Sources of Livelihood

Livelihood takes a vital role for people particularly in rural areas because of the availability o land and sea in their place. My hometown Bongaboong is said to be the Organic Capital of Oriental Mindoro and known for its magnificent sceneries, tourism contributes to the development of the place but besides that farming and fishing is the main source of the local income.

Bongabong has rich lands that are very useful especially in farming and almost all of the Mangyans have their jobs in rice fields. Farming is the most important livelihood and leading natural resources in Bongabong because of the availability of the land in their town. Farming gives a huge earning for the farmers especially for the families depending on this livelihood and giving them opportunity to sell sacks of rice to the market. Farmers harvest tons of rice from their large hectares of rice field that can supply rice for many families living in Bongabong.

Our government are helping farmers to maintain their production of rice. They provide equipments like tractors and machinery that can be helpful to lessen time consumption in harvesting unlike using carabaos. But there are some farmers having small hectares of rice field still using carabaos during harvesting time because it is cheaper than buying any type of machines. They also provide seminars and programs that teach every farmers on how they can maintain the good production of rice, they discuss techniques and solutions to any problems that farmers may encounter in farming. The government also provides projects for the farmers to help them improve their livelihood and giving the town enough agricultural budget to support the farmers in taking care of their rice fields.

Rice is the dominant product in Bongabong, having said to be the Agri-Farming Capital of the province; Bongabong creates good quality and delicious rice grains. They exporting tons of rice not only in Oriental Mindoro but also around the Philippines and some foreign countries so they maintain the process of having their rice as the best choice of rice you will eat.

Farming is the reliable source of livelihood for the citizens of Bongabong, it is also their income job and food source for their families. Farmers in Bongbong are very thankful for having riches land to plant rice.

Another sources of livelihood in Bongabong is fishing, Having coastal areas let people in the town go fishing to earn money, They catch different important commercial fishes like tuna, mackarel, snapper, anchovy, and round scad and they sell it to the market within their town or even around Oriental Mindoro. They do businesses out of fishing, aside from selling it to the market, they create fish ponds and raise different kinds of fishes.

Fishing are sometimes their sources of food especially when the area is far away from the market, they just ride their motor boats and catch fish as many as they can. Fishing is one of the important livelihood in Bongabong because of the availability of the sea to have plenty of fishes.

The government supports the fishery industry in Bongabong, they propose programs to help people on how they can maintain the progress of production of their products especially it is the second dominant product in their town. They give budget to the municipality of the town to provide equipment or other materials that are needed for the improvement of fishery industry.

Fishing is one of the most important livelihood that are available in Bongabong because a lot of people are depending on it especially for the families besides coastal areas.

Status of Livelihood

        Livelihood is very important in every family. They work hard doing their job in farming, fishing, and other livelihood. A lot of families, especially those who are less privileged depend to their sources of livelihood because it is the only way they can have money to buy their necessities. But not all places in our country has enough source of livelihood for the Filipino families so they sometimes experience lack of food and lack of income, because of this they tend to do crimes even they do not want it but they have no choice. 
       Livelihood sometimes are not sustainable because of some problems occurring to it especially when calamities come. Having typhoon in our country causes the distraction of livelihood in the Philippines so many families are affected for this lost because it is the only job they do to earn living.

Oriental Mindoro as "The Golden Island"

     Oriental Mindoro, which is named to be "The Golden Island”, has beautiful and relaxing places to live and go with. As being called "The Golden Island", Oriental Mindoro has many resorts having clear blue beaches together with crystal white sand that every tourist enjoy to see with. During night time, everyone loves to start a bonfire because of the nice atmosphere with the breeze that kisses your skin and the moonlight that shines upon you and mirrored the reflection of it by the calming waves of the water. If there are fishermen sailing, they sometimes give fresh fish so you can cook it to the fire and eat it. Early in the morning the beaches are in low tide so you can go walk in the beach while the water is not yet reaching the seashore and when the afternoon comes, you will witness the beautiful sunset while you are sitting in an old cut tree.

       Every summer and vacation me and my family go to my Grandma’s house which in front of it is the beach. My Grandma always cook seafood dishes  for us which is freshly caught on the sea and a refreshing buko juice coming from the buko trees around the beach and back when I was a child, we sometimes take a bath from the free flowing post scattered around. In my Grandma's place you will see the native houses of the neighborhood. They use bamboo to build their houses and fences to have a cool and relaxing home.

      What I love about in my hometown is the people living on it. Even they do not know you, they will still treat you as the way they treat their neighbors as if you live in their place in many years. They are very friendly and hospitable especially when there are tourists on their place. They are much honored to have guests in their house and even they do not have enough food, they will still offer you something to eat and give you a comfortable feeling when you are talking to them. I know that everyone will enjoy visiting my hometown because you will experience a peaceful retreat to yourself as I've experienced it until now.

Are We Sustainable Enough?

         According to the UN definition of sustainability, "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." the question is, are we sustainable enough? is the way of our life can be enough for our future living? or do we still need to improve so we can be sustainable? 

         In my opinion, we can still be in our lifestyle as long as it can help us to improve,gives us progress and can maintain the development of our life, but still the quality of life in the future can  be different from the way of life today especially this generation, technology already have the huge part of our community. Our lifestyle today can be helpful to us, having the attitude of hospitality, Filipinos gives their appreciation and becoming friendly in other people or in other community. Our rules and regulations in our community maintains the organization of the people inside the community and keeping the peaceful living by following those rules.

          Our lifestyle today is still effective for us to live a good life, like in my hometown, here in Brgy.Canlubang we have our policies that helps us to maintain our peaceful living and to have the progress for our community. Our barangay implemented the curfew policy so everyone in our barangay will be safe from bad accidents caused by other people. We have our barangay tanods who guards our community and helps us if there is accident. Our barangay can meet the needs of our community like having the budget to build our own community clinics and community courts, they also do fumigation to avoid us having dengue. 

           Having sustainable way in our community can still be effective in the future. having these policies and practices can still maintain our progress as a developing barangay. We may need to improve, as our generation changes but I think my community can still do our lifestyle because we have done it in many years and we are still growing.

       

Writing expresses my ideas

Writing expresses my ideas

            I don’t have any problem about writing and doing research as long as it can help me for my future needs. Writing helps me to input interesting ideas, detailing events and posting my own experiences but honestly, I sometimes experience some difficulties in expressing my thoughts in words by having the correct grammar and fitting more precise words for my composition or even having the correct spelling. I can say that sometimes I feel in the mood to write and sometimes not, it usually depends on the environment, my physical and mental approach or even the topic given. For me to have my concentration to write, I really like to create composition when I am at my room, my room gives me the quietness and the relaxation in my mind, it gives me the privacy I want for me to reflect from my own experiences and opinion for the topic so I can write a better composition.

            For me, doing research can be more difficult for me than writing an essay or simple paragraphs; of course, research has a lot to do in creating more essays and paragraphs. It will be more helpful for me if I had more experience in doing a research and broaden up my skills in doing composition because in research I need to defend my topic using my writings and I need guidelines and methods to do a right research paper.