Tuesday, January 9, 2024

My work output for BigaTEN DepEd X Season 4 (Teaser)

Teaser of BigaTEN DepEd X Season 4, s. 2023

 
 
 My sample poster


Embracing the Dual Role: Teacher and Graphic Designer

Monday, January 8, 2024

Bon appétit to the exciting journey of menu design at Borj2go!

  
In the realm of menu design, every element plays a crucial role. From the carefully selected typography that sets the tone to the color palette that evokes a mood, each choice contributes to the narrative we wish to convey. The layout becomes a canvas, and the dishes, brushstrokes that paint a picture of culinary delight.
 
  







 

Two equally fulfilling roles—teacher and graphic designer

As I reflect on the intricate tapestry of my professional journey, I find myself standing at the intersection of two equally fulfilling roles—teacher and graphic designer. Today, I want to express gratitude to the creative educator within, who seamlessly weaves the threads of knowledge and design.

Here are my some work samples:








January 8, 2024 - Multi-awarded Editor


As I pen down these words, I am filled with an overwhelming sense of gratitude and pride. Today, I take a moment to appreciate the journey I have traversed and the milestones I have achieved.

I appreciate the creativity that sparks within me, the curiosity that fuels my learning, and the passion that breathes life into my endeavors. Each achievement is a testament to the dedication invested, the lessons learned, and the continuous pursuit of excellence.

Through the highs and lows, victories and setbacks, I've learned that every experience has played a crucial role in shaping my character. I am grateful for the resilience that resides in my core, propelling me forward even when the path seemed daunting.

Dear self, thank you for your hard work, your tenacity, and your unyielding belief in the possibilities that lie ahead. As we celebrate these achievements, let's also look forward to the exciting journeys and discoveries that await on the horizon.

Thank you DEPED Region X, Division of El Salvador City and to Ma'am Jade Cacayan.

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Sunday, January 30, 2022

El Salvador City Central School located in Zone 3 Poblacion, El Salvador City Misamis Oriental, the city of Saviour

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Photo taken at Monastery of the Transfiguration located at Malaybalay City, Bukidnon









Thursday, August 6, 2015

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” 
                                                           – Dennis P. Kimbro

Saturday, July 26, 2014

My life as a Teacher




"A good Teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way of others."

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Live Without Pretending

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
Live without pretending... Live a life full of being yourself, and yourself only. Life is way too short to try and live as someone else. Make the decisions that best represent you, and who you really are at your heart's deepest levels, never succumb to the pressures of society and the people around you in regards to making decisions that aren't representative of decisions that you want to make.

Love without depending... Make sure the relationships that you enter into help build both you and the other person involved. If a relationship is unequally yoked one person will always get the short end of the stick while the other may be getting more than they deserve.

Listen without defending... There will come times in everyone's life that they are offered criticisms that will help them to build. This is the kind of criticism we have to be able to hear and listen to so that we may possibly reach our potential.

Speak without offending. Make great efforts not to offend, and keep in mind if you have nothing constructive to say to help a person, maybe it is something that just shouldn't be said at all.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

TEACHER ♥

The Teacher
She must wake up early in the morning
To do her chores especially the cooking
She must rush to school to be in duty
Or else she might be tardy

She must do her lesson plan
And must cope up with the Deadlines
She must do all the works
Even if it is late and dark

The students are noisy, what a mess?
They don't listen , what a nuisance
They get zero during speed test or quizzes
And if they fail they protest

Oh! How difficult to be a teacher
So many works like a researcher
No time to enjoy life luxuries
They must work for the students future

Friends , let us understand how a teacher be
Always teaching like a bee
We must consider their hardships
To have good student for worthy leaderships.
 
 
~A poem to all teacher~

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

Every Decision You Make Affects Your Life

Even one small drop can make a ripple in the water, and one small decision can affect your life in the simplest way.
The decisions that we make on a daily basis are the decisions that make our legacies, if we are even making one at all. Are you deciding to become better each day? Do you continually raise your standards, and set the bar higher and higher for yourself as each day comes to you? Or do you follow the same routine daily, and sit and wait for something in life to come to you, to change your life?

If you do the latter, then chances are, you may never make it to the places in life that you are destined to enter into. When we think about our own lives, we have to kind of compare them to things that are alive as well. For instance, if a plant isn't growing and thriving, what else could it be doing but turning brown, losing its necessary nutrients to thrive, so that it may only start the process of dying.

