Smoking and all by Chrisidore Q. Estepa

They say that one cigarette stick could take 11 minutes of your life. Is it true? Yes. Smoking is harmful to the body. Even though people smoke for fun, it raises blood pressure, decrease oxygen intake, and can cause different kinds of cancer. 

Smoking is raises blood pressure, because it is a vasoconstrictor, it causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel caused by the nicotine. It also decreases oxygen intake, because of the of the tar, resulting to decreased lung capacity of oxygen. Lastly, it causes different kinds of cancer, because of the harmful chemicals in it. There are over 4000 chemicals in one stick.

These three points should be imprinted in each and every mind of the people. These three points are true. So even though people smoke for fun, we should tell them how harmful it is. To us students, we should be aware of the effects of smoking. We should not start smoking.

Family 
By Chris Estepa

Do you have a perfect family? Is there such a thing as a perfect family? I believe there is but it does not exist. How do you describe a perfect family? It depends on how you describe it. Perfect? There is nothing more you could ask for. A perfect family and my family are somehow the same because of love, faith, and understanding.

Loving each other equally is one of the best ways to be a perfect family. Love, love, love, isn’t it the greatest thing of all. We need love to stay strong, what is a family without love? Nothing. Without love, there would be no happiness, with love, we unite.

One of the other characteristics of becoming a perfect family is to be faithful. A perfect family prays a lot like my family, go to church together and pray together. We have faith in facing our trials, conflicts, and challenges because we believe that God is with us all the time to help us. A person should be faithful to his/her family to be united. My family is faithful, we have a strong commitment to each other.


No matter what your decision is, a family accepts and understand your choice just like my family. My family shows care to each other and shows appreciation to what my choices are but we all know our limitations to every thing that we do. Unity is lost when nobody understands every member.Communication and good listening is needed to understand a person. Understanding strengthens our bond and relationship with each other.


We can be a perfect famiy with love, faith and understanding but my family is not perfect. Why?  because all families , like mine, have problems in life. A perfect family , for me , it does not exist because its just perfect! There is no such thing as a perfect family because people are not perfect and a family is full of imperfect persons. We may not be perfect but we are blessed, we are happy and almost perfect.

Perfectly Imperfect by Rax Otero

            A perfect family can still exist in cruel world like ours buy, not all families are perfect. When you start socializing with your family you acquire different attitudes, humor and socialization skills which you then apply to other people in different places. There are families that expect so much from their children such as, Asian Families. Asian families also have the tightest family ties compared to other neighboring countries and nations. My family and the perfect family are not exactly alike but there are certain similarities such as attitudes, traditions and roles.


           Let me explain the traits/characteristics of a perfect family. A perfect family has an attitude that each family member respects, loves supports like no other, so there is no cheating no lies. They also have tradition to time and bond with the family, go to church together and also eats meals together, so each family member fulfills their roles in the family wholeheartedly. The parents set up a good example to guide their children into becoming a family guy and a person who wouldn't hurt his or her family.

           My family has some similarities with the perfect family. It juts so happens that my family also has an attitude that each family member clearly loves one another and tries best not to lie, does very best to try to respect and support the family. My family doesn't have many traditions but we are trying to find time to bond with each other. We don't go to church together but we pray for each other. We also eat eats together is there is time/ om our family, each member tries very hard to fulfill and line up to our roles in the family, my parents have a role to be a role model to me and let me just say, they are pretty good at it.

           Not all families are perfect but there are certain characteristics of each family that makes it stand out from others and their imperfections. It doesn't really matter if your family isn't perfect. Besides they are the reason why your are what you are now. What matters most is what you can do to make your family more stronger that before. Proudly, I can say that my family is perfectly imperfect.

Family by Paul Matus

“What is a perfect family?” That is one of life’s most common yet left unanswered questions. As a child, I believed I had a perfect family, however, waking up to reality; I have come to realize that there is no such thing. No individual is perfect therefore no family is perfect. My family, above all influences in my life, has been my greatest lover. Our love story began when I was first held in my mother’s arms, and it is continued now and for the rest of my life. They have formed me as a person, and unlike foreign nationalities who take their families for granted, they on the other hand, value me as a member. I firmly believe that a perfect family can be measured by the weight of its ties, strength of its bond, and purity of its heart.

In a perfect family, one does not simply forget to say “I Love You”. In mine, we tend to forget in almost every tiresome day; after school or after work, not mentioning those three eternal words seems to be a part of our daily routine. All we do is show it to one another, through a kiss on the cheeks, or a goodnight hug.

The bond is unbreakable in a perfect family, always strong and never weak. Our bond? It’s like a rubber band. A strong powerful force can pull us farther from one another. But with every action, there is an opposite reaction that pulls us together again.

