Breaking news: U.P. Pep Squad grabs back 1st Place: 2010 UAAP Champions!

Breaking news: U.P. Pep Squad pyramids back to 1st Place: 2010 UAAP Champions!

With a vengeance, the University of the Philippines Pep Squad U.P. Fighting Maroons wins first place championship of the 2010 University Athletic Associaton of the Philippines Cheerdance Competition.

Video credits: This video was produced and is owned by Studio 23 of ABS-CBN annotated very energetically by ABS-CBN sports anchor Boom Gonzales; used here for non-commercial, review, and educational purposes (uploaded very swiftly by youtube user PinayScandal2009 in less than an hour after the event — very good! thanks bunches)

Comments on youtube:

Yellowscrubs 43 seconds ago

You make every UP Student proud! Congratulations!

episac62188 1 minute ago

wow galing ng UP. gusto ko din ung sa FEU, at maganda costume ng UST. ^___^

ceyrai 2 minutes ago

Matatapang, matatalino! Go University of the Philippines! Proud to be Dugong Isko!

Thanks for the quick upload! Didn’t get to watch it…

Turags 4 minutes ago

galing. i guess the opening was inspired by Tribu Paghidaet of Iloilo Dinagyang Festival. This year’s winner of aliwan fiesta.

Aidenleeca 5 minutes ago

UP is always the best! I’m so proud to be in UP! UP is <3!

cheline08 6 minutes ago

proud to be UP! 😀

muchogwapita 9 minutes ago

CONGRATS UP!! keep it U.P. ;D

BagoLang 14 minutes ago

kakasuhan daw ng DENR ang UP dahil sa pamimitas ng sunflowers..LOL jk

eldzbeniman 18 minutes ago

I almost forgot that these kids are still college students! wooooohhh!! CONGRATS UPIANS!!

uprc2005 20 minutes ago

Thanks PinayScandal2009 for the rapid upload

yellowcrush28 21 minutes ago

congrats UP!

abounaroti 25 minutes ago

Grabe sobrang hirap ng moves at super bilis ng tempo. I like it very much. Thank you. You deserve the victory!

DabenMendoza 26 minutes ago

Congratulations UP!

ennytsirhc 26 minutes ago

Thank you, Sunflower Pompoms. :))

XXX

From blog admin: by the way, the background photo of this blog

was uploaded two days ago.

XXX

frheaven7 26 minutes ago

hehej nice concept! congratx s lht ng mga nanalo!

winners po kaung lht! galing!

mel040189 27 minutes ago

HALA BIRA UNIBERSIDAD NG PILIPINAS!!!!

Tedbons 28 minutes ago

congrats up pep.your back on top.nice routine very well done…

jarednrpb 29 minutes ago

grabe! just got home after ng CDC. ang dami ng UP Crowd! haha. you guys deserve it naman. :)))

BagoLang 29 minutes ago

ang galing!!!

Smartiesko 29 minutes ago

UNIBERSIDAD NG PILIPINAS!!! HALA BIRA!!

CONGRATS UP PEP SQUAD!!

crimson0phil 30 minutes ago

astig tlga ng UP 😀

HUBAD09 34 minutes ago

sobrang ganda talaga.. so fast so furi0us.. love the sunflower major major ganda…

rmnjjnmr 34 minutes ago

LOve the routine! GO UP! GO PEP SQUAD NG BAYAN!

HUBAD09 34 minutes ago

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iamrb18 35 minutes ago

good job! thank you, dahil di namin napanood ng live. 😀

para naman di huli, 😀

GO UP!!!

desabakes 36 minutes ago

Maghanda na kayo sa mga bashers :)) GO UP! 🙂

xynapsee 42 minutes ago

nice! ^_^

servingforthematch 42 minutes ago 2

Happy fiesta! Sunflower Power! UP PEP SQUAD!

TheBerrybrave 47 minutes ago

bilis ah! good job.

Recording of hostage-taker’s last moments, 4 minutes before shooting at hostages, Manila

Rated PG by blog admin

Hostage-taker’s last, live audio interview minutes before he shot hostages, Manila

i know that many people, especially, our Chinese brothers and sisters are still grieving.

Murder committed anywhere should be met with justice. This audio recording may help in that effort. Our condolences to the bereaved. Hopefully, this recording will help in the gathering of evidence to exact accountability.

This is the live audio interview of hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza minutes and seconds before he started shooting and killing the hostages, conducted by RMN (Radio Mo Nationwide, or Your Nationwide Radio), or rather, a news report of another agency with embedded RMN recording. I authenticated this by comparing it with the transcript of the interview of hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza by RMN, which it submitted  to the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP, Broadcasters’ Guild of the Philippines) this week, as published in newspapers today. They’re the same (the transcript as submitted to KBP and this audio recording) except that the radio interview doesn’t contain the “Erwin” lines or dialog. The audio interview however is infinitely “more alive” or vivid than the transcript and should be listened to; and (just my opinion) should have been submitted together with the transcript. The transcript doesn’t capture at all the agitation, blind rage, uncontrollability, volatility, and desperation, of the hostage-taker. This occurs at running time 4:20 of the upload. You’ll have to listen to this to be able to see, in your mind, what happened inside the bus that Monday evening. You could almost feel the blood rushing to the hostage-taker’s head from this audio recording. (uploaded by myjirr in YouTube, posted here non-commercially, as part of the review above, and for academic purposes)


a real blogpost (when you talk about something personal)

The other day, or last Thursday, i dreamt of someone who had long been dead, and he said something, and i thought —

Papo de Asis, right-clicked from habi-arts.org, for academic use here

yeah, that’s right, but why did he say that? didn’t he die — and that’s when i woke up.

Some friends of mine went to a manghuhula (soothsayer) last Wednesday. (They’re successful professionals, very rational, they just go to a fortuneteller when they’re tired of going to the movies). So last Friday, while chillin’ around, i told them about dreaming of someone who had died. And one said, “Oh, the dead is trying to communicate with you!”.

So, i hadn’t expected that kind of interpretation. The dead do not come back. and i never really think of the dead in that manner. Whenever i write about the dead, it’s as a literary device, called “magic realism” — or so i try. (In the other blog, there’s an attempt at an overall, mild doppelganger literary device but people think it’s literal, which is amusing)

So i said : Whenever the dream isn’t logical, i wake up. Such as, whenever i dream i’m a student in A.S. again (arts and sciences) looking for my classroom i get confused because i think, why am i here again? – i’m already practising; and that’s when i wake up.

And my friend said, “that’s not true, your subconscious is your clearest, truest sense of what you have in mind…”.

I think that’s a better way of looking at it.

Your subconscious will not lie to you. You may have galactic illusions about yourself but your subconscious will tell you, nah – you’re as small as an ant.

Check.

So….

This is what that dream meant:

The dead come back as memories, and when we see them, we think of what might have been. We think we’ve mourned them, and we did; countless times; we grieved so much we got numb. But we got to a better place after that; your reality became better; your hopes came true. Still.

No matter how far we have gone, the yearning to hear from that person never goes away; the wish that he hadn’t died too early to see how we turned out, never leaves us; we want to get back to that place again when he was well and alive because, even if we knew then, and know now, that we made the right decisions, and do not regret a single day of it, we think: we could have avoided certain turns, we think we could have been clearer, we think we could have taken our time more.

Dreaming of a person who has died, for me, is simple.

It’s a wish that that person were still alive so he could see us, and tell us: “kid, this was what i was trying to tell you. You sure have a longish, roundabout way of understanding it.”