My DREAM, My FUTURE :)

Live Your Values, Pursue Your Dreams, And Follow Your Passions”. This really implies the true ways we must do to have the best future life we could possibly have. Seeing through around the earth, we will find all kinds of people exist in the world. I think why those people are different from each other might be a difficult task to study which factor influences and drives them different.

When I was a child, my teachers and parents said to me, “people who have no dreams of the future will not fly far away”. Do you pay attention in how fast time goes by? From the age of 5 we spend our time busy with school, and then we grow up to find a job and build up a family. Before we realize, time has passed by and all the dreams we had for our future have not yet come true. The reason is because our dreams are just dreams and haven’t yet become goals. The only way to achieve our goals is to know what we want to plan how to get it. Life is a dream, realize it.

In my future I want to do so many things. One of the things I want to do is become a Civil Engineer so I can build my own house that the engineer is me. This is the one of my short-time goals I want to achieve. After that I want to get a well-paid job as an Engineer, doing all kind of projects to improve the infrastructure of different cities. I also want to create an organization for the poor and shelter less people in my country; I believe that we should all have the same privilege like have a place to live in and receive an education. I wish for a happy and healthy life, who doesn't? But this is something I can only wish for. On the other hand I can work hard to make my dreams come true.

There are also other things that I would like to do at some point. One of my dreams is to travel around the world. I have always been curious about other cultures and the differences between people in other countries. It would be amazing to travel the whole world.

In the future I may have new dreams, but the first goal I have to achieve is getting my diploma. This is one of the keys to accomplish my other goals and dreams. After becoming a professional, I want to start a family, one lovely wife and maybe three children’s and have one beautiful  home to raise my kids and grow old with the people I love the most.

Change: It Starts With Me

Failures are part of life .If you don’t fail, you don’t learn. If you don’t learn you’ll never learn. We changes of course for the best. As they said that nothing stays the same forever or everything changes. It is not bad to change as long as it is for the better. Never change for the worst.

          We always notice others mistakes, but we never reflect to ourselves. We are busy helping other people to change but we can’t help ourselves to change. We always say we want change but we are doing nothing. We always complain but we never move. I have a lot of things that have changed my life. There are some that are good and there are some that are bad. I would not change any of them because they are the reason that I am who I am today. The reasons are to make a better life for myself and my loved ones and to meet new types of people.

          We change for two reasons, either we learned a lot or we've hurt too much. Don’t let our anger, insecurities and hate changes us because we will not succeed instead we choose to change because we want to and because this is our way of letting go of them. From time, we can help others to lift up.

Insight: Ylocos Kannawidan Festival

          Every year, we are celebrating Kannawidan Festival and once, lets again bring back the pat, culture and traditions. This celebration started last January 30, 2015 and ended on February 13, 2015, a two-week long festive celebration of happiness. This is not only for us to reminisce the past but it unites Bigueños.

Ilocos Sur has a rich heritage and unique culture that are to be preserved for the next generations because it is observed that many of these traditions, songs, dances and other Ilocano culture are not familiar to the younger generations already.

We should be proud of for this is the only city that is preserved. I’m glad to see that even children participated and danced the ethnic music, it means, our culture is still alive even we are here in we so called “modern world.” They are not shy to show where they came from. They are not ashamed to wear “bahag” that symbolizes our very own culture.

Kannawidan Ylocos Festival aims to create awareness that we are rich in culture heritage, practices and traditions that attracts tourist. We should never forget the past, for they bring us fame. We should treasure and preserve those for the next generations to witness how rich Ilocos Sur in culture, traditions and practices.