The 20th UP Job Fair

Here’s a list of some of the participating companies.

CO-PRESENTORS

• ABS-CBN
• Asiawide Refreshments Corportaion
• CIE Global Colleges
• IBM Business Services
• Kaisa Consulting
• Samsung
• The Philippine Star
• Thomson Reuters
• Total Phils.
• UP-Ayala Land Techno Hub

MAJOR SPONSORS

• Abbott Philippines
• ABS-CBN Film Production
• Araneta Center Inc.
• Citi Group Business Process Solutions
• Coca-Cola Philippines
• DBP
• Deutsche Knowledge Services Pte. Ltd.
• First Philippine Holdings Corp.
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Golden Arches Development Corp.
• iAcademy
• John Clements Consultants Inc.
• Manila North Tollways Corp.
• Maynilad Water Services Inc.
• Megaworld Corporation
• Meralco
• Pfizer
• PLDT
• RCBC
• Robinson’s Land
• Unilab
• Yehey!.com

PARTICIPANTS

• Advanced Science and Technology Institute
• Asia United Bank
• Axis Global Technologies
• Bank of Commerce
• BDO
• Best Option Management Consultants
• Bounty Agro Ventures Inc.
• Canon Information Technologies Phils. Inc.
• China Banking Corporation
• Corebuilt Technologies Inc.
• Devex
• Discovery Suites
• EastWest Bank
• Falcon Learning Center
• HSBC
• Insular Life Assurance Ltd.
• Isla Lipana Co.
• JG Summit Petrochemical Corp.
• JP Morgan Chase and Co.
• KFC Philippines
• Lufthansa Technik Philippines Inc.
• Magsaysay
• Maxima Machineries Inc.
• Maybank Philippines Inc.
• Merck Shapp and Dohme
• Metrobank and Trust Corporation
• Monde Nissin Corp.
• Peninsula Manila
• Phil. Axa Life
• Phil. Batteries Inc.
• Phil. Seven Corp.
• Philippine Estates Corporation
• Prudential Life
• Quantum Hotels and Resorts
• Reedley International School
• Republic Biscuit Corp.
• Riverbanks Development Corporation
• RN Ferrer and Associates
• Sanko Plastics Philippines Inc.
• School of Saint Anthony
• School of St. La Salle
• Security Bank Corp.
• SGV and Co.
• St. Luke’s Medical Center
• Standard Chartered Bank
• Su Life Financial
• The Coca-Cola Export Corporation
• The Real Bank (A Thrift Bank) Inc.
• Unioil Petroleum Philippines Inc.
• Universal Robina Corp.
• Vinta Systems Inc.
• Yellow Cab Food Corp.

… and many more

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

• TV 5
• Job Finder
• Manila Bulletin
• Business World
• 103.5 Max FM
• The Manila Times
• Transit
• Magic 89.9
• Mellow 94.7
• Home Radio 97.9
• The Edge Radio

As the University of the Philippines enters another century of excellence, the UP Office of Counseling and Guidance (UP OCG), the UP Alumni Association (UPAA), and the UP Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants (UP JPIA) will be bringing together the finest students and the best companies under one roof in its annual university-wide recruitment and job orientation seminar. This year’s DE KALIBRE: the 20th University of the Philippines Job Fair which will be held on January 28 to 31, 2009 at the Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, Quezon City aims to gather more than 2,000 top caliber students and graduates not only from UP Diliman but from other UP campuses (Manila, Los Banos and the extension program in Pampanga) and other schools as well. It also aims to showcase 200 of the country’s top caliber companies in this 4-day event.

It’s really not that hard to please me when it comes to food. Since I have a small tummy, I easily get satiated. My physique proves it. Plus, I’m not a picky eater either. Despite these things, Greenwich has never delivered me from hunger. No matter what I order from them, my stomach never gets filled. Add to that the poor quality of service which is common to all of its branches. Slow cooking, long serving time, impolite personnel and  dirty utensils characterize this fastfood chain… Until now, I’m wondering why Jollibee Foods Corporation even dared to acquire 80% of this company… Unless they do something about the operations of this business, more and more customers would be left dissatisfied by their service. They must  be well aware that a lot of substitutes are at their consumers’ options list. Good advertising (with influential endorsers) could not and would not be able to offset their lack of proper operations in the long run. As early as now, they must overhaul the way they retail their products and the way conduct their services or else, for sure,  they’d suffer losses and eventually close down the entire business.

I’m not a fan of beauty pageants. I’d rather spend my time doing better stuff than watching contests that promote the Western standards of beauty (as if I care… haha).

However, I just really can’t let this pass. I feel the need to post this video to share the fun that I had while viewing it.

This reminds me of an incident back when I was still in fourth year high school. I attended the Mr. and Ms. STEP Pageant (for my TLE class/grade… haha). In the Q and A portion of the contest, a candidate was asked if she agrees that beauty contests exploit their contestants. Without hesitation, she answered yes and even further added insult to injury when she elaborated her answer using grammatically incorrect sentences.

And guess what…. She’s a Mass Comm student

I know that this blog is virtually dead and inconspicuous here in the blogosphere. Yet, let me publicize and present you an upcoming event of which I’m so proud apprehensive. I am one of the people who have conceptualized this project (somehow regrettably). Haha. I feel that I’m not giving good vibes on this one anymore… Instead of promoting, this post is turning out to be derogatory. So, before I totally wreck and blurt out all my negative thoughts about this project, here you go:

Fresh Chase: The Amazing Race for Freshies!

I promise to give an update next week on how this event turned out… Swear…

Since this blog just keeps on getting revived time and again , I have the idea that this has a spirit and is immortal… Haha… Anyway to start off my regular posts, here’s a list of the top 10 immortals as taken from LiveScience.com.

