It is UAAP basketball season once again and members of our household are excited over the ongoing games especially when there is an Ateneo --La Salle game. You see all my four children are La Sallians while Thelma and I are De La Salle Graduate School alumni – Thelma in MBA and me in MS Counseling. So you can be sure that we are all glued to the television set during games of these two schools.
This year La Salle is a heavy underdog with its team being composed mostly of young rookies who may be promising but not yet fully ready for the very competitive seniors game in the UAAP. Ateneo, meanwhile, has retained its champion team from last year.
La Salle almost beat Ateneo in their first round game last Sunday, but their inexperienced showed towards the end. They lost by a slim margin in overtime. They are playing again this Sunday, and we all hope against hope, this young La Salle team will pull off an upset.
Occasionally, my daughter Mae would tease me that I should be rooting for Ateneo instead of La Salle because of my links to Ateneo. In a way she is right. I have links to Ateneo, having had a Jesuit education in my seminary years and even later in life. I am therefore steeped in the ways of “Ratio Studiorum”, the Jesuit official plan of education all over the world.
I am an alumnus of the Jesuit-run San Jose Seminary that is now a permanent fixture in the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University. The seminary transferred to its present location at the Ateneo campus sometime in the early seventies from what is now the QC General Hospital in Project 8, Quezon City. After getting my AB Philosophy degree in San Jose Seminary, I continued my Theology studies at Loyola School of Theology in Ateneo. And when I retired from the corporate world, I also obtained a Diploma in Family Counseling in 2003 from the Center for Family Ministries (an adjunct institution of Loyola School of Theology) located also at the Ateneo campus.
Personally, I feel that my links to Ateneo are merely of the “extended” kind (as in an extended family or “sampid lang”), and therefore not real to consider myself “blue blooded”.
My links to La Salle (De La Salle College, at that time), however, are so deeply and strongly personal that they remain with me to this day. My year and a half of stay at La Salle, no matter how hectic, were full of experiences that eventually shaped my future from then on.
And so I say, “Go, La Salle!”
This year La Salle is a heavy underdog with its team being composed mostly of young rookies who may be promising but not yet fully ready for the very competitive seniors game in the UAAP. Ateneo, meanwhile, has retained its champion team from last year.
La Salle almost beat Ateneo in their first round game last Sunday, but their inexperienced showed towards the end. They lost by a slim margin in overtime. They are playing again this Sunday, and we all hope against hope, this young La Salle team will pull off an upset.
Occasionally, my daughter Mae would tease me that I should be rooting for Ateneo instead of La Salle because of my links to Ateneo. In a way she is right. I have links to Ateneo, having had a Jesuit education in my seminary years and even later in life. I am therefore steeped in the ways of “Ratio Studiorum”, the Jesuit official plan of education all over the world.
I am an alumnus of the Jesuit-run San Jose Seminary that is now a permanent fixture in the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University. The seminary transferred to its present location at the Ateneo campus sometime in the early seventies from what is now the QC General Hospital in Project 8, Quezon City. After getting my AB Philosophy degree in San Jose Seminary, I continued my Theology studies at Loyola School of Theology in Ateneo. And when I retired from the corporate world, I also obtained a Diploma in Family Counseling in 2003 from the Center for Family Ministries (an adjunct institution of Loyola School of Theology) located also at the Ateneo campus.
Personally, I feel that my links to Ateneo are merely of the “extended” kind (as in an extended family or “sampid lang”), and therefore not real to consider myself “blue blooded”.
My links to La Salle (De La Salle College, at that time), however, are so deeply and strongly personal that they remain with me to this day. My year and a half of stay at La Salle, no matter how hectic, were full of experiences that eventually shaped my future from then on.
And so I say, “Go, La Salle!”
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