Philippine Science High School (PSHS) topped the “MATHirang MATHibay” annual mathematics competition of the University of the Philippines Math Majors Circle.

The team composed of Alvin Wilson Alba, Benetta Joy Branzuela and Dianne Francesca Oliveros topped 40 other teams from different schools in the contest held in UP Institute of Mathematics and Math Education Development Auditorium.

The three bright students received “Pinaka-MATHibay Immortality Trophy,” and P15,000 prize money.

Joel Edward Cardinal, Roochie Mico Cosico and Kevin Ross Nera of Makati Science High School placed second while Angeline Baniqued, Geraldine Baniqued and Ma. Regine Paz Onglao of St. Paul – Pasig got the third place.

UP SAMASKOM will stage Live AIDS on November 28-30. For its 25th offering, the show is dubbed Anak Ka ng Peyups!!! Live AIDS Silver: The UP Centennial Edition.

Live A.I.D.S. stands for “Ang Istoryang Dinebelop ng Samaskom,” and it is an annual event showcasing local stage talents such as Giselle Sanchez, Tuesday Vargas and Tessie Tomas.

Show will start at 7 p.m. at the University of the Philippines Theater. And no, there are no oblation runs in here, just plain stage humor and talent. Anyway, may ganito ba Ateneo?

Our very own Patricia Fernandez will be fitted against equally gorgeous girls in the 2008 Miss International. Patricia who? Yeah, not a lot of people know her. Well, that’s really how it is here in the Philippines, people don’t care, and TV programs won’t feature you unless you’re a winner already. So in case you want to know her read on.

Patricia is a graduate of BA Speech Communication from the University of the Philippines. That explains why she is articulate. At 22, she stands 5′6″ tall and measures 33-24-3422.

She took up foreign languages, dancing, personality development, and makeup lessons as part of her preparation for the beauty pageant.

The Miss International beauty pageant will be held at the Venetian Hotel in Macau on November. 8.

Yeah you need more info? I’ll do my research later. There’s not a lot of sites talking about her.

Ateneo de Manila University is now the leading tertiary school in the Philippines, topping University of the Phillipines on a “problematic survey” that the UP itself did not participate in. This is based on The Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds (THE-QS) World University Rankings 2008.

The ranking was based on criteria including peer and employer review, faculty-student ratio and citations of teaching staff (UP perhaps got low points on these categories: employer review, faculty-student ratio).

Ateneo Tops UP in World List on a “Problematic Survey” - Ateneo Official Seal

The survey revealed that the Jesuit-led Ateneo was leading the pack in the Philippines, followed by UP, De La Salle University or DLSU, and finally University of Santo Tomas or UST.

University of the Philippines (UP), ranked No. 2, falling from the top position in 2007. But the UP dismissed the results of THE-QS’s study saying the surveyor’s “methodology is problematic”.
Ateneo leaped from between 400th and 500th position last year into 254th place. Ateneo ranks between London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

UP, the country’s premier state university fell 20 places short of Ateneo. It is now in 274th place, up from 398th last year. UP was placed between two German universities—the University of Hamburg and Ulm University.

DLSU and UST are both fresh entries and they ranked 415th and 470th, respectively. Both DLSU and UST were not in the top 500 last year.

Of course Ateneo was happy about the result. The Inquirer on the other hand reported that UP raised doubts on the survey’s validity, saying the university did not take part in this year’s survey.
University of the Philippines vice president for public affairs Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo said the state university did not join because the survey organizers refused to disclose where and how they got their data.

“Since it does not specify who are surveyed or what questions are asked, the methodology is problematic,” Hidalgo added.

For this year’s survey, UP was not invited to participate, she said.

Hidalgo said UP president Emerlinda Roman only received an e-mail message from QS Asia Pacific director, Mandy Mok, notifying her that UP had “gone up in the rankings.”

The QS e-mail also informed UP that it could advertise in the 2009 Top University Guide and join the university fair for a fee of $49,000, Hidalgo said.

“UP can hardly be expected to spend more than P2 million on publicity for itself involving a survey conducted by an organization that refuses to divulge where it obtains its data,” Hidalgo said.
Question, did Ateneo pay P2 million? How can you win a contest you didn’t even join?

