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The CSB Experience 2: Me on DZMM

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Hi guys! I’m very excited for what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s really a big honor for me to be invited as a guest for a radio show from one of the most well-respectednews and public affairs AM station in Metro Manila, DZMM Radyo Patrol Sais Trenta.

I’ll be representing CSB on the youth debate show U-Talk. Joining me is another rep from CSB (as of this writing, I’m yet to know who will be my partner for tomorrow’s show) and we’ll be pitting against the student representatives from La Consolacion College.

I hope many of you guys would tune in tomorrow afternoon on your radio. It’s 630 kHZ (sa AM Stereo), 3-4pm. It will also be simulcast via cable TV on DZMM Teleradyo (Check your local listings).
Iwagayway ang bandila ng mga Benildeano, ANIMO BENILDE!
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Movie Titles I’ve Come Up Since High School

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Just now, I was bringing my mom a pitcher of water from the fridge when I saw some worn-out two-year old scratch paper posted on the fridge door that’s been there since God-knows-when. So checked them out and was surprised that all that I’ve written there since third year high school are still intact.

Those pieces of paper were doodles I used to drew whenever I’m bored out during class discussions especially during Math IV with Ms. Mejia (I know it’s wrong but that’s better than falling asleep in class). Those doodles are my would-be film credits if in case I see myself in the future with the career in filmmaking hahaha!
So here’s the list of titles I’ve come up when I was in 4th year HS.
Paper 1: Sports (July 21, 2006)
  1. Archers (The Road to Victory)– [Slogan:One Team Can Reach Thousand Dreams to Win] Synopsis: I did this when La Salle was suspended from the UAAP for one year so this I used as the basis for the storyline: The Green Archers, after coming back from a year of suspension, have to rebuild itself and regain the trust of the Lasallian student body and prove that they deserve the UAAP crown once and for all.
  2. Pinoy Putbol-Synposis: FIFA just admitted the Philippines as a full-time member so Team Pilipinas have to prove itself to the rest of the football-loving world that it has what it takes to make it to the top of the FIFA World Cup in Germany come 2007 (Part 1 is the Southeast Asian Qualifiers then the Asian Cup for Part 2; Part 3’s the big league itself).
  3. Over the Net (Inspired by a true story)-Synopsis: The cliched of all cliched sports-themed movies, this one’s about the girl’s volleyball varsity of one underfunded public high school in Bagong Barrio, Caloocan who once brought glory during its peak. It’s the job of the new head coach who was once a varsity player for the school years ago to pick up the pieces and save the school from the clutches of an evil entrepeneur bent on demolishing it in place of a big warehouse 99 cents store. And these are ALL “based from a true story”.
  4. The Feat-[Slogan: A young boy will run for his dreams] Synopsis: A poor boy from the province up North is gifted with great athletic abilities. Discovered by a scouting track-and-field coach from a reputable school, he’s given the chance of a lifetime to turn his life around for the better, thus we’ll witness his triumphs and failures and eventually see him run his way to the top.
  5. Burn-Synopsis: A young boy possessed a rare talent at car racing. As he grows, he will be mentored by his widowed father and guided by his not-so-reliable good pals as he moves from being a soap-derby wannabe to a NASCAR car racer. (Theme songs for this movie would be “Burn” as in “I want you to burn….Burn for me, baby! Like a candle in my life!!”)
  6. Left Turn <<<-[Slogan: How will you choose between career and love] Synopsis: It’s been three years after a fateful motorcycle accident in C-5 claimed the life of a popular motocross driver. Flash forward to today, his twin brother is following his foot steps. What sets him back is the pleading of his girlfriend of three years, who happened to be his dead twin’s flame then, so he could instead settle for quiet life with her. This movie includes a shower scene where the guy is taking a shower while his girlfriend surprisingly seduces him so he could steer away from hitting the road again. (BTW, his twin died when he got hit by a truck while making a left turn, which left the other twin traumatized whenever he sees a left turn sign on the road).
  7. Uppercut-Synopsis: Doing ala Rocky Balboa, this one’s about an aspiring boxer who’s hell-bent on making a name for himself in boxing. But his past continues to haunt him from the murder of his father to the boxing incident that claimed his older brother’s life forever. Will he punch himself to victory?
  8. My Journey…For My Dream-Synopsis: Well, this one would probably the first martial arts movie centered solely about the art of yaw-yan. One young student aspired to become the number one yaw-yan master in the Philippines. But he must prove himself worthy thus he must befall all those that prevent him from climbing up, even his bitter rival…and best friend.
Paper 2: Anything else in Class
  1. High School Varsity….the musical-[Slogan: When athletic jocks sing their guts out of their game]The basketball varsity version of the popular Disney Channel movie. It’s about the Anglers MBT bent on getting the MaNa Meet crown. One way for them to get it is to sing their way through the competition. (We’re all in this together, lalalalalala!)
  2. Sketch Pad!-A mysterious sketchpad landed on the hands of a high school boy in the year 2006. being bullied always, he would write his grievances on this sketchpad that would found their way 23 years earlier by a high school girl from the year 1984. A relationship beyond time and space would develop. Where did the sketchpad came from? And what’s the connection between the 2006 guy and the 1984 girl?