If you aren't growing and becoming better in everything that you do each day, then you, like the plant, are just on your way to dying. Start living, thrive, take humungous action each day, and use your faith in God to guide you!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Life is what we make it!


Life is a journey we take
its a hill we climb
a river we swim
a ground we play
and a road we tread;

Life is a shelter of storms
shaken by thunder when it rains
shattered into pieces by strong winds
and oftentimes, drown in raging waves;

But life is also a rainbow after the rain
when sun shines after a day of doom
spreading rays of beaming hope
painting a smile on a face of gloom;

It’s what life really is…
a spice of smile and tears
a blend of fate, triumph and loss
but always, a magic of love and hope

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Whitewater Rafting In Cagayan de Oro





Whitewater Rafting In Cagayan de Oro

Whitewater Rafting is a recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid 1970s.

Whitewater Rafting in the Philippines

Tracing back the roots:

Whitewater Rafting in the Philippines originally started as a “hobby” by a group of outdoor sports enthusiasts organized by the Cagayan de Oro Whitewater Rafting Adventure (CDOWRRA) sometime in the month of June year 1995 led by Mr. Rupert M. Domingo and his group with the goal of introducing whitewater rafting sport in the country. However, the group has been involved in river expeditions and explorations; it took 10 years for Mr. Domingo and his partner Julius Bioco to transform their passion into a thriving business serving local and foreign clients. From 1985 to 1995, they surveyed the river by sections, making repeated crossing on inflated tire tubes or crude floats made of banana trunks. Painstakingly, they identified the different channels and stretches of the river. Studying the characteristics and honing their skills in paddling the wild rapids of Cagayan de Oro River to perfection.

Cagayan de Oro Whitewater Rafting

Cagayan de Oro City is home to some of the most scenic and exhilarating whitewater rafting and dubbed as the “adventure capital” in the Philippines.

Rafting Adventure Philippines (RAP) formerly the Cagayan de Oro Whitewater rafting Adventure (CDOWWRA), the PIONEER and most respected Cagayan de Oro river rafting outfitter, has been providing top quality river rafting trips since 1995. A whitewater rafting trip combined with any of the area’s many outdoor activities; provide the basis for a fun and memorable vacation. On our river rafting trips, you will meet other people who enjoy being outdoors along the spectacular Cagayan de Oro River, bask in the splendor of the lust vegetation scenery, pause for a moment while cruising the calm waters and embrace Mother Nature, and have time to mingle with the friendliest river guides to enjoy a Cagayan de Oro river rafting adventure.

It is the gateway of the northern Mindanao. This Philippine city resembled something close to a picturesque, rural town just a few years back. In recent days though, Cagayan de Oro – or CDO, as most of the other Pinoys are wont to call it – has experienced a rather startling makeover, pushing the bar between a rural-urban hybrids, where downtown certainly looks the part while the suburbs are the most secluded gated subdivisions one could ever try trekking to.

The heart of the city harnesses a serene welcome of suburban people. A simple jeep ride is enough to demonstrate this fact. From the downtown divider Divisoria, a jeep en route to the airport takes you up Carmen Hill, a sprawling mini-mountain with impressive scenery and natural formations such as the Historic Macahambus Cave and Macahambus Adventure Park in the barangay of Lumbia. Nearby is the Ateneo de Cagayan college of Agriculture, which can give you a view of expansive tracts of land geared towards the development of agri-tech expertise in the country.

Apparently, there are few things that the City is famous for…


source of:

http://www.raftingadventurephilippines.com/whitewater-rafting-cagayandeoro.html

Thursday, August 4, 2011

This is my life


Life defines in Metabolism,
In reproduction,
we make our miniature selves,
our look alike
In the power of adaptation,
like what is in now,
What is fashionable,
how I blend with all of you
How I mimic you,
how I become a clown to you,

Life in being nice
This is my life A short and a merry one
This my life In the middle of my own life
To life,
a life,
in the hope of discovering the meaning of my life,
My speech my poetry
Come to life with me
To the life,
for the life of one like me,
Not taking this life in my own hands,
Never,
never,
To life,
this is life
As big as life
as large as life is large
In resiliency,
in elasticity
Animations, cartooning, animate,
I vivify
I vilify
I quicken
I liken
The life force in my life’s functions
Drawn from life
to life drawn
Dream to life a life full of dreams
This liveliness, this sparkle
This effervescence of life,
this bubbling life like wine
This sprightliness like soft
Drink like energy drinks
This verve,
this vigor
this vivacity
Of life to life as big as life
My life
This is my life
This me I am life
I am energy
i am in this poem trying to run
away from everything in my life,
running in life
to life and life,
because of life,
for life.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Ecosystem Services and Sustainability


What are Ecosystem Services?

