remind us that early getting married of the youth are not easy. He give a knowledge to the youth on how to escape the early married. Jose Garcia Villa are nice author.

Wedding Dance

Lumnay is the first wife of Amiyao. The live in one place where they built their house and field. They love each other. But there’s a problem, Awiyao wanted a child to have a child to Lumnay but Lumnay can’t give a child to him. According to their culture if both couple have no child, the husband need to marry another girl. In that situation Awiyao told to Lumnay that she marry Madulimay. He marry the girl because he need child. Lumnay had nothing to do, even though it hurt for her. She said, “I will pray that kabungyan will bless you and Madulimay. I will give the house and field for you, he said. I don’t care the field and house. I’ll have no other man! But you do not want me to have a child. You do not want any name to live on our tribe. I’ll go back to my father. I’ll die. Lumnay was silent. Awiyao said. If I fail to Madulimay. I’ll come back to you. Then both of us will die together. Both of us will vanish from the life of our tribe. Lumnay went to her parents house. She left her husbans wedding.

The Power of Dream

Dream just like a power in our life,

Sometime came with us and sometimes gone away.

Dream is free anywhere and ever.

Just hold and don’t waste.

Dream is a way of finding our good future.

Sometimes because of dream we reached our goal.

A lot of people succeed through dream.

Dream is just a power and souvenir in our life.

Disables Person

One day the four disabled man called, them dumb, deaf, blind and lame. They began their journey. The dumb he carrying the blind man and the deaf he carrying the lame man. Dumb and deaf are very tired to carrying their friend. Unknowing that the dog followed faster to them. The dumb saw the dog ran faster he afraid and shouted, he push the blind forward. The deaf shocked and the lame ran faster as normal. They reached the place of Malaya they rest their. The blind man start to rung the guitar, the dumb sang, the lame dance and the deaf listened.

Love

There was a king named Rhammid, who lived in Mahatan Kingdom. The king had a lot of guard in his palace.

One day, king Rhammid propose a wedding to Princess Reama, the beautiful Princess at the other kingdom. She accepted the offer of King Rhammid. When the days came everything is arrange and the whole palace is decorated well. She waited for the coming of Prince Rhammid, but, a couple of horse had pass she received a message from Mahatan.

Mahatan kingdom attacked by Prince Kimawa, the unkind brother of King Rhammid. Prince Kimawa is one also who propose a wedding before his younger brother, Prince Rhammid. Kimawa killed his own younger brother, Prince Rhammid. But Princess Reama doesn’t want to get married to him. She loved Prince Rhammid. Kimawa killed his own younger brother. When Princess Reama came to the kingdom of Mahatan she saw the body of Prince Rhammid lying id the beautiful room. Princess cried and cried behind the Prince. She told to the guard to leave them for a while. When the guard left the room Princess committed suicide.

My Dreams

One day I went at my Aunt house. She told me to go to the farm to get the fruits. In their a lot of fruit trees I saw the ripen guavas, mangoes, bananas and etc. immediately I climb the guavas, I ate some ripen guavas its sweet! Later I came down and climb the mangoes tree. In the top of the mangoes I fell tired so all I have to do is to rest. I lying in the branch of the mangoes sleep quickly. When the air blew faster I falling down to the ground and I shouted. I felt pain, my aunt calling me Alma! Alma! Wake up! When I open my eyes, oh, I think it is true that I am falling down in the ground. It is only my dream.

The Scholars and the Lion (Summary)

There were one four men who were friends. Namely, Rex, Jhon,Roy and Lhan. Re, Jhon and Roy are scholars while Lhan was not a scholar. Theres come that four of them decided to go out into the world. They prepared themselves and began their journey. Rex said, Lhan you are no scholar. Please leave us. Roy said, “No this isn’t right, Lhan are our friends. Let him come with us.” In their journey they saw the bones of a dead lion. Rex said, with this bones we can test the value of our learning. Then they give back the life of the lion. Lhan climb the tree and sat down in the branches. When the lio0n come to alived he killed the three scholars. The when the lion had gone, lhan came down and returned alone to his village.

The Good Prince Bantugan

The Kingdom of Bumbaran were ruled by the old king. But the old king was full envy toward his younger brother, Prince Bantugan. Prince Bantugan was so handsome, good and brave. Every time someone praised him. The old king looked angry with him. One day enemies attacked the kingdom of Bumbaran and Prince Bantugan led his men to defend the kingdom, the evil king plotted against the good prince. Soon Prince Bantugan returned victorious from the battle. He knew that his brother hated him, so he decided to left the kingdom of Bumbaran. In his journey he heard about the beautiful land of the Kingdom-Between-Two-Seas. It was ruled by a good king and the beautiful princess Datimbang, his sister. He decided to go to that kingdom. But when he stood outside the gates. He suddenly felt very weak. Prince Bantugan fell to the ground and died. The king and the princess of the kingdom were shocked when they saw the stranger lying. Princess Datimbang fallen in love to the stranger. No one knew who the stranger. The king made proclamation that all of his people must come to look at the prince so that he would know who was that man came from. But no one knew who’s that man. The two parrot talking each other about Prince Bantugan. The parrot of Prince Bantugan said, I lost my master, he left Bumbaran never to return. Another parrot said. He is dead. But you can see his body in the palace where he is lying in royal state. The parrot flew to the palace. He saw his master’s body, and said, he was so good to his people. He defended them in war. He cured the people when they were sick. When the king heard what the parrot said. He brought the body of Prince Bantugan into the kingdom of Bumbaran. Everyone quiered for the good Prince Bantugan. His brother was full of repentance. Blaming himself for the death of his brother. Prince Madali his brother loved him so much. He got the soul of Prince Bantugan from the angel of death. When he reached the palace of Bumbaran then he transferred the soul of Prince Bantugan to his body. The body stirred Prince Bantugan alive as if just awakened from a deep sleep. They celebrated the return of their Prince. Later Prince Bantugan married Princess Datimbang.

The Scholars and the Lion

There were four man who were friends. Three of them are scholars while the fourth was not. All he had was common sense. One day the four man were talking together. They want to travel outside the world. Each of then prepared themselves and began their journey. One of them said, now we are going out into the world to make our knowledge useful, yet their, is our unlearned friend. Second scholar said, friend you are not scholar leave us and go home. The third scholar said, “no this isn’t right. He has been our friend since childhood. Let him come with us. The four man continued their journey. They seen the bones of a dead lion.

The three scholars they use their knowledge and began their work. The four man who was not scholar at all tried to stop them. My friend this animal that you are bringing back is lion, it will kill us all if you are successful. But no one can listen to him. He climb the talk tree and sat in the branches. . “it is done”, they said. The lion became alived without warning, it sprang upon the three learn man and killed them. When the lion gone away, the unscholar man return alone to his village.

Footnote to Youth

Footnote to youth, is one of my most favorite literary piece because it talks about the youth. When I read this story realizations comes into my mind. As a youth I learned from it how vulnerable us, we don’t think about our future because we expect that life could be easy for us as we got married at the young age. At period of marriage we got child and encountered a lot of problems and realize that life is not that easy. And at this point of our life we blamed ourselves why we are got married early.

Beside that I realized that being a youth we must listened to the advice of our parents because they knows what best for us. As a youth also we must be dreamful too because dreams is serve as a stepping stone that makes us strive, hard to achieved our goals in life.