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Pictures: Last Friday?s Set
2007-09-04 05:49:00 I was supposed to the WikiPilinas-sponsored at Roxas Boulevard, but this got in the way. Haha. Actually, I’ve always known about this pre-scheduled (from a month ago) set and I totally forgot about it on the week itself. Thanks to my classmate Julian Cañero for taking these kick ass photos from Friday At The ... More About: Pictures
Now Hosting!
2007-09-03 18:49:00 Purely on whim, I decided to host someone at a sub-domain at Atheista.net. Ederic has been helping me a lot with the logistics of the setup and hopefully, the sub-domain will be up soon. The lucky blogger is a recent convert from Blogspot to Wordpress and I think that played a lot into my ... More About: Hosting
Bloggers In Focus
2007-09-03 13:00:00 I am both grateful and relieved that people who appeared on the show had mastery of the English language (and the vernacular), the sense of clarity to crystallize and organize issues and the undeniable substantiation to be able to dispel any notion that the Philippine Blogging Community behaved like a lynch mob when the Malu ... More About: Bloggers , Focus
I Got Duped By Gibbs!
2007-08-31 18:12:00 Watch the author literally have the worst time of his life. Can you even see me in this picture? This must be Gibbs Cadiz and Karla Maquiling’s idea (of Pinoy Centric) of a joke. What started out as an invitation for one lazy afternoon at the theater rapidly evolved into an impromptu mini-workshop that nobody anticipated. ...
The Post-Mortem: Media In Focus
2007-08-30 09:00:00 I was interviewed with no less than the living legend of Philippine Investigative Journalism, Ms. Cheche Lazaro. Woah. Together with Josel (AKA the guy who’s been getting tens and thousands of hits since this issue exploded), I was interrogated first regarding the Malu Fernandez issue. There was a bit of a mix up - they thought I had direct links ... More About: Media , Post , Focus , Mort
Square Off! Update: Xavier University beats UP Baguio
2007-08-29 17:56:00 I didn’t get to watch the round but I was told that Xavier Univers ity (formerly known as Ateneo de Cagayan) beat the University of the Philippines Baguio in the fifth octofinal round of the Square Off! Debate Championships. Xavier becomes the first provincial school to advance to the quarterfinals after schools like Western Mindanao State ... More About: Update , Beats
The Game Plan For Tomorrow
2007-08-29 12:00:00 The Primer: Media In Focus is a show that deals WITH the media - on how is a story being reported — and less about what the story is to begin with. But this is a special case. The issue probably fell under this show’s criteria because the person at the center of this commotion ... More About: Game , The Game , Tomorrow , Plan , The Game Plan
Keeping It Real On The Malu Fernandez Issue
2007-08-27 07:03:00 Malu Fernandez exercised poor judgment, bad choice of words and horrible taste in choosing to poke fun and insult people who are taken in high regard in this country. Though it’s not exactly a no-no, if one is to criticize anything, the grounds have to be logical and rational. That is why discrimination on the ... More About: Real , Malu , Issue , Nand
Yet Another TV Appearance: And Oh, I Need Your Help!!!
2007-08-26 17:24:00 August has been one crazy month. Prior to this month, all my appearances on TV have been due to coincidence - the camera panning during a PBA game, having a camera crew covering a debate event I was in etc. This month, I’ve been invited to deliberately appear on shows not once, not ... More About: Appearance
Back From Taste Asia 2
2007-08-23 21:00:00 I’ll be updating this post soon. It’s really late, so let me just rattle off some bullets for now. From Aileen Apolo’s gallery - Front Row: Yatot, Aileen, Carlo, Joe, Jehzlau, Allen and Benj (channeling Coy) Back row: Billycoy Dacuycuy, Jerico, Lalon and Elmo aka JP. I had a great time hanging out with the younger ... More About: Asia , Taste
The Great NBN Adventure: Youth Voice (airs Saturdays at 8 PM!)
2007-08-22 20:37:00 This almost didn’t come to reality, but thanks to having luck on my side (and about 20% of the universe conspiring to make sure an exam got rescheduled), I was able to go to a debate show taping on NBN (that’s the channel formerly called PTV 4). We taped for two episodes of the weekly ... More About: Voice , Adventure , Youth , Great , VOIC
Square Off! Update: DLSU beats UB
2007-08-22 19:39:00 With a split decision of 2-1, the duo of Ryan Sebolino and Dino de Leon from De Lasalle University beat the pair from University of Baguio to advance to the quarterfinals of the Square Off! Debate Championships. DLSU entered the tournament as the fourth seed compared to UB who is seeded thirteenth out the sixteen ... More About: Update , Beats
Watch Me This Saturday And Next Saturday
2007-08-20 18:30:00 That’s the schedule for the Youth Voice airing. And it can’t get any more prime time than this time slot - we’re on from 8 PM to 9 PM! Saturday night! Woohoo! And oh, it’s at NBN (Channel 4). We taped for two episodes and I made shameless shootouts to the Philippine Blogging Community! :p I’m off to the Mrs. Fields event tomorrow. Again, I’ll be on ANC this Wednesday! It’s going to be aired live at around 8 PM! See you there… I mean, you can see me. Haha. Viewed 28 times by 13 viewers More About: Watch
The Country?s Youngest Doctor Will Not Give You A Blood Transfusion
2007-08-19 17:55:00 Yup, that’s right. But no, he doesn’t do it because he wants to see people bleed to death- he’s simply practicing one of the tenets of his religion. He just celebrated his 23rd birthday - oh wait, he couldn’t, again, it’s disallowed in his religion — but Doctor Adrian Rabe of the UP College ... More About: Country , Blood , Give , Tran
The Duality Of Belief: The Simplified Version
2007-08-19 13:10:00 The great thing with spending considerable time with a group of outspoken and culturally-diverse people is that you’ll get a good pulse on why certain people believe certain things and others don’t. Of course, such conversations are limited to those who are also willing to listen to something that is not natural to his/her ... More About: Belief , Version , The D , Dual , Ality
Goodbye NBN? Oh Wait, HELLO AGAIN!
