in case you haven't read the latest issue of..., here's an article i "wrote" for them. This is actually a long post but you have to read it to know what i really mean :D
All in a year’s book
by Mito Tubilleja
However,
it’s not everyday that you’re given the chance to get to know all the
people you run into. Often, you don’t even find out their names even
when you’ve run into each other a thousand times. You’d hardly realize
that you might be rubbing elbows with someone who may be named National
Artist someday or that the quiet girl whom you always see at the
cafeteria may become a sought-after celebrity in a few years. You often
just think of these people as just faces that you pass by in the school
hallways.
In a way, I guess it was my curiosity about these
people that made me decide to be part of The Benildean Yearbook staff.
To this day, I think of it as one of the best decisions I’ve made.
You
see, The Benildean Yearbook Office is a world full of paper. There’s
endless editing and late night revisions. It’s hard work and it’s
stressful. But then again, the extraordinary work experience that you
get and the friendships that you make up for it. It’s where I realized
that life becomes more interesting and enriching when you’re in place
that isn’t hampered by boundaries.
Then, of course, working
for the Benildean Yearbook made it possible for me to find out about
the people I saw around the College. Through words written by the
people who knew them best, as well as their own self-descriptions, I
found out a little bit more about the people in the photos. I had a
blast going though quirky statements. I couldn’t help but smile over
the favorite phrase of the students of the School of Hotel, Restaurant
and Institutional Management: “1 tbsp. of kindness, 1 cup of love, 2
glasses of creativity.” As limited as the words were, I appreciated the
fact that they gave me a glimpse of the lives that other Benildeans led.
Most
of all, my Yearbook experience taught me to value the people I worked
with. Through them, I learned that it was possible to connect with just
about anyone. I also learned that work is a lot of fun when you’re
working with people who take time to get to know the real you. I
suppose that’s also what we want people to feel when they turn the
pages of a book that promises to encapsulate their memories.
The
writer is an ABMMA student who enjoys cracking jokes as performs his
duties as the editor-in-chief of The Benildean Yearbook. You may get in
touch with The Benildean Yearbook Office at 526-7441 local 252.
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and here's what i really wrote :D it's just a first draft when i passed it; willingly waiting to have it returned because i knew it needed work. But it never came back...
It's not everyday you meet different kinds of people. You could meet them walking around school, but actually have the chance to talk to them, I think not.A parent who goes amok, or someone who can tear down
a door in one move or a student who asks “What day is Wednesday?”, the campus hottie, the national artist or even the simplest
of janitors.
It’s not every time you can bleed yourself to death talking to
foreigners, or marvel and still bleed yourself to death at sign languages, or to
be speechless at the sight of some high-fallutin(?) administrators of the
school then rather wished you had more time to do sign languages.
It's not every book you can encounter statements like “Jill was my best college
experience” for starters or a constant HRIM “1 tbsp. of kindness, 1 cup of love, 2 glasses of creativity, etc.” or maybe the ever present “Richard (or
put any other name for that matter since 50% of the population uses this) was
snobbish at first but once you get to know him…he’s kalog”.
But, I
have experienced them all.
These
are the unforgettable experiences that made it fun for me to enter a world full
of paper, stress and unending editing…not to mention the revisions and all the
late night talks. Yet these are just minor things comparing to the
extraordinary work experience wherein there are no set boundaries, wherein the
old shouldn’t feel obligated to be archaic and stuck up and the young shouldn’t
feel inferior and miniscule.
It’s a world where you are not bound by the course you
are taking, your age or year level, or even the slightest of preferences,
whether it be favorite colors, lovelifes and worldly matters. . It’s a world
where you can be candid and realize your work’s done after joking around; with
all the stress not even felt. It’s a world where you can be wild with yourself,
well of course, while working.
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what can you say?
I believe in the limitations of freedom of expression but actually rewriting a whole entry is just uncalled for.
PART TWO up next
