55th Foundation Day

The Mindanao State University celebrates its 55^th foundation day and in line with it the celebration was not complete without the contests namely: musical extravaganza, dance festival dance sports and literary where the students can show their hidden talents.

MSU has 17 colleges and every college prepares their entries. Last October 5-9 the intramural games were started. Every colleges fight for the different sports with their sporty contestants. The games are badminton, softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, track and field, lawn tennis and others. Every contestant has their own beautiful and attractive jersey shirts and jogging pants. The players really do their best to win in the said games. They show different moves, techniques or strategies. The grandstand and oval was very crowded and very noisy. Shout there shout here this is what the audience do. Rain or shine the games are still going on because they have allotted time to finish the games. Everyone are enjoying in the said event. And the overall champion of the intramural games goes to the college SPEAR.

So much for the sports talent.  Let’s hear the king and queen of the voices. Let’s go to the different voices that could touch our hearts. Last October 10, 2016 the Dimaporo gymnasium         was very full because of the audience it is estimated 2k people inside the gymnasium. How supportive the students really are. The gymnasium was very noisy because of the different cheers of every college. But in the end the crown was got by the College of Business Administration and Accountancy.

Let’s check it out the different moves with the dance festival held at Dimaporo gymnasium last October 11, 2016 the people who are there are estimated as 3k. The different colleges presented their breath taking entries when it comes to dance festival the unique and sexy moves are presented. The contests are line dance, street dance, Latin dance, folkdance, etc. after the contest the judges presented their moves also that makes the audience shout to the top but in the end the crown was goes to the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

College life is not complete without celebrating a foundation this is a break for a student for all those pressure days. So we take a break and just enjoy life.

 Happy happy 55^th foundation day MSU.

The place where I belong: "The Mystical Island Dinagat"

Have you ever gone to a place where everything you want is already there, in terms of beautiful beaches, beautiful sceneries or let just say a little/mini Palawan? If not, let us go! Let me tour you in our place but before that let me introduce it first.

            Philippines has 7,017 islands divided into 3 major parts namely Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Mindanao is popularly known as the” land of promise”. Looking at the map, our place is nowhere to be found because it is a small island but our place is so   wonderful and unique.  Let me start introducing our place in this way.

            Long, long time ago, there were two camps in an unknown place. The two camps were rivals. Both camps had their child a boy and girl named Prince Gat and Princess Dina. They fell in love with each other but because their families   were rivals there love became forbidden. There love was very powerful to the extent of fighting for it until the end. And the place where they lived was called Dinagat.

            Dinagat province was long before part of Surigao Del Norte, but Dec. 2, 2006       with the R.A No. 9355 it became a province. Unfortunately, last Feb. 11, 2011, the Supreme Court of the Philippine declared that the making of Dinagat as a province is null and void for the reason that Dinagat did not meet the requirement to make a local government unit. However on March 30 of the same year the Supreme Court reversed their decision and upheld the constitutionality of R.A No. 9355 and the creation of Dinagat islands as a province.

            

Dinagat came from the word “dinagatan” which means “ what you’ve got in fishing?”. It is an island surrounded by water and composed of 7 municipalities namely Basilisa, Dinagat, Libjo, Tubajon, Cagdianao, Loreto and San Jose. It is located near the Leyte gulf and at the south portion of Surigao del norte. It takes 2 hours from Surigao City to Dinagat province riding a pump boat. Its location being away from a city gives so many advantages to those people            who lived there in preserving their culture and their natural way of living. The people of Dinagat  are called Dinagatnon. Their common dialects are Surigaonon, bisaya, and Cebuano.

            Do you want a memorable bath and get tanned? Check these amazing beaches at Dinagat.  We have this Sta. Cruz beach located at the municipality of San Jose.

 Sundayo beach is located at the municipality of Basilisa. Sundayo originated from the       word “sundalo” which is translated in English as “army”. It is called Sundayo because there is a rock formation there that looks like the helmet of an army. We have this lake Bababu this condition of this lake is called “meramictic” a type of water body where fresh and marine water do not mix.

We have this Bitaog beach also.

 Next is the natural bonsai forest and bat sanctuary.

 Nature has always the best scenario to show but humans also do have their man-made beautiful sceneries. Let’s check this out. The Shrine and white castle located at the municipality of San Jose.

Dinagat has also their annual competition for their festival known” Bugkusan”   which means unity. The festival is done to build unity between the 7 municipalities of Dinagat Islands.

            Now how can you ignore the beauty of Dinagat province starting from the natural to man-made beautiful creations? I think there is no   way to ignore all of these, the only way you have to do is to grab your family and friends and see what is inside the mystical province of Dinagat.

            I am residing at the municipality of Basilisa saying: WHAT YOU HAVE READ IS JUST A GLIMPSE OF DINAGAT ISLANDS’ IRRESISTIBLE CHARM.