Speech to Motivate

 by Dr. Ricardo Somblingo

Today, I am reminded of an adage which says “Many were called; Few were chosen; yet, much fewer remained.” This wisdom echoes the rarity of the opportunity given to all of you. Hence, notably, your being here signifies that you are one of those chosen few- a small number taken from the chunk of 15,000 students.

Many, too, did work hard and gave much of their all to be where you are at present – a scholar. But, with sad heart, I say, countless of them did not share the good fate that you have.  You were chosen on bases which caused you to be qualified and be counted. Your academic excellence, special skills, unwavering willingness to serve, and untiring spirit for labor did make all of you different from many students not involved in this gathering today.

Hence, needless to point out, you must be grateful and appreciative of your being a scholar. And, more greatly, be on guard always.

I truly know how different you are in terms of many things if we are to compare your practices to that of your peers. Many times, I believe, you could not gallivant and merely stroll in campus or the city even if you much wanted too. It is so because the demand on your academics requires a certain standard. It is also because you have duties to fulfil. You cannot afford to waste time. You keep track of your time to meet many demands – the demand of your course subjects, the demand of the scholarship committee, the demand of your scholarship grant, and much more.

Hence, I believe there were many times you said next time, later, not now, some other day to your friends, classmates, and even family because you are pressed with  many concerns and responsibilities you can’t  let wait. There are times you spend hours in our library or studying, because you need to work hard to not only pass a subject but gain the needed grade to keep your grant. And while doing so, you see many students laughing their hearts out, chatting, curling their hair, and unmindfully letting the passage of time. Sometimes, your being a scholar is not appreciated. Conversely, there comes a time you feel the demands sinking in as pressures and all the joy and pride you have turn gray and dull.

Sometimes you grow tired and weary. These demands become too heavy to carry. They seemed to be likened to bricks put inside your bags. And as the “add-ons” of responsibility take their toll, the brick seem to pile up one after the other. Consequently, the routine of truth sets in once more – many applied, few were chosen, much fewer continued, and a handful had a great end.

Therefore, being chosen is not the greatest to be. Being able to remain and end well count most. A race is never won because one started with great acceleration at the beginning, yet, when near the end one stops to continue. You are racing not with your fellow scholars, not with somebody else, but with your ownselves. You are competing against the wrong view that you might get in the course of your being  students. You are fighting against laziness, non compliance, tardiness, irresponsibility and mediocrity. Your opponent is yourselves. It requires great effort and labor for an individual to train and discipline others, but greater effort and training are needed to discipline one’s self.

Master the art of self discipline that you may be able to win over all the challenges you meet as a student, scholar and man. Always look for essences in everything that you do. Remember the people that will smile or cry in every action you make.

Lastly, be reminded that life is a product of choices. Thus, the choices you make today will be the quality of life you will live tomorrow.

May God bless us all.

“The Clash of the Titans”

Be ready for the CLASH OF A LIFETIME!

November 24, 2011 at Juanito Bruno Gymnasium

Application Letter-2

ROMEL EVANGELIO ALKI

HB Homes, Sinunuc

Zamboanga City

November 7, 2011

 

+63 926 2969 963

 

 

 

SOCORRO P. CANAYA, Ed D.

Secondary School Principal III

Ayala National High School

Ayala, Zamboanga City

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Canaya

Having much passion towards teaching, I took the opportunity to teach when an item was offered to me in Landang Gua. My stint in the said place was marked with great commitment and dedication.

However, my dream of being able to teach in Ayala National High School has never left me. My being an alumnus of the said school has caused me to be greatly indebted to my Alma Mater.  I desire to serve the school with much compassion and loyalty.

I have involved myself in the learning to different crafts and skills that I may share much to my students who are seen by me not only as “hope” of their respective family, but more greatly of our nation.

My Educational Background, Related Experiences, Sets of training and Seminars render me confident to be considered for a teaching position in your school.

I am willing to be subjected to an interview and demonstration at a time most convenient to you. Should my application merit your approval, you may reach me through the communication line given on the upper part of this letter.

Thank you for your indulgence in reading this letter. I fervently pray that an opportunity be given to me.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

ROMEL EVANGELIO ALKI

+63 926 2969 963

 

 

 

Letter of Appeal

The letter bears names that are fictitious. No rights reserved.

 

For                         :               MR. JAMES ALVIAR

Acting Manager, Regional Operations Department

Social Housing Finance Corporation

BDO Plaza, Paseo de Roxas

Makati City

 

From                     :               Mrs. NORMA CHAN

Purok 8-J, Urban Poor Subdivision

Recodo, Zamboanga City

 

 

Subject                 :               Appeal to Reconsider the Status of Payment

 

 

Date:                     :               September 9, 2011

 

 

 

Briefly, I am mother to 5 children who, most of them are dependent to me still. I along with my husband struggle to meet the needs of our children through the bitterest of economic circumstances.  Despite the meagreness of our income, we religiously pay our monthly amortization to Mrs. Orange Chua, the then President of the Association. We deemed the need to sacrifice some personal needs necessary just to pay the same as it would be the wisest thing to do.

Yet, with much sadness our sacrifices bore no fruit when we were informed that our payments were not remitted. We felt that there was great sense of injustice done against us. We did not seek legal actions as the said would be futile and will just cause additional burden to our family. Thus, though we were shaken to the core, we had no option but seek for remedy, because we believed that sins will soon boomerang.

