This is my second and possibly last column in the Paularri. I am but blessed to know that there are people who like and are interested in reading my columns. Well, I hope you’ll enjoy this and have a silent reflection like what we had in the previous one. Good day!
Everyone is familiar with Luneta also known as Rizal Park, right? In my sixteen years of existence in this world, it was just last December that I have stepped on the very place where the hailed national hero of ours was killed. Indeed, I have nothing to say but, “Wow!” Seriously, the park is really the most beautiful, grandest, biggest and most loved park in the country. There is no question to this because tons and tons of people flock in its grounds everyday especially on Sundays and Holidays.
I was at the peak of excitement when we entered the park. A lot of people came trooping with us and I can hardly see things I am supposed to see. The first attraction that I noticed was the Philippine Archipelago situated in a man-made lake. O yes! It was unique! I saw one in the capitol but this one is different. Later on, we continued walking on the 48-hectare urban park and we saw the building of the Department of Tourism as well as the National Museum and National Library. I can see them when we pass by the streets in the area but looking at them up close feels so differently.
I consider it a park of our culture and history. For the park itself is history. There are structures built by famous artists. Some of them include the neck-to-head statues of different local heroes in the south. There is also a Chinese Garden and an area where a lights and sound presentation of Rizal’s last days is played. But what struck me the most is Rizal’s monument. Among the given attractions, it is the one to which utmost care and importance was given. Sadly, the knights guarding him that I expected to see weren’t there.
The recently added attraction to Rizal park is the dancing fountain that all Filipinos could really be proud of. It was just like Singapore’s my dad said. The fountains sway and dance to the beat of music being played at night beginning at 6 in the evening.
I agree that this park is one of a kind. Nobody can compare it to any other parks in the country and or even in the world. It is beautiful but there is a factor that makes it not beautiful. Want to know what or who it is? It is us, Filipinos. We silently kill the beauty of Rizal park by our insensitiveness and being self-centered. The beauty of the park and its attractions are covered day by day, minute by minute, by the whirling mantle of wrappers, emptied food containers and also of saliva coming from the very mouths of the people when they spit.
If only we know how to be responsible like the people in Singapore, if only we have the desire to preserve what we uniquely have like the residents of China and if only we try our best to love Luneta as if it was a baby cuddling in our very arms, there will be no doubt that Rizal Park and other man-made and natural parks will all be the most magnificent, exquisite and superb places of relaxation and fun in the heart of Asia.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
SC President is also P.R.O.
Student Council President Ryan Esquibil was voted and installed P.R.O. for Luzon of P.E.G. during Paulink.
Esquibil once again battled to seek for a number of supports to gain an office in the newly established Paulinian Editor’s Guild (P.E.G.) of the Philippines during the 5th Campus Journalism Fellowship held at St. Paul College Pasig last April 11-13.
He represented St. Paul School of Aparri in a group of Paulinian Editors who assembled and elected the first set of P.E.G. officers.
After a guileless and unpretentious campaign, he won a sit in the said guild. He now acts as the first ever P.R.O. of the guild for all the Paulinian schools located in Luzon Island.
Together with the other officers, he swore with an oath in front of Paulink delegates at some time during the closing and awarding ceremonies in the Mere Marie Anne de Tilly Convention Hall. #
Esquibil once again battled to seek for a number of supports to gain an office in the newly established Paulinian Editor’s Guild (P.E.G.) of the Philippines during the 5th Campus Journalism Fellowship held at St. Paul College Pasig last April 11-13.
He represented St. Paul School of Aparri in a group of Paulinian Editors who assembled and elected the first set of P.E.G. officers.
After a guileless and unpretentious campaign, he won a sit in the said guild. He now acts as the first ever P.R.O. of the guild for all the Paulinian schools located in Luzon Island.
Together with the other officers, he swore with an oath in front of Paulink delegates at some time during the closing and awarding ceremonies in the Mere Marie Anne de Tilly Convention Hall. #
Paulinians thrive in annual Paulink
FOUR journalists of SPSA received awards during the 5th Campus Journalism Fellowship for Paulinian Writers and Advisers held in St. Paul College-Pasig, April 11-13.
