why do some people rant about classical music when more than half of the world has to study?
Monday, June 18, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Freshie Spitz at importanteng mensahe kasunod nito
hay. ayan na. sa wakas. nakapagsalita na rin ako. Akala ko nga mapupunit na chest ko the night before dahil sa lakas at bilis ng lubdubs ng puso ko e. Kabadong kabado ako nun. Pero dahil tapos na, ayan. OK na. Ngayon ko lang hinarap ang libo-libong tao. At hullor, ispitch. :)) anyway, salamat at tapos na siya. buti na lang college of ssp at eng at sci lang yun. at di buong up freshie. suri, nakakakaba talaga. at buti di ako natapilok o kaya namula o kaya nabulol.
ipopost ko na rin.
Even before the UPCAT results arrived, I knew that I had to study at the University of the Philippines. For me, UP weighed more than any other university I applied for. Eventually, the results came and the decision boiled down to UP versus ADMU. Both enticed me with free-tuition scholarships: one bragging about a free air-conditioned dorm room to accompany my stay, and the other, boasting simplicity—a statue of a naked man looking at the heavens to welcome me each day. It wasn’t really an easy decision, so why did I choose UP?
Coming from Philippine Science High School, I had to take a science or a math course. My courses for both universities were very much related: Biology at the ADMU and Molecular Biology and Biotechnology here at the UP. The critical difference was that I preferred Petri dishes and microbes over taxonomic balderdash, so my decision was fixed.
The fact that UP is a montage of all sorts of people supported my decision. I can meet a nerd, a jock, an artist, a revolutionary, an activist and a sophist. It would give me great pleasure to befriend someone who doesn’t agree with my ideology, and I would be equally thankful to find someone very much like me. Anyone can belong to UP. Part of the thrill in going to UP is searching for my interests and figuring out what hidden passions I have. Many different organizations are in UP: academic-based orgs such as the UP Samahan sa Agham-Pampulitika or UP SAPUL and the UP Pre-Medical Society; athletic orgs such as the Laya Football Club and the UP Association of Karate or UPAK; cultural and artistic orgs such as the UP Repertory Company and the three Philippine choirs who made it to the Euro Grand Prix for Choral Singing: the UP Madrigal Singers, the UP Singing Ambassadors, and the UP Concert Chorus; faith-based orgs such as Youth for Christ UP and the UP Muslim Students’ Association; and even geographic-based and ethnicity-based orgs such as the UP Sidlangan for Leyte, Samar and Biliran-based students.
Aside from offering remarkable education, UP can indeed give me various choices to shape well my roundedness. Like at the Dampa, which is both a marketplace and a restaurant where people choose the kind of meat and the cooking method, knowledge won’t be spoon-fed; I just have to select the things to learn based on my hunger and palate because it is I who know very well what I like. UP can guide me in finding out who I am and who I need to be in order to meet my necessities and my inclinations.
But aside from the academics and the freedom to choose, the true essence of being at the UP is being an Iskolar ng Bayan. The University of the Philippines was not called the University of the Philippines just because it is in the Philippines. It was called so because it is the only national university in the country and Filipino taxpayers partly subsidize the education of UP students. Therefore, every Iskolar ng Bayan should not take studying at UP for granted. The most significant word of the phrase Iskolar ng Bayan is bayan; thus each scholar should give back to the country, not due to indebtedness, but because of the duty to serve the country and the Filipino taxpayers, without whom the UP education would not have been possible. An Iskolar ng Bayan should be grateful enough for the blessings he received, and so he should have loyalty to the university and to the country, have integrity through all endeavors, and have respect to fellow students and countrymen. After getting the academic excellence UP instills in its students, a UP scholar should share and use what he learned for the betterment of the society because UP does not train its students to apply what they learn only for selfish benefits or greed. An Iskolar ng Bayan is independent yet conforms to the ethical and moral norms. The true mark of an Iskolar ng Bayan is not his intelligence or his expertise in a particular field, but rather his versatility and his adaptability to hardships and life situations from which he has to decide what is best for our nation. Some mistakes may be inevitable, but those mistakes will be the fire that hardens the pot to its perfection.
