SAMASKOM members attended PINOY MEDIA CONGRESS 2006

WELCOME TO ANOTHER ACADEMIC YEAR: 2006-2007

After electing a new set of officers on June, SAMASKOM members decided to have re-election. Yeah, seems like nothing is happening with the organization, so far. So the few good members decided to re-elect officers. That will be done on thursday or probably next week.

Good luck sa lahat!

A FAREWELL MESSAGE FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF SAMASKOM

SWABENG FAREWELL
ni Megan Leung (SAMASKOM President, AY 2005-2006)


Biruin nyo nga naman, aalis na lang sya pati blog ng SAMASKOM pinatulan nya pa. Eksenadora talaga! Mass Comm nga.

Natatandaan ko nung first year pa lang ako…Nananahimik ako sa classroom (Oo, tahimik kasi ako dati) tapos bigla akong pinatawag sa CAS Office. Sabi ko, wala akong ginagawa ha! (Oo, mabait kasi ako dati) Akala ko kung anong gusto nila sa akin, gagawin lang pala akong editor ng CAS Ideas. Hindi ko alam kung bakit ako. Siguro nagandahan sila sa handwriting ko kaya naisipan nilang swak ako para sa posisyon.

Simula noon napako na ako sa mga pa-dyaryo dyaryo – “campus papers” ika nga nila. Doon ako namulat. Ang dami kong nalaman – mga bagay na dapat malaman at mga bagay na ‘di na dapat malaman pero inalam pa rin. Madalas noon naiisip ko tama nga si Jerry: Curiosity killed the cat.

Buti na lang hindi ako naging pusa.

Doon ko rin napagtanto na ‘yung “dream job” ko na maging dyarista (journalist) eh isang bangungot pala! Biruin mo, habol ka ng habol sa mga tao. Minsan nga nakarating pa ako ng Arayat para mabuo ‘yung isang storyang pinatay lang ng editor ko. Tinrangkaso ako sa sobrang tuwa.

Noong nagtagal, naisip kong mas ok pa palang mag-interview sa Arayat kaysa buong linggo kang nakaupo sa harap ng computer, katabi ng lay-out artist na allergic sa pabango mo.

Noong medyo tumagal pa, mas gusto ko nang umupo sa harap ng computer katabi ng lay-out artist na allergic sa pabango ko ng isang buwan kesa mag-edit ng mga storya ng mga kasama ko sa dyaryo. Dinudugo mga mata ko sa grammar nila!

Pero sa kabila ng lahat, hindi mapapantayan ng mga trangkaso’t luhang dugo ang mga bagay na natutunan ko, mga lugar na napuntahan (seminars) at mga taong nakilala (interviewees) – dagdag “connections” din ‘yon!

Gayun pa man hindi ko ninais na magtapos nang puro “by-line” lang ang maipagyayabang, kaya nangampanya akong maging presidente ng SAMASKOM. Aba, akalain mo nga naman, ang dami kong nabola!

Hindi malakas ang loob kong magsalita sa harap ng maraming tao. Pero dahil sa SAMASKOM, napilitan ako. Kailangan kong panindigan ang kakapalan ng mukha ko. Ok naman pala! Masaya palang ume-eksena.

Syempre marami ding nag-alboroto sa pamumuno ko pero “aww..shucks” naman ang feeling noong sumabog ang blog ko Friendster dahil full blast ang suporta ng mga ABMC. May mga bagay na hindi ko naman pinagmamalaki pero hindi ko rin dapat pagsisisihan. ‘Yan kasi ang natutunan ko sa Mass Comm – kahit No Regrets, dapat may naaabsorb ka rin sa mga kamuritan, este kamalian mo.

Masaya ako dahil sa unang pagkakataon simula ng tumungtong ako sa MC eh magkakakilala na lahat ng year levels. Konti na lang ang isnaban at wala ng catfights. Tama lang ‘yon…’di naman kasi kayo mga pusa eh.

Sana batak uli ‘yung incoming batch at alagan ng mga seniors ‘yung mga lower levels. Siga kasi ‘yang batch nina Isa Mangune, nang-aaway ng mga bata. Hehe. Lab lab tamu dapat.

