In a couple of days, the first PANA champions would be marching out of Assumption. I remembered vividly how I said goodbye last year just to see them once again this year for their final term.
I knew the moment we hit the classroom that I was going to be attached again.... and I did.
Last Saturday, I somehow tried to give them my farewell spiel but the words did not come out right. I fumbled and mumbled. Somehow and maybe someday, they would read this and know what I really intended to tell them.
"Somehow I find the meaning of defending champions queer. Even in the field of basketball or athletics, the defending champion does not have anything to lose. Simply because they have won the title already.
In our world, a national title was brought home from the halls of PANA to the shelves of Comm Dept. Funny how people always feel that a title can be taken away.
That PANA title is yours to keep. It is inside of you. It is in your system and no one can ever take that away. Not the comm dept who does not know how to celebrate a championship. Not the school. Not PANA and not your professors. Neither can anyone take the title national champions away from you.
You were the block who beat the best of all the other universities and you stood tall as champions.
That title within you can only be taken away if you allow it.
Don't let them. Defend it with all your might and with all your strength. Because it is with that defense that we would make ourselves beyond reach.
I have seen you grow wonderfully in Assumption. From being a newbie as 3A1 to becoming champions and now graduating students. Some of you have given that title away and a lot of you have cemented that in your soul and that I have the utmost confidence that no matter what happens, no one will and can ever take that away from you. Because it is YOU.
I am so damn proud of you... being your prof and being your friend. In my lowest days, I embrace our times and memories and it never fails to make me feel great again.
As of now, you are already better people than me in a lot of ways. And I am sure that as long as the winds of fate will blow, you will fly higher than anyone.
The road will not be easy. It is full of bumps and you would get a lot of bruises. But as long as you get up stronger and better, the bumps would be like required life lessons in life. Learn from it and emerge mightier.
I have some requests.
Please do not make our experience in AC / PANA the highlight of your life. It may be one of ours but it should not be our only one. You are young and have a lot of heights to scale. Make this a springboard to greater distance and a comfort thought when you need it.
Please keep that soul intact and come what may, we would always be here to support you and I would always have an ear to listen and a heart to advise.
Please do visit us once in a while when you have time. I will sorely miss having our class but I will also sorely miss being your friend. Keep in touch. I want to know that is happening with you and you can be sure that I will be telling 3A1 07-08/ 4A1 08-09 / champions block tales to all the classes I would be teaching as one of my best classes ever.
Camille was right when she said that I would never forget you. I won't. Maybe not ever. I am sure that our PANA moments would be something I would bring to the after life and still brag about it. After all, you are Assumption's and my first PANA champions and no one can ever change that.
In the song, the trouble with hello is goodbye.... the trouble with goodbye only happens when you have fallen so deeply in love with a class.
And loving A1, I always will.....
When I say thank you for all the memories, moments and friendship, it would be a severe understatement. How your block has affected me as a person can never be replaced or upstaged. It is solely ours.
But from the bottom of my Chinese heart, thank you for redeeming what others have tarnished -- my love for coaching PANA and my passion to teach students until actualization (brand man)".
Thank you for being my confidant. In times before you, I always have dreamed of a block with a character of yours. Thank you for making me realize that dream for 3 semesters.
And no amount of THANK YOUs would be sufficient for giving me a lot of things to smile about in this lifetime.
I knew the moment we hit the classroom that I was going to be attached again.... and I did.
Last Saturday, I somehow tried to give them my farewell spiel but the words did not come out right. I fumbled and mumbled. Somehow and maybe someday, they would read this and know what I really intended to tell them.
"Somehow I find the meaning of defending champions queer. Even in the field of basketball or athletics, the defending champion does not have anything to lose. Simply because they have won the title already.
In our world, a national title was brought home from the halls of PANA to the shelves of Comm Dept. Funny how people always feel that a title can be taken away.
That PANA title is yours to keep. It is inside of you. It is in your system and no one can ever take that away. Not the comm dept who does not know how to celebrate a championship. Not the school. Not PANA and not your professors. Neither can anyone take the title national champions away from you.
You were the block who beat the best of all the other universities and you stood tall as champions.
That title within you can only be taken away if you allow it.
Don't let them. Defend it with all your might and with all your strength. Because it is with that defense that we would make ourselves beyond reach.
I have seen you grow wonderfully in Assumption. From being a newbie as 3A1 to becoming champions and now graduating students. Some of you have given that title away and a lot of you have cemented that in your soul and that I have the utmost confidence that no matter what happens, no one will and can ever take that away from you. Because it is YOU.
I am so damn proud of you... being your prof and being your friend. In my lowest days, I embrace our times and memories and it never fails to make me feel great again.
As of now, you are already better people than me in a lot of ways. And I am sure that as long as the winds of fate will blow, you will fly higher than anyone.
The road will not be easy. It is full of bumps and you would get a lot of bruises. But as long as you get up stronger and better, the bumps would be like required life lessons in life. Learn from it and emerge mightier.
I have some requests.
Please do not make our experience in AC / PANA the highlight of your life. It may be one of ours but it should not be our only one. You are young and have a lot of heights to scale. Make this a springboard to greater distance and a comfort thought when you need it.
Please keep that soul intact and come what may, we would always be here to support you and I would always have an ear to listen and a heart to advise.
Please do visit us once in a while when you have time. I will sorely miss having our class but I will also sorely miss being your friend. Keep in touch. I want to know that is happening with you and you can be sure that I will be telling 3A1 07-08/ 4A1 08-09 / champions block tales to all the classes I would be teaching as one of my best classes ever.
Camille was right when she said that I would never forget you. I won't. Maybe not ever. I am sure that our PANA moments would be something I would bring to the after life and still brag about it. After all, you are Assumption's and my first PANA champions and no one can ever change that.
In the song, the trouble with hello is goodbye.... the trouble with goodbye only happens when you have fallen so deeply in love with a class.
And loving A1, I always will.....
When I say thank you for all the memories, moments and friendship, it would be a severe understatement. How your block has affected me as a person can never be replaced or upstaged. It is solely ours.
But from the bottom of my Chinese heart, thank you for redeeming what others have tarnished -- my love for coaching PANA and my passion to teach students until actualization (brand man)".
Thank you for being my confidant. In times before you, I always have dreamed of a block with a character of yours. Thank you for making me realize that dream for 3 semesters.
And no amount of THANK YOUs would be sufficient for giving me a lot of things to smile about in this lifetime.
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