  3. The School Scandal-[Slogan: A Detention Gone Wrong] Synopsis: A group of students pissed a teacher so as a consequence, they were sent to a detention class and were left with a sexually-thirsty man-teacher. Suddenly, things got horribly wrong. Theme of the movie: Sex, scandals, betrayal and a lot of heat!
  4. Class Affair-[Slogan: Ready for class?] An innocent high school boy is seduced by a hot-hot teacher. Is he ready for a….class affair?
  5. Evil Teacher 101-[Slogan: He hates him…Time for a payback!] Synopsis: I was able to develop a manuscript for ET101 but the notebook I used went missing last year in CSB. It’s all about a grudge a student is carrying against a good-for-nothing PE teacher he had a year before. Now he’s bent on taking revenge and he got a little help from the student body. The catch? The PE teacher doesn’t even know people hate him.
  6. Haunted Dormitory-[Slogan: Evil has a new building] Synopsis: The Mujer la Descarada Dormitory for Boys used to be an orphanage for juvenile delinquents five decades ago until it was burned down due to unknown reasons. Now as a dorm, it is now being hunted by the souls of spoiled delinquents lingering from hall to hall and it’s up to the new dorm mate to solve the mystery behind the building’s burning or else hang the lives of his co-tenants in the balance. Time is in the essence.
  7. School Break-[Slogan: One will do the unthinkable: To get out of school!] Synopsis: Obvious that this is a Prison Break inspired suspense movie set in a school? The story’s about a young 16-year old boy who was forcibly sent to a boarding school called Fort St. Lackland Boarding Schoolis due to spend the rest of his high school years in that school. He is the center of a conspiracy thus it is up to his half-brother to bail him out by having himself tattooed with the school’s blueprint (since their dad was involved with the school’s building 3 decades go) and expose the conspiracy as the evil trust company that they are. the catch, he has to bail out some boardmates as well.
  8. When Bullies Attack-Synopsis: School bullies have long been known as every school boy’s worst nightmare. But one day, these bullies have gone out of control after eating the roasted body parts of the remains of “The Birds” and started to bully the whole townspeople. It is a matter of survival and death.
Paper 3: Mixed
  1. Chopsuey-[Slogan: Kaya pala minumulto kasi panis na’to!] Synopsis: Young Boy Ramirez found a mysterious bowl filled with seemingly harmless and delicously-smelling chopsuey. Once he brought it home, luck seemed to pur over him and his family. But a curse befalls to whoever eats from the cursed chopsuey, according to their Chinese zodiac animals, they would die from  grave misfortune, extreme stomach pains and food poisoning resulted from the 100-year old expired chopseuy.
  2. SJA High School Reunion 1: Ang Honor, Ang Cheater, Ang Lover-Synopsis: Out of all the movie titles mentioned here, I possess the one and only existing manuscript, and it’s this one. Set in a reunion 10 years after high school, it follows the lives of the former popular girls, the bullies, the jocks, the nerds, the couples, and The Honor, The Cheater, and The Lover. Based on real people set in a fictional setting.
  3. Sosi!-[Slogan: Sosi have never been this hotter and sexier!] Synopsis: The hottest girl in school, Sosi Laguardia, is the most popular girl in high school, and she’s oozing with sex appeal,material wealth, and “Sosi-licious” hotness ever! But deep inside she’s still an ordinary girl trying to fit in. In a world of wealth, sex, and fame; she will find the true calling destined for her to fulfill.
  4. Sirang Tiyan– [Slogan: Kakayanin ba ang…Sirang Tiyan?] Synopsis: An innocent young lad accidentally ate a nuclear-power capsule mistaken for a Fitrum capsule. This capsule is equal to the two atomic nuclear bombs used in the past world war if released. Time is running out for two FBI super agents so they must act now to save the lad so they could save the world.
  5. Lackluster Star-[Slogan: When you’re not a second-rate trying hard copycat!] Synopsis: A young girl dreams of becoming a singer, and found that opportunity by becoming a backstabbing fan for starlet singer. She’ll do anything for her ambition to see the light of day, no matter what the cause. Even it means stepping on her family, her starlet idol, and her supposed-to-be fans.
  6. Aswang @ the Gym-[Slogan: Ang workout ng iyong kamatayan] Synopsis: An aswang lurks inside a newly-opened Fitness First in one of the newer SM malls (Either that or its Gold’s Gym), and its taking gym-goers fall prey to it one-by-one. The hot lady branch manager must find her way to survival and bring the surviving members of the gym to escape from the claws of the dreaded aswang.
  7. Love @ da Mall– [Slogan: Di sa SM kung di sa THE Mall!] Synopsis: Set in the picturesque Mall in Washington, DC in the United States; it is about two different people from two different backgrounds whose paths crossed while both were moping from separate break-ups along Lincoln Memorial. Evetually, sparks will fly and they’ll become a couple and challenges would proved to be quite an obstacle for their already shakey relationship.
  8. The Cool-Off-[Slogan: Kung diborsyo is not an answer, ayusing na lang ang pinag-awayan] A couple recently reconciled so they decided to pick up the pieces of their broken marriage and correct what is to correct so they could start their lives anew!
Since It was me who thought all of these, automatically, I own these ideas…hahaha! Any one interested on tackling such for their movie should pay me with 30% royalty or else I won’t reqard them to right to adapt my ideas to film.
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The CSB Experience 2: Tour of the Greenies and of the Guys of B.A.

