Kailangang natin nang ingles?

Puwede ba kaming magsulat nang pamatayan ingles? Kailangang natin nang ingles? Sa isip ko hindi natin kailangang. Sabe dao puwede tayo mag isip pag hindi natin alam paano mag usap. Kami ang pamamahagi sa lahat ng wika. Lahat nang tao merong filisofi. Hindi kailanang mag usap nang ingles. Kahit na merong ingles na libro sa eskuwela merong tagalog na libro rin. Lahat na libro na kailanging natin hidni Ingles. Pag meron tao atchkat nag iisip si la, merong filisofio.  Dati walang ingles. Yon libro na alam natin ay hindi ingles. Bago lang yon. Hindi kaialanging nang ingles pero mas ma hirap yon iba. Ang sa ingles ang gusali na ang pag iisip. Masma buti ang Taglog makipag usap na sa sulat. Ma hirap mag sulat na ma talino na filisofio sa Tagalog. Yong ingles mas ma buti sa mag sulat sa eskuwela. Atchacat mas ma galing and ingles sa mag usap na ma hirap na iisip. 

Writing in my standard tongue is actually quite weird and confusing. I grew up speaking Tagalog and continue to speak it at home everyday. Outside of home I don't really use Tagalog. I don't speak Tagalog to anyone besides my parents on a daily basis. So writing this was kind of weird for me. I've always spoken Tagalog. I can speak fluently, but this is my first time ever writing something in Tagalog. I was still able to communicate meaningful ideas but it was basic and much harder than Standard English. On the several trips I took to the Philippines, my Tagalog dramatically improved. Speaking it there was much different and easier than speaking here. I got a real sense of how my family lives over there by speaking it. We have normal conversations all the time but I've never had a deep philosophical conversation in Tagalog. I'm sure people have them, but over there most of my family spoke English too. They are required to take English in school. They learn how to speak and write fluently in English. I feel like English is much more easy to use to communicate. English has specific rules you have to follow so if you don't follow the pattern/structure, whatever you're saying doesn't make sense. In Tagalog, as well as other languages, this order doesn't matter. If you were to translate what I wrote in English the words would be all over the place and not in order. You would only understand if you spoke Tagalog. Also some of the words may not be able to be translated. There are over 70 different dialects of Tagalog. The one you use depends on where you live. Even though my parents are both from the Philippines, they grew up speaking a different language. This can be really confusing sometimes when one word means something else in a different dialect. Someone who speaks a different dialect could think I am trying to say a different word. This makes it hard/confusing to effectively communicate. There are many shortcuts and different ways to say one word. Although we don't need it, Standard English helps out a lot.

Samurai Jack

Back in my childhood I would wake up early on Saturday and Sunday morning to watch cartoons. I didn't have a phone or an alarm clock back then so sometimes I would wake up late. When this would happen I would rush to check the time and see if I missed some of my shows. I would have to wait a whole week to watch the show that I missed. One of these shows was Samurai Jack. Years later I've noticed things that would've never caught my eye as a child.

Samurai Jack is about a warrior who fights an evil wizard named Aku. This appears to be a short form of the word for Demon/Devil in Japanese, which is Akuma. Right before he defeats him in their first fight, Aku uses his magic to send Jack far into the future. The first episode starts with Jack being a young boy being taken care of by his dad. Jack's home looks like a Japanese temple surrounded by many other temples. It appears that he lives in somewhere in Asia (probably Japan) in times before technology. The people there are one shade tanner than pale.Everyone there has the same oval shaped black eyes and black hair. The men have slight differences in hair style, but all have a short ponytail sticking up. There is a resemblance between every male including young Jack. Jack is sent across the world to train to become a samurai and defeat Aku. Every time he travels to a new place there is a symbol of his true location in the real world.

Before Jack arrives at his one of the places to train, we see a giraffes indicating that he is in Africa. The first person who trains him is black. He is completely black except for his white beard and the whites for his eyes. He wears only shorts. Then we see the Egyptian temples and meet Jack's new teacher, an Egyptian scholar. In all the places Jack goes to, everyone looks the same besides him. There is no diversity. This resembles the past before different people lived together.

Throughout all the episodes the theme is Jack fighting righteously against the evil. Jack learned from the best warriors from the world and has a talent for fighting. He always helped the weaker people even if he didn't benefit from it. In one fight, Jack gave up the chance of travelling back into his normal time back to his home in order to let a group of people escape Aku's forces freely. He frees a a species from slavery. Without him they would suffer until they became no more. Jack always uses his abilities to help those without the power to save himself. Although this show is a little bit violent, it builds the value of helping other into kids minds. It reinforces the idea of using your talents to help others who aren't as fortunate. This message will constantly pop up as you watch Samurai Jack defeat evil.

My Cousins Room

When you first walk in you'll see a neatly made bed with a polar bear in the middle of organized pillows. Once you're inside your eyes will be drawn to a display of lego action figures set up as in they were in the middle of a battle. Everything is in place. If you rotate 360 degrees around you'll see a room painted light blue complimented with an all white ceiling. It's almost as if you're looking into the sky. Inside this light blue room a dresser with hats organized by color on top, a mirror behind the dresser, a desk free of clutter, picture frames on top of the desk, a closet (with clothes sorted by color), a mini basketball hoop, a tv on a stand, a playstation and playstation games, 3 skateboards hung on his wall and a collection of at least 50 clean different pairs of shoes.

If you had no idea who my cousin was, you could learn a lot about him by just looking at his room. You could find out his interests and be able to tell what kind of person he is. Definitely not a messy one. I've never seen his room messy. Not once. Not even a little bit. Everything is always in place. Always clean and always organized. You would be able to tell that my cousin spends a lot of time cleaning and spent a lot of time setting up his room. You would learn that my cousin likes legos, basketball, skateboards, and plays video games. Sounds like a normal guy.

The visual argument of the room is that my cousin is a neat freak and values aesthetics. Every single part of the room was well planned out and organized. All his clothes and hats are color coded. It's pleasing to the eye. This shows that my cousin values the beauty of looking at things. You would be able to tell he color coordinates his outfits and cares how he and his room looks. The room is making an argument that he loves or enjoys cleaning and is unsatisfied if his room isn't clean. A clean beautiful room is the standard for him. Anything dirty isn't accepted.