THE GOLD PANICLES EDITORIAL BOARD AND STAFF Editor in Chief: Kurtnhy Love H. Maderal Associate E.I.C: Celmer Charles Q. Villareal Managing E.I.C Rey O. Bade Lay-out/Graphic Artist: Rally Jay B. Naife ASSOCIATE EDITORS Associate Man-Editor: Caryl Suzy N. Pagaran Online Editor: Dean Joshua L. Solis Opinion Editor: John Francis L. Cadampog Feature Editor: Roselle Lumahan News Editor: Marie Claire O. Virtudazo Sports Editor: Eliphaz A. Signar, Jr. II Literary Editors: Christine Joy P. Abellano Graphic Editor: Ebrahim Maicom Web Administrator: Reymond T. Java ADVISERS Jan Grenechaux Jeffrey T. Dellosa Jo Airen Vergara
Chief Adviser Technical Adviser (Visuals) Technical Adviser (Filipino)
ABOUT THE COVER This magazine is entitled “Unity in Diversity”, which is a political motto popular for its concept of “unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation”. It is unity based on a mere tolerance of physical, cultural, linguistic, social, religious, political, and ideological differences toward a more complex unity based on an understanding that differences enrich human interactions. The feet of students in different foot wears with different colors symbolize the diversity in our community as every stakeholder of this university come from different cultural belief and value systems, but we come full circle as one force to perform excellence in academic and humanitarian enterprises. We embrace differences for the sole purpose of learning. Two years ago in his speech during his inauguration, our university president had used this motto to give meaning to the word university. University is but an amalgamation of unity and diversity stakeholders of this institution, we come from different walks of life. We have different beliefs and aspirations. We are a community of intercultural differences. This university, however, is united by the same core values. We enter this university bringing our differences, but we leave with the same cause—to serve with competence and uprightness.
CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY VISION
MISSION
A premier university known for academic excellence in science and technology, agriculture, environment and natural resources, engineering, education and the arts towards the sustainable development of Caraga Region.
In pursuit of academic excellence, Caraga State University shall endeavor to deliver the highest quality of instruction, research, extension, production, and administration to produce scientifically-trained, technologically-skilled, and morallysound individuals contributing to the creation of an eco–friendly and healthy environment.
GENERAL MANDATE Caraga State University shall primarily provide advanced education, higher technological, professional instruction and training in the fields of agriculture and environmental studies, fishery, engineering, forestry, industrial technology, education, law, medicine and other health-related programs, information technology, the arts and sciences and other related courses. It shall undertake research and extension services, and provide progressive leadership in its areas of specialization.
CORE VALUES
Competence Service Uprightness
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Editors Note What divides us? In spite of the idea of unity in diversity, we are visibly in the opposite direction. What is it that divides us? We are split up by our own colleges, by our own programs, our gender, religion, ethnicity, culture. This division arises from a feeling that ‘we’ are separate from ‘them’ which in turn arises from the feeling of being different. But are we really different or do we only imagine that we are different?
Kurtnhy Love Maderal Editor in Chief
Let us ask ourselves whether the differences are real or is it constructed by our imagination. A human being has a body and a consciousness. So, are we really different in our bodies and are we very different in our consciousness? If we consult a biologist and ask him whether there are significant differences in the body, he will tell us that they are very superficial—the color of the skin may be different, the color of the hair may be different, the color of the eyes may be different, but inside the skin the flowing blood, the beating heart, everything is the same. You can exchange the blood of one person with that of any other person regardless of race or gender. In our bodies, we are not different except for our physical features. We are the same individual with different approaches of the same truth in life, no culture is bad—just shocking, no gender is bad—just surprising. We are not different, only diverse—each of us plays a critical role in each other’s life, if united, we create the perfect harmony, in ‘The university as one body” you can see how each component of the university plays its part for the ‘human body’ to live, in “no need to be alone”, you can realize the importance of multiple intelligence that everyone has his own field of preference and expertise, both articles tell us that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
We are more similar than different; it is our ignorance that makes us different.
Photo Essay LCO DAYS
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News Blockbuster Fashion P. 8 Trash to Fash P. 11 TOSCA: Jerry Bual Clinch P. 12 ZOMBIES’ INVADE P. 13
Opinion Unseen Concern P. 14 Warning: Security Breached P. 16 Change is Coming P. 18
Feature Stop The Stigma P. 21 THE FEAR OF MISSING OUT P. 22 Are Your Friends Assets or Liabilities? P. 23 Glorious P. 26 Just Take it Easy P. 29 BULIMIA NERVOSA P. 31 No Need to Be Alone P. 33 TALK ON CORNERS P. 34 Thinkers Are Sexier Than Feelers P. 36 DISCRIMINATION: THE FRUIT OF PREJUDICE P. 48 FREEDOM [or HATE] WALL? P. 40 On Objectifying Women
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Asal, Asan, Asa P. 44
Entertainment P. 46
Photo Essay Photos By: Dean Joshua Solis
The LCO DAYS 2016 is ann ual reminder to the CSU comm un ity that camaraderie and team work are essential foundation for un ity and di versity.
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BLOCKBUSTER FASHION Kurtnhy Love Maderal
This year’s Fashion Forward theme is
based on some top grossing blockbuster films of 2013—The Great Gatsby, where Jay Gatsby hosts glamorous soirées, Frozen, where Arendelle almost had eternal winter, and Hunger Games— where Katniss flamed us with her robust brashness, “If we burn, you burn with us!”
The Great Gatsby Is your get-up spiffy enough for Jay Gatsby’s ritzy parties? Classic is the key word we’re looking up here, if you have that going, you’re on the trolley!
Frozen Do you want to build a snowman? Let’s conquer the winter weather! These models looks like Elsa made them from the snow—a wardrobe fit for the queen. I just hope their heart wouldn’t be as cold as Hans.
Hunger Games Panem today! Panem tomorrow! Panem forever! The iconic building blocks of contemporary Capitol fashion such as sleeves, hairpieces and daring colors, and craft stunning look are a must for the ruling classes of Panem. The more audacious, the better! (Inner Katniss Everdeen cringes.) And oh, may the odds be ever on your favor!
Ms. Fashion Forward 2016 surely got the Capitol’s attention, instead of modifying the hair why not make it as sleeves—only someone as fashionable as Effie would think of that!
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The emcees of the event, Mr. Jobert Philip Cabag and Ms. Jeremeah Delosa, setting a tone from the overwhelming set of clothing
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The runaway with all the models representing their respective organizations
Mr. Fashion Forward 2016 (Frozen category): He is perfect as Elsa’s king—with the same blonde hair and sparkling outfit, they will surely be the “coolest” couple in all of Arendelle! Ms. Fashion Forward 2016 (Hunger games category): I might mistake this girl for Effie Trinket, with that bold eye make-up and those earrings that hang loosely like a necklace is just something Effie would wear for her tribunal district tour.
Ms. Fashion Forward 1st runner up (Great Gatsby category): This choice bit of calico is all glammed up for the party. Her silky dress effortlessly drapes around her stunning figure. Gatsby might have lost his thoughts about Daisy if he laid eyes on her. Mr. Fashion Forward 1st runner up (Hunger games category): Looking like a tribute from The Hunger Games, he is not only game-ready but also camera-ready for his interview with Ceasar Flickerman. Surely the Capitol people is already placing their bets on him.
Mr. Fashion Forward 2nd runner up (Great Gatsby category): This gent is looking dapper as ever. The outfit is just on-point—a party person Gatsby would want at his famous glittering parties. Ms. Fashion forward 2nd runner up (Frozen category): That snowflake might be challenging Elsa’s snow powers. I can already picture her living in Elsa’s splendid castle.
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Trash to Fash
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You throw it, they wear it. Fashion shows require the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. It
is usually made out of high-end and therefore expensive fabrics. The designs are always sewn with attention to detail and finish which are often a very timeconsuming process—but instead of costing tons on fabric, this eco-fashion show uses recycled materials. Environmentalists, Mr. Exur Buenaflor and Mr. Florence Almadin made the show’s theme: “Making the world green” as their students incorporated their green concepts with their sartorial choices which created stunning yet peso-wise outfits, it’s the perfect chiconomics! Don’t be skeptical, the outfits’ materials were pre-judged before hitting the runway, making sure that it was purely made from recycled materials. Students rummaged in recycled bins and strolled within the university just to find recycled plastics, coconut husks, wood shreds and leaves, and what nature can offer. Eco-fashion show was conceptualized to make the students aware of the significance of the usage of recyclable and indigenous materials. In this activity, the students enhanced their talent and creativity in making their different attires. “My message to all the students who took part of the show—continue the advocacy of being environmentalists in deeds, heart, and mind. Let us help one another in conserving and preserving the biodiversity of our planet Earth. Be an agent of the 3Rs—Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle”, says Mr. Buenaflor during a brief interview after the show. The Earth we dwell in is much like our home, but we don’t look after it as much as our own. It gives us resources to utilize and enjoy but we give wastes and pollution in return. We are too carefree to think of the big picture of our future. Behind this eco-fashion show is a sensible cause that showcases what can be made from scratches, that what we consider as waste, trash, and rubbish can be put to other uses. The goal here is to minimize as much as waste as possible. Let us join this ecological movement that both saves the environment and our pocket!
