Kanin Club (UP Technohub)

Do you want to feel high? Go to Kanin Club and eat Aligue Rice!

Caution: Get your medicines ready.

I was there last Dec. 11 and 17 for a dinner with college friends and graduate school classmates, respectively. Enjoyed the food, the place was nice and cozy for a big group, but not really budget friendly for a student without a job. If the Dec. 11 wasn't JD's treat, I would have spent some P260.00. The second dinner robbed me P200 (on a service water diet), but gave me a different kind of high.

I shared the aligue rice (supposedly good for 2 to 3 people) with Mon and Kevin, and we all got high. Thanks to Pinay who helped us finish the sinful heap of rice. Vodka 7 was nothing compared to feasting on rice sauteed in high cholesterol aligue plus other sumptuos meals. Aack! Aligue rice was most delicious on first serving.

Some classmates tried their Sinangag sa Sinigang Rice, and being sinigang, it was maasim. I like to pour tons ofsabaw ng sinigang over my rice, but that rice was weird.

As for the meals, I loved their Calderetang Nuevo (really tasty tender beef) and Crispy Tadyang. Their tinolang manok, nilaga and pinakbet were not so special, at least for me.

By the way, Karen said the P20 green mango shake was better than Kanin Club's super expensive (some P120) version.

The 3rd AC-UPSE Economic Forum

The 3rd AC-UPSE Economic Forum

Speaker: Dr. Erneso M. Pernia
Topic: Is Labor Export Good Development Policy?
Date & Venue: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 at the Executive Lounge, 25/F Tower 1, Ayala Triangle, Makati City

A joint quarterly activity of the Ayala Corporation and the UPSE, the purpose of the lecture series is to disseminate to the larger public the results of recent research at the UPSE and foster dialogue among policy makers, the private sector, and the academe on current issues confronting the nation.

For information, visit www.econ.upd.edu.ph

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More, including links to discussion papers, at http://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/upse/dprm_full.html.

IMPROVING ACCESS TO HEALTH: Should the Governemnt Intervene More?

The UP School of Economics Program in Development Economics and Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc. invite you to a health symposium entitled: IMPROVING ACCESS TO HEALTH: Should the Governemnt Intervene More?

The seminar will be held on Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 2:00 PM at the Room 111 of the UP School of Economics. Registration is free!

The symposium will tackle issues such as medicine prices, patents and IPR of pharmaceutical products, health financing, socialized health care, and country experiences in India, UK and the Philippines. Speakers are:

Barun Mitra
Director, Liberty Institute, New Delhi, India

Alec Van Gelder
Network Director, International Policy Network, London, UK

Aleli dela Paz Kraft, PhD
Assistant Professor, UP School of Economics, Philippines

For confirmation and for more information, please contact Ms. Rose San Pascual at telephone number 920-5481 or email address rssanpascual@ up.econ.edu. ph.

GRP-Moro Conflict: Is there an end in sight?

GRP-Moro Conflict: Is there an end in sight?
Human Security and Human Development Revisited

A Public Forum
September 19, 2008, 2-5pm
School of Economics Auditorium, University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City


Discussants

Gen. (Ret.) Rodolfo Garcia
Former Chairperson, GOP Negotiating Panel for the Talks with the MILF

Dr. Michael Mastura
Member, Negotiating Panel for the MILF

Hon. Joseph Estrada
Former President of the Republic

Sen. Franklin Drilon
Senior Counsel, ACCRA Law Offices


Reactors

Atty. Soliman Santos
Peace Advocate

Ms. Yasmin Busran-Lao
Executive Director, Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation


Moderator

Prof. Solita Monsod
Professor, UP School of Economics
Founding President, Human Development Network


In a modified open session format, our speakers will express their thoughts on the consequences and implications of the GRP-MILF MOA in the context of human security and human development. The forum shall revisit the recommendations of the 2005 Philippine Human Development Report on Peace, Human Security and Human Development and assess its relevance in light of current events.

FREE ADMISSION

A joint project of the Human Development Network and the UP School of Economics
Sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme

For more information, contact any of the following:

Human Development Network Office: 02-927-8009 (direct line), 02-927-9686 loc. 334 (telefax), secretariat@ hdn.org.ph

UP School of Economics Research Office: 02-927-9686 loc. 232

"Pamantasang Hirang" Encore!

