Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011) poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.

Tiempo was born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Her poems are intricate verbal transfiguration of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fiction, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.

She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

Novels

• A Blade of Fern (1978)
• His Native Coast (1979)
• One, Tilting Leaves
• The Alien Corn (1992)
• The Builder (2004)
• The Jumong (2006)

Short stories

• Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)
• The Corral

Poetry

• The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
• The Charmer's Box and Other Poet (1993)
• Marginal Annotations and Other Poems
• Inside Job
• In the beginning
• The Return

Honors and award

• National Artist Award for Literature (1999)
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
• Cultural Center of the Philippines (1979, First Prize in Novel)
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (1988)

Parasyte

We watched Parasyte at AVR. At first, I thought it was a Korean movie because of their faces. I forgot that Japan is well-known as the anime creator. This movie is about the parasites who wants to rule and exist in the world as a human. It's such a gross movie because they eat the head of humans and they kill humans, but it was an amazing movie too.

I almost cry when the head of Shinichi's mother taken by A (a parasite). When Shinichi's mother got home, she is not Shinichi's mother anymore. To prove that she is not the mother of Shinichi, her head was transformed into a gross creatures and pierced his heart so that Shinichi will not be able to live anymore. I was amazed when Migi did everything just to save Shinichi's life.

I think that the girl who is also a parasite wants to experience how to live as a human in this planet Earth. She is pregnant and she knows that the baby she is bearing is a human. She wants to experience how to be a mother as a human. But the father of this child is also a parasite and he wants to eat the baby as the girl gave birth to it.
I can't wait to watch the part 2 of this movie because I want to see how the girl takes care of her own baby even if she's not a human.I also want to see what will happen now to the world when the parasites won the candidacy for being the leader in Japan. Thank you again Ms. Eliz for letting us to watch this Live Action Film. I'm looking forward to the next movie we are going to watch.

Anti-smoking Campaign

Cigarettes are consumed by millions of people every day. It is taken by people for satisfaction or for contemplation. They consume lots of it without the knowledge of it being fatal. The ubiquity of the cigarettes is what makes it dangerous so Asia Pacific College (APC) has created an anti-smoking campaign to reach to students about harmful effects of smoking. Though APC has a smoking area, which is ironic, they plan to raise awareness to students about the several effects of smoking cigarettes.

On one hand, if APC is trying to reach out to students about trying to avoid smoking, it should not have provided a smoking area for students to take cigarettes. Other students who do not smoke are being affected by the second-hand smokes of the smokers. If APC is trying hard to persuade students not to smoke, it should not have built a smoking area that can be seen by all of the students. It is like APC is trying to tell other students to take cigarettes by flaunting the smokers outside. Better yet, they should not have built it at all.

On the other hand, APC is trying to convince students to stop smoking because of its harmful effects to the body. Carcinogen, a substance that can cause cancer, is found in a cigarette. It also has tar which is dangerous for the smoker’s body. Furthermore, it creates Carbon Monoxide which is hazardous for a smoker’s health and for the non-smoker if they inhale it.

With the information given, students should be influenced not to smoke. Students try smoking because it is a way to relinquish stress they are holding, but they do not realize that they are only giving themselves more problems by means of it. It is best for students to stop trying it so badly or to detach themselves of it.

SoM Week

October 26, 2015—the beginning of a new festivity to celebrate for a whole week for this day is the

start of the School of Accountancy and Business (SoAB) Week, or what it is called now, School of Management (SoM) Week. Students who are from the SoM have united and have gathered in the premises of the parking lot of the Asia Pacific College (APC) to show their support for the aforementioned event.

SoM students start the event with a parade, which have gone from APC to Lapu-lapu Street and vice versa. The drum and lyre from the Sto. Niño Catholic School, who have led the parade, give an amazing performance with their baton-twirling movements and their playing of pop music with their instruments.

Subsequently, the students congregate to the parking lot of the school to witness the formal opening of the occasion. Miss Victoria Nañagas, who is the Executive Director of SoM, leads and does the formal opening of the event by giving a wondrous opening remarks which is applaud by the audience.

After the opening remarks and the unveiling of the SoM tarpaulin, MA151, the winner of the cheers and chants competition, has given a remarkable performance of their winning masterpiece.

