Interview with Ryan Borja

  “Do yourself a favor” a famous quotation that made me inspire doing this interview article. It was a privilege for us La Verdarians to meet a person whose skills and passion in writing made us amuse and wonder about the world of writing and communication. It was an inspiring moment for us students because we are thought of new things in writing that we never heard and thought before. And I thank God for this opportunity to have him in just an hour. And this man is Mr. Ryan Borja.

   After his discussion to us, we asked for an interview and luckily he said yes. I’m so excited and nervous about the interview with him. And after a few minutes our conversation with him started.

   He was from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and graduated from the course of Mass Communication. And now he writes on seventh-media.com, a design studio. But we were most interested about his pas t experience in Manila Bulletin. He stayed in  Manila Bulletin for two years and he writes in the business section. Maybe this is the reason that I can recall his name. And since that I’m browsing some of the prominent newspapers in the country that I look unto the author of the article. Anyways, as a writer at Manila Bulletin, he acquires his facts mostly by going to press conferences etc.

  As writer, he also values reading books because we can also get information’s but not as before that he reads novel every time maybe because of his work schedule. As a writer, we also ask him about what is his uniqueness to others and he said that only the readers can see your uniqueness in writing. Well that’s true because you cannot only say that your style in writing is unique and stylish unless the readers finds. He also cited Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer and even Marites Vitug that he finds her writing very smooth and appreciates her book that has also make some noise to the Philippine Politics about our corrupt justices and in the Supreme Court.

  And since he had some discussion with us students of La Verdad Christian College, we also ask him about his expectations to us and he said that he knows that we have a high expectation form him as a student of the school but he also expects that we already knew blog and as scholars we could be a part of a editing team or a journalism team. A dream fulfilled to me.

  Well, it was a dream come true to talked with writer. Not just an ordinary but experienced writer that has been a part of one of the prominent newspapers in town. And I remembered the quotation “ do yourself a favor”. As early as possible know your strength and focus to it. Because nowadays, its not enough that you are good in writing but also try to explore new things that would made you marketable in the future. And for an aspiring like me, I’m on my way to be there!