SoM Week

October 26, 2015—the beginning of a new festivity to celebrate for a whole week for this day is the

start of the School of Accountancy and Business (SoAB) Week, or what it is called now, School of Management (SoM) Week. Students who are from the SoM have united and have gathered in the premises of the parking lot of the Asia Pacific College (APC) to show their support for the aforementioned event.

SoM students start the event with a parade, which have gone from APC to Lapu-lapu Street and vice versa. The drum and lyre from the Sto. Niño Catholic School, who have led the parade, give an amazing performance with their baton-twirling movements and their playing of pop music with their instruments.

Subsequently, the students congregate to the parking lot of the school to witness the formal opening of the occasion. Miss Victoria Nañagas, who is the Executive Director of SoM, leads and does the formal opening of the event by giving a wondrous opening remarks which is applaud by the audience.

After the opening remarks and the unveiling of the SoM tarpaulin, MA151, the winner of the cheers and chants competition, has given a remarkable performance of their winning masterpiece.

Next comes the performance of the APC Dance Company (APCDC). Although there are some minimal problems with regard to the music which makes the audience wait with eagerness, the crowd goes wild when APCDC starts to execute their astounding performance. With their complicated dance moves, everyone is left speechless and astonished. This maybe the exciting part of the opening program of the SoM Week.

Lastly, the beautiful and handsome muses and escorts of different programs have shown their bright smiles and stunning faces which have left everyone amused. The ground is filled with cheers when the participants have walked with pride in the ground. The muses and escorts have sure owned the stage when they start to walk and pose for the audience. With the looks on the audience’s faces, everyone looks forward to the coronation night of the Mr. and Ms. SoM.

With heaps happened in the opening program, SoM Week is the week where there is a lot to look forward to. Everyone will certainly expect the unexpected regarding the following events that will take place.

Anti-Smoking Campaign

Cigarettes are consumed by millions of people every day. It is taken by people for satisfaction or for contemplation. They consume lots of it without the knowledge of it being fatal. The ubiquity of the cigarettes is what makes it dangerous so Asia Pacific College (APC) has created an anti-smoking campaign to reach to students about harmful effects of smoking. Though APC has a smoking area, which is ironic, they plan to raise awareness to students about the several effects of smoking cigarettes.

On one hand, if APC is trying to reach out to students about trying to avoid smoking, it should not have provided a smoking area for students to take cigarettes. Other students who do not smoke are being affected by the second-hand smokes of the smokers. If APC is trying hard to persuade students not to smoke, it should not have built a smoking area that can be seen by all of the students. It is like APC is trying to tell other students to take cigarettes by flaunting the smokers outside. Better yet, they should not have built it at all.

On the other hand, APC is trying to convince students to stop smoking because of its harmful effects to the body. Carcinogen, a substance that can cause cancer, is found in a cigarette. It also has tar which is dangerous for the smoker’s body. Furthermore, it creates Carbon Monoxide which is hazardous for a smoker’s health and for the non-smoker if they inhale it.

With the information given, students should be influenced not to smoke. Students try smoking because it is a way to relinquish stress they are holding, but they do not realize that they are only giving themselves more problems by means of it. It is best for students to stop trying it so badly or to detach themselves of it.

Ang Tatay mong Kalbo

First of all, the title is not related to the script. Where did they get the title? I don't know why. And then I didn't understand the flow of the scenes even if the director discussed the meaning of the play. The movie is non sense even though I laughed. But the movie was done very well. The actors were good at acting. They play their role well. They memorized their script.

At the first scene of the movie, I didn't got what they are trying to say. They repeating their lines until we got paranoid and annoyed. Haahahahahahaha. So that, I'm disappointed at the first scene.

There are situations in the play that prove that it is absurd like, They just keep on telling stories that happened in their daily lives, rumors or news, but it is very nonsense just for the sake to entertain each other like people do in reality. They usually repeat their hyperbolized words that makes the play entertaining and funny. If the play was written in English, the audience will still pick up the humor because it will make the audience bolt out of the blue and snoopy on what will happened next. But if the play was wriiten in English,  it is almost the same like the Tagalog version, because the audience understand it better and feel what the play is all about. 

The 2 main characters. Mr and Mrs. Santos are the type of person who are absentminded. They didn’t even know that they were both Mr. and Mrs. Santos and they also didn’t know that they are married.  they thought that they were Mr. and Mrs. Reyes. Aside from that trait, they have this kinds of sides. The other Mr. and Mrs. Santos are the one who are naughty and furious, While the other side of them is they are kind and caring, but absentminded on. and the other characters, Maria and Hepe gives joy to every people especially Maria, because he shows how lively and energetic the play could be.

Heneral Luna

It's definitely one of the most outstanding filipino movies I've watched. During those days, everything was so strict. This generation has definitely changed in all the most absolute ways. You do one thing wrong and you get punished or killed. Heneral Luna was a brave and respected man. He took care of our country and fought for it for as long as he could. One of my favorite lines he said was "May mas malaki tayong kalaban kaysa sa mga Amerikano---ang ating sarili" This is true. We filipinos are full of pride. We tend to identify or see heroes as villains. Most of them during those days were against him because they were arrogant and fierce. He didn't want to be a hero, he wanted to lead and prove something to this country. Heneral Luna is not only a masterpiece, but a gift to the nation in another crucial moments of history. He fought for our country, but the one who killed him was our fellow nation. It's sad because they killed our protector when they were supposed to kill the enemy, the colonizer. Shameful to hear the news by the Americans as they laughed when they found out that Heneral Luna was killed by our own mate. President Emilio Aguinaldo was accused of getting involved of killing Heneral Luna. He did not showed up in his office after that incident. Heneral Luna was promised to build mountains but he got betrayed by his fellowmen. Up to now, we still don't have any idea who killed him. But I think, Emilio Aguinaldo di that, like did to Andres Bonifacio. They only had each other and they killed the wrong person. A person who will protect us no matter what. Life was difficult back then, but we tend to take advantage of what we have right now.