2007-08-18 18:31:00 Yes, NBN. You’re dead to me. Thanks in large part to Typhoon Sepat (Egay to those with a heightened sense of nationalism), my much-anticipated, much-talked-about (wahaha) August 20 NBN taping for some debate show on the nation’s most watched network is no longer feasible due to conflicts in schedule. For the benefit of the non-students (and those ... More About: Goodbye , Wait
First, ANC. Second, NBN. Next, THE WORLD!
2007-08-16 20:03:00 In line with my goal of hosting Wowowee by years end, I have once again committed to another debate-related TV appearance. After adjudicating for ANC’s Square Off! last week, I’ll be debating against students from De Lasalle University on Monday (August 21). Apparently, we’ll be doing two debates because they want to shoot for ... More About: World , The World
At The End Of The Day, I Think It Was A Good Idea
2007-08-16 16:10:00 Although I’ve already voiced out my opinions regarding the name of Janette Toral’s now-controversial writing project, I think at the end of the day, it produced more good than harms for the Philippine Blogging Community (from now on, I vow to use this term instead of the more popular and tacky compound word). Granted, certain winners ... More About: Idea , Good , The D
Square Off! Update
2007-08-15 22:43:00 The third round for ABS-CBN News Channel’s Square Off! aired live last night. Second seed University of Philippines Diliman squared off against fifteenth seed Mindanao State University - Marawi City to determine the next quarterfinalist. Diliman was represented by Melissa Sayoc and PIDC finalist Claire Jiao. After almost half an hour of intense debating on ... More About: Update
Lost.
2007-08-15 21:12:00 He cried loudly. He could have been heard from across the halls.His shrieks were echoed by the other inhabitants of the basinets and incubators. Seeing how tiny he was, it was easy to surmise that he’s a newborn. He looks like he’s still months away from standing up. Other than his cries, he utters no ... More About: Lost
Poignant
2007-08-15 10:14:00 Ok, this was stolen from Jon’s blog. This comment made by Toni (who unfortunately failed to leave a URL) just hits the spot, I think. You know the saying: There are no tyrants where there are no slaves. You have a blog. You have the power. Let the ?powers that be? cringe as they slowly realize their ...
Rebuttals 101
2007-08-14 10:11:00 There is nothing like a good rebuttal. For debaters this skill is one of the most crucial in ensuring a win. Debate is not just about pushing forward constructive cases to promote your side’s main contentions. It’s also important to show the adjudicators that you have the mettle to react and dynamically respond to the constructive ... More About: Butt , Rebuttal
A Boy Was Once 13?
2007-08-13 21:02:00 Ederic shared what he did when he was 13 via Twitter and despite the obvious undertone of the message in reference to the current hot topic in the Philippine Blogosphere, I think it’s quite clear that there’s a need to further nuance what a thirteen year-old kid can do. X years ago (*yikes*), a particular boy ...
A Crash Course On Leukemia
2007-08-13 16:55:00 This morning, I was able to be of service to JS, a 29 year-old father of three. He looked fairly healthy and if I saw him on another setting, I wouldn’t have known that he’s afflicted with a potentially life-threatening disease. But JS was not here to ask what disease he has. He ... More About: Leukemia , Crash
Squaring Off! Stolen Shots
2007-08-11 15:01:00 Posing next to the Studio 6 sign. I was obviously taking instructions for this shot. This was shot after the show. While the debaters were asking for points of information from the Chair Adjudicator, I was busy fooling around. They did ask for my comments eventually. The adjudicators were huddled up in a room ... More About: Stolen , Shots
Public Humiliation Public Health Lecture!
2007-08-10 15:27:00 Aside from saving lives, medical students also have the role of educating people about the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Due to this, departments in the Philippine General Hospital routinely require students to do Public Heal th Lectures in the Out Patient Clinic. Patients and their companions are usually very appreciative of the things ... More About: Public Health
The Unofficial Square Off! Draw
2007-08-09 17:00:00 I’m not too sure if this holds, but assuming that Sir Martin Cortez and Patricia Evangelista gave me the correct information - and assuming I understood it correctly, here’s the draw for Square Off! Again, this is UNOFFICIAL. I’ve already sent a copy of this draw to the producers to verify if I got it ... More About: Draw , The U
The Opinion ?Defense?
2007-08-09 13:25:00 I’ve noticed one sentence that gets used and abused more than the 35 peso whores in Luneta. I’m entitled to my opinion. It doesn’t really matter if it’s here or abroad. This is a line that gets thrown around the blogosphere at least a couple of hundred times a day. Apparently, just because somebody contests ... More About: Opinion , Defense , The O
The Square Off Experience
2007-08-09 08:25:00 It was raining hard. Manila was flooded. My parents weren’t exactly helpful. They weren’t willing to take me to Quezon City. I had to commute. And yes, commute I did. I had to go on a treacherous obstacle course to find the only remaining non-inundated patches of asphalt along Taft Avenue in hopes of catching a ride ... More About: Experience , Peri , Erie , Square
Help Me Go To The World Championships!
More articles from this author:2007-08-05 12:06:00 This December, debaters and adjudicators from all over the world will go to Assumption University in Thailand for the the World s Universities Debate Championship. Being a tenacious debater myself, I would really love the opportunity to go there and compete under the banner of UP Manila and of course, under the flag of the ... More About: World Championships , The World , Championships , Ship 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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