Paularri staffers Keith Altares, Donato Legaspi Jr., Renz Tamayo and A.C. Tuvilla were among the more than 50 high school students who were given recognitions in the said event.
Altares and Tamayo were awarded Most Outstanding Editorial Cartoonist and Most Outstanding Editorial Writer, respectively. Legaspi received the award Most Promising Feature Writer. The high school quiz bee champion A.C. Tuvilla along with 2 other students from different schools also received an award.
Almost doubling the number of participants, Paulink which stands for Paulinian Ink has gone better than last year. Adding to its highlight features were plenums that gave the writers a chance to discover more about different types of writing and new school paper elements.
The organizing committee this year established an association for both advisers and editors. Paularri adviser Mrs. Yolanda Annang was elected Vice-President of the Paulinian School Paper Adviser’s Guild of the Philippines and Student Council President Ryan Esquibil was installed Public Relations Officer for Luzon of the Paulinian Editor’s Guild of the Philippines.
The awarding of contest winners, induction of officers and closing ceremonies took place in the Mere Marie Anne de Tilly Convention Hall in the afternoon of April 13.
Other participants from SPSA were Dayanne Abad, Kathryn Acebedo, Charlene Mendoza, Djarmaine Ragonjan and Grace Timario. #
Paularri staffers Keith Altares, Donato Legaspi Jr., Renz Tamayo and A.C. Tuvilla were among the more than 50 high school students who were given recognitions in the said event.
Altares and Tamayo were awarded Most Outstanding Editorial Cartoonist and Most Outstanding Editorial Writer, respectively. Legaspi received the award Most Promising Feature Writer. The high school quiz bee champion A.C. Tuvilla along with 2 other students from different schools also received an award.
Almost doubling the number of participants, Paulink which stands for Paulinian Ink has gone better than last year. Adding to its highlight features were plenums that gave the writers a chance to discover more about different types of writing and new school paper elements.
The organizing committee this year established an association for both advisers and editors. Paularri adviser Mrs. Yolanda Annang was elected Vice-President of the Paulinian School Paper Adviser’s Guild of the Philippines and Student Council President Ryan Esquibil was installed Public Relations Officer for Luzon of the Paulinian Editor’s Guild of the Philippines.
The awarding of contest winners, induction of officers and closing ceremonies took place in the Mere Marie Anne de Tilly Convention Hall in the afternoon of April 13.
Other participants from SPSA were Dayanne Abad, Kathryn Acebedo, Charlene Mendoza, Djarmaine Ragonjan and Grace Timario. #
Saturday, March 20, 2010
EDUCATION: a vital tool in changing lives
There is a big difference between a schooled man and an educated man. One may be schooled but not educated and another may be educated but not schooled. If a man had the privilege to study in school but he is uncouth or inconsiderate and does not live what he had learned then he is a schooled man but not educated.
Man, as proclaimed by nature has the capacity to think, discover and do work that is necessary for his benefit. We are not like brutes who keep on doing usual things for they never learned a single thing. A great example given is the birds. From the oldest times, they had been making their nest as a place of refuge. None of them ever imagined to build a more complex dwelling place. Why? Because nature destined them to be in that way and they were never educated. As for human beings, we learn from different sources; from our teachers, parents, religious leaders, friends and even from our own personal experiences. It is because of education that we transited from living inside caves during the primitive era and now in the modern generation in sky towering buildings and in no distant time in other planets.
Education is not only gaining knowledge but also living that imparted knowledge. A noted wit and raconteur with the name Peter Ustinov once said that “Education is a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.” A normal person would use more or less fifteen years of his/her life studying lessons in school. But all of those years would be put to waste when there is no gradual change in his/her way of living. Letting yourself be educated means lighting a torch that would help you see and discover opportunities laid upon by others as you journey towards success in life.
