Fans Club, hehe!

Yesterday, UP SIKAT had a performance at the 2nd National ECE Students Summit which was held at the UP Theatre.

UP SIKAT has performed at the Theatre several times already, but yesterday was my first time to join them in the Theatre. The UP Theatre is home to several presentations such as: SOP Campus Tour, Miss Earth Beauty Pageant (both local and international), UltraElectroMagneticJam Album Launch, StreetFuzion, UP Pep Squad's Concert, Awitan, etc.

We performed our standard "voice talents" (this was the request of the organizers). I was using one of two cordless microphones so I was the first to enter the stage. I greeted the audience and introduced myself when someone from the audience screamed Ay! Si Marian! I had no idea who it was...I'm guessing it's one of my batchmates from highschool. Because of that, I had an instant fans club. A lot of the audience cheered me whenever it was my turn to perform. It was really funny because usually it's Drewla who'd be the crowd-pleaser but yesterday, it was me.

I'm really curious who screamed out my name. I did introduce myself when I entered the stage but the person who screamed out my name seemed to recognize me. Even my orgmates were surprised. Sabi nila, "kabugera ka talaga, pati ba naman yung audience?" Drewla was jokingly giving me dagger looks because of my "fans club".

LINGUISTICS CULTURAL NIGHT
I would like to say that I performed Matud Nila even better than what I did during the Sing-A-Lingg contest. I also sang Ginoo, Walay Sukod since the request was that I sing Visayan Songs. Kahit sila Mother Jeff ay na-shock kasi bumirit ako habang nakaupo at kahit ako ay hindi makapaniwala sa nagawa ko. Jerome also played his guitar very well. You see, Jerome has the tendency to get nervous and mess up the chords during actual performances but he performed quite well during the Ling Cultural Night.

To watch more of UP SIKAT, here's our schedule:

February 3: Music Night at the Treehouse Restaurant, 7pm
February 11: PowerBooks Greenbelt 3 (tentative pa yata ito)
February 13: Tau Alpha Night, UP Fair, 9pm
February 16: Sigma Beta/Gawad Kalinga Night, UP Fair (tentative)

Dorm tour schedule will follow.

Plug-ins etc.

PLUG-INS

Watch UP SIKAT perform on the following dates:

January 25--> Linguistics Congress Cultural Night (International audience ito, namely Russian, Chinese, American, Indonesian)
Para sa Linguistics Congress, pinapakanta na naman kaming mga winners ng Sing-A-Lingg. In other words, I have to sing Matud Nila again.

January 29--> UP Theatre, at 3pm. Hindi ko pa alam ang name ng event eh, hehe!

February 13--> UP Fair, Tau Alpha Night, 9pm ang slot ng SIKAT.

Visit http://carverhouse.blogspot.com for details about ZsaZsa Zaturnnah Ze Muzikal

Para naman sa aking mga dushkang friends, visit http://www.bryanboy.com. You'll surely enjoy that website. Bryanboy is like the male version of Paris Hilton, and he's Pinoy.


PACQUIAO BOUT
So, kahapon nga nangyari ang rematch ni Pacquiao and Morales. It was a nice, clean fight. Tipong alam mo kung sino ang naka-score. Tsaka nabawasan na ang dirty tactics ni Morales. During the first bout of Pacquiao and Morales, Morales was very fond of headbutting Pacquiao. Kahapon, may tendency si Morales i-clinch si Pacman. Yun bang iniipit niya ang leeg ni Pacman at hihintayin yung referee na i-break silang dalawa. Delaying tactic siguro.

Around 12nn, may nag-text sa ate ko na natalo daw si Pacman. Panarot diba? Nung nalaman ko yun, parang nawalan ako ng gana panoorin ang laban ni Pacman and Morales. But still, I watched the bout on TV. Then around 2pm, my mom called and said that our beloved Pacman won. Eh di syempre ginanahan na ako manood.

Tapos after the showing of Round 6 on TV (by the way, sa round 6 lumabas ang powers ni Pacman. He clearly won that round), I switched channels tapos ayun, sa ANC in-announce na winner na nga si Pacman. Ang laking pasasalamat si PGMA dahil makakalimutan na naman ng mga Pinoy ang mga problemang pulitikal.

So I watched the rest of the bout, which lasted till round 10, with much enjoyment because I already knew for sure that Pacman was gonna win via KO.

Pero naawa din ako kay Morales kasi talagang ang sama na ng lagay niya since Round 9. Beginning Round 7, Morales was obviously tired. Sa round 9, saved by the bell lang si Morales. Tapos nung round 10, natumba siya tapos binilangan nung referee but he stood up at the count of 9. Then Pacman gave him another flurry of punches and the referee stopped the fight kasi hindi na talaga lumalaban si Morales.

For that, the Pacman pocketed $2M. Pero siyempre, babawasan pa yung dahil sa tax plus bayad kay Freddie Roach (who is really a good trainer...very good trainer) and bayad sa promoter. Pero kahit na, malaking halaga pa rin ang maiuuwi ni Pacman.


JACA BOUT

Sino naman si Jaca? His full name is Jimrex Jaca and is a Cebuano boxer. Bale, may bout din siya kahapon. It was an undercard bout and Jaca was up against a boxer from the Dominican Republic. TKO ang pagkapanalo ni Jaca. Paano ba naman, 43 seconds into round 1, napatumba na niya yung kalaban niya. From what I saw on TV, Jaca hit his opponent in the face tapos natumba yung kalaban niya at humiga pa sa canvass.


POLITICS

Well, nagsisimula na naman ang election fever sa UP pero ayoko munang pag-usapan yun.
I've been watching CNN lately and I noticed that in countries with elections this 2006, there are women among the candidates for President.

In Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has just been sworn-in. She's the first female president in any African State.

In Finland, Tarja the Conan O'Brien lookalike made it to the runoff elections.

Saka ko na babanggitin yung iba..inaantok na ako.