Next comes the performance of the APC Dance Company (APCDC). Although there are some minimal problems with regard to the music which makes the audience wait with eagerness, the crowd goes wild when APCDC starts to execute their astounding performance. With their complicated dance moves, everyone is left speechless and astonished. This maybe the exciting part of the opening program of the SoM Week.

Lastly, the beautiful and handsome muses and escorts of different programs have shown their bright smiles and stunning faces which have left everyone amused. The ground is filled with cheers when the participants have walked with pride in the ground. The muses and escorts have sure owned the stage when they start to walk and pose for the audience. With the looks on the audience’s faces, everyone looks forward to the coronation night of the Mr. and Ms. SoM.

With heaps happened in the opening program, SoM Week is the week where there is a lot to look forward to. Everyone will certainly expect the unexpected regarding the following events that will take place.

Ang Tatay mong Kalbo

    Ang tatay mong kalbo is an absurd play that shows nonsense and being absentminded of the two main characters that makes the story funnier. It is pretty funny seeing our classmate Joshua act as the Hepe I the story. We’re proud of our batch mate because he also brings the name of our course.  Many situations in the play proved that it is absurd like, they just repeating the same words they are telling, and kept shouting and fighting over nonsense and little things. 

They usually repeat their hyperbolic words that make the play entertaining and funny. It is entertaining in a way they express their feelings and thoughts about something and on how they show exaggeration over simple things. They also have this housekeeper named Maria that makes the play funnier. Maria really feels comfortable at Mr. and Mrs. Santos house. It really entertains me especially when Maria revealed that, she and hepe are both in love. They have different traits and different attitudes but the reason that they manage to understand each other is because they feel that they are comfortable when together and having the same interest of telling tails. Ang tatay mong kalbo really brought me a happiness and good vibes. I hope that they would make more of this kind of play and entertain stressed students like us.

Turn Left Turn Right

This story is based on one of the best-selling illustrated storybooks in Asia -- Turn Left, Turn Right by Jimmy Liao.

John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is an aspiring violinist who is flocked by women like bees to honey because of his handsome face. However what he really wants is to meet someone special who appreciates his violin performance. Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) is a professional translator whose true passion is translating love poems, but for work she is stuck in translating cheesy novels and cheap thrillers which make her feel tense and frightened. Living in different units of the same apartment building and separated by one thin wall, they two have brushed shoulders in crowd hundreds times, but somehow their paths never really cross.

One day, while walking around a circular fountain in the park, they finally bump into each other. Just like a pair of long-lost lovers, John and Eve spend a beautiful afternoon together. A sudden shower cuts the encounter short. They exchange phone numbers and quickly run home. Yet fate plays a cruel joke on them, the rain has soaked through their precious scrap of paper and the phone numbers are hopelessly smudged…

Cast

• Takeshi Kaneshiro - John Liu
• Gigi Leung - Eve Choi
• Edmund Chen - Dr. Hu
• Xu Wei Lun - June
• Terri Kwan - Ruby
• Shiu Hung Hui - George
• Lam Suet - Restaurant Owner
• Lo Si Tse - Music Producer
• Te Chih Wang - Landlord
• Ku Wang Su-Chin - Landlady
• Klaus Bru - Ghoul
• Jimmy Liao
• Suk-yee Chan - Dr. Hu (voice)
• Angela Tong Ying-Ying - Ruby (voice)

Heneral Luna

 Heneral Artikulo uno

Heneral Luna is a 2015 Filipino historical biopic film depicting General Antonio Luna's leadership of the Philippine during the Philippine-American War. It opens with the beginning of hostilities with the American colonizers, and ends with the assassination of Luna on June 5, 1899 a period in which Luna served as Supreme Chief of the Army under the First Philippine Republic.

Directed by Jerrold Tarog and produced by Artikulo Uno Productions, the film received critical acclaim from critics and audiences alike, praising its cinematography, writing, acting and plot. The film has been selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.

