A Chance I'll always Remember

        Everyday I wake early up in the morning by the help of my cell phone, I do my projects using my laptop, I watch different dramas on television, I do many things easier at the same time and most of all I communicate with my loved ones especially when I am experiencing struggle in my life.  But there come a time that I wonder why I am experiencing such an efficient inventions nowadays. That’s why I gather different information’s and come up with a new knowledge.

            Wherever I go I see cell phones, televisions, laptops and other gadgets, they are what we so called the products technologies.  Technology, which is the general term for the processes by which human beings fashion tools and machines to increase their control and understanding of the material environment. The term “technology” is derived from the Greek words tekhnē, which refers to an art or craft, and logia, meaning an area of study; thus, technology means, literally, the study, or science, of crafting. This is what my collage truly meant.

            My collage is all about what technology can do for us, how it can affect our daily living and why scientist discovered different technologies that could help people in their own special ways. This really defines that technology can sometimes built a family, lends a hand to each member of the family who were separated from faraway places like OFW’s (Overseas Filipino Workers), informs people of the latest news and events, but all things has advantages and disadvantages. These includes that abusing technologies can have a terrible effect on people. Some people would rather choose to search on the net than to use books as references. These may lessen the value of books. Some people want to play computer games than do home works. This manner can cause them to have a low grade in school. These are the things that I don’t want to happen to anybody specifically to myself.

Technologies are great help to everyone, without these inventions I can’t imagine what will my life may be. But like all things in this world, an excessive use can cause awful things to happen towards an individual. As long as we preserve the use of technologies we can have magnificent and worry-free life.  Discovering technologies will always be a chance I’ll treasure in my heart.

A Shadow of Tomorrow

Act 5, SCENE 3: MODIFICATION

PARIS

Oh my Juliet, why do you need to die? Why did you leave me just before our wedding? How can a woman like you leave me like these?  I would rather die to be with you, than to live in this world without my beloved whom I adore more than my life. (Paris heard someone, going in.) What’s that noise? Is anybody here? Is that a Montague?

ROMEO

(Without him knowing that Paris is there.) My wife, what had just happen to you? You promised me that we will cherish every moment when I come back after I was exiled from Verona. (Crying)

PARIS

Your wife? How come that Juliet is your wife? (Paris gets his sword)

ROMEO

(He doesn’t mind the presence of Paris even though Paris was already set for a fight.) He gets the poison that he bought from the Apothecary. He started to open it but suddenly...

PARIS

Isn’t that the poison which will stop the beat of heart in just a second? Give me that poison so I can be with the woman I love. (Paris drinks the poison and dies)

ROMEO

(He was shocked in witnessing the death of Paris and suddenly he heard Friar Lawrence going inside the Capulets tomb)

FRIAR LAWRENCE

Romeo?

ROMEO

Friar Lawrence, what just happen to Juliet? What the reason of his death?

FRIAR LAWRENCE

(He saw that Capulet and Lady Capulet is going to visit their daughter’s tomb) I will just explain to you later Romeo, but for now let’s hurry because the Capulets are here. (He grabs Romeo’s hand and run as fast as they could.)

After an hour, Capulet and Lady Capulet just finished their visit to their daughter’s tomb.

ROMEO

Friar Lawrence, let’s go back to Juliet’s tomb. Capulets already went away. I still want to be with the woman I love. (He saw Juliet’s hand move)  Friar, did you just see that?

FRIAR LAWRENCE

See, what, Romeo?

JULIET

(Wakes up) Romeo? (Hugs Romeo)

FRIAR LAWRENCE

(Explains everything that happened from the start then exit)

ROMEO

(Kisses Juliet and kneels) Juliet, will you marry me again?

JULIET

Yes, Romeo, yes. (Kisses Romeo)

(Montagues and Capulets enter together with Prince Escalus)

MONTAGUE

Romeo?

CAPULET

Juliet?

ROMEO AND JULIET

Father? (Holding hands)

CAPULET

You don’t have to explain everything to me Juliet, Friar Lawrence already did. As long as you’re alive, my daughter, I will be happy for you.