Pamantasang Hirang, a musical that "not only looks back at the University’s history, personages, customs and traditions but also pays attention to the present and future directions of UP," will restage at UP Theater on August 13 and 14 at 7:00 PM.

Please click here for more information.

UPiktyuran

UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP
Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition is now on!

Taga-UP ka ba? You have 100 days to showcase and share your stories
by joining the UP Centennial SMART MMS Photo Competition!

I've learned about this competition, brought by a partnership between Smart and UP College of Mass Communication, from an e-mail to a Yahoo! Group from Ivan Henares (who never fails to send to the group promotions and contests like these. But I do not know him).

Anyway, here's the contest rules:

1. About the Service

1.1 Overview.

As part of Smart’s support for the UP Centennial celebrations, Smart is partnering with the UP Diliman College of Mass Communications to launch the UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition and Polling (UPiktyuran Na!).

The MMS Photo Competition aims to urge UP students, alumni, faculty and employees to
share their own stories about their experiences in the university not through words but via photos taken using a camera phone, submitted through Smart’s MMS service and viewed over the Internet. Those who are not eligible to join the competition may take part through the Polling component, wherein they can vote for their favorite MMS photo entry as viewed in the web.

Smart would like to take part in honoring and marking UP’s Centennial celebration by launching a competition that vividly portrays the significance of the occasion and the meaning of being a part of the country’s premier university.

1.2 Duration.

UPiktyuran Na! shall be announced on June 21 and shall run for 100 days starting June 22, 2008 to September 29, 2008 for the MMS photo submission. Meanwhile, for the polling, subscribers have until October 3, 2008 to vote for their favorite MMS photo entries.

1.3 Theme.

MMS photo entries should communicate the participant’s story about UP experiences to
illustrate what being part of UP and its Centennial celebration means to him/her. It must contain elements symbolic of UP – photos can show people, places, things, or moments, or combinations of these that best illustrates the theme. Some examples - - shots taken from within a UP campus or facility; shots that incorporate a well known UP landmark; image of a family all wearing UP t-shirts (showing how many generations have studied and graduated from the university); image of a person posing like the Oblation (because UP means freedom).

2. UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition Mechanics

2.1 The competition is open to all Smart and Talk N Text subscribers who are affiliated with the University of the Philippines as: (1) student, (2) alumni, (3) faculty member, and (4) employee.

2.2 Participating Smart subscribers must register by sending in UP REG (Name/UP Campus participant is from/Position or title in UP) to 5355. Example: UP REG Bona Sy/UP Diliman/Alumni. Registration is free of charge. Participants can start sending entries on June 22, 2008 until 11:59 pm of September 29, 2008.

2.3 The subscriber or participant will receive an SMS confirmation
message if registration attempt is successful. Each MMS photo entry sent will
cost P1.00.

Welcome to the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition! To send your photo entries, create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach your photo and send to 5355. P1.00/MMS photo entry. All photo entries must be taken with your camera phone.

2.4 MMS photo entries must be taken with a camera phone. The subscriber/participant is not allowed to send his/her photo entry other than through their mobile phone in MMS. Photos must be taken within the competition period only and should be connected to the theme mentioned above.

2.5 Apart from the registration, the subscriber’s cellular phone number will serve as his/her identification (ID). A participant can opt to register several mobile numbers under the same name and can send as many entries/MMS photos per phone number.

2.6 There can only be one (1) registered name per cellular phone number. Should a subscriber attempt to register twice, he/she will receive an error message and will be charged P1.00 from his/her load.

2.7 To send a photo entry, subscribers must simply create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach their photo entry (taken with their camera phone), and send this to 5355. Example: UP MMS Sunken Garden

2.8 The subscriber/participant will receive the following reply message via SMS if attempt to send photo entry is successful:
U have successfully sent ur MMS photo entry. Thanks for joining the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition. U may win the Texter’s Choice Award! Tell your friends to vote for ur entry. Visit www.smart.com.ph/UPiktyuran 2 get the assigned image number of ur photo
& txt UPVOTE (image number) to 5355. U will b contacted by Smart representatives should ur photo win the contest.

