First ever Jackie Chan Museum to be established in Shanghai

by Jennica Butiong

Jackie Chan announced the creation of the first Jackie Chan Museum at Changfeng Ecology Commercial District in Shanghai’s Putuo District that could reminisce his journey towards success .

Chan personally chose the location of the museum himself because Shanghai is a part of his story as an artist. People who will explore and see the museum can trace and have a refresher of what Jackie Chan’s journey is all about, from Hongkong until he enters Hollywood and became a prominent actor for action films.

Exhibits of costumes and props used in most of his films will also be seen in the museum along with different photos taken while working and some awards that Chan earned in his glorious success.



The museum will approximately be 3,100 square meters and is expected to be completed by October.

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Are you smart enough to make it to the top?

by Angela Bautista

During my elementary days, having a mobile phone is one of the coolest things. Fast forward today, mobile phone is now an indispensable part of our lives. It is a persuasive means of communication some are cheap and let’s be honest with it, some are really expensive

From mobile phones to smart phones, we now have a variety of phones to choose from.

1. iPhone 4 – a touchscreen smartphone developed by Apple Inc. It is the fourth generation of iPhone, and

successor to the iPhone 3GS. It is particularly marketed for video calling (marketed by Apple as

FaceTime), consumption of media such as books and periodicals, movies, music, and games, and for general web and e-mail access.

2. Motorola Droid X – manufactured by Motorola Mobility, Inc. that runs the Android 2.3 software; the version of the hardware released in Mexico is called the Motorola Motoroi X. The Droid X has been distributed since July, 2010 by Verizon Wireless in the United States and Iusacell in Mexico.

3. HTC EVO 4G – (trademarked in capitals as EVO 4G) is a smartphone developed by HTC Corporation and marketed as Sprint's flagship Android smartphone, running on its WiMax network.
4. Samsung Captivate –an Android smartphone that was announced by Samsung in March 2010. It features a 1 GHz ARM "Hummingbird" processor , 8–16 GB internal Flash memory, a 4-inch 480×800 pixel.

5. Samsung Vibrant – The Samsung Vibrant boasts a brilliant Super AMOLED touch screen and comes preloaded with a number of entertainment goodies, including a full-length copy of "Avatar." The Android-based smartphone also offers 16GB of internal memory, full wireless options, and great call quality.

6. HTC Droid Incredible – (also known as the HTC Incredible) is a smartphone anufactured by HTC Corporation using the Android Operating system.

7. iPhone 3Gs – Its features primarily consist of faster performance, a camera with higher resolution and video capability, voice control.

8. Blackberry Bold 9700 – sports almost the same exterior as its predecessor — glossy, black-piano finish in front, rubbery lining on the side with a streak of silver and a nice leather back panel. The leather gives the handset a touch of class but also helps secure a nice grip when using the unit.

9. Palm Pre Plus – designed and marketed by Palm with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The smartphone was the first to use Palm's Linux based mobile operating system.

10. HTC HD2 –The HTC HD2 features a brilliant and massive 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen with multitouch support. HTC Sense offers a more user-friendly and customizable user experience. The smartphone is also equipped with a 1GHz processor and 5-megapixel camera.

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The Garden Formula

by Angela Bautista

    On a recent trip to my Auntie's house, I was deep into surfing the internet when my head turned to a small photo of the oldest woman alive. I wondered how this kind of people stay and live their lives longer.

    In my previous research about it, experts find the world's longest-living people in a mountain village on a tiny island. As I read more, I found out that their secret isn't about the exercises, yogurt or diets. The key ingredient to living and somehow loving longer is growing right inside their gardens.’

    The Greek Island of Ikaria, some 35 miles off the coast of Turkey, locals there suffer 20 percent less cancer than the Americans, half the rate of heart disease and most surprisingly, none of the dementia. This was according to the National Geographic Magazine.
   
