We appeared on mainstream TV today. (No big deal, we were just re-enacting a scene out).

This might sound stupid, but that’s one of my gazillion life goals crossed out. Hehehe!

GIANT KITTEEEEHHHH!!!!

One of my super rare visits to the mall, a shop I forgot to note about, in SM Megamall 

Me and two of my closest friends in UP Diliman would love to know what you think of them!

Kindly give us some ten minutes of your golden hours to answer this survey for an ongoing undergraduate thesis on Local Tourism in Philippine TV.

Why answer this survey?

Because YOU who watches this TV show is HARD TO FIND. And we’d love to see if YOU believe these shows/networks yourself, being someone who actually lives in the areas they feature. Kumbaga, walang tatalo sa first-hand experience at knowledge mo tungkol sa lugar na un! Your opinion and recommendations can make a difference in maintaining the standards of quality Philippine travel TV shows! (Besides, you’ll be giving out priceless help to us students :D)

Thanks in advance! O game, click the link na!

Oh it’s so easy, it’s like this:

• Grab a friend (or in my case, grab my cousins).
• Keep all lights open.
• Forget to bring speakers or headphones.
• Make sure the wi-fi connection you’re stealing from the neighbor is crappy
• Open Youtube in another window. View cute cats and rats loving each other while the other side of the “door” loads.
• Remember at the last minute that you, the bravest of ‘em all, hated seeing gory stuff because you remember them so well they’ll give you graphic nightmares. Leave the table, and take sissy pictures like this, or pay a visit to the dessert table.

I woke up today feeling like it’s “Sunday Morning”, a description I reserve for days when I feel strangely good and relaxed and refreshed.. like Sunday mornings.

Good morning Kuya and Gyunyu! My brother and pet cat sleep together like this all the time.

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I had the most unlikely IM chatmates and conversations, and talked to people I never thought I would yesterday. It’s been a while since I had a Friday night at home :D I watched with Kuya and my dad that Seth-Rogen-raunchy-and-surprisingly-feel-good movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. 

Despite its expletive-heavy comedy script and “R-18″ graphics (they DO make a porno after all), there’s something sincere and very human in this movie, that’s why I like it. It’s a “MAC” movie, too–Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” dude from the Get a Mac video series makes one of the funniest cameos I’ve ever EVER seen :D Bentang-benta! Oh, and forgive me for the stereotypes, but I think it’s a geek movie, too– the Superman Returns hotness named Brandon Routh is there (PANALO RIN ‘TO!), along with slips about comic books, sci-fi, high school memories, barista dreams, online shopping, etc.

If you liked Jun, Superbad, or Definitely Maybe (remember Emily, the first girl? She’s Miri!), you’ve got to see this movie. 

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Going back to the feel of Sunday Mornings: Besides accidentally stumbling on this rare optimistic blog entry from a friend who has been facing tough times lately, I also saw a previously unseen comedy photo albums of me and my elementary school friends. Heck, the weather participates, too!

With some decent sleep, these simple life-things must’ve kicked those rusty happy screws in my head back to life! Yeah, it’s a peaceful weekend :D

Finally, to end this entry is this soundtrack of the day, a song from the mellow-alternative days of The Cardigans, For What It’s Worth. It reminds me of  the simplicity of admitting the truth as they happen, minus the self-consciousness of “what others would think about” :)

 

For what it’s worth, I like you.

And what is worse? I really do.

 

The Hail UP Oblation photoshoot was legendary! It made me want to take off my clothes and pose for my alma mater as well! :D (Kung pwede lang sana e!)

An incredible, breath-taking experience! Click this link for photos from my camera.

Of course these Oblations were very alive themselves! View their funnier photos here.

Thanks to all the models who participated in this centennial shoot! Our National artist Guillermo Tolentino would’ve been very proud! You did the Oblation monument, and UP, more justice than it can ever receive in its lifetime! To inspire the gathering of a all these people, and “sacrifice” themselves, er, visually by doing something potentially embarrassing (and you did it anyway!). We’re all super proud of you guys!

Let’s do what we can to keep the spirit of Filipinos in the minds of many :) I excited to see what the AP and Reuters photographers came up with! 