2.9 Photographs that include sculptures, statues, paintings and other works of arts can be submitted as long as they do not constitute copyright infringement and not captured as full-frame close-up. When including in the MMS photograph artworks of others, it
must be as an object in its environment.

2.10 The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges that will be appointed by Smart. Photos will be judged on the basis of the following criteria:

Creativity – 30%
Adherence to theme – 20%
Composition – 20%
Originality – 30%

The decisions of the judges will be considered as final and binding. All winners will also be
expected to provide Smart with proof of identity or any information that Smart shall request for.

2.11 Weekly winners will be chosen as “UPiktyuran Pick of the Week” and will be featured in the contest microsite or in a publicity material.

2.12 Final winners will be chosen after the contest duration and awarded the following prizes:

Top ten (10) MMS photo entries will be awarded one Smart Bro Prepaid Plug-it each.
Final winners will be chosen from all entries and being chosen as a weekly winner will not be a guarantee of inclusion in the final winners.
Final winners shall be announced on October 10, 2008.

2.13 Entries and final winning entries may also be included in an actual exhibition that will be mounted by Smart in cooperation with UP.

...more at http://upiktyuran.smart.com.ph/.

Kaso, Globe ang gamit ko e...

UP Naming Mahal

UP turns 100 today!

I would have loved to post a picture of celebrations in UP for its centennial year, but I just don't have one. I searched my stock of pictures I have for the moment, but couldn't find one. I'm quite not sure where I have put those pictures (I know there should be some), probably in the CD's at home, so I settled for this one:



Friends in econ, while waiting for the lantern parade, playing a game we've learned in Philippine games, in SE parking lot. Year 2004.

Two pictures of college days in a row.

UP, ang galing mo!

Sunken Garden

On June 7, I met with some friends in UP. After a very long time of not getting together in UP, especially with Princess and Rojo (I regularly see Bebang and Ed, for some reason), we have finally spent our time away in Sunken Garden.

Here are a couple of shots from my phone:

In black and white

In color

I also took photos using my film camera. I hope they'd turn out better than the one I've posted here.

We were supposed to shoot a very short video, by the way. Bebang wanted so much to capture the fire trees already blazing in red. However, we didn't have a good enough concept to work with. So we just went to SC to eat in one Korean-Japanese restaurant there (the stall to the left of the stall across Rodic's). We ordered kani salad for P75, California maki - 8 pieces (P95?), and a bowl of spicy noodles (P40 or P50?). Worth it (though a bit pricey for a UP food hehe.)

Anyway, that was an afternoon of relaxing.

UP Fair 2008

It's February again! Time for some loving and Sunken moments.

So far, here's what my friend Rhovic has circulated to our block M-11. Sabi niya, "guys, eto ang nakalap kong sked ng UP fair for this year," at "sa tulong ng yahoo search."

U.P. Diliman University Student Council presents The U.P. Fair, the week-long event held at the Sunken Garden… featuring concerts, shows, fair booths, bazaars and a lot other gimmicks.

February 11 - LOVERAGE by UP Pan Xenia Fraternity and UP Adelfe Enu Crea Sorority in cooperation with UP Circuit and UP Cursor present Bamboo, Parokya Ni Edgar, Kamikazee, 6cyclemind, MYMP,
UPdharmadown, Itchyworms, Kitchie Nadal, Imago, Chicosci, Stonefree, Moonstar88, Silent Sanctuary, Mayonnaise, Soapdish, Shamrock, Gloc 9, Cookie Chua, Queso, Treadstone, Blue Ketchup, Protein Shake, Ciudad, Fuse, Paraluman, Manibela, Chubibo, Tha-R, Zelle.

February 12 - RAKESTRA by UP Beta Epsilon Fraternity in cooperation with UP PRIME, Mellow Touch 94.7, Soupstar Entertainment and EMI Records with the highlight performance of Urbandub with Manila Philharmonic Orchestra, and 45-minute exclusive performance of Sandwich on their 10th Anniversary and [S] Marks the Spot album launch. Performances by Parokya ni Edgar, Kamikazee, 6cyclemind, Sugarfree, Itchyworms, Moonstar88, Chicosci, Silent Sanctuary, Callalily, Hale, Imago, Mojofly, Rocksteddy, Mayonnaise, The Dawn, Slapshock, Radioactive Sago Project, Kiko Machine, Pedicab, Hilera, Pinup Girls, Ciudad, Chilitees, Taken by Cars, Cambio, Manibela, Zelle, Boy Elroy, Oi Wag Dito, Bembol Rockers, The Dorques, Angulo, Too Late The Hero, Duster, Aizo,
Bagetsafonik, The Ronnies, Concrete Sam, El Mercurio, Peryodiko.

