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Fil-Am joins Oscars Designer Challenge

By Ruben V. Nepales
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:24:00 02/12/2009

LOS ANGELES, California—Alan del Rosario, a civil engineer-turned-designer from Cebu, is one of seven fashion talents selected to create a gown to be worn by one of the trophy presenters at the Academy Awards on Feb. 22.

Alan, an LA-based couturier whose prestigious awards include California’s “Designer of the Year” and GenArt LA’s “Fresh Face,” was picked by Oscar fashion coordinator Patty Fox as among the designers who will come up with specially commissioned gowns to be on the spotlight on Oscar night. The others are Maria Pinto (US First Lady Michelle Obama’s favorite designer), Robert Rodriguez, Nicolas Putvinski, Sam Kori George, Moire Conroy and Marianne Kooimans.

We met Alan in an event presided by Patty, author of the book “Star Style at the Academy Awards,” last Tuesday at the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills. We’ll write more about him in our column Saturday.

The winner in the Oscars Designer Challenge will be determined by the public through online voting—a first in the history of the Academy. To view more pictures and video footage of Alan’s gown entry and to vote for him, log on to www.oscar.com. Anyone over 18 can register and vote once on Feb. 17 until 5 p.m., Pacific Time. The winner will be announced on the Oscar night red carpet on Feb. 22. Good luck, Alan!

YEP! THAT’S MY UNCLE ALAN! :) PLEASE VOTE FOR HIM AT THE OSCARS DESIGNER CHALLENGE.

HERE’S THE LINK — > http://oscar.com/play/?pnvote

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horoscope or horrorscope

Friendster Horoscope for November 24, 2008

Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 19)

Capricorn

The Bottom Line

It may be time to give up on a goal. You had high hopes, but it’s best to move on.

In Detail

It might be time to give up on a goal — you had high hopes, but things don’t seem to be panning out they way you wanted them to. And it’s wise to know when to cut your losses and move on. Sometimes the pain of letting go is far less than the pain you’ll feel if you keep banging your head against a wall. So if that cutie just isn’t succumbing to your charms, then find a new cutie. Or if that goal just seems to getting farther from your reach, then reach for a new one.

— What are horoscopes for? Should it really be considered as guide or a reminder? Who makes them anyway? I usually check them out to give me a little boost especially when i wake up at the wrong side of my bed or just had a bad day. It’s quite helpful. It sheds a bit of optimism and provides a pat on the back. However this horoscope of the day gives me something negative. It tells me to give up. I’m not a quitter and i don’t think that just because you’re not getting what you want that you should give up already. It’s stated in a positive manner yet I’m struck by it.

There are times that we really need to give up. But now is not the time. My fight is just beginning. :P

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Captain’s True Love

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” –St. Augustine

What’s written above it’s true. I think you have to experience love to be able to prove that what has been said here it’s true.

There’s also another side of this definition which entails one of the partners to “fight” for love. Fighting, meaning doing almost everything to make her/his counterpart not just fall in love but to love him/her. It’s not an easy task but those who have given up doing this might say that you can’t push someone to love you.

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Results from a Career Survey

You will be perfect in a career that stimulates your mind and allows you to do things on your own.

You don’t like attention and usually limit your interaction to people close to you.  You like to listen to others but you do not like sharing much about yourself.  You try to maintain a certain level of privacy and usually want to stay behind-the-scenes.

You are practical, you think things thoroughly and weigh all options before you decide.  You like to know what you are getting into before you commit to something.

You prefer to focus on a few projects making sure they get completed.

It’s important for you to succeed and achieve your goals that is why you work hard now so you can play later.

Possible career options:  writer, photographer, graphic designer, developer, artist, systems analyst, programmer, webmaster, planning, accounting.

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The Dong-a U-knock gel pen

Why are there a lot of people who are satisfied with
mediocrity? It’s one of the sad realities of life that we deal with everyday.

 

Have you ever asked a sales representative if they have
another stock of the rubber shoes or slip-ons that you want to purchase and
then they would say “no” just because they don’t want to get it? It’s annoying!
Believe me. I’ve experienced somewhat like that today.

 

Last weekend, I found a dong-a
u-knock retractable
refill in my pile of junk (and school supplies) and
sadly, I didn’t find any retractable pen from that pile. I thought of buying a
pen so I can use the refill (oh yeah! What a genius!). I wanted to use that
refill and I thought I’d need a black pen again anyway.

 

So the glorious day came wherein I found myself infront of
the favorite bookstore of almost all Filipinos. There I was walking inside
National Bookstore (cubao branch). Hehe. There were a lot of people, minding
their own business and I wanted the saleslady in front of me to mind me. I knew
what I wanted and so with all my might, I readily asked for a dong-a
retractable pen. She immediately told me after having a glimpse on the shelf of
pens with the dong-a label that they don’t have it and that dong-a doesn’t have
a retractable pen. I was like “I have a refill at home so imposible na walang
retractable pen ang dong-a”. Why the heck will dong-a have a refill for a pen
that doesn’t exist! Like, duh! But of course, I was kind enough to let it pass
and asked the lady for a faber retractable pen instead.

