13 - "Bayan o Sarili"

Last Friday, August 14 year 2015, we are some chosen lucky students to watch the full trailer or a glipse of the upcoming movie "Heneral Luna". I thought the program will be a boring one because at first I really feel very sleepy and I was also not feeling well that time, fortunately what I thought is wrong because when they played the teaser all of the audience paid attention and you can see that everyone is watching and concentrating on the movie and one of those is me. I really enjoyed the teaser even though it not yet the full movie, it is funny which is a good thing so the watchers wouldn’t get bored and you can also learn a lesson from it. Right after the teaser there is a guess speaker who is a professor at De La Salle University Manila, I can’t remember his name but his speech is really a memorable one for me. He is really cool and funny, he is the only professor I know that joked about what he teach, like Antonio Luna and two more heroes are the founder of Pringles because of their mustache, how Jose Rizal looked at the past photos wearing a funny hat, and many more different funny things about the photos o f our heroes. Yes, he is that cool. I wish he would be my professor someday because I know I will learn a lot from him. After that there would be question and answer portion where the students can ask something from the director and the major crews behind this movie, imagine even the actor ‘Heneral Luna’ who was played by Mr. John Arcilla is at our school, it is really an honor. The students asked random questions and they are answered by the director, Mr. Arcilla and the major crews. It was already 11:30 when the program ended. 

As a souvenir to this program, I had a picture with Mr. John Arcilla 

The real question in this movie is 'Bayan o Sarili?' Would you choose yourself that your country or your country before yourself? We all have different answers but for me I would choose my country. We all know how our heroes fight to different nationality just to have democracy and we should take care of that liberty until we die, it is our responsibility as a Filipino to fight for our nation. My country is my land, my home, this is where I belong and I should love this land more than myself just like how my heroes loved it.