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Hardship through Success Who says poverty is a hindrance to success?
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20-year old Biology student from Caraga State University proved that success is even more possible through effort and determination. Jerry Bual was one of the awardees for the search of “The Outstanding Students of Caraga” (TOSCa) on February 20, 2016. According to him, he used the struggles and negative circumstances in life as weapons to become victorious. Jerry came from a broken home since five –leaving him, his younger sister, his lola, all to his mother’s responsibility. As a vendor, his mother is earning less than the minimum wage and is hardly able to sustain their daily needs. Sometimes, they were being antagonized by their relatives of not having a father and even by their neighbors’ store for failure to pay the debts on time. His life was not an easy journey. There were times also that he had to walk three to four kilometers back and forth from their house to school just to continue schooling. However, it did not stop him to achieve his success now; rather it became his inspiration.
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“Being one of the TOSCa awardees is a social responsibility—to help and to inspire other people in the society”, he confidently stressed out. His touching life story and remarkable achievements serve as an inspiration to every CSUan. It qualifies him among those Magna and Suma Cum laude applicants from different universities in the entire Caraga region. It is the university who encouraged him to join for the said search, along with his friends and family that showed full support for him. Jeremiah Atenta and he were the only CSUan qualifiers, but luckily Jerry was the one who made it to the top ten together with the FSUU awardee, as the only two student awardees from Butuan City.
He thankfully owed the award to his family, friends, and to other people who inspired him and encouraged him to aim higher in life. The University, with the help of our University President Dr. Anthony M. Penaso, supported him in his application until he was found worthy to qualify. Through his leadership in the student council, he served the students for almost three years with all of his great efforts. Jerry also became a GP contributor and a debater. He, too, does well in being an MC during events. As what he had to say during the interview, that being a TOSCa awardee does not only mean that you are only academically excellent but also you are acquainted with different organizations, continuing on inspiring other people. “Never be afraid to achieve more, to break the walls of your boundaries and to soar high”, an inspirational quote from Mr. Gomer Legaspi, an English language instructor in our university. Jerry stated that this quote gave him a motivating factor all throughout his college career. He believed that it had encouraged him “Continue inspiring and motivating one’s mind to achieve an achievement to be proud of” is his goal now.
Hopefully, Jerry's touching life story will become an inspiration to them to be more diligent in their studies.
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ZOMBIES’ INVADE THE LCO DAYS 2K15
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ythical horror creatures roamed the CSU vicinity during LCO Days 2015 to scare the eggs out of the runners who participated during the first ever Zombie Run. The event was held inside the CSU main campus and commenced by 6 o’clock in the evening with a Zombie Zumba participated by more than 500 runners. The College Red Cross Youth (CRCY) volunteered to sponsor the Zombie Run with its members dressed and disguised as zombies, white ladies, vampires, werewolves and folkloric elements during the second day of the LCO Days 2015. The zombies were prepared by the Caraga Visual Arts Society (CVAS) who, with their exceptional artistic skills, made the CRCY members look terrifying enough to keep the runners from finishing the run with eggs intact.
To complete the Zombie Run, each runner was given an egg to protect until the end of the track. The ‘zombies’ were assigned stations and each station was a runner’s checkpoint. The stations were as follows (in route order): (1) Carabao Center , (2) Annex 2, (3) CSU Hostel,(4) CASNR. The eggs were to be marked at the end of all stations except for the station at Annex 2 where runners were required to retrieve one rubber band from zombies. The runners’ route started in front of the Sanchez Gymnasium to the Carabao Center passing the CSU Library/ICT and back turning right to Annex 2 then straight to the CSU Hostel building turning right again to the CASNR department and facing about to the trail behind the CSU Library/ICT and back to the Sanchez Gymnasium. The station at Annex 2 was the highlight of the event where some runners fell in the canal, runners barged in door to door the restrooms to find zombies with rubber bands, and the ‘white lady’ who fled due to the teasing of male runners. Many runners also crushed and dropped their eggs at the said station.
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With a non-stop pace, runners Aldwin Boncales from the male division and Jhonafer Delima from the female division finished first and received an award of 500 pesos plus a medal and a certificate. The two runners finished the track with their eggs marked from the three checkpoints unbroken and undefiled.
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HONEST BROKER John Francis Cadampog jfcdmpg_1995@yahoo.com
Unseen Concern
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Administration Building is soon to rise. Sounds good, but there are other facilities needed more by the students that must be dealt with sooner. This project was already proposed and had undergone due processes during the previous administrations. Only that, the expected budget from the government was late; hence the late implementation. “This project already existed in the previous administrations. Delay and deficiency of funding are the main factors of the university’s slow and late development of facilities”, Office of the Planning and Development Director, Dr. Tomas Austral said. December of 2015, a groundbreaking ceremony was conducted. The new administration building’s picturesque design is expected to be a high-end building in the university. The total worth for Phase I and Phase II was approximately 35 million pesos which includes six conference rooms with a total floor area of 1,994.7 square meters—an enough space to improve the services of each administrative office. The current administration building and its employees, especially the front liners (e.g. cashier, accounting, registrar) can no longer deliver an efficient service to suffice the needs of their clients—mainly the students. Evidently, in the previous years, the long enrolment process, payments, and even the tagging/evaluation of scholarship last for days. It was a concern overlooked for years. The old building needs changes to meet clients’ demands and to improve the services to contribute success for the university. Obviously, this new and expanded administration building will be beneficial for the students and will give a good working environment to each administrative official. “This new Admin Building might not be the solution, but it will somehow contribute to provide efficient services to our clients”, Dr. Austral added.
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However, most students are more concerned to the other buildings in the university which are highly in need of expansion and renovation. For example, twelve out of fifteen students or 80 percent are more concerned to the less-spaced library. Last year, the student population was approximately 6,000—an abrupt increase due to the university’s development and various achievements. The number of students was disproportionate to the university library’s inside area with only 299 square meter—not enough space to cater the huge number of students at a time. Students were uncomfortable to study. Worse, they could not find a place for themselves. State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Mindanao like Mindanao State University (MSU), Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU) and Central Mindanao University (CMU) have an extensive and entirely well-developed library than ours. Moreover, some buildings and classrooms also need infrastructural repairs like windows, proper comfort rooms in annex buildings and even renovation, for instance, the Sanchez gymnasium. There are also unfinished concrete roads which give a hassle trip for students and faculty. According to the OPD (Office of Planning and Development), university projects are funded through the Government Appropriation Act or GAA funds and administrative funds of the university. They said that every project is aligned in the budget priority framework, and in fact this new administration building project is included and existing before those students’ concerns mentioned above. The university cannot start a new project or two at a time without the released government funds, and administrative funds will not be enough.
million but only 51 million is the actual approved budget for this year’s second quarter. “But rest assured, we included those student concerns in the university’s future plans,” Dr. Austral stressed out. A surprising three-storey university library project has been approved and is now waiting for its 120 million proposed budget with a total floor area of 6,000 sq. meters. In addition, there are projects that will maximize the university’s development like the proposed enhancement of ecological park and a soon to rise university-owned auditorium. We, as part of this university, should also see other concerns not only for our own advantages but also for the benefit of the many. The students might be the body which unite the other parts to make us a whole, but the administration is the head that controls and manages the wholeness toward a better change—the wholeness we call as university. As the word progress defined by the dictionary, it is the process of improvement over a period of time. The word time matters most and we’re the only one that can make our living better. A famous line from John F. Kennedy saying “If not us, who? If not now, when?”
The collected developmental fee worth P400 per student is only 4 million per year—a very small figure to consider for infrastructural project implementations. The total proposed budget for future projects by the university to the government is 560
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SAPERE AUDE Celmer Charles Q. Villareal ccvillareal@gmail.com
Warning: Security Breached
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he increasing number of theft cases inside our campus reflects the slackness of the security, and this calls for a red alert status. These theft cases are not ordinary. And it seems like the thieves are insulting the integrity of the campus security, since the big offices like the Administration Building, CAS Faculty, PSWF, Culture and Arts Office, and even our very own The Gold Panicles Office, were infiltrated by these cunning larcenists. For worse, they happened at daytime. The worst is, the modus operandi was notably tactical though common—the thieves concealed themselves as students. The fact that CSU is so wide, with a land area of about 232 hectares, contributes as the greatest factor. As what Mr. Joel Morada, one of our security guards, pointed out: “Daghan man gud agianan ang mga outsiders, maong hinungdan sa mga kawat diri sa campus” (There are several entrance and escape routes used by outsiders, which are the reasons of the thefts in our campus.) In addition, pedicabs from outside the campus carry passengers who are not screened by the guards. The playground, too, is such an enticing asset of gate-crashers. Moreover, the CSU’s “No Uniform Policy” helps the strangers become indistinguishable from the students. It is no question after all why many outsiders do have an easy access to our premises.
