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The document provides details about the history and traditions of the annual Paskuhan celebration at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. It discusses how the celebration started as a small event to help typhoon victims but has grown over the years. Now major events include a mass, free food for students, a parade featuring floats made by different colleges, and a concert including performances by the UST Yellow Jackets band. The elaborate decorations on campus and excitement from students shows how important Paskuhan has become to the university community.

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Paskuhan

The document provides details about the history and traditions of the annual Paskuhan celebration at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. It discusses how the celebration started as a small event to help typhoon victims but has grown over the years. Now major events include a mass, free food for students, a parade featuring floats made by different colleges, and a concert including performances by the UST Yellow Jackets band. The elaborate decorations on campus and excitement from students shows how important Paskuhan has become to the university community.

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3 storey Christmas tree decorated with creativity, Christmas lights hanging on trees, luminous buildings,

artificial glowing pine trees, life size Christmas balls, these are the thing that will mesmerize you when
you enter UST during the Christmas season. This has been the custom of the university to elegantly
flourish its campus with traditional yet with a touch of imagination decorations that will truly bring the
presence of the season. This decorations also signifies one thing, that the much awaited annual
Paskuhan celebration is just weeks away. We are all filled with excitement and enthusiasm when the
famous celebration is the talk of the town, but do you really know how Paskuhan started and that its
not only a concert?
The first paskuhan started in December 19, 1991, though it was in 1993 when it was really called
Paskuhan, with its theme "Paskong Tomasino, Paskong Filipino '91". The celebration was initiated as a
way of helping the typhoon uring victims wherein the students will place their donation under the
erected Christmas tree. The celebration back then was just a simple parade of Mary and Joseph inside
the campus and an inter-college lantern making contest with performances from the different
organizations and colleges of the university.
As years pass by and the simple Christmas charity program boomed and gained fame, it became a
tradition for the thomasians to celebrate it extravagantly with different activities that will surely win the
heart of the thomasian community. The paskuhan we all know today is very different from before. We
now have the Agape, the star-studded concert, the luxurious raffle, inter-college parade, and the most
famous event that made UST more famous and dubbed as the capital of it: the fireworks.
The celebration always starts with a mass to be headed by the Rector or one of the Dominican priests.
The mass gives its students the grace of God and His blessings in the Yuletide season. It is accompanied
by the procession of faith wherein the birth of Jesus Christ and the struggles of Mary and Joseph are
enacted. Students would comfortably seat in the grandstand using abaca, blankets, carpets, or even the
school paper as their improvised seating cover.
After the mass, the students will flock on their designated stations to have a taste of the free lechon
manok, baboy, and baka prepared by the university. Better be fast and have your running shoes on since
the supplies are limited and the line will be long, longer than a line for rice subsidy by the government. A
no disposable utensils rule is being imposed during the feast in order to minimize the garbage that it will
make. Rice is not included so better buy or steam it before the celebration started, that rice will worth
more than anything else during the feast. After you finish your meal, do a favour by throwing your
garbage on the trash can to maintain the cleanliness of your own university.
Its now time to satisfy your eyes as you witness the parade of the different colleges in their costumes
and floats. If you think it is just a simple and boring parade, then youre definitely wrong mister. The
colleges prepared for it really good with their skills and talents, and a lot of brains dried up to make their
floats stand out in the parade and be the most beautiful and amazing of all. The last years theme was
Disney, so the colleges where given a Disney movie to be the idea of their float. You will feel that you
were in Disneyland because of their realistic costumes and eye turning gimmicks. A student even
colored his whole body with blue paint just to depict the genie in Aladdin and a faculty used hundreds of
balloons just to copy the house in the movie Up.
Now this is one of the highlights of the celebration, the paskuhan concert. It is usually started with a
count down on the lighting of the giant Christmas tree to be followed up by a performance from the UST
Yellow Jackets to boost not just our energy but also our thomasian spirit.




Next time na yun iba koreena. Draft pa lag naman eh

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