Here’s my script for ERASERHEADS: The Reunion Concert The BEAT Special. It aired last September 1, QTV 11 of course, 10pm  . This segment took a few hours to complete. And I know kaya pa siyang mapaganda, kaso wala nang oras. Unexpected things happened. Enjoy our fruit of labor LOL. It’s just the audio part, I had no time to write video descriptions! It supposed to be a one body segment, kaso ginahan ako magsulat, so our Program Manager decided to make it a two body segment.

VO

MARCUS ADORO…

BUDDY ZABALA…

RAYMUND MARASIGAN…

AND ELY BUENDIA, 4 DIFFERENT SOULS DESTINED FOR GREATNESS…

THEY ARE THE ERASERHEADS, ONE OF THE GREATEST FILIPINO BANDS THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!

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HULING EL BIMBO, FRUITCAKE, MAGASIN, PARE KO, TOYANG, ALAPAAP, WITH A SMILE, LIGAYA, TINDAHAN NI ALING NENA, PARA SA MASA AND MANY OTHERS WERE AMONG THE BAND’S MOST POPULAR SONGS.

EVERYBODY LOVED THE BAND WHICH WAS FORMED IN UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, DILIMAN IN 1989!

FILE SOT (PREVIOUS FEATURES ON THEM BEFORE THEY DISBANDED>)

THEIR PHENOMENAL RISE TO STARDOM WAS UNPRECEDENTED BY ANY PINOY GROUP! THE WAY THAT THEIR FANS AND SUPPORTERS LOVE THEM IS SO INTENSE THAT THEY ARE DUBBED AS THE BEATLES OF THE PHILIPPINES!

THE BAND PRODUCED A TOTAL OF 13 CHART BREAKING ALBUMS, INCLUDING POP U! IN 1991, ULTRAELECTROMAGNETICPOP IN 1993 WHICH GOT 6 PLATINUM AWARDS AND CIRCUS IN 1994 WHICH RECEIVED QUINTUPLE PLATINUM AWARDS!

APART FROM THEIR TOP RATED ALBUMS, THE BAND IS ALSO KNOWN FOR THEIR OVERSEAS PERFORMANCES. THEY ALSO RECEIVED THE MOST COVETED MTV ASIA VIEWER’S CHOICE AWARD IN 1997.

BUT PERHAPS, ERASERHEADS’ GREATEST LEGACY IS NOT IN THE RECORD SALES, NOR IN THE SONGS THAT TOPPED THE CHARTS. IT IS IN THE WAY THEY CHANGED THE PHILIPPINE MUSIC INDUSTRY, SHOWING TRUE FILIPINO CREATIVITY AND TALENT!

PUT A SHORT MONTAGE OF GUITAR STRUMMING

BUT THE GREAT PINOY BAND DREAM ABRUPTLY ENDED IN MARCH 2002. (INSERT FILE ON THEIR BREAK-UP IF THERE IS NO VIDEO AVAILABLE, AT LEAST CLIPPINGS FROM THE NET, SCORE WITH NEWSY MUSIC)

THE BAND BROKE UP, ALONG WITH THE MILLION OF THEIR FANS’ DREAM OF GREAT MUSIC!

THE FOUR MEMBERS CONTINUED THEIR QUEST FOR MUSIC EXCELLENCE WITH MARCUS ADORO PERFORMING AS MARKUS HIGHWAY, BUDDY ZABALA IN THE DAWN, RAYMUND MARASIGAN IN SANDWICH AND ELY BUENDIA IN PUPIL!

THE BAND MEMBERS HAD NEVER BEEN SEEN TOGETHER ON STAGE SINCE THEY DISBANDED 6 YEARS AGO, SO WHEN A SMALL BLOG POST HINTED THAT A REUNION OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL 90S BAND WAS IN THE OFFING, THE NEWS AND EXCITEMENT BROKE LOOSE LIKE “ALOHA MILKYWAY” EXPLODING!

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VO

BUT AS IF DESTINY PLAYED ITS TRICKS, A BARRAGE OF PROBLEMS WERE ENCOUNTERED SHORTLY AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN ERASERHEADS REUNION CONCERT!

Up sot from news

THE ORIGINAL SPONSOR FACED SOME LEGAL ISSUES.  THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATE CHANGE OF VENUE AND ORGANIZERS, AMONG OTHERS. AND ON LATE AUGUST…ELY BUENDIA’S MOTHER PASSED AWAY.

