I'm still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances...And I know someday, I'll forget the hurt. The reason I cried and who caused me pain. I will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge. But letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all what matters is not first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well ran the race. So I smile, laugh, forgive, believe and love all over again. Today, I choose to live with gratitude for the LOVE that fills my heart, the PEACE that rests within my spirit, and the voice of HOPE that says... all things are possible...
morning!!!......
Miyerkules, Marso 28, 2012
2012 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC)
The Department of Education (DepEd) through the Bureau of Elementary Education (BEE) and the Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE), shall conduct the 2012 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) with the theme "Promoting Digital Literacy Through Campus Journalism" on April 9-13, 2012 in a venue to be announced later. This activity is pursuant to the provisions of Republic Act No. 7079 entitled "An Act Providing for the Development and Promotion of Campus Journalism and for Other Purposes."
My Message to all 2012 Graduates...
From: Eugene Lacson Camillo
Graduation is a momentous occasion that deserves a congratulatory message that fits the occasion. Graduation messages can be difficult to write, especially knowing what to write after the "congratulations" part.
After four long years of hardship, of burning the midnight oil, examinations, themes, experiments, term papers and reports, comes the day you have been longing for--Graduation Day. It marks the end of high school and you go to it with mixed feelings---relief, sadness, happiness, anticipation, hope....
For it's not really not the end but the beginning of a new world for graduates. As our hero Dr. Jose Rizal had said, "Go forth and then the sacred fire of thy genius to the laurel may aspire to spread around the fame and in victory acclaim through wider spheres the human name." Dr. Rizal believed that knowledge brought power and that progress was possible only through enlightenment. He himself set the example by pursuing his studies with diligence, making use of every opportunity to absorb all the knowledge he deemed useful to him and his fellowmen. As you pass out of your high school and college days you will become different men and women, the equal of elders in taking the responsibilities of life. With youth and freshness you can fashion your future according to your heart's desire. The degree of your success will depend much on yourselves--your vision, courage and faith, and will to do and dare. Youth has a challenge. You have the task to shape new men and women out of yourselves. Graduation day has greater significance than the triumph over difficulties---it gives a new born awareness of the magnitude of the work before you. You have learned many lessons from the trials of the past. Let these guide you now in the intellectual pilgrimage that lies ahead.
Strengthen yourselves with virtues that will enable you to achieve your goals. Try to cultivate patience, industry, devotion to duty, honesty, faith and hope--with such weapons you cannot fail. As you march forward into a new and uncertain world, carry with you the teachings and knowledge you have acquired from your Alma Mater. In the furtherance of your education and the pursuit of your chosen careers, always have self-determination for the path is not rosy but thorny, and only those who are brave, determined, and godly survive and succeed.
Who is calling the signals of your life? Do you realize that your mind is the only thing in this world that you can totally control? Master it. Don't submit your mind, which is God-given and fantastic in its possibilities, to any human being. Don't let doubts, criticisms, failures make you afraid. Persist every day, and you will achieve.
In the Bible we read "Keep on asking and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking and the door will open to you." That's it. If you keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, you will surely reach your goal.
Passing the Torch…the Flame….
Every year at this time, we pass the torch…we go through this magic time of graduation, commencement. Mothers and Fathers, passing the torch of their lives and their clever love for their daughters and sons…through and beyond the present time into the future.
We assemble in lines, in cap and gown, with music and tradition. Audiences are in awe, in shock, at the edge of laughter and crying…all in one.
In MQAPCs case, we are proud of all our students. Daughters and sons who have somehow miraculously and minutely chosen this place, this school, this institution MQAPC to make this magnificent moment. We are proud of parents who made this possible through their love and hanging in of the students who guided their ship this way.
Fact is, this is not all about just this beautiful day, the colors, the waves, the music. This is about life moving from parents to daughters and sons and to their love for the next generation.
MQAPC is proud to be of Meycauayan, a progressive, emerging city. . This place will be better because you all were here and made us your home. It is about you. Your destiny is to make the planet better. The bridge between nations is education…it is culture and art. It is the pathway to peace and a better world.
The torch is light, life, heat, heart, passion. It is this day passed on. It forever burns bright.
God Bless You All!!!
from the bottom of my heart "CONGRATULATIONS"..
THIS IS Eugene Lacson Camillo...
The Other side of the coin…MQAPC - DECEMBER 2010 Special Holiday Issue of Campus Quill
After years of hard works, cooperative efforts, hopes and faith; the Mariano Quinto Alarilla Polytechnic College family (guided by the chairman of its board of trustees - the Honorable City Mayor Joan Velasco Alarilla) had finally reached its goal: the recognition from the Commission on Higher Education.
The achievement of the curricular programs recognition is an additional asset to the institution that will benefit the students and the faculty. Though this, the school will be on the right direction in attaining its mission, vision and goals. If programs are recognized, the students are assured that they are not only offered quality education but also legally accepted from the proper government agency by the Commission on Higher Education.
The program recognition tested the unity and cooperation among the MQAPC populace. Each had done his part for the attainment of the purpose and had shown love for the college. NO matter how difficult the task is, it will be easy if everyone cooperates and shows willingness to work hand in hand with others. Nothing is hard to achieve, when all involves their heart in their work. The MQAPCians at Meycauayan City showed this for a successful outcome of the government recognition.
Eugene Lacson Camillo
Editor in Chief
The Campus Quill - The Official Publication of Mariano Quinto Alarilla Polytechinic College
The achievement of the curricular programs recognition is an additional asset to the institution that will benefit the students and the faculty. Though this, the school will be on the right direction in attaining its mission, vision and goals. If programs are recognized, the students are assured that they are not only offered quality education but also legally accepted from the proper government agency by the Commission on Higher Education.
The program recognition tested the unity and cooperation among the MQAPC populace. Each had done his part for the attainment of the purpose and had shown love for the college. NO matter how difficult the task is, it will be easy if everyone cooperates and shows willingness to work hand in hand with others. Nothing is hard to achieve, when all involves their heart in their work. The MQAPCians at Meycauayan City showed this for a successful outcome of the government recognition.
Eugene Lacson Camillo
Editor in Chief
The Campus Quill - The Official Publication of Mariano Quinto Alarilla Polytechinic College
Editor-in-Chief’s Responsibilities
1. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for ensuring that content of journal is accurate, credible, authoritative, relevant to the Journal’s scope and mission, readable, and comprehensible. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for setting and communicating Journal policies regarding authorship, conflict of interest, ethical conduct of research, and academic misconduct.
2. The Editor-in-Chief shall recognize that scientific and editorial ethics are founded upon integrity, competence, and a responsibility to protect the communal and public interest. The Editor-in-Chief shall strive to advance the reporting of science in ways that ensure the highest standards of reliability, accessibility, openness, and integrity of the scientific enterprise. The Editor-in-Chief shall promote the broader ethical and communal interests of science in the public domain.
3. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for selecting manuscripts that are new, original, and important contributions to knowledge. Published manuscripts are expected to present valid and reproducible results in sufficient detail for readers to assess the validity of the inferences drawn. Published manuscripts are expected to be logically consistent, and to refer appropriately to previous work.
4. The Editor-in-Chief is expected to utilize the expertise of the editorial board, other peer reviewers, and editorial staff in critiquing and selecting manuscripts for publication. The Editor-in-Chief may delegate manuscript selection to Section Editors or other members of the Editorial Team. However, the Editor-in-Chief remains the final arbiter for all material published in the journal.
5. The Editor-in-Chief will ensure that peer review and other related publication assignments are undertaken by qualified specialists, and that these specialists disclose relevant conflicts of interest as part of the regular review process.
6. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for clearly defining and implementing the Journal’s ethical standards. The Editor-in-Chief is not responsible for investigating, judging, or punishing the author for ethical lapses, other than deciding if authors should be barred from submission to the Journal when academic misconduct has been documented. The Editor-in-Chief will establish the Journal’s policy on notifying an author’s institution of failure to comply with the Journal’s ethical standards. Additionally, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for informing readers and secondary services of work formally found to be plagiarized, fabricated, or falsified.
7. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for establishing procedures to help maintain journal quality, identify errors and problems, detect trends that reflect deterioration in quality, and implement corrective actions as needed. The Editor-in-Chief shall monitor the number and types of errors that appear in their journals.
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12. The Editor-in-Chief shall conduct at least one Editorial Team meeting each year, during which the Editor-in-Chief will provide the Editorial Team with an update on the Journal, identify and discuss areas in need of performance improvement; and explore ideas for potential enhancements to the print and online Journal.
13. He/she will also be responsible for creating an Editorial Board of no fewer than 15-20 experts in the field. Together the new Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board will review and select manuscripts for online publication on our site.
14. The Editor-in-Chief will present new Editorial Team appointments (including appointment of Section Editors, Associate Editors, and Guest Editors) to the Company. Formal invitations will be sent only after the Company has been provided an opportunity to assess the suitability of proposed candidates.
15. The Editor-in-Chief will present any changes in the structure the editorial team (such as creation of new sections or additional functions) to the Company. The Editor-in-Chief will not implement such changes in Editorial Board structure until approved by the Company.
