It’s been a while since I published my last post. I missed blogging! 
The past few months have been very demanding for me. Within a few months’ time, a lot of transitory events happened in my life. From being an ordinary student who handles an organization, I now assumed a position in the University politics. The campaign period was not really an easy road to success, as I, together with the other candidates in the slate, have to go through intensive discussion of national and local issues the Iskolars ng Bayan are facing. Moreover, Saturdays (and even Sundays) were scheduled for public speaking training to ensure our fluency during room-to-room campaigns and for the Miting de Avance. Although our party was not able to get the majority in the University Student Council, this won’t be a hindrance for us to serve for the students’ interests. The upcoming academic year would be more demanding this time, being a junior Political Science student and being a part of the UP Centennial Student Council. It must be expected that I would be more political this time, true to my blog’s title.
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As of now, enough of University- and macro-level politics.
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What is a nickname? Wikipedia says, “A nickname is a name of an entity or thing that is not its proper name. It may either substitute or be added to the proper name.” Moreover, a person’s nickname is not always in its truncated form. It can be longer than the usual.
Nicknames can also be something related to a person’s personality. I’m named Gerome by my loving parents, although my parents and I really object about the first letter of my name. The one who transcribed my name on the birth certificate is the culprit here. LOL. A lot of varieties of my name were coined in a span of eighteen years as people continue to see my “other side”.
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