Nostalgia
Some people are organizing a get-together of The Knight Publication members (past and present). I had my almost 5-year writing stint in this official publication of my alma mater, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba. The memories of working and writing with my co-Knights, "kabalikat" friends are
enshrined in my heart. We were young then, full of idealism...
Some things I remembered:
-beating the submission deadline (there were times when it's hard to write especially in my case, during my 4th~5th year, when I was busy juggling academics and writing for the Knight . There is a notion also that it is quite an "achievement" to come from the engineering department and still, be able to embrace the demands of being a student journalist/writer.
-trooping to the printing press in Roces Ave, QC
-attendance in Laguna-based rallies
-working with seminarian-members (and discover their being "maloko" din)
-attending College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) journalism seminars
-writing articles for the lampoon issue (I was trying to figure out my lampoon name that appears on the paper's masthead)
-the writings on the freedom wall
-spending overnights at the publication office (alongside famous ghost stories)
-cut short the supposed overnight, then I proceed home to my dorm (which is just near the campus), where I had to literally jump "over the bakod" for coming home way past the curfew
-being in the company of other Knights who were also my classmates in Eng'g (Bing & Dhay)
-attending evaluation nights (it's the time when we had to evaluate the paper and discuss the collective reactions gathered from the staff and the studentry about the overall statement of the publication. We usually schedule it on the date the publication was released to the Letran community, usually at night which is our "common" time, complete with food and side stories to celebrate)
-attending the vigil celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Manaoag
-our Christmas parties (then we proceed to Bucal chuch for the simbang gabi)
-and many more little funny things
-my thoughts and my idealism then....
Extras
Sometimes, I give out a discreet laugh when people say things as a product of an incoherent mind. Not because it surely was a laughingstock but because it happens to me also from time to time....One day I took a jeepney ride home from a friend's house and there I was, in the midst of "eksenang jeepney"...passengers coming in and as if struggling to fit in their seats to earn their money's worth for paying a 7.50 minimum fare. Seated opposite me are two ladies who are talking about their lives. I hear the excitement in their voices surely indicating that it was a chance encounter and so they talk and talk....then the time came for one of them to alight the jeep...."Mama babye po"...other passengers laugh...the driver "Sige ingat ka"...more laughters......
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This statistics is very alarming (I heard this from an investigative TV report):
-3 out of 10 Filipino women suffer from breast cancer
-Philippines has the highest number of breast cancer cases in South East Asia
-1 out of 100 men suffer also from this type of cancer (very small stats compared to women). The TV report included a man, talking about his own experience battling with the disease
...it's something women should be aware of, something which concerns their bodies.
pinagpatuloy mo pa din pala pagiging writer mo sa college.
all i remember nung high school eh pagiging 'panggulo' ko sa Dev Comm. :-P
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