One Wise Word After Another

Carry yourself in such a way that when people are sitting, you would be standing;

and when they are standing, you will stand out;

and when they stand out, you will be outstanding;

and when they dare to be outstanding, you will be their STANDARD!

DON'T LET ANYONE RUIN YOU!

(a text message I received months ago and has stayed in my Saved Messages folder for a long time)

Have a good day with GOD!! ^_^

Writer's Block Has Come to Pass

Recently, I have been struggling with writer's block. It was the ugliest thing one could ever experience. I had a very hard time digging my brain with the right words to fit the University Diary of our school paper and the Editorial page. I was about to give up when I realized words have started to form in my brain again. Then it became ideas, then phrases, then sentences, then paragraphs, and finally a whole article. 

But I cannot somehow guarantee it's a good article. haha. Guess what I did on those moments when I had writer's block? hahaha again. The evidences are below. 

My Whatevers!

Just look at how writer's block has caused me. This is so not good! ^_^

The Tale of Cursive Writing

A typical school goer is taught cursive writing at an early grade of Grade 2. The failure of the teacher in teaching the right strokes of writing in this stage will be a big disadvantage in the part of the pupil, especially when that pupil pursues Teaching in the future. The curse of the ugly cursive handwriting will be passed on to another generation. 

Good thing my teacher in Grade 2 before was an effective one. She has taught me well on how to write with the proper strokes. Maybe my mother's good handwriting was a factor, too. (hahaha) 

I have been well acquainted with cursive since our Grade 6 teacher before would require us to write the letters of the alphabet on a whole piece of intermediate paper. One paper should be filled with one letter, writing it over and over again. In high school, the torture stopped. But our English teachers were so particular with cursive writing that I have to recall what I was taught before. I graduated high school after four years of hard work (not really) and I completely thought that was the end of it all. Yet again, I thought wrong. 

Now that I am a fourth year Education student already, history seemed to have repeated itself. Is this really what taking the Education course all about? But I have to endure. I have to write in cursive again, hold a pencil again, stay up late for the sake of writing, and have a swollen finger after filling up the whole paper. Whoa! Ces't la vie!

The stroke above, the Palmer Method, is exactly what we are following now. Hopefully, by the end of the semester and the school year, we, the Education students, shall all have the same cursive penmanship.