Last Lecture by UP Prop Winnie Monsod

This is a video of Professor Winnie Monsod last lecture to her UP students. The video went viral given the reactions and comments from her former students, other UP grads, and Filipinos all over the world.

I take no offense to most of what she said because for one thing I am not a graduate of UP Diliman whose lecture I believe was meant for. Referring to all UP students:

"If you are going to help this country, you've got to be in the country. If any of you have little ambitions of going abroad so that you can earn more, please disabuse yourself, because by doing that you are essentially betraying the people in the Philippines who trusted you and who invested their money in you," she said.

The irony is most of our Philippine leaders came from UP and yet, look where we are now?

So much for that honor and excellence I guess!

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Cheers!

50’s Night...or Day

At one point we were talking about having a get-together to celebrate a milestone for all of us. Not everyone is lucky enough to be where we’re at right now in our lives, 50 golden years or more, so why not pause for awhile and take the opportunity to celebrate, spend a day...or night, with one another, just for the heck of it.

It’s been nearly 4 years since we had our grand reunion.

Don’t you think it’s about time we have another one?

When, where and how do you think we should celebrate it?

A tree-planting event? A walkathon to raise funds for our scholarship project? A trip to the mountain of Sagada maybe? A river-rally to save the famous Talioco beach? Hehehe.

How about a fun food trip to Ilocos Region? Hmmm, I can already taste the bagnet and empanada now!

Or maybe a picnic in "tumana" will be more fun and logistically easy to set up.

What do you think old farts?