[67] Hum in Peace

[67]

Hum in Peace

After our class with Sir Alfonso Deza (the hubby of Nova Villa in ABS-CBN's Super Inggo; also the one who threw the classic 'Suportahan taka line in a PLDT commercial) and some laugh trips with blockmates Kat and Kris, I straighted home through the jeepney and saw this!

I immediately mouthed, "Oh my Good," thinking that Angel Locsin might be in that humongous vehicle! Overacting? NOT.

By the way, who is this Adam Brody? Ate Czarina left a comment in my friendster: "barry?two words:adam brody". And I asked why. She then told me that I should google Adam Brody up concluding that magka-asta daw kami. Hmmm. This should be flatteringly, or else...
Hahahaha

[66] June Fried

[66]
June Fried

I'm glad June is about to halt. The first month of my sophomore year is so explosive and coma-inducing that I almost forgot my mother's name. Also, the semester ahead will bulldoze my system. There are so many school (yeah, including org and council) activities. I can handle it, right? *sigh
And Joana's debut party is nearing (well, not exactly- it's August pa :) )
Should I get a date? Hahaha.
PS I'm regretting about my failure to sign-up in UP Green Minds. :( I'm an environmentalist, you know =s

[65] Brithday Bashes

[65]

Brithday Bashes

I'm dying to have some libre from you guys! Hahaha. I'm so sorry that I can't give you individual entries. It's gonna pile up and

so will my calluses in my finger tips. Wink!

ate Doreen (on the right)

kuya Jerick (with Sitti)

Jokko

Iris

Carl

kuya Ely

Andreo

and

ate Abby

[64] My Firsts in Journalism

(with Guyito, Philippine Daily Inquirer's mascot)

[64]

My Firsts in Journalism
(last Wednesday pa toh)

a. My first news story

The UP Mass Communicators’ Organization (UP MCO) facilitated a free media tour for two freshmen blocks yesterday.
A number of Communication Research (K3) and Journalism (K6) students participated in the organization’s annual activity. They first visited the Philippine Daily Inquirer office in Makati City; then GMA Network building and finally Social Weather Stations office, both in Quezon City.
Kimberly Jane Tan, UP MCO’s chairperson, said that “aside from wanting to expose the freshmen to different media institutions, the organization also wants them to be aware of how these institutions work for they are future media practitioners.” She added that the trip was also “in line with their thrust towards media awareness.”


b. My first TV report

Nandito po ako ngayon sa opisina ng Social Weather Stations dito Quezon City, ang huling lugar na pinasyalan ng ilang mga mag-aaral ng UP Diliman.

Isinagawa ng UP Mass Communicators’ Organization o UP MCO ang isang libreng media tour para sa dalawang Freshmen blocks, na ginanap simula kaninang umaga.

Pinuntahan ng mga estudyante and mga gusali ng Philippine Daily Inquirer, GMA Network at SWS.

Sinabi ng tagapamuno ng UP MCO na si Kimberly Jane Tan na ang media tour ay hindi lamang ipasyal sila kundi para rin sila mismo ang makakita kung ano ang ginagawa doon.

Dagdag pa niya na ang lakbay-aral ay paraan ng pagtataguyod ng kaalaman sa media.

Ako po si Barry Viloria, nag-uulat para sa Balitang Maskom.

with Kuya Germs!

with Ruth, sorry!

more pictures here...

[63] Blogago

[63]

Blogago

Honestly people, does my blog give you a killer nausea? I just scanned over my oldest posts and read them one by one. It came to me that the ‘attitude’ has depleted as time went by.

I missed the posts wherein I actually call someone I hate ‘a personified human body waste’. In my recent ones, I have changed it into ‘an average type of human species’. Have I been struck by the comet of euphemism? Far were the days when I just spill expletives as if someone’s not reading; and now, I must settle down my words to sound to you as an educated 16 year-old guy who shall later study the ethics in journalism.

Hence, the readership must be maintained by showcasing good and appropriate items. Is this the hypocrisy I await in the media industry? Tell me.

[62] Spewing Factory Exhausts

[62]

Spewing Factory Exhausts

In our first day in BC100 class, as we introduced ourselves individually, this actual conversation is worth remembering:

BARRY: Hello Sir. I’m Barry Cyrus Viloria, a sophomore taking up Journalism. I studied in St. Paul College of Ilocos Sur from grade school to high school. I have these two orgs: UP-MCO and DZUP Radio Circle. And I’m single. *smile

SIR AVECILLA: You’re courting somebody?