While a perfect family experiences no heartaches, only purity inside, we as a family cannot help but hold grudges against one another. However, we always find ways to overcome them. We always open our hearts in order to forgive and forget.

I may not be lucky enough to have a perfect family, but I am blessed to have my family. They might not be perfect, and I might be lying if I said that I wouldn’t trade them for a better one. I would definitely take that chance; however, it’s not what I really need. I have a family that is genuine, not everyone is given this opportunity to share a lifetime with the most amazing people that they will ever meet in their entire existence. What seems to be common to most is really hard to find. I thank God that African-Asian/Asian people value their family, it has always been rooted in our ancestors; We Asians are proud of our families.

My Unique Family by Estinozo, Dennis Jose Stephen Lagon

"My Unique Family"

      Perfect family doesn't exist because all of us are not born perfect. Some says, but they look to and experience the way they live in, you can assess that they are not perfect. On the other hand, my family is really not perfect yet they shape my attitudes and behavior, they teach me how to give care to others. My own family and my ideal family are similar since both of them show love, help and respect one another.

      I want a family that loves one another and I can say that, it’s my ideal family. In my own family, even though we are fighting sometimes, we show love after we fight and we say "sorry" and "i love you" to one another. I know we love each other even though we are not showing it to one another.

      If one of our family member is in trouble or needs help financially, we automatically help them without thinking anything anymore, because that's what our parents taught to us but we secretly ask replacement after we help them. In my ideal family, it's also the same but the only difference is that, they help without asking any replacement or exchange, but the most important is we help each other.

      We are taught by our parents to respect each other, because they will be the one who will respect, love and take care of you in the end. We follow that our parents taught to us, and until now we still respect each other even though we are fighting sometimes. My ideal family also shows respect all the time and this respect will retain to them.

      I learned that it is not important that your family is perfect as long as you have shown love to each other. I will not trade my own family because it is where i belong, it is where i grew up and they will remain in my heart. Lastly, my family is unique because we practice "close family ties". We pray before meals, we give time to get together and we have always time to celebrate each success and even give sympathy in every failures. I love my family and it will never change.

Perfection by Nikki Calañas

        The kind of family you have forms what kind of person you are.
     In our generation today, do you think that's the case? Many African-Asian families are close together, especially in times of maelstroms and chaos. Broken or not, they keep each other company, because that's what families are supposed to be. They tend to you, whether you are deformed or blind, they'll still love you and try to be perfect for you. My own family and a perfect family are somehow similar in terms of unity, obligations and morals.

     Ideal families have unity, that's why they're not broken. Parents support each other into forming their children into sensible persons to fulfill their obligations when they grow up. As parents teach them their manners and morals, they learn how to be independent and take care of themselves. When they have misunderstandings, they apologize, forgive and forget. Apologizing does not always mean that you are wrong and the other is right.
Sometimes, you just value the relationship much more than your personal pride.

    My own  family, on the other hand, is not complete. You can still call us a "perfect family" though. It's just me, my mom and my sister. And because it's just us, we help each other and do our responsibilities, be it on school or inside the house. As for my father, he may not be here to raise us up along with my mom, but he still fulfills his obligation financially every month. Like a perfect family, my mother teaches me everything I need to know, because there won't be any other woman who would do the same thing. She tells us to be disciplined, to be tough and not to be ignorant and not to depend on others.

     Families don't need to be perfect.   Your mother may scold you but that's because she wants you to be  a better person, to learn from your mistakes. Your brother may fight with you, maybe because of a toy that you both want, but that's to remind you that you have to share what you have, to be equal-minded. Perfection varies, and for me, my family is perfect. Turn your back on them and that is when you are truly empty.

Ideal Family by Anne Justine G. Dilla

  There is no such thing as a 'perfect family'. Although everyone would deny about this statement, it is true. Because with everything going around in the world like poverty and teenage families, no family is perfect in this world. For me, my family too is not perfect, we encounter serious problems but still, we don't let it go out of hand. But we still have a strong bond and we love each other, I still dream to have an Ideal family, A perfect one with no problems at all and no misunderstandings and better than my family but my family and my Ideal family are somewhat the same by their strong bond, prosperous culture and good morals.

  There are three points why my family is somewhat the same with my ideal family. The first point is my family and my ideal family's strong bond and that bond will never surrender. The second point is my family and my ideal family's  culture, It will never be destroyed and it's prosperous. We follow our culture without any fail and we respect other culture. The third point is my family and my Ideal family's good morals. They have used this morals to do good deeds and make my family and my Ideal family even more perfect.

  So to wrap things up, my family and my ideal family has the same characteristics but even if my ideal family is actually better than my family, I would never trade my family to my ideal family, like the family ties of African or Asian families, even if they used a helping hand from the government but they would never trade but my family with other families.