10: Peter Pan

The famous boy who never grows up (or old), prefers instead to cavort with fairies and fight one-handed pirates on the magical isle of Neverland.

9: Dracula

If you’re really desperate to live forever, you could try getting bitten by Dracula or one of his vampire underlings. But then you’ll have to avoid Italian food and do nasty things like drink blood, avoid sunlight and sleep in coffins.

8: Lazarus Long

A character in many of Robert Heinlein’s science fiction novels, Lazarus’ long life is the result of a selective breeding program and occasional blood rejuvenation treatments. Lazarus lives to be over 2,000 years old; he travels to distant planets and even through time, and works every conceivable job, from doctor to slave.

7: Nicholas Flamel

In “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” Nicolas Flamel is a good friend of Hogwart’s headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Author J.K. Rowling based Flamel’s character on a real-life French 15th-century alchemist who legend claims successfully created the Philosopher’s Stone, a mythical elixir that turns lead into gold and grants eternal life.

 

6: Tithonus

When the Greek goddess Eos asks Zeus to grant her mortal lover, Tithonus, eternal life, she forgets to also ask for eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lives forever, but he grows old and frail, and begs for death. Some stories say that Tithonus eventually became a grasshopper.

5: Dorian Gray

An Oscar Wilde character that remains young and handsome while his portrait ages. Dorian slowly becomes corrupt, but his crimes and his true age show only in the face of the painting, which grows progressively more monstrous and withered.

4: Highlander

In the 1986 movie “Highlander,” Connor MacLeod is a member of the immortals, a mysterious race who die only when their heads are lopped off. The immortals must battle each other until only one is left to claim The Prize: The gift of mortality and the ability to die like everyone else.

3: Grail Knight

A knight of the First Crusade who, in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” is tasked with guarding the Holy Grail, a crucible that grants eternal life to any who drink from it. When Indy chooses the correct Grail from multiple imposters, the knight warns him that it cannot be taken beyond the temple, because that is the price of immortality.

2: Methuselah

Methuselah is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible. He is the grandfather of Noah of “Ark” fame. Methuselah became a father at the age of 187, lived to be 969 and died the day the Great Flood appeared.

1: Arwen

A half-elven maiden in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” who renounces eternal life to marry her mortal sweetheart, Aragorn, the human king of Gondor. Arwen dies shortly after Aragorn, at the ripe old age of 2,901.

 

Haha. Who would’ve thought that this blog would be given a new lease of life? If not for my BA180.1 class, this blog revival wouldn’t be made possible. Anyway since the fire of the phoenix has already begun burning again, I might as well just keep it alive. I know that time will come when I’d begin to feel lethargic about blogging again as it had happened so many times before. But then again, who knows? Perhaps this time my posts will be as frequent as the rains of August.

Omigod. Months have passed since i last blogged. Since then, many things have occurred to me and my gripping life – things that could have been worth sharing. However, I was preoccupied with too many things which restrained me from blogging…

Does this mean that I am not busy anymore? Of course, the answer to that is no. Busy-ness will never be banished from my soul… Add to that the fact that my course is business ad (haha.. laugh)…

Nonetheless, I’m here again…. willing to share things about my life… and to read things about other people’s lives…. I know it will not be easy (as i’ve already tried and eventually failed to blog again for countless times)… but I will still try… Perhaps, this time around, i ‘ll do this comeback gradually…

The tendency of a person when he compares himself with others is really to become vain or become bitter, as stated in Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata“. However, inasmuchas I’d like to avoid comparison, there are times that I feel it is inevitable… There are moments when I’m predisposed to get insecure with other people… especially with those seemingly “perfect” ones…

I know that I have so many achievements up my sleeves (I’ve been this… I’ve been that…) …but i choose not to brag about them because i know that i have my own weaknesses… It’s better to be insecure at times than be boastful since the former hurts the self alone, while the latter hurts even others….

I’ve watched a talk show( i better not mention what show it was)… and one of their guests identified the three D’s that girls hanker after guys… they are “Dunong, Dating, and Datung”… Among the three, i only have one… That is “Dunong” (i’m not even sure if i have this… but i guess my educational background plus a handful of awards will support this claim)…I’m such a loser… 1 out of 3 is just 33%… it doesn’t even surpass the 50% mark….

What are my insecurities, you might ask… Here they are: (in no particular order… haha)

Height.

• I’m only 5′5.5″ (a year ago I was 5′4″). Thanks to Cherifer PGM and my growth hormones… They’re still not giving up….
• I know that I’m taller than the average Filipino who is 5′4″ tall… but when i go to malls, i feel so small (literally… haha)…

Weight.

• It seems that I’ve been gobbling endlessly this summer break… yet, my arms are still as thin as a pogo stick…
• One change in my body’s noticeable though, I now have baby fats… haha… (is this normal? does the belly really fatten first before the arms?)

Skin Color.

• Among our family members, i’m the only one born with a tan complexion.. my other siblings have fair skin… I’m the only “nognog”… hahaha
• Good thing there’s Biolink.. haha.. now, i’m somehow closer to their color….

Skin Type.

• I’d like to thank my mom for the “oily-skin-gene” i inherited from her…. Now, I’m pimply…. hahaha
• I need to spend as much as 700 PHP per month (i know this is cheap for you… but considering that i’m only from the middle class, i bet this amount is a bit pricey) to avoid and to treat my pimples…

I have many other insecurities like Social Class and others but those are not within my reach anymore in terms of solving them…

I also know that nobody’s perfect…. and I’ll get over these insecurities eventually… Maybe I’m just too bored right now that I notice even these things…. haha….