Reflection sa KUMBIRA 2007

1. What are the three things we have learned from my experience with KUMBIRA 2007?

From the Kumbira experience, I learned that it is really very hard to sell your product especially if the company is not yet that known to masses. As I’ve observed there are some booths that only have a few customers hanging out or tasting and buying their products and we took that opportunity to give an interview to the owner or the in-charge. Well, if you’re in the place of the person guarding the stall, you would really feel envious of the other booths having a really long line of customers lining up and willing to taste and buy their product. So, yeah, it’s really hard to be an entrepreneur and it takes a lot of guts, skills and brains but it’s really mostly the guts and the patience that gets you in a lot of places. The second thing that I’ve learned from my experience is that in order to attract costumers in your booth, you must make it creative and presentable—both the booth and your product. The last thing that I learned is that it’s very hard to be the person in-charge of the booth. You must be patient in dealing with others so as them not to dislike you which can affect your product. Also, you must be very friendly to others, confident and free. This can also help in attracting customers. Also, I’ve observed that even though they are annoyed, they still won’t show it and they will do everything for the betterment of their product. This is also why being an entrepreneur is a really big challenge.

2. How will this activity help us in my life as a BM student?

This activity can help me in our BM selling during the intramurals on the third quarter of the school year. We learned lot of things fro the Kumbira experience and we can apply this to our BM selling. The companies there experienced many hardships and so in our selling, we must not give up easily. There are other people there who are having more hardships but they’re not giving up. With that, I will have the strength for the BM selling.

3. If you were to evaluate KUMBIRA 2007, what would be its weaknesses and strengths? What would you suggest to improve it?

The Atrium of LimKetKai where the Kumbira was held was really very crowded and it’s one of the weaknesses of the activity. I suggest that there’s a really specific line for the people who want to buy or taste the product of a company because through this, other people won’t be able to pass through. Also, not all booths gave free tastes especially the coca cola. We really expected that we will be so full that our tummies would ache but that didn’t quite turn out. Instead, we were very hungry, exhausted and our legs were really numb. Another weakness is that aside from the crowdedness, the space of the atrium is really not enough to contain a bunch of students from different schools and judges and visitors all over the country. The strengths of the program, on the other hand, are that it has a lot of booths and activities that keeps the activity interesting like the contests and the table setting and displays. Also, the decorations are appealing and eye-catching. They kind of give you the feeling of being comfortable and that you’re really welcome to join this and we’re so glad you’re here feeling.

What will happen in the future?

Christie Lucagbo’s question #12: What will happen in the future?


This is a very tough question that no human being, not even the angels, can answer. God is the only one who has knowledge of the events that will turn up in the future, specifically YOUR future.

Since we don’t know the real sequence of events that will occur, we can just assume the happenings. We know that our future is in our hands. Whatever we decide at present will affect the happenings in the future. It depends on the person making the decisions. Whatever it is that she chooses, God has a well-prepared and systematic arrangement of events equipped with problems, obstacles, hindrances and resolutions which only the person [like you yourself] can overcome. We can never really tell the exact events. Although God may drop clues to what will happen, in dreams or signs, maybe. Not necessarily the whole situation. It is really up to us to decide.

We are unsure of the things that will happen in the near future but rest assured all these planned events have their own way of molding and changing your personality for the better. People may try to predict and come up with tentative conclusions but, hey, nobody really knows except God. And we all know that. The best thing to do is to just go with the flow of time, accept things the way they are and start living in the present. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t look forward to the occurrences in the future but instead, we stop trying to foresee the events that will come and go in our own personal lives in the future. I mean, they will come. We just have to wait.

Recipes [BM Assignment]

Original Recipe: CHOCOLATE MILK SHAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:
1. Cold Milk - 4 cups
2. Sweet cocoa powder - 5 tsp.
3. Chocolate Ice Cream – 2 cups

Methods:
Blend the milk and cocoa powder in a blender for 30 seconds. Add the chocolate ice cream and whip for 30 seconds. Serve chilled.


Innovated Recipe: CHOCOLATE MILK SHAKE RECIPE

Ingredients:

Cold Milk – 4 cups
Sweet cocoa powder – 5 tsp.
Rocky Road flavor of Selecta/Nestle Ice Cream - 2 cups

Methods:
Blend the milk and cocoa powder in a blender for 30 seconds. Add the Rocky Road flavored Ice cream and whip for 30 seconds. Serve chilled.




Original Recipe: PIZZA

Ingredients:

***Dough:***
1 package Active Dry Yeast1 cup Warm Water (105 to 115 degrees)1 teaspoon Sugar1 teaspoon Salt2 tablespoons Oil2 1/2 cups Flour

***Sauce:***
1/2 cup chopped Onion1 (8-oz.) can Tomato Sauce1/4 teaspoon Salt1 1/8 teaspoon bottled Garlic, or more to taste1/8 teaspoon White Pepper

***Meat And Vegetable Toppings:***
1 cup sliced Pepperoni1 cup chopped Onions1 cup frozen Birdseye Stir-fried Peppers1 (4oz.) can sliced Mushrooms1 cup sliced Ripe Olives1 pound Sweet or Hot Italian Sausage, removed from casings

Procedure:

Dough:

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Stir in remaining dough ingredients. Beat vigorously, about 20 strokes. Cover bowl, allow dough to rest about 15 minutes, or until you have prepared sauce.