MONTAGUE

Are you okay my son? I was really worried for you since you were banished to Mantua.

PRINCE ESCALUS

So when will be the second wedding of Romeo and Juliet, a wedding that will be known by every single person in Verona and a wedding that will be witnessed by their family?

FRIAR LAWRENCE

Do I really need to do that kind of thing to bring back the peace in Verona?

(Montague and Capulet hugs each other and laughs together)

PRINCE ESCALUS

You did a good job Friar Lawrence.

FRIAR LAWRENCE

My honor Prince Escalus, I just did what you told me to do so.

In the very, very next day, Romeo and Juliet married again which was led by Friar Lawrence. This marriage leads to the peace in Verona between the feuding families of Montagues and Capulets and now turned into one great happy family.

ROMEO

I LOVE YOU, JULIET

JULIET

I LOVE YOU, ROMEO

<3 (A KISS ENDS THE STORY OF ROMEO AND JULIET) <3

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

ACT 5, SCENE 3: ORIGINAL

SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.
    Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch
PARIS
    Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:
    Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
    Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,
    Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;
    So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
    Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
    But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
    As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
    Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.
PAGE
    [Aside] I am almost afraid to stand alone
    Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.
    Retires
PARIS 
    Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,
    O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;
    Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
    Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:
    The obsequies that I for thee will keep
    Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
    The Page whistles
    The boy gives warning something doth approach.
    What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,
    To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?
    What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.
    Retires
    Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch & mattock
ROMEO
    Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
    Hold, take this letter; early in the morning
    See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
    Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,
    Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
    And do not interrupt me in my course.
    Why I descend into this bed of death,
    Is partly to behold my lady's face;
    But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
    A precious ring, a ring that I must use
    In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:
    But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
    In what I further shall intend to do,
    By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint
    And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
    The time and my intents are savage-wild,
    More fierce and more inexorable far
    Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
BALTHASAR
    I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
ROMEO
    So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:
    Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.
BALTHASAR
    [Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:
    His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.
    Retires
ROMEO
    Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
    Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
    Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
    And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!
    Opens the tomb
PARIS
    This is that banish'd haughty Montague,
    That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,
    It is supposed, the fair creature died;
    And here is come to do some villanous shame
    To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.
    Comes forward
    Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
    Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
    Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:
    Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.
ROMEO
    I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.
    Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;
    Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;
    Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
    Put not another sin upon my head,
    By urging me to fury: O, be gone!
    By heaven, I love thee better than myself;
    For I come hither arm'd against myself:
    Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,
    A madman's mercy bade thee run away.
PARIS     
    I do defy thy conjurations,
    And apprehend thee for a felon here.
ROMEO
    Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!
    They fight
PAGE
    O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
    Exit
PARIS
    O, I am slain!
    Falls
    If thou be merciful,
    Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.
    Dies
ROMEO
    In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
    Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
    What said my man, when my betossed soul
    Did not attend him as we rode? I think
    He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
    Said he not so? or did I dream it so?
    Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
    To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
    One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!
    I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;
    A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,
    For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
    This vault a feasting presence full of light.
    Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
    Laying PARIS in the tomb
    How oft when men are at the point of death
    Have they been merry! which their keepers call
    A lightning before death: O, how may I
    Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
    Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
    Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
    Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
    Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
    And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
    Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
    O, what more favour can I do to thee,
    Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
    To sunder his that was thine enemy?
    Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
    Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
    That unsubstantial death is amorous,
    And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
    Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
    For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;
    And never from this palace of dim night
    Depart again: here, here will I remain
    With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here
    Will I set up my everlasting rest,
    And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
    From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
    Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
    The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
    A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
    Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
    Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
    The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
    Here's to my love!
    Drinks
    O true apothecary!
    Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
    Dies
    Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade
FRIAR LAURENCE
    Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night
    Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?
BALTHASAR
    Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,
    What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light
    To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,
    It burneth in the Capel's monument.
BALTHASAR
    It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,
    One that you love.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    Who is it?
BALTHASAR
    Romeo.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    How long hath he been there?
BALTHASAR
    Full half an hour.
FRIAR LAURENCE     
   Go with me to the vault.
BALTHASAR
    I dare not, sir
    My master knows not but I am gone hence;
    And fearfully did menace me with death,
    If I did stay to look on his intents.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:
    O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.
BALTHASAR
    As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,
    I dreamt my master and another fought,
    And that my master slew him.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    Romeo!
    Advances
    Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
    The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
    What mean these masterless and gory swords
    To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
    Enters the tomb
    Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?
