Loyalty Is Hard To Find

Loyalty can always be difficult to get from somebody. It will take a lifetime for us in order to gain that word. There can never be a payment for a loyal person for he is being it with all his heart. No matter how hard you will force a person not to do things, if he is truly in a thing, he can always find a way in order to do such deed, and that is loyalty. But, does loyalty still exist today?

Hachiko, an Akita who lived in Tokyo, was extremely loyal to his master, Professor Hidesamuro Ueno. He waited every day for Ueno to return from work, meeting him at the train station at four o’clock. In 1925, Ueno suffered a stroke at work and died. Still, Hachiko went to the station every day at four and searched through the crowd for his master. Every day. For ten years. Which was the rest of his life? Upon his death in 1935, Hachiko was a national celebrity. His remains were stuffed and put on display at the National Science Museum in Tokyo. A statue of Hachiko stands at Shibuya Station as a tribute to the dog’s unwavering loyalty

In 1942, a professor Hidesaburo Ueno from the University of Tokyo brought his dog, Hachiko, to live with him. The two developed a routine, where the dog would see the professor off at his home and then meet him at the Shibuya train station later. Then one day, the professor didn't show up at the train station. He'd had a stroke at the university and died. Hachiko was given away to another owner, but he would often escape and turn up at his old home. The dog must have eventually realized that Ueno wasn't coming home, and so he went to look for him at the train station. For ten years, Hachiko would arrive at the train station exactly when the evening train showed up and would wait for his former owner. Other commuters noticed the loyal pooch and began to bring him food and snacks. He even gained national attention when a former student of Ueno's published several articles about him. One artist even built and erected a bronze statue of the dog while he was still alive. Hachiko died in 1935, but his legend continues to live on in Japan.

By that , does it ever crossed your mind that animals are much worthy than a person who doesn’t have this value?

Some people are just good and kind to us if they also need help or favour from us. But if time come to us that we are down and can’t get back off, they disappear as faster than the wind.

Think again.

Tecnology Vs. Value System

Breathing the air for now, we can sense that indeed, it is a modern world. In every twists and turns of our head, from the moment we open our eyes in every morning, and even until we close it to rest, technology will always be a part of our day. Some may even say that can’t live life fully if they can’t open a single SMS in their mobile phones, and more if they can’t update their Facebook account in the internet. We are slowly eaten by the technology but we can’t even manage to see what is very obvious. Our value system is the being affected by those stuffs and frankly, we are not even doing any action about it.

In dictionary meaning, technology is an applied science. It is a science at work. When we say technolog, the most common that comes to one’s mind are high-tech cellphones, powerful computers, sexy cars, and almost everything modern in this world that makes our life “easy”. On the other hand,media is the channel of communications in our daily living. It may come in the form of television, radios, newspaper, and any device that can transmit information for communications. Since we are in the modern age, we now live with almost everything is served instantly from households to almost anything we need. Even if you go and test the fact that if you check to someone’s bag, you can always find at least a phone. That is totally proven for now. By the use of media, we are greatly influenced by the new trend of things in the market. Plus, the attitude of that we should never be late to things, it may result to a total difference.

Value system in our country is the attitude of giving respect to someone older or to any person around us. Now, it is the one being rotten because of technology and media. If not because of those stuffs, we might still hear and see more often kids saying “Mano po, Lolo”, or “Salamat po”. We can honestly say that we are now losing the tradition of respect of the old Filipinos. We should never let it drift because it is one of our treasures that other country doesn’t have. We should do something. Not tomorrow, not later, nut this time.

Ghosts: True or False?

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Goosebumps. It is a always a very haunting experience to hear weird sounds at night and even more creepier if that happened at times we are alone. Some may even exaggerate that they can afford to reach the point to exclaim that they had seen ghostly images, but is it always the case or it is just a work of external factors that made them perceive such things?

Back when the clock started ticking, there were enumerable accounts of tell-tale stories about scary encounters of these human-figured images which we all know for today as “ghosts”. Generally, most people coined these unclear images as “disembodied soul” of a being that had a unfinished matter in this living world. For example, if someone dies aguishly of murder or any unpleasant cause of his death, his or her soul will come back in order to have revenge to the person who killed him. According to some accounts, these souls go along with us in this world watching us for whatever we do, but we can’t see them anytime. Their revenge may come in a form of never-ending visitation or somewhat like a haunting and they can only be stopped if the person who took his or her life will suffer the same fate. According to paranormal experts, these souls which we commonly known for today has two types. One is the good one who sometimes helps other living people by giving them warning to dangers that will come or by providing them good luck to certain things to the person they have befriended with, another is that what we call as “poltergeists” or the brute type which actually do hurt people by hitting them with something.

However, there are also people who believed that those that they call as ghost do not exist. In fact, some experts conducted a research about why some claim that they had seen a ghost that somehow can be proven.

A human brain is a very complex organ of the human body. This is where the “thinking” that happens. It is capable of concluding things that is not clear for us. Research shows that people living in places near an airport or train rails where it passes trough experience to what we call as “infrasounds”. The brain cannot identify this kind of noise for it is very minute in loudness. Thus, the brain will give false interpretations to that. In effect, we will start now to think if things which we usually exaggerate. For example, a simple movement of a curtain can be incorrectly interpreted as a ghost. Noise caused by thing or any devices are not the only reasons to produce infrasounds. For those people who lived in isolated place, animals can produce the same sounds which also have the same effect to the brain,and again, there can be wrong interpretations by the brain.

However, to some people, such experience may be very true to them and that what they see as real, we should also respect their point of view. We should also consider for now that there are still things that science alone cannot explain.

IIT SEPARATION STILL GOING ON

According to some students that had been interviewed, the issue of separation of IIT from the MSU system is thought to be done. However, they were shocked of this controversy that it is pulled back again.

IIT is being counted as one of the top performing schools in the Philippines, and still aiming for more improvement. However, if this institution will be wanting a faster development, this only means that it should have independent source of financial terms. In order to do this, the current solution for this is to separate IIT from the MSU system, in order to have direct budget on its own that doesn’t pass through the main campus of MSU, which is very alarming to the people of the mentioned school.

There are some, who are in favor of this resolution, for them, they think that it will be the key for this university to grow stronger. But for the other side, staying a part of the system is suggested; carrying the name MSU is better than going out in the belt of MSU after it had been fed to be known nationwide.

One should also consider the fact that the name MSU-IIT had been imprinted already to be a portal of quality education. There might be a huge impact to the school if there will be no proper steps to be conducted for this important case.

This current matter about the transformation of IIT to INU (Iligan National University) is being studied.