By Nanel Charisse Lacson (Grade 10 – Rizal) Memories that we build during the youthful days are influential parcels in our life. It becomes something that is engraved deep within our nature and cultivates our character. As time passes by onto the future, there may come a time where we would reminisce and relive the...Read More

By Patricia Gaille Tiu (Grade 10 – Luna) From the get-go, the prevalence of backwardness in the Philippines can be found deeply rooted in the system by which ignorance is utilized as a stepping stone to power, by which urgent issues such as poverty and scarcity are left in the dust.  In preceding administrations, we...Read More

By Lisa Anne Ong (Grade 10 – Luna) “To be honest, giving up is never an option. During the hard times when I feel like I should give up, I choose to give myself a break. When I’m tired, I sleep. When I’m sad, I talk to my friends and family. When I’m angry, I...Read More

By Divine Grace Llamas (Grade 10 – Rizal) Love can look like a sweet smile over the smell of bread Baking in the oven, for it to be served by your bed. It can look like taking time out of a busy day To watch a movie with you on a Friday Love can look...Read More

By Jumery Grace Sobrevega (Grade 10 – Rizal) Love like it’s a matter of life and death.A situation, I see myself gasping for breath.A feeling felt once in a lifetime,yet asked to be felt every time.Lost my will, my strengthcouldn’t hold it out ’til the tenth.Thoughts roam my mind, wasting time;even waves, ripples arrive at...Read More

By Patricia Gaille Tiu (Grade 10 – Luna ) Back to the time I first felt fear, a little age of sevenwith a conscience cohered. Stubborn I was,proud and complex, hard to love, and easy to vex.Yet, one day sat Iin the middle of the room all dark and dull,when a sudden gloom tore through...Read More

By Nanel Lacson (Grade 10 – Rizal) As we go through the deep and heavy paths of life, we may find it burdensome to take a step forward towards our dreams. Life always finds its way to toss hurdles onto us here and there that we find it challenging to “seize the day”. Misfortune continues...Read More

By Patricia Gaille Tiu (Grade 10 – Luna) “And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between...Read More

By Lisa Anne Ong (Grade 10 – Luna) “Debate will really guide you in life; It’s going to help you find the confidence in yourself,” said Faith Emerene Alarde, guest speaker of UPDC. To nurture young ISAers into debaters, the First Debate Seminar hosted by UPDC started at 4 p.m. on December 4 via zoom...Read More

By Lisa Anne Ong (Grade 10 – Luna) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry may have given up on his dream to be an artist; however, he never once forgot how it was like to have that ambition as a child. After four years, I read ‘The Little Prince’ again to realize that no matter how many times...Read More