Christmas Celebrations at UP Diliman

This year's Christmas event will be dubbed "Kanya2 2gether sa PasQ". It typifies UP's ultimate basis for unity: agreeing to disagree. It celebrates, with the youthful pinache of text lingo, our invigorating freedom and daunting diversity in one ideal space we call home: the academic oval. It allows us to congratulate one another's work in anextended 4 day festival of the best of UP Diliman where before we were incognito revelers in a tightly squeezed crowd on Lantern Parade night.

The oval will be shut off from all forms of vehicular traffic for 4days from Dec. 12-15 to allow us to stroll with leisure in a tentcity atmosphere that features the best accomplishments of UP's academe and student organizations. Large white Murayama tents (12' x12') will line the inner academic oval which will be zoned into academic, student orgs, dry goods tiangge and food concessions areas.

The Carillon will sound Christmas Carols at 5 pm daily beginning onDec. 2 followed by the lighting of Quezon Hall signaling the beginning of celebrations. Awards for best academic and student org tents and best Parol per booth will be awarded along with a Belen competition among college student councils. One-hour daily concerts will be held at dusk in succession at the Quezon, Melchor and Palma Halls to be capped by a Rock/Reggae/Acoustic Amateur Bands Concert at the sunken garden on the evening of the 15th till the following morning followed by an Ecumenical Simbang Gabi.

Student and Academic pakulô events such as the APO's Oblation Run atthe oval at noon of the 15th and Beta Epsilon's Fireworks Display after the Lantern Parade on the evening of the 15th will be screened, scheduled and printed on flyer itineraries. The traditional LanternParade will be headed, thematized and choreographed by the College of Fine Arts. The theme will be Earth, Wind, Fire and Water Elemental Masks. It will parade once around the oval and pick-up the academic/student booth lanterns along the way.

Let us prove yet again that with a little imagination, even austerity cannot douse the spirit of celebration in Diliman.

Paunang pagbati ng maligayang Pasko!

Gerry Cao
Chancellor

LET IT GO

thanks to ate jo, for posting it sa groups! what a timing! shux! as in super swak!

Let it go
by T. D. Jakes
There are people who can walk away from you; and hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.
When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead.
You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!!
If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ...LET IT GO!!!
If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you ... LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...LET IT GO!!!If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ... LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents... LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude...LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better... LET IT GO!!!
If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him... LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves...LET IT GO!!!
If you're feeling depressed and stressed.... LET IT GO!!!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to... LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing !!! LET IT GO!!!
Get Right or Get Left... Think about it, and then LET IT GO!!!
"The Battle is the Lord's!"

na naman

WARNING: MUSHY! (take necessary precaution!)... wrote this last nyt...

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I will shut that door but for now let me be. let me wander in this barren land.

*** enter music:
I'm a big, big girl
in a big, big world
it's not a big, big thing
if you leave me
but i do, do feel
that i do, do will
miss you much... (miss you much)
***end music

I will always be haunted by the fact that I was so afraid of getting hurt i ended up inflicting more pain to myself than they could have. And yet I must be vigilant so that like what kathleen said (thanks for those chats super!) I will not miss "it" the third time...

so i guess this goodbye... (for real)...

i'm really starting to hate my NBSB status. it sucks big time!

thank you still for the numerous things I've learned much because of you guys...much as i want to write it all here i still can't. must keep something for myself. pro grabe i've written bout u (the other one) so many times na pla! ahaha:D although i can count 4 other na i didn't name! ehehe:D aus! *wag kang mag-alala/di ko ipipilit sau*

***Enough drama cue music: numa numa ye (maia hi maia hu)/move your body gurl!
WHE & BBQ MODE: ON!

P. S. Good luck and God bless to my best pal Patrick. I'm excited for you! :D

>>>STOP

***feelin better already. though still a bit woozy... aftershock... not bitter just sad...

*poof*

just like that.... *poof*... it became koko crunch! >>> corny i know... sadness...

blame it on harboring hidden desires... maling akala... me and my overly active imagination!

haaaaaay.... prang gusto q makasession si MP ngaun ah! tsktsk! anyone care to join? pat, painom ka after ng board m, pra may excuse aq! wahehe:D nah, not really.... not that sad! but still sad...

*fly away... sadness... *

*pasukan na naman, engg week na naman. buti naman. busy na naman. saya, perfect diversion...*