These Ikarians were discovered to have 150 days of religious fasting a year. All they eat are leafy greens, potatoes and beans. All of these things add to the ingredient of their long life.  But their very original way of having a long life is having an afternoon habit of picking garden herbs and putting them in boiled water for their evening drink, at breakfast they drink tea from other dried herbs. Ikarians used wild mint, spleenwort, rosemary, and purple sage as their tea. And all of these herbs have one thing in common: They are all diuretics. According to the dictionary.com, diuretics increase the volume of the urine excreted or simply, it means that it makes you pee. In so doing, they help you flush your body's natural waste products.
   
It may not sound appetizing but considering its use and importance, it may be a good everyday beverage for all. As Greg Plotnikoff, M.D. says, "Green tea is nature's best beverage."

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We Were Splashed: A Binan, Laguna summer getaway at Splash Island

by Jennica Butiong

“Whoa! It’s summer time! No school work to think about! No responsibility to take over, malayo sa diskusyon at ingay! It’s time to unwind and spend my time counting sand, or maybe looking at ooh-lala bodies wearing their comfortable swim wear and summer attire.” Those were the words that came to my mind last summer vacation.

    Well, what would one think about when if they heard the word, summer? I bet it would be beach, water, sun, heat, perfect henna tattoos and fun! That’s what I think of when I hear the word summer!
I experienced all of these at Splash Island in Binan Laguna. It was a lot of fun, a lot of laughter and a lot of hotness all over the place.

Let me start with our way there, we left at 6 am in the morning. We came from Batangas, my hometown; I decided to be on my uncle’s car with my cousin while mom, dad and my siblings rode our car. We talked a lot about the place, it seemed like we were so excited that time, we talked about where to go first, what outfit should we wear and we are imagining ourselves riding on Magellan’s drop!

    As we talk about each and every bit of our excitement, the time has come, we arrived at Splash Island. At the entrance gate, there are a lot of people, kids, men, women, teenagers but only one thing is one their mind and that is to enjoy the heat of summer! To unwind and have fun! As I enter the gate of Splash Island, my excitement rose up and I want to swim already! We first looked for a cottage for us to stay in. After looking for one, there we go! We first went to The Curl of the Orient, wherein we are relaxed with big salbabidas that we got, we are caressed by the flowing waters, but laughter is still there. Next stop is the Agos Grandes, it’s like a big pool with big waves, its machine generated, I had a lot of fun in this attraction. As you go nearer the waves, the more that you will be carried away, so I consider this as a battle with the waves, it’s a lot of fun! Really!

Next stop is the Big Bamboo, why Big Bamboo, the slide was constructed like a bamboo, its colour green. You have to get your salbabida and ride on it, yes! Ride on it! And you will be splashed into the water as you went through the slide of the Big Bamboo! It’s frightening at first but after trying, you still want more tries! We never stop exploring, we never stop going to attractions! Next stop is the Dos Supremos, in this attraction, you go with pairs! My pair is my cousin, Kat, we took the salbabida from the first floor and we need to get it up on the 3rd floor and wow, there are big stairs first before the third floor. We have to experience this attraction or else it’s not complete, with all our strengths we carried the salbabida up to the third floor, and whew, we did it! We had 3 tries on this attraction. Ooppps! It’s Lunch time, we went back the cottage to take our lunch, my father bought food inside the resort, we had a hearty meal, a meal inside the banana leaf! Burp! After our meal, we went to the tattoo stall, actually this is really my main goal last summer, to have a perfect henna tattoo! I decided to put my tattoo on my right hand, the one in line with the middle finger, the design is simple, just a tribal design from the booklet!

    Truly, my summer had been a worthwhile experience, especially when it is spent most with my family. I will not hesitate to go back to this place. I experienced the cool blue skies, the warm burning floors that my sole felt. We were truly splashed with FUN AND HEAT at Splash Island in Binan, Laguna.

