Thursday, April 22, 2021

Who am I?

 



    Hey! guys and gals, my name is Carl Angelo C. Casilag I am currently am a Humanities & Social Science Student at Philippine International School-Qatar. As some of you don't know I am the type of person who usually doesn't want to be limited to a standard or be confined with standards as I am that person who is willing to go beyond such an idea, as I want to go beyond the limit of things so that I know and test the capacities that may allow me to learn my limits and to know my strengths as I believe that so to know your limits and gain new knowledge one must first experience and see such challenge and once I know that is my limit I do my best and even work harder and innovate some techniques so to achieve and overcome such challenges. 

    I am a person who is passionate and who is really interested in doing activities where I can challenge my limits, I also liked doing and conducting science experiments as I do not just want to limit and challenge myself, but also future improves, educate, and at least contribute something back towards the community even through my own little things.

    My hobbies as a youth who grown up in a different country from my homeland, are things that allow me to improve myself as to what I have mentioned in my previous statement, I also am interested in international relations as well as foreign languages, as of the moment I can speak languages like Korean, Arabic, and French but I also intend to learn even more languages, as I wish to be able to connect with other people and even understand the world on where are living in.


"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
-Aristotle

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

"The City of Popes"

 
"The City of Popes"




Event: Papal Audience

Location: St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome (2017) 

Thursday, March 11, 2021

The Spirit of Life and Happiness


     

The Spirit of Life & Happiness



                Emotions are like grass where it may have the possibility of progress and growth but as it grows it often starts to become forgotten. As mere emotions and happiness are things that we only pass by in which are only borrowed things from life itself and are things that we only pass over by and not completely own.

                Mono no aware may be described as "the pathos of things, the transience of life and happiness, or the empathy toward things." These are simply the literal definition of this word, but to put into my own perspective. Mono no aware is the exact definition that we must enjoy and make the most of what we have at this moment be thankful for it as such things are only given to us for a short and limited time in which will pass on and start to be forgotten like any other thing that exists on this world, such things may progress into something that we all possibly want or don't want but will often be forgotten as time and age pass by. We may describe the things in this world as something that is borrowed things that we must one day return and forget, as mere things are there only to give us such things as to inspire us to become someone better and to see the good and bad in life as things will allow us to be the best of ourselves and to enjoy everything that we have at the moment as such things will be forgotten and something that we all must leave behind and begin to start moving on, as such experiences are something that we cannot return to but rather are things that we can learn from.

                So in conclusion, mono no aware is trying to tell us that we must enjoy and make the best out of the things we currently have, as such things may have the possibility to grow or develop into something we want or don't want in which we are unable to return to and will often be forgotten as time and age passes by.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

A Memoir of a Young Delegate




Carl Angelo C. Casilag
(Georgetown University Qatar — Model United Nations Spring Conference 2020)

    In January 2020, I was interested to join an event called Model United Nations, I got in touch with our team advisor Mr. Jaspher, wherein I expressed my interest in the upcoming conference that will be held on February 20th. he was hesitant at first but he allowed me to make the cut. As the approaches, as I continued to prepare myself and all the materials that I will be needing for the events, I began on thinking about what types of people I will be meeting their will they be similar to the people that I met during my first competition. A few days later, it was the first day of Georgetown Model United Nations. It was during late Thursday afternoon, As I was walking around our conference room waiting for our committee heads to arrive, I saw some new and familiar faces around the room with me and as we wait altogether. As we wait and prepare all our materials for the three-day-long conference, I could sense the tension in the air and as I approach and converse with some of my fellow delegates regarding their country's stances and to even get to know them much better and as continue to approach each one of them I could sense the tension in the air. 

    Until I approached the delegate beside me, wherein she reminded me of my childhood as she is one of my childhood friends. As we talk and remember those old days when we would run around and play tag with each other reminds me a lot of my childhood, where no such expectations and responsibilities exist. And as I continue to roam the room to continue to gather information and form alliances, as I continue to feel the tension in the air it reminded me of the same feeling of tension that I experienced during my first ever participation in extracurricular activities, where fear and excitement can obviously be seen on each participant's faces. 

