The Search for the Most Outstanding IE Student of the Year 2009

Voila!!! this is my first post. It has been several days without posts. hehe.At last!

This is about the Search for the Most Outstanding IE Student of the Year 2009 (TOIESY) in CIT; which I participated now. Here are some of the questions being asked as a preliminary...

Who do you personally look up to? Why?

I have 3 persons that I actually look up to. If their finest characteristics are to be collated, it can be an epitome of a perfect human.

First and foremost, my mother, Anecita for her unconditional capacity to love and formidable spirit to fight amidst life’s quandary. She has been practically the pillar and the light of my family, though a woman.

Then, I look up to our very own IE department head, Engr. AB Navares for his unrelenting passion for excellence in everything he does. It’s just so amazing how he manages numerous responsibilities with flying colors.

Third, I’ve just recently known the life of a Cebuano business tycoon named John Gokongwei Jr. His character of discipline, persistence, hard work and Faith brought him from “rags-to-riches”. He’s one of the richest Filipinos nowadays and at the same time a leading philanthropist in Asia. He is simply a Cebuano; a Filipino ought to be cloned..c”,
This trio is just worth emulating.

If you have a superpower, what will it be and how would you use it?

It would be so great to have the power to know exactly what will happen in the future. But, I believe it’s just for God so I’ll just choose to have the power of healing. To fulfill our life’s mission, it is important to be physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually well. I want to have the power of healing different types of sickness so that my family, friends and my fellowmen would be truly wealthy because good health is true wealth.

If one thing certain about life is death then what is the point of living?

Life for me is a gift that we ought to cherish beyond death. As long as we live each day of our lives without regrets then it would be like, life has no end. According to the Dalai Lama, the purpose of life is to be happy and to be useful in every way you can. A useless life is like death itself. Moreover, to make this only life worthwhile, it has to be lived not only for oneself but for others too. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

What could be your invention that might change entirely the history of mankind?

An ultimate medicine for cancer would be a great invention or a discovery, I believe. Cancer for very long has claimed lives of people not worthy to suffer of such. People who are victims of this disease are helpless, since no matter what they do cancer survives over them. With the invention of its cure, lives will be changed, more lives shall be saved and that would be a very meaningful feat in my life. I would feel like to have lived a hundred lives.

If your life is a book, what is written on page 99?

I don’t know what page 99 signifies in this question, if it’s the end or a middle page. But since it’s specially specified, that page would also contain the names of special and important people who in one way or another contribute to the person I am and I will become. It’s a page recognizing the indelible mark they left in my life.

My Personal Message to the IE students:

“To my fellow would-be IEs, I have contemplated in my 5 years of being an IE student that the path we choose is not more of a career for us to earn a living or to improve our status in life, it is an opportunity for us to tailor the way we live to the purpose that God designed for us.

Being an IE is an opportunity to be better in the way we live; and thus becoming a better citizen for a better future of the Philippines. Vamos CIT IEs!”