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                    [ArticleID] => 218992
                    [Title] => JOHNNY ARCILLA: In love with tennis
                    [Summary] => How do you get to top? You start from the bottom.  Ask Johnny Arcilla, the No. 1 tennis player in the country. He started from the bottom, and what a rise it has been. 


The eldest in a brood of tennis players, his father was once a pro and all his four younger siblings play. Johnny started playing at age five in his hometown, Cebu, when he could barely even carry the racquet. But the boy had talent, something his father saw from the start.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133745 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1182846 [AuthorName] => BRIGHT YOUNG THING By Paula Nocon [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214095 [Title] => Marica Lim: The Future’s In The Bag [Summary] => Marica Lim graduated from college only a year ago, but she’s ready to start all over again. After obtaining an AB Psychology degree from the Ateneo de Manila in 2002, she is all set to take another bachelor’s degree at the London College of Fashion this September, this time majoring in a product design course for accessories.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645237 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212466 [Title] => Paolo Yap: Harvard bound [Summary] => Only a handful of homegrown Filipino students make it to the most celebrated university in the world, and even fewer get there on a full scholarship. And when this does occur, it is a rare occasion that merits pride, hope, admiration, and certainly calls for a celebration.

Well, let the revelers come: Paolo John Aniceto Sy Yap, 19, has made it to Harvard this year.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133745 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1182844 [AuthorName] => BRIGHT YOUNG THING By Paula Nocon [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206359 [Title] => Raymond Abrea: A Bedan with a mission [Summary] => There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings," said Hodding Carter.

It can now be said that Raymond Abrea, 20, has both.

After graduating as high school salutatorian Raymond began his college life beset with financial difficulties, which he later overcame with the help of several scholarship grants, including one from the Metrobank Foundation. He took up B.S. Accountancy in order to meet the requirements of his scholarship.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645237 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201262 [Title] => TJ Agulto: I’m really jologs [Summary] => In honor of this year’s graduates, the next several Bright Young Things will be culled from the most outstanding graduates from the country’s best colleges and universities. [DatePublished] => 2003-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645269 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198173 [Title] => Chino Yuson: The doctor is in(to music) [Summary] => He wields a scalpel by day, he plucks guitar strings at night. He wants to cure patients, he wants to entertain audiences. He’s aspiring to receive a medical diploma, he’s praying for the release of their first CD. [DatePublished] => 2003-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645269 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194660 [Title] => Amazing Grace [Summary] => You might say that she’s an achiever, but that would be an understatement. [DatePublished] => 2003-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645269 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191526 [Title] => A Green Mind [Summary] => It‘s not easy being green, once crooned Kermit the Frog on the color of his skin. Or he may have just as well been talking about the trials and tribulations of an environmental activist like Trixie Concepcion. [DatePublished] => 2003-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645280 [AuthorName] => Paula Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189144 [Title] => Rivermaya’s Mike Elgar strums his fate [Summary] => When Michael Elgar was only in high school, he found himself shoved into a nationwide guitar contest. Thinking it was just a jamming session, he played, and played hard. [DatePublished] => 2002-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645269 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 188293 [Title] => Generasian Mel [Summary] => West-East Magazine calls them Generasians. They’re that new generation of young Asians who were raised in Eastern culture, were sent to the West for education and enlightenment, and upon returning home represent a new breed of vibrant, global, sophisticated movers and shakers. [DatePublished] => 2002-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645280 [AuthorName] => Paula Nocon of the Philippine Star’s YS [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) ) )
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