LIS 115 peeps, if you have access to AXN tomorrow, CSI has a Sci-Fi themed murder mystery. :D (replay on Sunday)

UP Diliman University Library Sudent Assistant

from Ms. Eimee.

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The UP Diliman University Library is in need of full time/part-time Student Assistants (SA). The current rate is P30/hour. Depending on the section, the duties of the SA include, but are not limited to, the following:
    * Paging of library materials
    * Shelving
    * Shelf-reading
    * Inventory
    * Manning the control desk
    * Manning the circulation desk
    * Encoding
    * Filing
 
Privileges:
    * Free Internet Use
    * 50% discount on printouts

Requirements:
    * At least 2nd Year College
    * No 5’s or Inc. during the previous semester
    * Has at least 60 hours/month (for part-time) or 120 hours/month (for full time) library duty

Please proceed to the Librarian’s Office, 2/F Gonzalez Hall, UP Diliman if you’re interested.  You may also call them at 9818500 loc. 2852 and ask for Gilda or Mylene.

Basic Digital Photography Workshop 3

UPLSAA and UPLISSA present:
Basic Digital Photography Workshop
Speaker: Nap Apolinario
UP School of Library and Information Studies (UPSLIS)
UP Diliman, Quezon City
27 June 2009
9 am - 12 nn

Note: Me having fun with tub of vaseline on the filter. Trip lang. Some pics by carina.

FlipSpin@GB5

June 27, 2009

Y4IT 09

Reposting from Ida.

School invites here.
Y4IT site here - http://y4it.up.edu.ph.

"Now on its 7th year, the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology or Y4iT is expected to be bigger and better. Last year's Y4iT was held in UP Diliman and was the most successful event organized by the UP ITTC and UP SITF in cooperation with PSITE, CSP, and the UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps. The sponsors included Sun, JEDI, Microsoft, Acer, and Fujitsu Ten. An estimated 18,000 senior high school and college students, IT professionals, members of the academe, and IT enthusiasts attended. Also, all 70 invited speakers were present."

Happy, just happy - JN09 Yoyo Mods Contest

Just wanna share coz I'm happy. :D

I entered this project - http://gorilla.multiply.com/journal/item/313 for the Japan Nationals 2009 Yoyo Mods Contest.

DCP Spin Killer Chris Makita, who's based in Japan, suggested that I join. And through him I did.

I got a special award. :D

I have Chris to thank for making this possible. Thanks buddy!

Link to translated page - http://tinyurl.com/JN09Mods
Link to original page - http://skonworld.blog105.fc2.com

German Cut: Vis-a-vis

This is the second in a series of posts chronicling my quest to go out of the country for the first time. My first post regarding this is here: http://gorilla.multiply.com/journal/item/322. It was about my passport. This is about the VISA.


I had to take the long walk from the Language Center to the Embassy. It was hot out. Maybe that explains why I'm now deliriously running a fever. It's either that or the ZONROX I almost swallowed yesterday or the copious amounts of Elmer's Glue I huffed in high school have all come back to haunt me.

Seems there was something wrong with my VISA photo. Seems my passport photo with blue background won't do. The VISA photo had to have a white or light background. I had the photos taken at a photo place in SM Southmall the day before so I wasn't expecting any trouble.


Ma'am Lorie had asked me to personally hand-carry the photos to Ma'am Sherry just to make sure it gets to be included in my papers.
 
The embassy was located a couple of stone's throws away from the Languager Center (think 5 to 10 olympic javelin throws). It was at the 24th floor of one of the buildings in Makati. The place was well lit and had decent airconditioning. The wait was tedious, definitely nothing to write home about, though. I had been waiting for about 30 minutes for counter 4 to open when my number came up over the PA system.
 
His name was Derrick. He was wearing a tight green shirt. From what I can see, it was nippy at his side of the bulletproof glass which separated applicant from Embassy staff. The counter had a one-way drawer which is only open from either side of the glass. It's either open on your side, or his side only. You drop your documents, he pulls a lever to close the drawer and it opens on his side. Viola! Your documents are at his perusal. The drawer openned at my side and he instructed me to drop in my photos.
 