Teachers and Students - Partners towards “Painting Excellent Portraits
Teachers and Students
Partners towards “Painting Excellent Portraits
by Eugene Lacson Camillo
One of my favorite stories is about a traveling painter whose models come from all walks of life. He journeyed from one place to another and painted anyone who wanted his portrait done. One day, a haggard, hard looking man whose face and eyes showed the wounds of painful struggle and hurts of life, sat on the modeling chair and challenged the painter, “Paint me!” After three hours of artistic labor the portrait was finished. It was a nice looking man, clean, whose eyes and face showed the sparkle of life and the beauty of living and loving. The man in disbelief snapped “That’s not me!” to which the artist gently replied “But you can be that man if you only choose to!”
In the world of campus advising, our students come to us in different expressions and reflections, with different conflicts and confusions of growing and grouping life. They need us though not all of them openly admit it. They want us to “paint their portraits”. AS teachers, we should paint good traits, helping them chisel off and brush off the undesirable ones. They come to us in different and alienable images, full of bitterness, anger, hatred and violence. It’s difficult to handle them. More so love them. But that’s EXACTLY the CORE of our task as teachers. Growing, learning, developing into persons they are capable of becoming our products of intensive efforts. In the campus world, these are social and partnership efforts, although, it is said that “to grow or not to grow” is personal choice, the teacher can perform significant and noble role in their students’ choice to grow or not to grow.
As teachers, we are painters. We are artists bringing out the best in our students. We hold the canvass on our hands while the students are entrusted to our care. They may choose “their colors but we hold the brush! We need to build effective partnership in painting their positive portraits. It isn’t easy. But we can do it! Remember, mountains can be moved by first removing the stones. Add faith and perseverance and we can paint the portrait that we want our students to be. SCHOOL is an extension of God’s artistic hands!
Eugene Lacson Camillo
Former Editor in Chief
The Campus Quill
"Writing, Para Belum"
by Eugene Lacson Camillo
Writing has been an indispensable task to almost everybody. It is a fact that there are those who are able to express themselves on oral discourse with fluency but are discovered ineffective in written expressions.
Communication is a necessity of life and the better you are it, the easier it is to succeed. The more words you have at your command, the more persuasively you can present yourself. Effective communication is not how many words you use, but about which words you select to use. It is a frustration if you are not being able to express yourself. Self-confidence goes also with the ability to write. The more words you could clarify, the more you are in control in your life and relations with other people.
In college, most students are required to write papers. In general, the purpose of this work-test is to aid students in writing to respond to English language with confident skills. These skills as they practice with proper channels will be their weapon in discovering more complex ideas hence making them more mature and knowledgeable. You need this skill when you talk to others and when you write to or for other people. Many people prefer to talk rather than write because they can also use facial expressions and gestures to get their point across. However, it is impossible to communicate everything in person, so being able to communicate through writing is extremely important.
One of the biggest barriers you might face as a writer is being able to put down on paper what is in your head. Ideas maybe flowing, but writing down your ideas can seem like an impossible task. You might be amazed to know that this happens to many people. Sometimes even professional writers may be having difficult time writing. When this happens to you, you have two choices. You can give up to say, “I just cannot do it right.” Your option is better. You can start writing down anything you can start somewhere and sometimes writing just involves getting started. You have to start before you can be successful.
However, it is important that you know the roots of the English language. A glimpse of the history will bring you light on how a letter/sound is created to form a word.
Writing has been an indispensable task to almost everybody. It is a fact that there are those who are able to express themselves on oral discourse with fluency but are discovered ineffective in written expressions.
Communication is a necessity of life and the better you are it, the easier it is to succeed. The more words you have at your command, the more persuasively you can present yourself. Effective communication is not how many words you use, but about which words you select to use. It is a frustration if you are not being able to express yourself. Self-confidence goes also with the ability to write. The more words you could clarify, the more you are in control in your life and relations with other people.
In college, most students are required to write papers. In general, the purpose of this work-test is to aid students in writing to respond to English language with confident skills. These skills as they practice with proper channels will be their weapon in discovering more complex ideas hence making them more mature and knowledgeable. You need this skill when you talk to others and when you write to or for other people. Many people prefer to talk rather than write because they can also use facial expressions and gestures to get their point across. However, it is impossible to communicate everything in person, so being able to communicate through writing is extremely important.
One of the biggest barriers you might face as a writer is being able to put down on paper what is in your head. Ideas maybe flowing, but writing down your ideas can seem like an impossible task. You might be amazed to know that this happens to many people. Sometimes even professional writers may be having difficult time writing. When this happens to you, you have two choices. You can give up to say, “I just cannot do it right.” Your option is better. You can start writing down anything you can start somewhere and sometimes writing just involves getting started. You have to start before you can be successful.
However, it is important that you know the roots of the English language. A glimpse of the history will bring you light on how a letter/sound is created to form a word.
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