As we voyage through college, we must remember that the ultimate purpose of our education is for the nation, that we should give back the excellence the University of the Philippines will have nurtured in us. When the time comes, through our own efforts, we shall be subsidizing a new generation of Iskolars ng Bayan. And surely, if the cycle goes on, we will be helping the country develop exceptionally.
Yeah, I opted for the statue of a naked man looking at the heavens. Fellow freshmen, let’s make the best out of that naked man for the Philippines.
woohoo. tapos na rin. yeh. after ng spitz, nagkaron ng protest. yeh. at least maagang lumabas yung tunay na kulay. haha. tungkol siya sa tuition increase and a whole heck more.
AT ETO ANG PINAKAMADUGO: yeh. bloody.
naaasar ako sa notion na kinakahiya ang pagkafreshy. grrr. sobra. naiinis ako tuwing naririnig ko ang aking mga kaibigan na nagsasabing Wag mong ilabas yung mapa; mahahalata tayo!! o kaya naman, pag sasabihin kong Dun tayo sa palma. sasabihin naman nilang AS ano ba!! para di magmukhang freshie. Baket?? me pinagkaiba ba ang palma sa AS?? e sa gusto kong tawaging palma ang palma hall. mabuti na yun, cinocommemorate si palma. kesa namang AS, sino ba yun?? hahah. pero seriously, INIS NA INIS NA INIS NA INIS ako sa freshies na kinakahiya ang pagkafreshie nila. E ano naman kung freshie?? FRESHIE AKO AT PROUD AKO DUN!!! PROUD AKONG MAGTANONG KUNG DI KO ALAM! PROUD AKONG MAGTANONG KUNG MAGKANO ANG DYIP! PROUD AKONG SUMAKAY NG IKOT TAS BUMABA, TAS SUMAKAY ULI!!! PROUD AKONG BUMABA LAMPAS SA CP GARCIA, TAS MAGLAKAD PATUNGONG CP GARCIA! PROUD AKONG TANUNGIN SA GUARD KUNG MAGKANO YUNG ID STRAP!! PROUD AKONG SUMIGAW AT MAGMUKHANG TANGA SA PAGGALAW NG KAMAY NANG DI NAKAKASABAY. PROUD AKONG TINGNAN YUNG MAPA PAMINSAN-MINSAN, KESA NAMAN TSUMAMBA KUNG SAN PUPUNTA!!! AT ANO NAMAN, KUNG FRESHIE AKO?? hindi ba dumadaan ang lahat ng college students sa pagiging freshie?? kaya sa susunod na mahiya ka sa balat mo, mag-isip ka. KASI FRESHIE KA TALAGA!! AT YUN ANG TOTOO. WAG MAGPAKAHIPOKRITO!!
Coming from Philippine Science High School, I had to take a science or a math course. My courses for both universities were very much related: Biology at the ADMU and Molecular Biology and Biotechnology here at the UP. The critical difference was that I preferred Petri dishes and microbes over taxonomic balderdash, so my decision was fixed.
The fact that UP is a montage of all sorts of people supported my decision. I can meet a nerd, a jock, an artist, a revolutionary, an activist and a sophist. It would give me great pleasure to befriend someone who doesn’t agree with my ideology, and I would be equally thankful to find someone very much like me. Anyone can belong to UP. Part of the thrill in going to UP is searching for my interests and figuring out what hidden passions I have. Many different organizations are in UP: academic-based orgs such as the UP Samahan sa Agham-Pampulitika or UP SAPUL and the UP Pre-Medical Society; athletic orgs such as the Laya Football Club and the UP Association of Karate or UPAK; cultural and artistic orgs such as the UP Repertory Company and the three Philippine choirs who made it to the Euro Grand Prix for Choral Singing: the UP Madrigal Singers, the UP Singing Ambassadors, and the UP Concert Chorus; faith-based orgs such as Youth for Christ UP and the UP Muslim Students’ Association; and even geographic-based and ethnicity-based orgs such as the UP Sidlangan for Leyte, Samar and Biliran-based students.
Aside from offering remarkable education, UP can indeed give me various choices to shape well my roundedness. Like at the Dampa, which is both a marketplace and a restaurant where people choose the kind of meat and the cooking method, knowledge won’t be spoon-fed; I just have to select the things to learn based on my hunger and palate because it is I who know very well what I like. UP can guide me in finding out who I am and who I need to be in order to meet my necessities and my inclinations.
