BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

My name is Zeankevy Jeyy R. Banaag, but most of my friends call me Kevy. I

was born on April 4, 2009 in Madonna’s Child hospital in Cagayan de Oro City. I was an
extremely hyper and clumsy baby, most of the time I would dance and run around my bed
which resulted in me getting myself hurt in the process. My parents often told me silly
stories on how I was born in this world, sometimes my parents would tell me that the
hand of God came down from heaven and gifted me to my parents, sometimes my parents
would say I was found in a lake and they took me home and adopted me as their own.
Which at that time I was very young, and I would believe my parents all the time,
speaking of my family, I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters, but my other sister passed away
during childbirth which was very tragic and sad when my parents told me when I became
older. My eldest brother, Zeankyle Jeff R. Banaag is 27 years old and he finished college
in the year 2018. He is a very helpful and caring brother, although he is kind a of a bully
to me most of the time, I still love him and his efforts helping around the house, dropping
and picking us up from school and he mentors me on playing video games to become
even better. My older brother, Zeanley Kenn R. Banaag is 23 years old and is now in
college studying to become a doctor. He is so intelligent and handsome and is also very
helpful to me and my siblings, we often never see him go home or go out of the house to
go to class because he is very busy with college and exams every week. Me and my
family really appreciate his hard work to so he can graduate in college, in his tough times
we motivate him to keep going and do what he does best. When he is around, we often
talk about how college was for him, how he is doing etc. We also play video games with
me and my eldest brother when he is not busy at the moment. To put in short, he is the
most hardworking and intelligent child of the family. My older sister, Zheltessa Kyzl R.
Banaag is 17 years old and is now in senior high, grade 11. She is also very smart and
always knows how to manage her time properly. She is the one helping me with my
studies when my older brother is not around. She can be very angry when I don’t follow
the rules my parents gave me. She would often scold me and make fun of me, but as we
got older, we started to respect each other and talk a lot more. We would always chat
about how school was and how hard it was to study all the subjects in one day. My
siblings are one of my most important aspects in my life.

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MY EXPERIENCE/S AS THE “YOUNGER SON”
In my many experiences, I made countless amounts of bad decisions throughout
my life that I lost count of how many I’ve made. My first experience is when I decided I
didn’t want to study for the exam in Grade school 1 st Quarter, so the first thing I did was
play video games and stayed up all night. I didn’t even bother going to sleep at that
moment, I also just watched tv in the afternoon and just video chatted with my friends the
entire time. My parents would tell me to study instead of just relaxing and wasting time,
but I was so stubborn back then that I didn’t listen to them and just continued on what I
was doing. When it was the day of the exams, the teacher handed out the exam papers
and I began to panic as I realize that I didn’t study for anything at all. It was very dumb of
me to even play games rather than study, looking back now I realized that studying plays
a very important role in my life. Studying helps me become even more focused and smart
as I continued to learn more about school. Now that I’m in high school, I now know
studying can actually change my life completely. It helped me realize that studying can
make me successful in the future, studying can always help me achieve my goals and can
make a significant amount of progress in my personal struggles. The consequences of
playing video games instead of studying were the moments I could never forget to this
day. It actually made a huge impact in my life back then. My grades really fell down and
my parents scolded me for not studying and instead played video games, my parents took
away my gadgets and all my toys. Looking back, I deserved the punishment because the
nerve I had to disobey my parents was not the right decision to make. The right decision
to make was to study and toss aside video games, because video games will not go away
it will always be there to entertain me, but the exams only have limited chances for me to
pass each quarter and each subject every school year. Getting a passing mark made me
feel even more confident and more responsible about my future. The lesson I learned
from this bad decision is to always prioritize my studies first before the fun and games,
because if I prioritize games over my education, I will get failing marks instead of high
marks. I might also lose my parent’s trust. My parents will never believe me study If I
keep playing video games every day instead of just studying my lessons, I may go
through highs and lows along the way but It’s part of the process to change and help me

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become a better person. Studying will make me become the person I’m meant to be in the
future.
The second experience I would like to share that impacted me because of the
consequences of my actions is that I did not study to the subject of Math, which had
impacted me and my grades of Math until 3 rd Quarter. This decision I chose as a grade 9
student had impacted me during the rest of the quarters, but also is going to impact me
and my grades in the current quarter. This decision I had made had very bad
consequences as of now, I have a very little understanding of the Math solutions teacher
Bless gave me, enabling me to solve properly, understand the formulas and completely
understanding questions during Math long tests, quizzes, discussions, and even exams.
But with these consequences, I had learned my lessons, errors, and mistakes, and trying
to learn from my previous mistakes in the past, I slowly began to learn and understand
the lessons to improve my knowledge and make up for the low grades in Math
throughout my grade school years. Over all, mistakes, and bad choices, led me to feel
anxious, tired and slowly losing hope, but it had taught me to be more responsible, and
hardworking, to always give my very best and to strive for higher grades. The third
experience was not doing my English research as early as possible. So as the leader of the
group, I began to assign my members of their tasks in doing the research. When Teacher
Rose showed me the deadline for the research I said to myself that the deadline was still
so far away and I have more time to do it later. I rely on the deadline that it was still a
month, but when It was the day before the deadline that was when everybody in my
group started to panic. We spent all night trying to do the research but we lost all our
strength and hope, because of the days we wasted just doing absolutely nothing and
having fun. The consequences were very vivid and still gives me chills to this day, all of
my members got a low score on the English grade including me. My parents were very
upset of my grade in English, which resulted in me getting scolded and punished. My
parents grounded me for the whole Christmas break, I could only play gadgets on
weekends and had my phone taken away. So I learned that I shouldn’t wait till the
deadline to start working on my Performance Tasks and other projects. I had to work all
night without sleep just to finish my part of the research, including my members. It was a
very tiring experience I don’t want to repeat ever again, because I had to sleep during

