A WEEK TO REMEMBER: SOM WEEK

Last October 26, 2015, SOM week has officially started. Everyone is excited for the events and programs especially for basketball and volleyball event. I am excited because many of my friends are part of the volleyball team and basketball team representing our course Business Management. Gladly, our basketball team became the champion yesterday against Accountancy’s basketball team. It wasn’t an easy game for them although from the beginning until the end they dominated the game. My block and me cheers for them from the first game to the championship game. I almost lost my voice but luckily I did not. I reserved some for the Mr. and Mrs. SOM 2015 for cheering for our representatives. It was a good experience not only for me but also for the other freshmen students. It may be as long as we wish it could be but we enjoyed it and used the whole week doing things that could make us happy.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015. First, CITI Caravan was held at Asia Pacific College, room 415. This is for the upcoming or newly graduates of apc. They are offering jobs that can help the graduates to start and to use their learning in real life situation. Good thing to have such program that could help students to find job easily without having any conflicts. At exactly 10am I participated to a seminar entitled Cultural Diversity in Business. I have learned that having a business is not an easy thing you need to have knowledge in everything that can help build one successful business. Of course, you need to know what are the demands of the consumers or costumers to have an idea on what products will you produce and sell it to commerce. Lastly, after the said seminar Running Man is next everyone was so excited to join the event. Some of my classmates joined the program and some became the facilitator. It doesn't matter if they win or lose the game what's important is that they end the event with smiles in their face. At the end of the week we went home bringing with us the memories and happiness caused by everyone who surrounds us

Anti- Smoking Campaign

" NO TO SMOKING"

Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream. Most commonly the substance is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant which have been rolled into a small square of rice paper to create a small, round cylinder called a "cigarette". Smoking is primarily practiced as a route of administration for recreational drug use because the combustion of the dried plant leaves vaporizes and delivers active substances into the lungs where they are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and reach bodily tissue. 

An Anti Smoking Campaign seminar was held last October 21, 2015 at Asia Pacific college with Engr. Emer Rojas who undergoes Laryngectomy. Laryngectomy is the removal of the larynx and separation of the airway from the mouth, nose and esophagus. In a total laryngectomy the entire larynx is removed and in a partial laryngectomy only a portion is taken out. The laryngectomee breathes through an opening in the neck known as a stoma. He shares to us his past experiences and explained to the students what are the consequences of smoking. A stick of cigarette contains more than 4000 chemical compounds. Approximately, there are 7.6 millions deaths worldwide caused by smoking. So I were you , I will stop smoking before you experience having or undergoing laryngectomy. There's a law which is connected on this topic The Sin tax Law RA. 10351. 

Turn Left Turn Right

Destiny is diffrent from coincidence because when you are destined to be with someone time will come you and your love one will be together. But there are some barriers that everyone  should face In finding their destiny.

The story tells of two people who live in buildings right next to each other, separated only by a wall, and are always near each other but can't seem to find one another.

John Liu is a violinist who works from job to job. During one of his gigs, he meets June, who offers to give him a ride home. However she flirts aggressively with John during the ride which frightens him. To get away from her he jumps out of her car and makes a run for his apartment building. The next day he sees her waiting for him on the left corner of his building which makes him avoid going to the left of his building.

Eve Choi is a translator for a book publishing company. Her job is to translate foreign books into Chinese. She is given the daunting task of translating a horror novel into Chinese. At night while translating the horror novel she gets frightened and thinks her home is haunted. The next day she notices a scary-looking tree to the right of her apartment building and, frightened, she refuses to go to the right of her building.

John and Eve meet by accident at the park fountain, when he helps her pick up her papers that have fallen into the fountain. They find out that they had met each other when they were younger at an amusement park, when both their schools had organized a field trip to the same place. Then, Eve had asked John for his telephone number, but the two never got in touch because she left her school bag on the train and lost John's phone number. The two laugh about the past and exchange phone numbers without asking for each other's name before parting quickly because of a coming rainstorm.That night, both are happy and excited to have met each other again, but both also came down with the flu because of the earlier rainstorm.

