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CFO chooses PSB as School of the MonthIn October 2015, the Com-

mission on Filipino Overseas, the government in charge of Philippine Schools Overseas, selected Philippine School (Bah-rain) to be featured in the CFO website as the School of the Month. Alongside, they select-ed two teachers, one from High School and one from the Ele-mentary School as the Teachers of the Month, and two students as the Students of the Month. The High School Teacher of the Month was Ms. Ivy Jan O. Sim-bala, Head of the Mathematics and Science Departments, and The Elementary School Teach-er of the month was Ms. Leda T. Baluyot, Primary Grades De-partment Head. The Student of the Month from Elementary School was Yasser Mohammed Shah, and from High School, it was Wrenz Luwi M. Ouano.

Please visit the website: ht tp: / /www.cfo-pso.org.ph/news/25-pso-s-news

“…I felt amazed and over-whelmed. The feeling of being special that everyone believes in your capability is extremely high. I would like to take this op-portunity to show my gratitude for having been chosen as the Philippine Schools Overseas el-ementary student for the month of October.” -Yasser Shah, Ele-mentary Student of the Month#

Ms. Ivy Simbala

Yasser Mohammed Shah

Wrenz Luwi Ouano

Ms. Leda Baluyot

WHAT’S INSIDE?United Nations Month celebration

National Reading Month celebration

MPHS 170 Volume 13, October-November 2015, Issue No. 3

see page 7-8

see page 9-11

by Renato Miguel F. Tabinas and Dawn Cyrill B. Aldave

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EDITORIAL

MultifacetedPrompt: “Man is powerless to amend a broken world.” Choose whether to argue for or against.

Humans are faggots.

Not faggots as in the de-rogatory term, but the tradition-al meaning: “a bundle of sticks bound together.” We humans—as mortal as we are—come in all sizes, shapes and colors, an imperfection here, an imper-fection there, and fragile when alone. But it is a fact that togeth-er, we are near unbreakable, we are strong and resilient, and that we always yearn for change.

While reading Guy Gavri-el Kay’s Under Heaven, which says, “I cannot find rest be-cause I am powerless to amend a broken world,” I realized three things. One, that man is never powerless, two, man has the ability to bring change and three, nothing is ever bro-ken; everything just continual-ly gains a bit of imperfection.

First, man is never power-less. We can see this in the Latin principle of “Quae non valeant singula, iuncta iuvant,” in English, “What is without value on its own, helps when joined.” The Filipinos also have an object that accurately de-scribes this—the walis tingting, or a broom made out of co-conut midribs. These midribs have no use independently, but when tied together it gains value. Like these midribs, like the faggots, we can be eas-ily broken in just a snap. But joined, we become sturdy, en-during, and can fuel change.

Second, man has the in-nate capability to spark change in the world. This spark can lie dormant; awaiting something to light it up; or it can burn with a passion, spreading to a large area around it. But fire can both create and destroy. The fire that is used to fuel the kiln to make bricks for houses is the same fire that can ravage a whole commu-nity to the ground. Change is like that, too; it can be used for good or for bad, but regardless, wheth-er the fire was used to build or to break, the phoenix—a majes-tic creature—still rises from it.

Lastly, nothing is ever bro-ken. The spark that lies with-in all of us cannot make the world perfect, but it can trans-form it into something beau-tiful. We learn from the Jap-anese concept of wabi-sabi, that imperfections are good. And as we yearn for change, as we gradually transform, we can crack, we can break, but ultimately, we become better.

We humans are multifac-eted—we’re faggots, we’re fuel, we’re phoenixes, but I can say for sure that what we are not, is powerless to amend a broken world.

Regardless of the cracks.#

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COLUMNS

It is in our human nature to hope. To hope for a nice life, to hope for success, to hope for happiness, to hope for all things better. And we’ve always been told to set our hopes high. Our goals must reach heights like we’ve never known be-fore. When we succeed, it’s a trium-phant moment. Thought that dream was impossible? Congratulations, you’ve made it possible! But when we don’t, it takes a harsh blow on our confidence. On our self-esteem. Maybe a few moments ago we were thinking, “I’ve got this. Everything’s going according to plan. I know I’m going to do this.” But all that can crumble faster than anyone can say ‘expectations’. A few moments ago you were so close to reaching the peak and you blinked and this boul-der of unexpected circumstances comes crashing down on you and now you are back to zero all over again. That’s disappointment for you.