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VO

BUT INDEED, NOTHING COULD STOP THE HISTORIC REUNION OF THE ERASERHEADS, AND SO LAST SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2008 AT THE FORT BONIFACIO OPEN FIELD, THE STARS, SUPPORTERS AND FANS CAME IN DROVES TO SEE THE BAND!

MOTS – anticipation, what they wanna hear, matagal nilang hinintay etc, both artists and fans ito

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Val SU

After 6 long years, the ultraelectroagneticpop band eraserheads is reunited for a one night concert! Kaya toyang, nena, Shirley at mga pare ko, shake yer head and overdrive sa alapaap ng ligaya with the greatest Filipino band, Eraserheads!

VO

MINUTES BEFORE THE START OF THE CONCERT, THE CROWD WAS ALREADY WILD…(PAUSE VO THEN INSERT SITNERS OF ANTICIPATING CROWD—) - CHEERING AND COUNTING EVERY SECOND TOWARDS THE MOST ANTICIPATED EVENT!

AND WHEN THE BAND FINALLY CLIMBED UP THE STAGE…(PAUSE VO TO ALLOW SCREAMING, NOISE BARRAGE OF CROWD)…. FORT BONIFACIO SIMPLY BECAME, INDESCRIBABLE.

Up sound

(UPSOT EXCERPT WITH “ALAPAAP” PART OF SONG)

THE FIRST SONG TOOK THE AUDIENCE TO THE SKY!

UPSOT EXCERPT WITH “LIGAYA” LINE…THEN VOICE OVER:

HAPPINESS IS ALL AROUND THE FIELD…

UPSOT EXCERPT WITH “SEMBREAK”…THEN VO…

AND FOR A WHILE…IT FELT AS IF TIME STOOD STILL WITH THE ERASERHEADS ON STAGE…

THE CROWD SANG EVERY LYRIC OF THEIR SONGS! MARCUS ADORO AND BUDDY ZABALA GAVE A GOOD TUNE WITH THEIR GUITARS. RAIMUND MARASIGAN BEAT THE DRUMS, WHILE ELY BUENDIA SANG HIS HEART OUT.

EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT, UNTIL THE LAST SONG OF THE FIRST SET ‘LIGHTYEAR… ELY.  THIS AMATEUR FOOTAGE TELLS ALL….(JUST LET THE VIDEO ROLL SO VIEWERS CAN SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING)

NOT LONG AFTER THE LIGHTS WENT OUT…

A SHORT BREAK WAS ANNOUNCED AS THE COUNTDOWN TIMER FLASHED ’20:00 MINUTES’ ON THE HUGE VIDEO SCREEN.

AFTER WHAT SEEMED LIKE MORE THAN 20 MINUTES, ELY’S SISTER CAME OUT ON STAGE ALONG WITH THE OTHER BAND MEMBERS AND THE CONCERT ORGANIZERS.

-BREAK FOR GAP-

SECOND GAP:

VOICE OVER:

TWENTY MINUTES AFTER THE LONG BREAK….

ELY’S SISTER CAME OUT WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ERASERHEADS…

BEARING THE BAD NEWS…

UPSOT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT

(SHOT OF CROWD’S REACTION…NO VO)

UPSOT APOLOGY OF THE GROUP AND THE ONE MINUTE SILENCE

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Band members approaching the audience

FANS AND SUPPORTERS WERE STUNNED AS THEY WERE REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE VENUE, AND MANY EXPRESSED THEIR SHOCK AND CONCERN OVER ELY AND HIS HEALTH.

MOTS

VO

IT CAN BE REMEMBERED THAT ELY HAD TWO HEART ANGIOPLASTIES; A SPECIAL OPERATION ON THE HEART LAST JANUARY 2007.

Sot buddy

MANY BELIEVE THAT THIS, PLUS HER MOTHER’S RECENT DEATH, COMBINED WITH THE PRESSURES OF THE REUNION CONCERT CAUSED EXTREME PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL STRESS THAT NEARLY BROUGHT DOWN THE ARTIST. AS OF PRESS TIME, IT WAS REPORTED THAT ELY’S CONDITION IS STABLE.

Sot organizer

Val SU

Despite what happened, fans and supports of eraserheads are hoping for a happy ending both for the band and ely’s health.

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UP ELI SINGING (PARA MAS DRAMATIC AND ENDING.  LAST SAY NI VAL, LAST VIDEO NI ELY)

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Of course, here’s the video: