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26/09/2022

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02/09/2022

First Friday Mass, September 2,2022

25/08/2022

Attention ‼️

ATTENTION

To All Michaelian:

WHAT: Last Day of College Enrollment for Old Students, 1st Sem 2022-2023 (2nd Year-4th Year)

WHEN: August 27, 2022 (Saturday, half-day enrollment only)

- Administration

15/08/2022

The printed copies are now available Grab your copies now! ... Read and Enjoy

RELEASE OF SCHOOL PUBLICATION
(AY 2021-2022 Edition)
College Department

Please be guided accordingly.

09/08/2022

The Official Paper of the School is out now‼️ if you want to have the current news and information about the Institute Click the link and enjoy reading
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jKAx-wvlCptkgjvcVU1Boy2rH4rutaru/view?usp=drivesdk

02/08/2022

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26/07/2022

02/04/2022

Another Event Successful for Messenger's Publishing team! Providing the Group with Knowledge and Skill to be more Effective news Writers

SMCHLI's The Messenger Publication Staff joined again for the Special Session hosted by the School Publication adviser, Mrs. Emelinda S. Borong. The event was held yesterday in SMCHLI Room 2 April 1 around 1 p.m. The program "Lecture | Write Shop on News Writing" was a success as Mrs. Borong talked over wholly the guidelines for writing a news article. With the participation and cooperation of the Publication staff and special guests, the discussion went well, and took the challenge of writing articles samples prepared by the organizer.

12/09/2021

Welcome back, Michaelians!

The Messenger is looking for creative minds and wild hands to join us. If you are interested, please send a copy of any of your work, may it be a poem, a story, or a drawing or sketch, to [email protected].

Write with us because WE KEEP OUR WRITE- UP UPRIGHT!

See you!

28/02/2021

Good day!
The second week of February is declared as the "National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation", and as part of the celebration, we are sharing to you a piece from Katherine Dedace, The Child in the Alley.

The Child in the Alley
by Katherine Dedace

Allie, a seven-year-old girl, walked in a dark alley where she could smell the musty odor from her shoes. Although she could barely stand the smell, she insisted on wearing it since it was her mother's gift to her. Outside the alley, she met and asked a woman who’s wearing expensive shoes, “Does wearing shoes that are shiny means that a person has a good life?”. The woman refused to answer her question and walked away looking disgusted by the child. She continued to walk straight while looking at the colors that shined from the surrounding buildings. They are vibrant, yet Allie didn’t want to mold a curve on her face. The world is just too cruel to her. She wants to smile, but she just can’t do it, especially now that she is captured by hungry beasts. She wants to escape, run from other people and find a room for herself; a room that is away from her drunkard father who killed her mother and battered her every day, away from the darkness that haunts her every night. All she longed for was escaping from anxieties.

“Allie…be silent, my child.” The little Allie remained silent as she covered her eyes in order not to witness a dreadful sight below her room. She covered the small hole on the floor with a box and sat at the corner of the dark room. “I’ve been seeing darkness all of my life, when could I ever see light?”

Allie opened her eyes and sobbed silently while recalling what happened twenty years ago.

“Those seven years in that small room and alley were all nightmares to me. I shall never let that happen to my children.”

Photo by mediacorp
Photo taken from https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/physical-discipline-children-kids-punishment-caning-11028626

28/02/2021

Good day!
Before we bid goodbye to the month of Love. We would like to share to you a piece that was written by Roland T. Torion.

We live to love
by Roland T. Torrion

Love is as sweet as honey,
Which everyone wanted to be,
To make all things even happy,
To leave out the cage and be free.

Love will bring us serenity and affection,
Someone has called it great inspiration,
To live in this world out of intimidation,
And possess peace and mutualization.

We live, to love and to be loved,
Which everyone deserves it to have,
As one family need not alone,
They need love to form a home.

Love will teach us someone's to be free,
Love is happiness but sadness it's suddenly,
Love will always protect us,
But love also can hurt us.

If only people will possess love genuinely,
Then we will all live the world peacefully,
Where dangers and hostilities can't grow and foster,
And people will have smiles and laughters forever.

28/02/2021

The Child in the Alley
by Katherine Dedace

Allie, a seven-year-old girl, walked in a dark alley where she could smell the musty odor from her shoes. Although she could barely stand the smell, she insisted on wearing it since it was her mother's gift to her. Outside the alley, she met and asked a woman who’s wearing expensive shoes, “Does wearing shoes that are shiny means that a person has a good life?”. The woman refused to answer her question and walked away looking disgusted by the child. She continued to walk straight while looking at the colors that shined from the surrounding buildings. They are vibrant, yet Allie didn’t want to mold a curve on her face. The world is just too cruel to her. She wants to smile, but she just can’t do it, especially now that she is captured by hungry beasts. She wants to escape, run from other people and find a room for herself; a room that is away from her drunkard father who killed her mother and battered her every day, away from the darkness that haunts her every night. All she longed for was escaping from anxieties.

