Sometimes, all you need to do is have a very simple concept and execute that very well. This is what get from the team of Paolo Maceren, Felize Mendoza, Brian Espiritu, DJ Ramones, and Benjamin Tuason in the rockin’ video We Hold the Future!
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Very nicely done. Shows much hope for the future as long as these students retain their ideals. That’s one of the things I love about high school. The promise of a future based on ideals.
I just hope everyone stays here and do their part. I’ve just seen to many Pisay graduates who leave the country for fatter paychecks abroad (and some who have bummed out in college!). Differences are best made here. Now that’d be taxpayers money put to good use.
Good luck, guys. Great project you have here, Sir Martin.
Great concept! Keep your ideals burning but don’t forget to build this nation. It’s the only country we’ve got…
the video depicts the dreams of young men and women, the youth of today, who will be the leaders of tomorrow. as citizens of the country, more so scholars of the country, they should take it upon themselves to emulate the highest degree of being responsible citizens. dream big, pisay students, and be tomorrow’s leaders. meet the world!
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Keep the fire burning in our students’ heart and let its flame burn in their eyes for our country’s bright future.
Keep the fire burning in the hearts of our students and let the flame in their eyes lead our contry to a bright future.
The Future of the Philippines
No TagsA group of students from Philippine Science High School have embarked on a project entitled “Pisay Meets World”. Felize Mendoza left a comment in my post “Meet the E.K.’s” and requested to have their short video dis…
[...] Science High School. I just want to show you our project in Social Science (Pisay Meets World), We Hold the Future. It shows how students like us can make a [...]
Well, kudos for the song choice. That was pretty good. hehe.
Did I hear “operculum”?! Ahhhh… music to my ears.
Hmmm…. I just remembered sharks don’t have operculum to cover their gills. Hmmm…. I’ll just pretend I never heard it.
*whistles while walking away*
for second year high schoold students, not bad at all. i hope everybody attains their dreams.. but seeing what they could produce at their age, they already have a lot of potentials, i dont worry for them.
ps: it made me smile when i saw the image for the engineer, when i was that age, i was dreaming of buildings too and i ended up mixing chemicals. just a thought.
That video is made by 2nd Year High School students? Cool. Nice concept and very clear. Hope you guys fulfill your dreams. Keep up the good work
Success is something you have to work on and I know you guys will be able to attain it with great knowledge, courage and bravery. 
nice video!!!
it will serve as an inspiration to others
I hope these kids would hold on to the burning flame inside of them and conquer every challenge that comes in their way… Sooner or later.. they would not only succeed, but inspire and pass it on to others as well.
I’ve written something about this in my blog: http://migs.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/we-hold-the-future/
We Hold the Future
Look at this awesome film made by highschool students from Pisay. It’s their project and they did great in producing such a film.
awesome! pagbutihin nyo pa ang pag-aaral nyo mga isko’t iska. malayo pang mararating nyo. huwag lang muna kayong lumabas ng bansa agad
vote for this post at the PinoyBlogosphere.Net:
http://www.pinoyblogosphere.net/story.php?title=We-Hold-Future
Great job. Keep it up. Reach for your dreams. You know how to rock!
If you can dream it, you can do it! Good luck to all of you! You are the hope of the country, you hold the future in your hands! May the Lord bless you!
Dream big, stay focus and make everyday a step closer to your dreams. and when you’re there share it with the motherland!
Goodluck!
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thank you for viewing our video!
we’re glad that you enjoyed it 
great film!good job! Tha Scholars,the future!!
just go and break a leg everyone!!Aim high!Through your efforts,you can make all your dreams come true!!
Good luck and more power to all of you!!
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Work hard toward your dreams and when you get there always remember to spread them around. Good luck guys..
Much as I want to comment on the content of the video, YouTube taking like forever to load on my 52kbps Blast-powered connection at home where I write this in this unholy hour. What more if it’s already daytime and there are more people competiting for this very narrow pipe.
Anyway, let me just congratulate Martin Perez for demonstrating the potential of blogging as a teaching tool. I already posted somewhere in my blog a vision of seeing all public school students in Naga blogging to their hearts content.
IT investments in the public school system are fine. But only a teacher who is comfortable with technology and makes the most out of these tools to point his students towards the limitless possibilities available can accelerate the process.
I’ll add you in my blogroll, and hope to inspire our local teachers to do the same.:)
Thanks for viewing our Social Studies project people! I’m glad because many of you gave a comment on this.
Sayang ang oras ko dito. Ang hirap kasi pag nag-a-attempt ang mga “science” people na gumawa ng mga bagay na dapat ay ginagawa lang ng “arts” people.