    And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
    Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
    The lady stirs.
    JULIET wakes
JULIET
    O comfortable friar! where is my lord?
    I do remember well where I should be,
    And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
    Noise within
FRIAR LAURENCE
    I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
    Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:
    A greater power than we can contradict
    Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
    Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
    And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
    Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:
    Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
    Come, go, good Juliet,
    Noise again
    I dare no longer stay.
JULIET     
   Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
    Exit FRIAR LAURENCE
    What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
    Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
    O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
    To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
    Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
    To make die with a restorative.
    Kisses him
    Thy lips are warm.
FIRST WATCHMAN
    [Within] Lead, boy: which way?
JULIET
    Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
    Snatching ROMEO's dagger
    This is thy sheath;
    Stabs herself
    there rust, and let me die.
    Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies
    Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS
PAGE
    This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.
FIRST WATCHMAN
    The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:
    Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.
    Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,
    And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
    Who here hath lain these two days buried.
    Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:
    Raise up the Montagues: some others search:
    We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;
    But the true ground of all these piteous woes
    We cannot without circumstance descry.
    Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR
SECOND WATCHMAN
    Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.
FIRST WATCHMAN
    Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither.
    Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE
Third Watchman
    Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
    We took this mattock and this spade from him,
    As he was coming from this churchyard side.
FIRST WATCHMAN     
    A great suspicion: stay the friar too.
    Enter the PRINCE and Attendants
PRINCE
    What misadventure is so early up,
    That calls our person from our morning's rest?
    Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others
CAPULET
    What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?
LADY CAPULET
    The people in the street cry Romeo,
    Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,
    With open outcry toward our monument.
PRINCE
    What fear is this which startles in our ears?
FIRST WATCHMAN
    Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;
    And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,
    Warm and new kill'd.
PRINCE
    Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
FIRST WATCHMAN
    Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;
    With instruments upon them, fit to open
    These dead men's tombs.
CAPULET
    O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
    This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house
    Is empty on the back of Montague,--
    And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!
LADY CAPULET
    O me! this sight of death is as a bell,
    That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
    Enter MONTAGUE and others
PRINCE
    Come, Montague; for thou art early up,
    To see thy son and heir more early down.
MONTAGUE
    Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
    Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:
    What further woe conspires against mine age?
PRINCE
    Look, and thou shalt see.
MONTAGUE
    O thou untaught! what manners is in this?
    To press before thy father to a grave?
PRINCE
    Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
    Till we can clear these ambiguities,
    And know their spring, their head, their
    true descent;
    And then will I be general of your woes,
    And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,
    And let mischance be slave to patience.
    Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    I am the greatest, able to do least,
    Yet most suspected, as the time and place
    Doth make against me of this direful murder;
    And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
    Myself condemned and myself excused.
PRINCE
    Then say at once what thou dost know in this.
FRIAR LAURENCE
    I will be brief, for my short date of breath
    Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
    Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;
    And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:
    I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day
    Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death
    Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
    For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
    You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
    Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
    To County Paris: then comes she to me,
    And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean
    To rid her from this second marriage,
    Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
    Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,
    A sleeping potion; which so took effect
    As I intended, for it wrought on her
    The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,
    That he should hither come as this dire night,
    To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
    Being the time the potion's force should cease.
    But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
    Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight
    Return'd my letter back. Then all alone
    At the prefixed hour of her waking,
    Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;
    Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
    Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:
    But when I came, some minute ere the time
    Of her awaking, here untimely lay
    The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
    She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,
    And bear this work of heaven with patience:
    But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;
    And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
    But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
    All this I know; and to the marriage
    Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
    Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
    Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
    Unto the rigour of severest law.
PRINCE
    We still have known thee for a holy man.
    Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?
BALTHASAR
    I brought my master news of Juliet's death;
    And then in post he came from Mantua
    To this same place, to this same monument.
    This letter he early bid me give his father,
    And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
    I departed not and left him there.
PRINCE
    Give me the letter; I will look on it.
    Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
    Sirrah, what made your master in this place?
PAGE
    He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;
    And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
    Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;
    And by and by my master drew on him;
    And then I ran away to call the watch.
PRINCE
    This letter doth make good the friar's words,
    Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
    And here he writes that he did buy a poison
    Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
    Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
    Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
    See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
    That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
    And I for winking at your discords too
    Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.
CAPULET
    O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
    This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
    Can I demand.
MONTAGUE
    But I can give thee more:
    For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
    That while Verona by that name is known,
    There shall no figure at such rate be set
    As that of true and faithful Juliet.
CAPULET
    As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;
    Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
PRINCE
    A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
    The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
    Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
    Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
    For never was a story of more woe
    Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
    Exeunt