“Allie…be silent, my child.” The little Allie remained silent as she covered her eyes in order not to witness a dreadful sight below her room. She covered the small hole on the floor with a box and sat at the corner of the dark room. “I’ve been seeing darkness all of my life, when could I ever see light?”

Allie opened her eyes and sobbed silently while recalling what happened twenty years ago.

“Those seven years in that small room and alley were all nightmares to me. I shall never let that happen to my children.”

Photo by mediacorp
Photo taken from https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/physical-discipline-children-kids-punishment-caning-11028626

28/02/2021

We live to love
by Roland T. Torrion

Love is as sweet as honey,
Which everyone wanted to be,
To make all things even happy,
To leave out the cage and be free.

Love will bring us serenity and affection,
Someone has called it great inspiration,
To live in this world out of intimidation,
And possess peace and mutualization.

We live, to love and to be loved,
Which everyone deserves it to have,
As one family need not alone,
They need love to form a home.

Love will teach us someone's to be free,
Love is happiness but sadness it's suddenly,
Love will always protect us,
But love also can hurt us.

If only people will possess love genuinely,
Then we will all live the world peacefully,
Where dangers and hostilities can't grow and foster,
And people will have smiles and laughters forever.

24/02/2021

Mediocre
by Paul John Lim

Sinubukan kong kumawala,
Sa daluyong ng mga taong tinatawag na madla.
Hindi ko lubos maunawaan bakit ako naiipit at napapalibutan nila.
Hindi ko man lang maalala bakit sa bandang gitna ako napunta.
Girian at gitgitan ng mga tao may kanya kanyang hakbang ng paa.
Binabaybay ang kalsadang sa isang lugar lang papunta.
Ako'y tumingkayad nagbakasakali masulyapan kung saan ba tutungo.
Wala akong distinasyon na natanaw, hindi ko masilayan ang dulo.
tanging tumambad sa aking tanaw ay isang dagat na puro ulo.
Ako'y bumaling at tumalikod bakasakali aming pinagmulan ay masilayan.
Ngunit hindi ko nagawa dahil sa mga taong nagsisiksikan.
ninais kong sumalungat at umiba ng landas na tinatahak.
ngunit sakit ang naramdaman sa magkakasunod na paang nakatapak.
Ako'y natigilan sa gitna ng siksikan ng mga tao di ko alam ang pangalan.
Ngunit masakit na bigwas ang naramdaman galing sa likuran.
Bigwas mula sa mga taong nayayamot na ako'y panandaliang humarang sa daan.
At aaminin ko sinubukan kong sumabay sa agos.
sa daluyong ng mga yapak sapilitan ang pagtanggay.
naisin ko mang pumunta sa gilid ng kalsada, sa dami ng tao hindi ko kinaya.
Mga kamay koy nagsihawi at namuwersa.
Ngunit mga tao sa paligid hindi makapagbigay ng tsansa.
Ako'y napatalungko, lumuluha ang mga mata. Sa gitna ng prosisyon ng mga taong hindi ko kilala.
Ang katawan koy di mapigilan bumulagta at sa gitna ng kalsada ako'y napahiga.
tiniis ko ang bigat ng mga nagsitungtong na paa, oo hinayaan ko nalang akoy tapak tapakan nila.
Masakit at hindi ko maipagkakaila, suwelas ng sapatos ang huling nakita ng aking mata, bago malagutan ng hininga.

17/02/2021

"All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return."
-Ecclesiastes 3:20

Have a blessed Ash Wednesday, everyone!

07/02/2021

Celebrate the Month of Love with us and let your dear ones know how much you love them by participating in our "Write Your Heart Out" contest. If you are interested, the mechanics are enumerated below.

1. The participant must be a bonafide student or employee of Saint Michael College of Hindang, Leyte Inc.

2. The participant must write any original "Love- themed" piece (One piece per participant only).

3. The participant must send his/ her composition to [email protected] not later than February 20, 2021.

4. The pieces will then be judged by the organization's staff according to the: 1. UNIQUENESS/ CREATIVITY AND STYLE; 2. DICTION, CLARITY OF IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE and; 3. IDEAS/CONCEPTS AND/OR MESSAGE that the pieces possessed.

5. The staff will choose three (3) best pieces and the writers of the chosen compositions will be awarded with a prepaid load. The writer of the piece that is first (1st) in rank will receive a prepaid load worth P100 and the rest will receive a prepaid load worth P50.

6. The chosen pieces will be posted to the The Messenger page and will be published in the The Messenger magazine.

Join us, and LET YOUR HAND BE THE VOICE OF YOUR HEART!

23/11/2020

Is Overworking worth it?

At several points in our lives we are forced to sacrifice our physical, emotional and mental health in order to work youself into an extreme and depressive state of mind that would take days and even weeks to recover from in the hopes that we can come up with a result that will at least make us happy but deep inside we all knew, that the outcome would most likely not what we really wanted and in the end, it's not that worth it.

Picture this, a friend of yours once told you that "I'm doing this 50,000Km marathon and I refuse to eat, drink or sleep until my goal is done." I know your first instinctive reaction will be "dude! That's a horrible idea. Don't do it ok? Even if you had to."

To be frank, overworking nowadays conveys a quite confusing idea. Because everybody knows it's not good but at the same time it is glorified? And it is observable in both schools and work areas. It is not uncommon for students to share a story about staying woke for 48-72 hours straight or more and drinking coffee or energy drinks by the gallons just to keep up with a deadline that is fast approaching.
Because if we look at this topic seriously, we usually see that when a person was driven to work really really hard in a short amount of time, we view it as something really admirable. But sometimes when we start forfeiting self-care in exchange for hard work then we are crossing a dangerous line into a world of pain and uncontrollable suffering.
And most of us justify this with arguments like "Enduring the pain while pushing onward, meant you're super strong."
But I digress, admiring someting unhealthy and inherently bad for you is not something that is noble and commendable. That's really stupid. So instead of encouraging this habit, we must start to learn to say "NO" to procrastinating and plant it to the depth of our conscious brain. (Yup! Better said than done, I'm guilty too. Don't worry)

Because when you're burnt out from overworking, your brain starts to go hay wire and your cognitive faculty will not be as sharp as you wanted them to be. We are easily irritated and becomes slightly emotionally unstable cause our physical and mental state slowly deteriorates.

We all know, overworking and being burnt out are one of the most common human experiences we have. Everyone has been through this a handful times throughout our entire life because no one is perfect.

To be honest, I myself have been slowly losing my confidence and developed anxiety this past few months from overworking.
And to be fair, it is something that you can barely notice at the start, up until you notice both the physical, psychological and emotional deterioration because of stress and you feel clonky and weird.

Being burnt out is usually caused by the combination of the following: first by a sense of losing control over everything including yourself or simply called "depersonalization", followed by emotional exhaustion and then a loss sense of accomplishment.
In my experience, I'm struggling with the mindset that if I'm not doing something I'm being lazy. And being confined to my room for quite sometime now amplifies that feeling. Sometimes when I stop reading or writing to play some games, myself would keep on telling me "what are you doing? You should be working!"
Even when I'm moments away from tucking myself to sleep, my mind would be blasting me with something like "Why are you going to sleep? Huh? You should be finishing something instead of sleeping."
And if you are just like me, it is okay to tell yourself "it's perfectly fine to take some personal time for yourself, don't just work your life away." We all know how good it feels to be validated for our hard work, but be wary of the cliff that you might fall into the ravine of disregarding self-care and keeping yourself alive and sane. Sometimes we need to save ourselves from ourselves.

Why don't you give yourself a 1-2 hour break. Drink some tea or water or take a power nap or a relaxing bath or just listening to your jam for sometime because it's important not to die from burn out.
And for most of the time I forced myself into overworking or what I called "crunch mode", it usually results into a negative impact with my relationship to my end product which is the opposite of my intention of overworking at the first place. Frustrating isn't it?
Because pushing yourself too much and giving yourself stress makes you sloppy and prone to mistakes and bad decisions paired with cutting corners to make it a bit easier but will end up deteriorating the quality of the intended final outcome. It honestly feels like a sick and twisted reward for such toxic behavior. Think about it like "yeah I've done the output that I wanted or needed but the path that I have been through was full of suffering and pain. It is a total shipwreck emotionally and mentally unstability with physical exhaustion.

Think of it like this, you love eating burgers, but when you are forced to eat burgers that amounts to what you usually consume in a month in just 24 hours, it is sickening and it will definitely lead to a lot of discomforts, a one way ticket to torture town if you ask me.
I know times nowadays are rough and it's a peculiar predicament, but we should take this as a chance to purge ourselves with this practice, And keep in mind, time management is a form of self-care.

Words by: Paul John Lim
Photo by: WikiHow

11/11/2020

November is tagged as the Reading Month, and as a part of the celebration, we will be posting several literature challenges that we would like you, our dear Michaelians to solve.

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE:
1. Like the post.
2. Comment your answer, and
3. Share it on your timeline to see if your friends can answer it as well.

Have fun!

01/11/2020

Hi there! The Messenger invites you, our ka- Michaelian, to be part of our Halloween activity by telling us your paranormal experience and earn the chance to be featured in our campus paper.

We will be happy to experience your stories!

28/10/2020

The Messenger wants you to get to know its staff better. So, we are presenting to you a peek to the lives of The Messenger staff.

21/10/2020

The month of October is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary.

With grateful hearts, let's be with the Blessed Virgin Mary and celebrate the perpetual intercession and protection she gives to the church and to the people.

Together, let us pray the Holy Rosary.

11/10/2020

We are exhilarated to bring you the official page of SMCHLI's The Messenger.

Please watch out for the irreproachable write- ups because WE KEEP OUR WRITE- UP UPRIGHT!