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It was around eight thirty in the morning of May 14, 2007 when I heard my father asking me, “are you coming with us to vote or not?” and immediately I answered back, “of course!” with conviction. Not that I have to go because I wanted to see what’s going on at the voting precinct, to observe and make a write up about the election but it was because I still believe with the power of one vote. I know it will make a difference. Not just like everybody else who didn’t exercise their privilege as a citizen of this country to vote. Often times they would sour grape and speak ill of how politics would turn out. Dirty and polluted. But haven’t it occurred to them that maybe if they participated in the elections, things could be different? Okay, let’s not be cynical about the current election in our country. Much of us would say that it was chaotic in nature; many have risked their lives, harassed and worst, killed. We would ask questions, yes there are answers. But maybe it’s not just answers we need. We need to eradicate corruption. How? At this moment, many brilliant minds have solution at hand but since these people who are about to seat in the government are most likely in the making to be a corrupt official even at the very start of their terms because they have to get back the expenses they spent during the elections, there will be no reform at all.

This was my second time to vote on national elections so I was already aware of the process. Compared with last 2004 elections at Sambag Elementary School, where I am registered to vote, it was not that crowded. Upon entering the school gate, kids came up to us giving us sample ballots of local and national candidates. Someone was saying some name of a senatorial candidate which I didn’t recall. So when we arrived inside the campus we started to look for our names at the door of the voting precincts. After three or four rooms that we looked up in, my parents finally saw their names listed altogether with my brother’s, except mine. I was not worried at all; I remembered last 2004 that my name was in a separate precinct, so I went to the next room and I immediately saw my name there. I didn’t bother whether my parents has already started to vote. I entered the room, saying my number and my name. They don’t need to ask for any identification because there are pictures attached with the voters list that they are holding. I got my paper ballot, found me a seat, took out the paper where I listed my candidates weeks ago before the elections and started to write my candidates with their last name and nickname in all caps. I finished voting in less than ten minutes. When I got out of my voting precinct, I found out that my parents and my brother wasn’t finished with voting. I got bored so I decided to go around the school. I did observe that voters came in groups, with their family members or neighbors. Some just hangs out outside the voting precincts, talking about stuff and maybe waiting for someone to go out of the room. When I came back, I saw one of my frasority brother, shook hands with him and we talked a little about politics. There I found out that he was hired to be a poll watcher of a local candidate running for councillor, I asked him how much was he paid to do it and said three hundred. Not that big he said but at least there is something than nothing. After the chat we had, I saw my parents went out of their voting precincts so I bid good bye and went straight to them. My brother was still inside the room, still unfinished. I think he was having a hard time deciding whom to vote because he doesn’t have any prepared list like mine. We waited for him a few more minutes but I and my father was getting impatient, so he told us that he’ll just commute his way back home. So my parents and I went ahead. As we made our way out, people still talks about the election and some stuff, like gossiping or the likes.
As we head our way home, at the back of my mind, I was wishfully hoping that things in this country will be fixed and organized. That the election will serve its purpose. Nonetheless, peace and order will prevail. But somehow, things cannot be changed overnight. I realise that even with the belief I have of the power of one vote can make a difference, there will be a slow process of reform if there is. I still hope and believe that our country is our motherland that we should love, serve and value. As we know that it would be difficult for us to change the stigma and the “showbiz” like image of Philippine politics, we could still do so much by doing everything we do with honesty, sincerity, respect and a heart willing to serve, one could make a difference. We could make a difference.

It happened about six hundred years ago, when Marauders reached the
American land which was a originated by the Red Indians. The Marauders,
which was called the Dragon people by Red Indians, are self proclaimed
civilized people because they think they are superior race than the
aborigines. They kill anyone not of their kind and not only by mere
killing them but also torturing and doing the most dreadful thing to do
before they end one’s life. The reason of this savage behaviour by the
Dragon people was to cleanse the land before settling down.
In the
story Pathfinder, there was this boy known as Ghost, who originally
belonged to the Marauders clan. He witnessed the savagery of Gunnar,
his father and of his kind. At young age his father as the leader of
the clan exposed him with much violence and bitterness towards
strangers, but the vicious plans of his father did not work out for him
because he was not like him, he was left behind by the Dragon people.
One of the Red Indians saw him and fostered him, treated him as their
own. Years passed, Ghost was able to cope and live freely in the
village he grew up with. But because of the obvious difference of his
physique he was discriminated by the chance of being a pathfinder, he
was told that he have to earn his way to be one of them. This made way
for him to think about his past and of his origin. Because of some
trauma during childhood, he shut down some memory in his past and can
only get back his memory when sleeping or during another trauma in his
life. He was reassured by his adoptive father that there should be no
emptiness to feel because he was raised as their own and loved him so
much. Until one day, the Dragon people were searching for inhabited
villages. They reached Ghost’s village while he was out hunting. The
Dragon people killed all of his villagers and he witnessed how they
played and killed his adoptive father.