But aside from the academics and the freedom to choose, the true essence of being at the UP is being an Iskolar ng Bayan. The University of the Philippines was not called the University of the Philippines just because it is in the Philippines. It was called so because it is the only national university in the country and Filipino taxpayers partly subsidize the education of UP students. Therefore, every Iskolar ng Bayan should not take studying at UP for granted. The most significant word of the phrase Iskolar ng Bayan is bayan; thus each scholar should give back to the country, not due to indebtedness, but because of the duty to serve the country and the Filipino taxpayers, without whom the UP education would not have been possible. An Iskolar ng Bayan should be grateful enough for the blessings he received, and so he should have loyalty to the university and to the country, have integrity through all endeavors, and have respect to fellow students and countrymen. After getting the academic excellence UP instills in its students, a UP scholar should share and use what he learned for the betterment of the society because UP does not train its students to apply what they learn only for selfish benefits or greed. An Iskolar ng Bayan is independent yet conforms to the ethical and moral norms. The true mark of an Iskolar ng Bayan is not his intelligence or his expertise in a particular field, but rather his versatility and his adaptability to hardships and life situations from which he has to decide what is best for our nation. Some mistakes may be inevitable, but those mistakes will be the fire that hardens the pot to its perfection.
As we voyage through college, we must remember that the ultimate purpose of our education is for the nation, that we should give back the excellence the University of the Philippines will have nurtured in us. When the time comes, through our own efforts, we shall be subsidizing a new generation of Iskolars ng Bayan. And surely, if the cycle goes on, we will be helping the country develop exceptionally.
Yeah, I opted for the statue of a naked man looking at the heavens. Fellow freshmen, let’s make the best out of that naked man for the Philippines.
woohoo. tapos na rin. yeh. after ng spitz, nagkaron ng protest. yeh. at least maagang lumabas yung tunay na kulay. haha. tungkol siya sa tuition increase and a whole heck more.
AT ETO ANG PINAKAMADUGO: yeh. bloody.
naaasar ako sa notion na kinakahiya ang pagkafreshy. grrr. sobra. naiinis ako tuwing naririnig ko ang aking mga kaibigan na nagsasabing Wag mong ilabas yung mapa; mahahalata tayo!! o kaya naman, pag sasabihin kong Dun tayo sa palma. sasabihin naman nilang AS ano ba!! para di magmukhang freshie. Baket?? me pinagkaiba ba ang palma sa AS?? e sa gusto kong tawaging palma ang palma hall. mabuti na yun, cinocommemorate si palma. kesa namang AS, sino ba yun?? hahah. pero seriously, INIS NA INIS NA INIS NA INIS ako sa freshies na kinakahiya ang pagkafreshie nila. E ano naman kung freshie?? FRESHIE AKO AT PROUD AKO DUN!!! PROUD AKONG MAGTANONG KUNG DI KO ALAM! PROUD AKONG MAGTANONG KUNG MAGKANO ANG DYIP! PROUD AKONG SUMAKAY NG IKOT TAS BUMABA, TAS SUMAKAY ULI!!! PROUD AKONG BUMABA LAMPAS SA CP GARCIA, TAS MAGLAKAD PATUNGONG CP GARCIA! PROUD AKONG TANUNGIN SA GUARD KUNG MAGKANO YUNG ID STRAP!! PROUD AKONG SUMIGAW AT MAGMUKHANG TANGA SA PAGGALAW NG KAMAY NANG DI NAKAKASABAY. PROUD AKONG TINGNAN YUNG MAPA PAMINSAN-MINSAN, KESA NAMAN TSUMAMBA KUNG SAN PUPUNTA!!! AT ANO NAMAN, KUNG FRESHIE AKO?? hindi ba dumadaan ang lahat ng college students sa pagiging freshie?? kaya sa susunod na mahiya ka sa balat mo, mag-isip ka. KASI FRESHIE KA TALAGA!! AT YUN ANG TOTOO. WAG MAGPAKAHIPOKRITO!!
Saturday, June 02, 2007
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