All in(Tanaga)

All in

I'll roll the die, play or pass?

Shuffle the cards, take your chance

Lay your chips, make sure you'll win;

Because I'll give my all-in.

-Lara Christina M. Vizarra-

To Ma'am Eduarte and my Hum014 classmates,

I just want to make some clarifications about the poem I recited on class last Saturday. It was Henry "Wadsworth" Long fellow who wrote Psalm of Life and not William "Wordsworth". I got confused with their names. Again I'm sorry... There's one poem that I'm really sure that William Wordsworth wrote, entitled "I Wandered Lonely as Cloud" I recited this poem when I was on my fifth grade and I just want to share this poem to all of you. This is one of my favorite poems that I've recited.I hope you like it too.

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
("The Daffodils")

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending linealong the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced;
but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,in such a jocund company:I
gazed - and gazed - but little thoughtwhat wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

This poem was first published in 1807 and was revised in 1815.

Reference:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud)

Thanks for your kind consideration! See you on Tuesday!!!

A Servant Girl

The story was great. It's very real, very dramatic,very Filipino! I said "real" because like Rosa, the protagonist in the story, we have our own trials and sufferings. Our parents, bosses and mentors often times, scold us like Rosa's amo. Everytime that Rosa will make a mistake without any words her amo will spank and beat her. Sometimes when we fall down we think that nobody will help us to rise agin but we're wrong because there's always somebody who will help us in a unexpected way.

One scenario in A Servant Girl, when Rosa was walking, holding a basin filled with washed clothes accidentally, fell down and got hurt suddenly, a cochero came to rescue her and from that day on, she didn't forget the face of that guy and starting dreaming as if the cochero is dreaming of her too.

Estrella Alfon has the power in making a pumpkin into a grand beautiful coach(like what the fairy god mother did for Cinderella). Alfon used a very common "servant" character and turned the story into a heartbreaking one. She shoed that there are mreally masters who can hit and hurt their servants but what we don't know is that we servants can hurt our self more, much from our masters. She made Rosa to show us; Rich or poor: Master or servant the right to dream, to love nad be loved no matter who or what we are. "A Servant Girl" captured my heart. I liked it on first reading but I loved it more on my second!