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I’ve long been noticing for the past month or so that SDA has been getting quite a lot of visitors lately. 

More often than not do we get almost weekly visits from the students of our NCAA junior school La Salle Greenhills. I’m guessing they’re only touring SDA only out of CSB’s three main campuses, leaving out Main and AKIC. Hmm…I guess it is a way for the school to attract future applicants to CSB by showing off the greatness that is CSB’s SDA Building. I’m also guessing that they are also in dire need of getting the good catch on the good players from the Greenies since the school’s recruitment program is somewhat “weak” compared to the likes of NCAA-member schools lke San Beda, Mapua and Letran according to some. (DLS-CSB took DLSU’s vacant slot about ten years since leaving the league during the 80’s).
During much of the LSGH visits, I’m usually either at the SDA Caf eating lunch or at the Student Lounge doing Frehand. The Lounge by the way is surrounded by glass walls so it is more often used as a “must-see” for any visitor to witness the development of the country’s future artists, designers, and animators.
Just this afternoon, the school was again visited by another group of students, this time from a reputable international school called “Bright Academy” based in Cebu. There were quite a crowd. All of theme were wearing B.A. jackets with their names imprinted on it. A rainbow class from different nationalities: Korean, Japanese, American, and even Filipino (Bai!).
And I thought “B” stands for “Brent”…

