High 5! 2005

HIGH 5! 2005:
-ryandgreat 

the world pyrolympics display at the mall of asia complex and my family, made my pre-new year celebration!

save for that last days of the year, the only time this year that we're able to spend time together

wealth, love, failure, friends, lessons learned, reality check, extra challenge, tantrum, afflictions, triumph, success story, laughter and many accomplishments,
that best describe the year the high and low of 2005 in my life

December 29, 2005 | soon to open Mall of Asia

\

December 29, 2005 | World Pyrolympics Fireworks Display

October 24, 2005 | CMMA Awardees from Letran at RCBC Plaza

March 2005 - ExelLance Awards Night at Manila Intercontinental Hotel

i got 3 cellular phones with 3 different networks (Smart, Globe and Sun)

i stay connected with all my prens, old and new and i abused the use of text messaging, walang humpay ang pag-tetext!

i also had my very first Apple gadget that's my favorite i-pod nano!

see some WEALTH on that hehehe, i was also able to save money and saved another bank account this year

LAUGHTER becomes the best medicine and anti-stress there is! sharing wonderful stories that are funny and obscene! hahahaha

a lot of EXTRA and ORDINARY CHALLENGES

mama got sick and was confined five times this year and i am worried

the financial burden and the AFFLICTION that she has to go through this year but we trust Lord for the gift of healing through prayers and faith

the BEST in me came out, people trust in me, i became a leader, i got good grades and i did well in class, i know there's always room for improvement 

and the best reward that i got is the recognition!

and there were several nominations in different category for the 3^rd exelLance: communication arts award for excellence 

and has won the most coveted award for the best student tv production category in the recently concluded catholic mass media awards,

bested 7 others in that category, our documentary about real, quezon

Related Post:
October 26, 2005 - Awe-ward

REALITY CHECK taught me on how to stand and never loose hope, to look back and move forward, to think far and go far, not to lean on my own understanding

and to realize that God designed that for a reason and was his purpose and i am very grateful

the end of this great year is the beginning of a new one! 

welcome 2006! and i wish more peace, prosperity, love, good health and money!

9 Mornings

9 MORNINGS

-ryandgreat, greenbelt 1

for the first time! i've completed the 9 traditional novena mass of simbang gabi! like i'm on a gung-ho mission!

i haven't done that before and i usually have attended 4 or 8 simbang gabi in the past

and that the normal excuse i'm having a hard time waking up too early

there were also times that i skip morning mass for anticipated mass just to complement what i missed

but this year is an exception, i served as a commentator in our parish on the first morning and goes on

one particular morning that was so special to me was while we're having a christmas party at laguna

Related Post:
December 22, 2005 - Partey Tayo

and what seems impossible for me to go on because i'm not familiar with the place

becomes possible when Lord has sent me bazillion of guardian angels that lead me to Immaculate Concepcion parish church in laguna safely

and yesterday, i was with the whole gang! ashti, julius, ping, rebex and arni! for the 8th morning that's after a gimmick from libis

and as of this writing, i just came home from the 9th morning and have completed the mission!

those sleepless nights has paid off

it's my way of thanking Lord Jesus for all his infinite graces and blessings throughout 2005 and for the year to come

thank you Lord! Merry Christmas everyone!

Partey Tayo!

PARTEY TAYO!
-ryandgreat

at one of our movie dates last december when the idea to have a christmas partey was planned

never mind that this happened in the middle of our thesis writing and other production classes in the life of graduating students!

so on that day! we went to school first for our last film production meeting and then headed to laguna for this much awaited partey!

we went there by group! and my group op cors consisted of my peyborit prens of all time! madz, julus, ashti with mariz!

on our way there we've decided a starbuxx break to collect stickers for the planner ;p

and while at the toll gate of slex we saw jayson gainza of the recently concluded pinoy big brother! 

and we all went crazy because julius, madz and mariz were yelling inside the car!

milhsen's group were already there and have prepared some drinks and food and then swim-swim na sila! 

while we're waiting for the others to arrive, 

we've decided to have dinner plus drinks at around 11PM while laarni is having her own moment! ;)

December 16 - DRINKING | the gang! (Photo: Rico Rojas)

December 17 - MORNING | the gang (Photo: Rico Rojas)

and the late comers arrived at 4AM and were almost complete! 

