Finding Apollinaris [who is he anyway?]

"...a journey of a lifetime embarks a remarkable lesson..."

...and cut!Apollinaris,not so familiar right? I have to confess, Apollinaris is a brand name of a bottled water in Germany. Last week, our English professor told us to bring magazines, pens, etc. for we were going to make a story out of the magazines we have. We will just have to choose five pictures , and one sentence for each photo and that's it! It was so hard to make a story with only five sentences.And use the present and future tense. A group work-and I was with Joilene,Florie and Patrick. Thank God, Joilene has lots of magazines, only that they were in German. We were just cutting pictures and Patrick mentioned Finding Nemo, at that moment, Florie was pointing on the bottled water with the name Apollinaris and thought that it was a nice name. Together, we come up with the title "FINDING APOLLINARIS". I wrote the storyline and it's not so good since I'm working under time pressure and it usually ends up into a not so beautiful plot. Anyway, the picture above is the front page of our work. It's folded and the pictures are inside.Just like this:

so this is the story:

As the sun sets in the city, Apollinaris, a prominent Engineer is about to start his journey in searching for his real identity and discern the real essence of life for his heart feels so lost abd incomplete.

His mind becomes a battlefield between opposing decisions whenever he is torn between choices, but because of his great passion in learning life's precious lessons, he goes on, not knowing where his feet will lead him.

Beyond the woods in the mountain, he sees and talks with a native tribe who shows him that their life is difficult for they have to suffer and take the risks in order to attain what they need, and he realize how he always takes for granted all the blessings and bounty that he recieve.

He reaches places he never thought he would and he thinks that he wants to travel more because through this journey, he comes to know his self better, until the prairie and flowers welcome him as he sees a little girl picking flowers to make her mother happy, finally he decides to go home for he too has a family who will only be happy when he returns.

(i took this when we were climbing the mountain in Maasin)

He(Apollinaris) goes back to the place he calls his comfort zone and learns that in the road of life, there are twists and turns, but in order to handle those obstacles, one has to know the real person within.

the mystery of TODAY

today is the current day, the day after yesterday, the day before tomorrow. so what made me say that the word and TODAY itself is a mystery? In English, we know that we can use the past,present and future tense as the time expression of today, while we can only use the past tense for what has happened yesterday and the future tense for what will happen tomorrow. See how flexible TODAY is. The synonym of the word TODAY is present. No, it isn't a coincidence. Today is actuaLLy a PRESENT from God. Live it just as how God wants it to be. A day with Janene would be a prayer in the morning when I wake up and another prayer at night before I sleep. This days, I noticed how my life changed, how I was changed and I am being changed. I myself can believe it either. I can't exactly say all the things God gave and entrusted to my life, there are countless of them. I am just greatful how His mercies and love knock at my door every morning, the moment I wake up. He is endless, the beginning, the end, the God of yesterday, TODAY and tomorrow.

"As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive."-Genesis 50:20

Packaging Engineering-what's it all about?

some packaged materials from deviantart.

I'm pretty sure that almost everyone I am with, knows that I am taking Packaging Engineering as my career in the future. But what's funny is, whenever a friend or a relative asks me what my course is all about, I just laugh and say "gapamutos ah". I can't answer it in a straight and "decent" way. One time, my tito asked what the real nature and opportunities my course has and I was just like, saying stuffs about products and so on and so forth. So what is it really all about? Since its the first and only course offered in the Philippines, not everyone is familiar with it.
One time, our Engr124(Engineering Design Project Class) teacher asked each of us why we didn't take up any other course other than Engineering. And Sir Bernie asked me "Why didn't you just become a professional ballet dancer?" I was surprised, not expecting that the question would be like that.
According to Wikipedia it is a broad topic ranging from design conceptualization to product placement. All steps along the manufacturing process, and more, must be taken into account in the design of the package for any given product. Package engineering includes industry-specific aspects of industrial engineering, marketing, materials science, industrial design and logistics. Packaging engineers must interact with Research & Development, Manufacturing, Marketing, Graphic Design, Regulatory, Purchasing, Planning and so on. The package must sell and protect the product, while maintaining an efficient, cost-effective process cycle.
All Packaging Engineers are under one organization and that is known to us as the Institute of Packaging Professionals(IOPP) which is an international org. I am already a part of it, but NOT officially. I still have to pass Sophomore year and take a qualifying exam for me to be worthy to be called a part of it.

