To date, only 15-percent has submitted their Personal Data. Few photos are in place. My forecast is correct; only few will response.
I and the rest of the volunteers will focus on Plan B. I will maximize whatever is there to publish a yearbook for the batch. I will post another update after a week or two.
“The Market” sheds light into these crucial questions. It tackles the restiveness that propels mortals to abandon familiar comforts for uncertain pursuits. In this novel, Neil Erich Galicia invites his readers to accompany Kent as he sits on a bus headed for the home he had left seven years ago. This journey towards home is pregnant with profound musings and an intense mix of emotions. In the few hours that it takes to reach his hometown, he grapples with the many roads that his heart, mind, body, and spirit had simultaneously traveled in the past. Desires with neither face nor name had driven him to search for that which would quiet the discontent of his heart, the turmoil of his mind, the agitation of his body, and the vexations of his spirit. Now battered in many ways but imbued with wisdom, strength, and greater clarity, home has beckoned. He resolutely heeds its call. The novel unravels the gripping manner in which this decision wraps itself around his being.
When Kent finally steps foot again on the same grounds that he had once played on as a child and walked upon in his youth, he sees life once more with fresh eyes. As he does, he touches a bit of eternity in all its simplicity.
With uncanny sensitivity, Neil’s novel prompts readers to relive the experience of having been paralyzed by life’s many thunderbolts only to be surprised by fresh energy anew. “The Market” reminds them that in the place where life began may be found most of that which they are looking for.
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I had just passed a tough month. That was the reason why I was not able to update our blog in the past weeks. Right now I am also finishing the Triumph Yearbook 2007 of Ateneo de Naga (my batch). And the publishing of my first novel, The Market (A novel of finding your way back home).
AT PRESENT THERE ARE FEW OF THE BATS DOS MIL DOS WHO SUBMITTED THEIR PERSONAL DATA; THEY ARE ONLY ABOUT FIVE-PERCENT OF THE TOTAL GRADUATES. I AM ENCOURAGING EVERYONE TO PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROFILE AND OTHER USEFUL MATERIALS.
Please be guided of the changes in the timetable:
Deadline of submission of all data contributions for the YB (eg. Pix, essays, etc)
August 12, 2008 – First report of the publishing processes and procedures
August 27, 2008 – Final report of the contents and the final output
September 15, 2008 – Submission at the Printing Press
December 26, 2008 – Release through Batch Party/ Reunion
[Note: Any excess from the collections for the yearbook publishing expenses shall be used for Bats Dos Mil Dos Scholarship for HS student/s at LaCo. This is my recommendation since the Ads may generate huge amount if everyone will cooperate.]
Please find some pix of the best get-together in HS submitted by Jovian, Aisa and Candy. Be guided from time to time, I’ll be providing updates in this blog regarding the progress of our yearbook’s publishing. So please always visit our blog and disseminate the information to all our batchmates.
I am just encountering difficulty in the editing since the pictures are old and printed in a small size. I am applying all my learning in Adobe Photoshop, trying to increase the resolutions and make the lighting and coloring balanced. Since there are also some unwanted objects included in some I consider good pictures, it takes time for me to fix them. So I guess everyone can help me by submitting the “really” the best photographs.
For now, there are less than ten who submitted Personal Data. Please start submitting and please leave messages in our blog. It makes us feel re-energize knowing batchmates are participating in this undertaking.
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The plan to create the Bats Dos Mil Dos Yearbook (hope you still remember the very essence behind our class name) has been discussed long ago by some of our batchmates who studied at the Ateneo de Naga University. When I worked as editor of the Triumph Yearbook of the said university, I was able to initially plan and strategize the preparations and the publishing of our yearbook. When Ritchel, Joan, Eugene and Nems had been part of the Triumph 2005 and 2006, I presented to them my plan and the strategy. Of course it is expected everyone would be excited. So just last few days (today is 02 April 2008), I texted Ritchel and talked with Eugene and finally told them, “This is the time we’re waiting for”.