and the "partey tayoooo!" line from mariz! became the official title of this partey

while most them were having fun and harutan,

i slipped to attend simbang gabi, gusto din nila ako ihatid sa simbahan eh mga lasing na sila! hahaha

we stayed there until noontime,

oh we'd the greatest time! that each of us will not soon forget and some stories that cannot be told and some pictures that cannot be posted

because whatever happened in laguna, stays in laguna! hahaha anyway special thanks to ace york for the partey place ;)

FILMiliarity

FILMiliarity
-ryandgreat, intramuros, manila

the letran integrated media organization together with the senior students of colegio de san juan de letran,

facilitate a seminar on film familiarity or FILMmiliarity for the students of manila science high school last week!

after the film screening, there's a discussion on the preparation of the film to help aspiring high school students to understand the process of film making

November 2005 | senior students at Manila Science High School

 November 2005| CA4C at Manila Science High School

the films that we're shown:

 LOTTOn of raffy gimeno 

Tingin  of nikki roquero
Pa-res of julius encarnacion
Once Upon  a Time of jeff quilala
9th Floor of rico rojas
Ukay-Ukay of rocky ko

aside from its objective to showcase the short films that we've created for our film subject 

in a way this is also a preparation for the PelilkuLetran film festival next year!

Awe-ward

AWE-WARD
-ryandgreat, intramuros manila

last night we've attended the 27th catholic mass media awards (cmma) held at the carlos p. romulo auditorium rcbc plaza in makati 

that recognized some of the best works from print to broadcast to advertising and on its 5th year for the outstanding works of students from various schools

October 24 | our trophy (photo: Rico Rojas)

a letter was sent to letran last july and our documentary entitled buhay pagkatapos ng unos 

has made it to cmma as finalist for best student tv production

Related Post:
March 1, 2005: Sulyap sa Buhay Pagkatapos Ng Unos

we're expecting to win during our annual school awards night held at manila peninsula last march

as some would say that it's timely and it has great production value but unfortunately we didn’t win

being a cmma nominee feels more than enough already and that all our hard works (and gastos) for the documentary has paid off 

we're not even sure if we're invited to the awards night and later that day we're only given 2 passes but we're four plus our supporters waw!

we came just in time for our category, but prior that, letran was sweeping all the awards and the pressure is on us and the anticipation

i'm holding my breathe but i'm also prepared to whatever the result might be and while looking closely to the emcees to utter the name of the winner

in my mind i'm already composing a short acceptance speech hahaha

October 24 | our supporters! hahaha (photo: Rico Rojas)

October 24 | Communication Arts students and faculty (photo: Rico Rojas)

October 24 | on-stage (photo: Robert Fontanilla)

October 24 | acceptance speech (photo: Rico Rojas)

i recall that i wasn’t shaking and then lo and behold! i was the first one to give an acceptance speech, ayoko naman mag turuan kami on who should go first

i still remember my exact acceptance speech:


“we’d like to share this award to our brothers and sisters in letran, to our CA4C family, family and thank you to all c.a faculty”

then followed by rico, then rocky and ace

and then sabi ni roxanne barcelo “o baba na kayo boys” pinapalayas na niya kami sa stage!

mike enriquez and some media personalities walked up that very same stage! kinikilig ako when i was on that stage and accepted an award!

it's a night of a dream coming true.

and now it can be told that i yearn for this since day one of college

thank you Lord for making it possible! it's truly awesome!

This Is Acknowlegement

THIS IS ACKNOWLEDGMENT

-ryandgreat, makati city

the acknowledgment page seems not enough to express my gratitude to those who helped me during my thesis period

first of all, thank you for the love and for the unwavering support! waw!

as you all know that this study would not be possible without your utmost help, cooperation, contribution and efforts

my thesis adviser and professor sir odie gines , who helped developed this study and makes this feasible and meaningful. maraming salamat po.

my appreciation to my ex-thesis partner and pren ace york

for your undying support and contributions in this study, how i wish you you’d still with me on the continuation of this

my gratitude to mam wen reyes for her guidance and her approval on my letter of requests

and to mam mheanne encarnado for sharing her expertise on communication theories and microsoft excel, 

sir chuck gomez of our communication research for helping us in the proper techniques of an extensive research that goes beyond 100 index cards

to colegio de san juan de letran most especially to communication arts department and all the other faculty members of C.A, CLASEd and CBAA 

thank you for the knowledge you have instilled in me on my four formative years in letran

to my thesis proposal panelists; 

sir odie gines, sir rizalino pinlac, mr. ramon bautista and thesis panelists mr. joey alagaran, 

kuya gerry perez and mam wen reyes for their suggestions on how to improve this study

