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Nowadays, I feel like some people tend to forget that words can either make or break a person. Just like the use of "haha" in one of the literary pieces, a simple reply such as this left a very deep scar. Personally, I also encounter situations like this that made me question a lot of things about myself. Big thanks to the reflections I've read because I realized how important acceptance is and that I don't need someone to reciprocate the attention that I give. Instead, I must focus on the people that makes me feel worthy because these people are the ones worthy of my time and attention. Thank you so much for opening my eyes and I hope that these realizations will reach a wider audience. Keep it up!

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I believe that Gozos is a man of wisdom and I always would like to know his view on things. His reflection depicts his intellect on matters one doesn't meet every single day.

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As expected, most of them had a better grasp of the essence of the story “HAHA” since most, if not all of them, have lived through the experience on their own. Their thoughts on it were actually quite on point with each of them touching on different minute details of the story and each of them sharing their own interpretations of it.
The challenge for these kids lies with our next two literary pieces, “Legends of the Flood” and “Vinta”, which heavily relies on the uses of metaphors and allegories. Let us start with “Legends of the Flood”. Most of them took it as a lesson to learn from the consequences of actions. Yuri interpreted it as the changing of the narrative as it passes from one person to the next. While Ven’s focused on the construction of the well-written literature, commenting that it owed much of its ambiance from the personal experiences of the authors which gave the stories a world of their own to envision yourself in. In this regard, I think they mostly missed their marks.

The point of “Legends of the Flood” is not the stories themselves but the fact that people are telling stories about it. People need to make rhyme and reason out of everything that happens. So what then is the reason we were struck by flood? Easy. “I heard there was someone in town who turned away a beggar. This must be God’s punishment.” People need to compartmentalize something great to something trivial to grasp it. No, this isn’t a case of karma or the consequence of turning away those in need. If that were true, we’d all be dead by now.
As for “Vinta”, we’re not only presented with an allegory, it’s also in a poetic format. Double the challenge. In this case, I think only Pao got close to the idea. This isn’t even remotely similar to Legends of the Flood nor is it about strength against struggles. “Vinta” is an allegory of endings, or rather the majesty before the end. From this premise, Pao’s interpretation of it branches out to reflect on how to live your life – live your life in indolence or live with the tenacity of a life worth living.

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I truly believe that when people say haha or LOL
you won't really know if that is their reaction in person. When communicating through the use of gadgets you really don't know what is the person's emotion is because its like a mask where you can hide your true emotions from the person you are talking to, maybe your conversation is funny but you won't really know because you can't see it. The best way of talking to a person is when you are talking face to face in that way the conversation that you woul make would be more truthful and meaningful.

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Based on the reflections, I realized who are worthy of my time and efforts because there are a lot of people nowadays that questioning their worth just because something happened to them. The reflections were very helpful in awakening the minds of the readers.

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I agree with you Ms. Tokyo, in today's generation we don't really know what the other person really mean, so we must really explain and deeply understand the reply/response to avoid misunderstandings.

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It amazes me how powerful words are, and how much more they become of great influence through the use of social media. Upon reading the different literary pieces, I had different feelings and thoughts going through my mind. Was I sensitive enough to other people? Was I giving enough worth to my self? The works of the authors I read through your blog made me reflect on these, but my favorite part was hearing out from the makers of the actual blog. I was able to realize that people, no matter what background or perspective, are reactive and reflective. I found out that I may have same thoughts with some, or in disagreement with others, but this comes from our personal views and opinions. Finally, I would love to commend the blog for reaching to the society a bigger venue for self-reflection and for achieving the purpose of empowering literature. Great job!

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Reading these guys' reflections is very engaging. Their views show how, despite their young age, they have a strong grip of what's essential in life.
The paradox of life was cleverly opined by Ybanez when she said that "...in the beauty of life, sad truths can never be avoided."  Likewise, an eye-opener was explicably drawn by Mandado as he illustrates that "the boarders and margins we draw to people must be erased because they might be the person that could help you grow as a person."
Martin is very positive in his "keep moving forward" stance; while Gozos's passionate analysis of Vinta-- "it projects an image of sadness, longing for something that has been, and pain of the inevitable end"-- exhibits the depth of his emotions as he sees life.
Somehow, these opinions that they expressed are reflections of their own personal observations in life as young people.  Truth be told as Tokoyo reminds that "we must put more context in what we say or do."  This was further emphasized by Cunanan as he interpreted the story as a display of "the importance of the necessity to consider every word we choose to say."
As a whole, these young people's imaginative and intelligent literary analyses mirror how they perceive the meaning or the basic importance of life.

