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January 3, 2009 at 4:50 am · Filed under Anything Under the Sun
It’s been a great year for me!
I experienced the most extreme problems in my life yet I survived this year with poise and grace!
The predictions of Chinese and even the Western Zodiac
Was so true to me this 2008- SUCCESS, in spite of the worst?
Achievements wise, success was really there but the whole year’s about
COMPETITIONS- not just in academics, in student leadership but also in times of family trials, physically and financially
January- The year 2008 started with mini/classroom competitions
with some of my classmates when they started to be competitive
like Perci, Josh, Kit started to nourish their academics. As their class President,
I’m happy because most of us improved and it made me study and raised the bar.
February was one of the biggest competitions (literally) I NEVER expect to run as a candidate in the Student Council- not in my dreams! (It’s Arianne Solis who started and made my life COMPLICATED) There I’d experienced the politics, the rumors, “patutsadahan”, paninira at lahat lahat na. Totoo pa la na may mga iilang tao pa rin na gagamit ng paninira para lamang makapanlamang at tumatakbo para lamang sa titulo ng pagiging isang Student Council Officer.
But fortunately, nanaig ang katotohanan ang mga tunay, palaban at makabayang masaSANDIGAN =p
March is a super fast-pace month. It’s like two weeks of clearing up my academics, in spite of my SC Campaign, no time to review and re-organize/ proof-read and polish my 6 DEFENSE/Output based subjects in Marketing, I unexpectedly got a 1.47 GWA, my highest GWA ever in my college life!
The month of April and May is the transition of something NEW for NEAL, bigger environment, bigger network and bigger responsibility because of being a Student Council Officer. The first months of being SC is my most favorite. I enjoyed the perks and being one of the faces in the crowd but above from that‘s the pressure on WHAT I CAN DO FOR THE IABF Students. For me this month is really my happiest moment.
Making plans with my co-Sandigan colleagues, leadership trainings, Baguio City and Gateway,food tripping and many more bonding stuffs and tireless moments with the students and parents during the “card day” and enrollment and the whole summer is the super Happiest moment of my 2008 kahit ngayon ko pa lang nakilala yung ibang Student Council Officers=p
The remaining weeks of May is the peak of another academic competition, the 6th FEU IMC/Advertising Congress. The pressure and the competition different groups in the whole FEU 3rd year Mktg Management sizzled up and fortunately we’ve entered the finals in spite of biases. This is when I felt the unfair competition in the department. Idagdag pa diyan ang paghahati sa K0533
but I believe that there’s more to come on the start of the first semester and all we have to do is to excel, stand-out and shine! Lahat ng nawala may mas magandang kapalit
June- I, together with my closest of friends in k0533 was enrolled in k0541. It was a culture shock for most of my friends. The classroom competition was felt especially during recitations and super extreme in terms of personality difference, but what I learned the most is that, it’s the test of patience and professionalism the ability to adjust with these people. May mga nakakainis or hindi man kasing saya ng sa K0533, at least I know that I can stand out even I’m not in my comfort zone.
Because of this, na-stress ako kay Ma’am Fontanos!
July- the Agony in the student Council started. Naalala ko tuloy yung controversial na regrouping sa feasib! Tsk! This is probably my worst semester in college because of the attitude of some of the people in my new section. It seems that every time I go to class is a routine of agony for me.
August is a good month of at least being used with the routine life in class. It’s also the month that my mom started to feel something bad. In spite of that, this month for me is more of a NEAL as a Student Council Officer. I still enjoyed attending several leadership seminars and meetings with the other SCs and being always at the SC Office to talk with the sponsors, event organizers etc. It’s also the remaining months of being together with MOST of my closest friends. Through these I can still work productively kahit may nakakabahalang prob.
September is the peak of the competition in several marketing subjects, and some of the most significant were Green Mktg, Global Marketing and the Development of an Enterprise. Fortunately I’ve got satisfactory results except for the unjust grading we’ve got in global! This was my super frustration this month is also when my mother experienced several operations (3) in her gall bladder, kidney. This is the time when we experienced the worst family problem- it’s like almost
“akala ko kukunin na si Mama, Paano kami mabubuhay kung wala siya…” yung mga ganoong feeling. Halos lagi kaming nasa hospital na laging kinakabahan. Hinding hindi ko malilimutan yung time na natataranta na kami para makahanap ng blood na my type B- at worse is when I saw her super critical na parang wala ng pag-asa.
October, is like March, so fast pacing and every week demands a lot of tasks.