September 2005 | This Is It!

i'd also like to extend my appreciation to my cousin mayee who helped me in tabulation and computation of the results,

to my sister van for assisting me in tabulation of the results

to barangay captain felix and his staff for allowing and assisting me to conduct the research.

to niel and his colleagues and claire for helping me in distribution and collection of the survey questionnaires

to the residents of Barangay 156 Zone 16 who showed their cooperation in answering the survey questionnaires with all honesty, maraming salamat po

to my prens who prayed, wish me luck and encourage my aspirations and to those whom i forgot to mention, maraming maraming salamat po

to my extended family CA4C, we have shared the same frustrations from our 

day-to-day challenges as students; johann, aj, milhsen, aliver, brenly, mike, cj, cheena, madz, joan, mariz, adji, ada, jen, rocky, rico, marvin, bon and arni

to the Encantadia.com group cheska (rebecah), lady (ashti alena), jay-r (hagorn) and julius (hitano) marmaing salamat

to V_People headed by alora, chissa, jeys, paolah, lhenn, rv, ethel and ann, sol, jeff and to other CA4A students, salamat din po

to all the library staff of colegio de san juan de letran library, the national library, mass  communication library, pamantasan ng lungsod ng maynila library and u.p library

thank you for your assistance in me finding the books that i needed

and to my family, parentals and siblinngs maraming salamat for continuously supporting all my needs and wants and for the unconditional love you have given me i love you

and To GOD almighty for his goodness, his infinite graces and steadfast faith in me, 

his guidance and for lifting me up in times of difficulty, i bring back all the glory, honor and praise to you, forever and ever

ano ba naman yung naka 94.7 ako sa Thesis?! hehe Thank You! :)

Your Elements of Style

YOUR ELEMENTS OF STYLE 
-ryandgreat

hey guys! let's do this! here are your assigned topic with title and pages


Reference: Strunk and White THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE Fourth Edition

I. ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE

Jay-R Cator (Hagorn) 
1 Form the Possesive Singular Of Nouns Pg. 1 2 In a Series of 3 Terms with SIngle
Conjunction Pg. 2

Karylle (Alena)
3 Enclose Parenthetic Expressions Pg.2 4 Place ACOmma before conjunction Pg.5

Julius Kalbo (Hitano)
5 Do not join indepentdent Clauses with Comma Pg. 5 6 Do Nit Break Sentences into Two Pg. 7 7 Use Colon after an inependent Clause Pg. 7

Michael Javier
8 Use a Dash toset off abrupt mark Pg. 9 9 The number of the subject determines the verb Pg.9

Aliver Cedillo (Kalhil)
10 Use the proper case pronoun Pg.11 11 A particular phrase at the begginning... Pg. 13


II. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION


Adji Ruiz
12 Choose a Suitable Design Pg. 15 13 Make the Paragraph the Unit Of Composition Pg.15

Chynna Ortaleza
14 Use the Active Voice Pg.18 15 Put statments in positive form Pg. 19

Joan Natividad
16 Use Definite Specific Concrete Language Pg. 21 17 Omit Needless Words Pg. 23 18 Avoid Succesion of Loose Sentences Pg. 25

Mark Herras (Anthony)
19 Express Coordinate Ideas in Similar Forms Pg.26 20 Keep Related Words Together Pg. 28

Brenly Villanueva (Danaya)
21 In Summaries, keep to one tense Pg. 31 22 Place the emphatic words of sentence at the end Pg.32


III. A FEW MATTERS OF FORM


Johann Carag 
Pg.34
IV. WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY MISUSED

Ada Delos Reyes
Pg. 39
V. AN APPROPRIATE STYLE

Cj Galang
1 Place Yourself in the Background Pg.66 2 Write in a way that comes... Pg.70

Milhsen Miranda
3 Work From Suitable Design Pg. 70 4 Write the Nouns and Verbs Pg. 71

Marlon (irregular)
5 Revise and Rewrite Pg.72 6 Do Not Overwrite Pg. 72 7 Do Not Overstate Pg. 73

Jen Itulid
8 Avoid the Use of Qualifiers Pg. 73 9 Do not affect a breezy manner Pg. 73