When we experience disappoint-ment, we hesitate on all the expec-tations we plotted out. “Was this re-ally meant for me? Was I being too overconfident that I could do this? Maybe I shouldn’t have set my goals too high. Maybe I shouldn’t have hoped at all.” (Masakit umasa, ano?)

In French, disappointed can be written as déçu; but déçu also means crestfallen, upset or frustrated. The other two synonyms are similar enough; disappointed means crest-fallen or upset, but frustrated? When you say, “Je suis déçu*,” do you mean disappointed or frustrated? They’re clearly two different things. Why would one word define them both?

Simple. When you’re disap-pointed, you become frustrated.

When you can’t reach your hopes you’re stricken with the mentality that you have the inability to change your fate. You think,“Oh no, it’s prob-ably the hundredth time I’ve tried to reach my goal. I just can’t do it!”

Just because you’ve failed a hun-dred times, doesn’t mean you won’t succeed the hundred-and-first time.

When we don’t reach our expec-tations, it is totally justified that we get disappointed. They’re part of life. But what is important is we pick our-selves up and continue on our climb towards our goal. If we continue on our way to success, regardless how many times we are knocked down, maybe we’d reach all those hopes we’d always wanted to reach. “Be-lieve you can,” Theodore Roosevelt said, “and you’re halfway there.”

We may lose all material posses-sions, but one of the things we should never allow to be taken from us is hope. Because when we’re at the low-est point of our lives, that is when we need hope the most. For hope is look-ing beyond the sorrows and focusing on the horizon. Hope is knowing that after night comes a brand new morn-ing to start over again. Hope is push-ing through beyond the hardships and knowing that no matter what, there is always a bright future ahead of us.

We’ve all been disappointed. We’ve all experienced frustration. But let’s make it a habit to say to ourselves, “Though I may be defeated this time, this is not my last battle. I still have strength to forge on. I have more battles to fight, and though I may be knocked down by unexpected circumstances, I am going to hold my head high and carry on.”

“The size of your success is mea-sured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you han-dle disappointment along the way.”#

* - Je suis means I am.

DéçuA short essay about hope.

CAMPUS NEWS

Math and Science Month Crossword

Answers!

Down1. therefore2. viscosity4. Votmeter7. square9. Ampere

Across3. sigma5. decimal6. meiosis

8. latent heat10. delta

Coordinators for Elementary School

Ms. Gydabelle B. NavalConsultants

Dr. Geronimo R. Salem Jr.

Ang TanglawEditorial Board and Staff

2015-2016Editor-in-Chief

Layout Editor

Section Editor

Managing Editor

Associate Editors

Wrenz Luwi M. Ouano

Dawn Cyrill B. Aldave

Arkiel G. Ventican

Brentt Russel R. NervesJovianne A. Francisco

Renato Miguel F. Tabinas

Layout Artist Maria Carmella R. Solido

Elementary WritersFranco Martin A. TagayunDrake Jedidiah R. EngcotJohanna Denise V. Fuellas

Jamie Abbygale R. BanhaonJan Agatha S. ArosaShanley Ann C. Jamil

ModeratorMr. Ronneil U. Vergara

Dr. Ferdinand J. EpocHigh School Principal

Elementary School Principal

School Director

Mrs. Melinda C. DaranganMrs. Lina H. Al-Hariri

News Writers

Mohammad Essa S. AwilGrant Abriel R. Amandy

James B. EllosoEvangeline Neal P. Sales

Nichole V. Bedrejo

Cartoonists

Photojournalists Jamie Jireh T. OmapoyZainab Esmail Abdulrasool

David Isaiah D. TiongsonCamille Kimberly A. Aycardo

Mrs. Ruth M. Orense

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YANDERE SIMULATOR:Senpai doesn’t notice you?

No problem! In this game, he surely will. Yandere Simulator is a stealth action video game in development by YandereDev. It’s a sandbox game where you have to play as a school-girl who is very obsessed with her crush. However, you are not playing a regular character here. You will play the role of a sweet but sinister girl whose main motives is to kill every girl who also likes Senpai-kun. The character (player) in this game will do everything and anything to get Senpai’s love. So, basically the whole point of the game is pretty obvious. You have to kill other rivals for Senpai’s attention. To do so, you are obliged to [SPOILER REDACTED] raise Charisma points and take classes to help you in the game. The visuals were satisfactory, at least. It was like a standard MMD an-imation complete with the oh-so-frequent glitches and rather unappealing backgrounds (for the first parts). But, neverthe-less, the plot of the story was quite amusing. Nothing much was there but it was okay. Overall: 2 out of 5

Reference: <yanderedev.wordpress.com> and <yandere-simulator.en.softonic.com>

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6. an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol

of something else

7. type or category to which a literary work belongs

8. extreme exaggeration to add meaning

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the words in a phrase

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complete proposition, consists of a subject and a

predicate

4. is the use of more words or parts of words than is

necessary for clear expression

9. phrase that consists of two words that are

contradictory: “living dead” or “Microsoft works”

10. is a complete pause in a line of poetry and/or in a

musical composition.