Fortunately, in spite of my frustration, we’ve entered as one of the five national finalist in StratMark, I unexpectedly passed the remaining screening of MarkProf and the grade of 1.00 in two of my subjects was granted. Masaya becaue, hindi man ako nag-super excel sa class this sem, napakaganda ng karma but the greatest competition and prize that I’ve got in life is that when we cope with our family trial. Fortunately, magagaling ang mga doctor sa FEU Hosp. Thank God! Nabunutan ako tinik at pangamba ng nakita ko ng nagsasalita si Mama ng maayos after 2 months+
November, the OJT: waking up before 4:00 AM being at the office by 7:00 having some stressful and exciting walks, The Starbucks 3x/week, fine dine tripping and supermalling on Thursdays, the start of the corporate world experience in the city of stress and glamour Makati! MarkProf Bootcamp, another series of competition, outside my comfort zone!This is one of the appetizers that sizzled and wrapped up my 2008 =p
December 2008 was a whole month of everyday celebrations for me because everything is going back to normal and for me I believe that it’s the time to feel rewarded and enjoy the perks that I’d work hard for. This is the month that I went in no less than 4 far places a day from parties, food tripping mapa-street man no fine dining, party, chikka galore with my closest friends, bonding with my cousins and even with the Jamma’s and university’s security department at maraming maraming iba pa nakasama at napasaya ko! Sa lahat ng mga stressful moments na nangyari sa akin, hindi ako makapaniwala na magiging maganda ang pagtatapos ng buong taon para sa amin.
Doon ko nafeel na yung mga problema sa buhay parang ulan lang yan. Yung maiitim na ulap dadaan pero nasa taas lagi at hindi mawawala si Haring araw! Sa lahatng mga napagdaana ko this 2008, tumino ako, nagging mas matatag at higit sa lahat naramdaman ko na hindi ako napabayaan ni God dahil sobra pa sa inaasahan ko yung ibinigay niya.
Malakas na si Mama
Mahahabol ko pa naman yung Midterm ko kaya OK lang
Hindi ko naramdaman yung financial problem pero alam kong pag-graduate ko,
mararamdaman ko na yun pero ayos lang, kakayanin ko lahat dahil alam kong hindi ako pababayaan ni God and I know that all these hardships will be paid for.
This is the year that I become
Resilient, matured enough, more confident and God fearing
Hindi man kami kasing yaman ng dati (financially)
Pero mas narealize naming ang tunay na halaga ng buhay.
Pero sa experience ko ngayong taon, masasabi ko na hindi ito matutumbasan ng kahit ano at hinding hindi ko ipagpapalit ang lahat ng ito =p
kung may mas mabibigat pang problemang darating ngayong 2009
sabi pa rin ng horoscope “katamtamang suerte pa rin ang mga nasa year of the snake and it’s an Aquarian year!”
I’ll standout and shine this 2009!
(This article is just a draft and still subject for improvement)
December 23, 2007 at 6:38 am · Filed under Anything Under the Sun
Congratulations!Sandigan’s Lanslide Victory in FEU-IABF Student Council.
Providing the better way for the betterment of the institute.
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bubbly.slutty.genius+
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2007 was really beyond my expectations. This is my most successful year in 
terms of career as a student, a marketer, a more competitive individual. This year unleashed me on what more can I offer. I’m now more experimental, risky and smarter than I could ever imagine! Truly made me the 2007 Fastest Rising Marketing Star!
Monthly Hi-lites:
January: When I accidentally inlove, torn between two lovers and fall out of love
February: Falling out of love led me fall out and voluntarily drop my major Financial Accounting, the best part of this ‘LOVE’ is that it made me open more to persevere my undiscovered ‘PR’
March: My defense based subjects entered finals (TQM) and did very well (Tamaraw Idol and Bus7, Macroeconomics) opens a better horizon to shift to Marketing Management
April: My last sem in Internal Auditing was my highest GWA 1.76/1.00:
My closest friends and strengthen relationship with the FEU Accounting community is the risk that harden my decision to shift because I’m afraid to start from the scratch in Marketing. But still I took the risk and followed my heart and to finally settle to become a FEUture marketer
May: Good remarks from my Marketing and Management I professors made me realise to believe what a marketer can do better than those ‘accountants’. 1.00/1.00 each in the said 2 subjects and I ended the summer very well!
June: 5/8 of my subjects on my first sem as a marketer.
- At first, I felt marketing really easier than accounting. I’ve got most of the recitations 1st meeting pa lang!
- I also saw how marketing is in demand worldwide because I have classmates from different countries from Hong Kong to the Bahamas and from Seoul to
Nigeria ^^.
