UP won!
It was a fresh victory for UP Fighting Maroons Men's Basketball Team on their first game on the 71st season of UAAP. UP was expected to win since NU Bulldogs were a no-match to hungry players of UP Fighting Maroons. Most members of the UAAP commitee agreed on that thing as they were interviewed after the game. "Ang UP Centennial nila, naghanda yan, hindi basta basta magpapabaya." Taken from an interview with one of the commitees.
People haven’t forgotten their winless performance last year, and have used this to dismiss this squad as this generation’s version of last generation’s NU. However, the UAAP has a way of turning the tables on unsuspecting individuals.
A simple win is good, a couple of wins is momentous, but getting into the Final Four is nothing but a miracle for the men's basketball team of UP Fighting Maroons. he ya! Mananalo kami! ASA. =)
Too bad ADMU won. T_T Animo LA SALLE!
UP FIGHT!
[matatapang, matatalino, walang takot
kahit kanino, hinding hindi magpapahuli..
ganyan kaming mga taga UP!]
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UAAP Schedule of Games
I just thought this post could be helpful to those who want to know the schedules. I feel so bad, i was not able to watch the first game. ^_^
Tomorrow .. it would be a fight between UP and NU; and between LaSalle and Ateneo. It would be in Araneta. Some games are scheduled to be played in Ultra.
[uaap centennial floor]
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Innocent ’til Proven Guilty
This day, Every Campus Nation Ministries (ENCM) sponsored a mini-pirated version of the 1 vs. 100. It was held in UP Manila, College of Arts and Sciences, Rizal Hall, Little Theater at around 4:30 pm. It has to be exact, I want to be like Tycho Brahe .. accurate and precise. =)
It was entitled as 1 vs. 50. Dien and me was chosen to represent the-ever-popular-and-famous block 4 of political science. Remember the P-O-Llll-S-C-I-Blk4 cheer? I really had fun hearing those. At first, I thought the game show questions would be relevant to the sponsor (ENCM), and it would be something like Who did the posting of Ten Commandments? I just thought it would be like that. Obviously, I was wrong. It would be something different and something comical to others.
The mob against the 1 was composed of different freshmen from different courses, the mob was actually 52 when it started. I was very nervous that time. I don't want to disappoint my block mates. I told Dien that we really have to reach the second question before getting eliminated. She agreed then laughed. "Nakakahiya kapag una palang tapos na tayo," she told me. I agreed.
The brave "one" who dare to test his wits against 52 is a professor in UP Manila, also a graduate of Biochemistry in University of the Philippines. He looks like Yao Ming wearing glasses with thick lens. One of the mobs told me that he was a summa cum laude. WTF.
The first question was too easy, no one got eliminated as expected. The next set of questions got tricky and there was this one question that made the 52 mobs into 36. What is Dora the Explorer's nationality? Dien and I argued and agreed that Dora is a Spanish. "Ang itim kaya nya, she can be a mexican, and mexicans do speak spanish," a mob from the back told her co-mob. Dora is so pretentious. LOLS. And as i expected, Dora's nationality is Spanish. Thanks for my sister who insists on watching this gimikera. =)
Dien and I made it to the top 17. We won over the one. He didnt know whether Kitchie Nadal is from UP, DLSU or Ateneo. She was from LaSalle. And Dien and I answered it right. We got a 176 peso prize each. We reached the 3000 pesos money tree. I really had fun with this event specially with Dora the Explorer's nationality confusion. Remember, it is the Iskolar ng Bayan's weakness, Dora the Explorer.
When I got home, it's already 730 pm. My mom got mad at me since my dismissal is only 4pm. We argued. I silently argued with her. And she commented something that piss me off. She told me that I was just malling or nag gagala. I was so tired by that time that I got angry. She reprimanded me and took my allowaces, she told me that I have to bring lunch instead of money.
Moms do consider some laws but not the law of "Innocence Until Proven Guilty."
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I am excited to the coming orientation of UP Manila Debate Circle. It's the wilingness that I have. It will be on June 30 and July 4. I don't have any plans of joining PoLiS. It's too boring for me. I hope I will be able to join the Debate Circle and the Indayog Dance Varsity.
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Cleve as a College Student
College is getting exciting for me. First days were always good but the following days are better. Being in UP is being Intellectually elite. It is something very definite to every Iskolar ng Bayan.
