Less
than 7 years ago, I was in dire need of 5 gran and it was for one of my
brothers’ tuition fee. As far as I can remember, I was supposed to receive that
exact amount from our company bonus and that didn’t materialize for some
reasons.
I
have no idea WHERE?, WHEN? or HOW? am I going to pop the money out. Neither how
am I going to say this to my parents knowing that it’s part of the pre-arranged
responsibility of mine in our family since I got my first job and salary.
I
guess my prayers were heard up there when Teresa came to me one day with a
leaflet from her sister about an upcoming logo contest for a religious
organization - Pastoral Warriors of the Holy Souls. Heading says “Win P5000 in cash”, which I thought was a direct,
point blank shot at my face saying “WIN THIS ONE, NOW!”.
I
was partly happy because at least I know my problem about the question WHERE is
solved but there’s 2 more, and answers for that were uncertain. HOW? - For sure
I need to compete with other participants and I have no idea how many of them
are. WHEN? - The time the prize money is awarded to the winner and I have no
idea if I will be the lucky one.
Below
here is the rest of the story. It’s an article from the website of the hosting
organization.
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LOGO CONTEST WINNER
The judging of the logo contest took
place on June 22, 2000 during the core group meeting set
on the same day. Those present who judged the entries were: Chita T. G.
Monfort, Susan Paredes, Chit Cailles, Chi Gonzales, Eleonor C. Mendoza, Vic
Sevilla Jr., Ter Maloles, Carlos Oda, and Fr. Jojo for the final judging. Many
beautiful entries were submitted to the office: a total of 58 entries. The more outstanding ones were submitted by:
Jose Ramon L. Ramos, Dindo Valenciano, Sam Izumi, Maria Pianne S. Talay,
Dominador Laroza, Leonardo G. Cereno, Terence Lewin L. Yap, Renato Mallar Jr.,
Hospitaler Sisters.
Prior to the judging, all
the entries were exhibited on the folding-wall of the boardroom of the Guevent
office. The core group members looked over each entry considering the content,
creativity and relevance to the organization. Each core group member made a
choice narrowing down to eight best choices. From the best eight choices, the
judges selected the best three logo designs. And then, in another selection Mr.
Noel B. Saniel became the winner of the cash prize of P5,000 pesos. Noel
was born on April 23, 1977 in Pasay City. He finished Fine Arts at the University
Santo Tomas and now is an Industrial Designer at Lara’s Gifts & Decors.
Many thanks to all those
who submitted their entries. We could see their efforts, talents and dedication
to the cause of our humble organization.
Here’s the link - http://www.pwhs-mfi.org/newsletter/news5/logo_contest.htm
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Well, you can say I could
be a lucky guy. I guess I will have to share to you the true other side of this
story, with honesty.
You see I really have to
win this. I thought, maybe up there, He thinks that I deserve it but definitely
I have to work harder to earn it. That is what I thought I exactly did.
The whole week before the
deadline for submission of entries, I was so into it. I spent almost all hours
of my days sketching ideas, shorlisting the concepts and making the designs and
all. My goal was to have the frontline edge of winning this by submitting
exactly 20 pieces of well thought, well prepared, well presented entries. I
did.
Teresa handed over all my
entries to her sister whom in turn, handed it to the hosting org.
From their article, they
said there were 58 entries. DANG! 20 of those were mine. I was competing with
the other 38.
Last details I heard from
Teresa’s sister was that they shorlisted it to top 10. Then 5 of the 10 were
mine. Talking about competing with the 5 best entries. Then I heard they
shortlisted it to 3 and only 1 of my designs got in. That was the winning logo. (see logo at my photo album section, 'blog pics' folder)
Just for added info, I
never saw and I was never present on all the process that the contest went
through. I was only present in their office in Mandaluyong in one occasion –
when they called me to pick up the prize money.
Did I say I was in dire
need of P5000? Haha! Thank HIM up there I say.
P.S.
You’ll see that they posted
in their website together
with the article a funny picture of me that I
submitted.
It was a resume 2x2” pic shot around 1997.
Trying hard to look best
in business attire
but ended up looking like an ELECTROLUX agent
with the tie
on and funny haircut. Haha!
(see picture at my photo album section, "blog pics' folder)