"What's your name?" he asked. I answered. "And your birthday?" I answered again.

After a couple of seconds of fiddling with the keyboard he looks at me and says, "We have no record of your VISA application with us. Are you sure you submitted it already?"

I explained to him that Ma'am Lorie of the Language Center had asked me to personally hand-carry the photos to Ma'am Sherry.

"Why are you coursing your application through the Language Center?" he asked, obviously peeved. "If it's a VISA application it should be coursed directly here, at the Embassy." I could only nod.

"Do you know where the word VISA comes from?" he asked. "It's from the french word vis-à-vis which literally means 'face to face'," he said as one of his eyebrows started to raise. So did one of mine. "It's the government's way of seeing you face-to-face, an agreement or contract of trust that you won't do anything stupid in our country," he opined. "But," I started to butt in, "I'm going to Germany, not France." He paused... "Sabagay." 

He dropped a piece of paper into his side of the drawer then pulled a lever. I took that paper when the drawer opened at my side. "Write your name, please. Sit down for a moment, I'll ask Ma'am Sherry about this."

After a few minutes he returned.

"Is this really you?" he asked, looking intently at my VISA photo. I nodded. "It doesn't look like you." I executed my patented smile. "Ahhh.... It is you."


After writing down some notes he looked at me again with a questioning look. "Aren't you Cody Havoline of the P3 boyband of the 90's?" he asked. I nodded again. "Boy, were you guys good. Walang panama sina David Archuleta at Adam Glambert sa inyo kung noon sila sumikat at nakipagsabayan sa inyo." I could only smile.

"How are the others?" he queried.

"Well, Brad Barbula and Dodong Diesel are now married. Not to each other, though," I said, starting to reminisce the good ole times. "Saver, the wonder dog, our front act, died some time ago. We miss him. Our biggest fan Roger still keeps a blog about our exploits somewhere. And Vince Valvolene, formerly Ryan Rev-X, is still out there, still his old philandering self. He's never been the same since that incident with the Music Mag Source reporter Rafael Anthony Saguid."

"So what have you been up to lately?" he asked as he propped his chin on his hands.

"Well, I'm still doing stuff for the Bipolar Bears and Behind the Crimson Door. The Bipolar Bears will be releasing Nocturnal Journal any time soon." A deafening buzzer jolted both of us back to reality. His supervisor, as it turned out it was Ma'am Sherry, started to approach. After looking at Derrick's monitor she looked at me and smiled. "Oh, it's Sir Cody." She looked at Derrick, "Make sure his papers go through. His visit to our country will definitely be a feather in the cap for international relations," she said, smiled and walked away.

"Can I ask about quarantine? Will we be quarantined when we get there?" I started to ask. "Coz it seems that when I return I'd have to go on self-quarantine for a week." Derrick looked at me then answered, without even batting an eyelash, "C'mon, A(H1N1) is just a simple flu which has you squealing like a pig when your fever reaches 40 degrees. I don't think you have anything to worry about. You filipinos just have a way of being overacting sometimes." He did some encoding for a while then paused.

"Okay sir, I think your papers will be in order some time soon. Just leave these photos with me," he assured. "Thank you," I said, gratefully.   

"Oh, by the way," Derrick said over the PA system as I was walking away. "Do you have an extra photo?" I was fumbling through my pockets as I made my way back to the counter. "My niece is a big fan of yours. Can you sign it for her?"

"How old is your niece?" I asked. "She's 42," he answered. "Actually I'm a bit confused if she's my niece or my aunt or both." Oooookay... Too much information...

I gladly signed one of my extra photos and dropped it in the counter drawer. "Do you have another one? I'd like to have one for my own, bragging rights, you know," he asked coyly.

I fished out another photo and signed it for him. It had a simple message: Derrick, hope our paths will cross again. With Love, Cody Havoline. P3.

I smiled, dropped it into the drawer too and made my way out of the embassy as I saw Derrick neatly tucking away my photo in his wallet.

Good times.
 
I wonder what Germany has in store for me.

