Melodies of Life..

Melodies Of Life

-an autobiography-

My life is like a song;full of highs and full of lows,full of stops and full of go.There are times that I'm out of tune and there are times that I hit the right notes.Music is my life and the lyrics are my story.It is my passion and  I cant live without it.

I've always been the kind of girl
That hid my face
So afraid to tell the world
What I've got to say
But I have this dream
Right inside of me
I'm gonna let it show, it's time
To let you know
To let you know

This is real, this is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, now
Gonna let the light, shine on me
Now I've found, who I am
There's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I want to be

This is me

:)

 

Hi!Im Michelle L. Andal.The first child of Alfredo and Kris Andal.I am 16 years old and was born on  January 2, 1995 in Rosario,Batangas.I am the eldest among the 3 siblings.I have a one brother and one sister namely John Alfred and Coleen.

I grew up in a family with respect and love for each other. My life with them is simple but it makes me happier more and more each day.

The schooling years of my high school life were tougher than those of my elementary years. I struggled a lot in my studies but that’s not enough to bring me in the top ten of our batch. It doesn’t become an obstacle to pursue my dreams. Instead, I made it as one of my stepping stone in the adventurous life of a college student. As of now I’m studying at De La Salle Lipa, taking up BS Information Technology.

I was an average student throughout my academic life. Extra-curricular activities like sports, drawing, crafts, etc. were my favorite things. I just remember when I’m still in high school I stood up in the 17th place in our class. It serves as my purpose in motivating myself to take up studies seriously. I enjoyed understanding the concepts more than just memorizing ready made notes. 

Being a college student for me began smoothly and I was more than happy and excited to grab the right opportunity for which I was waiting so long.

In terms of my love life..


I am..

I just have an inspiration..

Like my crush on Tv

Daniel Padilla :)

HaHa :D

 Today, I am happy with my life and enjoy it to the fullest. The positive attitude to face hardships brought out the best in me. Today I am looking forward to face the challenges of life in a positive manner. This is me, my rules and my styles, because I’m just a real person and definitely not an imitation.

Originally composed Expository Text..

Ups and Downs..

We cant deny the fact that we people are experiencing many kinds of ups and downs in life.Trials and obstacles are part of a person growing up and it is one of the ingredient in building up a better personality.

It depends on how we views life or how we deal to it.It’s on the mans shoulder,and not  to others.Its upto you if your going to be strengthen  by your ups and downs or be it your way to your weaknesses.

It’s normal if you encounter  failure and pain in some decisions you are making.It’s part of our  life and we just need to go with the flow.Luck is not always with us,besides luck depends on the person itself and not just by fate.We need to be hurt for us to learn.

As A Lasallian we need to be up and cherished for us to improve.We need those two for us to be a better individual.And for us to know who we really are.

Analysis of reading related article..

The Art Of Reading Slow

If you're reading this article in print, chances are you'll only get through half of what I've written. And if you're reading this online, you might not even finish a fifth. At least, those are the two verdicts from a pair of recent research projects – respectively, the Poynter Institute's Eyetrack survey, and analysis by Jakob Nielsen – which both suggest that many of us no longer have the concentration to read articles through to their conclusion.

The problem doesn't just stop there: academics report that we are becoming less attentive book-readers, too. Bath Spa University lecturer Greg Garrard recently revealed that he has had to shorten his students' reading list, while Keith Thomas, an Oxford historian, has written that he is bemused by junior colleagues who analyse sources with a search engine, instead of reading them in their entirety.

So are we getting stupider?

 Is that what this is about? Sort of. According to The Shallows, a new book by technology sage Nicholas Carr, our hyperactive online habits are damaging the mental faculties we need to process and understand lengthy textual information. Round-the-clock news feeds leave us hyperlinking from one article to the next – without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content; our reading is frequently interrupted by the ping of the latest email; and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook more regularly than longer texts.

Which all means that although, because of the internet, we have become very good at collecting a wide range of factual titbits, we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, contemplate, and relate all these facts to each other. And so, as Carr writes, "we're losing our ability to strike a balance between those two very different states of mind. Mentally, we're in perpetual locomotion".

