Kwentung Peyups
In celebration of the centenary of the University of the Philippines, Kwentong Peyups -essays of UP alumni during their stay in the university - is published in the Sunday Life section of the Philippine Star. This week, the featured essay is by Romeo H. Gecoleo, BS Agriculture (1961). His essay on life in UPLB in the late 50s tells of typhoons (life in UPLB won’t be complete without them), of the downtown that was Grove, of two meals a day for only 35 pesos a month (!!!) and more… Check the UPLB that was in his essay “Macdeath, farming, and how to castrate and goat“.