Without YOU, I will never be ME

Back when I was a child, I remember the days when my mother was busy. She used to go to work early in the morning while I was still asleep and go home when I was already fall asleep. Our schedule doesn’t meet, we have less time with each other, however, when I open my eyes, and there is this someone who acts like a mother for me.

Ever since kindergarten up to elementary, he was the one who takes good care of me, he wakes up early in the morning to cook my food, he was the one who sends me to school, and through his job as a tricycle driver he can provide us with our needs.

Rise or shine even though he gets tired a lot, he won’t stop working just to support our family. That’s why I am always here to thank GOD for giving me such father that will do everything to make our family happy. But not all times, our family was happy, sometimes we are facing some problems, well it’s normal to have such conflicts, conflicts that made us stronger and conflicts that made our family better. My father is the first one, who shares us the way how to resolve it, he’s the first one that thinks of an idea of how I can manage people around me, and he’s the first one who gives the reason to survive and to fight for what’s right.

I am very happy that I am blessed to have such a wonderful father, a father that is always here to listen with my problems, a father that will be more than willing to help me, a father whom will always be ready to wipe my tears whenever they fall down and a father that will love with who I am. He is ANGELO CUBIO CENIZAL my one and only father because without him, I will never be me.

An Act of Fearlessness

There come times when we feel that the world is against us, that every single action that we think will be the best for everybody suddenly turns into a failure one. Sometimes, we lost control for the problems that goes through our lives, therefore we lost faith and trust to the person whom we didn’t think will do anything and everything for our own sake, a person whom will always be behind us and will never let us down for the difficult things that we encounter every day.

Every single day of my life, I am always thanking God for all the blessings that He gave me, for the food that I eat, for the clothes that I am wearing, for the things I had for school, for the friends that remain loyal to me, and especially for my family, my parents whom will always be there for me.

“My dear wake up, it’s time for school,” my mom said while cooking my food. I wake up fast because I don’t want to be late in school. I wash my face and went to the dining table to eat my food while I my father is fetching water for me. After that I continue eating, take a bath, wear my uniform and I’m ready for school. I ask money from my father and he gave me the exact amount that I needed for school. We always do this every morning since I started going to school, but one day I realized the consequences that the entire human race may bring me, “What if my mom and my dad do not exist in this world? What will I do? What if they left me in the sidewalk when I was a baby like other parents do to their children? What if they start hating me and leave me?” I started asking myself “What if?” but I realized the fact that I am blessed with these parents who will do anything to make me happy, make me strong, teach me to be contented with what I have and will wipe my tears whenever they fall down on my cheeks. I thank God because I am more blessed than anybody because even if we’re not wealthy, our family is still happy and complete.

My parents are the most precious thing in my life, because from the beginning, they gave me this wonderful life that I am having right now. They gave me reasons to survive, they gave me the authority to do things I want to do and to keep things that’s worth fighting for. Heroes, they are just everywhere, but parents they are exceptional because they are one of a kind.