UP Ang Galing Mo!

16 January 2008
Wednesday

Yes, this is the U.P. Centennial Song that Brod Herbie Rosales TA'61 composed for our beloved alma mater.

Alpha, Alpha, Fight! Fight!

My U.P. Centennial Surprise for Dad.

14 January 2008
Monday

I didn't inform my Dad that I sponsored one tree at the University Oval right in front of the U.P. Theater beside the Carillon. There were only 100 trees available and our frat got 16 of them. Each sponsored tree has a corresponding banner with lights decorating the tree during the night. It was lighted during the kickoff with each tree symbolizing a year of U.P.

Anyway, our banners were the only ones different from the others. All the rest were generic of maroon letters on white background. Our banners are personalized with our names in large fonts, with matching seal.

We were at our tambayan at the Engg corner when I told him I have a surprise for him but we had to walk first.

Intrigued, he kept badgering me what the surprise is and why is there a need to walk. I plainly told him to just follow me and I'll show him why. Darn, Pops can be so belligerent at times!

Anyway, he already spotted the banner from afar, and he hurried towards it. He saw our family name in big bold letters. Our first names were a bit small compared to the family name.

Man, was he so happy!

Mom took our picture. Herbie Rosales TA'61, our brod who composed the U.P. Centennial Song, happened to pass by as well and joined our photo ops.

Hangover after the Centennial Kickoff...

9 January 2008
Wednesday

Typing this at work barely keeping myself awake. I had four cups of coffee already and yet my body longs for my bed...

Started drinking at our tambayan at U.P. around 2:30pm. Left and went home at around 11pm. Had to report for work at 7am...

... damn.

I really need to get some sleep. *YAWN!*

It's a great year to be a Maroon... and a greater one to be An Argonaut!

7 January 2008
Monday

Of course, it's always a great to be a Maroon year in, year out. But what makes it so special this year is that all UPians will be celebrating our beloved alma mater's Centennial Anniversary.

Damn, I'm so friggin proud to be a Maroon. It's in my blood, it's in my soul. People outside U.P. do not fully realize nor do they fully appreciate the swagger that is very common among the Iskolars ng Bayan. If they only knew the hardships that we had to go through just to graduate from U.P....

... yeah, if only they knew.

Anyway, another thing to be proud of is my Fraternity's active involvement in this once-in-a-lifetime celebration.

It was us through Brod Joel Ajero'66 who made the Centennial Cauldron of which the Centennial Flame will be ignited. Supported by a tripod, the making of The Cauldron is financed through the generosity of The Grand Alliance as symbolized by the tripod. This Triumvirate is composed of the Alpha Phi Omega, Sigma Rho, and the Tau Alpha fraternities. Worth Php 150,000, the Cauldron was evenly shared by each fraternity at 50K.

It was Brod Herbie Rosales'61 who composed the Centennial Song which was sung live at the U.P. Carillon and aired this morning on television on GMA7.

We also sponsored at least 15 trees that would be part of the Lighting of the Trees Ceremony tomorrow night. Our trees would be very conspicuous since as of this morning, we have our banners hanging in every tree that we sponsored. In each tree we have our names and our Frat Batch indicated. Dad and I sponsored one tree. Yes, Dad and I belong to the same fraternity. He is Batch 1964 and I'm Batch 1990.

My Fraternity?




The Tau Alpha Fraternity of the U.P. College of Engineering founded in 1932.