The flu medication John has on hand has expired and he decides not to take it. Eve is overjoyed and forgets to take her medication. The next day the two are devastated to find out that the phone numbers they had exchanged are unreadable due to the paper getting wet during the rainstorm. Both can only make out a few numbers and vainly call several phone numbers at random hoping to get through to one another.One of the numbers they called is a restaurant that Ruby works at as a waitress and delivery person. Both John and Eve, ill and not wanting to leave their home because they're afraid that they would miss the other person's phone call, decides to order delivery from Ruby's restaurant. Ruby falls in love with John at first sight when she arrives at his home to make her delivery. Seeing the smudged pieces of paper on both John and Eve's table, Ruby soon finds out that the two are trying to find each other. To distract John from the apartment located in the next building Ruby tells him an old lady lives in that apartment.

John's and Eve's flu become so severe that they are both taken to the hospital, John by Ruby and Eve by an ambulance. They both meet Dr. Hu, but Dr. Hu happens to be a former University classmate of Eve's, who has a crush on her. He tells Eve that it must be fate that they met each other again and proceeds to check her into the hospital to get the best care possible, while discharging John from the hospital, changing his mind only when Ruby argues with him about how severe John's illness is. Both John and Eve give their home keys to Ruby and Dr. Hu to set up voicemail at their home in case the other person calls.

Once John and Eve are discharged from the hospital they find out that Dr. Hu and Ruby had literally moved into each of their apartments, but both make it clear that they are not interested in them since they already love someone else. Heartbroken, drunk and sobbing to each other Dr. Hu and Ruby decide to get together. Taking revenge on John and Eve for breaking their hearts, they send pictures to them showing how many places they had missed finding each other. John and Eve find Dr. Hu and Ruby to talk about the pictures they had received in the mail. Ruby gives Eve's phone number to John telling him it's her number to test if she was ever in his heart and Dr. Hu does the same to Eve, but they do not call.John and Eve are frustrated about not being able to find each other and decide to take jobs abroad. On the day they are to leave Taiwan, an earthquake strikes, destroying the wall that separates their apartment. Both finally find each other.

Tatay mong Kalbo

"Ang Tatay mong Kalbo"

The main characters are absentminded because they don't know who they are. Honestly, I didn't understand the story behind it, it's quite confusing coz the title is not related  to the story and the flow or sequence of the story are nonsense. Why did I say that? because all throughout the play I haven't seen any important events. The only thing that I like from the play is the sense of humors of the characters. Maybe it's exactly the point why they did such a play like that. It was made for us to be entertained. I thought that it will be a very good presentation but sad to say it wasn't.But I appreciate the play, the hard work and the efforts of the characters to memorize the scripts and the timing when are they going to say their lines. It's hard to organize a play like even me will get tired and exhausted during  rehearsals. I hope the next time that they will do a play again maybe they should emphasize the story behind it so that the audience would understand what is going on. Goodluck to the future  plays that the Teatro Phileo will do. I'm looking forward to it.

Artikulo Uno

The movie entitled Heneral Luna was directed by Jerrold Tarog. I can say that he's a great director because he came up with this kind of topic that could influence the Filipinos  to fight for our country too just like Heneral Luna did,  but unfortunately he didn't finish his duty because he was killed and betrayed by our fellow filipinos. Heneral Luna showed heroic actions during the invasion of Americans and Spaniards. Even though  he was just doing his job as a leader, some filipinos did not like the way he enforce the law because they say it's too strict that no one could disagree with it especially the Article one. As a whole, the movie represents how the Filipinos suffer and sacrifice their own lives for the freedom of the Philippines. Heneral Luna doesn't deserve to be killed and betrayed because as we all know he is the best,top and the greatest soldier that Emilio Aguinaldo have. For me anyone could be hero,  all of us could do great things that can contribute to the economy. It's just that we're holding ourselves to help others even in simple ways right?. If I would be given a chance to fight for our country,  why not?. I'll grab that opportunity to prove my loyalty to my beloved homeland.