Typhoon Ondoy left us a devastated Manila. Though as of speaking the waters have already gone away, some dried up, the remnants of the disaster still hang on the lives of the people affected by such calamity. There is a call for help. We know that there are many residents in Manila and thousands have been affected -- loss of lives, loss of property, loss of livelihood. We here in the provinces are lucky enough not to be damaged by Ondoy, or any typhoon in that matter. What we can do to help our fellowmen is to help.

As Tyra Banks said in her Twitter status, even a $1 amount could help and would sum up to a big total, enough to help many. If the foreign people are thinking of ways to help, much more reason for us to do our share of help. For those living in Cebu, here are some drop off points for donation for the Typhoon Ondoy victims:

• ABS-CBN Complex, Jagobiao
• UV Main Campus, Colon
• Fuente Osmena
• Mandaue City Hall Plaza
• Lapulapu City Hall
• Talisay City Hall & Gaisano Grand Fiesta Mall
• Barangay Halls in Apas, Pardo, Tisa & Basak Pardo
• Wow Travel & More in Robinson's, Gaisano Mactan & in front of Birhen sa Regla Parish
• Liloan KAI Complex
• ParkMall
• STI Mandaue
• Gothong Southern Shipping, Pier 4
• NGO's: FORGE (4126328); CPAG (2543572); & Kaabag sa Sugbo (2541878)
• Julie's Bakeshop outlets

For Cash Donations:

Please directly deposit to Sagip Kapamilya BDO Account number 5630020111, Name-ABS CBN Foundation, Inc. For those who insist to donate cash, we do not have an ABS-CBN Foundation Receipt, what we can give is a Petty Cash Voucher but we will crawl your names and amount of donations.

For Those Who Would Like to Volunteer:

You can come to the ABS-CBN Regional Broadcast Complex in Jagobiao, Mandaue City during office hours. Please bring your own provision. For group-volunteers, please coordinate with Mr. June Joseph Perez, at 4221950 or at Skype (dyab1512).

Our help is badly needed. Please help spread the word.

One Philippines.

Photo above from ABS-CBN News Online via Flickr

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Ok this may seem a bit too late but I'm posting it anyways. Yes, I've watched Kimmy Dora in SM Cinema last September 15. What made me decide to watch it? First and foremost, I NEEDED the laugh and the chill. I've been over-stressed this month and that one day is the only day I could slack off. So off a friend and I went to SM after our class to use my Jollibee GCs. And out of thin air we suddenly decided to watch the last full show of Kimmy Dora afterward. I got treated to Kimmy Dora! :P

We went in as the second to the last show was finished. We waited for half an hour for the show to start. Cool trailers amazed me -- 2012 and many more. Then Kimmy Dora.

Kimmy Dora stars Eugene Domingo, one of Philippines' top comediennes. I think this is her first time to take on the main role of a movie. But she did not fail her audience.

Kimmy Dora (Kambal sa Kyeme) tells the story of twins Kimmy and Dora, a parody of the soap opera Kambal sa Uma. It also stars Dingdong Dantes, Miriam Quiambao, Paolo Contis, Zanjoe Marudo, produced by Piolo Pascual and directed by Joyce Bernal.

The movie is full packed. If you would just look closely you'd actually learn a lot of things. It's no nonsense. I won't be telling you the synopsis here. I suggest you watch it in the big screen instead. My favorite part is when Dora acted to be Kimmy and this is where I couldn't stop laughing. I COULDN'T stop laughing.

I so much enjoyed the movie. Seems like Eugene Domingo's career's going to be rocketed off to more projects. The movie is worth more than the P120 ticket price. :)


Become a fan of Kimmy Dora! Watch Kimmy Dora now! (Or maybe download using torrent)

Photo by jjavato via Flickr

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Wow, after so long of not joining any blog contest, here I am again. When I started out as a blogger I used to preoccupy myself with blog contests. The prizes seem good enough and sometimes just grand. And there's no harm in joining right? But I am very unlucky when it comes to raffles. The only one time I got lucky was when I won a one year web hosting from BizzHost. But I haven't used it though.

This time again, I am in high hopes of joining (and please please, winning) a blog contest from www.anuragbhateja.com. Here are the prizes that I hope to win. Aw, at least one - better the first prize, hihi.

1. 1st prize: USD 50 + 2 domains of your choice (.com, .net, .org type price slab) + Flickr pro for 1 yr (can be converted into cash)
2. USD 25 + 1 domain of your choice
3. USD 10 + 1 domain of your choice
4. 10 domains will be given to randomly selected people.