    But as I get to know and connect to them, they are the type of people that I become friends with as they are enjoyable and fun to be with, even as they may seem to be mean or difficult to be around during the conference or event but once you get to know them they are just very similar to you wherein they also felt the same feeling and first impression onto you. This experience had taught me new things about the world and people around me as we continue to try and impress the people that we meet in our day-to-day lives we forget that they are just similar to you, as they are also a person inside even they may seem mean or difficult to be with, but in the end, they may feel the same way do and even much more than you would expect and that you are all similar in a way you would not expect.

An Autobiography of a Youth



Carl Angelo C. Casilag
(Santa Cruzan in Doha 2019)

    My name is Casilag, Carl Angelo C., I am currently studying Humanities and Social Science student at Philippine International School-Qatar. I was born on May 13, 2003, in San Pablo, Laguna, Luzon, Philippines. I went to Philippine International School - Qatar for my elementary and high school education.

    I am currently residing in Doha, Qatar with both of my parents, Jovito Casilag and Stephan Casilag. I am currently aged 17 years old and my family moved to Qatar due to work in 2010, when I was just in the aged 7 years old. Growing up as an only child within a family of three (3) within a foreign country has been difficult for him as growing up in a region where constant political instability and extreme temperatures are prominent.

    I also am currently busy with religious commitments such as being a Catechist for the Filipino Catechism, A Volunteer Usher, Master of Ceremonies of Altar Servers, and many more. Wherein I won numerous awards such as the San Pedro Calungsod Award, the Altar Server of the year award, and much more. 

    Aside from these religious commitments I also am an active student and youth who participates in numerous extracurricular activities such as being a Taekwondo student with a rank of Red belter, Model United Nations team officer, International History Bee and Bowl team member, Debate team member, School Newspaper Photographer, Former Artistocracy Project Manager and many more. Wherein I won awards such as the recent Honorable Mention Award that I received from the Georgetown University Qatar Model United Nations Fall Conference 2020  and much more.

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Saturday, October 17, 2020

The Phone

The Phone 💬

    Growing up as a young boy in the big apple with all the things I (Christian Hopkins) could ever wanted ask for and be living in the highend streets of the big apple, is kinada dull actually because while growing up, as an only child it is was always hard for me to make friends, becuase I didn't grow up with a chracter of being an outgoing person since ever year my mom, Mrs. Jessica Hopkins and  my dad, Mr. Chales Hopkins  will usually leave me alone at for a business trip, in which we coulden't spend time and bonding together. And now as a college freshman it 's hard to make choices for myself and also I am afraid of having relatioships that will just leave me alone in the dark blue sky.

    One day, while walking around the city in a bright and sunny block, I was walking around with a green polo shirt, and a ripped demin pants, with a black side bag and in my right hand I was holding my smart phone that has a expensive phone case.  While waliking around and getting some cold summer air, A old man that seems to look in his 80's dressed in all dirty and riggidy clothes bump  into me and in which made me lose my grip on my new phone, unknowingly he didn't noticed what had happened to my new phone and just apologize, unknowingly after we bumped into each other, a brick phone in his jacket and fall to the ground, As I noticed it falling down I didn't want to go near nor talk to the riggdy old man again, so I just took the brick phone into the pocket of my bag in fear that if I talk to him again he might mistakenly acuse me of stealing it from him. After keeping the brick phone, I decided to check on my samrt phone which unfortunately has a massive carck in the screen, and after the inncident I just went home, so that I will not get in trouble of not knowing the directions back home and when I got home that evening, ichecked the mail box and I could see that there are some schools that are accepting my application but it is just a matter of time and the qualities that those schoos offer the I must choose from in order to get the perfect one for me, while I was going in I took the letters inside so that I could reseach upon each of the schools, while I was walking into the hallway I saw my mother in the dinning room sitting in the dinner table discussiong with Jim our cook her plans for to night;s dinner, after their conversations, I went to ask for her help in choosing the best schools that best suits my need and standards. She helped me look and while I stumbule upon a list of requirements that was cuorious about and decided to asked of my mom to let me use her phone for a mean second, she replied to me that I have a much more better phone than her and why not use it instead, and I replied nervously that it rathert broken while I was walking dwon this afternoon, and told her about the incident that I have went through. After hearing all of this she look at me with pity and she said to me, "that's alright son, it much more better geting your phone broken or rob rather than being harmed or killed just for it," she added, "we could repalce all those things, but we could never replace you."