My first day of class in UP is very memorable. It's not because of new things, neither about new shirts nor allowances, it's because of the UP environment. Several instances in my second day is when someone beside you will hand out a paper to you, discussing TOFI (Tuition and Other Fees Increase), and how the president made their life miserable. There are also flyers inviting freshmen to join certain organizations. And some papers regarding the University Rule (Prohibition of Joining Fraternities and Sororities for Freshman). In UP, you get to know the difference between life and fantasy, you get to know what is reality.
UNREALISTIC
I myself in high school enjoys a lot of malling, eating and group outings. These things were the very things that made me blind to the reality. I spend my money for usual luxury stuffs, eating in an expensive resto once a week, buying branded things, and watching movies. My money is being use in a non-profitable situations. I enjoy life. I really don't bother about the risings of cost of commodities, Its very unrealistic.
REALITY
UP made me realize that there is more to life than material things. Immersion in an environment like UP made me think out-of-the-box. There's no more luxurious spending because I now know the reality. Is it a good idea to know what is happening? or It is safer to go back to the unrealistic life? But I still can't take myself away from the usual spendings, I am still a teenager, enjoying life but never forgetting that I personally need to formulate solutions from the problems that I see.
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One day,
mom: "Yung oble sa poster may sablay na pantakip"
cleve: It is because Oble had given up. This sablay that covers the body of Oble signifies sacrifices with limits. Its not like the old time where Oble wear nothing but a fig leaf. And that nothing signifies full sacrifice to the humanity. "I have nothing to offer to the humanity but myself"
See? I've been getting alot of realities.
UP is radical. Radical to make change.
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Havaianas
I've been getting a lot of views because of Havaianas. According to wordpress, there are 15 internet users today who use the word Havaianas to get to my blog.
That's good. So, to get more readers, i'd be posting pictures of Havaianas' flip-flops. These are the latest editions or variants of their flip-flops. If you want to read my previous post about the flip-flops, click here.
But I decided not to do it, the havaianas.com site is taking time to load. Every single click needs a two to three minute loading time. Just check the previous post, I ain't got time to waste, summer is over. And UP is getting me overloaded.
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Hindi Ako Magnanakaw
I have just seen the "Hindi Ako Magnanakaw" advertisement of Noynoy Aquino in the TV. Few words. It's a clear proof of how hollow his candidacy is. The lack of substance and competence.
The Mother and the Son
If you haven't watch the advertisement yet, here's a link of his video on Youtube: Hindi Ako Magnanakaw. Or if you're too lazy to watch, you can just read the content of his speech/Ad.
His advertisement maybe Oscars worthy when it comes to acting and delivery (first time that he was able to decently deliver a speech) but it is as I've said hollow and does not provide an insight to what his platform really is. But I think the team or the person who did this Ad for Noynoy deserves a commendation. Making Noynoy appears to be normal (while speaking) is a serious feat for anyone plus the fact that you can be affected by the Ad (like how Maalaala Mo Kaya does it). I can't believe that a politician in the Philippines did really produced an advertisement that does not include any dancers, singers, celebrities (with torches) or any dramatic scenes with the poor and other people. It's as if the director borrowed the idea from the phenomenal simple music video of Beyonce's Single Ladies.
But how about his promises? I've heard some people that Noynoy is the only candidate that is against corruption, Arroyo and any other problems of the current government. But how true it is, really? Telling people that you will fight corruption does not tell anything. Everyone says so, even Arroyo or Estrada. It's a promise. A hollow promise. Noynoy does not have any monopoly of being the anti-Arroyo or the anti-corruption thing. Every politician in the Philippines claims that they are anti-corruption. But no one practices it.
Anyone can say, "Hindi Ako Magnanakaw."
What? Do you expect to be distinguished from other presidentiables because you said this line? Do you expect Villar or Teodoro to not answer the same thing? For God's sake. What are you trying to do?
How exactly will you do these things? We need the hows. All presidentiables claim that they will be doing these same things that you've said. The difference lies in how will you be able to do it. And what do you exactly mean by"Laban?" Here's an interview with NoynoyAquino conducted by UtakngTilapia:
It's either he will answer our how questions with Laban or like how my mom did it. Put on your thinking cap voters. This is not the president that we need.
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