17 ||Reunion

So this is my family. Miranda Family! Every year we usually have a family reunion. This is the time to talk,time to laugh with each other,time to get to know how was it going with our relatives, and a time to hang out with our family.

We share different experiences happened to our lives, play games,we exchange gifts, and raffle something.

I am so thankful to have this family.  No words can express how happy I am.

"It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family"

16 ||Pepero day!

Pepero Day is an observance in South Korea similar to Valentine's Day, but held on November 11. The original purpose of the Pepero Day was to exchange peperos with each other in hopes of becoming taller and thinner. The current purpose is to exchange peperos to show affection for friends and loved-ones.

Source: Wikipedia


Asia Pacific College also celebrated Pepero day with the other schools. There are games that you need to join to get a free pepero that day. That day was really fun! Me and my friends gathered just to play games and enjoy the event.





This event would not be successful without the help of Asia Pacific Junior Marketing Association ( APJMA) who successfully organized this event.Thank you Lotte for the free pepero! Till next time!

14 ||Public Speaking

Last November 21,2015 is the day of  Public speaking Competition. The participants prepared their own speeches.The participants were ready with their speeches but, the only thing that made them down is the nervousness.though they became nervous,but that's alright I'm still proud of them  Public speaking is not easy. Standing in front of many people and deliver a speech  is not easy. That's why I'm so proud of them because they have already overcome their fear of  talking in front of many people.

I've listening to their speeches and it runs so smooth like they are just telling a story to us. They also have their own gimmicks. But one contestant caught my attention. The girl who won the competition. She delivered her speech in an awesome way.She was very confident while delivering her own speech. I'm glad she won!

13 ||Air pollution

What is air pollution?

Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. Caremissions, chemicals from factories, dust, pollen and mold spores may be suspended as particles. Ozone, a gas, is a major part of air pollution in cities. When ozone forms air pollution, it's also called smog. Some air pollutants are poisonous.

Source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/airpollution.html

Air pollution is our big problem now a days. It is the hardest problem the we could encounter. Air pollution or polluted air is very bad for our health specially to the persons that have heart problems.The main source of the pollution is factories,car and machines that burns fossil fuels.

So this is the effect of the air pollution.We people should solve this problem as early as now. We are the ones who will be harmed if we don't solve this problem. We can help our environment by instead of using of motorcycles,we have alternative what we call the bicycles. Bicycles does not burn  fossil fuels.it doesn't need gas to travel. Little cooperation will be big help for our mother nature. So let's all help our mother nature. 

12 ||Phantom of the Opera

 Last december 9,2015, we've watched the stage play of the "Phantom of the Opera" in our Audio Visual Room (AVR). So the was Based on the 1910 horror novel by Gaston Leroux, which has been adapted into countless films, The Phantom of the Opera follows a deformed composer who haunts the grand Paris Opera House. Sheltered from the outside world in an underground cavern, the lonely, romantic man tutors and composes operas for Christine, a gorgeous young soprano star-to-be. As Christine’s star rises, and a handsome suitor from her past enters the picture, the Phantom grows mad, terrorizing the opera house owners and company with his murderous ways. Still, Christine finds herself drawn to the mystery man. Audiences agree—The Phantom of the Opera is Broadway’s longest-running hit. 

According to http://www.broadway.com/

So this movie is one of the most exciting stage play I've ever seen. I'm don't really watch stage play unless it's compulsary. but this, this was awesome! This play caught my attention from the very start. For me the best part of the play is while they dedicate a song to each other to tell what they feel and what they want show to that person. There are parts there that they show simbolisms in their hidden character. So the lesson here I think is do not push yourself to another person.Because no matter how hard you push it, the feelings won't be changed. 

11 ||Media Literacy

Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. Media literate youth and adults are better able to understand the complex messages we receive from television, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, and all other forms of media. Media literacy skills are included in the educational standards of every state—in language arts, social studies, health, science, and other subjects.

source:www.medialit.org

The seminar of Media literacy is enlightening us to know how it works. This seminar shows us what is the purpose of social medias and how it was properly used by the owner.

So media literacy enhances our understanding on how media messages shape our culture and society. By media literacy we also recognize bias and lies on networks. We also discover some parts of the story that was not been told.

So media literacy enhances on our mind in reality. We should not just easily listen on what is told by others we should know the whole thing first before reacting on that particular situation.The seminar about the  Media literacy helps us to open our minds.

10 ||Plagiarism

What is plagiarism? So according to Merriam Webster, it is an act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the owner or to the person. Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense. A lot of students now a days are plagiarizing their work especially on their homeworks and projects. For me plagiarizing things are bad. because you are not giving credit to the owner of the thing you plagiarized but some people just rephrase it because they are just getting some ideas on how to make it. But, some of people are just too lazy to do their own job. 

By plagiarizing you can be expelled in your institution, it can destroy work or the job your doing and it can destroy your career. So if I were you,dont destroy your future,do not plagiarize things,don't waste your time and do your own thing. 

