Gilbor Camporazo, Jr.: In Our Hands Lies The Future

As the LaSalTech, La Carlota Branch observes its joined 20th founding day and teachers' day, Gilbor D. Camporazo, Jr., our youngest son, the 2nd year student and the president of supreme council government of the said technical school opens up the momentous events by giving his inspiring talk through an analogy of a wise boy.

Gilbor Camporazo, Jr.

The entirety of Gilbor D. Camporazo, Jr.'s talk:

Greetings, my fellow students, LST faculty and staff, ladies and gentlemen!

In behalf of the Supreme Council Government of LasalTech, La Carlota City and all the students, I am Gilbor D. Camporazo Jr., welcome you to the 20th Year of LasalTech Foundation Day, and also in the celebration of teachers’ day.

As the first speaker of this memorable occasion in the history of our school, I would like to share a story of a boy who is so clever and intelligent. This boy is fond of playing people’s mind through asking clever questions and giving them thought-provoking puzzles to solve. He spends a lot of his time traveling around the world just to meet people who will dare to challenge him. Throughout his days of traveling, no one seems to beat him in answering his tricky questions correctly and even deciphers his puzzles.

Clever Question

"The answer lies in your hands" - Gilbor Jr. said

One day, while he was tired of traveling, he met a wise man on his way back home. This time, he came up with a more clever idea and challenged this man. The challenge was a simple guessing game, answerable by yes or no. The boy hid a chick in his hands. His idea 
is to do a trick that the man will not get the right answer. In case the man will answer that the chick is alive, he is going to press his hands so that the chick will be choked to death. But if the man will answer that the chick is dead, he will not press his hands. What a boy's clever idea!

Now he asked the man, “I have a chick hid in my hand. Is the chick alive or not?” The man paused for awhile and even took him longer thinking for his answer. Getting impatient for waiting the long response of the man, the boy exclaimed, “What it takes you too long? Just answer yes or no! Is the chick alive or not?

Finally, the smart man answered, "The answer is neither yes nor no for the answer lies in your hands! The result will differ upon your action on what you will do in the situation. The life of that chick is not answerable by yes or no, but on the decision you will choose."

"You're wise but I'm wiser than you," the smart man blurted.

The Future Lies In Our Hands

In this story, we may compare our life as an individual, as a student of Lasaltech on how do we prepare ourselves for the future. As we study here, our future is in our hands, whether it could be a bright one or otherwise.  We chart our own future. Our teachers are just an instrument in imparting valuable knowledge for us to learn for our future.

The analogy of boy on how he wanted to trick the man in the story is likened to us who are exploring and facing challenges that only us can answer.

It is therefore of our gratefulness to acknowledge and give tribute to our teacher for their untiring efforts of molding us to be a better, useful and gainful and even highly equipped students of expertise of a well-trained technicians and programmers as we commemorate our foundation day. We are all indebted to them on what we have today and in the near future. We cannot find those answers without their help, without their assistance and without their understanding and consideration. We must always extend our gratitude to them and respect them wherever we are. Of course, I am not discounting the efforts of our parents, and even the guidance of our Divine Providence.

Happy Foundation Day and Teachers Day as well! Thank you and good afternoon!