February 13 - ROCK-LOVE-AN by Alpha Phi OmegaFraternity featuring bands like Spongecola, Typecast, Callalily, Sugarfree, Urbandub, Barbie Almalbis, Imago, 6cyclemind, Itchyworms, Silent Sanctuary, Hale, Greyhoundz, Proteinshake, Pedicab, Kjwan, Soapdish, Stonefree, Mayonnaise, Fuse, Mojofly, Rocksteddy, Chicosci, Check, Melanie, Hilera, VinceNoir, Paraluman, Manibela, Ciudad, Blue Ketchup.

February 14 - SISFIRE by UP Sigma Beta Sorority and UP Economics Society featuring Kamikazee, Urbandub, Rivermaya, Sugarfree, Chicosci, Imago, Stonefree, Up Dharma Down, Mojofly, Radioactive Sago Project, Silent Sanctuary, Juana, Giniling Festival, Moonstar 88, Chubibo, Session Road, Purple Chickens, Pumping Pluto, Salamin, Tragic Comic, Dalandan Soda, Jeebus, Hija, K8screw, Gatecrash with Nadia, Candelabra, Blue Boy BItes, Falling at Zero Degrees, PDI and many more, with performances by Brigada and EBC.

February 15 - UP University Student Council event details to be announced.

February 16 - EUFAIRIA by Delta Pi OmicronSorority and EMC2 Fraternity present Urbandub, The Dawn, Pupil, Slapshock, Kjwan, Queso, Greyhoundz, Chicosci, Kiko Machine, Hilera, Stonefree, Sugarfree, Paramita, Moonstar88, Juana, Mojofly, Up Dharma Down, Cambio, Radioactive Sago Project, Acel, Datu’s Tribe, The Jerks, The Wudz, Giniling Festival, Chubibo, Ursaminor, Cathexis, Sunflower Day Camp, Aizo, Treadstone, Sandlady, Fuse.

Note that most bands listed are confirmed to perform and a few of them are tentative.

Location:
Sunken Garden
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Metro Manila, NCR
Philippines

Cost:
Tickets are available (85 pesos) at the venue and with the sponsoring organizations, or call the USC at 981-8500 local 4521.

Updated SISFIRE and source on Feb. 6

UP Centennial Kick Off

My beloved university, University of the Philippines launched with a blast her 100 years of existence with a kick off party on January 8. What a blast, what a party! Yeah!

Okay, it wasn't a party. I wasn't even there the whole day. It's just so thrilling to celebrate the one hundred years of UP. Hanep, pare.

The kick off has a long list of activities for the day. It started with a mass at 9:00 AM in UP Manila. There was a motorcade from Manila to Diliman with the other UP constituents joining the parade along the way. There were skydivers. There were 100 kwitis launched to the air. Centennial Flame was passed around, with a 100-year old alumnus lighting the first torch. Program and celebration.

I got to see a part of the open air concert held in the evening. It was awesome to see the ampitheater filled and overflowing with UP students, alumnus and faculty, and probably even guests. It was a concert of everything - pop music, folk music, weird music, cultural dance, street jazz, and maybe every other performance to showcase the very diverse set of talents of UP students.

Finally, at around 10:00 PM, after the master Mr. Ryan Cayabyab lead the singing of UP Naming Mahal, everybody rised from their seats (or the grass) and cheered for the spectacular fireworks display. Beautiful. Grand. Amazing. Very fitting for a centennial celebration!

Here's our "video coverage" of the fireworks display (about a minute has passed before we got to record it) using Mon's Nokia N90 phone:



I love UP!

GIG Run

Green is Good

UP Mountaineers' Run for Reforestation

See UPMENCOM's site or Sherjo's site for details.

the attempt to jog the academic oval

the attempt to jog the academic oval

star gazing

star gazing. may meteor shower daw, dalawa lang naman ang nakita ko.