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The CSB Experience 2: Unintended Plate

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Yesterday, I started my homework on making my new plate for Desprin. I was to show all warm and cool colors and that include Y-YO-O-RO-R (Warm) and YG-G-BG-B-BV-V-RV (Cool) using B, R, and Y poster paints courtesy of Dong-Ah. I made two small square and that’s were I basically painted, one for warm and the other for cool.

This morning, I found out that the whole plate was supposed to be filled with the poster paints so I had the two existing squares expanded by painting them to look longer and larger.
Eventually I had the plate finished and with more than an hour to spare, started to solidify the colors. I enjoyed doing this plate, especially the mixing stuff. Doing it made me feel kinda fascinated rather than bored with it since I felt a passion to do it, no matter how it would look like in the end.
The plate is done for good and I don’t have the slightest idea on what my plate really is (it was on landscape). I thought at first that it looked like a big yellow foot with a toe, hahaha! But when I turned it around by 90 degres\es, er, I mean portrait position, I was AMAZED!!
The plate if placed on portrait looks like a scene of a beautiful sunset about to submerge over a green field with a blue-violet lake at the very bottom. I didn’t expect it would turn out like that but I was proud about it. The only problem is that I painted over the lines, hahaha!
Hidden talent? I don’t know, but God only knows how I did it. Thank goodness for that!
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The CSB Experience 2: Frustrations

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I think it’s that time in college life when you know you that works gets piled up and you don’t have the slightest idea what to do to them. It’s exactly what’s happening to me right now.

I’m having a difficult time right now especially in Comgrap. Compared with Desprin, Colrend and Frehand, Comgrap is the only hands-on subject for which my homework has to be made right at school and not from home. Comgrap requires its students to use Adobe Photoshop (preferably in its latest edition, CS3). Unfortunately that’s bad news for me.
You see, I’m in a disadvantage here. I don’t have a Photoshop program installed in my laptop nor to our family PC at home. Asking my parents to buy the program proved to be a futile effort; my dad said I should buy a pirated version instead while my mom nows that I need it sooner or later (thus having my own laptop) but she’s quite mum about it so I don’t what to expect. 
Other than that, I have to go to school on days where I’m supposed to  have no class at all, which equaled to expenses on travel and food (instead of saving up my weekly allowance just for the sake of it). An added difficulty is the availability of freeslotted computer laboratories equipped with CS3 since most of them are used at different days at different times for class purposes. Those left would either have an old version of Photoshop or the computers are just too dang slow.
So the only solutions for my dilemma is probably: 1)Go to school 2 hours earlier before class at 11:30 am on Mondays and Fridays and 2) Go to school on my free days and leave as soon as I’m done.
Another frustration would probably be Frehand. I know my prof there is all nice and alright, I don’t really have a problem with him, it’s just that it’s me who’s the problem. I’m angry at myself because I couldn’t get all the drawing stuff right. I love drawing but learning the basics and disciplines (shading, perspective drawing, etc.) proved to be way, way difficult.
I should be challenged instead of be angry. I should exert more effort on practicing drawing, utilize my HB, 2B and 6B a lot (I’m yet to buy more of ’em), and less on lazying around and being a bum at home (first time I ever used the word “bum”).
So I should go with my favorite quote of the day, “Believe in yourself and create your own destiny. Don’t fear failure”. 

Maski “ipis kinatatakutan ko” hahaha!

