Kodak Gallery 2008

Get your own UPLB Planner for Academic Year 2008-2009

the photos were just taken with my phone's VGA camera... tsk

Get your own UPLB Planner NOW!

P60 at the Office of Public Relations (OPR), 2nd Floor Administration Building.
They're also selling it around campus (don't know where though) and I think at the College Secretaries offices.

Yey! it's finally out! It came out bit late for the actual start of classes, but not too late. After all classes have just begun here.

This school year's planner is spring-bound which better holds the pages together and makes it easier to flip. Although, I still find that the spring makes it a bit difficult to write on the back pages.

The planner (like last year) contains lots of handy information such as a profile about UPLB, important telephone numbers of UPLB offices, a campus map, the list of UPLB officials, a key guide to the codes for lecture halls and classrooms (which specifically indicates TBA means To Be Arranged heheh), and of course important dates to remember from the academic calendar.

Having a planner that follows the academic year instead of a physical year is a great idea for students. It makes it easier to note, schedule, and monitor what you're gonna be doing for the school year, especially when classes get cut for breaks. I wish we had these when I was still a student. 

Having a planner that caters to the UPLB student, makes it a great plus: dito lang sa UPLB meron n'yan.

Reflecting real-world relationships

I was able to watch this interview on ANC last weekend...

‘We put a lot of emphasis on connecting with people in the real world’

They weren't exactly asked the questions I was looking for them to answer, but the interview stressed the importance of reflecting real-world relationships on this very ingenious media-sharing merged social networking site :)

Bookworms want Load

I was ranting on my first post today about teleco network promos. Here's another one I found in the paper last Sunday. :)

If you've got a particular favorite line from a book you've read, why not try to send it in and you may win P1,000.00 worth of Globe call cards. Nothin' to lose...

I'll be copying the paper verbatim now... (its not like I'd have anything else to add):

"Join the Philippine STAR and Globe's My Favorite Line contest. We will choose two winners who will get P1,000 each worth Globe call cards.
Text your favorite line to 0915-874-2725 with your complete name, the title of the book you got it from and the author. The contest runs until December 31, 2008. Prizes may be claimed at the STAR offices, 13th corner Railroad St., Port Area, Manila. Call 527-7901 to 15, locals 119/120, to make an appointment. Look for Kathy Moran of Boy Suerte"

Design a Metrobank credit card for a Canon Powershot A470

Also found this in the paper last Sunday.

Philippine Star - Metrobank DesignMyCard contest

It might just be the ticket to getting myself a digital camera - that works much better than the one I have right now (Kodak EasyShare C443). :)

Note to self: remember this phrase "You're in good hands with Metrobank"... something to work a theme around.

UP + camera phone + Smart = UPiktyuran Na!

UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition is now on!

I found the full-page ad in the Philippine Star last Sunday and looked up the site today. I think I saw just a couple entries submitted so far.

The UP Diliman College of Mass Communication partnered with Smart for this promo, so thanks for that. It's a pretty neat project for the Centennial :)

The good news: its open to all UP constituents; students, alumni, faculty and employees, no matter what campus you belong to, wherever you are in the world :) It's actually very good news that they've included all campuses here. I'm beginning to get ticked off at the notion that Diliman is the only UP.

This reminds me of an article I read in the Sunday Inquirer Magazine about the Smoke Ban in the UP Campuses... the author wasn't able to include UPLB in the list of campuses she listed. (sorry couldn't find the link for you)

The not-so-good news: Of course, only Smart subscribers can send their entries. :) Too bad I'm not a Smart subscriber... yet. I wonder if they could have tied up with Globe for this... Another sentiment that I have is these promos and features are so network-based.

One instance: you have a phone that has some feature (like internet browsing), but you can't use it because your network doesn't provide the feature (or hasn't programed it yet) for your phone (because its not a Nokia), or (until recently) they'd charge you big for using it.

Anyway, more good news: if your photo gets to be among their top 10 outstanding photos, you'll be winning a Smart Bro Prepaid broadband kit bundled with an Asus eeePC laptop :) Now, that makes me want to borrow my Mom's sim for a while. Heheh. :)

Here's a photo of the flyer:

World Record: I'm gonna download Firefox 3 on Download Day...

The cute olympic fox is just so adorable!

I'm not exactly into those set-a-world-record gimmiks... I think they've become overrated.

A positive thing about them is that they've set the Philippines (its towns, products and people) on the Guinness map of the world. After all...How big can you make a Christmas lantern? or a pair of shoes? or a local candy bar? How many grills can you get together to cook the longest barbeque? How many sili can you eat under three minutes?

And running after world records does get the publicity for an information campaign (How many people can you get to do 30 minutes of aerobics exercise at Luneta?), or the mechanism for a medical mission that would benefit those who can't afford medical check ups (How many blood identification tests, cholesterol readings, blood pressure readings, and diabetes readings can be done in 24 hours?)

But add the commercial factor, it just gets... overrated and commercial. Sometimes, just trying is enough to get you in the evening news. How many people can you get to kiss at Roxas Blvd. on Valentines Day to sell toothpaste? How many people can you get to dance at Luneta Park to sell milk?

But I think I'll pitch in this one. Firefox is the best and it just keeps getting better! The fact that it's free justifies the saying "The best things in life are free". We wouldn't be using the internet like we do today without it!