9 ||Ricardo M. de Ungria

Ricardo M de Ungria is a writer, editor, and a professor. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, Bellagio Study of Conference Center, and Washington University.He is an associate professor of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing; the incumbent Chancellor of the U.P. Mindanao; and the Head of the Committee on Literary Arts under the National Comission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).He graduated from theDe La Salle University with a bachelor’s degree in Literature. Then, he obtained his master's degree in the Creative Arts from the Washington University in Missouri, USA in 1990.Ricardo already wrote 2 poems,that two poems are "Avatar at the Gas Station, Lower East Side" and "Bienvenido".

For me hes now a successful writer because he have already shown his talents by making is own poems. He's also kinda known because of his two poems. 

15 ||Speech choir

December 23,2015,this is the day what we are waiting for,the battle between the Accountancy,Tourism Management,Business Management, and Marketing and Advertising students. The Speech choir competition. everybody was kinda ready for this event.All teams prepared their own gimmicks for this event.




We did'nt expect that we're going to win this event because BM 151 and TM 151 are actually determined to win. But we did! At the end of the day our stress, tiredness disappeared when we heared that we won 1st runner up in the competition. Actually our team have many hard headed people. Everyone was so stressed out the week before the competition. Some of us were lazy to sacrifices their time to attend the practices.We also have some little arguements between this and that.

At the end of the event, our stress, tiredness disappeared when we heared that we won 1st runner up in the competition.

I am so thankful to have this block. Even though we have rough times,we still help and cooperate with each other in the end. Thank you MA151 for making my APC life cool!

8|| Parasyte

Parasyte is a science fiction horror manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki, and published in Kondasha's Afternoon magazine from 1988 to 1995. The manga was published in North America by first Tokyopop, then Del Rey, and finally Kondasha Comics USA. The manga has been adapted into two Live-action films in Japan in 2014 and 2015. An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse, titled Parasyte was aired in Japan between October 2014 and March 2015.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia






One day,there was a 17-year-old named Izumi Shinichi that lives in Tokyo Japan with his mother. One day there was an aliens that were called "Parasytes" that trying to invade the planet Earth.Their objective is to take over the human's brain and body. The alien that partly invade Izumi Shinichi's body is a savior alien. The alien who invaded Izumi Shinichi's body wants to save the earth from the bad plans of other aliens.

So at first, the movie was disgusting because of the aliens and how they kill and eat the humans.For me the saddest part of the movie is when the evil aliens invade Izumi Shinichi's mom and was killed.What I saw in the movie is he doesnt want to his mom because it shows that he really love her. after her mom died, he became strong to fight the aliens.
So I were you watch it and follow the other episodes of the Parasyte.

7 || Anti smoking campaign

Anti smoking campaign. Students now a days are very familiar with smoking. Based on some of my research, smoking relieves stress and sometimes some of the smokers think they're cool enough. Some of the smokers are just influenced by other people.

We all know there are many disadvantages of smoking. One of these is a Lung cancer.One of the biggest and most publicized dangers of smoking is lung cancer.Not just your lungs are affected by smoking. Your heart and blood vessel health is affected as well. Smoking changes the structure of your blood vessels. So, the more you smoke, the more your blood vessels are affected. Quitting smoking can be hard for many people and you need to find the best method for your personality and lifestyle. According to some of my research there are many ways to quit smoking.If you want to quit you can help yourself.

Good thing that Asia Pacific College is now making a move to support the anti smoking campaign.
So as a non-smoker, I'm encouraging all students to support this group, this will help us a lot. If you think smoking releases your depression, no it's not. It will just kill you.Save money, save lives, stop smoking!

6 || SOM week 2015

Last October 26, 2015 is the opening of the School of Management (SoM) week.
This week is an extraordinary week. SoM week is a week for SoM students to have fun and to have some time to relax. It's not just for the sake of having fun, but it is time to have more friends and to interact with the other levels.
On the first day of the SoM week, the blocks that belongs to SoM had a parade which held around the Magallanes village. This is the day that we performed in front of the other courses. We performed there because we won in the cheers and chants competition last October 11, 2015. Different organizations made their own activities and booths for us to have an enjoyable week. 

Last October 28,2015. I joined men's doubles with my friend Rafael Ramos. In our first game I thought we can beat them but I was wrong. We lose on our first game.Luckily we won on the 2nd game. But we lose again on the third game. Well that's okay because the important thing is we enjoyed the game. 

There are many events which happened that week,one of those is the Mr. and Ms. SoM. I would like to congratulate Karyll Lapuz and Jennah Rose Cruz for winning the Mr. and Ms. SoM 2015. I would also like to congratulate the participants of the pageant.  But after that week, back to reality. Classes were held. Back to studying. But the SoM week is very memorable to all of the students especially for the frosh students like me. I'm looking forward to the next SoM week and activities!

5 || Turn left turn right

Last October 14, 2015, We've watched the movie titled turn left turn right at the audio visual room.