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Though adamant it is that the security personnel is primarily responsible, still we cannot put the entire blame to them who, in their minimal number, cannot ensure the security of the whole campus. As of this school year 2015-2016, the ratio of on-duty security guards to students is 1:1252, a very huge number to consider. Only five guards are on-duty in a daytime shift: one is a rover; the other four are at the overpass, at the main gate, at Gate 2, and at the administration building. In this ratio, each guard should have an area of responsibility of about 32000 sq. meters; that excluding the area from the DOST office to Carabao Center and beyond. However, since the four of them are assigned at a specific location, only the rover can roam around the campus riding on his petty mountain bike. Yet, such theft cases may have been prevented in the first place if only the security personnel were more fully committed to their duties, despite their number, by strictly ensuring the security of the main entrances. The problem is, their system of security measures is very poor. In fact, ensuring that no student can enter the school without their ID is already a challenge for them. If students with no ID could still enter the campus through riding a pedicab, how much more are the outsiders who bravely camouflage as students and readily enter offices?
Also, many students find reason to pass through Gate 2 because the guards there sometimes do not inspect IDs. However, should we increase the number of security guards, still our safety shall not yet be fully guaranteed because manpower alone is insufficient. Therefore, the increase of security facilities like advanced CCTV cameras, security posts, higher fences, and the addition of street lights (at night) is very much needed. If only more surveillance cameras were installed around those offices attacked, the cases would have been resolved and the suspects would have been identified. And yes, future incidents will surely be prevented. Nevertheless, no matter how good and high-tech our security facilities would be, if the security system itself is poorer than what is anticipated, always will our security be breached. While we wait for the underspent budget to finally be used to purchase these facilities, may the security measures be improved, as what we have pointed out earlier. The warning is red; the attention call is heightened. If this slackness continues, no sooner will the CSU offices run out of cameras and projectors, and other equipment. But not only that—the title of being a “university” will lose its essence.
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TRIED-AND-TRUE Kurtnhy Love Maderal kiffikisses13@gmail.com
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ilipinos’ collective unconscious had once again evinced in this year’s presidential election which allowed diversity of voices to be heard. It is arguably the most consequential in recent memory to unveil the nation’s long-hidden aspiration for total change after decades of distrust to the government. This phenomenal collective hysteria is greatly seen in the cascade of results from national to regional election turnouts. The people wanted change. This clamor for change, however, is but a commonplace every election period in the Philippines. It’s the same marriage between the circus of mass media shenanigans and the pandemonium of mudslinging among presidentiables who are no less than a crackpot posing as a genius. Philippine election has been an obscene theatre of performance over substance. Filipinos love the drama. Pnoy is one of the most popular democratically-elected presidents in history. Before his candidacy to presidency, however, he was just one of the few sons and daughters in a political dynasty trapped in the shadow of his parents. He maintained such marginal role in Philippine politics until Cory’s death which was overly sensationalized in mass media. Through ABS-CBN’s choreography, he became the 15th president. Duterte is nothing but a prototype of Pnoy. Not long ago, Duterte was also just a relatively marginal player in Philippine politics, until the mass media hacked the game with the ‘strongman syndrome’ and brought him in an equally promising position to claim the presidency. It might be construed that time is a river, but clearly history keeps on repeating itself in this country. Time and again, democratic decay, courtesy of mass media, unleashes a wave of rage, which translates into some political support for the unlikeliest candidates. In the Philippines, politics is a soap opera. The most popular politicians are those who read the script very well. Few months after Pnoy’s installment in Malacanang, however, Filipinos had coined the word noynoying, a protest gimmick to question Pnoy’s work ethic, picturing him in a lazy manner, such as sitting idly while resting his head on one hand, and doing nothing. After every celebration, a backlash follows. It’s only a matter of time before Duterte faces massive repercussions. It doesn’t take a genius to see the pattern. It’s like a persistent incurable disease that keeps on reverting. First, people get afflicted by what might be called democratic fatigue syndrome, an apathy caused by widespread public distrust to the impotent government and populist upheavals over political paralysis. The people silently curse and some silent aspirations accumulate into a massive bomb rigged to explode only during national elections. Then, a new hope looms in when a candidate wins the heart of the masses. A star is born. Indeed, how could a provincial mayor and an outsider to national politics touch the hearts of the 38.5% of electoral voters and won the race? First, the democratic fatigue was a unifying force operating within the Filipino society. Duterte’s surprising success is a clear manifestation of the deep frustration and disenchantment about many unresolved problems.
Opinion collective unconscious, which refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts and by archetypes—universal symbols such as the Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Trickster, the Hero, and whatnot. Unlike his running mates, Duterte portrayed a definite archetypal character—the Godfather. His strong political profile against crime, drugs, and corruption fits the bill. He is the Godfather, the Punisher, the man who will break rules and pull triggers, whose moral compass is the wild. In the quagmire of poverty, Filipinos are worn out of violence, lack of law and order, systematic corruption in all levels of the government, and perceived weak political leaderships. There is a simmering eruption of public outrage at the shortcomings of Philippine democracy and a strong need for a radical change, and when they found a champion from the South who promised swift and decisive action to break everyone’s yoke, many were then inflicted with the strongman syndrome, a misguided belief that a single strong leader, through tough-talking and political will, can save the nation from 21st century governance challenges. Political analysts have theorized that Filipinos are starting to yield to an autocratic nostalgia, as if yearning for history to repeat itself. For some reason, Filipinos seem to have missed Marcos and the martial law. This may sound outrageous, but who could blame them? The distress, which over time becomes a heavy burden, has crippled Philippine democracy. Though this collective unconscious did not lead people to an uprising to put Duterte on the throne, as what People Power did to Cory, clearly the votes speak of a unified conviction for a radical change to finally come from an iron fist. Contributory to converting the collective will of the people into governments and policies is mass media which incredibly flamed up Duterte’s popularity. It became the factory of a collective mind shared by people with the same belief in Duterte. It is where citizens got the chance to obtain information (truthful or not), engage with each other, and decide collectively upon their future? It was not his secret weapon, but it was a very powerful tool that shot him up to the top. At the conclusion of such a rollercoaster-like election, the country has witnessed another riveting page of the Philippine history where diversity of voices collectively decided for the fate of Philippine democracy and the government. In the meantime, Philippines has entered a new era of hope and uncertainty. What lies ahead is the question: will Duterte satisfy this nation already? Certainly, the cliché majority wins does not guarantee luck upon betting on the last card, which risked the lives of more than 100 million Filipinos for six years. But all of this could change—for better or worse. The question remains: how many more national elections before democratic fatigue sets in for good?
Then, we come to realize that this year’s adrenaline-filled election is actually a picture of what Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung coined Unity in diversity
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student who was found dead inside his boarding house received different reactions from various people inside and outside CSU. It was a dreadful news for the entire CSU community. Based on police reports, it was discovered that the student committed suicide by hanging himself. For some, however, the incident made them feel uncomfortable, commenting that the student was a “coward” and was not “brave enough” to face his problems. Some even joked around and made comments like “ingana najud diay kalisod sa CSU kay pakamatyan gyud?” (Is it really that hard in CSU to die for?). In 2014, actor Robin Williams hanged himself in his room and was found lifeless. It was one of the most heartbreaking incidents for the international showbiz industry, considereing that he played many entertaining roles as a comedian in showbiz. But after the tragedy was reported by BBC News, tweets and blogs “bashed” the actor’s death, saying that it was a selfish act and he was not grateful enough of the fame and money that he had.
Taking a Closer Look at Depression In our society, hearing news of suicide is not quite very shocking to some or most people, but the reality is that the number of suicide events among Filipinos have gradually increased over the years. Suicide is one in the top 3 leading causes of death among people from 10 to 24 years old in the country. People committing self-murder are getting younger and the number is increasing. Over the years, depression has been the most known cause for individuals to commit such an act. Depression manifests as an after effect mostly to people who encounter physical and mental illnesses and psychological traumas. Depression is also observed among those who suffer from alcohol and drug dependency. Nevertheless, most people are being misled on what depression actually feels like or what a depressed person goes through, because of the existing social stigma. There is a huge difference between feeling depressed and being depressed. Sometimes, one can easily say he is feeling depressed because he is feeling lonely or upset, or he says he feels depressed because he failed his exams, yet after a few days or so, he recovers quickly since it was just a passing phenomenon of depression. Truth is, major depression is a real mental disorder, along with the other mental disorders that are known in psychiatry. According to Dr. Dinah Nadera, a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO), depression is a common mental disorder
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characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, feelings of tiredness, poor concentration and sometimes, thought of suicide, which can last for months or even years. A depressed person cannot put things in perspective because they are filled with thoughts of sadness and loneliness. Most of the time, these people feel entirely hopeless and their thoughts prevent them to perform small or big tasks that they do in their daily routines.
