FOREWORDFor centuries, mankind has quenched its insatiable thirst for knowing the unknown through discovery. Equipped with specialized tools and navigation expertise, we embarked on special journeys across the whole wide world in a vigorous search to experience the yet-to-beexperienced. The well-awaited return to onsite classes mimics these great expeditions of yesteryear. After over two years of virtual education, we Monarchs have become the pioneers of traversing an alien land: the great outdoors. Voyages into strange and unfamiliar territory have now taken the form of walking down campus corridors — the notebooks and backpacks as our travel gear.
Page 8NEWS The joyful event ended with an inspiring message from the Grades 10-12 Deputy Principal, Ms. January Guiterrez, which was then followed by a photo opportunity to preserve this momentous occasion.
FEATURES22 BEFORE & AFTER ELECTIONS: GET TO KNOW SOME OF THIS YEAR’S STUDENT COUNCIL CANDIDATES by Juan Lobien and Martha Pinca The SISC Student Council glues the Southville community together by making Monarchs' opinions and ideas heard. Yearly, they spearhead schoolwide activities and events, and encapsulate citizenship and leadership to the student body. As the school year commences, Monarchs need to elect the next set of leaders to shoulder this heavy responsibility.
FEATURES25 “As part of the Student Council, I will do my best to support the plans of the council and will pursue mine as well with the support of our adviser and other officers,” Marcus remarked.
FEATURES26 4 TIPS TO ACE YOUR NEXT EXAM by Ehra Gail P. Dizon
FEATURES27 5CS BEYOND ACADEMICS: THE 2022 FASTBALL TOURNAMENT by Martha Pinca, Chiara Hernandez, Juan Lobien
FEATURES28 Like any other competition, winning was one of the team’s main objectives, but so was the essence of teamwork. The tournament had no restrictions on experience or expertise, “so the biggest adjustment that our team made inside the court was trusting one another, especially those who don’t really play volleyball. The event was a success with its objective and I’m sure the students, teachers, and even coaches relished the competition.”
FEATURES29 THE STUDENT GUIDEBOOK: THE ULTIMATE LISTS OF APPS FOR STUDENTS by Isabela Castillo When it comes to apps for us students, you can find a lot of them in the app store. But how do you pick the rightWhen it comes to apps for us students, you can find a lot of them in the app store. But how do you pick the rightWhen it comes to apps for us students, you can find a lot of them in the app store. But how do you pick the right ones?ones?ones? The Student Guidebook makes a comeback as we are nearing the middle of our second term. Lots have happenedThe Student Guidebook makes a comeback as we are nearing the middle of our second term. Lots have happenedThe Student Guidebook makes a comeback as we are nearing the middle of our second term. Lots have happened just a few months into the school year and I’m here to share with you some apps that can help you start your nextjust a few months into the school year and I’m here to share with you some apps that can help you start your nextjust a few months into the school year and I’m here to share with you some apps that can help you start your next term right.term right.term right.
FEATURES33 SADNESS OVER FEAR: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Dominic "Bryle" Tayzon
FEATURES34 If there’s one thing we can learn from this show, it’s that if we don’t try to change and make up for our mistakes, we’ll be bound to make them again and live in a never ending cycle and be as trapped as the family.
FEATURES35 For instance, the scene where the ghost of Poppy Hill does that creepy rhyme. That scene had a really good set-up! It was creepy, the music was on point, the performances were convincing, but the problem was what happened after. In that same scene, the ghost of Olivia just shows up and tells Poppy to leave him alone, and Poppy basically says:
FEATURES36 SOUL SAUCE: SHIFTING ONE'S BELIEFS AND MINDSETS by Hagia Sophia Catimbang
FEATURES37 Words are incredibly sacred and important. Our fundamental beliefs form in our early years, with our family’s perspective and attitude towards certain subjects being the building blocks of our own belief system, helping us mold and form ideas and thoughts of our own as we mature. They can range from positive (empowering, optimistic), to negative (bashful, demotivating), and everything in between. Once they’ve been introduced to us, they slowly become ingrained into our minds and dig deeper the more we are exposed to them without question. Soon they become our dominant thoughts— like a record playing on loop in the back of our minds.
FEATURES38 As seen in the example, these negative thoughts bring about nothing good and only diminish our self-worth. We give up on what we truly wish for, to avoid danger and settle for the expected. But why would you let yourself get beaten up? Why would you stop believing in yourself because others don’t?
LITERATURE42 -sually features a character — traditionally a young girl — who gets trapped in an unfamiliar world, her main goal being to escape and return to her “normal world.” This term is derived from Lewis Caroll’s Fantasy Novel, Alice in Wonderland (1865), where all its elements were born. Another early story that uses this is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Like Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy gets lost in a world she’s unfamiliar with (Oz) and has a desire to leave it.
LITERATURE43 HOPEFUL FOGGINESS by Ruth Yhsabel A. Sanchez
LITERATURE44 HOPE DERIVED FROM A CHICKEN EGG by Daphne Soriano if this were a sad poem, i’d write: the egg i used to make my sunny side up came from a mother hen who never got to be with her child.
LITERATURE45 maybe in the pen that she lived in with a hundred others, she got to connect with other mother hens. maybe they would click their beaks and talk — talk about the world, their children, about things that ruffle their feathers. maybe the farm she’s from fed her enough to be healthy and live long, and the person assigned to her pen cared a lot about her. maybe that person would pet the hens in her pen everyday and their voice would get high-pitched like when you’d talk to babies. maybe there is love and good in the world, like how maybe she was able to sit on her eggs and warm them up before they were taken from her. maybe that was her last act of motherly love.
ARTWORK50 ASTRAY IN THE CAVES by Lauren Masilungan
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