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‘Till Death do us Part

by Isabel Alvaran

    “What’s my secret in 50 years of marriage? I beat her up – with love of course!”
Mr. Agapito Burgos

     Classmates in sociology class, Mr. Agapito and Mrs. Andrea Pilar Burgos first met at the University of the East. Mr. Burgos excitedly tells that the second time he talked to her at a Christmas party dance, he noticed sparkles in her eyes when they danced and the rest was history. Here they are now celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary at the Malate Church, the same church when they first got married and are now renewing their vows.

The celebration is attended by families from both sides and friends who have played an important part in their lives. With yellow dominating the entire event along with the color white the softens the tone and complementing music that fits the atmosphere, the old couple walked on the isle like they did the first time; only they do not meet by the altar.

The Mr. and Mrs. Burgos happily relates their story when they first met and surprisingly seems to forget who really did the courting back in the years. “She keeps turning her head at my direction when we were at the party,” Mr. Burgos tells “she kept batting her eyes so I was somewhat forced to ask her to dance” later on Mrs. Burgos interrupts and says “When I met him, I would always see him waiting for me” and the two starts to debate on their incomparable memories. But it would always come down to one single thing no matter how many arguments they have; they’re sure they still feel the same way as they did 50 years before.
“Even when the time comes… that I would be reincarnated. I would still choose him” Mrs. Andrea Pilar Burgos said in her last statement in the interview.

Love isn’t of course measured by how long the marriage lasted, or how extravagant wedding anniversaries might be. Love is to be felt and having that glint in the eyes when looking at your beloved. It is a promise to love each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health.

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Puppy Love

by Jennica Butiong

Puppy Love? Are those puppies in love? Of course not! Well, have you felt something different that makes your heart beat faster, even at a young age? Hmmm... That’s really something.


    I can’t help falling in love with you.... that’s a famous line from a famous song. It never runs out of melody and is always remembered by everybody especially when they are in love. Let me share to you one great story of love by my friend, well, it’s just a typical love story, boy meets girl, and then they fall in love. Puppy love....those were the words from his mouth. He met the girl at a very young age, they came from the same town, they do a lot of things together, they play, they talk, they dance, they paint, the boy knew that he was happy being with the girl. Aha! So that’s what you call puppy love? Falling in love at a young age. Do you still lover her now? The moment that was full of happiness and reminiscing turned into sadness and some kind of silence was present. He could not utter a single word and could not look at me straight in the eyes. I knew that there’s a problem. At last! He answered! Well, she’s my friend, just a friend. I chose being a friend, in that way I cannot lose her; I don’t want to lose her. Besides, I got you guys so there’s nothing to worry about. After that, I can still feel that there’s something wrong, I can feel, he’s not complete, he’s not as happy as everyone is, just because, she’s missing.....

    All of that came from puppy love..... I admired my friend for being strong even though I know he’s pretending. It caused so much pain in him, but still he manages to smile, he still has that positive outlook in life. He makes life easy for him, for his own sake and for the sake of other people.

    The next day, I went to their house and I quickly went upstairs to check on him and what is this that I saw..... Old pictures and art work. I asked him, “What’s this?” and he said, “The past.” From that moment, I then realized that it’s really putting a large burden on him. If I were him, I would’ve burned all of those memories because I know one way or another, those things would hurt me. I placed my hand on his shoulder, “It’s now time to love yourself.” He just gave me a smile and said, “I already did.”

    Puppy love....why does it have to be so hard to get over it? Why is it so significant? Puppy love...That’s really something.

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Demi Lovato tells critics to ‘get over it’

by Katrina Buganan

Demi Lovato told critics to “get over it” after she showed off her fuller figure at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The former Disney star looked amazing as she walked the red carpet at the Nokia Theatre in LA during the 2011 MTV Video Music awards, but as soon as she walked on stage, she was an instant trending topic on Twitter because of her weight gain.

The Camp Rock sensation immediately defended herself by tweeting: "I've gained weight. Get over it. That's what happens when you get out of treatment for AN EATING DISORDER."

