Tag: February 20, 2003

A UST graduate placed second in the Pharmacist Licensure Examinations last month, leading the batch of new Thomasian pharmacists.

Agnes Llamasares, who graduated last year, got 89.38 per cent for second place.

Likewise, UST ranked second in the top performing schools category of 10 or more examinees with 91 per cent in passing rate (31 out of 34 Thomasians passed).

During the same period last year, UST registered a passing rate of 96.88 per cent although no one landed in the top ten.

Three graduating Thomasians received the 2003 Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Science Award last Feb. 6 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex auditorium.

College of Science students Jaymie Clair Ang and Abelyn Methanie Laurito, and Faculty of Engineering undergraduate Carlo Isidro emerged the top three Thomasian nominees based on their outstanding scholastic achievements, leadership potentials, and researches.

THE NATIONAL Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) has ordered the University to reinstate four dismissed employees, but the administration has appealed the order.

According to Center for Human Resources and Development director Atty. Manuel Beaniza, the UST administration would insist that Fernando Pontesor, Jimmy Nazareth, Santiago Buisa Jr., and Rodrigo Clacer should not be reinstated because they were project employees.

A Tongatong is a bamboo percussion instrument used by the people of Kalinga to communicate with spirits during house blessings. It is made of bamboo cut in various lengths. When you hit it against soft earth a certain drone reverberates though the instrument’s open mouth. When an entire set of Tongatong is played in interloping rhythm and prolonged with the tribal chanting, it could put the audience and the dancers in a trance.

Cruel, how the stick could lure

hands like mine to grip, hit

and bounce the stick

“It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import and value.” - Georg Hegel

ONE OF my favorite classic bedtime stories is about the journey of two monks back to the monastery.

THEY say dreaming is free; all it takes is a wide space for imagination where you can host those visions of glory and happiness. Anything can happen. One can grow roses inside his head if he wants to. Or bridges, connecting islands and casting enormous shadows on large bodies of water, or buildings—any kind of marvel that could be made from concrete and steel.

PINAKAMALAWAK ang bayan ng Tineg sa lalawigan ng Abra subalit ito rin ang pinakamahirap. Mabundok at walang masasabing kalsada. Pagkatapos ng anim na oras na biyahe mula sa Bangued, dalawang araw pa ang lalakarin bago marating ang poblasyon.

Karamihan sa mga nakatira dito ay mga Tingguian na hanggang ngayon ay patuloy pa ring hindi naabot ng kanilang mga kapwa katutubo at mga kapatid na Ilokano sa kapatagan.

DINIG sa buong paligid ang paghampas ng mga sanga ng mga nagsisilakihang puno na nakapalibot sa parke na wari’y ipinagtatanggol ang mga bagong gawang upuan. Sa paligid, iba’t ibang klase ng halaman at bulaklak ang namumukadkad. Marahil, ang patay-sinding bombilya ng poste na lamang ang luma sa parke, naisip ni Angelo habang pinagmamasdan niya ito.

“Kailangan na sigurong palitan ‘yan,” sambit ng isang boses mula sa likuran.

SIDE by side with sordid stories of abuse and treatment of Filipino overseas contract workers are stories of bright economic prospects that the ever-increasing dollar remittances of OFWs to the country. But can OFWs improve their lives in the Philippines?

The UST Graduate School and Center for Professional Development and Consultancy Services (CPDCS) seeks to provide the answers by encouraging OFWs to go into business.

NOT TOO many people know that Washington SyCip, one of Asia’s most respected business gurus, is a Thomasian. The founder of the world-renowned SyCip, Gorres, Velayo and Company (SGV & Co.) finished Accountancy in just two and a half years at the College of Commerce in 1939, graduating summa cum laude at the young age of 18.