- July: Unexpectedly, kahit first 2 months ko pa lang sa Marketing, my classmates elected me to become the president and the executive organizer of our events management (K0533),
- and leader of Business Research (FI0532), Retail Management (K0533), and appointed the asst. leader in these Marketing majors: Product Developent/MKT3 (K0524), Marketing Research (K0533), Salesmanhip (MKT2)
August: My Financial Accounting became a waterloo again on my part. My grade reached as low as 58%!!! this month is when I realize more the difference between Accountancy and Marketing in terms of difficulty.
- Dizzy numbers and numerous account titles vs. sleepless nights of thinking effective and feasible marketing plan?
- Cheap worksheets vs. specialty papers and quality colored inks for projects?
- Terror professors vs. distinguished panelists? and a whole lot more.
September: This month is wherein the class bonded closer and Started to know who’ll be my TRUESt friends in Marketing,
- and where I almost attained the ’superstar’ status (hehe!) and finally settle and commit to serve K0533.
- Championship on the first retail management competition all over 3rd year
was hailed on me.
- I was hailed amongst the best 20 Junior marketing students (I never expected this, kashi-shift ko lang then ganito na!),
- A suprise letter from AJMA’s Ateneo Intercollegiate Marketing Seminar followed
October: Time passed by very fast and the my first semester as a marketer was about to realize.
- I, together with my groupmates, were hailed 2nd place in the Business Research Colloquium.
- I file a demand against Business Ethics "Prof." Anita dela Cruz. The Marketing and management community around me alarmed!
- My grades are evaluated and I almost reach the Deanslister Status at GWA of 1.53/1.00 (90-92%). I recieved 2 subjects 1.00/1.00. My first semester ended beyond my expectations.
Aside from my academics, I started to built great and solitude relationship with Ko533 was about to emerge.
- Flattering and heart warming Comments from great marketers such as Maam Karol Palparan, Joshua Ong, Sir Joey Tem, Arianne Solis, Maam Leslie Magadia made me feel and inspire on my marketing path.
- I passed and recieve the best of the remarks I’ve ever heard in Ateneo Intercollegiate Marketing Seminar. "You are very bubbly, inborn genius… I learned a lot from You… See you on AIMS… and I hope to see you soon. Congratulations!" -Mag Sy, an Atenean psychologist/ my interviewer in AIMS 2007. That was the best interview i ever had in my life!
November: I was trusted by my classmates in K0533 to choose each of their subjects to take for the 2nd semester. Enrollment went on agony on the first but eventually predominantly we maintained the K0533 community harmoniously.
- The 2nd semester started. I was appointed again as the class president of ESPEJO Section/K0533 (as Sir Dulay, PhD wants to call).
- Even though I’m just a neophyte to very strict and corporate Ma’am Magadia, I am receiving great flattering comments from her that made me more consistent to be amongst the best, not only in my section but throughout the FEU marketing community
Like my first semester as a marketer, I was appointed AGAIN by my groupmates to be the
leader in
- Website Development, Marketing Management, Special Topics in Marketing, Database…(Customer Relationship Management), World Literature, Advertising and Brand Management (6 out of 6 group based subjects I am leading)
December: Ateneo’s Intercollegiate Seminar was my first 2 days 
of this month in Ascott. This is where I met and collaborate with the best of Ateneo, UP and UA&P. I never ever expected this! The best part is that I worked with them very well and we’ve got the 2nd! After this, bigger and better opportunities came to me…. ^^.
- but…The 2 restless days in AIMS is the time when I decided to have a break and take concern with my health after the said seminar. So I rested for 2 weeks but my quizzes plus no assignments in ALL my subjects made me FAILED but after the REST is whereby I quickly RECOVERED on my Prelim Exam and back my grades REMAINED in the SUPERIOR level. I’m happy that I am the highest in Marketing Management and got perfect in my World literature exams.
- This is I felt I’ve reached my "Superstar" Status when I made justifications and reflections against Accounting Professor Emma Samonte. This is where the marketing community, including the professors reacted. but unexpectedly most of the comments I received, even from my professors, are great and I felt like an Asian Idol Hadi Mirza! hahaha!
A lot of parties and hangouts such as going with Ateyng Diane, Marketing Party in MAlate and With Classmates in Ortigas this month. But despite of those risky failures, I’m still happy and contented on what I did because
I learned to take risk to fail and it makes me feel free to do whatever I want and proves me that no matter how I rest, I can still recover. In case if I fail, at least this will be my way to learn from mistake and to improve more.