"The Institute of Packaging Professionals is dedicated to creating networking and educational opportunities that help packaging professionals succeed. IoPP is dedicated to the proposition that packaging is a positive, environmentally responsible and economically efficient force, operating in a modern economic society for the benefit and improved well-being of its people.IoPP is operated by individuals with a high standard of ethical conduct in all affairs, within budget and with cost controls to effect fiscal responsibility."

Mission Statement:
The Institute of Packaging Professionals is dedicated to creating networking and educational opportunities that help packaging professionals succeed.

Vision:
IoPP will be the central unifying force in packaging for the benefit of its members, the packaging community and society.

Core Values:
IoPP is dedicated to the proposition that packaging is a positive, environmentally responsible and economically efficient force, operating in a modern economic society for the benefit and improved well-being of its people.

IoPP is committed to leadership in packaging through the continuing education and growth of its members and other packaging professionals.

IoPP is operated with rigorous quality standards, reinforced by continuous improvement and growth in the organization, its activities and operations.

IoPP is working with a dedicated team of volunteer leaders and employed staff, which collaborate efficiently and effectively for the betterment of packaging, the packaging community, IoPP and all of us as individuals; IoPP is maintaining timely and efficient communications among themselves and all other interested parties.

IoPP is operated by individuals with a high standard of ethical conduct in all affairs, within budget and with cost controls to effect fiscal responsibility.


what about that?lolz.

let me show you some of my favorite packages(courtesy of deviantart)

This is a pen holder and its so cool.i like the design,its refreshing.
I would love to do something like this in the futrure.

An Acrylic Paint package, what makes this paint attractive is because there are
corresponding adjectives in every color so one can remember it.




ants-resistant!



this will absolutely inspire buyers.
Package designs for lucite pendants.

chocolate package for kids!
its colorful and it has a rainbow.so like my favorite.



this Chan don package really looks classy and stylish.
i love this too.



the shape of the bottle is perfect.
there's an Apple Square, Orange Square,
Pomegrenate Square and Canteloupe Square.

Kevin Carter Died on JuLy 27[my birthday]

Visiting Sudan, a little-known photographer took a picture that made the world weep. What happened afterward is a tragedy of another sort. ...



This photo was taken by Kevin Carter on March 1,1993 who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994.
The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards the United Nations food camp, which is located a kilometer away! The Vulture(which we all know, is a scavenger) is just waiting for the Sudanese girl to die and be eaten by it. No one knew what happened to the child, including Kevin Carter who just LEFT! after taking the picture. This shot shocked the whole world and three months later, Kevin died due to depression.

As I was scanning the pictures I had, I remembered one of the photo which Pastor Chris showed us during the Christ Emphasis Week in High School. The picture above is absolutely one of the little things that give me sorrow and questions. Its so sad to think, that the situation in the picture does not only happen once, but many times and here I am, just writing about what I feel when in fact many children (right now) are suffering. How I wish I was Kevin, I could have extended help to the little girl or maybe gave her food.I read about Kevin Carter's death and he died on the day I was celebrating my 3rd birthday.=(

Sept. 13, 1960-July 27, 1994

Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."

How could a man who had moved so many people with his work end up a suicide so soon after his great triumph?

DEPRESSION.On the morning of Wednesday, July 27, the last day of his life, Carter appeared cheerful.At around 9 p.m., Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using the knapsack as a pillow.The suicide note he left behind is a litany of nightmares and dark visions, a clutching attempt at autobiography, self-analysis, explanation, excuse. After coming home from New York, he wrote, he was "depressed . . . without phone . . . money for rent . . . money for child support . . . money for debts . . . money!!! . . . I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain . . . of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners . . . " And then this: "I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."

credit:http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/kevin_carter/sudan_child.htm

Save the Earth

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.~ Kofi Annan

A series of shots from my breakaway trips in Guimaras. I'm sorry but I am not using a professional camera, just an ordinary one. The photos I took are simply reflections of what we have and what is left. I hope that in a number of ways, each of us contribute a significant help in order to preserve the seas. woaw, I am so like an Ocean Warrior here, but I think, we all should be!

"Ooh ocean warriors...

There is still time to change this.

It's never too late to make a positive change.

Never too late." Pato Banton

oopsie. i can't upload other pictures. but take part in saving our seas:

Save the Seas

I want to share a video, by Chris Daughtry,( one of my favorite artists). It's his music video of What About Now? which totally gives me goosebumps. We are not really aware of this, but TODAY, in the corner of the world, someone is hungry, hurting and homeless. "Can we make a difference?" And I think each of us should be saying " I AM THE DIFFERENCE...I am a different path, I am the wave of compassion, I am the end of Ignorance, I am the heart that keeps a child, alive, I AM THE DREAM THAT BECOMES REALITY."

See the Video