UP Lantern Parade 2008

UP Diliman Centennial Lantern Parade
3pm December 17, 2008, Academic Oval

This year’s Lantern Parade is extra special. With UP celebrating its 100 years, its constituent universities (UPLB, UPM, UP Pampanga) will be joining with their own floats. Watch the live webstreaming of the event:

• rtsp://streaming.up.edu.ph/lantern.sdp (using Quicktime Player)
• http://lantern.up.edu.ph (with your choice of browser)
• http://lantern.upd.edu.ph

I will most probably be posting some videos here after the event. Anyway, here are the other events for UP Diliman’s Pasko 2008 Celebration.

The Christmas Spirit

“I am the Christmas Spirit. I enter the home of poverty and cause palefaced children to open wide their eyes in pleased wonder. I cause the miser to release his clutched hand, thus painting a bright spot upon his soul.

“I cause the aged to remember their youth and to laugh in the glad old way. I bring romance to childhood and brighten dreams woven with magic.

“I cause eager feet to climb dark stairways with filled baskets, leaving behind hearts amazed at the goodness of the world.

“I cause the prodigal to pause in his wild and wasteful way and send to anxious love some little token which releases glad tears, washing away the hard lines of sorrow.

“I enter dark prison cells, causing scarred manhood to remember what might have been and pointing to better days yet to come.

“I enter the still white home of pain, and there lips that are too weak to speak just tremble in silent, eloquent gratitude.

“In a thousand ways I cause this weary old world to look up into the face of God and for a few moments forget everything that is small and wretched. You see, I am the Christmas Spirit.”

(Author unknown.)

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from LDS-Gems Daily Digest

Home for the Holidays!

One week lang! Be home tomorrow. Happy holidays!