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classes just stay energized and the teachers would often scold me for sleeping class. So in
summary, my experiences taught me a lot of valuable lessons in life, you should always
obey and love your parents, teachers and families. Because they are the source of your
joy.

MY EXPERIENCE/S AS THE “ELDER SON”

In my experiences I get very upset of people who get away with their evil
schemes and wrong doings because I always take the blame for everything. The actions
they make made me feel very angry for their unfair and non-tolerated actions. I still hold
a grudge against my brother for blaming me for his wrong doings, even though it wasn’t
me who did it. I really did tell the truth to my parents that I didn’t do the anything wrong,
that it was my brother who did it all and is framing me. Of course, my parents believed
my brother and I became very mad at him I wanted to punch him. But I realized at that
time if I did, I would fall right into his trap and I would be the suspicious person. The
most recent incident of my brother’s schemes was last January, when he punched my
older brother in the face because he did not do his chores and is just relaxing playing
video games, now at this point I knew if I intervened the fight I would have gotten in
trouble with them and that my parents would scold all of us. Now that I’m older, I must
be able to forgive them for their mistakes and for their wrong doings against me and my
siblings. And he must also be able to forgive me for my faults and misdoings against him
to truly let go of the resentment that resides between us. If we are able to fulfill these
requirements we will then be able to achieve the reality of having a fully united family. If
we are able to have a loving relationship, we will then be able to achieve many things that
non-united siblings and families cannot. All siblings dream to be a happy family but only
a few can truly achieve those dreams. Our dreams do come true if we work hard for it
when we show determination, without trying our hardest our dreams never come true.
Because the distance between dreams and reality is action. Without it we will never
achieve it, because to fulfill our dreams in life we need to work for it. It doesn’t come for
free or immediately, but It only shows if you are willing to work hard and prove that you
can do it. If you only see the worst in things you’ll miss the best part, you just have to
look for it. Although people have different status in life, It doesn’t mean one person’s

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integrity is worth more than others. I just hope that we can begin to respect each other, no
matter how different we are from others we are still human beings. Many people tend to
blame others of their mistakes in order to claim themselves innocent. My opinion is that
you should be honest and tell the truth, so that you can be a better person. We can
continue to grow and be better each day.

My second experience was when my old friend wanted to bully me just for fun,
because he was the most hated person in the classroom and I was his favorite target to
pick on because of my lack of strength and courage to fight back. He would only bully
me if there was no teacher around or most of the time it would be after school. I had to go
through many situations just so he’ll leave me alone, he sometimes write something very
disrespectful and toxic either on my notebook, my chair or my locker. Other times he
would steal my snacks, my money or my lunch. He would do everything in his power to
destroy me both mentally and physically, I couldn’t fight back because I was a coward
back then. Looking back now, I should have turned the tide against him and beat him at
his own game, Now that I’m older I keep on reflecting what I could have done to make
things better, because If I had fought back against him, the teacher would put the blame
on me instead of him. In many occasions, he would get away with it either putting the
blame on me or my classmates. The teachers couldn’t just expel him because we had no
proof of his terrible schemes and bad things he has done. It made me so angry and upset
that the teachers had no power to tolerate such bad behavior in the classroom or even the
school. My parents would come to school and talk with adviser, they would talk about me
and the bully how they would lessen the bullying. Long story short, they only suspended
him for a week, which wasn’t enough for me I wanted him out of this school forever.
Because I wanted to be free and alive again with no stress and horror behind my back.
Now that I’m in high school, I now knew the right thing to do was to just befriend him
and forgive him for the terrible things he has done to my childhood. We are now best
friends and also in the same class, we would study together, play together and also hang
out with my other friends. I forgave him, because we were young back then and we
weren’t very mature so we do dumb and hateful things to each other. My parents always
tell me to love your bullies as you would love your family and neighbor, because God
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you must love your enemies as well. Me and my bully made amends and actually became
really close friends. So I learned to always treat people the way you want to be treated.
Me and him sometimes fight because we can often never agree with each other opinions,
but that’s part of the process in making relationships grow and have a stronger bond.
Loving and fighting helps us shape our world, because love and hate exist in every one of
us we may not be perfect but we are unique.

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