The teen superstar later deleted the comment and replaced it with a more positive message: "Guess what, I'm healthy and happy, and if you're hating on my weight you obviously aren't."

The La La Land singer spent time in rehab last year to receive treatment a range of emotional issues, including self-harming and an eating disorder. Lovato was bullied as a child, and it developed into a longtime eating disorder. In an interview with 20/20 earlier this year, Lovato admitted: “I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. So I guess, for the past 10 years, I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.”

Lovato told Hollyscoop: “I left school when I was 12 years old. It was too much for me dealing with the cattiness of the cliquey girls and things like that.”

Because of her past, Demi has become an activist for bullying prevention.

“The best advice I can have is using what you love as motivation to go farther in life. When you put your energy in positive things you succeed. Even if It doesn’t have to do with success you just become a happier person and your stronger; that is all that matters.”

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Rainbow in my mouth

by Mia Sancio

Having a birthday party for your little one? Want their cake to be as colourful as their attitude and lives? Well, you could do that. Bake a rainbow cake for your kids! These colourful layers of delicious cake will surely catch your kids’ attention. What makes this cake even better is that it’s not just for kids but for adults too! Here is a simple recipe of Martha Stewart’s rainbow cake.

Ingredients

• Vegetable shortening
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 1/3 cups sugar
• 5 large egg whites, room temperature
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups milk, room temperature
• Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring
• Lemony Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush six 9-inch-round cake pans (or as many 9-inch cake pans as you have, reusing them as necessary) with shortening. Line bottom of each cake pan with parchment paper; brush again and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar. Slowly add egg whites and mix until well combined. Add vanilla and mix until fully incorporated. Add flour mixture and milk in two alternating additions, beginning with the flour and ending with the milk. Mix until well combined.
3. Divide batter evenly between six medium bowls. Add enough of each color of food coloring to each bowl, whisking, until desired shade is reached. Transfer each color to an individual cake pan. Transfer to oven and bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, about 15 minutes (working in batches if necessary).
4. Remove cakes from oven and transfer to a wire rack; let cool for 10 minutes. Invert cakes onto a wire rack; re-invert and let cool completely.
5. Using a serrated knife, trim tops of cakes to make level. Place four strips of parchment paper around perimeter of a serving plate or lazy Susan. Place the purple layer on the cake plate. Spread a scant 1 cup buttercream filling over the first layer with a small offset spatula so it extends just beyond edges. Repeat process with blue, green, yellow, and orange layers.
6. Place the remaining red layer on top, bottom-side up. Gently sweep away any loose crumbs with a pastry brush. Using an offset spatula, cover the top and sides with a thin layer of frosting (also use any of the excess frosting visible between the layers). Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
7. Using an offset spatula, cover cake again with remaining frosting.

Grab your ingredients and bake this colourful and delicious cake! Have fun baking and serving it!

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Largest crocodile found

by Cathy Pantoja

Lolong was captured alive in Agusan del Sur last September 2, 2011 weighing one ton, measuring 21 feet or 6.4 meters long from snout to tail is believed to be the largest crocodile in the world. The crocodile was caught after three weeks of hunting, local farm villagers saw the giant crocodile killing a water buffalo a month before the crocodile was captured in which villagers believe that Lolong is responsible for the loss a fisherman. Lolong beats the record or the Australian salt-water crocodile which is 18 feet long. It took 100 men before they were able to pull out this largest crocodile.

After capturing the largest crocodile, the community was relieved but not really sure if this is the man-eater in their village, because there have been other sightings of other crocodiles in the area.

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Pedring exceeds Ondoy’s destruction

by Jennica Butiong

The cost of damages made by Pedring is about P12 million that exceeded Ondoy’s destruction to agriculture and infrastructure last September.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management (NDRRMC) reported that more than P12 billion worth of damages was made by Pedring. Another is that the NDRRMC said that a group of persons were killed in Pedring and Quiel as compared to Ondoy.


