Mary Jane's Niche

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately..

I have been busy with:

• Work.
• Studying Module 1 of Sociology 1 – Anthropology (interesting read!).
• Tim’s problem at work.
• Plurk
• Pacman (the Flash Pacman)
• Facebook
• Reading “Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino” by Bob Ong
• The Eclipse yesterday.

I will attend:

• Bloggers Event at SM City – Iloilo on July 31^st (so if you’re a blogger or an IT person you can attend the event too by commenting here)
• The first Iloilo Bloggers meet-up on the 1^st week of August.

I want to attend:

• Wordcamp Philippines 2009 on the 19^th of September.

I watched:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• And still watching House MD – Season 1

I want to watch:

• Up
• The Lake House

I have been listening to:

• Waking Up in Vegas by Katy Perry
• 21 Guns by Greenday
• One Love by Bob Marley
• Kristy, Are You Doing Okay by The Offspring (Tim introduced me to this song)
• Straight from the Heart by Bryan Adams

I am fascinated with:

• 2NE1 – They’re the first Kpop band that I actually liked! And it’s not only because of Sandara Park mind you, it’s because their songs are addicting.
• Nobody by the Wondergirls – major LSS (last song syndrome)

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory is sending a rover to Mars in 2011 so they’re inviting and encouraging everyone to participate by filling up a simple form with our names so we could have our names included on a microchip that will be in the rover. Isn’t it exciting? So even if we can’t go to Mars physically at least our names could get to go. So if you want you could join in the fun too!

weeeee!

of course my name’s not going anywhere without his name too.

First of all let me get one thing straight – I am not in any way affiliated with DLSU. I did not study in any of their schools – period.

I am just blogging about their hymn – the reggae version of their hymn.

If you’re a frequent visitor of my blog you’ll know that I am an avid listener of reggae music and I am one of  Bob Marley’s millions of fans. Reggae music makes my head bob up and down. Reggae music helps me chill and relax. So when Tim shared with me a reggae song from his phone I was immediately curious as to who sang it and what the title of the song is. The beat is great and only after I listened to the lyrics well and after Tim told me did I knew that it was the reggae version of the  Lasallian Alma Mater Hymn. Tim by the way is a graduate of the University of St. La Salle – Bacolod. Tim doesn’t usually talk of his alma mater but he shared with me the hymn. I think because he also finds it cool. I don’t know about the other stuffs he doesn’t talk about though.

So after I transferred the song to my phone via bluetooth I made it my ring tone. It really is cool and to those who haven’t heard it yet I have the video below. I tried to look for the name of the group who sang this but Google is not cooperating with me. So if you any of you know who the cool guys on the video are please share it with me by leaving a comment  so I can properly thank and attribute the song to them.

And this post is for Tim. Wala lang beh, trip ko lang..hehehe..wala bal-an obrahon.

By the way, I was also looking for my high school alma mater’s hymn but I couldn’t find anything about it online. Do any of you have an audio copy of Colegio de San Jose’s  college hymn? I have the lyrics (Spanish and English) but I also would like to have an audio copy.

Back to the topic, here’s the Lasallian Alma Mater Hymn – Reggae Version.

“Lasallian Alma Mater Hymn”

Hail, Hail

Alma Mater,

Hail to De La Salle!

We’ll hold your banner high and bright,

A shield of green and white,

We’ll fight to keep your glory bright,

And never shall we fail,

Hail to thee our Alma Mater!

Hail! Hail! Hail!

I have been wanting to meet fellow bloggers ever since I became a member of  IloiloBloggers.com. And last Saturday – July 4th at the Casino Filipino PAGCOR Bacolod I was able to meet my fellow Ilonggo bloggers! And not only that – we got to network with other bloggers from Bacolod and the Negros Island too. Add to that meeting Ms. Janette Toral in person! The event we attended was the DigitalFilipino Club & Bloggers Meet-Up which was hosted by Casino Filipino PAGCOR Bacolod.  Obviously it’s the first  bloggers networking event I have attended so I was curious what the turn out would be. It was a huge success because Casino Filipino Bacolod provided us with a delicious dinner, beer and an awesome band! Of course the freebies was one of the best parts of the night. Most of us were lucky to bring home cool stuffs given away by PAGCOR and some of us won in the raffle too. We also got to learn about the current status of the Philippine e-commerce and the blogosphere  from Ms. Janette Toral. Some online social network users and business owners attended as well to learn a thing or two about blogging from the seasoned bloggers and SEO professionals. Hope they learned something from the event and be inspired to make a blog of their own too!

Miss Janette Toral encouraged us to participate on the following activities of the DigitalFilipino Club:

• Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs 2009 Update
• DigitalFilipino Web Awards 2009
• Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2010

And guess what guys! I have finally proven that my online friends are real! Weeeeee! Which means it really is possible to make relationships online and of course nurture it by having the proper online ethics and attitude. So yes I finally got to meet Junelle of Pinay SEO (she owns a lot of blogs), Marcos of Explore Iloilo, Junnjun of Junntrekker,  Donald of Don_Ser, and Mommy Ruby of Pinay Mommy Online! It was also nice meeting Marie Claire of Maditang Pinay and Enrico Dee of Byahilo – I am a frequent visitor of their blogs.  And it was nice to see Ace again who was  a co-worker from Callbox and Tim’s classmate.  Tim got to meet his college teacher Neil Alado as well. And it was really cool to meet other bloggers from Bacolod too. Thank you for making us feel welcome guys, after all it was your meet-up not ours but still you welcomed us. We really appreciate it. Too bad Efren, Bernie and the other Iloilo Bloggers weren’t able to go. But once we have our own meet-up we’ll have fun too.

I have proven to myself that blogging is not boring because of this kind of events. As bloggers we can also  share our lives offline! I am hoping to meet more Ilonggo bloggers on our very own upcoming meet-up this August. It’s time we get ourselves organized. Hopefully everyone will cooperate and share their time. Thank you very much to Ms. Janette Toral, the DigitalFilipino Club and Casino Filipino PAGCOR Bacolod for hosting the networking event last Saturday. This will pave our way to having our own events here in Iloilo and I know it’s going to be the same in Bacolod. Hopefully we could get sponsors here. So until then see you all online and until the next event!

Here’s a glimpse of the event:

Link to this post:

http://www.maryjanecabrera.com/2009/07/07/digitalfilipino-club-networking-event/

Link to the photo album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/maryjane.cabrera/DigitalFilipinoClubAndBloggersMeetUpHostedByCasinoFilipinoPAGCORBacolod?feat=directlink