The Mentors’ Journal

(Isang kampanya sa pagpapanatili ng The Mentors’ Journal, opisyal na pang-estudyanteng pahayagan sa Kolehiyo ng Edukasyon) Mahigit isang dekada na ring umiiral ang THE MENTORS’ JOURNAL. Labintatlong taon na itong pumapaimbulong sa serbisyo ng pagmumulat at paglilinang ng kaisipan ng mga estudyante. Naging behikulo ito ng mga kritikal at progresibong kaisipang nagtataguyod [...]

Mayabang kami. Mayabang kami dahil tumagal kami hanggang dito. Isang pagkakataong iilan lamang ang napagkakatiwalaan. Pero higit kaming mayabang dahil nakamit namin ang pagtitiwalang ito dahil sa mga taong sumuporta, maliit man o malaki, lihim man o lantad. Sila ang mga taong nagpahiram ng isa pang hininga sa [...]

Ako po ti Tabelita, nakatila ta lum ti-o-teben, lohat hol, titu ta bi-et-yu! Tabi ni mami ko, malami law mga nanyayali ta amin ang nikikita ng iba pelo indi nibibigyan pantin. An totoo, ita ko ta nakapantin ta nitatabi ni mami. Ngayon alaw tatabi-in ko tayo nikita ko. (Takut ato!) [...]

  Tatlong maiksing oras lamang ng aking buhay ang nakabahagi sa kanyang pagmamahal sa hindi kilala n’yang bulkan sa Albay. Wala sa aking akala ang payak na lupang tatsulok na ipinagmamainam niya. Ngunit hindi ako nagtaka. Pinagbukasan ng nag-aalburutong [...]

Matagal na rin kaming nakatira dito sa Payatas. Normal na sakin yung mga eksenang nasaksihan ko kanina. Walang bago; walang kakaiba. Dalawang bata na naman ang nadaganan ng mga bulto ng basura. Noong isang linggo nga lang, isang binata naman ang nailibing ng buhay kasama ng umaalingasaw na basura, kasama ng mga pangarap [...]

Hindi karagdagang taon ang magsasalba sa bukbukin nang kalidad ng edukasyon sa Pilipinas; higit pa sa paghahain ng lima o anim na taong mga kurso sa kolehiyo ang remedyo sa malamlam ng kalagayan ng edukasyong inilalako sa bansa. Sa pagbubukas ng taong 2009, binulaga ng Commission on Higher [...]

By: Mr. Marlon B. Santos I started teaching when I was 20 and that made me the youngest faculty of a private high school in Hagonoy. I moved to Bulacan State University in 2008 and again I became the youngest person in the Department of English. As the youngest, I [...]

  I. Death became her. Like withered leaves in autumn or great drought in summer, she felt emptied and succumbed from bleakness. This Monday morning when Vicky woke up, she felt that everything was dry, docile, even bootless. She felt purposeless, laying sprawled under her sheets for couple of hours after dawn, watching how [...]

  N’ung ipinagtapat ko kay one great love na s’ya ang aking one great love, busted ako. Nagalit ako at pinapili siya: ako at ang mahabang kasaysayan naming dalawa o ang haliparot na wala pa ngang isang linggo niyang kilalang lamang lang naman sa akin ng konti sa height at ‘di hamak na mas matalino ako’t [...]

  “You are sons and daughters of LESSER GODS. Your parents were just laundrywomen and drivers and they don’t even pay taxes.” I was a senior in high school when I heard those words from the person I least expected to tell me those. Until now, I [...]

Partying like a rockstar, dancing and bumping, shaking my tail-feathers, screaming my lungs out in the midst of the I-don’t-know-smoke and trance music like no tomorrow, wearing colorful mask in masquerade bashes - these are the things I really love to do— NOT! Really, what catches my time is (like [...]

  Pebrero 26 nang maganap ang Student Government (SG) Elections 2009 at ang patuloy na labanan sa pagitan ng ASAP at PDM. Pumagitna sa laban ang boto ng bawat estudyante. Inawat ng resulta ang mahabang kompetisyon ng mga pangako at plataporma. Kinabukasan, umalingawngaw na ang pagtatapos ng round. Sa harap ng kabi-kabilang ispekulasyon, ikaw, ano ang [...]

The unfinished business was coming to a close. The gates opened two hours ago. It was not easy to hold myself at McDonald’s and locate my cousin amidst the swift rush of people I share the same passion with. It was way harder to fight [...]

  “Sa umaga, kape lang ang laman ng tiyan ko. Pagkatapos makainom, sabak na agad sa bukid. Maghapon na ‘yon. Tanim, tanim, pahinga. Tapos tanim uli. Swerte na kung may pananghalian. Madalas kasi kamote o mais lang, sasabayan lang ng tubig na malamig o kape. Sa hapon, mayroon namang tinapay. ‘Yun lang at [...]

  *Official Entry of the Philippines for Best Foreign Language Film of the 81st Academy Awards. Kulang ang kaliwa’t kanang nominasyon at parangal kumpara sa naidulot ng pelikulang indie na tumatak sa maraming Pilipino noong nakaraang taon. Kamakailan, tinangka itong isali sa Oscar’s awards para sa kategoryang Foreign Language Film. [...]

  Rico opens his first music box as a soloist with  the song “Say Forever”, which stands out among all the tracks in the package with its ultrasonic mood created by the 80’s sounding drumbeat, a very groovy bass-line courtesy of former Ehead Buddy Zabala, and easy guitar riffs with complex sound waves [...]

  “Ito ay linggo ng selebrasyon, linggo ng pagsasaya, linggo nating lahat.”   Governor Joselito R. Mendoza of Bulacan said with delight in the opening of the awaited Sining at Kalinangan ng Bulacan (Singkaban) Fiesta 2008. The annual fiesta, which was held last year from September 8-15 2008 with the theme “Sipag, Husay [...]

  A month before this year’s Student Government (SG) Elections, old set of SG scholars complained about being terminated from their scholarship without further notice. Bianca Michaela Espeleta, former SG president, denied that they terminated old set of SG scholars without further noticing them. In fact, she clarified last February 26, [...]

  Through the efforts of Bianca Mikaela D.L. Espeleta, president of Student Government (SG) and its officials, Quizayahan ‘08 was held at the Students’ Park last August 26, 2008 prior to the celebration of Bulucan State University (BulSU) Intramurals. Students from different colleges and institutions in BulSU participated in the [...]

  The BulSU Student Government released its new set of scholars. In line with this, the old set of scholars since Jovinel Yambao’s term was complaining that they were taken off from the list. In lieu with that, incumbent SG president Bianca Espeleta made a clarification during the meeting de avance [...]