Maki School Blog

Defense of a Filipina Woman's Honor is one of many of Fernando Amorsolo's Word War ll-Era works. It shows a Filipino man holding a bolo, defending a tatter-clothed woman; either his wife or daughter from being raped by an unseen Japanese soldier; Note the Japanese military cap by his foot. Although it isn't very clear, the background shows a small table with what appears to be an basket or bowl of sorts as well as a few candles. To the right, a bed, likely belonging to the woman, disheveled from her struggling against her assailant. His WW2 paintings depict the suffering and turmoil of Manila from his point of view. Fernando Cueto Amorsolo was one of the most important and inspirational Artist of the Philippines. He was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Amorsolo is most widely known for his craftmanship, as well as his signature usage of natural light. The painting in its entirety boldly yells out "FEAR". Being so vulnerable and helpless, n...

 My drawing-- or sketch, if you will, was inspired by the late Renaissance Era, specifically by the artworks of Michelangelo, my favorite ninja turtle. After a few hours of looking up references and coming up with an idea of what I wanted to draw, it took me a little over an hour to finish the whole piece. I based the drawing off of three of Michelangelo's sketch-drawings, particularly, drawings of women.  I used his sketches as references for drawing certain parts like the eyes and the general face, I kinda merged what I got from the references, well I mean-I think that's what you're supposed to do with references. I drew a woman from the neck up. She wears her short curly hair behind a bandana or something and is kinda just, wanting to leave whatever event she's at , I think. That's the kinda vibe I was going for. The first video clip is mostly just me sketching out the shape of the face based on my references and deciding what angle it should be, then putting in ...

 Why IS torta so dang good? Torta could mean a wide array of dishes and treats. It could be... This torta: or this one: or even this one: But the one I'm talking about right here is tortang bisaya, or cebu torta. like thisss and thisss and even thissss Torta, tortang mammon, torta turtle or tortang bisaya, whatever you want to call it, is one of the many delicious treats that us filipinos grew up with, it's safe to say that if you ask any of your filipino friends if they like torta, they'll definitely say 'yes' and if they don't, they're lying. I asked this one guy, "Hey, you like torta?" and he said "um... o, pero kinsa diay ka?" which means 'yes absolutely how did you know' :))) Torta is a creamy yet simple and tasty dessert that almost anyone can make. Torta is popular in Visayas and pretty much all of Cebu. Anyone who comes to Cebu would have at least tried one torta, and have definitely had it again and again since. So why ho...

On January 31, 2020, Friday, I went to school for ACT's 2020 Clean Up-Drive. I arrived at ACT at around 7:30 am or something. I went to the Unity classroom instead of mine because my friends, Rhys and Johan were there. Me and Rhys however are from the Integrity classroom. We talked a lot and without realizing it the flag ceremony had already started. Since the Unity Adviser, Ms. Mitch was already inside and Ms. A, the school's Principal was surveying outside in the hallways, there was no escape for me and Rhys. We decided to pretend we were part of that class and joined their flag ceremony. After stating the Vision-Mission statement, Ms. Mitch finally noticed us and the whole class laughed. Me and Rhys danced our way out and went back to our classroom for attendance. We assured them we weren't late. Before the Clean Up-Drive started, we were told of our assigned areas and split ourselves into groups of three with seven members each. Me, Alexis Red, Ethan, Kylee, Edric an...

On January 26, 2020, Sunday I went to school for ACT's Family Day 2020. I arrived at school somewhere around 11:26 am, after walking around a bit i decided to take a short nap in the classroom. To be honest this year's family wasn't as exciting for me as it was last year, after all, last year most of my friends were here as well as visitors. My parents weren't able to go too since they had a Sunday Arabic Class to teach. At somewhere between 11-12 I helped out Ms. Mitch with decorating our booth, it was strange that we decorated with balloons and streamers, considering that this year's family day theme was tribal, but then again, we complained a lot about payment so it makes sense that they were working with a tight budget. For some reason I decided to take a nap in the booth and when I woke up there was a mass, since I was still half-asleep I think, I also stood up with everybody else during the mass. I asked " Where's Lexi and the others?" and Kyl...

    Alam mo ba? kaninang umaga, malapit mabangga ang mga sasakyan na sa ating harap. Hindi rin ito ang unang beses na nangyari. Maraming mga tao at bansa ay nag-experience ng mga problema. Ang Pilipinas bilang walang exception nito.       Amg sitwasyon natin ngayon tungkol sa mga trahedya ng maga sasakyan, partikular ng mga motorsiklo. Maraming mga aksidente na nangyari kasi ang isang iresponsibleng motorista ay nalusot sa gitna ng sasakyan, o isang motorsiklo naabutan ang isang kotse. Hindi ko sinasabi na masama ang lahat na motorista, syempre, marami sa mga kapamilya ko ay mga motorista, pero kasi mabilis sila, merong mga percentage sa kanila na hindi masyadong maingat sa kanilang kapaligiran. Kahit na merng mga road signs, mga speed limit signs, kung walang mga traffic enforcers, hindi sila maging maingat.     Ang solusyon nito ay maging mas maingat tayo ng mga motorsiklo at mag-hire ng marami pang traffic enforcers. Kailangan din nat...

Pardo Church. I'm pretty sure my first communion was held here. According to my research, Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish The fortress-like façade of Pardo church built was built between 1880-93. The town was created by a government decree of 10 March 1863. It became an independent parish, through a diocesan decree of 10 April 1866, after being a visita of San Nicolas. Fr. Domingo Sanchez built a temporary structure while the church was still under San Nicolas. In 1866, Fr. Meliton Talegon was named parish priest and on 16 September 1877 reports to the provincial that a church of tabique pampango and nipa, built ten year previous is in ruinous condition. A document from that same year presents the project proposal of Domingo de Escondrillas, the district engineer of Cebu. Escondrillas is credited with designing other churches, notably Loon in Bohol. He proposed a church in the Latin-Byzantine Order as there was no such church in that style in the district. Bure...