Kaiser Paul Nonog

               Every year, the month of March is celebrated as Women’s History Month. It is set aside to honor women’s contributions. It is celebrated to highlight and take notice at women’s achievements and discuss continuing and emerging women’s empowerment and other issues like gender equality and freedom. Women’s empowerment is the process of empowering women which means promoting their sense of self-worth, freedom, the ability to choose their own preference and choices. Empowering women enables them to confidently and meaningfully engage with appropriate institutions to ensure that they contribute to and benefit from development and changes.                Gender inequality is not just a human rights issue, it is also a waste of potential betterment of our world. By denying the women is like denying around 50% of our population to have a chance to live life at its fullest. By empowering wo...

Valentine’s day, a day where people around the world celebrate by showing deep appreciation for the person they love. Some takes their loved ones for a sweet romantic date and dinner, some gets to go on a roadtrip, and some plans to propose. It is also the day where you can give the person you love a chocolate, flowers or even jewelry as a message to thank them for coming to your life and express your gratefulness.             Valentine’s day is where the hearts of the people who will confess their love to their crush pound. Speaking of hearts, heart is the symbol of this particular day. Red, pink, and many other type of flowers like roses, symbolizes love and feeling of romantic attraction to a certain person symbolizes the valentine’s day.

              Ilocos Sur is a province in the Philippines Located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Its capital is the city of Vigan. Vigan is known for its preserved Spanish colonial and Asian architecture. The place is also known for the celebration that features cultural traditions and, they call it the Kannawidan Ylocos Festival, this is to show the treasures of the people to the whole world, it is also a time to commemorate the anniversary of Ilocos Sur as a province since it was separated on the year 1818.             Tradition is a belief, which symbolizes the group itself, that is passed down from a group of people to generations. Tradition gives comfort and a feeling of belongingness. It also improves and strengthen the values, freedom, faith and integrity and also responsibilities.   The celebration of Kannawidan Ylocos Festival is not as energetic as from the...

  What is the factor that makes the Philippines different from other countries? There are quite few things but this topic will talk about the cultures of the Philippines. People from our country love to celebrate certain things and one of the most known way is through festivals. Festival is an event that is celebrated by people and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures.             Due to the spreading of the Covid-19, it has created some challenges like maintaining social distancing and wearing face masks to avoid further spreading of the virus. Festivals in the middle of crisis are most likely to be not energetic as it is used to be in the years that have passed. Celebration of Fiestas in Vigan city amidst the Pandemic leaves a message to everyone that we should perpetuate things about culture despite having challenges to face how heavy it may be.     ...

              It’s about that time of year again. These part of year, people will start making some lists of “to do” for specifically this year, for example, changing diet routine to get more fit and maintain the mental and physical body remain healthy. As for me, I don’t really have that much of character development that was given by me the past year 2020 and I want to change the fact that I wasn’t productive that year by studying more about things that interest me.             Having a motivation to change for next year is good but make sure to keep your goals reachable and realistic. Thinking realistic will help you because thinking positive is not always good because you’ll keep expecting things to go right on your plan. Having a realistic mind will help you accept yourself and failures more and avoid negative emotions to come for your daily life like disappointment ...

              Philippines is on the verge of falling. We only have limited moves left in order to grasp the opportunity to escape the falling economy but that also means that a wrong move can affect the future possibilities and that can lead us to a poor economy.             Our country is in need of the help of other countries in order to succeed. Having allies and fighting with them is better than going through hardships alone. North Korea is an example of going alone is not good. According to Wikipedia, it is estimated that 60% of their population lives below the poverty line and that is a really big number. We need to develop relationships with other countries and have a give and take relationship since both of the countries will benefit from it. We also need to help our President to help decrease the crime rate of our country so we’ll have lesser burden.      ...