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With the advancement of technology, communication was easily used. Though "good" communication may not always be applicable to our new means of communicating as seen through the story of "HAHA". Keep in mind that the best way of communicating is through the physical presence of the person you want to talk to.

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I agree with what you said Len, that there will never be a better way to talk to another person but in person. This is because with the frequent use of social media in communication, real communication could be hindered. In addition, in the legendary of the flood and the vintage I also agree with you that people tend to choose something that is wrong and often lead them to bad consequences. Similar to my understanding that in which the things you did are irreversible. Once you do this, you can’t go back or redo the things that you had done to someone.

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I somehow assent or concur to the reflections made by each member of your group. I agreed to the whole group only in so far that if you love someone, you will exert endeavor to express your feelings to him or her. This is because love is a matter of sacrificing. If you choose to love, you need to prepare yourself of the possible consequences of losing certain aspect of your life. This is because love demands you of time which is an example of scarce resources. If a person commences to give even a dorsal portion of his or her time, it means to say that such person has already given up his or her love for something which is equal or more than its value. However, i dissent to the majority of the members of the group that the word hahaha create a conclusive presumption that a certain person has already surrendered his or her love for other important consideration. This is because words are susceptible of different interpretations. A short word may have more meaning than a long word. The reason lies on the very essence that words should be interepreted on the basis of existing facts and circumstances. The manner in which the word is uttered must be given consideration. Besides, in case of ambiguity as to the true meaning of the word, it must be interpreted in a manner favourable to the party who uttered it. It might create a presumption that a person is not interested but such presumption must only be disputable but not conclusive.

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Nowadays, communicating to others is very essential but through media the essence of communicating is being   disregarded. It is because you cannot show the true  emotions in those text that you type because sometimes if you're having a conversation to your friends and you send a text to them, sometimes they just thought that you are angry but in fact you are just explaining something. So that in my opinion texting through media neglect the essence of communication

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From the different reflections, I realized it's true that life will never be perfect. There are ups and downs and there also some things that does not go the way we want it to happen. But then we must accept these and keep moving ahead. We just only need to do our part, be good and responsible. We must be careful on our actions and on how we communicate with others because these decisions we make have consequences and we don't want to regret it after.

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Jhossven's reflections truly contained insightful thoughts and brought new perspectives to what I previously know about the two literary pieces. May I also commend the witty creation of title by incorporating one's identity. This group never fails to settle with mere mediocrity.

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I learned that  there are two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning. In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places. In business, it is a key function of management--an organization cannot operate without communication between levels, departments and employees. See also communications.

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Ram Atienza's reflection made more sense than others. The others always mentioned a story called "haha" but never really explained what it was all about. I'm not asking for too much, just a brief summarization of the story would be helpful for clueless readers like me. Also, maybe it's just my personal preference but I liked his work better because it's brief and I really understood what he was trying to say. A light but meaningful read is always a good quality in an essay/reflection.

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I totally agree, because experienced this situation more likely a hundred times already. My friends and I tend to argue because of something that was wrongly interpreted. Some things really need to be explained thorougly for others to get what is in context.

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First, I would just like to say how much I loved the layout of this blog, it is simple and yet it does not fail to catch the eye of its viewer. But apart from just the looks of this blog, what really matters is the content which is heads above any other blog. One that truly marked into my mind was Paolo Gozos' insight with regard to The Vinta. It really tackles the heart of the readers to see the importance of everything because nothing would ever be permanent.