He has a great deal of self
schema, instinct and fighting skills and was able to spare his own life
from abduction of the enemy. After fleeing from those savages, but
badly wounded by sophisticated weapons of the enemy, he was sheltered
and taken out from the cave he stayed at by another Red Indian tribe,
friends of his adoptive father.
The leader of the tribe known as
Pathfinder and his daughter, Starfire medicated Ghost’s wound. After
knowing that the Dragon people was after Ghost, Pathfinder and his
villagers was disturbed and frightened, decided to start packing and
find safer grounds for them to settle, especially their children.
As
Ghost unthankfully separated ways with the tribe, his heart full of
vengeance. Went to the cave where he was taken on by the Red Indians.
He was followed by Starfire whom admired and cared for him. They,
together with a follower of Ghost planned how to avenge the Dragon
people. It should have been a perfect plan but the warriors of
Starfire’s tribe came out looking for her. Upon seeing the fall of some
Dragon warriors, the Red Indians attacked them without consulting
Ghost. They fall in the trap where suppose a bait for the Dragons. At
the end, they lost their fight. Gunnar killed Pathfinder in front of
Ghost and Starfire. He used Starfire to force Ghost to be their
pathfinder to locate the tribe of Red Indians. But because of the
outstanding self schema of Ghost he was able to pursue a plan which led
the death of all the Dragon warriors. Revived the dignity of the Red
Indians and saved the one he loved, Starfire. He also redeemed himself
in front of his father, Gunnar that he knows himself and he strongly
rejected that he is one of Gunnar’s kind. That he knows himself better
and he doesn’t need to be savage and be one of the Dragon people to be
complete because he believes that his purpose of being raised by Red
Indians was served. To end the savagery and inhumane behaviour of the
enemy.
Our environment and self concept are the ones that hone us
on how to adopt, respond and act in our social world. How other people
treat us affects greatly on how we develop our self schema but we also
develop our own concept in our minds depending on how we acknowledge
certain factors that develops us as a person. As for Ghost, because he
was different from the people he raised with, but loved by the people
closest to him. He gathers his strength from the people who loved and
accepted him and he puts it in his own advantage. How he values his
life and of the others made a difference. That made him apart and
opposite of his nature and origin because he was exposed to a
harmonious environment by his foster parents. Starfire inherited her
father’s path, she became the Pathfinder of her tribe, who guides and
protects their people against threath and danger. As for Gunnar he is
an individualistic creature along with his followers, no matter how
they act savagely towards the aborigines, they have this concept that
they are superior and they are the most civilized people in land, that,
what they are doing is right. They focused with themselves so much with
doing absurd things that they were already acting like animals, but for
them it was alright. It was embarked in there minds that by killing
people they are giving honor and gaining more power for themselves.
It
is always how we accept things and organize it in our mind that makes
up a whole of us and makes us act and think and respond properly
towards our environment and be responsible of our actions and doings.
Dealing with understanding why such individual act the way they were
towards others is something out of how they were raised and how they
develop certain concept in of one’s self. In regards with this, they
were able to communicate and realize things in their environment and
use it as a tool to belong somewhere.

To our Dear Founder, Organizers, Alumni, Brothers & Sisters,

Greeting in the name of Christ!

We,
the MEGA-GAMMA CHI Chapter of CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY (CPU) here
in Iloilo City, Region 6 is very proud & pleased to inform you that
MEGALITH NU SIGMA PHI SOCIETY achieved the GRAND SLAM BEST FRATERNITY
& SORORITY award here in CPU. For three (3) straight years, we have
maintain this achievement for the glory of MEGAN’s SOCIETY! We are also
very thankful to our brothers and sisters from other chapter here in
Iloilo for the support and encouragement that they have rendered to us.
Thank you for all the projects we have done together us an
organization. We would also thank our CPU Megans’ Alumni for their
constructive criticism and empowering challenge to us here in CPU, if
not for them, we won’t accomplish this. Thank you for the brothers who
showed their cooperation & willingness to make the Exhibit &
Evaluation possible for the MEGAN’s Society here in CPU. Despite all
the hard work, the sleepless night for those who help put up the
exhibit, courage and determination, our harvest has been fruitful!
Thank God for the blessings that He have given us.. All for the glory
of MEGAN’s SOCIETY!!!