Still reading? You're probably in a dwindling minority. But no matter: a literary revolution is at hand. First we had slow food, then slow travel. Now, those campaigns are joined by a slow-reading movement – a disparate bunch of academics and intellectuals who want us to take our time while reading, and re-reading. They ask us to switch off our computers every so often and rediscover both the joy of personal engagement with physical texts, and the ability to process them fully.

"If you want the deep experience of a book, if you want to internalise it, to mix an author's ideas with your own and make it a more personal experience, you have to read it slowly," says Ottawa-based John Miedema, author of Slow Reading (2009).

Question:

Can you see the art of reading slow?

Answer:

            


 After reading the article.I've understand what was the art of slow reading.It's good to know that with this,you don't just read but you understand what you are reading.It can be a strategy of us students in school.And it's  a good way of improving are ability to understand. 

Reflection

          Now a days we are preferring on the answers we can get from internet.We don't notice that we are forgetting how to read and understand in our own.We depend on those answers even we know to ourselves that we can have something like that by means of our own creative way of reading.


         Reading is one way of increasing your knowledge about something.And reading slow means your improving your ability to understand what you are reading and not measuring your speed.If you read slow you can understand much better  and be able to analyze properly what you are reading.In fact reading slow is in connection to "reading between the lines".Its analyzing every information you read even its very little data on it.For me that's the art of reading slow.You don't just read.You understand :)

Reading Needs Analysis (survey)

Reading Needs Analysis
(survey)

The respondents were some of my schoolmates in Padre Vicente Garcia Memorial Academy. They are also taking an english class and I can say many of them are very good in english.

                                               

How often do you read?

a.        All the time                                                                                                11

b.    More often than not                                                                                     3

c.     Sometimes                                                                                                    1

d.    Almost never                                                                                                0

Do you enjoy reading?

a.     Yes                                                                                                              10

b.    Sometimes                                                                                                    5

c.     No                                                                                                                 0

What is your usual purpose for reading?

a.     To Fill in Extra Time                                                                                   4

b.    To fulfill academic requirements

c.  To gain new knowledge and information                                                                      5

What are the usual types of material you read? Encircle as many as you can.

a.     Textbooks                                                                                                      6

b.    General Reference Books                                                                             4

c.     Newspaper                                                                                                    1

d.    Magazines                                                                                                    13

e.     Nonfiction like Biography                                                                             4

f.       Fictional stories/books                                                                               12

What reading materials do you find easiest to read?

a.     Textbooks                                                                                                      4

b.    General Reference Books                                                                             1

c.     Newspaper                                                                                                    0

d.    Magazines                                                                                                     6

e.     Nonfiction like Biography                                                                              0

f.       Fictional stories/books                                                                                4

What reading materials do you find most difficult to read?

a.     Textbooks                                                                                                     10

b.    General Reference Books                                                                            0

c.     Newspaper                                                                                                   4

d.    Magazines                                                                                                    0

e.     Nonfiction like Biography                                                                            10

f.       Fictional stories/books                                                                               0

What are the factors that affect your difficulties in reading? Encircle your answer.

a.     Content of the Material                                                                                 0

b.    Structure of the Material                                                                              2

c.     Language used in the Material                                                                      2

d.    Vocabulary used in the Material                                                                   11

In general, how would you rate yourself as a reader?

a.     Excellent                                                                                                         7

b.    Very Good                                                                                                       6

c.     Average/Fair                                                                                                  2

d.    Poor                                                                                                                0

I notice that they are good in english but they do not have enough vocabulary to understand some deep words.Thats why they read much of those books that contains easier words to understand.

Reading Logs..

Improving Safety with Information Technology

      

Health care is growing increasingly complex, and most clinical research focuses on new approaches to diagnosis and treatment. In contrast, relatively little effort has been targeted at the perfection of operational systems, which are partly responsible for the well-documented problems with medical safety.If medicine is to achieve major gains in quality, it must be transformed, and information technology will play a key part,especially with respect to safety.

