Fever Pitch

Have you ever experienced a day without something to eat or drink? Is it because the place where you live has no food outlets or local vendors? No! No! No! Poverty has come your way, having no capacity to get hold of the essential needs for survival – food, clothing, shelter and education. When you’re living in the street, pleading for alms from all passersby, ingesting the restaurant’s leftovers inside a trash can and other gruesome incidents of similar problem, you are deemed underprivileged. On one hand, Margaret Fitzgerald from the film Million Dollar Baby entered the world of boxing, even if she has already a job as a waitress, because she could still feel impoverished. With her winnings on different boxing tournaments, it doesn’t change the fact that her family doesn’t care for her integral welfare. Being in poor state doesn’t only cover the economic aspect of existence but also the emotional, spiritual, social and physical conditions of subsisting. It entails suffering becaus...

Bearing the theme “WORKWORLD: Reality beyond the Four Pillars, the annual ‘Senior Career Days’ of the College Guidance Center – Career and Placement Program Office (CGC-CPPO) for 2010 was held at the University Gymnasium. To prepare graduating students in job searching outside the campus is the main aim of the program aside from providing the do’s and don’ts or guidelines and the necessary skills and knowledge needed in applying for work. Career and Placement Program Officer Cherry Rastrullo started the preparation of the said event last July – making and organizing the concept paper and committees which are program, secretariat, logistics, and food. With promotional campaigns through the Public Address System, letters to Chairpersons and students, announcements from The Beat, flyers, posters and streamers, the CPPO Head Rastrullo expected high participation from seniors. The office was able to get former Counselor Edsel Navera, Hazel Navera of Coca Cola Bottlers, Patricia...

Are you willing to die for your country? Since ancient Filipinos grasped the idea of territoriality, people were able to have that sense of nationalism. Legends could it be, but the gallantry and resilience portrayed in every acts of Filipinos during the pre-Spanish, Hispanic and eras next to them proved it as they ousted Philippine colonizers. In line with this commotion, people who have instigated revolutionary uproars, in the case of Andres Bonifacio, or even reformist actions of Jose Rizal have left great impact on people, that dying with honor for your country blazes Filipinos’ desire in caring for the Philippines. At this modern world, people, except our military and police forces, don’t use lethal weapons and protective armors anymore to preserve and prop up one’s land. With the help of contemporary science and technology, entrepreneurs and resourceful entities, made our heroes’ praiseworthy deaths the main source of profit and nationalism. Rare times of unity and bo...

Yes! I'm in... as an officially declared aspirant... I thought being an exemplar would be not so hard at all, but my expectations failed me. When I became an honorary member of Ateneo Paradigm Eclat Xircle (APEX), I was then so excited to attend our practices and meetings as major preparations for the past Pintakasi 2011. It was not just about my inclination towards entertainment which kept on motivating me to be on their sights whenever certain circumstances call for my presence, but rather the in seeing my new circle of friends – ang mga “kalog” na exemplars! Just when I thought things will be as ordinary as assumed, everything changed when I aimed for higher position in that organization. It is even more difficult than my current PEDS004 subject...hha... The exemplars have many requirements and tricky tests, which I supposed to be so trivial prerequisites... They want to add more members in their group, but why would they put hindrances in each aspi...

Our predecessors, in my own opinion, are naturally industrious, but because of various factors affecting their social, emotional and physical disposition, they tend to experience the goodness of leisure. If Spaniards haven’t conquered us in the first place, we could be one of the First World Countries for we won’t be suffering from restrained international trades, personal developments and won’t be burdened by vociferous regulations and unreasonable injustices such as unjust taxes, derisive interactions with them and forced labor. Rizal made a great point about the reasons of our ancestors’ being ‘indolent’ for sometimes brought by the stern setting they were engaged in before. His suggestions, however, can be reckoned with sky-scraping infeasibility because the system running amidst every sector of the society. Others are close-minded to the fact that they’ve been used to have employees that even they’re just sitting in one corner, they’re still earning. The problem is o...