Taken From Rico Blanco - Your Universe- ricoblanco.com.ph

Countless Filipinos have heroically gone out of their way to help our brothers and sisters in this time of need. This is just my humble contribution as a singer and musician. I hope, in my own little way, I can help raise additional funds they badly need, and perhaps give a little boost to their morale to help them get back on their feet again.

I am offering a completely new song, 'Bangon' as a free download. Hopefully it will alsoraise some badly needed funds through your donations. Warner Music Philippines is currently helping me set up a bank account to accomodate your cash donations as well as a Paypal account for those of you who wish to help from overseas.

For those who wish to donate now, you can text Bangon to 5677. I am waiving all royalties, the amount of which will go to our countrymen affected by the typhoons.

Please feel free to download the track, use it, and share with your friends to spread the message of hope to everyone.

Thank you for your kindness. God bless. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

If only you knew...
If only I can...
I'll let you rule my world.
Until my last cell dies. 

- inspired by Aiza Seguerra's Para Lang Sa'yo, im not a poet but this one is sincere.

geezz Aiza's a real artist! She made me perspire my emo-ness inside. sana lang mabasa nya

UP's routine didn't have enough wow factor unlike in the past two years. Their stunts were not flawless - one in pyramid and the other in a bow and arrow i guess. But the Ikot jeep and the blue book are cool! (rock) What i like most in UP Pep Squad (every year) are their tosses, they really toss high and there's energy in every toss! Ateneo's routine was also good, as far as i can remember they only fell in one stunt. Their moon walk is the best! FEU deserved the top spot, their routine was very polished and they have improved a lot from their past routines which were more of floor exercises. Scores: FEU-86.1, ADMU-83.4, UP-83.1 - ADMU's and UP's scores were close! it can be interchanged given another 16 counts *wink

I know that sdt fans are gonna hate me (i don't care) but i was so elated that UST was not in top 3. "UST ang Pamantayan" - huh? since when? I like the scene when UP bid goodbye to UST after the winners were announced, waving hands ruled the loser sign. Even if UP Pep Squad didn't win this year it's OK, there's always a next year and I'm still a huge UP PS fan! I commend all the squads for putting up better routines in this season. Many have improved but UP PS is still THE BENCHMARK OF CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY. Let's go UP! :)

  There's no such thing as the Big 4, only the BIG 3. Wag na ipilit! ~ i just remembered from a conversation haha

I woke up a bit dizzy today, hangover! I missed the feeling of getting drunk and so i enjoyed it last night at Pork Barrel with Addi and Gold. In the midst of academic intoxication and tiring yet relentless passion for service, i engaged myself in a state where i can be easygoing. It was so damn good! laughing out loud, worrying about nothing, thinking randomly, listening, watching, commenting, just being the ordinary and the wild just to ease off the stress in our minds and bodies. But before we got drunk we were at Trinoma on movie marathon.

At around 4:30 pm Addi and Gold came to my apartment to fetch me, i was asleep when they arrived. They woke me up and told me that i have to dress up because the movie The Proposal will start at 5:10 and so i rushed into the bathroom and hurriedly took a shower. Apparently, we didn't make it on or before 5:10 so we decided to watch the 7:50 GI Joe instead. After buying tickets we agreed to have dinner at Bigoli. While walking our way to the restaurant we passed by a live shoot of Lucy Torres-Gomez's and Wilma Doesnt's The Sweet Life show. Wow! Lucy is very beautiful, i was really amazed! 

Going back to the movie, GI Joe was a badass! Anna was hot! It was fun, scifi-ish and action-packed! - the kind of movie that i am willing to watch over and over again. It's now on my official list of favorite movies along with Star Trek, Pearl Harbor, Eagle Eye and Stealth. And the Nanomites? well what can I say, it's the word of the night! 

 I thought that the next thing that we will do after we get out of the cinema is to head home but NO!!! We found ourselves in front of the ticket booth again! queueing for The Proposal! We really can't struggle against our desire to watch it because this is the only weekend where we found ourselves free from council commitments after the month-long Engineering Cup. So we thought that we need to reward ourselves with movies, we didn't get much stress-free activities for over a month after all.

The Proposal was a light one and very funny! We're a trio of weird laughers, we laugh like there's no tomorrow! Everybody was already over a funny scene but we're still not over it, still laughing. There's this one scene where Addison's laugh shined the most! You can probably hear his laugh on the Zth row, we were on row D! Nobody beat Addi's laugh! The winning scene was when grandma Annie faked her heart attack just so they can ride a plane and catch Margaret's flight back to NY. It was one hell of a good time movie.

 We left Trinoma at 12am , we took a cab back to my apartment. All set to go home, Gold suddenly felt the urge to get drunk! Can't help it again! The feeling of wanting to unwind! We spent the rest of our time in Pork Barrel with two buckets of Red Horse and Pork Sisig chatting about acads, personal life, esc life and some random stuffs. We spent some money in that night out but it's all worth it, at least we had a fresh start for the upcoming acad demands and of course EMC!

 Taken From Cory laid to rest beside Ninoy - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

"The procession brings back memories of 1983. Like 1983, the people lined the procession route to show their appreciation, gratitude and love to Tita Cory who served the country with her heart. Tita Cory loved the country the way she loved Ninoy - selflessly," Tanada said. 