UP Oblation Run fans and enthusiasts! Finally, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get that perfect angle of a human UP Oblation: A photoshoot of 100 U.P. Oblations–minus the masks, and all that running!

Attend “Hail! U.P. Oblation“, a grand UP Centennial photoshoot in UP Diliman’s Amphitheater, on December 13, Saturday, at sunrise (6 A.M.).

Yeah there’s that six A.M. calltime.. but then again it’s once-in-a-lifetime! You’re gonna be telling your grandchildren about this event (especially if you’re one of the models, or know one of them)! So go! ^_^

More details in the press release below:

American recession, huh?

We’ll see.

2nd CRSC Poster by Chary Silva

“Ka-CommRes Ako!” went Sir Fernando Paragas’s urge and the audience’s “battlecry” in the Second Communication Research Student Conference (CRSC) held recently on this Saturday at the College of Mass Communication, UP Diliman.

CRSC 08 Paper-- For sale at P75 only at the CommRes Department is a CD-compilation of these papers. Please call Ms. Viring at 920-68-66 for reservations.

Because we’re coming from a field who believes that the utilization of numbers can reduce much of the Philippines’ problems to dust, I’m going to present it just like that in this entry about the 2nd CRSC, from a student secretariat’s POV:

There were three venues on the second Communication Research Student Conference, mainly organized by a secretariat of twenty-four students of Communication Research 175 (Fundamentals of Communication and Management by Dr. Aleli Agoncillo-Quirante), with the moral and active support of twelve professors/administration heads, among with an uncounted number of  secretary heads.

Twenty-three parallel session papers, and three main plenary session studies were presented– these involved very close to 100 students from two schools (UP Diliman and FEU), and ten advisers who made sure the student papers were given justice in the presentations they gave to the soft headcount of 888 attendees from eleven universities of the Philippines (UPD, UPM, UPLB, ADMU, AUF, CSB, DLSU, FEU, UA&P, UE, UST).

Some accumulated hundreds of hours in preparation became the cumulation of an eight-hour whole-day event as one of College of Mass Communication’s continued contribution to the local student academe, and communication studies inspiration as well as to the overall UP community recognition in its year-wide 100th anniversary celebration.

CRSC 08: A draped white blanket becomes the make-shift "LCD screen" in the cool and very blue TV station of UP CMC's Media Center

B1 / 201 in UP CMC's Film Department sufficed for an intimate paper presentations for the CRSC 08

The CMC Auditorium witnessed a fullhouse in its presentations on marketing and ICT, the more popular topics among today's youth scholars

I wanted to post more numbers on our use of resources like paper and ink spools, desktops and laptops hours use, ID cases, printed certificates, etc, but I don’t have them ^^; Here’s some fun trivia instead:

• Student presented papers they’ve previously produced as sophomores/juniors/undergrads. 
• Most presenters are undergraduate students, though there were a few who were already graduates (fresh grads!) and still presented their theses in this conference.
• It’s the first time we had presenters from another school—FEU! The CRSC aimed to encourage other schools to send in their student studies/papers. Research dissemination/presentation gives you a different sort of “high”, too! They’re not just geek work nor do they end up as scratch paper for professors–students could get priceless recognition from the hardwork behind it, too, if coupled with the extra effort in packaging, editing, and presenting the study.
• It works pala if the event required by professors (HAHA!) and is scheduled on a Saturday :D We had more attendees! More attendees mean we have more people/ larger captive audience which we can inspire (and who can inspire each other!)

Ever since my brother introduced me to typography in design, I’ve become overly-sensitive and obsessive in using it.

I revere people who use serifs and sans-serifs with sensibility. Just as what any brilliant design can do to, merely the use of good typography can project such personality and description to the actual content they represent. Imagine just what the right selection of fonts can do to make output more effective. Maybe if more communicators and audiences are well-versed in it, then our country shouldn’t be suffering from much media/information misunderstanding ^^;

Blessed with the freedom to volunteer for tasks in our preparation for my college department’s Second Communication Research Student Conference, I immediately took up one that involved creating some of the printed signs. And theFranklin Gothic type series, already my sans-serif favorite, became my muse for the day!