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Broken Promises/Dreams

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“Believe in yourself and create your own destiny. Don’t fear failure”

One of the best Toonami ads aired on Cartoon Network. Aired sometime from 2000-2002, this is probably one of the most inspiring infomercials meant for the youth.

Featured clips include: Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, Dragonball Z, and Tenchi Muyo

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“May Pera sa Jeep…”

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Kung sa tingin niyo may pera sa basura…nagkakamali kayo. Alam niyo ba kung saan ka mas kikita? Sa jeep. Bakit kailangan mong matuto magmaneho kung hindi ka naman magmamaneho ng sasakyan para lang kumita?

Marami na akong nakikitang mga tao na gumagawa ng kabuhayan mula sa mga raket-raket nila, mula sa pagtitinda ng mga pekeng accessories na gawang Nokia-“kuno”, paglilimos sa mga kalsada’t bangketa at estasyon ng tren, pagiging mangpapayong sa mga walang payong, at taong bantay sa mga sasakyang naka-park sa harap ng Jollibee-Francis Market.Pero ang talagang nakakapanghinayang natrabaho sa lahat ay ang pagiging shoeboy at mang-aawit-for-hire.
Insidente #1: Mabini St. en route to Roxas Boulevard (December 2007)
-Pupunta ako sa opisina ng mom ko sa DOF kaya sumakay ako ng dyip na de-orange. Eh may ginagawa sa VP. Ocampo kaya nagshort-cut sa may Pasay tsaka balik uli Manila. Paglabas ng dyip patungong Mabini, sabay biglang pumasok dalawang madungis na bata na biglang nangaroling. May isa na umupo sa likod ng dyip at nagtutugtog ng drum habang ang isa niyang kasama ay kumakanta. Matapos mangaroling bigla kita kamay nanghihingi ng pamasko. May ilan nagbigay ng piso habang may iba na hanggang sampung piso ang kanilang binigay sa mga bata. Bago pa man lumiko sa P.Ocampo, bumaba na sila sa harap ng 7-Eleven.
Insidente # 2: M.H. Del Pilar Street, Tinajeros (en route to Maysilo), Malabon City (1st Qtr. 2008)
-Heto naman nangyari noong pauwi na ako. Paakyat na nang tulay ng Tullahan (iyung isa pa) ang sinasakayan kong jeep nang may sumakay na isa ring marungis na bata. Isang shoe boy na biglang nilinis ang mga sapatos ng mga pasaherong nakasakay nang mabilisan, kasama ako. Nanlimos kaagad nang nakatapos, nilalapitan pa niya kamay niya sa’min. May isang babae na katabi ko ang naawa kaya binigyan siya ng limang piso. Bumaba na rin siya nung nasa Maysilo na ang jeep namin.
Insidente # 3: Gov. Pascual Avenue, Potrero, Malabon (en route to Caloocan) (October 3, 2008).
-Buti na lang may i-Pod na nakasaksak sa tainga ko nung araw na yon. Kasi nung nasa may bahaging PNR raillines na kami may biglang may sumakay na mamang kahinahinala ang itsura. Pagpasok niya sabay bigay niya sa mga kasamang kong pasahero ng mga sobre na may nakasulat na sinasaad ang rason kung ano ang pakay niya at bakit. Ang kanyang hulugan ng pera ay kalahati lamang ng kanyang “drumset”, ginagamit niya ang drumset na yon para gumawa ng tunog sa tuwing kumakanta siya. Hindi ko alam kung ano ang kanyang mga sinasabi pero sigurado akong gimik lang niya yon para kumita kaya di ako nagbigay ng pera sa kanya.
Sa totoo lang, nakakaalarma na ang mga ganitong pangyayari. Hindi dapat iyon mangyari kailanman kaya naman dapat gumawa na tayo ng paraan bilang mamamayan na mawala ang kahirapang nararanasan ng ating mga kababayan. Kasi hindi natin alam kung magiging mga batang magnanakaw ang mga mukhang inosente na kabataan.
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