00:00One day, we went to the University of the Philippines, Diliman,
00:13a few years ago.
00:23Under renovation is the main library.
00:27May sinadya kami ritong matagal na ring nakatago.
00:32Ang laki pala nito.
00:34Ang hirap ma-imagine na punong-puno ito ng estudyante.
00:39Medyo matagal na itong rehab ng UP Library.
00:44Dapat daw 2023 pa raw natapos,
00:47pero mukhang medyo malayo-layo pa.
00:51Pero dito nakastore yung hinahanap natin.
00:57Hello! Magandang araw po!
01:08Magandang araw po! Welcome po!
01:10Thank you for allowing us to be here.
01:12Oh, of course.
01:14Thank you so much.
01:15Welcome to the Gonzales Hall.
01:18Siguradong napakaganda nito pag natapos na.
01:22Ay, opo. We're looking forward to it.
01:25Sana in the nearest future.
01:27Yeah, so ano ba yung major na ginagawa?
01:30This is retrofitting.
01:32The building is more than 60 years old.
01:35It's the first overhaul since it was built.
01:37Since it was built.
01:39Tinanggal pan samantala,
01:41halos lahat ng laman ng library para sa renovation.
01:45Maliban lang sa isang obra.
01:47Ito, the mismong oblation, the original.
01:50We cannot take it out.
01:52In-advise po kami na huwag nang galawin.
01:55Iwanan na lang po siya dyan.
01:56Bakit?
01:58Risk assessment, mas safe siya dito
02:00kesa po yung tatanggalin siya dyan, ibababa.
02:03Tsaka po, I think it was already permanently installed there.
02:06So, mas malaking damage ang mangyayari
02:08kung babakbakin, ibababa.
02:10Siya yan.
02:11Siya po yan.
02:16Makalipas ang mahigit tatlong taon,
02:19muling masisilayan ang pinakaunang oblation.
02:26Ito ang orihinal na nilikha ni Guillermo Tolentino noong taong 1935.
02:32Gawa ito sa kongkreto.
02:46Ang mas kilalang oblation o oblek
02:49na nakatayo sa harapan ng Quezon Hall sa UP Diliman
02:53ay gawa sa bronze o tanso
02:55ni Tolentino noong dekade 50.
02:58Yung original oblation nasa library.
03:03Para malaman ang mas malalim na kwento sa likod nito,
03:06kinuusap namin ang dean ng UP College of Fine Arts
03:10na si Toyn Imau.
03:12It was originally nasa Manila ito no, before the war.
03:16Then the war happened, it was damaged,
03:19one of the arms was blown away.
03:22Tapos nun, nung nagkaroon na ng purchase ng land dito sa Diliman
03:26for the 490-hectare campus ng UP,
03:31trinansfer ito.
03:33Yung transfer period niya was from 1947 to 49.
03:38Istatwa man sa paningin ng karamihan.
03:41Pero gaya ng tao, marami rin itong pinagdaanan
03:45bago makaligtas.
03:46Alam mo naman natin na heavily bombarded ang Manila during that time
03:50and it will take some time for UP in Manila that time
03:54to recover and to be restored.
03:57Then, nagkaroon ng parang isang parada
04:00na yung pagkatransfer from UP Manila
04:02which was heavily devastated during the war
04:05at dinala dito sa campus na ginagawa ngayon ng UP.
04:09Much of the buildings were still unfinished.
04:12So may parada pa nung hinatid.
04:14Big deal.
04:16It was a big deal.
04:18I think it was also the time na parang sinasabi nga natin
04:21na parang rebirth.
04:23It was the second life of the oblation.
04:25It was the second life of the university.
04:26And I think the symbolic transfer of that oblation
04:31from Manila to Diliman
04:36was yung pinaka sinasabi natin
04:39parang christening ng lugar.
04:41It was the sort of blessing,
04:43parang ugali ng mga Pilipino
04:45na nagdadala ng something into a new house.
04:47This, the oblation, has somehow functioned like that.
04:52Sa haba ng pinagdaanan ng oblation,
04:53ninanatili rin itong matatag na simbolo ng pagiging malaya,
05:00tulad ng lugar kung saan ito nakatayo.
05:09Hindi tulad sa maraming kolehyo,
05:11kahit sino malayang makapamasyal dito,
05:14tagayupi ma nung hindi.
05:16Maraming salamat sa pagtutok sa eyewitness mga kapuso.
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