BARRY: Sir, last year I messed up in my grades so I guess, I won’t be courting someone for this semester. I’m going to focus more on my academics.

SIR AVECILLA: Why is that? Seasonal ba yang panliligaw mo?

(Everybody in the class laughed.)

____________________________

Classes has started vaguely as UP students especially in the College of Mass Communication invigoratingly walk around the university to, umm, enroll. I notice most of the freshmen who must have been born out of questionable definition of the word ‘luck’ for having been in the finest school in the entire archipelago however among the pioneer batch who pays a whopping 300% increase in the tuition from last year’s.

Anyway, I finished my enrollment in 2 days and here’s my schedule below.

MON
8:30-11:30 FILM100/ Introduction to Film and Audio Visual Communication

TUES
8:30-10:00 ART STUD2/ Art in Everyday Life
11:00-1:00 JOURN100/ Introduction to Journalism

1:00-2:30 COMM3/ Speech Communication

WED
No classes.

THURS
1:00-4:00 BC100/Intoduction to Broadcast Communication

FRI
ART STUD2
COMM3

SAT
1:00-4:00 COMM100/Introduction to Mass Communication

To my High School friends: I guess I won’t be seeing you around too often. As I put it, I will focus almost all my time in my academics (but relax, I will not try to race over Mikaela Fudolig! That’s very impossible! Hah!)

To my K6 block-mates: Congratulations to the shifters who made it into their respective courses! We’re block-mates (for life!) though your colleges are geographically far from CMC. Hahahaha.
Shen, Economics.
Jau, Economics.
Mics, Business Administration.
Krisna, Business Economics.
Shereen, Anthropology.
GOOD LUCK on your future careers!

To the Freshies: Enjoy your 15 units!

To God (eek!): I need your help. I’m sorry of I was born stupid. Hahaha. Again, good luck to all of us!

[61] The Hell

[61]

The Hell

Spending a P100 load for only a month is an option I am reconsidering. As a matter of fact, I seldom reply to people who text me. This is to hamper me from being a kilititexter moron. But don’t be bothered, if it’s that important, I’ll reply.

[sixtieth] White Summer

[sixtieth]
White Summer

Why WHITE? Simple I wore white shirts virtually the whole summer! Hahahaha.
I'm gonna be missing vacation. I'm (starting to get) serious with my studies. I'll be physically remote for five months. Good luck to all of us!

the ear-splitting videoke sessions

Me and Nix hate it when Iris gets hold of the microphone. She's unstoppable! Wah, how much are earmuffs?

Nix, Jowa, Carol

and all other insanities

What the?!

With Tan Chem Pang

If it weren't for your cam. Hahaha.

Plain stupid.

With Kathie a.k.a. THE BIG SHOW. Peace.

with two of the 'pillars' of "The Bodies!"

hey Bevz!

doing a remake of the teeny-bopper CLICK

(all from Nix's and Carol's multiply )

[59] Pinoy Paris

[59]

Pinoy Paris

They say she’s everybody’s bitch: the one people would love to hate. And she doesn’t care!

I’ve known Ada Joana Fe Artajos since first grade── the itsy bitsy girl who must have been half-invisible for she just lurked in the barrier surrounding her armchair. She was taciturn (note that I wrote WAS).

In High School, she turned to be the Ms. Bad Influence for erecting a group named S.M.N.S./SandaMakmak Na Sexy (in which I was later recruited in). We were the frightening gangsters in the class, categorically the smart frightening gangsters for we belonged in a Science (star) class. Well anyway, we claim Ada as not famous, instead she was infamous. In COQC training, the officers loathed her. And as much, she blabbered and blabbered like she had her own world. That’s what I like about her. She knows what she’s actually talking about. And again, she doesn’t care!

SMNS. I did this pic years back! Hahahaha

She knows how to fight and at least has principles within her. When you become non-palatable to her friendship-meter-taste, it’s a goodbye to you. But still, no one can stop Ada from throwing lines i.e. “duh!” “whatever!” “che!” and so on.

