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AT THE LOYALTY DAY

Loyalty Day is an annual celebration of the UPLB community in commemoration of the 1918 students and faculty members who joined the Philippines National Guard and fought in the World War I. This year is the 101st anniversary and the jubilarians are those graduates of the years ending in 4 and 9. On Thursday, October 10, was the culminating activity of the theme “Patuloy na Tumutugon sa Hamon ng Buhay”.

In presence of many alumni, I had the chance to interview some of them. Here are the learnings of the two alumni along their stay in the university.

RUELLEN MAY YMANA – BATCH 2010 – BS Biology

Being away from my family made me learn how to be independent.
I became more resourceful and learned to do things on my own.
This also made me realize how important it is to have friends around who at that time were like family to me since I was away from home.
I also learned how to be more determined and patient.

ALLAN SORIANO – Batch 2012 – BS Electrical Engineering

“Failures do not mark the end of a story; rather, with hope, even the worst failures become mere stepping stones to success.”

Truly, it is not just the knowledge of our course that we learn in our Alma Mater. Yet, the most important things are the values that will manifest throughout our lives.

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Stores along Grove Supported Bañamos Sale

by Angelika Montemayor, Jamil Creado, Jerome Benjamin

Last September 13-22, Bañamos Sale happened and multiple establishments along The Grove of Barangay Batong Malaki have supported the activity. From food corporations to local shops, they all had so much things (discounts or freebies) in store for would-be customers.

This year marks the 18th Bañamos Festival and as part of the celebration, Bañamos Sale – an annual, week-long participatory activity happened all throughout the municipality. Multiple establishments around Los Baños had put up tarpaulins to indicated their involvement for the said activity.

Participating establishments include the following: Zark’s Burgers that offered free fries and drinks for every purchase of any of their ala carte burgers; Max’s Restaurant which gave free sizzling tofu for a minimum order or PhP 1000; Serendipity that also for a minimum order of PhP 1000, gave free mug; Bonchon offered to all residents of Los Baños 10% discount on all orders; Pia’s 101 Collection that gifted an item of store’s choice for a minimum purchase of PhP 1000; Craft Store had 50% discount on all UP shirts; and Fregata Travel and Tours, Los Baños which gave PhP 200 off for all roundtrip 2Go Fares.

As per the officer-in-charge of the Tourism Office of Los Baños, Mr. Jonathan Natividad, Department of Trade and Industries charge on the promotions offered by all participating stores were all covered by the municipal budget.

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As a media writer practitioner, I consider myself being at the bottom. Probably, I need to be showing bit more passion and hardwork.

My reading habit is very poor up to an extent that I am so interested to them but as soon a I have bought it and started reading it, I tend to sleep over it. Finishing a book will be such a long journey, indeed.

Poor reading is to poor writing. Yes, I tend to stay long for a single writing because I really have to put effort looking for the right words that’s hard for my mind to give away.

Counter to that, I could say that I am a persevering and organized person making me enjoy accomplishing tasks and complying them on a given time. Additionally, being born in this generation, we are somehow technologically advanced and I can say that I can do good research and operation of media tools. Lastly, I can also say that I am a service-oriented citizen living and loving my people around me and striving to help them soon until such time that I can already do.

In anyway, being better snd striving for more is a great thinking to learn more and be more than you are right now.

AWAKENED

18-year old freshman from the College of Development Communication – UPLB, Angelika Montemayor, is an aspiring leader of today. Back in her lower school years, she has always been assigned to lead her groupmates and has already captured the trust and respect of her colleagues. Technically, she had been a consistent officer of her class and of the school’s student council, and had also become the managing editor of their SHS student’s publication. But not until this start of her college life that her confidence has built herself the urge to believe that she can be a great leader to a large number of people.

Angelika’s heart has always been to be a successful professional and someday make a change by prioritizing the marginalized sector for job occupancy and being able to sustain their own needs. Having been raised in a developing country and witnessing in her own eyes the hardships of the Filipino, she has been awakened to seek for transformation.

As her goal remains a journey, she is a novice writer who aims to capture mass’ hearts and minds to get out of their comfort zones and be their own kind of change for their society’s development. Having a little background in writing will not be a hindrance for her goal rather a motivation to pursue more and dream higher. As she follows the world’s right track, Angelika will also be the lead for the people in her back and make them feel that we are all in this betterment journey.