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What a great blog! This is probably one of the best blogs I’ve ever seen as it is very pleasing to the eye. Very informative and well-organized as well! The group’s responses are also very clear and relatable. I absolutely agree with the response of Jhossven Cunanan regarding the blog “HAHA”, in which he stated that it is very important to consider every word we choose to say. Words really have the power and ability to hurt or harm other people so we must discipline ourselves to speak in a way that it conveys respect and gentleness. I was also able to differentiate my thoughts and perspective about the blogs to the responses of the group and learned a lot from it. Nice work, keep it up, guys!

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With social media as the main platform for communication, it is true  that some things like the simple use of “haha” and “LOL” can greatly affect people. For one, maybe haha and LOL is just a simple laughter or a comment about a certain topic being discussed but for others, words like these can mean differently. They might get offended with the use of these words and to avoid these things from happening we must be able to have a better bridge for communication, we must always be sensitive with the choice of words that we will use so that we will not offend other people. Also, it is indeed important to have a personal communication with other people so that we can have a better grasp of other people’s feelings.

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Receiving "haha" makes me feel angry because you gave all of your time and effort in constructing the message and then at the end you will just know that they are not interested at all

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I truly agree to your reflection, the messages we send among one another couldn't actually express the emotion we truly feel but rather just the message we wanted to give the other person. We have our own experiences and stories to tell, in order for us to understand one another, let's be more engaging to meaningful conversations and learn to put more context into what we say and do. Truly this was a heartfelt reflection. Good job Yuri!!

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I can relate to this literary piece of Ann Luna and the opinions of some of the authors because we expect a lot to someone we like,we expect that they will feel the same way.  And we expect that they will response like how we communicate with them but receiving "haha" is like they are not interested on what you want to share.

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The literary works, as much as they reflect the Filipino  customs, are also a manifestation of the realities of the Filipino society within the milieu of the rich cultural heritage of the Philippines. Starting from the Legends of the Flood, up until the 21st Century story Haha, these mirror how literature is an integral part of the Filipino identity.

“The Legends of the Flood” show us that karma does exist, and we should not let greed take the best of us. “Vinta”, however, in a way mirrors that the world can be a cruel and vile place. In the same way, “Haha” shows us that life is not fair, and that we are not entitled to someone’s time. These stories show the development of Philippine literature with respect to change over time, as well how significant these pieces have been to different historical standpoints.

Consequently, I fully understood how these literary works can be integrated with each other through the converging views and analysis of the group. They have shown how literature, in a way, can be connected with each other to form an essential insight to our society.

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From this group's reflection, I have nothing to say about it but very good. I felt every critque you have made. These blog responses opened up a lot of real life issues that we should always take seriously. I learned a lot.

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Many people tend to give up after failing but life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze us, they're supposed to help us discover who we are. We don't need to dwell on yesterday and move forward instead. I was really amazed by how you came up with such thoughts in your reflection that made me come up to what I've said earlier.

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All of the reflective comments have shown a great understanding of the topic. Different people have reflect in different way where each of them shows uniqueness from the other. In the end, no grammar errors and misconstructed sentence made their reflection delivered in a clear manner.

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We saw that gentleness flows out of humility within ourselves. It's only when we make an honest assessment ourselves and truly see and understand our own desperate need. Haha gives me the opportunity to be sensitive enough in circumstances that buoyed, effort without s is insufficient from our contentment.

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I am impressed by the views and perspectives you share about the literatures that you read about. I was able to read them before, but I saw more about it thanks to the different views and opinions of your group. Good job!!

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There aren’t perfect life in the world we live in today, people just need to be careful in every things that they do such as with their love life, and how they live. I totally agree to you that we should learn from our mistakes, because committing mistakes is a thing that should not be feared of. As we learn from our mistakes, we will continue to live with joy even though there is perfection as we live simply and die.

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It is truly important to consider what we say whenever we communicate with others. We must care about what our listeners might feel with what we want to say to them because they can have different interpretations with it. It is important that we should be able to see and appreciate the efforts given to us by other people. Meanwhile, I also realised that we should experience something in order to be better at a certain thing. Our experiences provides us the opportunity to learn from it and do something better for the next moment we encounter the same thing. We should appreciate these experiences because it gives us life lessons we can be able to use in the future.

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These works are excellent in such a way the authors were able to enlighten me with what’s more to learn in life. It is agreeable that everyone must practice more on communicating with other people because we can have different interpretations with the words being said to us. Also, I cannot ignore the fact that experiences are what makes who we truly are. It shapes us in different ways even when what we have experienced is good or bad.

