Tag: November 15, 2002

It is Sunday. And like all the other Sundays of my life, it spells a kind of ordinariness: the light is stable in the vision and the objects sit quietly in their given places. The radio blares the romantic songs of Basil Valdez, and on the opposite room, three people play poker. The dogs are pretty contemplative, having been fed just enough to maintain an animal kind of stupor.

“I BOUGHT this notebook to write my dreams in. But it has too many blank pages. I don’t have enough dreams…Maybe dreams just don’t happen when we go to sleep. Wishes, desires, aspirations, visions—aren’t those dreams too? And stories, especially stories…fantasies, fictions, lives imagined, worlds conjured…”

DESPITE a dip in the passing rate, UST got the top spot in the over-all ranking for 100 or more examinees in the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Licensure Examinations last month.

The University registered a 52 per cent passing rate compared to last year’s 55 per cent with 138 out of its 265 examinees passing.

The national passing rate was 18 per cent.

“Now I plead, with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement” - 1 Corinthians 1:10

I EXPERIENCED a total culture shock when I went to this remote place in Abra, just a mountain away from the Kalinga province.

SA PAGPASOK natin sa ika-21 siglo, panibagong hamon na naman sa Pilipino ang suriin ang kanyang katauhan at pag-isipan kung saan niya ilalagay ang sarili sa mundo. Sa panahong ito, unti-unting nabubura ang mga bakod ng mundo at ang kaalaman ang siyang nagiging sandata sa makabagong digmaan.

THREE a.m., October 24. I had a trouble sleeping despite a busy week. I cited three possible reasons for my anxiety: the Coke Light I had during dinner, the fact that I was sleeping over at another house, and the uncertainty of what may come out of Inkblots 2002.

THE EIGHTIES were a historic decade for the country and for the Varsitarian. Despite the lifting of martial law in 1981, the dictatorship was still in place, as shown by the imprisonment of government “enemies” and other atrocities under the mask of a returned democracy.

THIS school year’s La Salle Ateneo UAAP basketball showdown created a wildfire across all sectors, a fire that even engulfed more important national issues.

For several weeks, the clash between these two “sports titans”, was the national issue. This shows us three things.

I WAS born to be a Thomasian.

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Irony makes everything around us a little bit more interesting.

For instance, there’s the circus hoopla that amateur basketball presents to us such as the Ateneo-De La Salle rematch for the UAAP men’s basketball championship. Supporters and wannabes filled the Araneta Coliseum to the rafters. Some even resorted to buying tickets from scalpers just to support their beloved teams. Fast-forward to the recent UAAP-NCAA Showdown for the benefit of the Bantay Bata.

FOR TEACHERS who are strict with the attendance of students, every minute counts.

Before, a student who came to class minutes after it had started would need to clarify with the teacher if he was merely late or already considered absent. Such a scenario had often been brought about by the different time readings of teachers and students because of lack of reference time. And it was only lately that the University realized that its time was not synchronized with the Philippine standard time.