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UST paskuhan, the gathering of friends
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
UST or University of Santo Tomas, Home of Thomasians, Thomas Aquinas is their patron Saint and my school, my University [ well I wish ! =) ]. It was one of the greatest Universities that I know and it is an honor to step the Thomasian grounds :) . UST is what you call an old campus, of course it is because it will be 400 years old this 2011. In 2011 I will be 19 yrs old so UST is 381 yrs older than me! Whoo even if I will be reincarnated so many times I will never get that old ^^. The thomasian campus is an example of structures in the past, because our hero [ Jose Rizal ] was a student here before and he was taking up medicine. I remember when I was in 4th yr. high school my teacher in Filipino says that Rizal's stay in UST was definitely unpleasant. Professors are bringing him down, classmates torturing him and even the guards of the campus are rude to him. Well I don't know why I came out telling Rizals stay here haha!!
Why am I inside the campus? Because there's an event called "Paskuhan" that US thomasians will celebrate together before Christmas or the birth of Jesus comes. The stage got some fancy and good looking costumes, cultural dances, and the voice of the narrator which is hard as a stone :) . The fields of UST are full of Thomasians together with their friends and hanging around in there. We are in that event, we sat on the fields and watch the presentation. It's so hard to see what's happening on the stage, good thing there are some screens to look at and watch there what's happenning in the stage. This is the first time I saw some leaves walking. If you look closely to the picture at the right, there are some leaves that I was talking about and they are hilarious haha.
After the dance has ended...,
The fireworks caught the attention of the Thomasians and me which is really a Thomasian [ haha I'm dreaming again ] . The fireworks was beautiful, eye catching and most of all it's colorful. The night sky was filled by beautiful lights of the fireworks. It was too long and that's why my back neck was aching but it's worth it. There's a picture of the fireworks there in the left. :) Although it's not the greatest fireworks that UST has but that thing surprises me and I said "WOW" because the combination of lights brings happiness to it's viewers. The fireworks display took 8 minutes and whew the back neck ache is worth it :).
Of course that is the time that all of my friends to do some picture picture. My batchmates loves to camwhore and while where at some kind of event like this, flashes of camera are turning on and off. Even though the others are doing something, they will run to where the designated spot where we will pose then they'll pose also like this picture in the right, you know it's like we were destined to be batchmates because we love to take pictures haha! Corny, I say.
While we were taking pictures of course with my batchmates there's something wrong and kinda unexplained thing in some of the pictures. Orbs have appearedas you can see in the picture ->. I have no idea what an orb is, but when my batchmate [ the girl in the picture ] says that the orbs in the picture represents or forms of spirits? [ or something like that ] Then of course I was surprised and I thought that maybe we were disturbing some spirits trying to rest in this place and we have no idea that in that particular place, there are orbs that floating, flying or maybe levitating there. My batchmate says that all of them are getting used to it. Most of their pictures has orbs and sometimes the orbs covers their faces [ ooh freaky I say! maybe the orb thinks it's prettier than my classmate so the orb tries to cover my batchmate's face haha :D ] .Who knows? UST is an old University and of course many students have studied here in the past [ yup I consider Jose Rizal as a Thomasian ] so come to think of it many students have died inside the campus or many students have died early.For me, the orbs was not really freaky, they just represent the past and one of the points that proves that this University has been existed in the past. That is so cool!
Back to the event, UST paskuhan was really fantastic! Not because it was MY school, not because it is a gathering of friends, you know, some kind of feeling that you don't explain and that feeling brings total happiness. That is wicked awesome! When i was in that University I'd never thought that I'll saw Bamboo [ you know the band :) ] and join the club [ you know another band :) ]. I am a person that is really not a band lover, but they make me feel alive together with my friends! They make me jump, scream, wave my hand, sing along with them. I don't know what kind of energy they have to command us but who cares Im enjoying it! :)
Being a part of this event, I'll say it's worth to come in this event. I really had fun =)
I have no idea why I am posting a post like this but I do really want to share what MY SCHOOLhas.[ just forgive me to be a Thomasian this day before I post this post haha! ]
...and I will say that I really had fun reading your post. It was true and honest, obviously made by a jolly and fun person as well. I'll be reading the next post. (wink)
...and I will say that I really had fun reading your post. It was true and honest, obviously made by a jolly and fun person as well. I'll be reading the next post. (wink)