11. a collection of words in one or more specific

languages, often listed alphabetically

13. writings of a poet

Name:

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usually about imaginary characters and events

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Arvin Candare – an inspiration to young onesby Johanna Denise V. Fuellas

Arvin Candare is a 2nd grad-er in PSB. He was the lead actor in a short children’s film entitled David and Gregory. The short movie was for a church film festi-val which was held to encourage everyone to manifest Christian family values all over the world.

When Arvin and his fam-ily arrived in the Philippines for the awarding ceremony on the 31st of October 2015, he achieved the Best Actor Award. For someone as young as him, it is such a great achieve-ment that would surely make his family and friends proud.

Arvin’s achievement is worth of recognition and ad-miration by all young ones. He has proven that it doesn’t mat-ter how old or young you are.

As long as you are brave enough to try, you can attain and accomplish your goals, hopes and dreams in life.#

Batman vs. Superman by David Tiongson

FEATURE

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PSB joins ASRY Beach Clean-up to spread environmental awarenessby Jamie Jireh T. Omapoy and Renato Miguel F. Tabinas The Discover Islam conduct-

ed a beach clean-up last October 30 and November 28 joined by Fil-ipinos from different organizations including our PSB facultymem-bers and PSB Student Leaders, the Student Council and Batasang Pambata, at ASRY (Arab Ship-ping Repair Yard) Beach.

The participants were grouped into colored teams like Gold, Sil-ver, Pink, Blue, etc. to make an organized clean-up. They were given gloves, masks, caps, plastic bags and some rakes to aid them in the process. After a few hours of cleaning, all were given snacks and left ASRY beach clean just as a vacuum cleaner went past it.

This clean-up drive was held to bring environmental awareness and to set an ex-ample for the beach goers.#

NEWS FEATURE

The Philippine Schools Over-

seas (PSO) launched a poster-mak-

ing contest for Filipino students of

Philippine Schools overseas in time

for the celebration of the Month of

Overseas Filipinos (MOF) and In-

ternational Migrants Day in Decem-

ber. The contest was announced on

October 15, 2015 and ended on No-

vember 15, 2015. Themed “Over-

seas Filipino Youth: Thinking Glob-

ally, Acting Locally”, this contest

aims to encourage Filipino youth

overseas to be engaged with the

Filipino communities in their host

countries as well as to educate

them of the importance of giving

back to their homeland; to discover

and to recognize the artistic talents

of the students. Philippine Schools

around the Gulf such as Philippine

School Bahrain, Philippine Interna-

tional School Qatar, Al Dura Inter-

national School, etc. participated.

One of Philippine School

Bahrain’s participants, Jamie

Abbygale R. Banhaon, from

Grade 6-Marangal was includ-

ed in the Special Citations.#

Overseas Filipino Youth: Thinking Globally, Acting Lo-cally: PSB joins overseas poster-making competitionTogether we pun,

divided we fallA compilation of jokes related to

United Nations Month.Nahihilo ang mga

Spaniards from Spain-ing around.

Hindi pa ba napapagod ang Romans from Rome-ing

around?

The fastest country is Belize.

At the UN conference:“Uy, okay ka lang ba?”

“Oo, Iceland ako.”

Marami sigurong na-iinhale ang mga British. They always

Britain.

Philippines vs. Malaysia: “Kung Malaysia, tama ako!”

Credits to Anchor Nemo: Enrico Paolo C., John Kenneth R. Ian Dwight V., Mariv-ic Z., Dawn Cyrill A., Wrenz Luwi O.

by Wrenz Luwi M. Ouano

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CAMPUS NEWS

KG and Elementary Pupils celebrate United Nations Monthby Jan Agatha S. Arosa

The Kindergarten and El-ementary pupils celebrated the United Nations Month on the 4th, 5th, and 8th of November 2015. The highlight of the celebration was the pageant, where the differ-ent sections represented various countries from around the world. They showcased their talents, danced in their costumes and ex-uded confidence in their catwalk.