Depression is more than what we think it is
Eve*, 19, a CSU student struggling with major depression since high school, describes her depression as “a never-ending cycle of thoughts of self-doubt and emptiness”. “Every single day, I wake up with my body feeling agitated or nauseous or somehow sick, but emotionally, I felt nothing but pain and melancholy. I always keep myself smiling in front of people, but when alone I always cry”, she said. “I have struggled in my academics. The academic pressure in my course added up to the pile of things that make me depressed. Every semester, I have a failed or dropped subject. Some of my friends abandoned me after knowing about my condition. It make recovery much harder to achieve.” She also explained that she had lost her interest of the hobbies she used to love doing before she entered college.
for something good every day. Nothing beats more than having them by my side to be there with me all the way.”
Stopping the Stigma With what happened to the BSEd Math student and to Eve, this article should serve as a waking call for CSU community to become fully aware of the danger of depression. With the increase in suicide rates and cases of depression in our country, we should start trying to gradually decrease this numbers using our own way. What the BSEd student did was enough evidence for us to stop being stone-blinded about this problem that is continually brushed off by everyone. Depression is real. Being suicidal is real. Let us educate ourselves and become conscious about this problem that is constantly ignored by our society. Let us stop being drawn by the social stigma that is creating a wall for these people to recover from their illnesses. If a friend says she has suicidal thoughts and shows symptoms of depression, talk to her. Listen. Listen to her fully, because by just listening to her, it already gives her comfort and hope, knowing that someone is willing to be there for her. If you are the one going through depression or self-harm, do not be afraid to ask help about your situation. People care for you, and you are not alone.
Going Through the Stigma The hardest part of having such illness is when you are explaining to people you love and are important to you the struggle you are going through because not all of them can fully understand what is going on inside your head by just using words. Explaining depression to a person who is not going through such experience is very hard because you, yourself, do not fully understand what is going on. All you know is you feel empty and sad, and no matter how hard you try to undrown yourself from it, you still end up drowning within your own thoughts of suicide and self-worthlessness.
#STOP THE STIGMA.
Recovering From the Nightmare
Living after a suicide attempt, Eve swore to herself that she will not be defeated by her own emotions and depression, and will overcome it. “Depression is an internal battle. It is like you are trapped inside your head, trying to find a way out so you can fully be yourself and not become a prisoner of your own emotions.” She narrated how her social support and family support had helped her for the last months to overcome her depressive episodes. “Having my family and true friends behind me all throughout my journey made me hope Unity in diversity
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FOMO: THE FEAR OF MISSING OUT Dean Joshua Solis
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ave you ever had the feeling of being left out, awkward, and out of place that you constantly face your phone in order to get into the virtual world and trend? How about experiencing that excruciating feeling of being isolated from the rest of the world whenever the internet clashes, electric disturbances occur, and your phone seems to malfunction? Or has it become your habit to browse your social media accounts 15 minutes before and after sleeping? If the answers to these questions are all ‘yes’, then my friend, you might just have the symptoms of having FOMO a.k.a. the fear of missing out.
According to the internet, FOMO is an anxiety experience upon suspicion that an exciting or interesting event may be currently happening elsewhere and is often aroused by posts seen on social media. Ben Schreckinger of Boston Magazine defines FOMO as an all-consuming feeling that something’s happening and an individual is not part of it. Association for Psychological Science (APS) member Adam Ferrier said that people have always felt the fear of missing out on parties and activities even before the Internet, but social media indeed elevated the FOMO intensely. Einstein once said that he fears when the day comes that technology would surpass human interaction. Since the dawn of the 21st century, technological advancements have been discovered and distributed worldwide that information and communication have been so well-developed to flatten the ever known spherical world. Through these advancements, everyone who is in social media becomes instantly connected. Millennials, those who are born from the 1990s to the latter of 2010s, socialize better in the internet than they do in the real world. Yes, this is a great development to consider for we are facing a new world of possibilities
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through technology. However, as we pace with it we tend to face our gadgets more than we look to our environment that we miss rare life moments. With the rise of the social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), people have become more updated than they were decades ago. Through these virtual mediums of communication, millennials who have low self-esteem tend to look up to social media sensations, imitating and idolizing them without being aware that by doing so they are feeding up their insecurities. Having social insecurities is intensely elevated by FOMO that having ‘likes’ or any reactions thereof to millenials’ online statuses or photos have become essential. I had one-on-one interviews with people who might actually have FOMO, but among them all came someone who’s overcome the social angst. Jerry, a 20-year old college graduate, admitted that he once experienced having FOMO—staying up all night surfing the web, stalking friends and updating statuses. He also said that it felt like having an empty void inside, a missing link only to be filled by the belongingness with friends. Jerry’s friends spend most of their time online, giving him an initiative to be online whenever they were online that it came to a point that he regularly slept late. However, Jerry overcame FOMO when he began to realize that reducing hours of being online and talking to people more often made him feel lighter than he was doing otherwise. Having FOMO can either be a good thing or a bad thing. It can help us in being more socially aware and updated in world trends and news. However, when used in a bad way, it can cause over fatigue, insomnia, insecurity, and rejection that would lead to depression.
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Feature 1. Goal-oriented. Ambitious and hard-working friends make a potential asset. 2. Wise spender. They can teach you the right strategies for wise spending, coupled with the willpower and discipline to implement them consistently. 3. Trustworthy. The secret for any relationships is confidence, which can only be experienced when there is respect and trust. 4. Friendly. It is a good trait to have, but don’t invest too much in someone who is just friendly but doesn’t bring anything else to the table.
Recently, I had an earful sentiment
from a friend who had a bad experience with a (former) friend of his. He is inclined to believe that friends are liabilities and that I should be careful with whom I associate, because people generally fail and they might hurt me by being reckless or irresponsible in some way. Needless to say, my friend was embittered. I think my friend’s newfound bigotry is true to some extent. However, real friends would never try to hurt you in some way on purpose, unless they are not, right? We used to always think that the more friends we have, the happier life can become. Our goal is to “collect” friends who are assets and get rid of friends who are perpetual liabilities. It’s almost instinctive when we find someone who is an immediate asset, but it is unclear when someone is a potential asset. A potential asset is someone who doesn’t provide any immediate value, but can provide value in the future. We can generalize the qualities of potential assets or the kind of friends who are for keeps.
5. Clever. They are better than you at something, which means you can learn from them. Smart friends are assets. Dumb friends are liabilities. On the other hand, here are the qualities of friends who are liabilities. The rule is to get rid of friends who are reckless and irresponsible. 1. Needy. A friend who always asks for something from you is dispensable. 2. Insecure. It’s a classic psychology to choose someone who not too good for us. We find security in other’s insecurity. But when our friends are unreasonably insecure, it’s time to let them go.
3. Pessimistic. Friends who are liabilities tend to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen. They see the glass half-empty instead of half-full and they see the hole instead of the dough. 4. Poor. Learn to distinguish between those who are poor because of unfortunate circumstance and those who are poor because they lack ambition and just want handouts from the government. 5. Undermining. They try to hold you back from reaching new heights. This “friend” often holds his friends back because when his friends reach new heights, he feels insecure in his own life. When his friends are stagnant, he feels better about his own life. True friends are not liabilities. If your friends are liabilities, then you really need to evaluate your ways of selecting friends. There are people who are reckless and irresponsible in ways they themselves do not know. When your friends are such, you can always limit your exposure to their recklessness and irresponsibility. My told my embittered friend to ditch the dead weight and make some very good friends who are real assets, instead. Anyone else is just an enemy waiting to be created. Who needs the drama, anyway? Rally Jay B. Naife
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We always need someone to motivate us—to push us to do things. Muscles circulates the blood throughout the body, and our instructors are the ones who move us, who guides us to the right direction.
Unity in diversity implies a differences, to achieve a c need a common denomin body, which is a fine exa every body part is diff to the cephalic, no tw except for certain the same function common goal an person
A body without bones would just be a slouching blob of skin. And our organs would be in topsy-turvy because we’ll basically be a molding clay, and nobody wants that. Our university essentially has to have a framework to keep everything in place. As you step in the grounds of our university, you are already in its framework— the developing infrastructures, the rich agricultural land, and the thick forest of trees, it is clear that agriculture has been and will always be the backbone of our university.
School is like a war, and you don’t go to war unarmed. The library is where we keep our secret weapons that we face in the academic battle. We get “infected” with quizzes, projects, exams, and even deadlines—books to the rescue! It may help you with fending them off—if you let them.
