Let's Keep It Plain And Simple

              December is a month where lights are sparkling along the streets, where lanterns are hanging outside in every window, where people were captivated by the thoughts of Christmas. Simbalay Festival also happens to be in December; it is celebrated every year to express gratitude for the bountiful harvest. People of Nabunturan celebrate Simbalay Festival by building up ‘bahay kubos’ filled with the fruitful harvest from their own barangays. As I was strolling in the street- where they displayed all the bahay kubos- I was amazed at how Nabunturanons celebrate and value the culture and tradition of Nabunturan. I have seen joyful smiles as they watch every light and bahay kubos they passed by.             Simbalay Festival is another way of promoting tourism in Nabunturan; showcasing the culture, tradition, and food in different barangays of Nabunturan. Showing how productive, abundant our homeland is and how many blessings we got every year. 

            The family is a fundamental block of the society. It is the source of our happiness and sadness, the source of our courage and motivation. The family is indeed composed of a parent and a child; it is not just it, and just not a word, it symbolizes respect, love, and care. We can only learn to have these because of our parents.             Our parents were there for us since the day we received life until the day we learned to speak and walk, and up to now. The main reason why our family is still called a family is that of our parents who are still there to build a concrete relationship with us. Our parents still battling for the hardship on how to raise us as a good person, to guide us in our decisions, to help us overcome our challenges, to gives us motivation to get up and continue our lives when we met failure, and to give us their full support in every activities and contest we joined. Sometimes we misunderstood them for being strict and firm to their “No’s” an