The celebration started with the “PARADE of NATIONS” of the Kindergarten pupils. During the program, the LKG and HKG pu-pils presented different intermis-sion numbers of their assigned countries. Soon after, there was an awarding of the Best in Cos-tume for the representatives of each section who wore the na-tive and traditional clothing. The program finally concluded with a delicious meal from the Food

Festival held in the classrooms.

The celebration continued the next day for the Primary Grades Department. Like the Kindergar-ten, it also started with the “PA-RADE of NATIONS” highlighting the costumes of different countries. After that, each section presented dances, songs and its interpreta-tion. The winners of each assigned country were soon awarded and recognized with certificates. Mrs. Gracielli G. Ancheta closed the program with a message about the United Nations Month for the year.

Finally, it was the turn of the Intermediate Grades to celebrate the United Nations Month. Same with the Primary and Kindergarten Grades, the celebration also start-ed with a parade, showing their traditional costumes. The magic began in the PSB Courtyard, where each section representing different

countries showed their talents like dancing, singing, acting and more. Many were amazed by what each representative has done. It was the day that confi-dence stood up and changed the image of each student. Later on, certificates were awarded to stu-dents who stood out in different categories. Some were titled as the Best in Costume, Friendship, Talent, Most Creative, Darling of the Crowd and more. Four pairs were awarded as the 3rd, 2nd, 1st runner up and the overall champion. The program ended with happiness in their hearts.

The Themes: “Health Soils for a Healthy Life” and “Strong United Nations: Better World” integrated the lessons of dif-ferent subjects. These themes are indicating that a Strong Uni-ty, Leads to a Better Future.#

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CAMPUS NEWSStudents and teachers travel the world in United Nations activitiesby Nichole V. Bedrejo and Jovianne A. Francisco

The United Nations Month is a well awaited event for everyone around the world. It reminds us that we all stand as a team despite the circumstances that we are all in. Stu-dents of Philippine School (Bahrain) took part in celebrating the United Nations Day with the theme: “Strong United Nations: Better World”. The activities associated with United Na-tions include Historical Figure Im-personation, T-Shirt Print Design, Bulletin Board Design, Sojourn, and Mr. and Ms. United Nations.

Before the list of events was put into play, the different sections drew lots on the country they would repre-sent in the Sojourn and the Mr. and Ms. United Nations. The Grade 7 and 8 students chose from Asian coun-tries, Grade 9 students from Europe, and Grade 10 from South America.

Section Country Represented

7 – Mahinahon Turkey

7 – Maalalahanin India

7 – Mapagmahal Malaysia

8 – Mapamaraan Japan

8 – Makasining South Korea

8 – Malikhain China

9 – Mapagpunyagi Norway

9 – Makatarungan Denmark

9 – Mapagkakatiwalaan France

10 – Mapaglingkod Brazil

10 – Mapagkalinga Argentina

10 – Mapagkawanggawa Peru

The goal of the activity, “Historical Figure Impersonation”, was that each section should choose a representa-tive who will impersonate their as-signed historical figure such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other people. They get to dress and look like them.

Another activity was the “UN Sojourn” wherein each section decorated their classrooms in live-ly designs and vivid representa-tions of their respected nations. A chance to ‘tour the world’ by vis-iting their themed rooms, was

offered, which artfully ex-pressed the diverse traditions and customs around the world.

During the culminating activi-ties last December 9, students were dressed in bright and colorful nation-al costumes which were exhibited through a parade. The highlight of the celebration was a pageant titled “Mr. & Ms. United Nations” that exhibited the talents of student representatives which they creatively incorporated to show cultures of their chosen country.

Both from Grade 10 – Mapaglingkod representing the country Brazil, Gene-va Louise R. Nacar and Ian Dwight M. Villarojo, were crowned Mr. and Ms. United Nations. Jet Eder V. Cabanela, from 9 – Mapagpunyagi, and Maryam Fuad Jamal, from 10 – Mapagkalinga won Best in Costume, David Baroquiel L. Battung, from 7 – Mahinahon and Geneva Louise R. Nacar won Mr. and Ms. Photogenic, respectively, and Jet Eder V. Cabanela and Geneva Lou-ise R. Nacar won Best in Talent.#

Historical Figure Impersonation

T-Shirt Print Design

Bulletin Board Design

Mr. and Ms. United

NationsSojourn

Grade 7Mark Vincent V. Agace-

ta, 7-Mahinahon7-Mahinahon

7-MahinahonGeneva

Louise R. Nacar(Brazil) & Ian Dwight M. Villarojo

(Brazil)