Blood is life. We students are a pool of blood cells, a stream of life that flows in and out different organs in our university. There are four components that make up the blood—Red Blood Cells, which carries oxygen throughout the body; White Blood Cells, which fight infections; Platelets, which fight stop bleeding when you have a cut; and Plasma, which carries nutrients, hormones, and proteins throughout your body. These correspond to the four colleges that we have—mix them all together and we have the blood! We circulate the whole university, making sure it gets all the components it needs
The Blood takes a detour to the lungs to get oxygenated, and we students take a detour to extracurricular activities to “breath” from our academics. Here, we get to relax with peers that we share common interests with. If you have the voice for singing—Budjong ensemble; if you have the feet for dancing—Dulimbay; if you have the talent for a band— Kayam Ethno/DLC; if you have the hands for humanity—Red Cross Youth; if you have the passion for journalism—The Gold Panicles; and if you have the literacy for visuals—CVAS. It’s a vast plug of organizations from fraternities to sororities, from serviceoriented clubs to religious-oriented clubs, and so much more that I wish to mention. It’s anything under the sun Our skin protects us from external da which your interests prefer—or maybe you would prefer that cannot tolerate the harsh condit your barkadas, or for the case of introverts, just go somewhere nice and quiet, and read a book! eagle eyes are always on the look
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a oneness even if you have common goal. Therefore, you Blood is filtered through the kidneys. Students are nator for all, like the human filtered through their academic actions and inactions. The OSAS does not only aid in implementing students’ ample of unity in diversity, affairs, but also executes proper disciplinary actions when students fail to involve activities. If these wrong sorts of fferent, from the plantar students don’t get eliminated, it will build up in the “body” and wo parts are the same make it sick. Fact: Did you ever notice that if you drink a lot, you pee more and the pee is pale yellow? That’s because your body organs which have is getting rid of extra water and your pee has more water in it than usual. ns, but they have a nd that is for the n to live.
While we are preparing ourselves by our morning routine before school, the utility staff is also preparing the school for us—overflowing trash bins are now bare; cluttering litter on the hallways are now swept; stinking lavatories are now cleaned, our “human body” is now ready to receive the wastes that we students leave.
Money is like food—we don’t need much, just enough for our body to perform well. In our university, money begins its journey in the budget’s office, much like when we intake food into our mouths. Inside the mouth are accessory organs that aid in deciding how to divide the money. Like the taste buds, the accounting office sends regular report to the admin or brain on how these nutrients were effectively dispersed. The “food” is now pushed through the supply office where storage and digestion occurs, and by that period, the nutrients—or supplies are already distributed to different departments to execute its job.
The school’s ideology is spread through its offspring. Students are nourished in the university to prepare them for their future—but instead of nine months, it’s a long process in more or less half a decade inside the womb of wits. Students are fed with knowledge and values to develop their skills and combine them with the experiences they encounter to be effective decision makers.
Just like the brain, our administration should be a harmonious orchestra, and should be led by a conductor, the musicians knows their instruments but it’s the conductor’s job to lead them. The nervous system has two parts—CNS (central nervous sytem) and PNS (peripheral nervous sytem). The PNS is responsible for carrying signals throughout the body—much like disseminating information throughout the university as a go signal for actions. The CNS on the other hand is much complex than the former, here, developments are planned; information is processed; memory is stored; and decisions are made—the same responsibilities the administration works with, each having a crucial instrument it encloses our delicate tissues to play in order to create the perfect harmony with the the environment. Our guards’ leadership of one conductor—the university president.
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Lay-out: Rally Jay Naife
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Glorious Celmer Villareal
One of my favorite songs of Especially For Youth (EFY), has this remarkable opening lines:
“There are times when you might feel aimless, And you can’t see the places where you belong. . .” exists in loneliness; but rather, it is sadness. True and Such times maybe the gloomiest moments of one’s lasting happiness comes only when we make others life—moments when nobody is there to talk with; happy. There is no other way. moments when one feels that he/she carries the weight With this realization in mind, I now try my of the whole world; moments when one is overpowered best to reach out to those who stay only at the corner, by depression; moments when one feels that he/she is who are shy, who feel they are not welcomed, the only one who experiences unbearable difficulties in because I know the feeling of being alone. life—moments of loneliness. Yes, I was once a victim of depression. I Loneliness is the antithesis of joy. It grabs was one of those who said that there is happiness in many opportunities in life. It distorts reality. It promotes loneliness, where in fact, there is none. I was one of idleness. It destroys civility. It degrades character. It them who felt that I am alone walking in the midst of defames one’s integrity. It is the strongest repellant of a troubled road. happiness. My mother died when I was still turning Mostly, loneliness comes from depression. 5, just two weeks before my 5th birthday. At that It results when one resolves to remove himself/herself segment of my childhood, to live in a home where from the majority. The thought that no one can there was no light was far beyond the imagination understand what he/she is feeling totally overwhelms of a toddler. No sooner, father left and cleaved to him/her. Sadly, he/she concludes that nobody cares at his new wife. In just a blink of an eye, my parents all; that nobody notices what he/she is going through; were gone. Moreover, they left me with no siblings. that he/she is invisible. What a heart crushing moment In other words, they left me ALONE. to behold! As I grew up, the feelings of loneliness Others may say, “It’s good to be alone—sometimes.” deeply rooted in my heart. There came a point in my Maybe it is true. It is in solitude that we can focus our life where I considered mind. It is in silence that melancholy as my we hear the sound of “But you will find that there is a purpose “real” nature. I hold nature. It is in quietude on to my belief that that we appreciate It’s been there within you all along. peace is attained the beauty of God’s And when you’re near it, you can almost hear it. through isolation. creations. Most loners Everyone who knew say that being alone is It’s like a symphony, just keep listening. me described me as the best time for selfAnd pretty soon you’ll start to figure out you’re part. silent, mysterious, evaluation, to spend cryptic, egoistic, Everyone plays a piece, and there are melodies an ample time talking secretive, and many with oneself. It may In each one of us. more. With these sound crazy (talking to distinctions of others, Oh, it’s glorious.” oneself), but for them, I feel lonelier. it is not bad at all. They Nevertheless, are so much concerned I realized that grieving for others’ absence could about life. They have so many questions in mind, much not help me at all. I do love my parents, of course. of them are beyond the expectations of reality. They But isolating my life just because they are not here want them all to be answered—but by their own. retards my progression. Rather than worrying for However, as they ponder all of their question their absence, I would just cherish for those who are too much, they forget this one essential truth: that we are present. Those people who treat me as a person— never alone. Even in the beginning, when God finished my family, which now compose of my grandmother, creating the heaven and the earth, and placed Adam aunt, uncle, and cousins; my true friends; my in the Garden of Eden, He pronounced everything as classmates; my acquaintances; and everyone “good”, except for one thing—that Adam was alone. connected to my life—are the people who taught me That is why He gave Eve to be Adam’s partner, his wife that I am NOT ALONE. and his support. May we all reach out to those who feel We are never designed nor meant to be alone. alone. Let us not bully or make fun of the loners; The fruits of our first parents bring forth the human we might not know, they need help. Let us not forget generation, which we now have as our “family”. This that true happiness comes only when we make is the divine gift given to us mortals, as our Father in others happy. Let us make everyone feel they are a heaven promised that “[He] will never leave [us]”. As part of a big family. His sons and daughters, He wants us to be happy here We all need help. Problems, difficulties, on earth. He never wants us to be alone, because He trials—the pain of struggle can be eased with loving loves each one of us. hearts and reaching arms. Just as the proceeding Knowing that each of us is special and lines of the song “Glorious”, which I mentioned important in the eyes of God, we will find the worth earlier, states: and value of every individual. We are all part of a big family. NO ONE IS ALONE. It is not true that happiness
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STRESS STRESS MANAGE MANAGE MENT MENT Christine Joy P. Abellano, Mary Roselle Lumahan
There are times in your life when your
feelings suddenly become a hard thing to fathom. You’re suddenly tensed or distraught about something. Your mind is like sinking under water and you get too much irritated and easily annoyed with your surroundings. Well, this is actually the common thing we hardly escape as a college student. Simply put, we call it stress. And when we say stress, it’s truly inevitable. College is way too different from high school. We are highly required to do more efforts in our academes because we are loaded with tough courses and we are piled with tons of requirements. With this, we end up being stressed from all the responsibilities put on our shoulders. But our life doesn’t stop there just because we get through certain complications. We may have different struggling moments in our studies but these things are just starters for the upcoming future that we may get to embrace sooner. We do still have a long way to go, so this is not the time for you to say “I quit” or “I give up”. We just have to enjoy our journey as students for now, setting aside the difficulties and taking time to manage oneself. So here’s some of our tips that would eventually help you to minimize and conquer stress:
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Snore when you need to
You might think that college life requires you not to waste your precious time by having a good time sleep at night and you should choose to utilize that time to do your projects, reports, school assignmnets. But here’s the thing, do you know that depriving yourself with sleep or body rest can only lead to an increase of stress level? Studies show that sleep deficiency can alter one’s brain activity. You may have trouble in making decisions, solving problems, controlling emotions and
behavior, and coping with social changes. It has also been linked to depression, suicide, and risk-taking behaviors. But when you’re well-rested, it’s much easier to keep your emotional balance, a key factor in coping with some stressful moments.
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Sweat some more
Having good exercise for at least 30 minutes every day can actually fuel up your endorphins—these are chemical hormones in the brain that are considered as natural painkillers and help you to maintain a positive outlook afterward. Exercising also deplete stress hormones and stimulates the feel-good neurotransmitters. You can do dancing like Zumba or rather go to a gym and lift some weights or you can also have jogging every early morning. No one’s stopping you to take time for yourself. Build up with exercise!