    As days gone by my mom and dad buy me a new phone before leave for there annually business trip out of town usually leave me home alone with our househol staff to look over me and the house that is as big as a size of 2 football fieldAt the same time started to began forgeting that I have a brick phone in my right bed side drawer. 

    One day, while I was laying down in my bed, before going to bed at 10 in the eveing. I was scrolling down my feeds with my new smart phone, and I started to hear a noise coming from somewhere near me, at first I tought it was our maid Maria usually cleaning the hallways with the vacum cleaner, but when I stand up and stood closer to the door and shouted "Maria are you there?" but no reply, I open the door wide enough and I could hear nothing, it was dead silent. I still could hear as if sounded near to me, it sounded loud as a alarm clock going off in the wrong time of day. but in a few minutes is stop and it left me thinking what could the source of that sound be.  After a few weeks I could hear the same excat noise that bared me thinking of it, At the same time it have happend last time, It again happend but this time it was a few days early than a week, the noise keeps on repeating and as months go by I start to forget about that incident. Until a week later that I start to hear vribrating noises in my right bed side drawer, it always bordered me morning noon and night. Until one day that I decide to set a voice recorder outside of my room and beside my bed so that I will know if wheter or not the noise really came from my room or not, or if wheter or not that the noise is coming in my head alone, at that night my plan is working the way I wanted, I do the things that i noramlly do, and at the same hour as usaul it came but it was much more longer and louder this time around, then it hit me I remembered that I keep an old brick phone in my right bed side drawer, When I opened it for the first time after months, the noise suddenly stopped. As I open the brick phone for the first time, the feeling was so nerve racking that my heart stopped   and upon opening the phone it was filled of messages from an anonymous number. It was usually a short urgent message, stating that the person behind the other side of the screen needs my help, and that I am his/her last hope. upon reading this it can to me I frezee as of what thi messages means?, thoughts came rushing through my head, is a person being kidnap, absused, or what?, should I report this to the police?, but this ideas are just plain stupid, who will believe me if I told this to anyone, they might just say that it is a prank that I made up so that I could me noticed and gain popularity among my peers. It came to mind that it was so similar to the film I just recently watch, entitled "the phone" and wherein they may just think it was a prank. 

    So I started to think that this is not true or maybe I am being prank, and I started to think that I am just dreming, until I tested it out by just pinching my hand until it is as painful as I can handle and it came to me this is not a dream. 

    After testing it out, I tried to compose myself and replied back to the messages, "Hi! how can I help? Who is this? Are you safe?" After a few weeks it ring again and this time it responed to my message, he/she reponded by saying, "Thanks for the helping me, my name is Christina, I am a victim of kidnapping, you can help me by looking going to the cops and kindly tell them that I my name is Christina Hopkins, age 16 a member of the Hopkins family.  As I read this, I  came to a frezee unkowingly the thought that I have a twin sister, but she was lock up away by my parents was a chrilling story for me, becuse for the past 16 years of my life it was all a lie. 