It is important for every individual to be educated and not merely schooled. It is by this way that the whole human race gets personal evolution. What do I mean by this? It is like breaking the ice to free us from the dreaded lifetime dependence on others. That is what we call development and when there’s development there is change. We tend to discover every single thing in this world. We ask questions that bother our innocent minds. We find answers to infinite problems.
Education gives us the ability to cope up with the increasing number of problems and trials in the society. It gives us reasons to learn new things for us to be able to uplift our ways of living. In education, we, the most valuable creation of God establishes change that in our point of view is essential for our personal and social growth.
Being an educated person literally means being ready to face the reality that the world is offering. And in facing that reality, our readiness must be at its peak for in education, we are capable of distinguishing what is best and what is worst. When we would choose what’s best, change from the inside being and the outside world happens; a change that would turn out permanent.
It also helps us not only to look forward to something but to work for something we thought is significant. Education builds in us an innate desire for change. It is that desire that encourages people to apply their knowledge for their use and benefit. We use our being as educated individuals in knowing what the predicament is then searching for the right solutions for it. A long process it is but that’s how we apply education in real life. We learn, search, retrieve and solve.
Education by nature is an eye opener. It helps us to look on how to be as effective we may be in the society by using effectively what we learned from education as well as in school. We are studying to be educated and to be educated is to be schooled, skilled and learned in making changes that everybody ought to have: an easier life with lesser problems and life with more value. Education then is a vital tool to change man’s life but such change must be geared towards the goal of making man’s life better.
Man, as proclaimed by nature has the capacity to think, discover and do work that is necessary for his benefit. We are not like brutes who keep on doing usual things for they never learned a single thing. A great example given is the birds. From the oldest times, they had been making their nest as a place of refuge. None of them ever imagined to build a more complex dwelling place. Why? Because nature destined them to be in that way and they were never educated. As for human beings, we learn from different sources; from our teachers, parents, religious leaders, friends and even from our own personal experiences. It is because of education that we transited from living inside caves during the primitive era and now in the modern generation in sky towering buildings and in no distant time in other planets.
Education is not only gaining knowledge but also living that imparted knowledge. A noted wit and raconteur with the name Peter Ustinov once said that “Education is a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.” A normal person would use more or less fifteen years of his/her life studying lessons in school. But all of those years would be put to waste when there is no gradual change in his/her way of living. Letting yourself be educated means lighting a torch that would help you see and discover opportunities laid upon by others as you journey towards success in life.
It is important for every individual to be educated and not merely schooled. It is by this way that the whole human race gets personal evolution. What do I mean by this? It is like breaking the ice to free us from the dreaded lifetime dependence on others. That is what we call development and when there’s development there is change. We tend to discover every single thing in this world. We ask questions that bother our innocent minds. We find answers to infinite problems.
Education gives us the ability to cope up with the increasing number of problems and trials in the society. It gives us reasons to learn new things for us to be able to uplift our ways of living. In education, we, the most valuable creation of God establishes change that in our point of view is essential for our personal and social growth.
Being an educated person literally means being ready to face the reality that the world is offering. And in facing that reality, our readiness must be at its peak for in education, we are capable of distinguishing what is best and what is worst. When we would choose what’s best, change from the inside being and the outside world happens; a change that would turn out permanent.
It also helps us not only to look forward to something but to work for something we thought is significant. Education builds in us an innate desire for change. It is that desire that encourages people to apply their knowledge for their use and benefit. We use our being as educated individuals in knowing what the predicament is then searching for the right solutions for it. A long process it is but that’s how we apply education in real life. We learn, search, retrieve and solve.
Education by nature is an eye opener. It helps us to look on how to be as effective we may be in the society by using effectively what we learned from education as well as in school. We are studying to be educated and to be educated is to be schooled, skilled and learned in making changes that everybody ought to have: an easier life with lesser problems and life with more value. Education then is a vital tool to change man’s life but such change must be geared towards the goal of making man’s life better.
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