Sunday, June 16, 2002
[A Journey to My World]
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of it all."
There are many here in this room and all around me who will easily mis-understand who I am. I guess lately I've been known in the present as the English-speaking boy. I've already had to explain myself, but just introducing ourselves doesn't reveal our world and who we are. You can't just say "Hi my name is GEORGE" and determine what revolves around him. Well, in this short audio tape... I'm bringing you to my world.
***
I am a person who likes to take pictures. Back in my Senior Year of High School, I was the photojournalist of the school paper. I always brought a camera to school everyday back then, just in case some important event in class would happen. I've managed to accumulate over 500 pictures from my High School years.
A lot of my world is also online, you know, on the web and on the internet. I love surfing the web and going places plus interacting in forums and simple private messege programs such as Yahoo! Messenger. I also make websites. I made my High School Batch Site and the premiere website of the School Paper. Aside from the formalities of those sites, I'm also the webmaster and creator of [*gputz] Charmed Philippines. You ask "Gputz"? It's my online nickname derived into G as in George and Putz as the first three letters of my surname with an added Z.
Then you ask about my interest in CHARMED? You know... that one show with three sisters, er... two sisters and a half sister if you're also an avid fan? YEP. I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a huge fan of the show. I say this because if you don't know, there are thousands of pinoys out there who LOVE this show and are all over the internet. In fact, if you combine my interest of the INTERNET and of CHARMED... you get a person. There's a person on this campus that I'm going to meet from a Internet Forum for Pinoy fans of Charmed. It's probably going to happen sometime this week.
So now you know I love taking pictures, making websites, and watching television shows. That's only part of the world that I live in.
I often question myself how come I have such a strongly present conscience. I don't know how, but I know in some way that I'm a different kind of person. NO, I'm talking about the difference between the languages we both naturally speak... It's more of the difference of how we see life and how it goes.
At this exact point of our lives, we are at an important and critical crossing. It is here in this campus, in this college, in this course, and in this classroom that will shape us to who we will become tomorrow. That brings me directly to the quote given for this artistic interpretation. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of it all."
How do I see this quote through my eyes? It's an all positive way of seeing through the looking glass. Time, as they say, is the essence in which we burn. He who cannot remember the past is condemned to repeat it (we've heard this just last week). And the future is the consequence of our present. The present is at this exact moment. The present lives in every breath we breathe this moment, in every blink of an eye we have, in every second that is now.
To me, it is how we see the world we live in. As your eyes remain closed, picture yourself seven years from now. As most of us, if not everyone, in this classroom is an aspiring Journalist or... Journalour. Do you like what you see? Are you now a news anchor for ABS-CBN or some other top network? Are you now a DJ at your favorite radio station during High School? Are you now enjoying who you are in years to come? OR are you repairing some mechanical part of some complex machinary inside a factory? WOAH... if you are seeing your future self outside the boundries of Journalism... I'm sorry this is a mistake. The future isn't beautiful just yet because you're not in the right course and direction right now.
The quote is telling us that we need to clearly have our goals in mind. We can no longer fool around outside Journalism if we wish to pursue what we really want. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of it all. If you love what you see in your future, then it will be there for you. It will be set and all you have to do is go for it. Going for it involves continuing the classes you have this semester, next semester, next year and onwards.
This is how I interpreted the Quote. As much as a cliche it is now to say "Believe in ourselves", it is true. Maybe it's corny, but remember what they said to us if we think it's corny? If we think it's corny, then we have a feeling inside about whatever we thought was corny. If we see a beautiful future of working in the newsroom or in some Network or Radio Station... then it will keep us all focused and it will surely belong to us as long as we have it all in our mind.
Thank you.
(this is the script to an audio tape recording with music i made for an assignment about our interpretation of a certain quote in my subject "Introduction to DLSU-D")
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of it all."
There are many here in this room and all around me who will easily mis-understand who I am. I guess lately I've been known in the present as the English-speaking boy. I've already had to explain myself, but just introducing ourselves doesn't reveal our world and who we are. You can't just say "Hi my name is GEORGE" and determine what revolves around him. Well, in this short audio tape... I'm bringing you to my world.
***
I am a person who likes to take pictures. Back in my Senior Year of High School, I was the photojournalist of the school paper. I always brought a camera to school everyday back then, just in case some important event in class would happen. I've managed to accumulate over 500 pictures from my High School years.
A lot of my world is also online, you know, on the web and on the internet. I love surfing the web and going places plus interacting in forums and simple private messege programs such as Yahoo! Messenger. I also make websites. I made my High School Batch Site and the premiere website of the School Paper. Aside from the formalities of those sites, I'm also the webmaster and creator of [*gputz] Charmed Philippines. You ask "Gputz"? It's my online nickname derived into G as in George and Putz as the first three letters of my surname with an added Z.
Then you ask about my interest in CHARMED? You know... that one show with three sisters, er... two sisters and a half sister if you're also an avid fan? YEP. I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a huge fan of the show. I say this because if you don't know, there are thousands of pinoys out there who LOVE this show and are all over the internet. In fact, if you combine my interest of the INTERNET and of CHARMED... you get a person. There's a person on this campus that I'm going to meet from a Internet Forum for Pinoy fans of Charmed. It's probably going to happen sometime this week.
So now you know I love taking pictures, making websites, and watching television shows. That's only part of the world that I live in.
I often question myself how come I have such a strongly present conscience. I don't know how, but I know in some way that I'm a different kind of person. NO, I'm talking about the difference between the languages we both naturally speak... It's more of the difference of how we see life and how it goes.
At this exact point of our lives, we are at an important and critical crossing. It is here in this campus, in this college, in this course, and in this classroom that will shape us to who we will become tomorrow. That brings me directly to the quote given for this artistic interpretation. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of it all."
How do I see this quote through my eyes? It's an all positive way of seeing through the looking glass. Time, as they say, is the essence in which we burn. He who cannot remember the past is condemned to repeat it (we've heard this just last week). And the future is the consequence of our present. The present is at this exact moment. The present lives in every breath we breathe this moment, in every blink of an eye we have, in every second that is now.
To me, it is how we see the world we live in. As your eyes remain closed, picture yourself seven years from now. As most of us, if not everyone, in this classroom is an aspiring Journalist or... Journalour. Do you like what you see? Are you now a news anchor for ABS-CBN or some other top network? Are you now a DJ at your favorite radio station during High School? Are you now enjoying who you are in years to come? OR are you repairing some mechanical part of some complex machinary inside a factory? WOAH... if you are seeing your future self outside the boundries of Journalism... I'm sorry this is a mistake. The future isn't beautiful just yet because you're not in the right course and direction right now.
The quote is telling us that we need to clearly have our goals in mind. We can no longer fool around outside Journalism if we wish to pursue what we really want. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of it all. If you love what you see in your future, then it will be there for you. It will be set and all you have to do is go for it. Going for it involves continuing the classes you have this semester, next semester, next year and onwards.
This is how I interpreted the Quote. As much as a cliche it is now to say "Believe in ourselves", it is true. Maybe it's corny, but remember what they said to us if we think it's corny? If we think it's corny, then we have a feeling inside about whatever we thought was corny. If we see a beautiful future of working in the newsroom or in some Network or Radio Station... then it will keep us all focused and it will surely belong to us as long as we have it all in our mind.
Thank you.
(this is the script to an audio tape recording with music i made for an assignment about our interpretation of a certain quote in my subject "Introduction to DLSU-D")
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