Saturday, December 18, 2010

ASSIGNMENT #3 MYTHS

The eagle with the Golden Egg


For hundreds of years Luonnaotar, the beautiful daughter of Nature, glided through the empty blue sky. Until at last she grew tired of her lonely existence. Far below stretched a boundless sea. Luonnaotar gathered all her strength and dived down, down into the water. Then she stretched out on its calm surface.
Soon a violent wind sprang up, and for a long time Luonnaotar was tossed like a little boast on the angry waves. When calm at last returned, she knew that she was going to have a son; but he could only be born when she had prepared a world for him to live in.
 For nine long years, Luonnaotar searched the limitless sea in vain for a shore where she could stop and rest. At last, cold and miserable, she prayed for pity to the great god Ukko, lord of the vast regions of the air. Blinded by her tears, she did not see and eagle soaring above her. It was a female, looking for somewhere to build nest. But the world of wind and water provided no perch, she began to fly away. Luonnaotar heard her desolate cries and stretching on her back the better to see the bird, she lifted one knee above the waves. The eagle dropped straight to this islet which had appeared so providentially, and there she laid seven eggs: the first six were of gold, and the seventh was of iron.
For three days the eagle sat on her eggs, Luonnaotar dared not move, but by the end of the third day she could stay still no longer. She straightened out her leg and shook it. The eggs rolled into the sea and smashed. Then, under Luonnaotar’s astonished gaze, the largest pieces of golden eggshell floated upwards and grew and grew to form the vault of the sky, other pieces turned into the earth; yolks became the Sun and the whites the Moon. The tiniest fragments of eggshells became the stars and the clouds.
For nine years more Luonnaotar explored her new world. But it was flat and featureless, and she grew bored by it. She decided to reshape it, she built mountains and islands and carved out valleys, she dived into the oceans to form its caverns and gulfs, and when she returned to land the water streaming from her body became rivers and lakes. At last she was satisfied. She gave birth to her son, the hero Wainamoninen, who tilled and cultivated the earth his mother and made for him.


For hundreds of years Luonnaotar, the beautiful daughter of Nature, glided through the empty blue sky. Until at last she grew tired of her lonely existence. Far below stretched a boundless sea. Luonnaotar gathered all her strength and dived down, down into the water. Then she stretched out on its calm surface.
Soon a violent wind sprang up, and for a long time Luonnaotar was tossed like a little boast on the angry waves. When calm at last returned, she knew that she was going to have a son; but he could only be born when she had prepared a world for him to live in.
 For nine long years, Luonnaotar searched the limitless sea in vain for a shore where she could stop and rest. At last, cold and miserable, she prayed for pity to the great god Ukko, lord of the vast regions of the air. Blinded by her tears, she did not see and eagle soaring above her. It was a female, looking for somewhere to build nest. But the world of wind and water provided no perch, she began to fly away. Luonnaotar heard her desolate cries and stretching on her back the better to see the bird, she lifted one knee above the waves. The eagle dropped straight to this islet which had appeared so providentially, and there she laid seven eggs: the first six were of gold, and the seventh was of iron.
For three days the eagle sat on her eggs, Luonnaotar dared not move, but by the end of the third day she could stay still no longer. She straightened out her leg and shook it. The eggs rolled into the sea and smashed. Then, under Luonnaotar’s astonished gaze, the largest pieces of golden eggshell floated upwards and grew and grew to form the vault of the sky, other pieces turned into the earth; yolks became the Sun and the whites the Moon. The tiniest fragments of eggshells became the stars and the clouds.
For nine years more Luonnaotar explored her new world. But it was flat and featureless, and she grew bored by it. She decided to reshape it, she built mountains and islands and carved out valleys, she dived into the oceans to form its caverns and gulfs, and when she returned to land the water streaming from her body became rivers and lakes. At last she was satisfied. She gave birth to her son, the hero Wainamoninen, who tilled and cultivated the earth his mother and made for him.


http://library.thinkquest.org/26118/origin_other_stories.htm

ASSIGNMENT #2 FOLK SONG

RIGINAL TAGALOG LYRICS


Mabangong bulaklak
simbango ng buhay
humahalimuyak sa gabi at araw

Bulaklak na tangi
na lunti ang kulay
kahit na malanta
may bango ring taglay

KORO:

Iya'y ilang-ilang
ang tanging bulaklak
na ang katamisa'y hindi kumukupas
Bulaklak na tangi
na namumukadkad
sa tangkay ng isang pag-ibig na tapat.

http://tagaloglang.com/Filipino-Music/Tagalog-Folk-Songs/ilang-ilang-song-lyrics-and-recording.html

ASSIGNMENT #1 RIDDLES

1. Why did the woman wear a helmet at the dinner table?
     Answer: She was on a crash diet.

2. What do you call a fairy that hasn't taken a bath?
    Answer: Stinkerbell.

3. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
   Answer: Incorrectly.

 4.Why are Teddy Bears never hungry?
   Answer: Because they are always stuffed.

 5. What did the chewing gum say to the shoe?
  Answer: I'm stuck on you.


http://www.buzzle.com/articles/funny-riddles-for-kids-riddles-answers.html