Top 10 reasons why it's cool to host the Questions Nights
Forget about overnight swimming parteehs, the Unity Night, the Acquaintance Party or whatever Extreme Bonding Session (EBS) the MemComm cooks up. When it comes to the ultimate Aguman bonding, the Questions Night definitely slaughters the competition. Having hosted the famous Aguman ‘night’ which actually lasts for about a week twice in my Aguman life, I should know.
But like any other ‘famous’ Aguman activity, it has its own little share of notoriety. A month before the staging of the Pautakan, the Questions Nights venue is almost always a problem because people realize the hassle first above all the advantages of hosting such important Aguman event.
So I’ve listed down the Top 10 reasons why an AguPip should consider volunteering in hosting the Questions Nights. Who knows, maybe next year we’d have to auction the right to and honor of hosting it, haha!
1) FAMILY, MEET AGUMAN. AGUMAN, MEET FAMILY. Isn't annoying when our parents innocently but gallingly comment “Nan ya wari ing Aguman a yan, na? Pota galang frat ya yan?!” as we don our Aguman shirts on our way to an Aguman event? Ignorant of the UP culture, they’ve been on our heads ever since we were applicants, ranting on and warning us about hazing and frat wars and all that jazz. Well, with the Questions Nights, you can finally set the record straight: Aguman is an organization with a worthy cause, and not just an ordinary barkada who’s into drinking sprees or overnight serial partying. Besides, we’re just a harmless bunch of cam-whore individuals, right?
2) HAVING THE AGUPIPS OVER. Don’t you just miss the Aguman tambayan and its crowd during sembreaks? Well, the perfect solution for that longing is bringing the AguPips over your house! Duh! Imagine the mayhem and ruckus our bonding sessions can produce, haha!
3) PRIVY TO PAUTAKAN DETAILS. And the whole question-making process, for that matter. What makes the Pautakan the most prestigious quiz show in Pampanga? Remember the classic “So big, it can't fit this paper” teaser? Well, it’s our questions that set us apart – which kinda is expected since we are all from the university to beat. I guess, in a way, you’ll learn to appreciate the event more, because you’re privy to the whole preparation, and the mess that it brings with it, haha!
4) OVERNIGHT TRAVEL DETAILS. You really, really want to attend the Questions Nights, including the overnight sessions, but alas, your parents just won't let you. Well, worry no more; you won't even pay a single cent for fare to get to the venue.
5) VANDALISM IMMUNITY. Oooh, that famous Pautakan Questions Nights tradition of graffiti on skin. Sleeping is a bad idea during Questions Nights, if you don’t want to get any skin tattoos. It may not be permanent, but the thought of being the object of laughter come breakfast time is not worth the risk. But as the host, you are exempted. You can sleep without fear of defacement.
6) HOSTING SKILLS. And no, I am not referring to an emcee or presenter. Sooner or later, we’d have our own homes and we’d have our own parties and our own guests. But the thing is, you don’t have the instincts yet on how to graciously entertain guests. “Pwede pa-CR?” “Nukarin la reng basu? Minum ku sana.” By hosting the Questions Nights, you’d know what to do.
7) HOUSEHOLD CHORES SKILLS. If it were only up to you, you wouldn’t mind being nagged by your mom over your undone chores. But having friends over is a different matter. Of course, it would be too imposing for the AguPips to even let the host family members pick up after their “dirt”, haha! As the host AguPip, it is just fitting to be extra helpful in washing the dishes, the glasses, and cleaning up the kalat that we make. Besides, it was one of the conditions set by your parents, before they opened their homes for the rest of us. Besides, nothing beats a clean and orderly working space.
8) INSIDE SCOOP. A room of full of at least 10 AguPips is a recipe not just for productive work but also for intriguing gossip and hilarious antics. And since you’re practically present throughout, day and night, you’ll know everything!
9) YOU’LL KNOW WHO SNORES. Picture this: a room filled with people so tired of researching, writing, typing and making questions. And after all that, they also get tired of exchanging banter and stories, so they decide to risk it and finally get some much-needed sleep and rest. It’s a sight you’d never witness unless you attended the Questions Nights: you’ll see which among the AguPips snore their lungs out, haha!
10) IN THE SERVICE OF THE KAPAMPANGAN PEOPLE. Okay maybe, that’s a little stretch, haha! But since hosting the Questions Nights is service to the UP Aguman, by virtue of extension, it’s a service to the Kapampangan people, as well! Kidding aside, it’s one thing to welcome people in your house and entertain them for a day. But it’s another to actually let them invade your house for more than a week!
Yes, there’s a price to pay in hosting the Questions Nights. Not only is your own personal sleep and space compromised, but also that of your family’s. So all in all, it’s a noble sacrifice. But hey, it’s a learning experience, in so many levels.
If you’re still unconvinced that hosting the Questions Nights is actually a cool thing to do, look at it this way: only one AguPip gets to host an annual Pautakan tradition each year. Therefore, it’s comparable to the honor a defending champion gets when it hosts the Pautakan. Who knows, the Educ Chairperson might even let you get away with not passing your questions on time, haha!
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Gulapa's Residence
San Agustin, City of San Fernando
October 19-24
Meeting Place & Time: McDonald's Dolores Junction, 2PM
For inquiries and reservations:
Contact MICHAEL 0927 337 7993 or GBOI 0917 403 4032
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