3. Get some social interactions Going through stress in life should not be dealt alone. When you feel like everything seems like falling apart or whenever you have frustrations in your study, it is better to have some talk with one of your closest friends or to the persons you have trust with whom you won’t feel judged. It can alleviate the negative thoughts you have in mind. They can also give you possible solutions to your problems. This will tranquilize the neuro-endocrine system so that you’ll be less reactive to discern stress and facilitate instead healthful behaviors. Never isolate yourself from others whenever you are feeling so down so you can’t think of hurting yourself.
4. Eat healthful food. Drink in moderation. Sometimes you might take “coping with
stress” in a wrong way. You prefer to get drunk with your friends because you think it’s the easiest way to overcome and forget your problems and all your worries. You think it’s fun and cool. But here’s the catch, what happens after getting drunk? Is there any progress with yourself or have you felt any way better? Studies show that alcoholic beverages can stimulate your endorphins and dopamine levels higher than normal but too much intake of such will result in heavy energy crash, resulting to more stress since your body needs to recover. Why don’t you eat more of green leafy vegetables and protein-rich food like beans and nuts? Chocolates has also stress-reducing properties. So instead of getting drunk or eating junk foods, go to healthful choices. These will have your hormones stimulate naturally inside your body, thus making stress more manageable. Friendly advice, don’t make your life more miserable.
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Spend some “me-time”
Have alone time with yourself. Set aside your worries and take deep breaths. This is what we call meditation. It helps you deal with your psychological stress and lead to a positive mental health. Prayer, on the other hand, helps you to refresh your thoughts and dispose unnecessary thinking that could be the triggers of stress. Talking to some divine entity could encourage you to live in a positive side of the world beyond all the storm you may encounter.
So move forward and leave stress behind.
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BULIMIA NERVOSA: Christine Joy Abellano, Kurtnhy Love Maderal
Imagine this: You went out and
bought these foods all for yourself – a double decker cheese burger, three bags of chips, ham and bacon pizza, two slices of chocolate mousse cake, two bottles of soda and half a liter of chocolate overload ice cream, sounds heaven, right? You eat all those foods within thirty minutes. You’re so stuffed and your stomach feels like bursting any second. Then all of a sudden, you become conscious of the calorie and fat content of what you ate. You cry and curse under your breath. You become guilty of slacking and forgetting about your strict diet. Then you run to the bathroom and force yourself to throw up every single ounce of food you swallowed. You think of every pound you might gain after eating a highcalorie meal filled with sugar, carbohydrates and fat. You let them out until you feel that your throat is burning, and then you stop. You raise your head and look at yourself in the bathroom mirror and your sweat is slowly trickling from your forehead down to your jaw while your eyes are watery. You’re panting slowly and taking deep breaths. Your cheeks are starting to become puffy again. You look horrible and miserable. And then you whisper to yourself, “This won’t happen again.”
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Dieting causes bulimia’s detrimental binge and purge cycle. The irony here is that the more rigid the diet, the more likely it is that you’ll be obsessed with food. When you starve yourself, your body responds with powerful cravings – its way for asking needed nutrition. The binge and purge cycle: shame and disgust – strict dieting – tension and cravings – binge eating – purging to avoid weight gain Bingeing gives brief relief, and so you purge to make up and regain control.
After two days, the same episode happens again. This compulsive cycle of abrupt food craving and a panic consciousness of the massive calorie build up in your system is already an eating disorder, called by the experts as Bulimia Nervosa. Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder distinguished by frequent incidents of compulsive eating followed by craving efforts to avoid weight gain; this is known as bingeing and purging.
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long with my journey in college, there will always be one thing that I’ll always be thankful of behind every struggles that I face as a student. It is the bond that I have with my classmates—the kind of relationship that we have created through rains and sun shines. With them, I have realized that college life isn’t really easy if we strive it all alone. We need our friends and classmates to help us whenever we have a hard time on catching up with some lessons. We need them when we aren’t prepared for our exams or when we forget to make our home works. Or when we run out of resources to make reports and when we have to borrow notes for the quiz. Getting a college education is not a joke. It is where we have to indulge into a more serious level of education. Everything begins to evolve and becomes too different from elementary and high school days. Each subject turns out to be more complicated and terrifying. There’s Math, Biology, Social Sciences, Physics, and Chemistry where we have to experience sleepless nights and restless days just to meet the demands of these courses. We get stormed by waves of examinations and requirements where from time to time, we need to recharge our mind so that we can excel and participate well in class. However, it is a bitter fact that learning problems usually exist in certain classrooms, considering that each one of us differs accordingly on the way we think, act, and behave. Some of us do have difficulties in problem-solving and analysis, or some may be lacking critical or linguistic skills. Some find it hard to memorize or give opinion, while others can do good in most of these areas. This is a one solid proof that we are truly made diverse. That we are unique from one another even on the way we learn things.
We got our own weaknesses and strengths—the reason why we have low performances in some areas and excel in others. This is best explained by the Multiple Intelligence Theory of Howard Gardner in which he describes it as a set of ability or abilities that allows a person to solve the problem or fashion a product that is valued in one or more cultures. With this phenomenon, it seems a great challenge to teachers on how they will be able to compensate meaningful learning environment within the scope of students’ diversity. It’s a parallel attribution to how a broomstick is assembled through pieces of coconut reeds and how it becomes a useful product with its standard stoutness. Let’s set as an example the usual thing that my classmates and I practice when exams are fast approaching. Oftentimes, we do overnight sleep for a group study where we tend to reach out to one another in coping with some of our difficulties. We just ignore the idea of staying too late at night and we seem to be more energized to study since we get to enjoy throwing and receiving necessary questions in relevance with the topics for exams. We always have a good time maintaining a good atmosphere of complementing one another. We don’t get to feel inferior or superior but instead we treat each other fair as if we all need support. Aside from learning new things, we realize the value of social responsibility, where we have to stand up for our own and for other’s sake. We have to help them carry the weights on their shoulders as they carry ours, too. So in the end, everybody can hold their triumph of success. This is now the real essence of learning. What teachers usually exercise in their classes to manifest effectivity in the teaching-learning process is through this way, where knowledge can be created within a population through active interaction of members by sharing experiences and asymmetric roles. It is termed as collaborative
learning. This kind of teaching strategy uses variety of learning activities to promote student understanding of a subject. The kind of activities have been familiar to us ever since we entered school and more likely now in college years. For examples are group projects, debates, joint problem-solving, role plays, and brainstorming. All of these require us not to be alone because it conveys the idea of working together. Effectivity in learning process is more likely to be achieved when distinct ideas converged and when abilities are showcased through team performances. When someone lacks confidence on public speaking, others can encourage him/her through positive thoughts or when he/she has a difficulty on making essays, anyone can give certain tips for his/her improvement. When through a short period of time, it creates an understanding, thus settling into a good learning outcome. Sharing thoughts, opinions, and ideas develop better knowledge and have come to make one best shot. Eventually, when this strategy is properly implemented inside the classroom, it builds positive interaction and a good social relationship among students. We get closed to people around us even to those who aren’t our friends before. Funny thing is when we are to befriend our enemy by means of working together in a common task. The success of collaborative learning can only be achieved when students learn the value of collaboration or when everybody has instilled in their minds that unity can possibly make burdens lighter. At the end of the day, with teamwork, each member will be held accountable for the success of the team. Everybody has given the responsibility and has to do their part in order to accomplish the set learning goals.
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Even the strongest wall can come crushing down. All you need to find is a crack on its surface and gossip about it. Do you think the first two sentences sound highly malicious? I think we both agree that they are. It’s the very nature of gossip. It steals another person’s reputation and destroys good relations. Gossips are casual or unconstrained conversations or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true. Gossip can be entertaining. Many a time, though, it is disparaging the subject. Curiously, we are somehow more attracted to negative things than some boring good things that happen every day. We like it when we hear something that makes someone look bad. I’m sure you have encountered gossip. Some people seem to thrive on it. They like to spread damaging information about
Kurtnhy Love Maderal Make a commitment not to gossip, at all. Win over the temptation to gossip by choosing not to. Break the gossip chain. Don’t listen to others when they gossip. Gossip basically grows an audience. Do not ever participate in the process of spreading rumors. Be discerning. Don’t judge people based on gossip. Upon hearing some gossip about someone you don’t know, you have two choices: either you allow the gossip to determine what you believe or let your own personal experience determine what you think. Mull it over. Always, think before you speak. Before you repeat something you’ve heard about another person, think: what good does it do?
others, whether it’s true or not. For them, “dishing the dirt” is always part of the day. Whatever it’s called, people use gossip to hurt people, sometimes, in order to feel good about themselves.
Gossip seems harmless on the surface, but it can cause a lot of negative things in people’s lives. When we gossip, we are helping to destroy something extremely valuable—someone’s reputation. A reputation is very fragile. Gossip is definitely not giving love. Here are some tips on how to resist from engaging to gossip.
Gossip is something so many of us do without realizing it. Let me share to you an old proverb about the danger of spoken words.
