Happy

Filipino
 The 7 Rules
for Happiness
Japanese
Style
1. Don’t step on
the edges of the
tatami mats.
This is particularly true for me. While I don’t have tatami
mats, we do have one carpeted room in the house and
the rule is: absolutely no shoes! I consider it our prayer
room. A holy room, the room dedicated to G-
d. Unfortunately, Tater missed the memo and no matter
what I do to keep him out of here he has on occasion used
it as his indoor lavatory (a side-effect to his thunderstorm
terrors). I’m serious about this room – we’re putting him
on an indoor invisible fence and zapping some holy into
him.
2. Honor your
ancestors.
Not only do we keep photos of our ancestors throughout the house,
we keep photos of others ancestors as well. Like this kindly old
gentleman he might of could have been related to me . . .maybe he
was my great-great grandfather? I never have seen any pictures of
my paternal grandfather. You can’t see through this picture of his
picture how full of love and warmth his eyes are. Who knows what
he experienced, what he saw, how many loved ones he outlived, his
eyes don’t reflect any bitterness or harshness, none of life’s
battering seemed to have affected his soul. I can only imagine the
stories he had to tell and the wisdom he had to offer. Anyway, he’s
somebody’s ancestor and I’m keeping him.
 3. Appreciate
simple beauty.
I’m an American-born of Guatemalan parents
with a Japanese identity problem married to
an all-American hybrid. This is my
interpretation of ‘simple beauty’. Cowboy and
the Natives gave me this painting one year for
mother’s day. She’s utterly, unspeakably,
simply beautiful with those peonies behind
her ears!
 4. Respect
sacred places.
This one is tricky living with Natives as the Natives have their own sacred
places. Sometimes those sacred places are the exact ones that are
supposed to be off-limits to them. For instance, the front yard is an area
Cowboy would like to consider sacred. He’d really like to assimilate with
the neighbors who have grass. Sometimes I think he suffers from lawn
envy. Unfortunately, the places he thinks he’ll grow grass is our Natives
sacred burial, building and digging grounds. They love to dig, build river
communities (we’re learning about early civilization), and work on
irrigation projects in this locale. Cowboy’s considering sod, but I’m
convinced it’ll give the Natives more material for their maturing
civilizations.
5. See How Art
Reflects Nature
 I was amazed at how much of nature is
reflected in the art that we have. Cowboy found
this picture in a retirement community he once
worked at. It’s a handpainted water and acrylic
picture of two hummingbirds. It’s one of my
favorite pieces. It really is very pretty. You’d
have to see it up close and personal to truly
appreciate the skill and artistry involved.
6. Wear shoes
outside. Wear
slippers inside.
I try to enforce this rule, not so much
because it’s “Japanese” of me, but because
Natives will track in all kinds of disgusting
things. The problem is it all accumulates on
one sad little rug by the front door the
Japanese solution for this is a ‘genkan’. I
think I know of a certain Cowboy who can
 7. Enjoy the 4
seasons. The seasonality
of life: everywhere, in
everything, all the time
Natives are a good reminder for this. Never
again will I live through a summer when I
had a 10-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 2-year-
old. As hard as my days are sometimes, the
Natives are growing up right before my eyes
– I have to remember not to blink because
the season will be over all too soon.
 Importance to you as a
No Filipino
Rules for Happiness
Very Least
(Japanese Style)
Impor Important Impor
tant tant
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 a. Vertical structure
b. horizontal structure
c. network structure
–Clears out issues related to
authority rights,
responsibilities and
reporting relationships
–Owners of private business
companies are said to have an
absolute authority , even if other
persons are appointed as
managers in their companies
–In corporations, the owners
are the stockholders and they
elect a board of directors to
manage the organization’s
activities.
–The board has a chairman who acts as
a leader, while the members acts as the
corporation’s authority figures,
responsible for making major decisions
affecting the organizations, subject to
the corporation’s constitution and by-
law provisions.
–Besides the chairman of the board, a
chief executive officer is appointed to
occupy the top post in the organization
pyramid and is personally accountable
to the members of the board and the
other owners for the organizational
performance
–Below the top level
managers are the middle-
level managers in charge of
departments who as earlier
mentioned, report to them.
–Below the middle level
managers are the low- level
managers which include office
managers, sales managers and
supervisors who directly report
to the former
–Employees under the lower-
manager also have reporting
relationships with their
respective department
managers
–Refers to a departmentalization
of an organization into smaller
work units as task become
increasingly varied and
numerous
Line Department
– deal directly with the firms
primary goods and services;
responsible for manufacturing,
selling and providing services to
clients
Staff Department
–Support the activities of the
line departments by doing
research , attending to legal
matters, performing public
relatinos duties, etc.
Functional Approach
– where the subdivisions are formed
based on specialized activities suc
as marketing, production, financial
management and human resources
management
Divisional Approach
–Where the departments are
formed based on
management of their
products, customers or
geographic areas covered.
Matrix Approach
– is a hybrid form of
departmentalization where
managers and staff personnel
report to the superiors, the
functional manager, and the
divisional manager.
– a collection of independent,
usually single function
organizations/ companies that
work together in order to produce
a product or service
–Such network organizations are each
capable of doing their own specialized
work activities independently, like
producing, distributing, designing, etc.,
but are capable of working effectively at
the same time with other network
members.
–Often their communication is by
electronic means where sharing
of information is speedy. This
result in their ability to respond at
once to their customer’s
demands.
Interview one of your school’s
department heads
perspective on his or her role,
authority , responsibilities
and accountability to
superiors.
Lalayo/ iiwas Nakakalungkot