In deed my Life as a Marketer and a college student turned to be my most successful and controversial year! 2007 Neal Espejo was unleashed beyond his expectations from probably the IA’s most dumb accountancy student to the hailed among the best FEUture marketers mapa FEU man o ATENEO! ^^.
Sine now i’ve seem my better performance, I’ll give less focus on studies, more 
focused on my health and some of my relatives, and friends I haven’t spend for long. But I’ll still remain consistent with my grades, I really have to lie low for a while. I’m hoping to end up great in FEU and took up my masters in any of the top3
The rest is still unwritten and my best is YET to come. NealNikko. Bubbly. Slutty. Genius!
Thanks for reading kahit I know napakahaba! This is just my 2007 career marami pa kaya! haha! ^^.
August 23, 2007 at 12:33 pm · Filed under Anything Under the Sun
I’m Restless… This is the busiest
days of my life! I only a lot 2hours of
sleep
mas mahirap pla d2 sa marketing, hindi k
ng-aanalyze ng number, like sa IA, pero inaanalyze
mung mbti lhat ng kelangan ng comnpany
Though I’m a shifter, these are among the fields I’m doing and coordinating and evn facilitating with right now
events, tv commercial, advertising,
layout/display (interior
design/archtecture) costing (d p rin
nkatakas sa accounting at stat,
convention, exhibit (tourism) at marami
png iba! ndi ilan plang po yn!
hrap n hirap nq! para qng wedding
planner, na business planner na
eventologist, accounting staff,
supervisor, human resource! andami qng
role sa bwat ibat ibang marketing subjects
hay I believe there’s something in
return after these projects, defense
and research….
The only reason why I survive is the
trust of my colleagues and my professors
and of course God and my family and
friends
I know d 2 bbgay sakin qng d nmn aq
mgaling! (haha…yabang! jokwe!)
Hahhh!!!!
Sana kyanin qpa nghihina n tlga aq.
kulang tlga ang 24 hours sakin… huhuhu
mmyang 4.30 am ppunta nqng FEU kc my practice kmi mmya sa "salesmanship" defense q 6am ang meeting 1030 nmn ang 1st defense, then
12pm mkikipag meeting nmn aq with my tourism6 (events management) prof and my committee. kc aq ang Exhibit/convention planner for our EXhibit sa FEU Audi (first cultural Center of the Philippines, Trivia) on Oct 9….
I have to make sure n my contacts n kmi "EVENTS management"
about 2pm mkikipag usap irerehearse q members q kc mmyang 3pm mgppresent n kmi defense ulit sa "RETAIL MANAGEMENT"
after that,
If badly needed, I have to talk and discuss with my masscom friends about my plans in advertising and everything
about our paper on my
"PRODUCT Development & Innovation (MKT3)
Then Tommorow sat, we have a practice on MARKETING RESEARCH in the morning and Nedd to finnish my BUSINESS research in the afternoon
oh my!!!!
Sunday! Just a one day sleep yet I have to understand financial accounting coz I was supposed to by that hell Lasallian prof! perto ngugustuhan qna kc nasa 87 up n grades q sa knea this midterm compared to less than 80% before,
WAsTED WASTED NeaL!!!!
December 21, 2006 at 11:53 pm · Filed under Anything Under the Sun
A lot of things happen and I realise how lucky and worthy I am to live a good life with the people around FEU, My Beloved U-Belt Friends, my True and staying high school friends,My family, and of course the one who made this possible, Our Lord God!
My 2006 Unforgetable High Lights/ Events
January: FEU foundation day
February11: My Birthday
March: I met my Korean Friends and my life have a great dramatic Change
April: I know Jesus is the way the truth & the life. Also we went to Laguna for our summer vacation bonding with other peeps from U-
Belt and Korean Friends
May: I went to my Family’s homeland, Cagayan with my Korean Friends to save more souls and do some charity works
June: I started from scratch and meet new set of Section, IA05-205 where I have the FEU BEST business subject professors
I am My first year sem1 friends, Anne, Donna, Eric became colleagues and I gain more friends like Hazel, Kristei, Apryl, and more, in this section
July: my University Friends from UE, Feu and UST are growing in aggregate and U-Belt galore was started to grow and maintain good ties with each Us: I left the dorm at uwian nq sa Bulcn
August: FEU Tamaraws experience a lot of defeats in the UAAP Season 69 Men’s Basketball. We often go to Araneta always lost (From UE & UST)
September: I went to Araneta full of Joy when I, together with filipino and Korean Friends watch the UAAP Basketball (FEU vs. UP) in Ninoy Aquino Stadium (near De La Salle). Luckily, UP Maroons suffered from the Tams; I suffered from UTI, pmyat tlga aq…
October: FEU Pep Squad broke 4 consecutive years of UP as 2nd placer in the UAAP Cheering Squad. FEU pep squad ranked 1st place. and, USt salinggawi became the champion with scores (93 vs 94)
November: I came to another section IA05-201 and I get separated from my 205 friends but I get closer more to Anne and HazeL. My new classmates was fully entertain just by my "WhoooOhhHHH" a new friendship starts.