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It’s a story of a person who repeated gossip—some rumor about his neighbor. Soon, the whole community had heard the rumor. Later, the person who spread the gossip learned that the rumor was untrue. The person was very sorry and went to an elder in the community who had a reputation for great wisdom to seek advice. The elder told the person, “Go to your home and take a feather pillow outside. Rip it open and scatter the feathers, then return to me tomorrow.” The person did as the elder had instructed. The next day, the person visited the elder. The elder said, “Go and collect the feathers you scattered yesterday and bring them back to me.” The person went home and searched for the feathers, but the wind had carried them all away. The person returned to the elder and said, “I could find none of the feathers I scattered yesterday.” “You see,” said the elder, “it’s easy to scatter the feathers but impossible to get them back.” So it is with gossip; it doesn’t take much to spread hurtful words, but once you do, you can never completely undo the damage.
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An
old adage goes to say that a woman is only beautiful until she speaks. This seemed to be true some decades ago until advertising took over almost every detail of human enterprises. Now, beauty means white skin, straight hair, and perfect smile, to name a few. Our minds are somehow conditioned to stereotype beauty based on what we see on TV commercials and glossy pages of the magazines. However, commercials aren’t real-life. Advertisers are manipulative alcoholics who use images to play with our emotions. They have completely brainwashed a lot of people and distorted the truest essence of what is meant to be “beautiful” or “sexy”? In the academe, however, the culture is slightly different. It’s not always about appearances; for what is beauty if the brain is empty, so to speak.
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Speaking of which, a recently constructed word has come into common usage, especially on social networking sites where some people are self-identifying as “sapiosexual”. The word is derived from Latin root words “sapien” which means wise or intelligent and “sexualis” which is relating to the sexes. A sapiosexual is someone who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature. It sounds geeky and funny, but it’s true, and there is a scientific basis about it. The internet is already flooded with scientific articles about it.
You may be part of a special group of people called sapiosexuals. The following are some of its inherent traits. 1. Sapiosexuals judge their level of attraction to a person based on how witty, inquisitive, and how mentally sharp the person is. 2. They prefer to have a person to ignite complex discussions with in a relationship rather than connecting over superficial similarities. 3. The most beautiful and fascinating people to them are those with vibrant, lively, and insightful minds. 4.
Beauty without brains is nothing to them.
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Philosophical discussions are more romantic than casual dates.
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They prefer steamy debate than honeyed words.
7. Intelligence is always at the very top of their list when looking for potential partners. 8. They rarely feel any attraction toward people of physical beauty (i.e. celebrities) unless they also exhibit incisive minds. 9.
They attract freethinkers.
10. Being able to speak eloquently is more important to them than having a sexy body.
It is of regret to say, however, that in our current society, being attracted directly to another person’s brain is generally curious. Sure, there is something to be said about being physically attractive, but unlike looks, intelligence is lasting. Attraction takes many ways and has a lot of different elements, but intelligence is the one that shines through the brightest.
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person wears his own identity. All of us are uniquely diverse in many ways. Age, sex, beliefs, and race—these are some factors that distinguish a person in the crowd. However, these differences are mistakenly used for maltreatment, the act known to be discrimination.
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Discrimination is a behavior of unfair treatment against an individual or group of people. To discriminate means to make distinction or to single out and to encourage fear and disgust for others out from making general assumptions based on limited understanding about them. But what really is the root of its existence? According to Coullard and Lucie (2013), “prejudice is the gateway to hurtful and intentional racisms, homophobia, inferiority and superiority. This leads to harassment, abuse, and violence�. When a person tends to be prejudiced, the possibility to discriminate follows because they look at a person as a color, as a character, or as a threat rather than just a human being. Prejudices toward an individual have been pervasive throughout history. People have lived entirely within their beliefs and cultures, which make their understanding on other people limited and indifferent.
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Slavery, an ancient form of discrimination, took place in the early civilizations of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Southern USA. Discrimination is a pivotal part of slavery since it allows people to withdraw their humanity and tolerate destruction of other people’s human rights (Kaye & Mike, 2008). Slaves during that time were both black and white with little security and privileges in the society. The first evidence of slave trade happened at the end of 16th century where they were sold from Africa to Britain and America. Ancient India, known for its caste system, practiced a closed system of stratification where the person’s social status was determined by birth. The people were socially differentiated through their religion, tribe, gender, language and class. The system was composed of the Brahmans at the top, followed by Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras, and at the very bottom the Untouchables. Caste members ate, lived, married, and worked with their own group and rarely socialized with other castes. The Untouchables suffered severe discrimination and antipathy in the society, where they were traditionally regarded as the “outcasts”. They performed gross and unclean jobs like scavenging and skinning animals, killing and disposing dead cattle, and sweeping and washing in a place in contact with human sweat and urine. Their dirty, miserable tasks were the reasons for their classification. It came into a point where simply the sight of them means toxic and pollution to others. Discriminated, hunted, tortured, and killed—the Jews suffered them all. The Nazis believed that the Jews would destroy Germany and to stop this, all Jews must be eliminated. Through his army, Adolf Hitler, the German communist dictator, segregated those people who were not a pure German— with blond hair and blue eyes—and most of them were the Jews. They were deprived from their rights: to vote, to operate a business, to live in a place where they want to, even to marry German people. They were banned to work as journalists, teachers, actors, and civil servants. They were also forced to live in a poor, crowded place called Ghettos. The start of World War II signaled the darkest period of the Jewish community. All those persecution turned into a mass murder of approximately six million Jews from 1933 to 1945, known to be the Shoah or the Holocaust.
Racism, an irrational response to difference that causes segregation of people in the society, sprouted between the white Americans and Black in countries like South Africa, Australia, and United States. Those people with white skin developed superiority against those with black skin that sometimes led to race-inspired violence. Meanwhile, The Black or the African Americans suffered separateness and persecutions against the white. They were called “Negroes”, “nigger”, and “coloureds”, which are racist and belittling terms. They were banned from juries and legislatures, from public places, and even from expressing their political views and civil rights. On the other hand, Philippines is known to be conservative concerning the LGBT community. Religion plays a huge influence in the consciousness of every Filipino, considering that Philippines is a Christian country. The LGBT people were considered a cancer and a curse in the society, and their “identity crisis” was not recognized because of their sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). They are prone to social prejudices which trigger bullying, public humiliation, discriminatory messages, inappropriate jokes, and even murders. According to the 2012 count of the Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch, 156 LGBTs have been murdered since 1996, 17 of those in 2012 alone. This, excluding the murder of a transwoman named Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude in October 2014, which put the US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in debate. “Homophobia, biphobia and transphobia are the major motivations for hate crimes against LGBT people. Fear and hatred kill,” said Santy Layno, Trustee of Ladlad Partylist. However, all those cruelties that plagued the society before were lessened in some degree, somehow. Certain grounds were established to end up discrimination and to foster the importance of human rights and dignity. It was on 539 BC, when Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and freed every slave, declared their freedom, and recognized their human rights. He wanted to end the racial inequality. He wanted to find solutions to end the discrimination of every human being. His decrees were recorded on a baked-clay cylinder written in a cuneiform script and recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights known to be the Cyrus Cylinder.
The actions of Cyrus spread quickly to countries like India, Greece and Rome where those unwritten laws followed by the people from their existence were terminated. Following Cyrus Cylinder, the development of Human Rights Laws continues. In the Middle Age, the Magna Carta (1215) was written, later in the Age of Discovery and Enlightenment, the Petition of Rights (1628), the US Constitution in (1787), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), and the US Bill of Rights (1791) were articulated. All of these written documents are the progenitors for today’s several human rights. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”, states Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was later officially adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948 and were drafted by different representatives led by a human rights advocate, Eleanor Roosevelt. This became the most universal human rights in existence, codified and assembled into a single document. In the Philippines, the fight against discrimination is enshrined in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. The constitution proclaimed that, “the State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights”. Specifically, the right against discrimination is found in the Article III Bill of Rights expressing that “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws”. This is indeed the most powerful imperviousness of every Filipino against violence and persecutions. If prejudice is the attitude, discrimination is the outcome behavior of that attitude. Fortunately, there are men and women who took a scrupulous consideration of the value of every person. All the laws greatly help eradicate the injustice in the system. Individual differences may appear as incongruences of thoughts, ideals, perception, or understanding, but these are just means in finding the uniqueness of every individual. Above all, diversity is not a reason for discrimination.