Laarini Jocson (LJOC)
10 Use ortodox spelling Pg. 74 11 Do not explain too much Pg. 75Marvin Delgado
12 Do Not Construct Awkward... Pg.75 13 Make Sure the Reaser Knows the Speaker Pg.75 14 Avoid Fancy Words Pg.76 15 Do not Use Dialect Numebrs Unless.. Pg. 76

Madz Mansueto
16 Be Clear Pg.79 17 Do not inject Opinion Pg.79

Mariz Rugay
18 Use Figures of Speech sparingly Pg. 80 19 Do not take shortcuts.... Pg.80

Bon Galeng
20 Avoid Foreign Languages Pg.81 21 Prefer the standard to the offbeat Pg. 81


PAKI FORWARD NA RIN >>

open ang yahoo email ko for that thanks!

Stars Rack

STARS RACK
-ryandgreat

the reality-based tv shows are very popular nowadays, here and abroad, 

there's american idol that's the inspiration that of the first reality-based artista search on the local tube, aptly titled starstruck!

that launched the careers of jennylyn mercado, katrina halili, cristine reyes and more

it's also our modern day that's entertainment but in a reality-based form where aspirants,  for them to become an instant artista, 

will have to go through different challenges or artista tests of singing, dancing, hosting and acting

the initial telecast began in 2003. 

the muscial variery show sop made the announcement for an open-audition to teens aged 15 to 18 years old at the gma studios, malls and schools

i've followed the first few episodes of the show

September 2003 | Dingdong Dantes Starstruck host (photo: GMA-7)

October 2004 | Starstruck  Season 2 (photo: GMA-7)

September 2004 | Nancy Castiliogne and Dingdong Dantes (photo: GMA-7)

September 2003 | Starstruck Opening (photo: GMA-7)

September 2003 | Starstruck Opening (photo: GMA-7)

after the extensive screening, only 100 were chosen from among thousands who auditioned and eventually became 60, 30

and then the final 14 consisted of seven of boys and girls who shone the brightest during the tough elimination rounds

the 14 finalists were:

anton dela paz
ara cristine reyes
sheena halili
katrina halili
jennylyn mercado
mark herras
rainier castillo
tyrone perez
dion ignacio
nadine samonte
yasmien kurdi
jade lopez
christian esteban
alvin aragon

they were virtual unknowns and were an ordinary looking individuals that went through several tests that a real star has to undergo

they were given challenges and workshops to tests and hone their singing, dancing, acting and hosting capacities, 

guided by the industry's best coaches and mentors

dance choreographer douglas nierras mentored the finalists during the dance week! 

while singers regine velasquez and ogie alcasid did share their expertise in singing

they also had acting week with mentors gina alajar who facilitated an acting workshop 

and then the survivors re-enacted some of the local film's most memorable scenes

and then they got the chance to act on the set of a GMA teledrama together with its actors

each week of tests consisted of an elimination round during fridays' live telecast from the gma broadway studios

film director joyce bernal, tv host joey de leon and gma artist center manager ida henares seated as the starstruck council 

that gave half of the scores and the half that came from tv audience who voted through text or pldt landline and internet

November 2003 | Ogie Alcasid on singing test (photo: GMA-7)

November 2003 | Director Gina Alajar acting mentor (photo: GMA-7)

November 2003 | Jennylyn Mercado on acting test (photo: GMA-7)

November 2003 | Katrina Halili (photo: GMA-7)

December 2003 | Cristine Reyes, Jade Lopez, Sheena Halili (photo: GMA-7)

December 2003 | Starstruck live elimination (photo: GMA-7)

October 2003 | Starstruck Voting Mechanics (photo: GMA-7)

January 2003 | Starstruck winners! (photo: GMA-7)

February 2004 | Starstruck finalists (photo: GMA-7)

April 2004 | Jolina Magdangal Starstruck Kids host (photo: GMA-7)

April 2004 | Jolina Magdangal and the Starstruck Kids! (photo: GMA-7)

April 2004 | Starstruck Kids (photo: GMA-7)

April 2004 | Starstruck Kids finalists (photo: GMA-7)

February 2005 | Starstruck Season 2 finalists (photo: GMA-7)

March 2004 | Star Circle Quest finalists (photo: ABS-CBN)

March 2004 |Star Circle Quest (photo: ABS-CBN)

September 2003 | Starstruck Season 1 (photo: GMA-7)

the unknown mark herras and jennelyn mercado became a household name 

and became really popular!