I asked my son, who is a plain teacher of DepEd, to loan an amount to pay our declared delinquency. The said loan will cause the family to be constrained in many aspect as such is the only concrete income the family depends on. It is from that amount we cut the payments for all of our bills and for our food. But, we decided again as a family that it is needed as we gave credence to the wisdom provided to us by the personnel of the satellite office, that if payment will be made soon no penalty will be charged.  Thus, last March 2010, we made the payment in amount a bit more than Fifty two thousand pesos.

But, another blow of fate hit us once more. We were informed that the amount we gave will just go to pay just the penalty, which was very contradictory to the ideas expressed to us. This was too much to take and too much to understand. I can’t help but feel that we, being poor and seemingly helpless, are stepped on – perhaps by manoeuvred chance or circumstance.

The loan made the day to day living difficult for us, because of the big deduction made to my son’s salary. I and my husband, aged by time and ridden by sickness, could no longer work for our family, thus we can provide no income which could augment that of my son’s. Consequently, I and my husband have deprived ourselves from taking our prescribed medication for the reason that the family’s income is hardly enough to meet our daily need for food.

I am writing this letter to seek not only sympathy, but also assistance especially to us “little people” of the community. We are left with no hope aside from trusting the good Lord that help will be given to us through righteous and wisdom-filled people. Sir, with fervent prayers, we hope that you will open your heart and find the generosity to work for our welfare and our family despite not knowing who we are. Many discouraged us in writing as they believed that no man would understand us. But, our trust that there remain good people made us courageous in doing this. Further, hearing your good reputation gave us greater hope that there remain a light at the end of this dark tunnel.

Sir, the Lord shall repay you in many ways as you consider the least of your brethren in the Lord. We hope that you will act on our request the soonest possible you can. God bless you and the people you loved most.

The Opening of Pandora’s Box!

Above is a video about The Opening of Pandora’s Box which is being held this first week of September 2011.

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The Lady Or The Tiger? by Frank Stockton

      In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing, and, when he and himself agreed upon anything, the thing was done. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places.

Appoinment with by Love S. I Kishnor

            Six minutes to six, said the great round clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly.

Application Letter Sample 01

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M74 Martha Drive

Sta. Catalina, Zamboanga City

+63 916  327 0210

June 6, 2011

PROF. VICENTE J. RUSTE

Principal, WMSU-High School

Normal Road, Baliwasan

Zamboanga City

Dear Prof. Ruste,

Having much passion towards teaching, I am applying to be a member of the teaching force in the high school level of District II. I earned my degree of Bachelor of Secondary Education from Western Mindanao State University having Physical Science as my area of specialization last March 23, 2010.

My Educational Background, Related Experiences, Sets of training and Seminars render me confident to be considered for a teaching position.

I am willing to be subjected to an interview and demonstration at a time most convenient to you. Should my application merit your approval, you may reach me through the communication line given on the upper part of this letter.

Attached herewith is my Curriculum Vitae for your perusal. There are other pertinent papers that I am willing to submit upon request.

Thank you for your indulgence in reading this letter.

Very truly yours,

JAMES B. VILLAREALES

Introduction of The Guest Speaker

This introduction was given by PROF. JESSICA OSING, Guidance Coordinator of the WMSU-ILS High School Department during the General PTCA dated July 21, 2011.

This day will be noted us to be one of those rare and wonderful moments because of our invited guest. Her name echoes the essence of service, dedication and compassion.

Her achievements even when she was still students are truly commendable as they mirror her great sense of commitment, hard work and passion. Her non-compliance to mediocrity made an indelible mark in the history of our university when she graduated as the First “Summa Cum Laude” in year 1972.

Bold-spirited, she hurdled countless challenges in her professional career. Hence, in year 1983, she earned her degree of Doctor of Education from the University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus with her dissertation entitled “Dimensions of Academic Freedom among Social Science Faculty of Higher Education Institutions in Metro Manila.”

Her portfolio of Professional Development and Training is fascinating as each experience gives life to her being a woman for others and a woman of God. To name a few, she had a training in Moral Development and Education in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. She is also a part of the group study Exchange Program to North New Jersey,USA. In 2006, our speaker had a training in fund-raising and communication at the University of Tunku Abdul Rahman,Petaling Jaya,Malaysia.

She is a precious gem of the University. She has held various positions from being a director, dean, vice-president and eventually President of this institution.

Being a mother of three equally gifted children is a glory she always keep. Undoubtedly, she is a loving wife and a praise-worthy homemaker.

A woman I personally admire because of her wisdom, generous heart, caring spirit and unconquerable principle.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Grace C. Jimeno-Rebollos.

Accepting A Challenge

This speech of acceptance was given by Ms. Mary Rose Castillo, Faculty President, of Talon-Talon National High School during their Mass Induction. No Rights Reserved. Please comment.

Leaders are measured not by their ability to give commands, but by their courage to stand by sound principles at all cost.

                (Greetings)

Indeed, when one is entrusted to hold office or lead a group, one, for many, is a leader. Yet, time and again, we are reminded that it is never about the title as there countless individuals who care much for titles of a leader but fall short of the action of a leader. Many are leaders by name and not by essence.

With this premise, a great challenge is laid before all leaders newly inducted today – be it of the studentry and of the faculty. The challenge of having the definition of leadership defined not only in dictionaries but more greatly in the practice and fulfilment of our held positions for the betterment of all those whose trusts made us leaders.

Let us be living proofs that true leadership do exist. With God’s grace, Yes WE CAN!