A girl who hated you went straight to you and slaps you, what do you do?
ADA: “I’ll pour stinky water on her.” (Hmmm. Poor girl.)

In a beauty contest, you actually obtain the crown. But this desperate first runner-up of yours tries to get it by force in your own winning moment, what do you do?
ADA: “I’ll chuck the bouquet at her face, and then── wave.”

Say in a Theology/Religion class, the teacher calls you for an answer. But you become tensed and mouthed nothing. He/she then humiliated you in public calling you a “descendant of Lucifer!” What do you do?
ADA: “I’ll state, ‘you bitch! What the f*ckin’ hell is your damn shity problem??! I don’t care about your f*ckin class, you whore!” (People, this is not a prayer.)

Who is/are your bad-girl idol/s? And why her/them?
ADA: “Xhe (Sunshine Supnet), my best friend. I just simply know how tough she is yet so soft inside. Not to mention, Paris Hilton who is an angel! And locally, I adore Michelle Madrigal. She and Paris are so bitchy and hot! Hahahah.”

At seventeen, what are your strongest and weakest points?
ADA: “In the weak points, I can say that I’m still very dependent, spoiled and irresolute. Anyhow, I have stable feelings for my loved ones and friends, and I have an ambition in life.”

If you were to willingly become a sexy star in a cheap Pinoy flick, what would be your screen name? And who would you wish to be your leading man?
ADA: “TULIP. Ang bango bango! My leading man would be Matteo Gudiccelli of ABS-CBN’s Go Kada Go!”

You would die tomorrow, what would you in your remaining 24 hours on Earth?
ADA: “Hihiga.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS VIGAN 2004! Smirk smirk.

[58] Juni Sings IF

[58]

Juni sings IF

Vying deliriously for the Ms. Universe 2012 title is a close High School friend of mine, Jennifer Tabangcura.

Last May 25^th, she celebrated her debut party in La Huerta Garden, Sto. Domingo, Ilocos Sur with all the members of her family, church (she’s that religious Christian whom you will feel grave guilt upon telling her a green joke!) and of course, friends. I and Katrina were the Masters of the Ceremony.

With Katrina; we're the Emcee.

Back in HS, I baptized her JUNI with an unremembered reason. From then on, all of us including her were at least comfortable with such. Juni has been a gentle creature all her life. She’s a great singer. She’s down-to-earth. She’s intelligent. What more could you ask for?

Well, to break her modest aura, here are just some (stupid, silly, droll, though witty) questions I asked Juni days after her birthday:

If you were to change a body part in you, what would that be? Why?
JUNI: “Your first question trembles me! My body size (laughs!) of course, to erase DIET in my list of serious problems!” (Here’s a trivia, Juni has always chanted, “Lord, why can’t I slim down?! Huhu”)

If you were to become an animal, what would you be? Why?
JUNI: “Hmmm... I would like to be a butterfly, small but terrible, beautiful in time.”

If later you actually learn that your third eye is open, and ghosts have been staying in your room, what would you do?
JUNI: “I’ll cast them out in Jesus’ name (ugh, Juni what an answer!). But I think the situation is pretty impossible, the ghosts will surely be afraid of me!”

If you were to run for senatorial candidacy in the near future, what would be your platform to win people’s votes?
JUNI: “Well, I would promote projects that would prioritize the poor (there goes the Ms. Universe answer!). I’ll campaign projects that would help the students. And many more. Anyway, I have no plans of being a politician.”

If you were to willingly become a sexy star in a cheap Pinoy flick, what would be your screen name? And who would you wish to be your leading man?
JUNI: “Juni! What else?! (laughs!) Leading man, hmmm... Piolo.” (Holy eewness. I’m throwing up.)

If your voice wasn’t as heaven-sent, what talent should you have by now?
JUNI: “Dancing, drawing, sketching, designing!”

At 18, what are your strongest and weakest points?
JUNI: "I'm more confident now to stand on my own, not anymore afraid to be independent 'coz I believe in the real ME. And on the other hand, I still have many things I wanna do. But there are tempations ahead. Basta."

If you would die tomorrow, what would you in your remaining 24 hours on Earth?
JUNI: “I’ll spend the day with people close to my heart. I wanna show and tell them how special they were to me. Finally, I’ll pray for the whole world.” (Has she had any idea that she was talking to me and not to a priest?)