Para naman sa mga padating at mga ‘di pa katandaan sa MassComm, alisin na ang hiya. Dapat all-out lagi. Try n’yo sa dyaryo (campus papers) kahit wala kayong balak magtrabaho sa TikTik ka-graduate nyo. Sayang ang experience – masaya naman ang tinatrangkaso. Sulit.

Oyta. Apin na ita ing swabeng farewell. Mingat la kekayu.


***Nga pala, Tagalog Mode muna ako kasi englisero’t englisera na kayong lahat eh…Gusto ko namang maiba (habang uso pa si Bob Ong)!

The ISPEL SEX group on their docu presentation

the group members:

AILEEN MANITI, NOLALYN CHRISTY LOPEZ, CATHERINE CABAYAO, and GHIA RIVERA

The KITIL group during their docu presentation

from left to right:

MA. ANGELA BUCUD, GUILLERMO PANTINO JR., GHIA SAMANTHA SANTOS, MARISSA DIWA, MA. LUISA RAZON, KARLA MAE SANTOS, SHEENA MARIE MALLARI, and CHARMAINE SANTOS

The LMRV group (ABMC IV) during the presentation of their docu titled PINTADOS

(from left to right):

Divine Grace Viscayno, Stephenie Roncal, Arlene Layug and Princess Manansala

CONGRATULATIONS to team B for a job well done!

MELFORD CUNANAN, ANNALOU DE LUNA, RENDDY ROSE RODRIGUEZ, JOYCE TANANA, RONA MARZAN, JOYCE ANN MATITU & JOOWON YOON

(TEAM B, ABMC II)

Team B of our PR and Advertising class went to ACNHS-Special Science Class to market the three academic programs offered at the College of Arts & Sciences. And guess what, this group is another reason why Samaskom should be proud!

QUOTABLE QUOTES

"Teenagers who live without their parents usually don't get enough guidance and attention they need. So in school, most of them get low grades and by that, they engage in cheating and plagiarism in order to pass their subjects. Most of them are liberated and they are tempted to engage in pre-marital sex through the influence of the people around them which later results in teenage pregnancy and some lead to abortion because of unwanted pregnancy." -- PATRICIA KAYE C. BODINO

"Pre-marital sex and early pregnancy... let me term them on my own --the early `paradise orientation' and the early `baby exhibition.' These are fruits of lack of self-control or perhaps laziness to wear your condoms. Freedom is a matter of choice. But it doesn't end there. There's more to that rather than the `ah...ah...more...more...hush on bed.' Use your head. Use your freedom. Do not abuse your body." -- EDWIN RYAN B. DE LEON

Engaging in pre-marital sex won't make you "in." -- GYPSY SALAZAR

"I think sex is a wonderful thing. God created male and female and let them live together. However, even if it is from God, if we use it just for our enjoyment, God doesn't like it." -- OH, JU-SEON

"For me, morality should conquer love and not love conquering morality." -- MARIA ROLDELIZA GATUS

pix fr www.halton-health.nhs.uk.

www.kompas.com.

www.southeastchristian.org.

KITIL and ISPEL SEX made it to the finals!

CONGRATULATIONS

to the

ABMC IV students

who made it to the FINALS

of the

NATIONAL FILMMAKING CONTEST

sponsored by

Pro-Life Philippines

Docu 1:

KITIL

The production staff:

Guimo, Karla Mae, Luisa, Angela B., Sheena M.,

Marissa D., Ghia Sam, and Charmaine

(their entry is a documentary that aims to discourage ABORTION)

Docu 2:

ISPEL SEX

The production staff:

Aileen, Cathy, Ghia and Nolalyn

with special participation of Valerie Baluyut (ABMC III) as the singer of their original theme song which was composed by MARK CASPE (BS Psychology IV)

(a docu that emphasizes the medical, social and moral implication of PRE-MARITAL SEX)

an essay from a lovely princess- APPLE BODINO

“The Loveless Princess”

by Patricia Kaye C. Bodino
ABMC 1

Cinderella got Prince Charming; Jasmine got Aladdin; Ariel got Prince Eric; and I got… no one. As a kid, I’ve always dreamed of being a princess and having a prince charming like every princess does on fairytales. And of course, who wouldn’t want a happy ending with a handsome and charming prince?

Now, I’m 17 and those childhood fantasies are over. Life gave me a lot of realizations. I don’t have to dream of being a princess because I really a

m a princess! Being the youngest in the family, I am guarded by the Great King, the ever- loving Queen and two handsome Princes; and that’s enough to feel like I’m the most precious princess in the world.

