UP Bannuar + youth: rebuilding a nation of responsible leaders

The youth has the ability to change the current scenario of this wallowing nation. They have the capacity to exercise superior quality of leadership and promote synergism in order to arrest the current predicament which pushes our country in the verge of crisis. They have the innate nature to lead and to live a life of full of passion and service. THis is why it is imperative for the youth of today to speak out, take a stand and act on the current issues.

this year, UP Bannuar has paved the way for us to have a full grasp of what is happening in our society. the 14th annual bannuar debate seminar and leaders' forum aims to promote critical and logical thinking which will help the youth formulate possible solutions to the problems of today. Also, it is a venue where student leaders gather and hone their argumentative skills. This is an important aspect in our battle cry for responsible leadership for it is only when they speak out and articulate themselves that they contribute to the rebuilding of this nation. Through this, we will be able to rectify our errors, put them in the proper light and eventually pursue great hopes for our future.

So, if you are a student leader who wants to help rebuild this nation and who wants to develop his argumentative skills or simply to help himself articulate his own ideas, joint this debate seminar and you'll surely learn much out of it. !

Venue: pyramid of asia resort, manaoag, pangasinan
date: July 26-27,2008

Dare to be different. Dare to debate.

deception point

For months now, i have been a money freak, too much of being business-oriented, i forgot how blessed i am for having all these things around me.
It all started when i heard of the opportunities of gaining money while doing nothing. Yes, it was just my eagerness to earn and constant cravings for money that made me like this. I can forgive you if you say i am already obsessed with money. But what can i do? People today see money as their life, and unfortunately, i am one of its victim.
I tried to work as a tutor, i tried to sell goods and other stuff, i tried to carry on a task which later i found out to be a scam. Poor me, i am really this hopeless.
My family nurtured my being with so much love and care that i can tag myself as a spoiled brat. I just don't know why i was never contented with what they were giving me. I longed for more, and right now i admit, i am still on the craving for a huge sum of money, enough to sustain my life as a student and as a future student doctor. I don't know, but i hope people would understand me, i am just one of them who hopes for a bright future, who wants to live a worry-free life, who wants to be rich and acquire all the goods in life. I am just one of them who is still on the search for the truth, for the answers to all of this life's questions. I am just one of them who was victimized and yet still sit here still letting myself be deceived and be imprisoned by this thought in life. Yes, i am one of them, and unfortunately, i do not know when will i get freed by my own selfish esteem. i don't know why am i still standing here alone.

My mother used to tell me i will be a successful person, and this motivated me to exhaust every possible means in order to fulfill this. I do not know why am i writing this on this blog though i still have a lot of work to do as a youth servant , maybe because, this is what bothers me everyday, every night before i sleep and every day when i wake up.

I was christianized when i was in high school and i remember, i already lifted up my entire life to Him. i was worry-free during that time until tests of faith came and made me stumble and fall. after all those, i realized i am in a crucial crossroad, should i still continue with this faith i have started? with this relationship i have started to build? or should i just let go and be overwhelmed by my own filthiness. I remember i chose to stay and stand firm, yet, there has been a problem ever since. I didnt find my self , i didnt find who i really i was and who i really should be, never again. That's why it is a burden for me to speak of my faith, because i know deep inside, i have committed a crime that has been forgiven by the creator and yet was never cleared within my self. i have been a vulgar, i have been a sinner. and now, i do not know who i am. I wish i could be like the character in the movie wanted who choose to man his own life after struggling to find his own personality, his own character.

Forgive me for all these crap, but i really do not know who i am. What i know is that i am in an organization who serves the youth, but i always ask myself, am i serving the Lord? pity me, i can't answer all the questions although all the answers rely on me.

now i am starting a new perception about money, i am building a new goal towards my dreams, i am crossing the deception point so i could start anew. Why blogging? and why this kind of post? the answer is simple, i had my previous blog banned by the netgear firewall with the reasons i do not know and i don't want to know, ever. stupidity, yes. i guess, i could never be the raine i used to be before,. so help me GOd.