LIS 115 and 163 peeps. Email me at my gmail using your gmail. I need to add you manually for the googlesites.

SLIS Orientation Program 09

SLIS Orientation Program and Induction of new SLIS Student Council Officers 2009. With talks from the UP OCG and UP Gender Office and performance from the UP REP.

Contemporary Picture Book Illustration in Germany

The Goethe-Institut Manila, in cooperation with The National Library, opened an exhibition entitled "Contemporary Picture Book Illustration in Germany" last June 15, 2009 at The National Library, T.M. Kalaw St., Manila. Ma'am Prudenciana Cruz, Director of The National Library, and Mr. Richard Künzel, Director of Goethe-Institut Manila, did the honors at the ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Also present were members of the INK (Illustrador ng Kabataan) who held workshops a few days earlier. The workshop outputs adorned the exhibit area.

If you look at the works associated with contemporary picture book illustration in Germany, as Mr. Künzel explained, one will readily see the obvious simplification of themes, the exaggeration and the surrealism. All these designed to open the eyes of children and adults alike.

upslissc's Site

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TUMINDIG PARA sa KATOTOHANAN at TAMANG IMPORMASYON!

Laybraryan ng Bayan Maglingkod sa Bayan!

A tale of two cats and one dog

"No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."

- Coraline, Neil Gaiman

I was looking through the pics in my fone when I noticed I had some pics of cats and dogs. I planned to blog about them, but things (like work) got in the way. So here we go, before I forget.

This is a tale of two cats and one dog.

Mokey
If Ma'am Tin has Kikay and Ma'am Iyra has Oprah, I have Mokey. Mokey's a Lhasa Apso, a breed of jumpy, feisty and quick Tibetan Mountain Dogs. Think of them as Shih Tzus with less overbite and paws as large as those of German Shepherds. Their fur usually reaches the ground but we cut them short during summers so they'll be comfortable.

Mokey's real name is Mokong. Why Mokong? We've been breeding dogs for some time now. When the family started Utopia Kennels, we decided to follow the alphabetical naming of annual litters. Each dog has an official name on paper as well as a nickname for easy calling. So we went through the whole gamut of greek heroes, gods and goddesses (Achilles, Agamemnon, Io, Hera, etc), classical music composers (Beethoven Bach, Mozart, etc.), and historical European / Russian names (Trotsky, Tolstoy, etc.). When Mokey was born, we named him after Janno Gibbs' character in the GMA7 sitcom "Si Manoy at Si Mokong". So his littermates were named Manoy (Eddie Garcia's character) and Mimi (Rufa Mae Quinto's character).

Mokey's part of the 13th litter, but that's far from the last one. Our last litter, the 17th, had "Q" for names (hence Quasimodo, Quentin, Quixo, guess who they were named after?). All that said, Mokey's our last dog. He has outlived his siblings and great-great-great(?) grandchildren. He's now 11-12 years old, that's about 75 in human years.

He has started to lose his hearing and eyesight, quite common with the breed. When I arrive from school or work, it used to only take him 2 seconds to bound from the garden and into my lap. Guess what, now it takes him a whole minute. Getting him into the garden from the garage is a loooooong ordeal every morning so we could back out the car. He used to be able to jump till my chest when he was young. After a couple of years that height lowered to my waist, then my knee. Then a year ago he could only manage to lift his paws and push on my calves. Now all he could do is rest his head on my shoe, no more jumping. He still likes it when I hold his chest or belly (Hi Iya and Eli) and hoist him a few inches off the ground.

Damn alpha-male dog (yup, he held that title despite the arrival of younger males who have come and gone). He still doesn't hold still for photographs.

Adopt-a-Kitty
Last weekend I awoke to sounds of mew-ing (not meowing) near my bedroom window. My mom and my nephew Enzo said there's a kitten inside our front lawn. He just crossed the street and decided to make a cozy resting place in our flower box. Mom told me to get rid of him, us/we being a dog-family and all. Yep, at the height of our kennel we had about 17 to 19 dogs and pups yelping and yapping their way to their dog dishes. Not much till you find out our neighbor Tita Edith had 21 pusakals (mongrel cats) freely sashaying about in their garage. Talk about sleepess nights with all the meowing and barking.