       In other industries, information technology has made possible what has been called “mass customization” — the efficient and reliable production of goods and services according to the highly personalized needs of individual customers. Computer retailers, for example, now use their Web sites to allow people to purchase computers built to their exact specifications, which can be shipped within two days. Medical care is, of course, orders of magnitude more complex than selling personal computers, and clinicians have always strived to provide carefully individualized care. However, safe care now requires a degree of individualization that is becoming unimaginable without computerized decision support. For example, computer systems can instantaneously identify interactions among a patient's medications. Even today, more than 600 drugs require adjustment of doses for multiple levels of renal dysfunction, a task that is poorly performed by human prescribers without assistance but can be done accurately by computers. Multiple studies now demonstrate that computer-based decision support can improve physicians' performance and, in some instances, patient outcomes.

   

     In the past decade, the risk of harm caused by medical care has received increasing scrutiny. The growing sophistication of computers and software should allow information technology to play a vital part in reducing that risk — by streamlining care, catching and correcting errors, assisting with decisions, and providing feedback on performance. Given the large potential risks and benefits as well as the costs involved, in this article we analyze what is known about the role and effect of information technology with respect to safety and consider the implications for medical care, research, and policy.

READING LOG:

Title: 

"Improving safety with Information Technology"

Author:

Anonymous

Summary or Main Idea: 

Now A days we can be able to input much safety in form of technology.In fact there are many instruments which can be use by doctors to cure patients faster than before.

New Ideas I Learned:

There are no significant ideas that i have learned because most of it were my lessons last year in my high school life.

Significant Ideas/Phrases/Lines:

Health care is growing increasingly complex,and most clinical research focuses on new approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Ideas I Agree/Disagree: 

I strongly agree on the ideas i have read.All of them are right but of course think twice before doing something that involves safety.

Ideas I can relate to my previous knowledge: 

Information technology is related to medications because it makes the process of  recovery an easy way to any patient.

Ideas I want to learn more about:

 I want to learn about more things that information technology  can do to improve safety not only in medications but also the safeness of the world.

Over-all Rating of the Material: 

I like this one and i love to read another like this .It's really nice  because it can inform other people  like me about the good things that can be done by information technology  as well us what else can be it benefit to us and to whole wide world as well.

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Thai Movie Crazy Little Thing Called 

Love

Last night, I finally got to watch the Thai movie, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which became a hit not only to Thai audiences, but to many Filipino teens as well. Make that ‘teens who are always on Facebook and actually care about Asian entertainment’. We wouldn’t have known about it if it was released like 10 years ago because it’s not shown nor promoted in the country. Let me begin by saying that the movie reminded me of those Korean movies that jump-started the Hallyu like My Sassy Girl.

                           

                         My Sassy Girl of Thailand. You may quote me on that.

Seems like the Thai film industry is starting to catch up and I wouldn’t be surprised if a year or two from now, Thai-wave will take over Asia. PAKSHET NAPAG-IWANAN NA NAMAN TAYO?! We should’ve been next to Korea! Filmmakers, please stop producing movies that are just about poverty, prostitution and other depressing shit because there’s more to our country than Slumdog Millionaire-like themes! Fantasy movies and comedies about mothers with 10 children??? It’s time to move forward! MORE RPG METANOIA, PLEASE!

Whew. Now that I got that off my chest, lemme start with my “not-so-review”.

Whoever made that movie trailer must’ve gotten a big bonus and a promotion by now. I’m certain that anyone who’s ever had a crush who didn’t like him/her in return scoured the internet for download links and English subs watched this film soon as s/he saw the trailer. C’mon! I cried watching that 3-minute video halfway! It wasn’t so much the unrequited love angle that stabbed me in the chest, it’s her desire and perseverance to become (and look) better for someone she loved that hit close to home.

                        

                 I wasn’t a “loser” in high school but those were my mudda’effin’ friends!

   The writer-directors really had their audience in mind while making this movie. First, they cast VERY GOOD LOOKING superstars Mario Maurer (Chon) and Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon (Nam) to play the lead. I mean, can you really go wrong with Mario Maurer *coughSiamcough*? I highly enjoyed watching it because it’s quite funny, too, especially their teacher. I bet 100$ that she’s like the Eugene Domingo or Pokwang of Thailand. And really, those Thais have raised their level of film making with the cinematography and editing. Father Jejemon wuttfuuuu!!! I’m telling you – Thai-wave. Watch out for it.