Kawawa naman ang YouTube. Ginagawang host ng mga walang kwentang video na katulad nito.
nice site…keep it up
If Artsy Fartsy happen to visit here again, I would like him or her to read my post, click the link.
You don’t know what this project is about, dummy.
Artsy Fartsy, all I have to say is…
Damn, people like you who have what you call “superiority complex” are still alive.
You do not know what this project is all about. This project is our method of expressing our dreams, and of showcasing what we can give the world in the future!
And you’re saying scientists cannot get into the arts? Now watch your words. Creativity is not just exclusive to you people of the arts. Creativity has never been exclusive to the people of the arts! See our curriculum, and you will know that creativity is one crucial part of our survival. Every quarter we have a lot of projects. I cannot dare enumerate all those that we did for this year because it’s simply too many.
But the ratio of creative projects to extremely scientific projects in one schoolyear for a sophomore of the PSHS is at about 7:1. And we definitely get higher grades in that part of 7.
You say that the videos of my batchmates are senseless? You say that the podcasts in the project are worthless? You say that the blogs of the project are cheap? Come on. All you have to do is to see the fact that this project is our expression of what we want to be and what we want to give to the Philippines in the future.
I’d like to say sorry to Sir Martin about this comment. I just feel extremely offended about Artsy Fartsy’s comment. Thanks for the consideration, sir.
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uhm, reply to artsy fartsy’s comment:
you’re narrow-minded; you weat too specialized ’spectacles’. I do believe that at some point in our lives (maybe after college), it’ll be harder to shift from realm A to realm B, but there are perils in overspecialization. And, I’m sorry to say that one such peril is people stopping to appreciate what other disciplines do.
I’m a scientist. I’m a photojournalist. I’m combining two realms into one: I do digital photography. I’m a concrete evidence that science people can also engage in art things. Want more examples? Look at Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Newton.. Want modern ones? How about Cy Tamura, a PSHS scholar but also an accomplished artist (the ‘promil’ kid). Myra Picart is also a PSHS student. Kiel Granada, the singer, is a PSHS graduate. Ramon Miranda, the former PSHS director, even went to MIT but is an accomplished violinist. How about Ms. Soriano, a physicist who’s into art restoration..? She’s using methods in physics to restore destroyed artwork.
So, how can you say that “Ang hirap kasi pag nag-a-attempt ang mga “science” people na gumawa ng mga bagay na dapat ay ginagawa lang ng “arts” people”???
Need I say more..?
Look around, my friend. Remove the spectacles that restrict you from appreciating the wider world…
Collaboration among disciplines is what we need to advance this country’s economy. Specialization is ages away –> bulok na ang specialiation!
Woah. Easy there, everyone.
I thank Artsy Fartsy for the comment as it got this thread alive and gave me more hits today. I have read your comment earlier (6AM) but declined to comment. I found it unfounded and disconnected from reality, that is why I kept silent. I didn’t want to give you the power you didn’t have.
But I am well aware that others would see it and comment.
Felize, you raised a good point. I wonder if Artsy Fartsy has any idea of what this project is about. I’m sure people like RD Bolinas and Prince Javier will take AF’s comment personally since they are artists. Also, the ASS team and the Scholar-do teams won’t be amused at all.
Still, let’s watch our tone, people. Calling people ‘dummies’ is a step in the wrong direction.
Jejo, I admire your love for the project but I have to caution you. I have read Artsy Fartsy’s comment several times and nowhere do I see a reaction against the videos, podcasts, blogs in the manner you said. In a public forum such as this, don’t put words in people’s keyboards. If Arts Fartsy would read your post, I am sure he’ll have enough reason to call you, Jejo, the dummy.
And Ivan, thank you for the comment. You have an excellent point and make perfect sense. This is the kind of reply that makes for a healthy debate on the internet.
Let this be a lesson to all of us on what kind of forum the internet really is. We hear from people without knowing who they are or what their intentions are. Who are we to say what Artsy Fartsy really thinks or intends? All we have to go by are his words which I don’t find powerful at all.
As a rule of thumb, there are two rules on the internet if you want to be up for healthy debate:
(a) leave your real name and/or e-mail, or if not,
(b) link to your website
Without either one, you’re just as good as spam to me.
Okay sir, thanks for the lesson.
to sir martin:
“I thank Artsy Fartsy for the comment as it got this thread alive and gave me more hits today. I have read your comment earlier (6AM) but declined to comment. I found it unfounded and disconnected from reality, that is why I kept silent. I didn’t want to give you the power you didn’t have.”
