Municipal Landmark of Manukan Zamboanga del Norte, Rooster-shaped Museum

I was sitting in the cozy couch of Big Joe’s on January 14, eating my dinner with my friend, when I saw the news about the rooster-shaped museum in Manukan, Zamboanga del Norte.
That news urged me to write a story about that gigantic rooster-shaped museum that dominates the Municipality of Manukan. So, I decided to journey in Manukan and to see the rooster-shaped museum.
January 22 is the day I travel to Manukan. Due to my excitement, I woke early.We left Dipolog at 10:00 in the morning and we arrived in Manukan at 11:00 am.
“WOW.” This was the only word that came from my mouth when I was in front of the gigantic rooster-shaped museum. It was really look like a real rooster. It was beautiful and extraordinary. I can hardly imagine how the engineers plan to make such monument.
This gigantic rooster- shaped museum was built on September 2006 and successfully finished on January 2007. The total cost of this museum is P1.3 million. The mayor of Manukan, Hon. Eugene U. Caballero had the idea of building a rooster-shaped museum in order for people to recognize their town.
During our interview, Engr. Pelita S. Pabillaran told me that this gigantic rooster-shaped museum serves as the municipal landmark of Manukan.
Manukan coined from the word “Manok” which is the Visayan term for chicken that is how Manukan got its name. Many townfolks shared that during the Spanish times a very small and insignificant barrio was part of the town of Dapitan (now Dapitan City) which was inhabited mostly by the traditional Subanos. Chickens were plentiful and the most predominant breed was known as “Banukan” and later on this named “Banukan” changed to Manukan.
The height of this huge rooster-shaped museum is 13.60 meters and around 19 meters from the tip of the bill to the tip of the longest feather of the tail.
If you are expecting internal organs inside the statue, you’ll be greatly disappointed. Inside of this museum are some collections of items like; old dresses of the people of Manukan, old cavan, pipe gun, kasing, tirador, salt container, souvenirs, old coins, and “sanggab ug pitlagong.” These old coins are collections of the former Mayor, Ma. Teresa G. Caballero. This “sanggab” is used to collect coconut juice or “tuba” direct from the source and this “pitlagong” is used to clean the tuba source necessary to keep it sweet.
You can tell that people in Manukan is very proud to have this beautiful rooster-shaped museum in their municipality.
Well they say each place have their own unique things to be proud of. Paris became known because of the Eiffel Tower. People in New York are very proud for their Empire State Building. The Indian are also proud of their Taj Mahal. Dubai became famous because of their man-made palm resort.
Here in the Philippines, there are many extraordinary, unique and beautiful things to be proud of. I am very proud that only here in Zamboanga del Norte where we can find a gigantic rooster-shaped museum. It is not a statue, it’s a museum.
My journey was very amazing and because of it I realized that only here in the Philippines where we can find unique, giant and extraordinary things.


By: Cyndy D. Andresio

ABC MassCom Joins First Regional Congress in USJ-R

         Media in Action: Fair, Balanced and Responsible broadcast Journalism was the theme of the first regional congress held in University of San Jose Recoletos, Cebu City last December 11, 2010. The said congress was sponsored by ComGuild, with its president and CEO, Ms. Jennifer Cruz an organization which is a center of journalism, and participated by different schools from Visayas and  Mindanao including the MassCom students from Andres Bonifacio College.

Reporters from different fields were invited as speakers during the 1 day seminar. These reporters includes Mr. Jun Veneracion, a reporter from Kapuso network and Mr. Rico Lucena from Kapamilya network who discussed on investigative reporting. Jun Veneracion included on his discussion the elements effective reporting and news anchoring.  The first and the only Filipino reporter from BBC World Mr. Rico Hizon focuses on Business reporting on Global Basis. He mentioned the qualities a journalist must possessed in order to succeed on its chosen field. On the other hand, Ms. Bernadette Reyes, a Kapuso reporter touch more on national business news reporting and magazine writing. Mr. Joey Villarama, a reporter from Kapatid network shared his ideas on news production and the people in production, giving students a view on what it would be like to work behind the camera. The speakers shared advice to the participants to be steadfast and must at all times ready to accept rejections. Journalist should know their purpose or objective in every tic of the clock. 

The ComGuild’s objective in organizing the congress was to give  exposure to students on how the real media industry works, the organization do this by inviting the best experts in the field who can share their experiences. These sharing of ideas will give students familiarization and hopefully will equipped them when they will become a part of the media industry. 

By : Cristen Mae Cordova

Literary Competition 2010

Andres Bonifacio College  held a Literary Competition in the afternoon of November 29, 2010 at the Amando B. Amatong Civic Center with the theme, “Curbing Corruption: Every Citizen’s Responsibility.”

As part of the mental, social, cultural, physical and spiritual enhancement of the students, the Supreme Student Government seeks and engenders relevant projects and programs of activities that develop and train potentials and encourages the advancement of talents. It also recognizes student's role in upholding the ideals of democracy, justice, freedom and nationalism. It ensures and maximizes active participation in all activities that foster unity and camaraderie among the members of the ABCollege community including those from other sector of the society.

Every department is encouraged to participate in all categories of the competition. Categories and sequences includes Impromptu Speaking, Declamation, Oration, Storytelling and Essay Writing. For the Impromptu Speaking category, the Engineering, Criminology and VTI department had no participants. No participants from Criminology and VTI department for the Storytelling and Oration category. For the Declamation and Essay Writing, only the VTI department had no participants.

The overall result of the 2010 literary competition in all of the categories were: the Nursing Department followed by the College of Arts and Sciences as the 1^st Runner Up, the School of Business and Management Education was the 2^ndRunner Up, Engineering department was  the 3^rd Runner Up, Criminology department was the 4^th Runner Up, and the VTI was the 5^th Runner Up.

Judges of the competition includes Vanya Q. Manamtam, Al L. Cantery and Eduardo C. Mira. The competition chairman is Cristen A. Cordova and Benjie L. Sumalpong. It was shared by many students that the 2010 Literary Competition was handled flawlessly and it gave the students not only  the chance to share their intelligence but also the chance to show their individual talents.

by : Mylyn Sarsalijo