 

On my way home, I thought of checking out the pen that I
bought and remove the price tag sticker. I just hate the sticky remnants of the
price stickers. Anyway, as I was removing the sticker, I noticed that the brand
isn’t faber at all. It was a dong-a pen. Oh how I wanted to go back there and
shove it in the face of the saleslady. Haha.

 

This is just one of my non-adventures. Lol.

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announcement

It’s official. This 6th day of June, year 2008, I think I’ve
lost a friend.

 

I’ve been in not-so-good relationships before, have had
several regrets, but I never lost a friend before – not this way.

 

I have nothing else to blame but my erratic emotions. One
moment I’m okay, the other I’m weeping and drowning myself in tears because of
the unrequited love. I am blaming myself. It’s all my fault. Only that I wished
he was more straightforward and just dumped me. I wish he just told me that he
doesn’t like me nothing more than a friend than suffering 7 months of hoping. 

 

I miss the times we’ve spent together as friends. I only
have the memory of the Sky is the limit, mcdonald’s, pizza, Timezone, Friday’s,
G4, MRT, LRT, UST, UP, Bahay ng Alumni, Mini-stop, Cubao, dimsum and dumplings,
I am Legend, Fazolis, Jack’s loft, Decades, Metrowalk, Viva, Recto, 7/11,
P.Noval, Taxi rides without aircon, flyff, dota, 11,000 pesos worth of calls,
jamming, videoke, Japanese series, youtube vids, petty quarrels… the list goes
on.

 

I am so effed up. I miss the friend he was to me. I miss the
times that we were “okay”. Though I’ll never forget the times that he screwed
up, accusing me of things and then at the end it’s me who’s at fault. I had my
own share of mistakes. Pride created the distance, prejudice destroyed us, and my
love was wasted.

 

Eventually, I’m going to be okay.

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effed up

Here I am, practically unemployed, enjoying life at it’s
fullest. Bumming around, spending time with my sisters and having the time to
see movies. Oh, I’m not so proud about the being unemployed part but that’s
another story.

 

What a bad intro for a blog. Haha. I just so have so much to
say. I’m overwhelmed by the “having too much time” and “having so much to do”
and “So much time”. I am used to ranting about wanting to do a lot of things
and not having the time to do so. But now that I actually have the time, everything
seems to be different. Somehow, it’s less thrilling and I just have “so much
time”. So much time that I am actually about to finish this paragraph which
only contains the idea that I have a lot of time.

 

Phew. I’m glad there’s always another paragraph. Haha.
Anyhow, I’d just like to wrap up what happened to my first week of “vacation”.
Yep! Vacash! I just recently resigned from being a slave to a company I am not
allowed to mention. Slave is an exaggeration of course. I don’t want to give
you the idea that I resigned because they were abusing me or that the company I
worked for was abusive at all. It was a choice I made out of the blue.

more at http://legallypinay.blogspot.com/

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Unrequited love

Life certainly has a funny way of putting you in your place. You think you have it so great. You meet a guy. You like him. You go out, have a wonderful time together. He seems to like you back. And then, just when things are going so well, disaster strikes. He doesn’t call. Worse, he doesn’t reply when you initiate the communication. And one is left wondering, was it all in your head? Did you just imagine the chemistry? Or, as most women are likely to do, did you just read too much into his actions? It’s a hard blow to one’s pride to be treated in such a cavalier manner. I guess a woman is better off in the olden days when she just waits for a man to make all the moves. In these modern times, a woman is never really sure if she comes off a subtle flirt or too forward. I am never sure! And that leaves me where I am right now, writing this stupid piece, listening to cheesy love songs and staying up late into the night asking myself where it all went wrong.

Lest I come off as such a drama queen, I was not in love. For someone who has never been in a relationship and, let’s face it, someone who has never been pursued much less courted, it can be such a thrill when a guy pays you attention. It’s pathetic really! How the simplest word, the smallest gesture can be such big deals. As much as it pains me to admit it, all this is my fault. The poor guy is an innocent bystander in this wreck. It’s just that it felt so good having someone to talk to, to be with. It made the tedium of everyday living more bearable. I felt. I was more alive. It may sound corny but everything was more beautiful, more colorful, more exciting. It reminded me of how I felt when I was in the throes of my high-school crushes. That knot you feel in the pit of your stomach when you know you’re about to see him. Well, I feel differently now. That knot has turned into a gnawing ache since realizing how foolish I have been. I’ve heard it said somewhere that you can’t depend on someone to make you feel alive. You’ll have to do that on your own. Turns out they’re right but it just feels so damned good having someone make you feel that way.