Some of the victims of Bagyong Pedring were indentified by the NDRRMC and they came from most parts of Luzon-Pangasinan, Tarlac, Isabela, Nueva Ecija and Pampanga.

The number of family victims also go beyond the Ondoy tragedy, it increased to more than 100,000 families resulting to chaos within certain provinces.


The government provided medical and relief assistance that would help the affected residents of different places to cope up with the situation.

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It’s a Red Cupcake!

by Mia Sancio

A cupcake is a small cake designed only to serve one person. It is so small; you can eat it in one or two bites at the most. Cupcakes come in different sizes, flavours and colors but one of the most popular is The Red Velvet. It is a rich chocolate cupcake with just a kick of food coloring to entice your appetite. Plus the frosting just wants to make you gobble the whole thing up.

Here is a recipe of the red velvet cupcake with red velvet frosting by Barefoot Contessa.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Red Velvet Frosting (Yield: 15 cupcakes)

Ingredients
2½ cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, such as Pernigotti
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1 tablespoon liquid red food coloring
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
¼ pound (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1½ cups sugar
2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature

Red Velvet Frosting
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3½ cups sifted confectioners’ sugar (¾ pound)

Proceedures:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tins with paper liners.
2. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a large measuring cup, combine the buttermilk, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla.
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed for 1 minute, until light. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until combined. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients alternately in 3 parts, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients, and mix until combined. Stir with a rubber spatula to be sure the batter is mixed.
4. Scoop the batter into the muffin cups with a 2¼-inch ice cream scoop or large spoon. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean. Cool completely in the pans and frost the cupcakes with Red Velvet Frosting.

Red Velvet Frosting
Place the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on medium speed just until combined. Don’t whip! Add the sugar and mix until smooth.

With its inviting bright color, moist texture and delicious cream cheese frosting, who wouldn’t ask for more? Rush to your pantry and try making a red treat now!

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Making fashion ends meet

Some of my favorite shirt designs

by Maricar Hita

Since I’m in my 4th Year College in St. Paul, I have learn a lot from my professors and especially in my friends especially in the likes of fashion. That brings me back to the time when I was in high school. I really didn’t know anything about fashion. It is like a waste of time for me when I become clueless of what clothes will suit for me. Yes, I’m kind of jologs but I really don’t care. When college was fast approaching I realized that I have to say hello to a whole new reality. Here, I learned to distinguish the real fashion that I have to adapt for myself.
I put make-ups and I know the right clothes to wear when I’m going outside of my house. I think my life has change because the whole me has change. I tried new things and when it comes to clothing that I have become so choosy. It is really hard for me to choose what I want. On my best friend’s debut I didn’t know what I was going to wear. I had no choice but to go to the mall or do ukay-ukay just to have an outfit for the occasion. Since I don’t have enough money I had no better option but to go shop at the ukay-ukay. (When it comes to brands, I don’t mind actually, especially when I’m low on budget) so I bought my new dress, new shoes and accessories at an ukay-ukay.

            It’s funny when I see myself in my high school pictures. My kinky hair, elephant pants, topped with a very colorful blouse. Today, fashion is very important for me, I think it makes me beautiful when I’m wearing clothes that suits in my body. Well, it takes a lot of time for me to chose the clothes I want to wear. Crop top, mini skirt, shorts or statement shirts are some of the clothes I really like to wear. It makes me comfortable to go outside and it makes me gorgeous.