There are many ways to join and for you to find out more about the blog contest, head on to First Blog Contest — 9th Sept 09 to 17 Oct 09 on www.anuragbhateja.com.

This time, I hope to win something. Libre lang mangarap.

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I don't know if you already have seen this video. Here is Where Is The Love by Black-eyed Peas integrated into video clips of Disney's Lion King. I guess the movie and the song both convey the same message.

Enjoyed it? Hope you do.

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It was raining hard. I had around 20 steps back home but decided to continue on where I am going. The skies had cleared. A little. At these troubled times, I should have stayed at home and bored myself with notes about satellites and sensors. But I didn't. I rode a jeepney. And studied. Yep, in the jeepney.

I was about to doze off when a heavy thud brought me back to my senses. It rained so hard -- an instant storm. And I was about to get off. With only a handful of printed notes to cover me from the rain, I had to run across the wide mud-filled street and had to squirm myself out of the line of cars caught in the traffic. The first thing I saw is a shabby umbrella by a sidewalk vendor. I tried to keep myself dry with that small thing. Bad luck. The winds had settled when my next jeepney ride came.

Emergency meetings come with a purpose. And so it goes. Issues need to be tackled one by one. Ideas need to be collected, decisions made and whatsoever there is to do on meetings. I just realized that there's been so much going on now within our group. Conflict arises when we least expect them. And as a newbie I just don't know what to do, what to tell. So I listen.

Being in this group is practicing being a player in a diverse environment. There is so much diversity among ourselves that we tend to scrutinize rather than understand. There will be many happenings to follow and we just can't figure out what. For now, there is reason to weed out the bad grass and to sow the fruitful ones. Whatever that means.

I came home with my mind filled with eager thoughts and worried ones too. Thanks to the McDo chicken sandwich for filling me up as I go home.

Enjoy diversity, as Mr Cabral says.

Photo by atilla_feher via Flickr

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GMA Films and APT Entertainment present "YAYA & ANGELINA: The Spoiled Brat Movie", a rip-off from Bubble Gang's famous segment.


This funny movie from GMA stars Michael V as "Yaya" and Ogie Alcasid as "Angelina". This Yaya-Angelina tandem started out in GMA's gag show Bubble Gang and is now transformed to a movie, maybe from the viewers' request. If ABS-CBN has Kimmy Dora, GMA has Yaya and Angelina. Ok, completely off topic.

Here's the very hilarious trailer:


Also Starring: Jomari Yllana, Aiko Melendez, Roxanne Guinoo, Sheena Halili, Victor Aliwalas, Jojo Alejar, Leo Martinez, and Iza Calzado

This movie is directed by Mike Tuviera. Watch out for this movie on September 23, 2009. Enjoy!

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Last Friday, UPVCC's Intramurals 2009 ended and that meant for everyone to go back to their ordinary school routine, enjoying and suffering from everything.

I had my Azeus interview that day. Turned out okay.

The closing part of Intrams was fun. We were first to perform in the Dance Fusion. We won third place. It should have been second place though. ;) Thanks to those who helped in the preparation - James, Jenny, Anne, Darlene, Honeylyn.

It was hard being bathed with glitter dust. Aside from having to shower everyone near you with it, it gets itchy most of the time. I went home with all the glitter dust on my body, concentrated on my neck. No wonder people are staring at us while we're heading home. The whole house got infected with the glitter dust. It was hard removing some on my scalp. Finally, all's gone now.

The Department of Computer Science won second place overall. Glad we weren't third. Who's third?!

Now everyone's back to work - Software Engineering, Remote Sensing, Automata (in preparation for The Sipser Show), and a lot more. I'm busy uploading all the documentation for Intrams e.g. Dance Fusion practice videos, basketball women video, etc. I will be studying Remote Sensing and Soft Eng soon. What a life.

Here's the video of our Dance Fusion. This is part 1. Look for part 2, 3 and 4 in the related videos.


Enjoy.

P.S. Find car leasing options here.

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I'm writing this in a hurry actually. This 1PM we will have again our Dance Fusion practice. What is Dance Fusion?

Dance Fusion is the last event for our school's Intramurals. It is a contest where we would to dance a song that is a hybrid of tribal and pop. That is why you call it dance fusion, from the term fusion. This is my first time to join as I did not last year. We are the defending winner and it is scary.

Here are the fusion-ers:

Find me!

P.S. Prepare for practice now! I relay the steps from the choreographer, meaning, I'm choreographer level 2. ;)

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