Sauce:

Mix sauce ingredients set aside. Heat Oven to 425 degrees Divide dough in half. On lightly greased 12" pizza pans sprinkled with a light coating of corn meal, pat each half of dough out into a 10 to 12 inch circle on pizza pans. Divide sauce evenly between to pizza crusts and spread out. Sprinkle each pizza with 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan Cheese. Sprinkle each pizza with 2 tsp. dried Oregano Leaves.

Meat and Vegetable Toppings:

Sauté' sausage until almost done, stirring to break up. Add the peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives and pepperoni and continue cooking until sausage is completely done. Dump the skillet full of cooked toppings in a colander to drain. Drain very well. Sprinkle toppings evenly onto tops of pizzas. Sprinkle 1 cup shredded Mozzarella Cheese on each of the pizzas. Bake 20 to 25 minutes on lower rack of oven at 425 degrees until crust is brown and filling is hot and bubbly.



Innovated Recipe: HOMEMADE PIZZA

Ingredients:

Pizza Sauce (any flavor)
Sliced Bread
Mozzarella cheese

Materials:

Spoon
Plates
Oven Toaster

Procedure:

Take a slice of bread and evenly spread pizza sauce on it using a spoon.
Place mozzarella cheese on the bread.
Place in the oven and heat for 3-5 minutes.




Original Recipe: ORANGE JUICE FLOAT

Ingredients:
1. 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream
2. Orange Juice to fill the glass

Preparation:
Stir the float a couple of times with a spoon.




Innovated Recipe: MANGO JUICE FLOAT

Ingredients:

1. 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream
2. Mango Juice to fill the glass

Preparation:

Stir the float a couple of times with a spoon.

Incan Road System

The Incas had an incredible system of roads. One road ran almost the entire length of the South American Pacific coast. Since the Incas lived in the Andes Mountains, the roads took great engineering and architectural skill to build. On the coast, the roads were not surfaced and were marked only by tree trunks The Incas paved their highland roads with flat stones and built stone walls to prevent travelers from falling off cliffs.

Referred to as an 'all-weather highway system', the over 14,000 miles of Inca roads were an astonishing and reliable precursor to the advent of the automobile. Communication and transport was efficient and speedy, linking the mountain peoples and lowland desert dwellers with Cuzco. Building materials and ceremonial processions traveled thousands of miles along the roads that still exist in remarkably good condition today. They were built to last and to withstand the extreme natural forces of wind, floods, ice, and drought.

This central nervous system of Inca transport and communication rivaled that of Rome. A high road crossed the higher regions of the Cordillera from north to south and another lower north-south road crossed the coastal plains. Shorter crossroads linked the two main highways together in several places. The terrain, according to Ciezo de Leon, an early chronicler of Inca culture, was formidable. The road system ran through deep valleys and over mountains, through piles of snow, quagmires, living rock, along turbulent rivers; in some places it ran smooth and paved, carefully laid out; in others over sierras, cut through the rock, with walls skirting the rivers, and steps and rests through the snow; everywhere it was clean swept and kept free of rubbish, with lodgings, storehouses, temples to the sun, and posts along the way. The Incas did not have the wheel, as they had no draft animals, so all travel was done on foot. To help travelers on their way, rest houses were built every few kilometers. In these rest houses, they could spend a night, cook a meal and feed their llamas.

Their bridges, which were made from ropes ingeneously tied together to form a narrow but effective structure, were the only way to cross rivers on foot. If only one of their hundreds of bridges was damaged, a major road could not fully function. Fortunately, every time a bridge broke, the locals would repair it as quickly as possible.

Noli Me Tangere Tauhan Kabanata 1

Kabanata 1

Don Santiago de los Santos – SIya ay mas kilala bilang kapitan Tiago. Isang mayamang lalake na kinikilalang ama ni Maria Clara. Siya ang nagpahayag ng isang pagtitipon na inihayag sa kanilang lugar sa Binondo.

Tiya Isabel – isang matandang babae na pinsan ni Kapitan Tiago na siyang umaasikaso sa mga babae sa pagtitipon upang mapalagay ang kanilang mga loob. Mukha siyang mabait at hindi gaanong marunong mangastila ngunit siya ay madaling mabagot.

Padre Sibyla – Isang Dominiko na matanda ang hitsura ngunit makisig at malinis tingnan. Siya ay isang kura ng Binondo, propesor sa San Juan de Letran at kilala sa pakikipagtalastasan sa mga sekular na bagay. Siya ay pasensyoso, mabait at matalino.

