Ink of Romance

The editorial staff of Sine Qua Non is proud with the launch of ‘Ink of Romance’, our special Valentine literary folio that is first in the history of our school’s publication.

The folio primarily features love poems and short stories which are fruits of both our [very own] literary writers and our contributors’ ingenuity. We also offered page footers as ‘ad space‘ for dedication and greetings although we weren’t able to raise much money from it maybe because students don’t know yet how the thing works for our publication. Anyway, nothing is more rewarding to see the excitement in the readers’ eyes when they saw their names printed along with their contributed articles, survey responses, or dedicated greetings.

Although the release had been a couple of weeks delayed from Valentines’ Day due to funding matters which we had to contend with the school administration, we at the editorial board had completed the thing for printing promptly as set .

Here are the cover, my page and excerpts laid out for A4 paper and folded in half.



The monikers “Ink of Romance” and “Bolpen na Hinugot sa Puso” (Ballpen Drawn From The Heart) cater to articles in English and in Filipino respectively; the idea behind “Bolpen” is a joke that is provided to grab attention from readers.

We are glad that IOR was able to incite reading to our students; it’s a pleasant change that students are asking for copies rather than us almost forcing them to claim. We believe that we’re able to make our (the Ed board) presence better known. In fact, I already received a handful of contributions for the next issue. We could expect that students will be looking forward to the future issues of Sine Qua Non – something we aim to instigate to students the sense of involvement and concern towards the more serious issues in the school community.