Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Adapting to Diverse Science Culture for Development

More or less, this present community can be called as a developed one since our daily lives are now filled with advanced technologies brought about by science. If we are going to look back in time, our fore-fathers in science were able to come up with such amazing works and principles that were later derived into the production of machines and cool gadgets. The pursuit for development by these scientists wasn't easy though. During their times, there were a lot of established scientific laws and principles that are by this time considered wrong.But,our grandpas of science, though have debanked most of these laws were open-minded to the scientific philosophies that prevailed in thier times. They tried to dig more out of these "boxes of knowledge", adapted to it and... I guess we just have to look around us to see the fruits of their historic labor.

We are not inferior to these oldies if our capability to think of development-propelling ideas matter. We can always come up with cool ideas in science. These ideas may even lead to greater things our grandpa's could never imagine. And, adapting to the different scientific traditions, cultures and trends of thought is I think, a great help in guiding our ideas to its fulfillment-it's not just for the theme's sake really, it's 100% TRUE! :) Being open-minded to others' ideas is one simple way of adapting science cultures we can start with. And in my opinion, doing it so may someday lead to unimaginable margins of progress!

So, let's start adapting now! Be flexible, be open-minded and be a maker of development!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Our Language's Journey to Stardom :)

Who among you bloggers have already watched the film Baler? Maybe you have been amazed by the cinematography, the classic love story plot and the talents of Anne and Echo in acting their roles for the movie. Well, that's not the film's idea I wanted you to share in this blog. It's the struggles and sacrifices of the Filipino soldiers who fought for our rights and that they did all they can do to pave way for our Language's growth. It was on that little town of Baler did our own language anchored its roots and slowly but surely, was nurtured and gardened by our leaders to bloom its way to the entire nation.

But our language's journey to popularization didn't have any easy, smooth sail ride though. By the time the Americans came to our country, schools everywhere in the Philippines were using English as their conversation media. The Americans may have brought good tidings to our country's economy but the bad side was, our native tongue kept shut. Luckily we had one brave soul who gave hope of our language's rise to popularity; that was President Manuel L. Quezon. He bridged the gaps among the thousand islands of the country and spread the word, our word to the whole country.

Our leaders and heroes have done a lot of things for the country in terms of majoritizing our language. And we are now enjoying thier fruits of labor. As a way of paying back all their sacrifices, we must speak the Filipino language anytime, anywhere and in our own little ways, we must influence others to "talk our talk." For short, we must use it, love it and be proud of it. Let's tell the world that we speak Filipino! Long-live the Filipino language!