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FREEDOM [or HATE] WALL? Kurtnhy Love Maderal
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American singer-songwriter had it right, no matter what you do or accomplish, “haters gonna hate”. With the advent of technological innovations, the act of expressing such intense or passionate dislike for anyone has taken a whole new level. Technology lets us to be brutally cruel without suffering any consequences. But, really, what’s with all the harsh words and the bashings online? Is it the classic psychology that we despise what we do not understand or destroy what we do not have? For it seems as though that we live in a culture of insults. In CSU, we have our very own CARSU Freedom Wall, a Facebook group. For Luddites and those who repel technology, it is an online community and a platform for anonymous confessions, testimonies, school updates, and random rants and angst. Like any other social networking sites and Facebook groups, it offers the same features that excite almost everyone in the virtual world and accommodates almost everybody who has anything to do and say about CSU. Mostly, however, the site has grown to become an outlet of dissatisfaction and displeasure. Some posts are provocative which beg for threads of angry words and reactions of annoyance. Any online souls can react to whatever they read on the group. Students, parents, alumni, anyone in the community at all are free to sound off their propensity for gregarious virtual gossiping and bullying. It has been a commonplace that nobody actually takes a second to ponder on the atrocities it can cause in human interaction. Social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and whatnot are flooded with real-time updates from people we know or follow and people we stalk. Whatever we see on the newsfeed, we either feel uncomfortably happy about it—or sad. Curiously, though, we experience happiness with a little tinge of jealousy. And sometimes, we get attracted to sad news like it’s a good thing. This should not come as a surprise, however. When we go online, we are constantly bombarded with images of people who are richer than us and happier than us and people who have more interesting life than us. These are good things in life that many of us dream of. In the process of pondering on these beautiful things which we do not have, they also make us feel terrible. So, we tear them down to feel better about ourselves, and we just don’t stop with the people on TV or in the magazine—we do it to everybody. And since we think we’d done it anonymously, there’d be no ramifications. But there are ramifications because it makes you feel uncomfortable with insensitivity. At the end of the day, it is our humanity that supersedes any shortcomings of being a human—like being jealous. For those who prefer virtual interactions, let us all remember to always T-H-I-N-K before we post something online: Is it TRUE? Is it HELPFUL? Is it INSPIRING? Is it NECESSARY? Is it KIND?
It’s time to turn the jeering into cheering.
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On Objectifying Women Kurtnhy Love Maderal
Sadly, our university has
the lowest perception of what art is. This is evident in how every school celebration culminates in a beauty pageant. From institutional celebration like intramurals to college days, even in little classroom activities, Mr & Ms Something are ubiquitous. Worse, it’s the most-awaited part of any event. It’s to-die-for, especially for gay people, students and instructors alike. Their superfluous preparation prior to the event is always an eye sore and the incessant rants they make after each competition is unbearable. They suddenly become analysts of something so trivial, and what’s even worse is that it could go on for days. I just wish that student-leaders would stop mounting this kind of shows and that CSU community would stop patronizing. It’s pathetic enough to have the most dysfunctional understanding of art. Broadcasting this idiosyncrasy is horrible. This madness has to stop.
Objectification, by its very nature, removes that emotional component of any human interactions. It’s a total failure to interact with someone based on the full range of emotions. As an academic institution offering programs in the arts, showing unspeakable fascination to this kind of things is a bit ironic and repugnant. Instead of inspiring students to become artists of their own crafts and to remain steadfast in fighting the pressure of commercial and material concerns at every turn, instead of investing on the theatre arts programs, and instead of elevating our perception of art, we allow this kind of misguided propensity to stereotype beauty and intelligence. Students are motivated to trade on their looks—to be sold out.
Surely, it’s not the kind of lessons our parents want to pay.
Why? It’s a complete package of objectification of the human form. For example, when students join a beauty contest, they are reduced to their physical appearance. It’s all about their looks and how they project on stage. What audiences only see are the breasts and the biceps. The contestants are degraded to the status of a mere object. The idea of reducing someone to being less than human is unfair and cruel. If anything, it creates an emotional distance.
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“Ako’y isang Pinoy sa puso’t diwa Pinoy na isinilang sa ating bansa Ako’y hindi sanay sa mga wikang banyaga Ako’y Pinoy na mayroong sariling wika.”
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Isa ito sa mga akda ni Florante de Leon o mas kilala bilang si Florante. Maituturing na isa sa maipagmamalaki nating mga Filipino ang pagkamahilig sa musika, na kahit pa man ang mga bayagang musika ay kabisadong-kabisado pa nga, hindi ba? Isa na rito ang pagkamahilig ng ilan sa tinatawag nilang K-Pop, mula sa tono maging sa wastong pagbigkas ng lyrics ay kabisado, kasi nga raw hindi magpapahuli ang mga Filipino. Dibale nang sintunado basta’t tama ang lyrics mo. Kahit pa man HINDI kabisado Kung ano man ang kahulugan nito. “Oh! Tugma yan ha.” Magkagayon maaaring ang kantang pinasikat ay magiging “Ako’y isang Pinoy walang puso’t diwa Pino’y na kunwari taga ibang bansa Ako’y may wikang banyaga Ako’y hindi sanay sa sariling wika.” Dahil na rin ito sa nagsulputang mga makabagong teknolohiya. Tila hindi maipagkailang nakalimutan na ng iba ang paggamit ng sariling wika. Isa na rito ang salitang Window sa ingles na Bintana sa ating wika, ngunit lingid na sa kaalaman ng iba na ito rin ay Durungawan sa ating wika. Sa iyong palagay kabisado mo pa ba ang ilang salita o wikang Filipino at Tagalog? Isip-isip naman minsan. “Awh sorry wala ko’y mahuna-hunaan, kay siya raman gud naa sa akong huna-huna”-HUGOT! Sa hindi paggamit ng ilang salitang ito, kASALanan na ba?
“Rapsi, Rak na itu, Bart, wala Mid, tara, Sos na GG jud ko bai ba”. Manlalaro ka ng Dota kung alam mo ang mga salitang ito. Pansinin natin, iba ito kung laruin kumpara sa; Bahay kubo kahit munti Ang halaman doon ay sari-sari. Singkaw man ay talo Si Garilyas nagsabi Singkaw Pagaw way agiii. “Oh, nawala ka na sa tono friend. Ulitin (kantahin mong muli, walang dayaan besh).” Ngayon, sa paglalaro mo ba nito maaari ka rin bang makapagsabi ng- “Sos, na GG jud ko ani bai ba”. Oh ikaw? Nilalaro mo pa ba ito? O siya? Nilalaro pa ba niya ito? O sila? Nilalaro pa ba nila ito? Marahil ay iilan na lamang. Ang iba Oo, nilalaro pa naman tulad ng “Pak, pak ganern. Pak pak, ganern ganern. Pak pak pak, ganern ganern ganern.” Kung nilalaro mo ito, Pinoy ka. Kasi isa ito sa kultura nating mga Filipino na tila hinahanap at tinatanong ng ilang bata o parang bata o isip bata o sa madaling salita matatanda kung nASAN na nga ba? Ikanga sa akda ni Dr. Jose Rizal na may linyang “Kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan.” Ang kabataan ang aahon sa paghihirap ng bayan, ngunit kabataan din ang sisira sa Inang bayan. Dahil na rin ito sa kaliwa’t kanang krimen na nagawa ng
ilang kabataan sa ngayon. Sa patuloy na pag-ikot ng mundo, sa patuloy na pagtakbo ng panahon, nababago at nababago na rin ang henerasyon. “Ang feelings nga nagbabago, panahon pa kaya?”- Hugot na naman! Kung tutuusin sirang-sira na ang linyang ito sapagkat hindi lang naman ang kabataan ang naghangad na umunlad ang bayan. Magpahanggang ngayon ay inaasam pa rin ito ng karamihan. Kahit pa nga pagtapon ng basura sa tamang kalalagyan ay tila nahihirapan ang ilan. Kung maging masipag lamang sa lahat ng bagay ang lahat ng kabataan, siguradong aahon ang bayan. Dahil, nASA ating mga kamay ang tagumpay para sa makulay na buhay. Mula sa maliit na bagay ay maaari nating umpisahan at simulan katulad na lamang sa pagkain ng gulay (kay lagi wala daw sa ilang bukid). Ikanga sa commercial sa telebisyon. Makuuulay ang buhay, makulay ang buhay sa sinabawang gulay. Unyok: “haaay naku!” Sa paggamit ng sariling wika dito tayo nagkakaintindihan. Sa paglalaro ng mga laro ng lahi dito tayo nagkakaisa. Magkaiba man ang kulay, lahi o lipi, nanatili pa rin ang kulturang Pinoy. Kung akala ng iba wala nang pag-asa, samakatuwid hindi. May bukas pa. “Akala mo lang wala. Pero meron, meron, meron.” Tika lang, linya lang sa pilikula?
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SHAME!! SHAME!!
A girl has no name
Ngilad napud ni ay!
Aha naman pud ka babe?
Diri nalang ko mu agi sa short cut di man ko ka relate sa GAME OF THRONES. Tsk!
Aw, didto raku sa GYM babe matulog ko didto.
Alien ka ba?
Patay sakpan ta!
Adik man cguro ni!!
Unsa diay imong name?
Ayaw pag boot! WINTER IS COMING
CSU pa kaha ni?
Kainit sa panahon. Sige man ka jacket bai.
Kana bitaw FEELING nga naa nay uyab imong crush T.T
Si Lyanna tana mosunod.
sa atoa??
Kinsa kaha mosunod
Gusto ko si Balish mosunod sa ato.
Sagdi rana besh! Wala man gihapon forever!
BRAD, paman paman ko nimo bayaran imong utang?
Ayaw ka problema, a lannister always pays his debts.
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