EMC is a SIMULATION of the corporate world. It is a step-by-step introduction to the language of marketing as for engineers to package their ideas and articulate their minds with much competence.   First, the participants identify a research project of the college and  then  present a marketing strategy for it. To give them the training vital to market their project, they will be guided by a series of seminars, as well as workshops about significant aspects of marketing and communications

Presenting EMC 2009: BE THE 100th: Local Engineers To Global Pioneers

As we pay tribute to our 99 world-class  UP College of Engineering alumni, EMC 09 challenges every student to Be the 100^th local engineer to soar high as a global pioneer.

Through this event, we aim to:

• Equip the Local Engineer.  Harness the ability of engineering students in relaying their bright ideas through effective communication, presentation and marketing skills.
• Inspire the future Global Pioneer.  Highlight innovative research works of UP Engineers that could create potential breakthrough in a global scale & develop marketing strategies feasible to overcome pressing  global concerns.

The Events

    GRAND OPENING

              August 4-7                     Grand Launch of EMC 2009

                                                        Exhibit of the 99 Outstanding Alumni  Engineers

                                                        Registration of Competing Teams

                                                        Thesis Presentation

SEMINAR SERIES

Competent and eminent speakers provide the participants with advices, guidelines, workshops and motivations before venturing into the actual marketing.

August 11       INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING

        August 13       BASICS OF BUSINESS WRITING SEMINAR 

        August 20       INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & PRODUCT PACKAGING SEMINAR             

        August 27       GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE MARKETING IDEAS AND STRATEGIES

        September 3  COMMUNICATIONS, ETHICS, SELF PACKAGING SEMINAR

COMPETITION PROPER

Teams shall be composed of 3-5 bonafide undergraduate students of the College of Engineering, UP Diliman. All members of a team or at least majority of them should be under the department/institute where the Engineering output (product/design/thesis) is taken from. Only the 10 teams who have best demonstrated superb marketing potentials among others shall have the prestige to advance to the FINALS  and compete on:

              September 7                       Mock Marketing

              September 14-18              Exhibit of the Participants’ Works

              September 18                    Oral Presentation and Final’s Night

The REWARD

              1st Prize:                             PhP 30,000 +  plaque             

              2nd Prize:                            PhP 20,000 + plaque             

              3rd Prize:                             PhP 10,000 + plaque

Java chip frappe on a relaxing conversation completed my day. TechnoHub is really a nice place to unwind with pals. Great landscapes, interiors, man-made river/pond and green grasses make you feel that you are out of a polluted city. Timezone is indeed fun! Pang pang paradise is our favorite but nothing beat the karaoke, it's the first time I heard Ace and Pau sing! Red box is now officially on our must do list. Too bad Vinz and Mae weren't there, they missed the fun. 

Before he came to meet us he went to play golf, he said that he don't wanna work anymore! -> this statement was Nat's fave. Indeed, he earned the right to relax and enjoy his life. After he finished his food, we started our presentation. By the way, the reason why we met him was to present the specifics of Engineering Marketing Congress 2009, we invited him to be our speaker for the first seminar: Orientation and Basics of Marketing. I was assigned in the introduction part, i got nervous at first, but who wouldn't be?! Nats in Event, Karen in Seminars and Mia in Competition. When we told him what we want him to tackle in his speech (basics of marketing, four Ps of marketing, marketing and engineering correlation), he said that it's too basic. What he wanted to talk about was P&G's local and global branding, it focuses more on the advertising, he will show several commercials, he will discuss which products hit the market and which products flunked and the story behind them. Well he's right, it's too basic for him and so we allowed his request to change the nature of his talk, it's also in line with the theme "Local Engineers To Global Pioneers" anyway and who are we to reject.

After the presentation, we started to ask questions about the company. He told us about his leadership experience, the character a leader must possess, the Es of leadership, the values of P&G and what struck me the most was when he told us that the moment he stepped in his position and realized the mission of the company: As the company grows, the community around us grows with us (not certain if it's the exact phrase), he said that he must adhere to and live with that. The hardest job for him was to fire employees which really is tough. He emphasized that the leader is the perpetuation of the corporation. Under his leadership, P&G went to broader horizons, created more jobs to Filipinos through outsourcing and helped the sari-sari store owners to survive and earn more by repackaging products into smaller ones to become more affordable. He's a genius. He strengthened my desire to work in P&G. He told us that if you get accepted in P&G you must be very smart and this is my favorite among his quotable statements: "I haven't met any UP student who did not excel." He said that we should have very good leadership skills, we should be active in our organizations, we should have experience handling events and projects like this which I'm proud i have and should have very good grades which i doubt haha but i wont give up, i still have a year in UP! I even asked him if there are career opportunities for CS grads and he said there is at GBS! 

It was indeed an unforgettable two-hour experience, to be able to have met him, talked to him and heard of his experience was very empowering, we all consider it a once in a lifetime episode. The only regret we had was we didn't take a picture with him! we're all too fascinated with his stories and his presence to the extent of shouting OMG after we get past the exit of the mall and took off. If there's a JC fans club, i'll definitely want to apply! The College of Engineering got the privilege of having him in the Engineering Marketing Congress 2009's Seminar 1 on August 11, 5:30 pm at the Eng'g Theater, be there. 

Finally i got a blog site. I’m not really a writer but i want to challenge myself to make an archive of my everyday experience. Many good things have happened and i think it's best to save them. I hope i can post entries on a regular basis despite a toxic schedule.