Any way, I have a soft spot for furry creatures so I just let the green-eyed kitten be. After a while he found his way out and stationed himself on a rock in the outer garden. I gave him a small cupcake. Dunno where he is now. You know what they say about cats, they adopt you, you don't adopt them.

UP-usakal
I came across this kitten just yesterday. But the circumstances were rather frightening.

As I was on my way to Diliman after dropping my mom off at Mendiola, I slowed down as the stoplight turned red at the V. Mapa / SM Centerpoint / Lumanog guitars area in Manila. Only a few cars in this batch of traffic. To my horror, as the truck in front of me pulled away to beat the red light, there was a kitten making his way across the road!

I've seen this happen a couple of times and I've tried to do the same thing a few times over. Many years ago, I saw a full grown cat in the middle of a two-way road (yellow line with the reflectors) curled tightly into a ball and meowing loudly. He was stranded. I stopped the car, even if it meant me being late for class. I got out and picked up the weakened cat and put it down in front of the nearest house. Oddly enough, the cat tried to stand up. Problem was he was wobbly and walked as if he were drunk. I assumed he was dizzied from all the cars which passed around and over him.

I though of that previous encounter when I saw this kitten. As the truck passed over him I saw how wobbly his legs were. Heck, I would think that what this kitten went through was the equivalent of an Airbus A318 passing just 6 feet above your head. I turned on my hazzard lights, stopped the car and stepped out to retrieve him. He had wobbly darted under the car and curled up just under the license plate. He didn't scratch or fight as I picked him up.

It was then and there that I realized that there were no residential houses nearby where he could have come from. I just guessed that he was deliberately left in unknown territory to fend for himself. He was muddy but he didn't have any mange nor any wounds. I placed him on the mat of the passenger seat. He quickly found his way under the cushions, meowed a couple of times, then fell asleep.

I brought him to UP. I gently woke him up and released him in the parking lot. He took shelter under the familiar license plate of the car. Of course the parking lot alpha-male Pusakal immediately sized him up and pawed at him a bit. But I guess he'll do okay.

Sure he'll be traumatized by the new surroundings. Sure there'll be nights when he'll be cold and hungry. Sure he'll be in fights, he may even lose one of his blue eyes like some of the UP cats I see. But, at least, he now has a fighting chance. I didn't want to see him end up as roadkill. So, if you do see him during one of your visits to the kiosks at the mountaineers' side of the UP Main Lib, do toss some food his way.

Basic Digital Photography Workshop

The UP Library Science Alumni Association (UPLSAA) in coordination with the UP Library and Information Science Students Association (UPLISSA) invite you to the
Basic Digital Photography Workshop on June 27 from 9am-12noon at the UP School of Library and Information Studies (UPSLIS), 3rd floor, UP Main Library. UP Diliman Quezon City

This is the third time that we are offering this workshop to all aspiring photographers and hobbyists. This workshop will be facilitated by photographer, Mr. Nap Apolinario, Jr, PMP. Learn the basics of exposure, composition and techniques in taking better photos!

Just bring your digital camera (point and shoot or  dslr) and a minimal fee of P200 for alumni/non-students and P150 for students.

For inquiries, e-mail us at uplsaa@yahoo. com
Hope to see you!!!

UPD Opening of Classes (latest advisory)

UPD start of classes moved to June 16 in view of extension of registration and DOH advisory on AH1N1. UP SLIS orientation and welcome also moved to June 16 (time to be announced).

from Dean Vyva.

Testing. :D

SLIS Enrolment 1st Sem 09-10

Scenes from an SLIS enrolment. And when the rain pours, the lights go out and work gets called off, we eat. Lunch at The Old Spaghetti House and coffee at Figaro, Ayala TechnoHub.

Note, there are days when I'm so out of it that I forget to put the focus on auto. O_o;;

Job: bookshop supervisor

http://www.asiatype-distribution.com is looking for supervisor for soon to open bookshop. Will post details (eg where to send resumes) as soon as I get more details.