Legendary President

August 1, 2009 a very sad event had occurred. The former President Corazon Aquino had passed away. Basically I know a little about the said former President. In our history class we had discussed about her. According to my history teacher, the former president is the one who release the Filipinos from the Marcos government. She is the one who brings back the democracy in my country. As far as I know Cory Aquino is just a plain housewife of the late Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino. It was Ninoy who want to run for presidency during his time but due to the fact that he was assassinated in Tarmac, Cory Aquino was forced to continue the advocacy of Ninoy. When she was elected as the new President our democratic country, Filipinos are very grateful for her success. During her administration, it is not new to her that there are attempts against her administration but it doesn’t mean that she can’t fight back. I am quite sad that she didn’t run for another term. Maybe because she just want to continue Ninoy’s advocacy of changing the situation of the Philippines. She was also chosen as the “woman of the year” in the time magazine. And now we all know that she had passed away due to her disease namely “colon cancer”. I think that even she suffers from that terrible traitor disease, she still fights back. I don’t know if I could still meet a person like her but I am not losing hope that someday there will be someone who could do the same thing as Cory Aquino did for our country.

It’s UPCAT time

This coming Saturday and Sunday is a very important event for every upcoming fourth year high school student. The reason for this is because the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) would be held this coming Saturday and Sunday. It is not only a very important day but it is also a do or die situation. Because incoming 4th year students are taking a test that will really challenge their minds and their knowledge from 1st year high school to 3rd year high school. Thousands of incoming 4th year students gather to different test centers during the said day. Most of the topics covering the UPCAT are the following: science, reading comprehension, language proficiency, and mathematics. A student must take review classes first before he/she take the exam because most of the questions covers atleast 10 minutes of your time. For me it is a very long exam because the whole exam is good for about 5 hours. So it is advisable for exam takes that they should bring their own snacks and drinks inside. That is also the reason why proctors are allowing the exam takers to eat during the exam. In the end, 6 long months would passed before the results would be revealed.