–> i realize your point, sir.. I just wanted other people to realize the implications of AF’s comment, from my point of view..
No problem at all, Ivan. Your point of view deserves to be heard. I don’t want to do all the ‘fighting’ anyway. Good job!
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At least it didn’t degenerate to someone FLAMING anyone.
Aw.
Congratulate yourselves, PMW. You’re actually being trolled now, which means your influence on the planet is truly being felt. Trolls may be offensive, but they’re better than spambots.
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Hm… I know this is several days late. I think I should have a say here though but here goes:
Felize, Jejo, Kuya Ivan, you guys are right on all your comments. Science and Art are not two isolated fields; they are two sides of what gives meaning to what the human mind can accomplish. Proof? Read Kuya Ivan’s comment.
Sayang ang oras ko dito. Ang hirap kasi pag nag-a-attempt ang mga “science” people na gumawa ng mga bagay na dapat ay ginagawa lang ng “arts” people.
I believe that the statement of “science people not being able to do what art people are able to do” is a form of discrimination below the belt. You see, I engage in several Humanities and Arts clubs in this school. As a writer engaging in several schools of thought, a photographer, a digital artist, a choir singer and more to mention.
To Artsy Fartsy, well, if you see YouTube nowadays, it’s filled with more crap than you can imagine. In fact, the quality of television we have is far worse than what Pisay students can offer.
I hope not but by the way you composed your comment, you don’t see the work of Philippine Science High School students as good or creative [the primary issue]. :-/
The projects of my schoolmates accounts for something creative in the sense that they have combined what they have learned in the various fields of science they’ve been exposed to with the various forms of media considered by our modern times to be artistic.
(^^,)
*toink*
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Great work! Kudos to the Pisay students who made this video as well as their teacher, Martin Perez. I graduated from Pisay 5 years ago, and your project makes me proud to be an alumnus. (Not to mention it made me nostalgic!)
I won’t further stoke the fire caused by Artsy Fartsy, but let me just say that the separation of science and art is a medieval notion, and anybody believing in such principle is lost in time and lost in the real world. This is coming from a graduate of computer science and current web project manager who also happens to be a creative writer and poet.
Back to the project — again, congratulations, and here’s hoping that more students of Pisay can rock the Pinoy blogosphere in the near future!
Joey, but spam is yummy… oh, that spam. ^_^
Paula, excellently said. Good job!
Corsarius, thank you very much for the kind words! Spread the word around to your fellow alumni about the project. I hope they enjoy it too.
Trolls are a daily thing for bloggers who are starting to shoot up in popularity. Like what Joey said, it’s better than spammers who simply post nonsense. Sometimes, trolls have something to say while most of the time, they just run their stupid mouths and talk like they’re experts of the currently-discussed field.
Pfft!
Cheers for the excellent project!
Sorry for what I’ve said earlier (dummy)..
.. I didn’t mean it that much anyway. ^^
To the team’s credit, you have done a splendid job converting yourselves from passive members of the Web’s audience to aspirants shaping opinions for yourselves and your fellow “iskolar”s. Hope you’ll come back to this blog in 5 years (if it ever lasts that long) so that you can see your baby footsteps in the sands of Web 2.0. (OK, that was too patronizing already…) Wishing I had this type of chance before I graduated Pisay in 2004.
To react to Mr/Ms Artsy, I won’t dismiss this project as “walang kwenta”. To say that would be like dismissing your baby’s first steps as worthless, or your first lab report as worthless. We all have to be noobs sometime right? Plus, it makes no sense to require “arts people” to create a project about expressing who you are and what you want to be, because anyone should be capable of that. Whether from the sciences or the arts, we learn about speaking out loud while we grow up.
But if I may kindly suggest, next time, I think you should introduce yourselves and your project more clearly in the video. I got to this page from someone playing my favorite game iSketch (http://www.isketch.net), and if I would be clueless if I didn’t have the patience to read up the description! Just try imagining that clip in other people’s weblogs… or on youtube.com itself.
Anyhow, a job well done to team “We Hold the Future” and to Mr Perez! Don’t just stop with Youtube and blogs, you know you can take it further!
Oh, so you were there when I plugged our video. Thanks!
By the way, iSketch is also my favorite game. ^^
Are you i-sketcher? Just asking.
huh?
I stumbled on this page from Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The video is not bad, especially when you read second-year high school students shot it. But the choice of song could be better. “Smoke on the Water”?
Still, the idealism of youth is inspiring. I just wonder if it would stand up to hard realities. Ganbatte kudasai!
kids.. dream BIG and help SAVE our country in deep “sh*t”
good job on this one.. ^_^