Best buds

It has been a year since my cousin SJ went home here in the Philippines. Good thing they decided to come back again last january 10, 2012. Sad thing was Sister hannah didn't come. She missed a lot of fun. Also my 2 brother who are in saudi are not hear. So hannah and milligrace are left in sydney. Going back, the time I spent with my cousin wasn't really enough because I have classes. But I tried my best to have a perfect time with him. We went out with my two cousins who are staying here also. Time we had was really short. We're looking forward for 2013 when SJ comes back. And hopefully hannah would be with her. We are planning for a boracay trip next year. Crossed fingers that it would really happen! I miss SJ already.

Move Manila: A Rappler experience.

Move.Ph held an event entitled Social Media for Social Change last January 12, 2012, Thursday at Far Eastern University. A lot of students and educators were part of the said program. Almost a thousand of people joined and participated the event. They featured big names from the journalism industry as speakers during the seminar.

Veronica Pedroza of Al Jazeera (former CNN Asia broadcaster) gave her keynote speech. She discussed about her experiences first in ABS-CBN at CNN Asia, BCC and her astounding experience as an Aljazeera broadcaster. She also discussed about the "voice of the voiceless" or what we called the muted group, the tectonic drift in trust: Age of Deference VS Age of Reference, Wikileaks and the impact of social media in the practice of journalism.

Rappler Media Reporter Pat Evangelista had her Chat Session entitled Telling stories. He let us watch documentaries about Andi Eigenman, Maguindanao Massacre victims, and Bagyong Sendong victims as well.
Chat Session 2: The Fun and Challenge of Being a Multimedia Reporter was Natashya Gutierrez's turn. She discussed everything about multimedia journalism, the challenges and the fun part. And the thing that made her reporting life easier and faster: Her iPhone.

Chay Hofilena was the one who discussed the Risks and Potentials of Social media which made me enlightened about its pros and cons and how to be a responsible user of the internet. Maria Ressa the CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler.com discussed the main theme Social Media for Social change, Social Network Theory and degrees of influence rule.

Cheche Lazaro wowed the crowd when she lead the panel discussion with Veronica Pedrosa, Maria Ressa, a professor from UP Diliman and our very own Mr.Joven Csstro. During the panel discussion, Mr. Ryan Yturriaga, my ICT professor had the chance to ask the panel on their stand about journalists' security. Veronica Pedrosa answered his question and she stated that everyone of us should make a stand about this social problem involving Filipino journalists.

It was such a wonderful event and I hope there will be more event as such. It was my first time that I stayed awake the whole time in a seminar and I am so honored to finally see big names in the journalism industry.

Marley, rocky and jack

I love my girl marley and my two boys rocky and jack. I only get to hug them every weekend. I see to it that I do give enough playing time with them. When all stressed out, they are the ones that relieves me. That's why I love them. I just love having lots of pets. I can truly say that my dogs consider me as their best friend.

"I hate Android"

Last night, i went online and checked my twitter account. The usual stuff I do at twitter. Check old tweets and tweet. I noticed the trending topics. The "I hate android" topic caught me. Out of curiosity, I checked what the fuss is about it. There's this link that directed me to an article which I can say is a review. I read the whole thing. I didn't like it. What the hell is there problem. I had an android phone before. The operating system ia good! Right now I'm using a blackberry and iphone. And now I know the difference with all those three phones with different operating system. Each of them has there own pros and cons. They must know it. I salute all of the makers behind android, IPhone and smart blackberry phones. Before saying negtive stuff about something, try it. I suggest, you must have each one of those phone and then you can start to compare the advantage and disadvantages they have.

Big fat pussy

I have this cat for more than 9 years. We got it from the streets. He was just a kitten when we got him. Funny how we named him "cindy". We thoughy the cat is a she. Honestly we don't know how to distinguish a male and a female cat. So there, we gave him a girl name. And later on we found out that the cat is a he. We spoiled our cat so much. He gets what he wants and he fights all other cats that we are taking home. Even our dogs, they do respect our cat. Cindy wasn't really that fat until that day came. My dad accidentally hit him when he was parking our car in the driveway. Cindy got hit. He was limping so bad. We took him to the vet. They must operate him to know if his internal parts are hurt. And if yes we could only hoped for a miracle that he will still stay with us. By God's grace, he was saved and there was no damage internal organ. He got this thing like ligation. In which he cannot release sperm cell anymore. We took him home and after several years, there he is right now. He got bigger and he's like garfield. We just love cindy so much!

In love with...

I always look forward every saturday. I missed this place so much. The cold breeze, the stunning pine trees and our not oh so big home. It's so relaxing in this place. But I'm not gonna talk about it today. Haha! I'm just so silly. I want to share how in love I am with my bed. I stay 6 days in manila and onvernight in our house. I am anticipating every moment with my bed everytime I go home on weekends. I'm just in love with it. It gives me enough comfort when I'm tired. My bed has a lot of memories I can't forget especially my so cold "SPECIAL MEMORIES" I love you my bed. Tonight I will sleep on you. Hug me tight! It's so nice to be home for a while.