 SHARE SOME LOVE THIS CHRISTMAS Mga Isko at Iska, Maraming, maraming salamat sa inyong lahat. Through your generous contributions, we had a very successful outreach program last Sunday at The Door Is Open. Because of your generosity, we were able to serve a total of 8 trays of ground beef/pork menudo on top steaming hot rice. Dits and Mae Pascual prepared cassava cake and maja blanca enough for all our guests! Added to our delicious food were bagged gifts of mitts, socks and oral hygiene products. We had a bit of leftover food which we were able to donate to a shelter for abused and battered women. George & Cookie, please extend our thanks to your friends and associates who donated oral hygiene products. Luis, please thank the St. Mary's Youth Ministry Christmas Carolers for their festive songs. And to all of the UPAABC members, your help made this outreach possible. Thank you so much. BODs  Message from Josh Bantenor
Dear Ms. Anita, It is a pleasure to finally meet one of the members of the UPAABC. But before I provide the requested information below, I just want to say, thank you. I've tried to get your contact information before when I was still an undergraduate with no success due to confidentiality reasons. Which is why I'm genuinely glad I am now able to talk to you. Though this thank you letter may be almost a year late, I hope you'd still accept my most sincere gratitude to your organization for unselfishly supporting my educational endeavors during college. This scholarship had been a key driver for me to focus more on my studies and had been a source of joy that I am able to ease the financial burden of my family. Since then, I've been sharing with my friends that money should never be a hindrance in pursuing their studies because there are people like you who are more than willing to help students like us, if we will just take the initiative to find a scholarship. With that, thank you for accepting my application four years ago. As per your request, I finished Business Administration last year as Cum Laude of our batch. I don't have my records (for the cumulative average) right now as I'm in the office, but my average for my last year in college based on my CRS record is 1.27. I live at 34 Fisheries st. Vasra, Quezon City. I finished my high school at Quezon City Science High School in 2012. My hobbies include writing, reading books, playing instruments, baking, photography, and calligraphy. I am also one of the youth leaders in our church. As for the extra curricular involvement I had during college, I was affiliated with UP Association of Business Administration Majors, UP Circle of Entrepreneurs, UP Career Assistance Program and UP Business Administration Council. I am now working as a Sales and Marketing Executive in Azeus Systems Ltd., a software company. It's funny how I got assigned to handle Canada as my market to do campaigns. If only I believe in serendipity, I might say that being a British Columbia Scholar is a premonition that my work will be related to Canada as well. You also asked about my dream job, which I believe you might have directed to undergraduate scholars, but I'll answer it anyway. I dream to be an entrepreneur. I was hoping to earn enough capital someday and start my own business, a restaurant to be exact. As for now, it's just a possibility. Regarding my contact information, you may reach me through this email address or skype using this number: 0927 852 4809. I have attached here photos of me during my graduation, some are photos with my friends during our org activities, and others are pictures of us after business case presentations. I'll try to send the video file next week Monday, Feb 20, at the latest. Now if it is not too much of a hassle, may I know if you have any other initiatives that help students in their educational endeavors that do not require monetary donations? Like events that need volunteers probably? I'd be glad to participate in such. Again, thank you Ms. Anita and the rest of the team/organization. May God continually bless the works of UPAABC. Looking forward to hearing from you! Best regards, Josh |
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President's Message
Dear UPAABC Comrades,
It is 4AM, and it has taken me forever even to just give a quick notch at my keyboard to type this. I have to be stupendously honest that I have been having anxiety to even start writing. The last time I’ve been into this very same mood and situation was when I delivered a speech in front of a graduating class that asked me to become their Guest Speaker. And, yes, I have gone through the same struggle. I was only able to make out a good write up that I thought – actually -- made sense two hours before I was made to join the class upstage. Having narrated all these, I don’t think I’d be able to make the kind of sense that will satisfy your true-blue, forever-hungry-of-new-knowledge, green-and-maroon minds and souls. But… Here it goes! On behalf of the Board, I will try and do my utmost best to deliver in the same way I have come to realize just how humble and open-minded you all were to give me this chance to serve our Isko floor with the highest post and honour– given, at first, my “reluctant” leadership behaviour—for 2023 and 2024. To an Iskolar ng Bayan, to serve is always pleasurable. There is this indescribable tinge of mixed anticipation and excitement that comes with a bit of anxiety and gratefulness whenever the trumpet of service and calling sounds its horns. Yes, the trumpet always howls from up the mountain to make sure that everyone down in the valley hears the loudness of the message. And, sure, the whole UPAABC township never fails to grasp and decode the Morse code of “pagtatanghal” ng mga “humayong” hinubog na anak ng bayan galing sa pambansang pamantasan ng Pilipinas, ang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas. It is of an august honour to serve as President of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in British Columbia for years 2023 and 2024. The new Board is here not to shake and rattle. We are here to keep up because you guys have already been shaking and rattling and swinging the UPAABC wagon amid the constantly changing winds of time. We are here to uphold and respect legacies and footprints that are meant to stay, as we all are also here to work with you the necessary transformations that our organization will need to continue thriving in the next long years, as it already did for almost five golden decades now. Allow the new Board and I to polish the specifics of our Strat Plan and Proposed Calendar of activities for 2023. Your suggestions have been heard, and we want to make sure that one and all is happy to participate in each of the mapped activities. We will retain traditions that define the UPAABC family; we will introduce exciting youngblood programs that will make this family and comradeship even more impactful. Allow me to express the deepest, warmest accolade and respect to our President Emerita, Anita “Cookie” Aytona, and the past board for their invaluable contributions, projects, and unconditional support to the newly-boarded officers. Without you all being our mentors, who would we be today and tomorrow? Many thanks for the untiring calibrations! Without all these timely tools, how do we carry on from today until the boat is ready to sail on its own? There are no words to properly express our gratitude. On behalf of the 2023 and 2024 Board of Directors, maligaya at malikhaing Bagong Taon! Thank you, unreservedly, in advance, for your soaring and cradling support! Gracias, Maribel “Bella” Balisi Bevilacqua President, University of the Philippines Alumni Association in BC A.D. 2023 & 2024 |
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