1. WHAT TO YOU IS THE MEANING OF COMMUNITY SERVICE?

Community service is a method of extending hands to the needy people to help them help themselves, link them to relevant agencies that could assist them. It entails sharing of resources – talents, skills, ideas, knowledge, time and energy to the community.

As an agriculturist, I perceive community service as an avenue wherein I and the collaborating persons & agencies could disseminate & promote new agricultural technologies, researches & innovations, to the clientele – the farmers. As they adopt the technology, they may as well propagate it among their fellow farmers so as to attain sustainable development on agriculture.

As a Filipino youth, I view community service as means of modeling servant leadership; a way of inspiring, motivating, influencing and challenging my fellow youth and countrymen to be agents of positive change, be shepherds of peace, and be advocates of progress.

2. HOW HAVE YOU RESPONDED TO THE CALL AND CHALLENGES OF NATION BUILDING?

The call for nation building is indeed urgent. And I responded to the challenge by organizing, conducting, and facilitating events that aimed to promote integration of Christians, Muslims and Lumads; endorse environmental protection; cultivate spirituality; resist drug addiction; and, disseminate agricultural technologies that will produce livelihood for the community. With those activities, I helped and inspired the community to forge a strong nation.

My pursuit to help build the nation goes on. I am involving myself with organizations that propagate nation building.

3. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EXCELLENCE AND BEING OUSTANDING IN TODAYS'S SOCIETY?

Being excellent and outstanding in today’s society is a great blessing from God. Comes along that blessing is a responsibility. I believe that we are blessed to become a blessing. God has allowed us to excel in our endeavors, not for us to become reservoir of blessings, but for us to be channel of blessings.

Excellence - coupled with good character, sealed with firm commitment to lead & serve, propelled with a noble cause, and powered by a strong faith in God – will break the chain of illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, immorality, graft & corruption, violence and other forms of bondages that have been imprisoning our society in a chamber of depression.

Excellence armed with honorable qualities will serve as bondage breaker, which will set our society free and will serve as guide to the path of development.

4. HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO LEAD A BALANCED LIFE AS A STUDENT?

My life as a student was like walking on the balance beam. In order for me to successfully reach the other end, I had to use the power of focus. I identified the things that needed to be prioritized at the moment and focused my attention to it. I had to walk circumspectly, carefully considering each move I make. I had to make the most of every opportunity to learn, to lead and to serve whether I was in or out of the campus, whoever I was with, in any possible manner I could. I have to admit, however, that there were times I lose sense of balance causing my downfall. But thanks be to God! He stretched His loving hands, catched me, and brought me back to the right track. During these times, I had to trust God completely and obey wholeheartedly His directions.

5. WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO BE WHERE YOU ARE NOW? WHO WERE THE PEOPLE AND WHAT WERE THIER ROLES IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES YOU LIVE BY TODAY?

The author of “Purpose Driven Life” says something to this effect “purpose strongly motivates a person...” I reckon that statement is true to me. It has been my purposes in life that motivated me and gave my thoughts a coherent framework, keeping me pointed to the right direction. My purposes include loving and serving my fellow men, my country, and above all, my God.

It has been our magnificent God who endows me wisdom, values and convictions. He has been imputing deep within me faith, love, trust, patience, perseverance, and hope that serve as source of my principles in life.

My dear parents and family has been contributing to the process of shaping my self, my heart, my attitude, and my personality. Their love and support has been inspiring me to press on towards higher grounds. The constructive corrections they give have been polishing me into a better person. My mentors who have been training and helping me enhance my God-given gifts. My friends who have been cheering me on, giving me warm company. All these wonderful people meaningfully contributing to the values and principles I am living by today.

6.WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO LIVE BY THE VALUES YOU BELIEVE IN? WHY ARE THESE VERY SIGNIFICANT TO YOUR LIFE VIS-A-VIS YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY?

I continue to live by the values I believe in because I deem them right and essential for my growth as person of worth. Living by those values, I hope to become a good model to other people.