Padre Damaso – Isang pransiskanong pare na makumpas at masalita. Parang si Herkules ang kanyang katawan. Ang kanyang pagiging masayahin ay natatakpan dahil sa kanyang magaspang na boses. Siya ay masungit, madaling magalit at may kayabangan, hindi tumatanggap ng pagkatalo.

G. Laruja – Maliit at maitim ang kanyang balbas, isa siyang sibilyang doon na may napakalaki na ilong at tila mais ang buhok. Siya’y bagong dating sa Pilipinas

Don Tiburcio de Espadaña – Isang pilay na Español na tahimik at may maamong mukha.

Donya Victorina – Asawa ni Don Tiburcio na may kulot na buhok, at makapal ang kolerete sa mukha.

Tinyente Gibara – Isang matandang tinyente ng gwardya sibil, matangkad at parang mabagsik, mabagal, matigas at maikling magsalita.

A very touching story

She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said, “How is my little boy? Is he going to be alright? When can I see him?”

The surgeon said, “I’m sorry. We did all we could but your boy didn’t make it.”

Sally said, “Why do little children get cancer? Doesn’t God care anymore? Where were you, God, when my son needed you?”

The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time alone with your son? One of the nurses will be out in a few minute, before he’s transferred to the University.”
Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good-bye to her son. She ran her fingers lovingly through his thick red, curly hair. “Would you like a lock of his hair?” the nurse asked. Sally nodded yes and the nurse cut a lock of the boy’s hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.

The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to donate his body to the University for Study. He said it might help somebody else. I said no at first, but Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die; maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his mom. My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.”
Sally walked out of the Children’s Mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy’s belongings on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She lay down across his bed, hugging his pillow, cried herself to sleep. It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Lying beside her on the bed was a folded letter. The letter said:


Dear Mom, I know that you’re going to miss me; but don’t think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you, just because I’m not around to say I LOVE YOU. I will always love you, mom, even more with each day. Someday we’ll see each other again until then, if you want to adopt a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s okay with me. He can have my room and my old stuff to play with. But if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn’t like the same things us, boys do. Don’t be sad thinking about me. This really is a neat place. Grandma and grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything. The angels are so cool. I love to watch them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn’t look like any of his pictures. Yet, when I saw him, I knew it was him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what, mom? I go to sit on God’s knee and talk to HIM, like I was somebody important. That’s when I told him that I wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good-bye and everything. But I already knew that wasn’t allowed. Well, you know what, mom? God handed me some paper on his own personal pen to write you this letter. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who’s going to drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked him. ‘Where was HE when I needed HIM?’ God said he was in the same room with me, as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as he always is with all His children. Oh, by the way, mom, no one else can see what I’ve written except you. To everyone else, this is just a blank paper. Isn’t that cool? I have to give God his pen back now. He needs it to write sine more names in the book of life. Tonight I get to sit with Jesus for supper. I’m sure the food will be great. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you, I don’t hurt anymore. The cancer is all gone. I’m glad because I couldn’t stand that pain anymore and God couldn’t stand to see me hurt so much, either. That’s when he sent the angel of mercy to come and get me. The angel said I was a special delivery! How about that?
Signed with love from God, Jesus and me.

Kaya ng Pinoy

This is our peice sa sabayang pagbigkas..


Kaya ng Pinoy
Ni Domingo G. Landicho



Kaya ng pinoy!
Kayak ko!
Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
Kaya mo!

Sa gitna ng ating mga suliranin
Dapat lang na tayo’y magbigkis ng giting
Hwag pagagapi anumang dumating
Sama sama nating ito ay harapin

Dinanas na nating lahat ang pagsubok
Sa dayuhang lakas tayo’y nakihamok
Ang bayaning diwa ay nakipagtuos
Upang ang lahi ay ating itampok

Sa isang panahon ng kamay na bakal
Pinoy ay tumayo, matapang, marangal
Ang baril at kanyo’y hinarap ng dasal
Ang pagkakaisa’y ating itinanghal

Ang buong daigdig sa ati’y humanga
Pagkat demokrasya’y inangking payapa
Pag baya’y nakapuklod sa isang pithaya
Laksa ng kanila’y lakas si Bathala

Ang mga pagsubok dumating, umalis
Sinusukat tayo, parang tinitikis
Sa lindol at bagyo, hwag maghinagpis
Lakasan ang loob, tibayan ang dibdib

Kaya ng pinoy ang anumang hirap
Ang mga pagsubok lilipas din tiyak
Magkakapitbisig damayang balikat
Kung dusa ng isa ay dusa ng lahat

Kaya nating pinoy, lahi ng magiting
Lahi ng bayaning umalis-dumating
Bayang Pilipinas, iluklok, mahalin
Sama-sama tayong bukas ay lakbayin
Ang kinabukasan ay baying payapa
Lupa at pabrika, mayamang biyaya
Hayan na ang bagong araw ng adhika
Inang Pilipinas, baying pinagpala

Kaya ng pinoy!
Kaya ko!
Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
Kaya mo!