So ends one year....

It is both sad and emotional to leave something you love doing and have given your most in doing for one year. One year is too short to effect a lasting change to a college or even to a department. One year is too short to even establish a perfect working and friendly relationship. I guess this one year has been one hell of a roller coatser ride; and it is a roller coaster ride I would never forget.

I have learned so much this past year both in dealing with people and in dealing with myself. I have met people who have change a lot of things about me and have inspired me to be a better person. At the same time, I have learned that I can be strong in the face of challenging circumstances and I was able to develop my own ideologies and principles in life that would help me and guide me in making decisions in the future. I have learned to be more independent at the same time learned to trust the capabilities of others.

One incoming department representative asked me, can you that you have become a better person after this term? I gave a resounding "YES". The me before is very much different from the me now. It seems like years when I recall the first time I step into the council office and yet it only feels like yesterday that we began to get to know each other.

I am feeling sort of sad and frustrated as I could only watch on as a new council take over our shoes. I feel being left behind as a new set of officers are given the reins that would lead this college's students into a new, clearer and fresher course that has a new vision and direction. You can only do so much and one year, and sometimes the feeling of not being able to do a lot of things continue to stalk the subconscius and disturb the hindbrain. I wish I did push for the establishment of EASP, I wish I defended the CS department more, I wish I spoke much more strongly for the cs students, I wish I did this and did that...

One can really do only so much in one year. I can not justify my feeling that I didn't exactly give the stellar performance that I really wanted to give and that stellar performance the students and our department deserve, but I guess history will be the judge, I guess the students who we served will be the judge, I guess I would be accountable to the department and its students and whatever lack in my performance will be a learning experience for me.

I guess, in the end of it all, whatever service or project that we offered the department and its students will be judged by the students themselves. If our projects would last, I might have been effective after all. Otherwise, well, I did my best. Not exactly my all but I guess, best is enough.

My thanks!

Thank you to the faculty of the Department of Computer Science for the effort they have given in helping us realize our dreams.

Thank you to UP Cursor for their never ending support; even with every odd against us, you have never left our side. Thanks! We owe you big time!

Thank you to the staff of Parser for their never dying enthusiasm in our plans, in supporting what we thought can not be done and being a symbol of undying service.

Thank you to UP CompSoc, UP ACM, and UnPLUG for being around during CS Week. Your support and help will always keep us going.

Thanks to the incoming CS representatives 2005-2006 for their show of service and the roles they readily took to make this CS Week successful. To Geo, Dino, Jeff and Marvin, we believe that you have great potential and you can easily match and surpass our performance as CS reps. A lot more is in store for you, just don't forget that the formula to a successful term as department representatives lies in the teamwork shown by those representatives. Help each other out and no job will fail.

Thank you to the ESC 2004-2005 for the learning experience you have given us in preparation for CS Week. It was surprisingly invaluable. For the friendship and the love for service, thanks!

Thanks Carlos for being the spirit of freshness that gives us the will to move on, for being always there and for providing your creative input on all "creative" stuff, and for being both a visionary and a realizer of dreams.

Thanks Ponch for being the calming water when typhoon its our shores, for being the money keeper, the task sink , and the jest provider, for being who you are, for knowing your limitations, and for reminding us of our obligations as students.

Thanks Chix for being the older brother in a brood of four, for leading when no one whats to lead, for making sure some details do not go unchecked, for the backup you provided when we where in the losing end of the thesis, and for being the one always looking forward and not dwelling on the mistakes.

Thank you to the entire CS studentry for being our inspiration, for being our guiding light, and for being our only source of strength. Everything we did would not have been possible if it weren't for you...

And most of all, Our deepest and sincerest and most heartfelt gratitude to the only Source of Light when we tunnel was covered with darkness.

This has been our one year. This is what we could give in one year. Thanks for the one year! Thanks for making your one year ours!