Thursday, April 28, 2011

NO TO MINING IN PALAWAN, PH!





After reading the story of Gerry Ortega who was shot in the head, dead a few minutes after discussing over the phone an anti-mining campaign in Palawan with Gina Lopez and watching videos about the current situation in Palawan, I became decided on my stand regarding this issue, NO TO MINING IN PALAWAN!


Maawa naman na tayo sa kalikasan.


Hindi dapat tayo maging mapang-abuso kahit pa naghihirap na tayo kasi tayo rin naman ang magsisisi sa bandang huli. Naniniwala ako na ang yaman at benepisyo na hatid ng pagmimina ay tunay na panandalian lamang at hindi magbibigay ng progreso sa ating bayan, bagkus ay marami pang problema sa hinaharap. Nariyan ang pagtaas ng insidente ng flash floods at landslides na siyang maghahatid naman ng tiyak na kapahamakan sa mga residente ng Palawan. Alam kong lahat ng tao ay likas na may konsensya, kaya naman kaisa ako sa hakbang na ito para mapatigil ang pagmimina doon at gayundin ay hinihingi ko ang inyong suporta rito.


Meron tayong magagawa't hindi pa huli ang lahat.


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Monday, April 18, 2011

dose.of.influence's Unang Taon!

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Thank you very much for trusting theDose (kgrp.webs.com) your spare time!
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Maraming salamat!
Balbaleg ya salamat!

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

THANK YOU'S NOT ENOUGH


Parang kelan langnauntog ako sa microphone habang nagba-bow after my Valedictory Address nung Kinder.


It was trully a long journey:
§  Kindergarden - David Elementary School
§  Grades 1-4 - Sto. Tomas Learning Center (now Sto. Tomas Catholic School)
§  Grades 5-6 - Mangaldan Central School Batch 2003
§  High School (1st-4th Year) - Mangaldan National High School Special Science Class Batch 2007
§  Tertiary (1st-4th Year) - University of Pangasinan PHINMA Education Network Batch 2011


To my Parents, Siblings, Relatives, Teachers and Classroom Advisers, Classroom and Clinical Instructors, Fellow Present and Past UPCNSO (and FCO, SopCO, JCO and SCO) Officers and our Advisers, Classmates, Friends, Best friends, JMK, Archimedianz '07, former Block N, present Blocks L and M, my Mahal and Naro, and all who were with me during this journey, and most especially to You my Creator, I offer my Sincerest and Overwhelming Gratitude to all of you!
Hope to see and work with you again in the next chapter of my life.


This is certainly not a Spam. If you have received a link to this Blog Entry, it only means that this blog is also dedicated to you. Please feel free to add a comment. Again, thanks for all!


I am really proud to be a product of these Schools:
UNIVERSITY OF PANGASINAN PHINMA Education Network. Shows how busy the city of Dagupan is especially during school days. Our batch faced many controversies but in the end we still graduated as we believe that in the end of the day we only have each other and kami-kami lang din naman ang magtutulungan kung may problema. I will continue to live by my Alama Mater's ideals, Patria, Scientia, Virtus!

MANGALDAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. I will never forget how I, myself, was amazed how big the Centennial Building is. Our room during our 4th year in the school isn't shown in this photo.

MANGALDAN I CENTRAL SCHOOL. Though I only spent 2 years in this school, I am really proud to have MCS as my Alma Mater.

SANTO TOMAS CATHOLIC SCHOOL (then SANTO TOMAS LEARNING CENTER AND HIGH SCHOOL). This school made me closer to God. There were times when we held some of our school activities in the St. Thomas Aquinas Church and I could really feel the solemnity of those activities.

DAVID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I will never forget my Kindergarden year in this school. I became the Valedictorian of my batch then and Daisy's my Salutatorian (?, tama ba?). Daisy later became the Valedictorian of Batch 2003 and I only graduated as an ordinary student (?, haha) of Mangaldan I Central School. We later became classmates and friends again when we entered High School as we both qualified for Special Science Class of Mangaldan National High School. (Ayun, napahaba na ang kwento ko.)

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Show Goes On

CLOSING (AND GRADUATION) SPEECH
(for our BACCALAUREATE MASS AND PINNING CEREMONIES
held last March 22, 2011 at Jimmy L. Fernandez Center (Stadia), Dagupan City, Pangasinan):
by Keith Giomeer Raposas Petrola  

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everybody who attended this momentous event, Sir Rosauro Catabay, Dean Maria Teresa Fajardo, our Program Chair Rosario Charisse Venzon, our Over-all RLE Coordinator, Zenaida Bautista, the two women behind us through our last year in College, Eileen Vinluan and Maria Akarasha Onrubia, our Classroom and Clinical Instructors who were with us during our ups and downs, our parents and guardians who were always there at our side and never stopped showing their unwavering support, and most especially, you, my friends, my brothers and sisters, my fellow Seniors.

This has been a very long day for us. As I was constructing this speech, I thought, “Bakit ko pa hahabaan ang Speechko eh, alam ko namang wala namang makikinigmarahilang nasa isip na ng mga yunyung kainan pagkatapos o yungparty-party pagkatapos.” After quite sometime, this made me laugh, Naisip ko, may kasabihan pala na,”Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell who you are.”


Kidding aside, as much as I would like to make this speech as brief as possible, I would like to convey and emphasize this one very important message I have in mind, NEVER CEASE TO DREAM AND ALWAYS STRIVE FOR THE BEST.


I know and truly believe that we could survive all the difficulties that we’ll encounter. Like how we’ve survived every toxic duty we’ve had, like we’ve remained bloodily awake and sleepless as we prepare for our upcoming exams and even more nights as we wait for the much dreaded results of these exams. This will only be possible if we’ll just learn to believe into ourselves. If we’ll see to it that we’ll learn from every mistake and shortcoming that we commit in our lives. 


Break all the barriers.(Kaya nga No Boundaries and Class Song natin di ba?)Never dwell on the negative comments they throw at you. The catch in life is to remain an optimist even at times when everybody around you is in contrary. If you think it’s the right thing to do, then do it, because it’s certainly what’s right for you. Lastly, don’t even try to please everyone. Doing such is like Mission Impossible. There will always be somebody who’ll be satisfied on what you’re doing.

As much as we all know, this is so not the end of the road for us but rather an end to an act of our lives full of chapters remaining to be unveiled. Like what my favourite song of Lupe Fiasco tells us, The Show Goes On. This is just another beginning of much bigger steps that we’ll take tomorrow. According to Michael Dell of Dell Computers, We are free to choose, and We are free to succeed. It just takes hard work and a dream.  Most who finally surpassed this chapter of life never imagine that they’re going to change the world. Yet every one of us will. How we change the world, is all up to us to decide.

I wish us all a great adventure on the road ahead.

My picture while delivering the speech.

Thank you!
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