that prompted the show to have its spin-off that's starstruck kids! 

hosted by jolina magdangal, who herself, started her career at a very young age through ang tv

the show has similar concept but was tailored-fit for the kids

sam bumatay emerged as the grand winner

having seen the competition all throughout, she reminds me of a young aiza seguerra during her little miss philippines days 

that now appears as one of the starstruck judge

on the other station, abs-cbn had star circle quest with almost the same feature and format

and then the not so equally successful season 2 of starstruck that has enjoyed all the hypes from season 1

the popularity of talent shows like starstruck was such a phenomenal hit

and this was attributed to the reality concept of the show that has a tremendous audience response to this day

Merging Organization

MERGING ORGANIZATION
-ryandgreat

at the start of this school year, the communication department of letran opens new courses in broadcasting, advertising and journalism

this leads to the integration of our two major organizations under communication arts department, 

spearheaded by mam wen reyes and mam mheanne encarndado 

CAMPO or communication arts media production organization and 
Letran on CAM or letran on communication arts major now becomes 

the 
Letran Integrated Media Organization or LIMO

the main objective is to link all communication arts programs, seminars and activities especially that we've expanded 

for this school year i was elected as public relations officer of both leading organizations

and for the integration, i was selected as one of the board members of LIMO

and pioneering this new organization, alongside with me are my equally smart schoolmates; 

raffy gimeno (CA4A) as our chairman 

with chino jose (CA4A), rocky ko (CA4C)

and the only junior student and rose among the thorns, marian papasin (CA3A), 

the four of us will seat as vice chairman to focus on different committees that we'll discuss in our future meetings

to CA faculty, maraming, maraming salamat po for entrusting me this and i hope to fulfill my responsibilities the best way i can! 

Summer Job

SUMMER JOB

-ryandgreat, ateneo de manila universtiy

i spent my summer on an actual on-the-job training!

i've gone through an actual process of job hunting by trying to at least twenty companies 

not limited to broadcasting but also to print, advertising, recording and film

only few have shown their interest, 

one of them is the 
XAX Music Entertainment in Makati

where we got accepted and started right away

April 2005 | Xax Music Entertainment office

April 2005 | XAX conference room

April 2005 | familiarizing of products

XAX Music is the producer of teleserye theme songs for gma-7 

the song "ang pag-ibig ko ay dapat pansinin" from the hit koreanovela stairway to heaven and is currently a big hit on the airwaves!

the office conference room serves our work place

the first 3 days were actually spent on familiarizing on how they work and the facilities, recording studios 

after that, we begun writing our proposals that includes company profile 

and marketing plan for their products that's currently in the market that's not making money

writing marketing plan

April 2005 | active discussion!

April 2005 | presentation

on the fourth day, it was the submission and presentation of our marketing plan and proposals with the company profile

i guess we did quite well because we were asked to make improvements on their existing website www.xaxmusic.com! 

the following days were spent on field works! 

we went to sm bacoor for faith cuneta's mall show

we first checked on record bars for faith cuneta's album sales

and then went on to the actual mall show where we actually did not anticipate to have a major role! we went on-stage and hosted the entire program! 

May 2005 | backstage of SM Bacoor mall show with Faith Cuneta

May 2005 | writing of spiels

May 2005 | album tour at SM Bacoor

May 2005 | album tour at Starmall EDSA-Shaw

May 2005 | Suborbia, Malate!

May 2005 | audio mix!

May 2005 | with Nyoy Volante after he performed live!

May 2005 | the three of us!

May 2005 | with kuya ruben at the recording booth

May 2005 | some XAX Music Entertainment staff

May 2005 | with XAX Music Entertainment CEO Mr. Paulo Kurosawa

we've also had extended duty at suborbia, a popular night bar in malate, manila, where some of xax artists perform! 

we're not actually required to do anything there but we wanted to take the opportunity to learn the technical aspects of a live show

to the nicest people at XAX Music Entertainment! 

maraming, maraming salamat po for allowing us to be part of your company even for a short period of time

we hope that whatever we've accomplished will also help the company in its future endeavors

we truly appreciate everything you've done for us! we'll miss all of you! 

maraming salamat to mr. jonathan mendoza, ate alma tejada, gelo lico, ate iza, kuya reuben 

and to mr. paulo kurosawa the owner maraming salamat for the opportunity