It’s 2:10 in the morning and I am still up, obviously. Putting my emotions on paper has certainly made me feel a little bit better. I am still listening to cheesy love songs and I fear that there will be many more sleepless nights to come. But I welcome them. For the longest time, I was content on drifting along. This experience made me appreciate the fact that I am alive. That I am still capable of feeling. That, someday, I will find love. But for now, let me wallow in the doldrums of unrequited love. I find it cathartic. I have come out a better person from this experience. I always considered myself an optimist but in the years that passed I have lost that. Well, I am once again optimistic. But this time my hopes are more rooted in reality. Life certainly has a funny way of putting you in your place. And, oddly enough, it has reasons for doing so.

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2008 ATENEO LAW ADMISSION RESULT - APPLICANTS FOR INTERVIEW

2008 ATENEO LAW ADMISSION RESULT - APPLICANTS FOR INTERVIEW

ADMISSIONS  COMMITTEE

 

LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION RESULTS

 

 The following applicants must  report for interview on the dates and time set forth below.

 

 Failure to appear on the prescribed  dates will result to a forfeiture of your slot in the interview.

 

 Please consult the bulletin board for  the results of the interview on Thursday, April 17, 2008

 

  SEDFREY  M. CANDELARIA 

  Director of Admissions 

  

April 01, 2008.

 

   
   
       
            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

       

            

       

   

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008
 
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (First come, first served)
(Third Floor – Law School Office)
 
ALCANTARA, Kirk Guille M.
BALDEMOR, Jose Antonio Pedro   C.
BUENAVENTURA, Juan Carlos P.
CHING, Tiffany Kimberly D T.
CORRALES, Michael John V.
DIMSON, Caira Joyce SL.
FRANCISCO, Caesar Jose F.
GARCIA, Anna Katrina L.
GAVINO, Romir B.
INGUA, Joseph Alen M.
LUCERO, Cherry Pie Felisse M.
MUNDIN, Ma. Cristina T.
PAZZIUAGAN, Cheska Ann M.
ROMERO, Francis Carlo A.
ROQUE, Gerardo S.
SANTOS, Howard B.
TAN, Melvin John M.
TAN, Talitha Renee L.
TELAN, John Benedict M.
VALERIANO, Victor Napoleon D.
 
 
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008
 
3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (First come, first served)
(Third Floor – Law School Office)
 
ARRIOLA, Roanne J.
AYSON, Nelson Judd B.
CANONCE, Katrina B.
CLAUDIO, Lesley Anne L.
CUSTODIO, Nierwin C.
ESTRADA, Nestonel F.
GEROMO, Conan Louis T.
LAGROSAS, Sheryl Christine V.
LLENO, Sondra Coralynn C.
LIM, Rachelle T.
LONTOC, Mary Catherine B.
MANIGBAS, Anne Maureen B.
MORATO, April Rose N.
RAMOS, Charmielaine C.
REYES, Jaymie Ann R.
ROXAS, V Porfirio Nathaniel   S.
ROYOLA, Claudette Eden C.
RULLODA, Mykelle P.
SALANGSANG, Andre R.
SANIDAD, Pablo II F.
 
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2008
 
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 nn (First come, first   served)
(Third Floor - Law School   Office)
 
ASTUDILLO, Michael T.
BARCELON, Raya Angela L.
CAPOCYAN, Genesis D.
CINCO, Christopher E.
CRISOLOGO, Frederick D.
CRUZ, Emmanuel Rey P.
GO, Jan Claude Patrick P.
GUIRIBA,   Jane M.
HERNANDEZ, John Paul R.
HIZON, Jaybee S.
LEDDA, Joanna Katrina L.
MORDEN, Johanna M.
SEARES, Mark A.
WIEDMER, Patrick M.
ZULUETA, Redmond John DL.
 
 
3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (First come, first served)
(Third Floor – Law School Office)
 
ARUGAY, Audrey DR.
BONDOC, Hector Jerome E.
CHIPECO, Joaquin Eugenio   Matthew SB.
DEL CASTILLO, Ana Katrina A.
GUINIGUNDO, Daniel Alberto G.
IMPERIAL, AS P.
IMPERIAL, ND P.
INOCENTES, Katrina Bianca T.
LAPID, Margaret Joyce R.
RECIERDO, Mark Francis R.
MABANTA, Marco V.
MANGROBANG, Cesar C. Jr.
SIAZON, Nestor Fernando Tio   C.
VILLALOBOS, Ma. Kamille E.
YACAPIN, Myra Vita C.
VILLANUEVA, Kim Janus O.
 
