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“Blessed is the house upon whose walls the shade of an old tree gently fall”. This quotation is from Ruskin Bond. In this adage the speaker shares the thoughts of his grandmother who was of the opinion that the house that has trees around is blessed. For this purpose he planted a tree which is six months old and is growing fast. He believes that in six years time th e tree would grow and give shade so that his house will also be blessed. What is the state of the world without the trees? Barren and brown, unblessed and uninhabited. Trees add color and breath to ecosystem. It is the earth’s source of life. Metaphorically, the trees are the songs of God and the flowers are His laughter. Trees in the modern world are sometimes forgotten and neglected. Humans overuse the demand for trees but do not plan to replace what they had consumed. What will our future become if all the trees of the present would soon vanish in the future because of human’s over consumption and wanton destruction ...

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I am an Air. In the Chinese astrology of the four elements of the Earth, I belong to that group. And I believe it's true. Air according to their elaborat ions symbolizes mental processes, language, intellect, reason, human communication and social relationships. Air signs provide the ideas that make things happen. An air person has many ideas to shar e. He may lack grounding, however, and tries to do too many things at once. A nd as an air element, I l ove water very much. Air literally can b end water and together they can build characters, events and phe nomena. That's why I was totally ecstatic when I visited Manila Ocean Park yesterday. T he place is an arran gement of spectacular marine life sequenced from the shoreline scenery going to the deepest abyss of the ocean. These were done creatively to help both young and old visitors to understand fully the l iving things in the water world. It is a world class sight which will really fascinate everyone. The amenities a...

Maduya Elementary School (MADES) garnered three awards in the recently concluded District ICT Competition coinciding the ICT Month Celebration held at Mabuhay Elem. School in Carmona, Cavite, July 1. With the theme: Digitally Empowered Philippines, t hree pupils of MADES got the following awards: first place in Powerpoint Presentation, second in Adobe Pagemaker and third in ICT Jingle Contest. Their coaches were Miss Emelyn Malabanan, Miss Katrina Bayson and Miss Areane Mamauag. Present during the event were Dr. Elias A. Alicaya Jr., division supervisor in ICT and Dr. Editha M. Atendido, the district supervisor. Eight school administrators were also present during the said activity namely Mrs. Felicidad Aure of Bancal ES; Mrs. Wilhelmina L. Magboo of Milagrosa ES, Mrs. Florpina B. Galay of Milagrosa West ES, Mrs. Hermenigilda Lisano of P. Matanda ES, Mrs. Jean J. Tolentino of Mabuhay ES, Mrs. Eroliza E. Rogacion of C. Baybay ES, Mr. Noel S. Ortega of Maduya ES and Mrs Gina Minardo o...

A rtistically talented pupils of Maduya Elementary School in Carmona, Cavite received cash prizes when they were adjudged winners in Poster Making Contest held by ROHM Semiconductor Philippines which is located in Brgy. Maduya, Carmona, Cavite, June 30, 2011. With an environmental theme winners were judged by personnel from the said company who visited the school during the said awarding day prepared by the school. Three top winner received each P1,500 for the top winner and P1000 for the two runners up. Gifts were also awarded to non winners. The occasion was also graced by the barangay captain of Barangay Maduya. ROHM Semiconductors further promised to donate another set of materials like television sets, dvd player and other educational materials by next month.

Carmona, Cavite - All roads led to this town as all district supervisors, secondary school principals, division subject area supervisors, assistant schools division superintendent, schools division superintendent and other division personnel convened at San lazaro Leisure and Business Park, June 29, 2011 for the monthly Division Executive Meeting. Congressman Roy M. Loyola of the 5th district of Cavite and Mayor Dahlia A. Loyola graced the opening program to welcome all the participants of the event. They were well-applauded as the delegates were pampered in that said place through the initiative and finance of the two elected executives from Carmona. Carmona Workforce : (from left) Mrs. Herminigilda Lizano, principal of Paligawan Matanda ES; Mrs. Wilhelmina Magboo, Milagrosa ES; Dr. Manuela Tolentino, division preschool and SPED supervisor and mother supervisor of Carmona; Dr. Editha Atendido, Carmona district supervisor; Miss Amelita Buenavente, Carmona ES; Mrs. Jean Tolentino, ...

W e attended a Monday Flag Raising Ceremony today at the Carmona Hon. Marciano Mapanoo Park. This is my very first attendance in this flag ceremony as a principal. The emcees introduced me to the public twice but I felt ashamed because she never mentioned the name of my district supervisor-being the head of the DepEd in the Municipality of Carmona. I just thought the lady emcee forgot to mention my district supervisor's name since she is already known by many people since she is always attending the flag raising activity every morning. I just shared this observation for the record.... C oinciding the flag raising ceremonies is the intermission number done by the select pupils from Bancal Elem. School who did a musical presentation imitated from the classical movie "The Sound of Music". They did the "Do Re Mi" song by Julie Andrews.

D ays have passed so quickly, we didn’t notice that the ten-days of feast and travel we were experiencing would soon be over. Despite this, we were still busy and excited like children who are anticipating a graduation day and we were also very eager to present to the Koreans our cultural dance, Cariñosa. I photographed this toilet bowl set for the purpose of documentation and reminiscing. Me and my room mate Rod Pelina actually explored this stuff the very first night of our arrival because we really do not know it's operation since the characters in the buttons are also in Korean. We just experimentally pushed each button to find out the purpose of all of them. J ust like the other days, breakfast was served at 7:30 A.M. at the second floor of the hotel. As a proof of Korean health consciousness, non-fat and non-oily foods were always served with tea or coffee. T he breakfast was also shared with the other guests of the Hunsan Gunji House who became our new acquaintances. To m...