    As I came to cooperate, it hit me, what if this is all just a stupid prank set by my friends?, so I asked her backed, "If you are really Christina Hopkins when and where did your parents met for the first time?, After a few long weeks she didn't replied back, so I tought it was all a hoax, but then suddenly it rang, she responded that they met at San Francisco Bay, while mom was walking around and dad bumped into her, and after seeing each other they fell in love with each other. It really came to me that I almost fall to the ground, if this was setted up by my friends they won't be able to answer that right. So that just means that she truly is my twin sister. But who would do such a thing as of kidnapping her?, it came to me maybe it was my mom and dad since they are usually leaving town for weeks even months without even asking and allowing me to come with them, So the following time, which is next month for a last minute businesses meeting else where I have planned to plant a  tracking and voice recorder in their louge, since they will only be gone for a week, and when they came back after their so cakked business trip and after a week of checking and analyzing the recordings, I founded out that they were also looking for her, because every since we were young and being checked up at the hospital, the hospital was set to blaze and most of the children in the hospital was transfered to another room outside the hospital, and in leaving the hospital staff just left the records inside rather than taking all of it which in return can take a lot of time. and after the fire my sister was kidnapped by the nurse at the hospital because unknowingly it was a case of jealousy, wherein the nurse was so jealous of losing her own baby and couldn't bare not having one beautiful daughter, even it can be a case of kidnapping. after hearing the recordings I felt pity towards my  parents and I insisted to help them in finding her, so after convincing my parents to allow me help them in looking for my twin, they were shocked and confused on how did I know about it and I came to tell them the story of how I was able to contact her by using the brick phone that I have picked up, and after hearing this they asked me to give to them the brick phone, but I insisted that it remains with me and I also insisted that i want to help them, So we began our investigation here at home at New York, since the phone that I picked up came from here, and after months of looking around it was reported that their was a girl  suiting our descrition that also looks identical to me, and she also was reported to have the same age as I was which is 16. And after reading the case we at the station we ask the police where and how was the information given if she was kidnapped, apparently it wasn't a kidnapping but rather it was a child looking for her family origin. 

Thursday, September 24, 2020

UI - Universal Inspiration


UI - Universal Inspiration 

   UI University of Idaho


WU FU MU OU CC

 Winthrop University -  Fordham University -  Miami University -  Oakland University - Colorado College

UST MLU TAMU UP

University of Santo Tomas - 

Martin Luther University Halle -Wittenberg -

Texas A&M University - University of the Philippines 

OU ATI ND GT ND ROSS IIT

Oakland University - ATI University - University of Notre Dame - Georgia Institute of Technology - University of Notre Dame - Ross University  -  Illinois Institute of Technology


HSU  AAS ADA YORK  NU TTU GT KOC    
                    
 Humboldt State University - AAS College - ADA University - York University - Northeastern University -  Texas Tech University - Georgia Institute of Technology - Koc University



Translation:



When yoU, yoUrselF Underestimated tOo MUch Of yoUr CompetenCe,


yoU muSt Turn daMages & Learn Upon iT And Master Upon Understanding Persistency,


yOu mUst Always Try Improve aNd Do Great Things aND tRy tO continueSly Shun beIng IncompeTence,


Have Setted yoUr goAls in Attitude iS A gooD wAY tO oRganize & tracK of aNy Undiscovered ways, Toughts, and acTions throUgh havinG the Thorough sKills Of Consistency.











Thursday, September 10, 2020

The Fire of Love

 
"The Fire of Love 🔥"



Love is like a fire of war,
It's flames burns as bright as the sun,
In a field of feelings left to be explored,
With the explosion of feelings as loud as a gun.

Monday, September 7, 2020

The New Norm



The New Norm

They say everything will be okay like nothing just happened,  
They say this new normal just makes us more wrapped,
But this normal makes us feel more trap and,
 Let's just hope that this will not be the future that we imagined.



Who am I?

       Hey! guys and gals, my name is Carl Angelo C. Casilag I am currently am a Humanities & Social Science Student at Philippine Inter...