Welcome to PUPSMK's Slumbook Series where you can find the coolest information about our History professors and dear student majors. Get to know them up close and personal.
Our featured professor this week is
Sir Macky Pascual.
Our featured professor this week is
Sir Macky Pascual.
Name: Mc Donald Domingo M. Pascual
Birthday: November 17
Age: Wag na yan edad..
Work: Academician, Producer, Consultant
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Likes: kindhearted, trustworthy, congenial, dearly, affectionate, will-powered, smart and visionary people
Dislikes: regal-headed, treacherous, irresponsible, and insensitive
Color: Blue
Author: Many to Mention
Book: I Made Millions and Lost Them by F.C. Dela Rama Pet: di ako mahilig
Films: Haw-ang, Butas 2
Dream Vacation: Anywhere in the world with the person I truly love
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Motto: Betrayal starts when loyalty ends.
♥Love: It is the craziest game that we ever play!
♠ What one word would best describe yourself?
A. Passionate
Personals ....
1. What made you to choose teaching as your profession?
A. Actually I did not choose teaching as my profession, not even BA
History as the program that I would pursue. I wanted to pursue Medicine
then. But since I was scolded by my aunt and we did not talk for
several days, I failed to enroll at UST where I wanted to take up
Biology. Without a choice then, I and my aunt (we were already in good
terms at that time) had to go to Fatima University in Valenzuela. Yet,
since the tuition and other school fees were so expensive, including the
penalty fee in case that payment would be made late, I decided to come
to PUP instead and try my luck--after all, I thought, I could change my
program if anytime I would want to. And so, we went immediately to PUP.
2. So, you finally decided to take up BA History in PUP?
A. Actually, it was not my desire to take up History in PUP yet I had
not choice. There was no BS Biology yest at that time and so I thought
of taking up BA English instead. Unfortunately, the enrolling officer
of the English Department was not there and it was already past 4
o'clock in the afternoon. Besides, I and my aunt felt so exhausted
already, considering of course the distance of our travel between
Valenzuela and Sta. Mesa, apart from the fact that it was raining at
that time. So, we went to the 6th floor and there we met Dr. Coloma, the
enrolling officer for the History program. She told me to enlist my
name in the masterlist and gave me a registration card. The rest became
history.
3. Do you have any regrets of becoming a History major and an instructor?
A. Honestly, I wanted to shift to another program at the onset of my
second year. Two classmates went ahead to the office of Dr. Rosales who
was still the chairperson of the Department of History that time. I
did not go with my classmates at the same time in order to let Dr.
Rosales sign our shifting forms because a former high school classmate
came to chance upon me and we had a short chit-chat just outside the
restroom of the West Wing.
When, eventually, I arrived at the
office of Dr. Rosales, I heard her cursing my classmates who went ahead
of me and scolding them for allegedly making BA History as their
stepping stone to get into the university. Then she suddenly turned her
angry face towards me and said, "Mc Donald, magsi-shift ka rin ba?!" I
answered, "Ma'am hindi po" was my resigned reply. Because of that, the
three of us did not have the opportunity to transfer to other programs
anymore until we finished our History degree.
Regarding
teaching, I did not even see myself as a would-be facilitator or
provider of knowledge. In the semester following our graduation, Dr.
Rosales, the new dean of the College of Arts, took me and Raul Sebastian
in. I was only 20 years old at that time and, admittedly, I did not
know whether I could handle collegiate classes effectively or not,
particularly that I had no teaching experience before that. But since
that time, I came to love my profession. I did not love it because I
was forced to do it but because it became spontaneously subtle on my
part. I just found myself touching the lives of my students and, I
think, I have been enjoying doing that.
4. Do you enjoy doing your job? Why or why not?
A. Oh yes, I enjoy my job definitely for certain good reasons: Firstly,
teaching, for me, is a career where knowledge does not stop to
reverberate. Because of that, there is a continuous intellectual
advancement on my part and I also take part in the total development and
success of my students.
Secondly, I have nice, jolly, and
caring colleagues and friends that surround me. Thirdly, I have
students who are thoughtful, obedient, and industrious; students who are
always there to help. Fourthly, History has become intrinsically a part
of me. And lastly, there is a vibrant life and career in History if
one were just to discover it.
5. What has been your funniest moment with PUP?
A. The funniest moment was when, one time, I was coming to PUP and I
was on top of a footbridge, I suddenly felt the presence of a hanging
cloth behind me. I thought that if that was the strap of my bag the
strap would be somewhat lengthy--but it was not! So, I decided to
finally take that cloth and, presto, I saw that it was my used white
underwear which was inserted in one of my pockets behind. I was so
embarrassed when I saw it and I felt like I was declining in a
quicksand. Even when I was already in the cab on my way to PUP--and to
think that nobody knew me, I still felt that humiliation because I
thought that a lot of people saw me with that used underwear in my back
pocket.
6. Why was the used underwear inserted in your rear pocket?
A. It became like that because my aunt told me to bring out my used
clothes so that the laundress could wash them. I told her to do it
instead for me because I was already in a hurry, but she insisted that I
should bring them out myself. To minimize therefore my movement and
because I had two bags to carry, I inserted my used underwear in one of
the rear pockets of my pants, thinking that I could remove it after
coming out of our house and hand it over to the laundress.
Unfortunately I failed to do that. I walked through our village, got on
board a tricycle, went thought the market, waited and took on board an
fx taxi, and walked over a footbridge before I could notice it--and I
should have not noticed it quickly even if I was already touching it had
it not been for a man who was trying to peep whatever was behind me.
Perhaps he noticed it that is why he tried to identify what it was.
Honestly, that was so disgusting.
7. How do you see yourself several years from now?
A. I guess, I would be one with fulfillment and joy.
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