7-Mahinahon

Grade 8Jireh Angel J. Burlat,

8-Mapamaraan8-Mapamaraan 8-Mapamaraan

Grade 9Arkiel G. Ventican, 9-Mapagpunyagi

9-Mapagpunyagi

10-Mapag-kawanggawa

9-Mapagpu-nyagi

Grade 10Ali Esmail Abdulrasool,

10-Mapagkalinga10-Mapagling-

kod10-Mapagka-

linga

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CAMPUS NEWS

KG and Elementary School Pupils celebrate the National Reading Monthby Johanna Denise V. Fuellas

During the month of No-vember, the National Reading Month, one of the most important programs in the school was cel-ebrated. This activity highlighted the importance of reading. Just like the previous celebrations, the National Reading Month was held with various activities and contests that are fun and at the same time educational.

During the culminating activ-ity, the Kindergarten pupils also had a book character parade, wearing the costumes of their favourite fairy-tale character. Afterwards, presentations were showcased for the intermission number as entertainment. The Primary Grades pupils paraded their costumes from the char-acters of Mariang Makiling for Grade 1, Little Red Riding Hood for Grade 2, and Sid the Seed for Grade 3 as the output of their lessons in literature. Certificates were soon awarded to recognize the winners of the story retelling contest and spelling contest.

Like the lower grade lev-els, the Intermediate Grades pupils paraded around the school campus, along with the outputs and activities they had in their English classes, like apron characters from folktales and Etymology cos-tumes. Contests like Spelling and Quiz Bees were also held to enhance the students’ skills in vocabulary. The winners of the contests were awarded with certificates of recognition.

Indeed, this celebra-tion can help the students of the school to have fun and learn a lot at the same time.#

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CAMPUS NEWS

Grade 5 Symposium with Guest Speaker: Andy Blanco

“Listen through your heart and communicate through your brain.” Those were the words of Mr. Andy Alexander Salandy Blan-co, a guest speaker for the 5th Grade pupils. On Octo-ber 7,2015 , Mr. Andy vis-ited these young learners for a symposium which was held in Economics Building.

“Mr. Andy Alexander Salandy Blanco is one of the most inspiring men we have met”, as said by Shan-ley Jamil, a Grade 5 stu-dent. Mr. Andy taught them how to speak confidently in public. He had different tips that are useful for the young learners like them. One of his tips is to study with pas-sion and believe in ourselves that we can do anything be-cause nothing is impossible.

Every word we say is im-portant because it may affect a person’s personality. It is sharper than a sword because it can hurt someone’s feel-ings.” These words inspired many young learners to speak confidently with respect.

To have a guest speaker like Mr. Andy is such a privi-lege for the students of the 5th grade. He taught them the im-portance of speech and how we can make good use of it.#

by Johanna Denise Fuellas and Jan Agatha Arosa

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“Nasa Pagbasa ang Pag-asa”; students celebrate the love for reading by Arkiel G. Ventican and Grant Abriel R. Amandy

CAMPUS NEWS

This year, the High School celebrated a very energetic and memorable National Reading Month, with the theme, “Nasa Pagbasa ang Pag-asa”. There were different and brand-new activities lined up for the cele-bration, ranging from the class-room-based to the culminating activity held last December 9.

Of course, like all the cul-minating activities before, the bulletin board making contest was part of the activities. One of the classroom-based activ-ities was the Reading Corner. Each section brought books from different genres to place in

one corner of their classroom, where students who were in-terested in reading them could borrow them. Another new as-pect of the activities was the variation for the grade levels; the Grade 7s competed in the recitation of declamation piec-es, the Grade 8s oration, for the Grade 9s poem-writing, and the Grade 10s had to write an essay.

Lastly, during the culmi-nating activities, the students received recognitions for the various activities, alongside to it was the spelling bee finals between the Grades 7 and 8, and the Grades 9 and 10.#

Morning Melodies bring joy to students’ earsby Jovianne A. Francisco & Camille Kimberly A. Aycardowith the help of Sarah Rebekah L. Cruz, Grade 10 Representative

The Student Council im-plemented a program entitled Morning Melodies in order to bring a bit of joy in every stu-dent’s stressful life at school. This program aims to bring the mood up for everyone at school: not just limiting it to students, but also for teachers and other higher authorities as well. An individual can request a song for just 100 fils, and can even add a dedication or a message

for 200 fils. Song requests may be in any language and genre, as long as it does not contain any vulgar or obscene lyrics.

All students have to do is to approach their respective grade’s representative before forms run out, and voila! Their song will be played using the school’s speakers from be-tween 6:30-7:00AM, excluding days with morning assemblies.#

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