Talking about love, my dad and my eldest brother are always alarmed, w

hile my mom and my elder brother find it normal (which really is) for me to be in love with someone at my age. But talking about boyfriends, oh, that’s the thing that will definitely freak them out. They say I’m still young, that I should finish my studies first before entering a relationship. I understand. They’re just afraid that I might have the same experience as my eldest brother’s: getting married at a young age. Well I’ll take that. And besides, I know how much they love their “uniqa hija”. I am still their baby.

I belong to the group of the so- called N-B-S-B (No-Boyfriend-Since-Birth). Yes, I had no boyfriend since birth and it gives me the creeps of not having one until my old age. I can’t seem to find any reasons why I still stay unattached while my other friends kept on telling me about their most exciting love stories ever. I just see myself there in one corner, all alone, being everyone’s sweetest baby. Others treat me like a kid that sometimes, they hesitate to tell me about their love life and their most mysterious secrets ever because they think I couldn’t, and I would never understand them. I may not have a boyfriend but hey, I know what love is and I’ve been in love before. Now, is there a problem with me that leaves me lonely and loveless? If there’s such, could somebody tell me what it is?

Love for me is the most complicated thing that exists in this world. How complicated? Well, according to my experience, it’s all so complicated that there are no more words left to describe how knotty it is. I’ve been in love with the wrong person, at the wrong place, and at the wrong time. Everything was wrong. But I was right of what I felt that time; I was truly, madly, and deeply in love with that person. How did I know? Well let’s just say that that’s how complicated love is, it can’t even answer even the simplest questions.

Loving means hurting and it’s no fairy tale at all. But what is nice about love is that you continue loving and taking the risk of getting hurt just to let your feelings be felt by that person even he/she doesn’t feel the same way. It’s really better to give than to receive.

I never hated fairytales. I still fantasize them but I deal more with the reality right now. I am not a kid anymore. I’m already a young and sweet 17 year-old princess waiting for the right prince charming to arrive, at the right place, and at the right time. And hopefully we’ll live happily ever after.

I don’t care what other people say. Staying single is a lot more fun than being attached to the wrong person. But sometimes, I can’t help it but to ask myself why I don’t have a boyfriend yet when it seems like every girl in the world has their own sweet and unique love story. And I just tell myself that it’s better for a princess like me to sleep early and wait to be kissed by the right prince than to stay awake and be kissed by a thousand frogs. I believe that God’s just too busy writing the best love story for me.

pix from www.onceuponatimecollectibles.com.

Here are some photos during the TEAM BUILDING activity

essay by EDWIN RYAN DE LEON

Buying new eyes and selling the old brain

written and submitted
by
EDWIN RYAN DE LEON
(ABMC ONE)

REACTION PAPER on Chapter 85 – Epilogue of the da Vinci Code Deception)

Doubt everything you hear, you see and feel.
Anonymous

I have to say with all the time that brown has been talking in circles, this statement is the one I’ve proven right. I’ve learned to have faith in my doubts. This may sound ironic but these kinds of statements are the one selling. Hehehe trust me! For the 18 years of my existence, my life has been fed mostly by handed down traditions, beliefs dos and don’ts. Now I reflect; my used to be innocent mind was abused badly by mislead beliefs and unproven truths that people perceive to be right. And unfortunately I believed them. For a child to believe these things is still acceptable. But for someone who is a grown-up living with a sense of individuality in what he thinks and what he believes, such thing is stupidity!

This makes no difference in psychology at first you teach the child how to live and grow day by day year by year. When the child learns how to live you equip her with things she might need in surviving the lion’s den. When a child learns how to think you offer the norms of the society. But in my equation you must also offer her the freedom to scrutinize why such things are morally accepted. You don’t make a child parrot every word you say without her dimmest understanding of the things she is mouthing. You don’t stop her from developing her critical thinking and her sense of individuality. You don’t get a child to set the echoes of our traditions to the fullest. Remember, you are rearing a new life in this world, not the next whoever of whatsoever!