Magsusumbong
Di- papansinin
Tatatagan ng loob
 Ano ang
nararamdaman mo
habang ginagawa
ang ibinigay na
Gawain?
 May bago ka bang
napagtanto tungkol
sa peer pressure?
 Nakaranas ka na ba
ng Peer Pressure? Sa
anong pagkakataon
mo naranasan ito?
Para sayo, ito ba ay
negatibo o
positibong peer
pressure?
 Ano ang iyong
ginawa upang
malabanan ang
negatibong peer
pressure?
 Bakit kinakailangan
makayanang labanan
ang negatibong peer
pressure
 Peer Pressure
Kaibigan… ito ang turing mo sa kanila. Maasahan,
masasandalan o takbuhan, maraming puwedeng
paglalarawan, maraming mapag-uusapan at maraming mga
hindi malilimutang karanasan mula sa inyong pagsasama.
Ngunit, paano kung ang intensiyon mong pakikipagkaibigan ay
nagdadala nan g negatibong peer pressure sa iyo?
Mahalagang maunawaan na ang pagkakaibigan ay hindi isang
damdamin, bagkus isang pasiya dahil ito ay nangangailangan
ng malinaw na hangarin (Regina Mignon C. Bognot, 2015).
Sa kasalukuyan, may ilang mga tao na gumon sa
ipinagbabawal na gamot. Ang ilan sa kanila ay
naiimpluwensiyahan sa pamamagitan ng kanilang mga
kaibigan o mga taong nakasasalamuha sa kanilang paligid.
Nakalulungkot isipin na ang mga ilang kabataang tulad mo ay
kasama sa mga taong gumon dito. Ngunit bakit nga ba pati
ang kabataan ay nagiging biktima ng masamang bisyong ito?
Karamihan sa mga kabataan ay nais mapabilang sa isang
barkada o samahan (peer group). Kung hindi sila matalino sa
pagpili ng sasamahang barkada, maaaring mapabilang sila sa
mga gumagamit ng droga .(Mary Jean B. Brizuela, 2015).
 Bilang panlipunang nilalang , likas sa atin ang
pagnananis na mapabilang. Naghahanap tayo
ng pangkat kung saan tayo mapabilang
maliban sa ating pamilya. Ang usapin na
lamang ay kung anong uri bang pangkat ang
iyong ninanais na kabilang o kasalukuyan ay
kinabibilangan.
Ang pagmamahal sa sarili ang isa sa pinakamahalagang
sandata na magagamit ng isang kabataan upang
maiwasan na masangkot sa anumang karahasan sa
paaralan. Isapuso mo ang katotohanan na nag-iisa ka
lamang sa mundo. Mahalaga ka, isa kang hindi na
mauulit na ekspresyon ng diwa ng Diyos. Ikaw lang ang
mayroong natatanging pagkakataon upang kilalanin nang
malalim ang iyong sarili at tukalasin ang landasin para sa
iyo.
Kaya mong mahalin ang iyong kapwa, mag-alala
para sa kanila, bigyan sila ng lakas ng loob,
suportahan, making, ngunit lahat ng biyaya ng
kasiyahan, pag-unawa at pag-aaruga na iyong
ibinibigay sa iyong kapwa ay nararapat din para sa
iyong sarili. Kailanagn mo ng pagmamahal na ikaw
lamang ang makapagbibigay (Regina Mignon C.
Bognot, 2015).
MGA PAGPIPILIANG SITWASYON:

1. Mag-aaral na inaaya ng mga barkada na manigarilyo.

2. Mag-aaral na kinakausap ng kaklase at inaakit siya na gumamit ng
marijuana/ ipinagbabawal na gamot.
3. Mag-aaral na inuudyukan ng kaklase na i-bully ang isa pang kaklase.
4. Mag-aaral na tinatakot ng kanyang mga kabarkada/ kagrupo sa paaralan
na pag di- sasama sa kanila na uminom ng alak ay aalisin na siya sa
grupo.
5. Mag-aaral na may nakitang malaswang larawan sa Facebook at naka-tag
sa kanya.
a)“Bakit mahalaga na malabanan ang mga
negatibong epekto dala ng “peer pressure?”

a)“Paano mo naiisip na labanan ang

negatibong epekto dala ng “ peer pressure”
sa iyong buhay ?”
Pagtataya:
Itanong sa mga mag-aaral ang mga sumususnod:
1.Anong tatlong mahalagang konsepto ang
natutunan mo ngaun?
2.Anong dalawang bagay ang nais mong gawin
upang malabanan ang negatibong “peer pressure?”
3.Magbigay ng isang kahalagahan ng paglaban sa
negatibong ”peer presure?”