My felllowship with God declines fully when I’ve been thruogh lots of <<<TEMPTATION
December: After Many Months, I saw again my high school friends and I joined abies bday at 
Grotto Vista Resort in our hometown SJdM, Bulacan
I resist my temptations and starting a good and stabilizing my life again with God, I realise that he has a lot to offer if we surrender our selves to him. Because of the temptations and with the necessary advise of my "Christian" friends, My faith is now growing and I realise that the real happiness, its not by having lots of earthly or aesthetic needs, not the money, not friends, ourselves, or even our family, its between our FAITH with God….
He will never leave or forsake you, d xa magsasawa sau!
items above ALL are just the "bonuses" or just a part of his blessings you will have if you put Him first. If U have faith in God,accepting him ansd surrender him EVERYTHING, I guarantee, U’ll never ever expeience emptiness, insecurities and U won’t be burden and this is the real meaning of happiness…
This offer was priceless, easy, and 4ever *
iFeliz Navidad! iFeliz Ano Nuevo!
December 14, 2006 at 9:20 am · Filed under FEU & UAAP News
The Fastest Earning University of the Philippines
In the past article appeared in the PUP’s official newspaper, hailed CEU as Cash Earning University, and FEU (Far Eastern U) as the FASTEST EARNING U
Well, for me as a Tam, it sounds quite insulting but if we’ll see the good side of it, I think, I will take it as compliment! The way I see FEU now is really the FASTEST EARNING UNIVERSITY in terms not only in assets, stocks & TUITION, but also in terms of RECOGNITIONS, DYNAMIC GROWTH & STABILITY to achieve total quality management & quest for quality educ.
No wonder FEU now is not only compared with close competitors UE and CEU but, 2 the UST level na! I believe that USTe has gone so FAR from the other schools magfo-400 n yn!… Kea m-compare lng sa USTe, e khit alam ntin n cla an ms angat, it’s a compliment n nqqmpare n sa knila. Igalang ang nakatatanda.. compared to FEU (1928) na mag-e-80 years plang….db? hehee
…Compared with oldies, NU (1900s), CEU (1900s), PUP, USC (16th century ata) atbp earlier na-est. sa atin, kea compared sa mga 2, e FASTEST EARNING talaga teo in means of innovation & prominence.
In addition, FEU, though as young as 79, is included among the few schools at universities that’s ISO cetified and among the few 6 schools who enjoys the Level 3 accreditation (FEU-FERN & FEU-EAC included)!
What more if FEU main become in a trimestral basis, maybe our progress may be as fast as the boom made by DLSU na after they turned into trisem in the 1970s, saka lang sila narecognize that made them ahead against the quadricentennial UST, in less than 20 years malay mo db?! ^^
D2 every sem, sbi nga ni momcee, iniiba ang flooring at facilities ng school at npakadaming inaayos at ginagawa tpos gigibain din nmn di pa ntatapos ang sem!
Most Tams think that it is a waste of our tuition, but then I realize through our subject sa Total Quality Mgmt, it’s a part of achieving quality in all aspects even in a small situation not only to have a good accreditation rating but also to provide quality educ to its students. Sana marealise ng ibang mga tams (especially yung walang management na subject) 2.
And be proud that we r called the Fastest Earning University!!
Inggit and insecure lang cla so SLOW kc! c",)
December 8, 2006 at 9:29 pm · Filed under Religion
Please lead help me to be away from TEMPTATION.
Theres a time that I was on the climax that I felt the Holy Spirit. The bible, devotion, the cell meeting (sort of bible study), prayer plus talking with my committed (to God) U-belt friends are my foundations to strengthen my faith….
… I just realize that the more I became closer to God, talagang mafi-feel mo un sobrang daming temptation like the sobrang dmi qng ktxt n Guys, internet, gigs, katamaran, at kung anu-anu pa…
… But my friends told me that it’s a part of Satan’s temptation para lumayo aq kay God…..
…Ngaun nahihirapan talaga aq as in gusto ko un mga "temptation" pero gusto q rin mapalapit kay God… Ewan…. Please help me to escape these temptations and Pass this scenario to feel the Christian way… !