Now let me connect my avowal with Dan Brown’s “da Vinci Code”. Most of the things he unveiled are unbelievable. Some say they are unacceptable. Some believe them easily. These are the fruits of his doubts. He made researches and claimed that they are right. These are assertions and their credibility depends not on his hands actually, but in yours. You are the one to judge if he is right in bringing down the major religion of the world. Martyrs have died in the pursuit of keeping these beliefs afloat. So it’s actually your decision and this is an easy job.

Now let me look at you. Yes, you people who are criticizing the people who believed in what Dan Brown said. Why did you have to curse them? Why did you call them gullible? For believing this person who doesn’t even have mandate from heaven to proclaim? Well I’ll give you that and I will judge you no more as long as you also see the obvious. You, YOURSELVES, are gullible! Why do you believe the opposite of what this people believe? Because of the sacred book written for you? You have this as your proof? Well they have “da vinci code” as their proof. And is your book really credible? You were told and you believe and you call that faith, something which shouldn’t be questioned. Maybe this is going to be an endless verbal sparring between us but believe me and embrace the fact, your faith is making you adorably gullible.

In contrary to many I am now starting to admire Mr. Brown. He had the nerves to write about such things and break free from the NORMS and the MORES. He wasn’t camouflaged like us. He knows for sure that people may not believe him and what could he be doing is wrong. But again I doubt what he is saying is true and some how I’m sure he is too.

In the end it all came to one thing, “What you believe in." Brown looks at it differently and so as everyone. But the only thing we must all have is the intersection of individual thinking and conviction of what we believe. Someday we will all pass and we will realize it doesn’t really matter who we believed and which theories we fought for. What will matter is how we dug into them and how these things made your life a better place to live than the world we have found.

The da vinci code you asked? It’s an opinion… or maybe a conviction. Nah… it’s a crap and a challenge for us think.

And the winners are...

Six groups from ABMC 1 class organized panel discussions (for English 2A) on the following selected topics:

Group 1: pre-marital sex (Director: SHEENA SUNGA)
Group 2: lack of interest in studies/getting low grades in school (Dir: JAVI BARRIOS)
Group 3: wanting to live without parents (Dir: EDWIN RYAN DE LEON)
Group 4: abortion among teenagers (Dir: JOHN CARLO SANTOS)
Group 5: cheating and plagiarism (Dir: JEREMY KRIS CORTEZ)
Group 6: teenage pregnancy (Dir: GRAZELLE BUMANLAG)

STAR AWARDS:

Grp 1: * * * * BEST FORMAT (DEBATE)
Grp 2: * * * MOST INTERACTIVE
Grp 3: * * * * * BEST PRESENTATION; MOST ORGANIZED
Grp 4: * * * * BEST VIDEO PRESENTATION; MOST PUNCTUAL GROUP
Grp 5: * * * * * BEST PROGRAM; BEST CHOICE OF SPEAKERS
Grp 6: * * * * * MOST CREATIVE

BEST HOSTS:

Lyanna Paula Castro
Feliz Ammerie Mangune

BEST DIRECTOR:

Edwin Ryan De Leon

CONGRATULATIONS

to all the DIRECTORS

and STAFF!

Thanks to all the guests:

Dr. Bella G. Panlilio (Dean, CAS)

Dr. Carmela Dizon (Asst. Dean, CAS)

Ms. Glaiza Ann Dizon (Guidance counselor, CAS)

Ms. Janet Rodriguez (Faculty, CCF)

Mr. Jay Pajarillo (Faculty, CAS)

Mr. Peter Capistrano (Faculty, CCF)

Mrs. Anna Marie Concepcion (Director, OCES)

Aileen Maniti (ABMC 4)

Earl Santinni Lagman (ABMC 4)

Megan Leung (ABMC 4)

Aireen Keith Macalalad (EIC, The Pioneer)

Mark Macapinlac (Marketing 4)

Valerie Baluyut (ABMC 3)

Ralph Terrence Ocampo (ABMC 2)

Melford Cunanan (EIC, CAS Ideas)

(Note: ABMC 1: Please send me a message if I forgot any guest. Tnx. Hope you can send presentation pictures to me. My e-mail address: virniel@yahoo.com)

Nola and Cabs with their PROUD MOMS

The Senior ABMC students during the CAS Night

ABMC 4 students during the VJ HUNT 2005

Memories are worth keeping

This blog was created because I'd like to share

and to keep all memories concerning my AB Mass Comm students at AUF.

(All ABMC students at AUF are encouraged to post entries on this blog).