Celebrating Pozorrubio's Writers - 1: "A Tangent Course in the Realm of Change"

Written by "Biaza" with introduction by G.Quesada

100_0685-BlesFirstPrize-314x235 (This is the first in a series of articles celebrating Pozorrubio's writers. The piece below, 'A Tangent Course in the Realm of Change' , won the First Place Award in the 1st Pozorrubio Essay/Expository Writing Contest. It was written by Dra. Blesilda dela Rosa-Salvador submitted under the pen name of ‘Biaza’.
The award, consisting of an expensive plaque and P30,000 cash, was handed over to the author by the guest speaker during the Awarding Ceremony, Hon. Mayor Emma T. Chan (Municipal Mayor of Pozorrubio) and Engr. Gin.Quesada (concurrent head of the two sponsoring organizations) assisted by the Board of Directors of the said organizations. The awarding ceremony was held at the Function Hall of Pozorrubio Executive Building, Pozorrubio, Pangasinan last January 14, 2010, an event forming part of the town fiesta and founding anniversary celebration.

Dra. Salvador is currently the host in ABS-CBN Radio-TV program ‘Doktora Bles, at your service’ and an active practitioner in the medical community participating in local and foreign medical missions of the TV network. She was also one of the awardees in the search project for the ‘Ten Outstanding Filipino Physicians 2008’, a project sponsored by Philippine Jaycee Senate and the Department of Health. She is married to Dr. Francisco Raul D. Salvador, himself a writer awardee in this Contest. They are blessed with 3 children 2 of them are also medical practitioners; the 3rd an Ateneo graduate, and active in communicty service, was among the top 10 finalists in the Bb. Pilipinas 2009 pageant.

The 1st Pozorrubio Essay/Expository Writing Contest was sponsored by the St.Philomena’s Academy’s Alumni Batch 64 and Quesada eTechnologies, a web design and hosting business and the forerunner of IT businesses in Pozorrubio.

Please see the end of the article below to see more of the author's profile, the writing contest project, the sponsors, the Contest Theme, and the question that this article is supposed to elaborate a solution. ~ Gin.S.Quesada)

A Tangent Course In The Realm Of Change

By "Biaza" (Real name: Blesilda dela Rosa-Salvador)

A sphere so steady in space…
A touch so light it hardly registers…
An impact so explosive it knocks out all that is dark and quiet…
And suddenly-- life so vibrant and true, it cuts through the flesh
and makes one feel brand new

The sphere:

Sometime in 1580, in the western coast of Northern Luzon, Philippines, the province of Pangasinan was created. In it a distinct town named Claris went on its daily quiet existence: folks planted, fished, and made salt and bagoong, children played, and early Chinese traders came and went.

The Spaniards who came to see and to conquer fancied the red bricks that made up the town’s well and soon were calling it the place of the red well or pozo rubio in their native tongue. Henceforth Claris came to be known as Pozorrubio. The story about the name’s origin though beloved is half a myth. The awaran or historical accounts claim that the town’s original name Claris was derived from Juan de la Cruz Palaris who led the revolution against Spain in 1762, to eventually proclaim himself king of Pangasinan.

In 1868 then noveau parish priest Reverend Father Asencio helped the people in petitioning for the independence of the town from San Jacinto to which it was originally included. The petition granted, Claris emerged as a new town, its new boundaries encompassing 8,965 hectares, and renamed Pozorrubio. The name Pozorrubio was coined from Pozor, some place in Spain where then incumbent Governor General de la Torre was also a count, and rubio after the red bricks so popular at the time. Then came forth decades of social, economic, political, and material emergence.

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Eugene Espinosa - Proud Pozorrubian

|24.7.98.xxx |2010-05-14 18:04:58

The best article I've ever read. It really touched me as I see myself being reflected in the article. I thought the author was talking about me as an example. Truly, I am a Proud Pozorrubian as an accomplished father with five successful professional children residing in the U.S.. I believe I passed the test of being a bonafide citizen of the beautiful town of Pozorrubio, so Patient, Organized, Zealous, Optimal, Religious, Resilient, Unselfish, a Builder (as an engineer by profession), Innovative, and positively Open-minded.

Every word in the article has a lot of meanings, full of common sense and so easy to understand. Thoughts and ideas were so well-expressed, so real and practical. This article is worth reading and may help improve and change
human's lives upon understanding what it instills. Kudos to our author Dra. Blesilda de la Rosa- Salvador for this impressive essay of hers. Let me know when you finish writing your book. I'll subscribe to it.

Dra. you are well-blessed. Is is okay to give me your email address?

God Bless.

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