Most of us spend the bulk of our lives in human-made houses, office buildings, factories, cars, and other artificial environments that insulate us from raw nature.


  • Control and moderate.
  • Provide us with and renew air, water, and soil.
  • Recycle vital nutrients through chemical cycling.
  • Provide us with renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and nonrenewable minerals.
  • Furnish us with food, fiber, medicines, timber, and paper.
  • Pollinate crops and other plant species.
  • Absorb, dilute, or detoxify many pollutants and toxic chemicals.
  • Help control populations of pests and disease organisms.
  • Slow soil erosion and help prevent flooding.
  • Provide the biodiversity of genes and species needed to adapt to ever-changing environmental conditions through evolution and genetic engineering.


Why is Biodiversity such an important Ecosystem Service?

The result of these changes is Biological Diversity or Biodiversity : the many forms of life the conditions currently found on earth.

  • Genetic Diversity

  • Species Diversity

  • Ecological diversity


Another term for diversity is wildness : the existence of wild gene pools, species, and ecosystems that are completely or mostly undistributed by human activities.


What are the two basic principles of Ecosystem Sustainability?

      1. By using renewable solar energy as their energy source and...

      2. By recycling reasonably efficiently the nutrients its organisms need for survival, growth, and reproduction .

Why is an understanding of Ecology essential for Environmental Studies?

We have seen that the essential features of the living and nonliving parts of individual ecosystems, and of the ecosphere as a whole, are interdependence and connectedness. Without the services performed by diverse communities of species, we would be starving, gasping for breath and drowning in our own wastes.


The problem of human future range far beyond ecology, yet ecology is an essential part of them.”

- Robert H. Whitaker



Prepared by:

MELANIE BERNDETTE BORJA

BEED-SPED3C


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

ICT Policy For Kenya

WHAT ARE ICTs?

ICTs ARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR:

• PROCESSING INFORMATION (PRESENTING IT IN VARIOUS FORMS, STORING IT, SEARCHING FOR IT, REPRODUCING IT, ETC.)

• TRANSMITTING INFORMATION FROM ONE GEOGRAPHICAL POINT TO ANOTHER, FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER, TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE OR TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY


ICT Policy For Kenya

Scope of ICTs

Traditional ICTs

• The Printed Book

• Postal Service

• The Printed Press

• Film

• Radio and Television

• Recorded Music



ICT Policy For Kenya

New ICTs

• Telecommunications

• Computers

• The Internet



ICT Policy For Kenya

Convergence

  • Technologies for the processing and transmission of information have began to use the same language or convergent.

  • This is as a result of the process of digitalisation.



What is an ICT Policy?

• A policy is a program of planned activities to achieve a set of objectives.

• In many countries, national policies are formulated to achieve national development goals.



Why an ICT Policy?

• “PUBLIC INTEREST”

• Economic, Political and Social Cultural functions



Scope of an ICT Policy?

ICT policy so as to apply to one or more categories of ICTs.

• A sectoral basis such as health, education or agriculture – sometimes referred to as vertical policies.




How Policies Formulated?

Policy-making is a process

normally involves the expression of conflicting interests.

• It is convenient to think of such interests as being represented by “actorswho engage in debate and decision-making.

• in appropriate locations or “fora” where decisions are made.



How is it implemented?

• Policies have to be expressed in specific rules or regulations which can be applied to guide and control activities of ICTs on practical basis.

Regulations are devices for solving or avoiding some particular problem or issue of ICT Policy.

• They change their character and salience over time and from place to place.



How should is it Monitored?

• Policy - Why

• Strategy - What

• Implementation – How


How should is it Monitored?

• Not with standing the reasons why a country may select such objectives, in any particular sector or area, policies, strategies and implementation plans are respective responses to three main questions: why? What? And how.