Anyway, we all love you Juni! Belated Happy Birthday!

***This is my first attempt as a journalist-wannabe, on interviewing a sought after persona (Juni, you must be titillating right now, yikes!).

Joshua/Jowa goofing around in the debutante's tarp.

High School friends: (from left) me, Kathie, Mariefer, Ralph, Iris, Angeli and Katrina
(MORE photos in elie' multiply)

[57] Communidad y Servicios

[57]

Communidad y Servicios

I know, the Spanish is so awful. Anyway, this is a late post of what I actually did in my SUMMER CLASS! It ain't that boring, people.

Community service is a very vast subject matter. I often ask myself who to help, why should I help, and how can I help in the community. In the end, my questions become dormant.

I was absent in the first meeting for our CWTS 2 but thanks to my org-mates who were in CMC that time, they signed my name up in the SIPAT (Sine Patriyotiko). I got keyed up because for the first time, I altogether with our group of six will make a documentary. (I began to hallucinate of having a quality video ala Howie Severino’s work.) SIPAT is a non-government organization that produces film productions catering to the side of the people that have less power── in short, SIPAT embodies progressive media. So I thought in the first place that this was not going to be that easy. As much to my concern, they were first-rate in making documentaries (they showed us the award-winning “Mula 3^rd Ave Hanggang Sa Dulo”). The thing that complicated my relationship with them is their way of facilitating the almost-a-month combined instruction and application we had come upon. In UP, I have these two organizations that are at least, organized. I’m sorry but I think this NGO needs a steady direction in their endeavors.

In the first two-day lecture, I was moderately participative. The first one was so academic that I cannot help but to stay hushed. The latter was spent revolving on the concept of Art and the preparatory tutoring for the next shooting days. This was something new to me so I dug in the discussion actively.

The following pre-production was elating because this was the official start of the ‘field work’. We were finally immersed in the aforementioned place casually called MAISAN (Sampaloc, Manila). The place was not as horrid as what I see in TV: it was a spacious cemented street and the shanties aligned on the sidewalks so I became more comfortable.

We spent the first days there to ask people about their status and experiences as the years went by. Though their houses do not fill my judgment, they smiled so often that I had so much to thank for, for being not born with the same situation. This not out of being mean/matapobre; this is out of sympathy, why can all of humanity be in a decent, normal, and well-mannered life and living? It is a grave societal problem that needs a grave solution.

For virtually a week, we were in the place to scrutinize their economic and social problems. I was astounded that there are residents in Maisan who are members of Party Lists like Kabataan, etc. I thought that the typical squatters have nothing else to think about than how they can uplift their lives and not matters concerning the society. But as an irony, they encompass a big problem called non-coordination. They themselves who share almost the same burden have not come up to the idea of fighting and striking as a whole against the mistreating people for their rights basically as a human individual (one of our interviewee a 59-year old vendor told us she was slapped by a policeman on her face when she complained of being maltreated), and also their clamors against the government (the relocation sites offered to them are reported first-hand to us that it was far from their livelihood, from school and almost from civilization.) But why aren’t they doing anything?

Moving on, we had a group conference in their office accordingly to suggest in the flow of our film project. I told them that I fancied on having a documentary with a Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho format in where it starts with a question (what is Maisan?) proceeding to its geography, history, to the problems and offered solutions and finally a challenge for the residents in the end. The next day, in the shoot, I was one of the cameramen. Abi and I alternately held the cam for the shoot. I never knew I can be an efficient human tripod: I can be position my arm still during half-an-hour interviews! The last days were more hassling than anyone expected: the post-production almost made us nuts! The editing turned out to be time-consuming so I just sat beside our editor and suggest on whatever.

And yes, community service is a very vast subject matter. This practicum has led me to the thought of media specifically film documentation as a vital aide not only as an eye-opener to the general public but as an advocator. And it’s not so simple; the immersion signals your full-belonging to the community. I also learned that there are other worse urban poor communities in the country; and as part of the media and a future practitioner, I have a mission to let somebody, umm everybody, see that we have to do something. As for now, I have somebody in commitment to── the poor Filipino people even though they have become desperate. Like what my Phil History told our class, we only have the Philippines, and we only have Filipinos.

A spoof pic from our editing-the-documentary process

(from Abi's multiply)