The average for evaluation of MEGAN’s
SOCIETY in CPU scored 95.35% which qualified for the TOP EIGHT (8)
STUDENT CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS ACCREDITATION, EXHIBIT & EVALUATION.
With this pride and prestige, MEGAN’S SOCIETY is in the pedestal of
honor & success here in ILOILO CITY.

We shorted 3 points to
be held as an over-all CAMPUS ORGANIZATION WINNER, the Chemical
Engineering Org gained a 98% for their accreditation. We are hoping and
aiming for another ladder of success, for as long as their is one MEGAN
left, MEGALITH NU SIGMA PHI SOCIETY shall never fail. A much bigger and
cooperative force from MEGAN’s SOCIETY!!!

All hails!!! Long Live!!! Cheers!!!

More power and God speed us all!!!

ӥ Shivery Night  ӥ

Amidst the night of boredom

Those flickering light upon my head

I fleeced a glimpse of someone…

A fluttering excitement beneath my bed

That kept me wanting more of it

Then… a moronic sense subdued to meet

Now, how do I deal that uncertainty?

I grasp into your hand momentarily

Where most of that time made its way to flee

But then again, I’m still up to plea…

Never wanted such time to pass

As I want to embrace all at once

How could I feel such misery?

Where I’m in whirl-pool of insanity

It keeps me hanging on around

For beyond whatever I’m still on the ground

Those flickering light wants to pass-out

And I have to let go for a moment

Yet I’d wait `til the next line

To feel haven of tranquillity…

I have to rest now and wait for a moment

It’ll come back and again it’ll be free

Wait for that perfect embrace

Of the waning glory of an Ace

Premonition comes to an end..

Yet everything’s out there in the reef.

ӥ-lpe-ӥ

If eyes were stunned with covering stones
Life will take its risk to plea
if tears came trembling down the path
Then we see the dwelling pain
Heaven makes hell a place
Where agony strikes like thunder in the rain
Life comes short in a distant near
Where we’ll meet our hell to dwell..

All the love I could get..
Was sent away.. Then there was my regret
I haven’t seen how important that was before
Until I was longing to get in that core
No matter how odd people think
There go things out of link
As I cuddle for my weaknesses
I set back to reminisce..
Over flowing with love that was there for nothing
Nothing for it seemed to be worthless
Worthless for it’s soaking with too much crave
Crave that passed by me.. Then I set it back
For I fear no one could feel
The love that was there for me..
Wouldn’t it deserve to someone not like me?
A flicker from within pulls me back to my presence
A cry for help whispered for my absence
It still was there, wearing out of himself
Not I helped for that cry
For it still dwells inside my heart
That’s the love I couldn’t forget
The love that set me back to my absence..

You were a total stranger in my sight
But I was such a naïve to butt in right?
I see you as a total jerk.. Why not? You’re absurd!
Your total arrogance smite me to curd
Everything seemed so right that moment..
You were unfulfilled cause you were at the end
An absolute reason why you deceive so well
I wonder when I can break that spell
Cushy feeling no where to find
You do it so well, yet I don’t mind
A cumbrous moment set in my thing
Right then you look back, then there came a fling
Then again, you do it so well, yet I don’t mind
I know so well you can’t sustain yourself
But knowing that didn’t get me to feel so well
You do everything your way, it’s your arrogance I’m crushed
Well, enough to say it again..
But I know, you do it so well yet I don’t mind..

Life is an enchanting moment
You could end up in endeavor
Might see yourself in a dash of flavor
In a certain place that stocked up new
Things grow up and left behind
Those certain things that covers my mind
Right then and there I realize
Missing those creeps brought me to paralyze
A lot of it was part of my life
A key in my room hanging with my kitchen knife
A lantern of hope flashes through
Remembering how important those endeavor mourned
It is when you’re down someone helps you stand up from the floor
I guess I just missed somebody who’s gone
Not knowing when they are coming back.. Is it when the morning comes?
Life really enchants my pasts..
Not knowing it still lasts..
It’s hoping for the best
For not knowing all for rest..

Alone… deprived from understanding
Pain… threshold of undeviating
Desolated me from existing
To loose an act and be missing

Brief reason of pain growing
For a little chance of misunderstanding
Grin yourself to voice out your own feeling
For them to know whether it’s there to keep or not
Ignore them for they are evil
To know yourself you are standing
Don’t let them push you through not hoping
For you deprive yourself from knowing