Pasko sa TN 2009 (Outreach Programs)

PASKO SA TN 2009 Outreach Programs



*Pamaskong Handog ng The NORSUnian
para sa mga Bata
December 18, 2009
Balugo Elementary School

*Pamaskong Handog ng The NORSUnian
para sa mga Batang Lansangan
December 18, 2009,
Rizal Boulevard and City Streets

*Pamaskong Handog ng The NORSUnian
para sa mga Dukhang Tahanan
(Caroling and Gift-Giving)
December 19, 2009
Punta, Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental

Music: Star ng Pasko
(ABS-CBN Christmas Station ID)

Thoughts from a tired mind

I have to be honest - this is my blog anyway. For the nth time, I am disappointed again. I wonder why some people can’t spare just a little moment of urgent help,when I can even sacrifice a week for this. It’s a good thing that Caroline was there, though I was not able to stop myself from crying, I quickly managed to cheer myself up. Anyway, I believe that I can still handle things in the remaining time of my stay here. Three months more and I will finally leave this safe haven. And it’s only then that people will realize how it feels like to be in my very post– always left and taken for granted.

It’s Christmas – I’ll forgive even they won’t say sorry. Well, how would they say sorry if they are not even aware how they appeared so insulting to my eyes? It’s Christmas – there’s no time to entertain this emote. It’s Christmas – I have forgiven them and all I want now is to be happy. It’s Christmas – I will never allow this ill feeling to ruin everything that I am excited of this season.

P.S. Questions are not allowed. Barking is strictly prohibited. Most importantly, dramas are banned here.
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Everyone here is busy preparing for Pasko sa TN activities. The preparations are tiring but the excitement is enough to heal it. Excited na ko! Help us God…

When Christmas lost a spark…

(Christmas Colors ----> Advertisement. Wala ni labot sa post.... Hehe)
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While scanning my blog, I stumbled upon this unpublished post which I wrote last year. I did not find the ample of time to finish this, that is why, it was not published. While reading this blog entry, I cannot help but laugh. It reminded me of my senseless emotes last year's Christmas season.

But as what most people say, the only thing constant in life is change. Everything changes and so, my mind does, too. This season, I’m taking back everything that I said in this manuscript:

“I can’t definitely recall when that spark about Christmas faded from my eyes. All I can remember is that we still had a great Christmas celebration last year…

The countdown of my online blog was telling me that the Holiday celebrated by most people in this side of the universe is coming. While writing this, it reads that it is exactly five more weeks, four days, seven hours, and twenty minutes to go before the event. I cannot help but heave a deep sigh knowing that Christmas is here. Even things around me tell that it is indeed here --- the flickering Christmas lights, the Christmas songs and carols playing, and well, the coldness of the air engulfing the atmosphere. Christmas is indeed on the air now --- everyone and everything is telling it.

But while most people in this world get excited about it and get thrilled with every implication about Christmas --- everything is nothing to my eyes now. Though the lights still flickered, the songs are still sweet, and the air is still cold, a thought about Christmas is already nothing to me. It had already lost a spark in me.

As a little boy, I grow anticipating Christmas every year. It is once the most anticipated day I looked forward every year. Though we do not celebrate it in the family in the fabulous and expensive way, we used to celebrate it with meanings. I can’t remember a Christmas day in the past that was wasted --- in whatever way, the whole family would spend it in full essence.

Every moment and every scenario how we celebrated Christmas in the past remained vivid to my memory even now. Mama, Ate, and I would always find ourselves busy in the kitchen before Noche Buena. Being the self-proclaimed chef at home, I would always be assigned in preparing macaroni salad, spaghetti, and ham. Mama on the other hand would boast her ‘walang kamatayang’ biko, maja blanca, and tinolang manok in the kitchen while Ate would lead Papa and my younger brothers in setting up a grill outside our house for her pork barbeque. After the food preparations, since there is no simbang gabi in our barrio, we would stay together in our little living room where we would wait for Noche Buena by having a videoke. We were not born singers but we would wait for the very event with shrilling voices. At exactly twelve in the midnight, the whole family would offer a little prayer and then would go together and eat the food we prepared earlier.

These things are maybe simple but seeing my family complete always complete my Christmas. The Christmas lights that flickered in our house and the sweet Christmas songs played while we merrily…”

This time, I’m back to my childhood perspectives and anticipations about the Christmas season. This year, I’m excited again to celebrate a merry Christmas at home…

(Some pics of our Christmas celebration last year - the first Christmas without Papa...)

A happy birthday!

December 12, 2009

Today, I turned a year older…

Sa tanang nanglibre ug nagpalibre nako…
Sa tanang ni-surprise nako…
Sa tanang nagpakasaba para sa akong birthday…
Sa tanang nag-effort para ma-happy ko…
Sa tanang nagpahilak nako…
Sa tanang nagpalamok para nako…
Sa tanang ni-chip in para sa surprise birthday celebration para nako…
Sa tanang wala nanihapon para nako…
Sa tanang nagpulaw para nako…
Sa tanang nagpakatawa nako…
Sa tanang nag-inspire nako…
Sa tanang nanghatag ug gift ug sa mga mohatag pa (haha)…
Sa ni-fulfill ug hatag sa akong dream shoes…
Sa nanghatag ug jacket…
Sa nanghatag ug t-shirt…
Sa nanghatag ug stuffed toy…
Sa tanang ni-greet nako…
Sa tanang nakalimut nga mo-greet unta…
Sa nanghatag ug cake…
Sa nanghatag ug shorts…
Sa nanghatag ug pantalon…
Sa mga nag-effort ug hatag ug scrap book…
Sa mga nagplano para i-surprise ko…
Sa bonggang-bong video tribute (parang farewell party na)…
Sa tanang naghinubog…
Sa tanang nagpahubog…
Sa tanang nag-inOA..
Sa mga ni-deadma…
Sa mga pasakit…
Sa tanang nakahinumdum…
Sa mga mohinumdum palang…
Sa tanang nagmahal…
Sa tanan-tanan…
DAGHANG SALAMAT…

I thank you for making me feel that I am loved. Thank you for your thoughtfulness. Thank you! And yes, I have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Lost again:-)

It’s been a while.