 
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (First come, first Served)
(Third Floor – Law School Office)
 
ADAN, Jan Marie DC.
ARCEO, Mariam A.
AREJOLA, Romeo P. Jr.
BALDOVINO, Tanya Justine R.
BUNGAY, Rednaxela S.
CHAN, Christian E.
CURAMMENG, Jessieh Rey B.
GO, Paolo Angelo C.
ISIDRO, Cleofe Joy A.
MARALIT, Catherine Angela V.
MENDOZA, Maryanne Jude L.
PLAZO, Joseph R.
QUESADA, Michael C.
TAMAYO, Paul R.
TOLEDO, Darryl Karl D V T.
 
 
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (First   come, first served)
(Third Floor – ALS Legal Services Center)
 
ARQUIZA, Carlo V.
CARDENO, Coline Esther B.
DE CASTRO, Ma. Yvet C.
DE GUZMAN, Steven Michael S.
DOMINGO, Jaimie Rae A.
ECHAUS, Adrian Jude G.
GONZALES, Athanasia Zoe A.
ILAGAN, Merwyn E.
NUÑEZ, Jess Valentin T.
OLYMPIA, Abrame-Lionel   Gamaliel A.
PARCO, John Joseph S.
PERALTA, Anna Margarita C.
PIMENTEL, Joanna Pauline C.
PIMENTEL, Korina Mae V.
RAMIREZ, Guillermo Joseph J.
UY, Jordan T.
UY, Martin Christopher C.
VALDEZ, Edgar S.
VIRAY, Felizardo Luis C.
ZULUETA, Antonio F. Jr.
 
 
5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (First come, first served)
(Third Floor – Law School Office)
 
ALEJANDRINO, Lee G.
ALMERO, Glicerio III S.
ALVAREZ, Ma. Margarita D.
BAGAPORO, Dennis Edward C.
CAPANAS, Jovalie Claire L.
CUBA, Margareth Kristel B.
DANGUILAN, Ma. Cecilia M.
DIMACULANGAN, Roberto Miguel   I.
ENRIQUEZ, Claire Joy G.
FERRER, Ruth Diane V.
IMPERIAL, Efren D.
JAVIER, Carlo Michael S.
PAZCOGUIN, Melissa A.
QUIDDAOEN, Gene Ian G.
ROJO, Jane Catherine C.
SARINES, Agatha Grace A.
TONGSON, Aldous Maru R.
VILLASIN, Camille J.
VIVAR, Clarisse Nicole S.
 
 
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008
 
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (First come, first served)
 (Third Floor - Law School   Office)
 
ALVAREZ, Aila May S.
BERNARDINO, Ramon Felipe T.
BUNAG, Jan Nicklaus S.
CABADING, Marianne G.
CARAIG, Krystel Joie P.
DIALINO, Karen L.
DIAZ, Rona April DV.
MENDOZA, Reyaine A.
NOGRALES, Juan Fidel Felipe   F.
NONATO, Roselle Jean L.
PABLICO, Ma. Asuncion D.
QUINTANA, Oliver John C.
SANTOS, Aurelia Beatrice M.
SIRIBAN, Victor Andrew A.
TOBIAS, Ana Patricia R.
 
 
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (First come, first served)
 (Third   Floor - ALS Legal Services Center)
 
ABERIN, Ma. Christine A.
ACOSTA, Julius Patrick C.
ALMARIO, Therese A.
AQUINO, Ceazar Ryan C.
AUSTRIA, Erastus Sandino B.
BAER, Rizsa Rose S.
BUENAVENTURA, Roberto Martin   S.
CALALANG, Mary Bianca O.
CANTO, Frances Ianna S.
GOMEZ, Mikhail Josef N.
GUMBAN, Vanessa J.
JOAQUINO, Joseph James K.
LOVINO, Frenee Carmelli L.
MONTANO, Julian IV S.
PICHAY, Olivia Emmanuel A.
ROTOR, Cecilio B.
SALVADOR, Farina R.
SANTOS, Hanzel C.
VARON, Iniego Carl G.
VILLASENOR, Reyner Aaron M.
 
 
5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (First   come, first served)
(Third Floor – Law School Office)
 
ALBARILLO, Rona Lyn A.
BAYONA, Phoebe Ann SM.
DELA CRUZ, Marie Angeli V.
ENDALUZ, Marie Jourgen B.
ESPIRITU, Paula R.
FILOTEO, Morris John M.
GRANTOZA, Charles L.
LAPUS, Melina S.
LIBANAN, Stella Maris E.
MORALES, Armand V.
PABLICO, My Kristia L.
PEREZ, Alexander Brian S.
RUMOHR, Glenda R.
SAN DIEGO, James Anthony P.
SANDOVAL, Josephine Grace R.
SANTOS, Ma. Clarissa L.
SARINO, Gerard P.
SOLIS, Rafael Alejandro L.
TABALINGCOS, James Michael G.
VALDEPENAS, Jasmin Fatima R.
 
 
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