Turn Left Turn Tight is based on the best-selling illustrated love story of the same name by renowned Taiwanese author/artist, Jimmy Liao.
"Heung joh chow heung yau chow" is the original title of the movie which the original graphic novel was first published in the year 1999.
The movie was all about two people a named Takeshi Kaneshiro an inspiring violinist and Gigi Leung , a professional translator.They are destined to be together but by some twist of circumstances they never find each other for short they are soulmates.


So the first part of the movie I wasn't listening in short I got bored. I started listening when the time they already talking to each other and they asked each other's number and the time when they are still classmates/batch mates back then. they actually didn't know that in every moment they are staying in the same apartment building,but their paths never cross.

Not all ending are happy ending. This movie showed that there are happy endings. So After all the struggles they went through, they finally found each other.

4 || Ang Tatay Mong Kalbo

Ang Tatay Mong Kalbo

On October 09, 2015, We've watched a play at the Multi Purpose Hall. So many thoughts and questions that just popped out from my mind actually, I didn't exactly understand the first scene wherein Mr. and Mrs. Santos were talking about the other people lives like for example, the Doctor they were talking about and delicious food they eat and it confusing me like as a hell on why they always talking about the same topic. 

I couldn't take a lot of pictures of the characters from the play because, the ushers didn't allow us to take pictures of them. Okay, so basically you're might wondering why the title is that, the reason is - the play signifies on how people living during World War II. Based on what I've researched, many people are complaining about the physical and emotional of a human being. 

Speaking of that, the play was legitimate to all viewers and they say that the play was illogical yet, having sense of humor. Oh by the way, the author who wrote this is Eugene Ionesco. He was one of the famous writers during that time. Let's just say, that all titles had been published or written are acceptable to the play but, this play is quite different from other plays.Yes, it might be pleasing into our ears but, can we just not judge the play?

2 || Football

 I will share some facts about football. Soccer is called football in practically every country except the US and Canada is the first cool soccer fact. Soccer is distinguished from rugby and American/Canadian football in that it is primarily played with the feet. Touching the ball with hands is not allowed. Soccer facts include the World Cup being the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held every four years in a different host country. So that's just some of the facts about football. 

Being a football player is very difficult in which you may encounter someone's body. My position in football is  Midfielder or a Defender. Midfielder/s brings the ball up to the forwards in attack and prevents the ball from reaching the defenders when not in possession. So there are 4 four types of Midfielders. First, is the defending/holding midfielder (DM). They are the one's who's responsible to prevent the ball from reaching the defensive line. The second type of midfielder is central/ box to box midfielder. A central midfielder is stationed at the center of the field. This position plays both offense and defense. The third type of midfielder is Attacking midfielder. The attacking midfielder is an advance midfield player who's primarily inclined to attack. This position must have an excellent ball handling and tactical awareness. That are just some position you might have on football. Try and enjoy playing football! 😊

1 || Writer

As you see we're four in this picture. They are my closest friends back in high school not only our friends but we're close to their family too. We help each other if someone needs help in any aspect. We usually bond after classes.

I am John Ryan C. Miranda. I’m shy, kind, trustworthy and jolly person. I’m currently 16 years of age, born on December 29, 1998 in Pasay city. I live in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig city. I’ve been living there for almost 8 years with 5 family members including me.

So you might ask why here in Asia Pacific College (APC)? I studied here because it was recommended by my family and my other relatives, and it’s near from our house. I’m a member of Asia Pacific Junior Marketing Association (APJMA) and Junior People Management Association of the Philippines (JPMAP).

Enough about my APC life, I’m going to tell you more about myself. Some of you don’t know that I want to be a soldier someday. I want to be a soldier because I want to serve our country by protecting it from the conquerors. I also want to be a pilot someday. That’s why I’m going to choose Airforce. So enough about that. So I’m a dog and cat lover. Spending time with my pets relieves my stress. I also love ice cream and lasagna. I’m a sporty kind of person. I’m interested in many things such as music and watching movies.

I hope that I’ll be able to meet these challenges, and my dreams will come true. As for now, I’m focusing on my studies. So that’s for now. I will not divulge more information about myself

3 || Heneral Luna

So at first, the time that I heard the film "Heneral Luna" I said, “No, I won’t watch that because it might be boring.” The reason behind that is because most of the filipino movies are boring, that's why I don’t really watch Filipino movies. So, yeah, I watched it because my sister forced me to. I didn't expect that the movie would be that awesome. I really, really enjoyed watching that movie. So enough about that. Let's talk about the movie. So the movie was all about the Filipinos fighting for the freedom of our country. Heneral Luna is the best among the all of the generals. He was the best because he has good tactics and he's not afraid of anything. He became strict when it comes to the law that should be followed by everyone. No one’s exempted from the law. You can't decline to what he ordered you to do because according to Arktikulo Uno (Article One) "Ang hindi sumunod sa utos ng Punong Heneral ay tatanggalan ng rango at ipapapatay ng walang paglilitis sa hukuman ng military"