A lot of things had happened. A lot had changed.

Yes, I will admit – I’m lost again. It’s still hurting. But don’t worry. Being lost now doesn’t mean I’m lost forever. Give me some time to pick up the shattered pieces. I’m confident that I’ll find my way soon.

Ahai. Life is indeed full of irony. Bonggang-bonggang drama na to.

Kung kailan malapit na mag-Pasko…
Kung kailan malapit na ang 22nd birthday ko…
Kung kailan ipakilala na sana kita sa mga friends ko...
Kung kailan nag-change ako ng status sa facebook at inamin sa FB na we are in,
saka naman sumablay.

Ahai. Anyway, I’ll recover soon. The four months and 19 days period of time with you is still a worth-treasuring – so, I still thank you for that.

Thank you! Goodbye...
I’ll stop acting like a sick little puppy dog…

An IPR to Remember

That was another TN IPR to remember…

The IPR that was, dubbed as "Panag-Sinuoray sa TN 2009", has been long overdue – the reason: there are things that should be prioritized first in the publication than the two-day fun, bonding, and merrymaking. I’ve always told myself that since it will be my last IPR in TN, I should make the best out of it; I should make it memorable; and I should make it worth the wait. The question: Is it one of the best TN IPRs? Is it memorable? Is it worth the wait?

Well, let these pictures (unedited at walang daya) speak for it…

1. The TN boodle fight

I was really full…

2. The initiation rites and dinner for TN Newbies

Dahil ikaw ay sikat, ikaw ay VICTIM! This year’s bunch of game and sport TN Newbies in their ‘victimized’ formal outfit. Parang JS Prom lang! Haha. Sorry – TN members who don’t experience something like this missed a half of their TN life…

With the editors... Ngarag ang EIC...
With the TN Oldies... Yehey, kabalos najud sila!
At dahil mga VICTIM, idinaan na lang sa kain ang shocking revelation...

2. TN Showtime (in K-Pop theme)!

Pre-Show Pictorial (Unsa daw?)
Group pictorials...

Kuarto Uno (Hanapin si Snoop Dog...)
Kuarto Kuatro (Parang mga pokpok lang with their mamasang... Haha)
Kuarto Ocho (Wow Jonas, parang si Joel lang noon...)
Kuarto Nuebe (Pati pose may choreo...)

And ehem, the Kuarto Tres... (My group)
Da girls and pa-girls
Da boys and pa-boys
Ang Tanging Pamilya - The K-Popstar Ek-ek
(To be continued...)

Usapang hangover

Everyone in the office seems having a hangover still with the Rock ‘n Load Concert of Smart last night. Callalily and Spongecola, plus Rhian Ramos, rock the university gymnasium– mga crushes daw nila kaya they still can’t get over with it (Hayaan nalang natin).

I also have my share of hangover but not with the concert (kasi wala naman akong paki sa mga celebrity na iyon --- basta, I went there to enjoy and unwind, not to worship them). My hangover is caused by the drinking session I had last night with some of my publication buddies (minsan lang naman to kaya hayaan nyo na ako…) after the concert. Kasakit jud sa ako ulo but tinuyuan man, so waz ta ma do…

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Kung hangover rin lang ang pag-uusapin, si Rolyn, our newbie writer, ay hindi parin naka-recover hanggang ngayon. She had a one-on-one interview with the celebrities last night and she still can’t get over with the fact that she made it.

After she was reprimanded by someone-in-power (whoever that is) last month when she snubbed Sarah Geronimo’s press conference, she made a triple bawi last night when she interviewed Spongecola, Callalily, and Rhian Ramos one by one. Ibang level! Keep it up Inday Rolynskie!

Sinful Nights

Sometimes, we fall for temptations that are lurking around. The next time we know, we are already swimming in a pool of consequences caused by our reckless actions. The next time we know, we are already indulged with our wrong doings – causing us to commit sin, again and again.

But as long as there is still a chance to stop from committing sin, as long as there is still a way to stop the indulgence – stop now before everything will be too late. Stop now before you’ll wake up one day realizing that you’ve wasted your life doing sinful acts.

Sorry if I you don’t get my point or if I sound preachy in this post. These realizations came flooding to me today. Basta, all I want to say is that, ‘wag idahilang dahil ikaw ay tao lamang kaya ikaw ay nagkakasala. Everything will always be a choice…

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It’s always good to realize that what you are doing is a wrong thing. It’s always good to straighten your mistakes while there is still a chance. Ngunit minsan, naiisip ko rin. Oo nga’t nagsisisi ako sa ginawa kung kasalanan. Ngunit, bukal ba sa loob ko ang pagsisisi o nagsisisi lamang ako dahil alam kung ang aking ginawang ay kailan may hindi magiging tama sa mata ng tao at sa mata ng Diyos?

Ay ewan. Basta. Ang gulo-gulo ng points ko na kahit ako hindi ko rin naiintindihan. Ewan. Basta, to quote a friend’s advice, “Just do the right thing!”. At kailanma’y hindi magiging tama ang pagkakasala.

Padugo. Ambot lang. Basta.