With a production budget of 80 million pesos, it is one of the most expensive Filipino epic historical films ever released. On September 29, 2015, it broke previous record of ₱160 million to become the highest grossing Filipino historical film of all time. Despite a 50% discount offered student viewers,^[8] by the beginning of its fourth week the film was well on its way to reaching the₱200 million gross ticket sales. On October 11, it was officially announced that the film had reached its ₱240M breakeven point.

1898, Provence of Bulacan - President Emilio Aguinaldo (Mon Confiado) together with his Prime Minister Apolinario Mabini (Epi Quizon) and his cabinet are debating the issue of the American presence in the Philippines. Felipe Buencamino (Nonie Buencamino) and Pedro Paterno (Leo Martinez) support the American occupation, while General Antonio Luna (John Arcilla) and General José Alejandrino (Alvin Anson) wants independence for the Philippines. Luna asks the cabinet to authorize a pre-emptive strike while the Americans have yet to land their ground troops. Aguinaldo however assured his cabinet that the Americans had promised to help win freedom from their Spanish overlords. Unfortunately, the Americans have invaded key cities in Manila, indicating a possible war against the Filipinos.

Luna and his trusted comrades – General José Alejandrino, Colonel Francisco “Paco” Román (Joem Bascon), Captain Eduardo Rusca (Archie Alemania), Captain José Bernal (Alex Medina) and Colonel Manuel Bernal (Art Acuña) – embark on an arduous campaign against the invading American forces. During an intense battle against American troops led by General Arthur MacArthur Jr. (Miguel Faustmann) and General Elwell Otis (E.A. Rocha), Luna asks for reinforcements from the Kawit Battalion but its commander, Captain Pedro Janolino (Ketchup Eusebio), refuses to comply because the order did not come from President Aguinaldo himself. Luna angrily rides to Janolino's camp, humiliates him in front his men, and dismisses the battalion for insubordination. Luna then assembles an army of 4,000 soldiers by declaring his infamous "Article One", stating that all who refuse to follow his orders shall be executed without the benefit of a trial in a military court. He also forms an elite unit of sharpshooters, and assigns Lieutenant García (Ronnie Lazaro), his best marksman, as its commander.

As the war drags on, Buencamino and Paterno indicate their support of a proposal by the Americans for Philippine autonomy. Enraged by this, Luna orders their arrest. Luna’s campaign is undermined by General Tomás Mascardo (Lorenz Martinez), who opposes Luna's order for reinforcements, stating that he will only follow the President's direct orders. While the two generals are about to clash in Pampanga, the Americans advance steadily as other Filipino generals like Gregorio del Pilar (Paulo Avelino) retreat to the north. Luna visits Aguinaldo and Mabini to file his resignation, knowing that Buencamino and Paterno had been set free. Aguinaldo refuses to accept his resignation, but agrees to let Luna establish a headquarters for the Philippine Army in the north.

Later, Luna is summoned by a telegram to the President’s headquarters in Cabanatuan. Although his officers are suspicious, Luna rides to Cabanatuan, bringing only Roman and Rusca with him. Most of the soldiers had already left headquarters under President Aguinaldo's orders, with the exception of some elements of the Kawit Battalion. Luna discovers upon arrival that Aguinaldo had already left and only Buencamino remains in the office. As they exchange heated words, a single shot is fired outside. Luna investigates and encounters Captain Janolino and his men, who attack him. Luna is shot, stabbed, and hacked repeatedly to death. Román is also killed while a wounded Rusca surrenders to the Kawit soldiers. Most of Luna's remaining loyal officers are arrested, while some are killed, including the Bernal brothers.

As ordered by Aguinaldo, Luna and Roman are buried with full military honors by the Kawit Battalion - the same men who killed them. Mabini, who is among the mourners, notices a bloodied machete of one of the soldiers; however, the Kawit Battalion would be exonerated thereafter.

While American newspapers quickly blame Aguinaldo for the death of Luna, after the war an aged Aguinaldo denies his involvement on the assassination; he acknowledges Antonio Luna as his most brilliant and most capable general. MacArthur and Otis acknowledge Luna as a worthy adversary, laughing at the fact that the Filipinos killed the only real general they had.

In the mid-credits scene, General Gregorio del Pilar makes ready to cover Aguinaldo's retreat to the north. He gathers Luna's remaining men and orders his aide to select 60 of them.