Hear Ye Hear Ye Read all about it - Bjorn Abueg

Personality Feature

It’s 6:30 am on a gloomy Tuesday morning. As a sports scholar wakes up from a sleepless night, he rubs the sleep from his eyes and lay in bed for 10 minutes to browse the net. After his short rest, he sleepily walks into the kitchen and makes breakfast to give him the strength to make it through the day. After a satisfying breakfast this sports scholar heads into the shower to freshen up before school. 10 minutes later he puts on his uniform and packs his bags for both school and basketball training. On the way to school he mentally prepares himself for the challenges that will be coming throughout the day. This sports scholar is named Bjorn Alexis P. Abueg, but everyone calls him “Bjorn” or “BA”. Bjorn heads into class and everyone is always excited to greet him. He just has this “happy” aura to him and his physical features aren’t bad as well. Bjorn stands at 176 cm, shiny jet black hair, tan skin, beautiful brown eyes, bony face structure, skinny yet muscular, has abs, and has braces. Bjorn slowly takes his seat and quickly thinks of the things that has to be done for the upcoming subjects. Bjorn even though a varsity makes sure he keeps up with his academics. The day is passing so slowly. Bjorn thinks to himself “Can’t this day go by any faster, I want to train already.”

The school day soon ends and Bjorn is ecstatic for training. There are no locker rooms in Stonyhurst Southville International School Malarayat so Bjorn goes and changes in the boys’ bathroom on the 3rd floor. He removes his school uniform and neatly folds it on the bathroom sink. He reaches into his bag and takes out basketball shorts, sleeveless basketball jersey, elite socks, and his signature Kobe basketball shoes. After changing he heads down to the basketball court on the ground floor and starts some shooting while waiting for the other boys to finish changing. Since Bjorn is the captain of the basketball team he leads them through the stretches, through drills, and then through a game.

After an exhausting day full of academics and sports Bjorn is absolutely drained. Once he returns to his home Bjorn always has an appetite and eats to replenish some of the lost energy he lost during the day. After cleaning his plate, Bjorn doesn’t even rest he dives straight into his school work without any hesitation. Once Bjorn has completed his school work any remaining time he has he puts it to rest. Bjorn is usually a late sleeper he sleeps around 11 pm. It’s 10:50 pm Bjorn starts to unwind and starts getting ready for bed wearing a clean jersey and shorts. Then when Bjorn wakes up he repeats the same process.

Who really is Bjorn Alexis P. Abueg? Bjorn Abueg was born on January 5, 2000 in Inosluban, Lipa at his Lola’s home. The parents who brought Bjorn into this world were Marichy and Percival Abueg. Bjorn’s hobbies include basketball, singing, and guitar. Bjorn is loved by many, he is humble and kind and will always be there for anyone anytime anywhere. Bjorn has a dream, a dream to become an electrical engineer. He also has a bigger dream where he has a beautiful wife and 4 children. Bjorn has very few negative traits if any at all. Bjorn tends to be quieter at times and he is a bit too thin, he needs to get some meat on those bones of his. Bjorn’s good qualities far outweigh the bad. If his good qualities were to be written it would be written on a white board while his bad qualities would be written on a 1/8 sheet of paper.

Here are some quotes by some Bjorn’s classmates, teammates, and friends in Stonyhurst Southville International School Malarayat.

Eisen Klein G. Villanueva has stated that” Bjorn is one of a kind. You will not notice him as a captain at first because he is really very simple and soft-spoken. But his leadership and encouragement to us whenever we have games is really what made him a reliable captain. He doesn't criticise on any of our actions instead he finds compliment about it. We are very thankful for Bjorn for leading us throughout the year.” A very thoughtful sentinment from one of Bjorn’s basketball teammates. Not only students have this opinion about Bjorn, Lester Francis Lorzano the sports coordinator said,“Bjorn is a good Leader”. Even people who have left stony keep Bjorn in high regards. Like Vincent Vasquez Cutanda,“He's a very hardworking captain, everything is on him” and Allen Pernez, “Bjorn is a good role model to his teammates. He never skipped training. There was a time that he's sick but he went to school to personally tell our coach that he can't train. He's a well determined captain ball for me”. Not only sports varsity think of Bjorn in a good way people like Elaine P. Caoibes said,”“Bjorn is a Multi-talented person”,Sofia Torrano “Si Bjorn kala mo sa unang tingin mayabang at babaero pero kapag nakilala mo sobrang kulit, mabait malayo sa inaakala mo. Magaling magitara, kumanta at magbasketball. Malalapitan mo kapag may problema ka. Masipag magaral” , and Rennier Cuevas,“He is a Comedian, thin , helpful, laugher, and pogi”

Bjorn has some pretty good friends like Denson Pesa who said”“Bjorn is Mabait, responsible, matalino, always positive”, John Martin Balatero, “He is kind but deadly”, Qiara Gutierrez,“Bjorn for me is super down to earth. I would never hear him bragging about how good he is in something. He never fails to understand and surprise me. He is a gentleman and a kind hearted person. He's ears are always open to whatever I am to say. He would sometimes just listen to me talk. He is actually my role model. He's very religious. He is a protective when it comes to his friends and love ones. He likes to joke around and never fails to cheer up the ones who are down!” Someone who does not want to be named has said that, "Bjorn? Well, he's genuine. He thinks simply and doesn't make things any more complicated. He goes with the flow and despite things going unusual for him, he makes it through, one way or another. He's smart, gotta give him that haha. He thinks with both heart and mind. And other than being "ulagain" and "kengkoy", he makes people smile. That's what makes him genuine, at least to me."

All these people have only positive things to say about Bjorn. This shows that Bjorn has very little negative traits to his name. Bjorn all in all is just the complete package, handsome, humble, and talented. Bjorn is a friend that everyone should have because through anything he will be there for you, through thick and thin.

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Video Conference with other countries !!!!

#GenerationGlobal A few days ago we had a video conference with 3 other schools. One from Indonesia, One from Pakistan, and One from Nuvali,Philippines. We had very good dialogue surrounding the topics of peace and conflict. It was an enlightening experience to hear the opinions of other nationalities.

There was one topic though that i really retained it was when Xavier School Nuvali was talking about our government it came off as the Philippine government is bad and frightening. I actually agree with them i never was a support of Duterte and his aggressive diplomacy. I believe a president should be cool,calm, and collected. Duterte has proven in the short time he is president that he is not any of those. He has a foul mouth and i believe he shouldn't be president.

My belief also is that only God has the right to determine life and death of a person. If we are the ones now to dictate who lives and who dies we are in turn playing God. Playing God is a path we don't want to continue down. I have this philosophy where "the tighter we squeeze the more they will rebel" I believe there are more diplomatic ways to deal with conflict here in the Philippines especially the so called 'War on Drugs:"