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Italian Twist for Your Salad

by Catherina Pantoja

Lettuce is known for being one of the most delicate salad plants.  It could be eaten cold and raw as it as high water content. Usually, lettuce is eaten with Thousand Island dressing as an appetizer. If you want another healthy way in preparing your salad, these are the ingredients you need for an Italian salad:

• 1 Lettuce Head
• 1 Tomato
• ½ cup of Kernel Corn
• 1 Can of Tuna
• 5 tbsp Balsamic vinegar or regular vinegar
• ¼ Cup of olive oil
• Salt

Procedure:

1. Cut the lettuce leaves into desired size then tear the leaves and rinse your lettuce, or vice versa.  
2. Slice the tomato into circles and add it to the lettuce. 
3. Add ¼ cup of olive oil, 5 tbsp of balsamic vinegar or regular vinegar, 1 can of tuna, ½ cup of kernel corn and add salt depending on your desired taste. 
4. Mix well so that the ingredients will complement each other deliciously.

This is just another healthy way on how to make a lettuce salad with an Italian touch!

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Sinangag Station

by Mycka Batocabe

American fastfood chains have graced our country for years now. They have served us burgers, chicken, nuggets and french fries for our appetite’s delight. Today, a Pinoy fast food has charmed the hungry Filipino food lovers, the Sinangag Station.

After observing that most fast food restaurants serve American food, Mr. Resty Esponillo came up with the idea to have a Pinoy fast food resto. October 2003 was the birth of Sinangag Station, the long dream of Mr. Esponillo.

When you hear silog you’ll think of tapa. But Sinangag Station is also known for their sisig, bangus, and some products from Cebu like Spanish sardines, danggit and chorizo. Their most expensive dish would be the Hungarian and bangus which is P70.  Sinangag Station is a 24/7 tapsilugan that promises to cater every type of person with its accessibility and affordability.

Sinangag Station isn’t the stylish resto. It is an open-air, tile flooring and a few picnic tables and benches. But it’s clean and the staff is friendly.  With the reasonable prices and full meal dishes, most customers are students, office workers with unusual work time and party goers who are looking for some place to eat at pass midnight. The Pinoy resto assures its fans to offer good quality, fast, clean and affordable meals which recognized them as Philippine Marketing Excellence Awardee.

Because of the good quality of food, service and great response of people, Sinangag Station flourished to a total of thirteen branches. They have eleven branches in Cebu and two in the Urban Metro, one in Maginhawa and the other in Katipunan. Five were company own and the rest are franchise.

Go ahead and rush to Katipunan to try Sinangag station today!

Website:
http://sinangagstation.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinangag-Station/300623741916
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinangag-Station-Katipunan-Ave-Next-to-Yellow-Cab-BPI/208112535891964

Related articles:
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=707200&publicationSubCategoryId=71
http://disinioyspeak.blogspot.com/2010/05/sinangag-station-fast-food-cebu-fast.html

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Ahoy there, mate-y!

by Isabel Angelica B. Alvaran

When you hear the word ‘Vikings’, the first word that pops in your head are pirates or even smelly warriors of the sea and that doesn’t sound so appetizing. Well, you might change your mind the moment you finish this article. Warriors of the sea or not, the Vikings Buffet Restaurant at the Mall of Asia will hit your taste buds with a wave!

    Vikings offers scrumptious food with a variety to choose from. It serves mouth-watering European, American, Japanese, Chinese and Filipino dishes in a vast array of choices. A luxurious buffet restaurant that overlooks the magnificent Manila Bay through vast conservatory – like windows, it gives a relaxed and stylish ambiance to customers. The Vikings can accommodate 600 hungry customers and possesses well-equipped, comfortable dining nooks while combining several live-action cooking stations. The food truly has quality that exceeds beyond buffet expectations. From seafood cuisine to meat cuisine; gourmet pizza to local favorites and freshly made stir-fried are options thrown in. This pirate’s restaurant will surely make you walk on the plank of epicurean epiphany. Vikings is really the perfect choice for hungry voyagers!




    The restaurant opens at 11:00am and closes at 10:00pm. Be sure to expect tides of hungry ship crew flooding the restaurant so play safe and call them for reservations. Vikings can be spotted by the Seaside Blvd. at the Mall of Asia.