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Technology has different advantages and disadvantages for us. It is actually easy to connect with other people, but it is hard to understand what others say through text or chat. It’s better if a conversation is done personally or specifically face to face because we can easily see their emotions through how they talk and say these words to us. With this, I can therefore agree with what the authors said and it is time for us to be more careful with what we want to say.

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I agree with what the authors had said. It really is to how well the person uses words to communicate with others. Misused of these words may greatly affect the person’s feelings and emotions. To effectively communicate one must realize that all are different in the way man perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to communicate with others.

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Hello Ram, thanks for sharing. With regards to "haha", I would have felt down if I got the reply since I believe that Newton's 3rd law of motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction) should be applicable to all. It is by no means that it is required to reply long to a person. Rather, it is only needed that the words chosen are those who won't hurt feelings.

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More than the impact given out by its minimal lay-out, I believe what sets this blog apart from the usual ones is the appeal it addresses to the empathic side of the readers. Eye-opening, authentic, relatable. In the modern times wherein literatures like the ones featured in the blogs aren't as celebrated, I think its just timely for these insights to be vented out. It's time for discussions be started, for masterpieces to be celebrated.

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I do believe that what this blog post talks about sums up what the society is becoming today.
As a millennial, I admit that the social media culture depicted in the literary piece “Haha” by Ann Luna has been assimilated so widely that it already comes natural in the way people think and act. However, moving forward, I came to the realization that we should stop trying to create this online facade and start living. As the first step, “we should learn to connect with others and show concern to them” (Mandado, 2018). Let us choose to look beyond the surface and make a difference. Thank you for sharing. The group’s reflections has definitely enlightened me.

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Given the different reflections, I realised the importance of knowing your self-worth, on how you should know who are the people worthy of your time and effort. Because these days, many individuals doubt their worth just because of the short comings of others. Indeed, the reflections given were very helpful in stimulating the thoughts of the readers, for them to understand and appreciate the articulations well.

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I agree with what you said. Life, truly, is unpredictable, we don't know what will happen next.  So the best thing to do is to go with the flow and live the best out of it. Happiness and bliss will come but tragedy and misery will also come. However, despite all the trial we need to be brave and be optimistic in facing such. On the other hand, I do feel guilty when I reply 'haha' to others because I didn't realize that I'm being insensitive, now I know that I need to be more careful and be more sensitive on what others might feel.

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The overall impression I got from reading the reflection was pretty much summarized by the quote presented: "keep moving forwars". It's common knowledge nowadays for people to receive little to no attention they give to others, especially from those they value the most. It gets pretty personal to some when they read experiences of others who put so much effort and be treated as if they're worth nothing at all.

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Indeed, every action that we make to others will either affect them or not. They have the power to decide for themselves if they want to accept who we are. This is something we can't control. However, the most important thing about this is that we can accept ourselves when no one else will. Thinking that we can be better is more than enough to make our life a memorable one. Our life was not meant to be liked by others, it was given to each of us because we alone can make the best out of it. The saying "keep moving forward" is very striking. I think that we should forget the past even if its difficult and always keep moving on even if there are a lot of challenges ahead. No matter what happens, good or bad, everything will teach us something that will build who we are.

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After reading the opinions, I realized the changes happening in the modern world due to technology. It brings access to people around the globe, but at the same time, affects the relationships of people personally. It emphasizes that communication can come in various ways, but the best would always be the personal communication.

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If it was I who received a reply of "haha", I would have definitely felt offended. It could mean a lot of things but receiving such reply would make me think that the one I'm communicating with is not interested at all. That's why I believe that the most ideal form of communication is face-to-face interaction. In this way, we can easily decode the message of what the other party has to say.

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For one thing, the implementation of technology in revamping the concept of communication both enhances and downgrades: it enables easier communication but takes away 'communicating'
Nevertheless, the reflection on the concept was pretty spot on, considering we now live in an age where everything seems to be done with technology. The author also seems to acknowledge the fact that nowadays, people are more content with helping themselves rather than spending time with and for other people.