Also, I’m sure that those who have seen it said out loud “holy shit that’s meeee!” at least once, because almost all of the scenes were plucked out of every high school girl (and gay)’s diary. Her friends remind us of our own oddball friends (see photo caption above) and those silly things they did to be noticed by the guy? YOU DID THOSE, TOO, admit it! And OMG you know that scene where Nam finally gives him a white rose and professes her undying love only to be heart-broken in the end?! Can I just say that… THAT HAPPENED TO ME. TWICE!!! (I was in love with a guy for 4 years and another one for 5 years) I felt your pain, girl! I felt it bad!

This scene looks… familiar.

The creative team did everything in their power to put Nam in OUR shoes, hence the movie’s claim that it’s “Everyone’s Love Story”.

But is it really?

The beginning of the film will lead you to think that it actually is. 2 minutes and 11 seconds into it and already had snot and tears all over my face. It seemed to me like those words could’ve been copied straight from this blog! So at the start, I really felt like I was Nam – from a decade ago. All those bittersweet memories rushed back to me and I found my self crying like I was 15 again.

And then she started to become too pretty. Too fast. I honestly felt like her transformation was as quick as a Nigerian runner being chased by a hungry lion. She suddenly looked so different from her three friends! I mean, even if people “grow” up in high school, they don’t grow up that fast. It only happens in Hollywood movies like She’s All That and I dunno, G.I. Jane or something. Or if you’re under SM Entertainment. If it happens in real life, those girls get preggerz early or get molested and beaten up by their boyfriends (based on true stories). I know, such a terrible world we live in. Tsk tsk.

If you ask me, it shouldn’t have ended the way it did. There’s a reason why the Phantom didn’t get Christine in the end and why My Best Friend’s Wedding became a classic. Those stories continue to affect us to this day because they used the UNREQUITED LOVE theme and they fuckin’ stuck to it!!! It made the films more… REAL. Seriously, when did you ever hear about the heartthrob of the school falling for a younger, uglier, wallflower? Teenage boys are shallow, remember??? Dude, even Betty La Fea wasn’t that lucky! She didn’t just turn into a skinny bitch overnight!

Satoshi Kon’s Millenium Actress is the epitome of unrequited love. How many of you can relate to that statement on the subs?

I understand, the producers are selling a fantasy and I commend them for doing an awesome job. Crazy Little Thing Called Love is that, really – a fantasy and in my opinion, should not be called “Everyone’s Love Story”. If it was, it would’ve turned out the way it does in real life, where not-so-good-looking, chubby, pimplish, dark-skinned, bad-haired, no-named, awkward teenage girls don’t get the boys of their dreams in the end. Heck, even the pretty ones don’t always get what they want. And how many times have we actually bawled our eyes out and no one went to our door steps to leave a scrapbook and a heart-felt confession from the very person that we’re crying about??? Nine years have passed, too but my first love – the person I wrote all those stories for and has made me what I am now, has not even tried adding me up on Facebook. FAIL.

Unrequited love stories don’t have happy endings – that’s one of the things I learned the hard way over the years. But you know, that’s just how things are and more often that not, it’s for the better. You tend to appreciate more what you have now because of the things you were deprived of in the past. And trust me,that angst makes for a VERY GOOD creative motivation.

In fact, someday I will make a movie about my, your and our REAL stories, too. And though it won’t have a happy ending, it will feature Eraserheads’ Ang Huling El Bimbo as the main OST. For that alone, I know you will watch it.

READING LOG

Title: 

The Movie Crazy little thing called love.

Author:

Kring

Summary or Main Idea:

Its about an ugly girl who was in love to a very handsome and nice guy.She did everything to be notice by that guy but she doesn't know that the guy has the same feeling for her. 

New Ideas I Learned: 

There is no new ideas to me in this article.

Significant Ideas/Phrases/Lines: 

Physical image is not the measurement to ones heart.

Ideas I Agree/Disagree: 

I agree that not all stories of teenagers are like this.Sometimes its just that it is connected but not that same.

Ideas I can relate to my previous knowledge: 

If you love tell them.Dont let your fear overcome you.

Ideas I want to learn more about: 

I want to learn other stories that can relate teenagers now a days,in terms of love.

Over-all Rating of the Material: 

I like this material.And i wanna know some more.