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Bacons for Mass Communication in Sportsfest 2011

Mass Comm and Tourism students shake hands after their last game. Photo by Cathy Pantoja

by Marz Aglipay
 
This year’s sportsfest got Paulinians working up a sweat. The major games being basketball and volleyball games eliminations started early August. The games held on Sportsfest week were all championship games except for a couple of games which determined who would make it into the finals on the last day of the sportsfest week.

New additions to the minor games line-up are chess and Scrabble replacing tug-o’-war and obstacle relay. For the swimming events, it was held in campus this year after the re-opening of the swimming pool in front of the newly erected canteen. The same swimming events were held except for the relay. The Mass Communication Society took home two gold medals from this event.

The events were concluded on Friday September 23, with its highlight being the cheering competition.  Compared to last year each performance was shortened to 5 minutes leaving enough time for the awarding for athletes. Performances by the college students varied with their respective themes. The Tourism went with an indigenous inspired performance, the Psychology Society with a tin soldier look, the mass communication society sporting a “who-run-the-world” angst to their performance.



For the cheering competition the Psychology society got 2nd place, the Mass Communication Society 1st and the champion was the Nursing Society. The Mass Communication Society was awarded as the Best PEP squad for always being present and supportive of their team.

For the major games the society landed itself in 3rd place in basketball and 2nd place in the volleyball in the women’s division. Elaiza Cabuag and Diane Sumulong were among the Mythical 6 of women’s volleyball. Elaiza Cabuag was also awarded as part of the Mythical 5 in basketball women’s division. But the this year’s biggest award goes to the HRM Society who garnered the most wins in both majors sports making them Over-all Champion.

This goes to show that this is a very promising year for the Mass Communication society. It proved that they are strong contenders in the area of sports. The mass comm. students make it look as easy as having bacons for breakfast.

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UVmini: Keep it clean, keep it artsy

by Rose Angela Bautista

“Treat your password like toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months”

As we all know, the toothbrush is a very important instrument for hygiene. It is used to clean the teeth and gums. But what we don’t know is that brushing could increase the bacteria on our teeth. The toothbrush is one of the most common breeding grounds of bacteria, especially when placed in unsanitary places like the bathroom. These bacteria can bring about various dental problems, without you even knowing that brushing your teeth has caused the problems in the first place.

The UV mini Toothbrush sanitizer is proven to clean toothbrush with 99.9% chance. And it is known as the smallest sterilizer in the world. This device sanitizes a toothbrush using a CCFL UV-C lamp that emits 253.7nm wavelength of germ-killing UV light. The toothbrush sanitizer comes in two types: both can be powered by USB connection, only that the other is also equipped with a rechargeable battery that can operate it even without the USB cable. An hour of battery charging can give you 5 to 8 times of sterilization process. The device automatically operates when you close it, with or without a toothbrush inside. When you open it, it automatically turns off. It comes with a LED light that emits blue light when the device is in operation and red light when it is being charged. You’ll know when the device is already fully charged because the red light disappears.

Other than its functionality, the sanitizer is very stylish. It has a top cover that you can easily replace with a cover of different designs.

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Darren Criss replaces Daniel Radliffe on Broadway

by Katrina Buganan

Producers confirmed rumored word today that Darren Criss will replace Daniel Radcliffe as J. Pierrepont Finch in Broadway's How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, making his Broadway debut, according to BBC News.

The 24-year-old Criss, who is known best as playing Kurt Hummel's boyfriend, Blaine, on Glee, seems to be a natural in replacing Mr. Radcliffe when we has written and starred as the The Boy Who Lived in his satirical “A Very Potter Musical” and “A Very Potter Sequel.” now turned into YouTube sensations.

The leader of all-male singing group The Warblers in the TV show - will play the lead role Finch from January 3 to the 22^nd in New York.


Harry Potter star Radcliffe has been in the production since it opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in March. He previously appeared on Broadway in Peter Shaffer play Equus in 2008 and 2009. Radcliffe will next be seen on the big screen in Hammer thriller The Woman in Black, due for release in February. 

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