|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 17, 2009 2:23:47 GMT 9
Countdown to 2011 beginsBy Cliff Harvey C. VenzonEVERYTHING seems to be in place for the UST Quadricentennial. On December 18, during the traditional Paskuhan, Rector Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, O.P. will officially start the countdown to 2011, when Asia’s oldest University turns 400. The countdown is titled ‘400 Days to 400 Years.” Also during the Paskuhan, the theme song of the UST Quadricentennial will be sung, “Ako’s Isang Tomasino,” by industrial engineering alumnus Gerardo de Leon, who won the grand prize in the Q song writing contest. On the same night, the quadricentennial prayer, flag, and mascot will be unveiled. De la Rosa presented the long list of activities for the 2011 celebration during a press conference last December 11. The quadricentennial’s “centerpiece project,” according to him, is “Simbayan 400: Tomasino para sa Simbahan at Bayan,” which will focus on the rehabilitation of 400 villages to be adopted by UST in cooperation with the non-governmental organization Gawad Kalinga. The project starts next month, in January 2010. Pilar Romero, assistant to the Rector for administration and secretary of the UST Quadricentennial committee, said different colleges and faculties would help the villages in site and environment planning (Engineering and Architecture), livelihood (Commerce), values formation (Central Seminary), education (Education and Arts and Letters) and community-building (Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences). Other highlights: • Swatch, the Swiss watch company, will design and manufacture a special UST Quadricentennial watch;
• Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will issue special commemorative bills and coins, while the post office will issue special commemorative stamps;
• Declaration of the eight decade-old Main Building as a national heritage landmark on Jan. 25, 2010, followed by the mounting of a marker on January 28 at the España gate;
•The holding of an exhibit on the legacy of UST at the Unesco central headquarters in Paris;
• The “world’s longest living rosary” to be participated in by the entire Thomasian community on Feb. 11, 2010, good for an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records;
• Three-day Thomasian Global Trade Expo led by Thomasian tycoons such as Jollibee Foods Corp. president Tony Caktiong, and Mercury Drug president Vivian Que-Ascona in July 2010;
• An exhibition of the University’s collection of rare books and significant historical documents, including academic records of national heroes Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini, during the “Lumina Pundit” international exhibit at the Miguel de Benavides Central Library, June 17, 2010 to Jan. 30, 2011;
• Inauguration of the UST alumni center, to be housed in the renovated old UST Gym, an Art Deco structure and the country’s first school gym, on Dec. 19, 2010. The center will also serve as a hotel for visiting alumni. The UST swimming pool, the country’s first Olympic-size swimming pool, will also be renovated with its tiles changed so as to form the UST seal that could be seen from the air.
• A parade from Rizal Park to UST on Jan. 27, 2011, followed by the unveiling of the “Tetra Global” monument, designed and executed by internationally renowned Thomasian sculptor Ramon Orlina and modelled by Thomasian hearthrob Piolo Pascual and beauty queen Charlene Gonzales, at the quadricentennial park in the evening;
• Wreath-lying rites honoring UST founder Benavides on Feb. 11, 2011 in Intramuros, where the original UST campus was located;
• UST’s hosting of the conference of the International Council of Universities of St. Thomas Aquinas;
• The launching of the UST coffee-table book as the 400th title of the “400 Books at 400” project;
• World premiere of the grand opera on the life of Benavides;
• Rosarium procession in honor of Our Lady of La Naval in September 2011;
• Inauguration of the state-of-the art UST sports complex in December 2011. Varsitarian
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 17, 2009 2:08:11 GMT 9
para sa bata talaga itong MMFF... buti 2 weeks lang ito...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 17, 2009 2:04:11 GMT 9
naka-gold na si Rubilen sa 8-ball... sina Joanna Botor-Carpio wala na kasi eliminated na ang Beach volley... ganda ng gold harvest natin kahapon... may sure gold na tayo sa tennis men's singles... breakdown ng gold natin... Athletics - 6 Aquatics - 4 Taekwondo - 4 Boxing - 3 Judo - 2 Golf - 2 Billiards - 2 Wrestling - 1 Shooting - 1 Muay Thai - 1 Tennis - 1 Karate - 1 Archery - 1
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 17, 2009 1:48:56 GMT 9
Post results here...
Passing rate of UST for the period of 2002 to 2006…
1,928 examinees, 1,807 passers… 93.72%... 8th in national…
Source: A Study of Philippine Schools’ Performance in the National Licensure Examinations By Dennard D. Dacumos
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 17, 2009 1:46:18 GMT 9
Post results here...
Passing rate of UST for the period of 2002 to 2006…
LET-Elementary Level 180 examinees, 173 passers… 96.11%... 6th in national…
LET-Secondary Level 1,621 examinees, 1,478 passers… 91.18%... 8th in NCR…
Source: A Study of Philippine Schools’ Performance in the National Licensure Examinations By Dennard D. Dacumos
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 16, 2009 2:28:35 GMT 9
November 2009 Civil Engineering Licensure Exam Results
Mark Jayson Laurente Mambil placed 2nd with 96.85%... of 86examinees, 71 passed for 83% rate...
Congratulations!
VIVA SANTO TOMAS!!!
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 16, 2009 2:20:44 GMT 9
Country TOTAL MEDAL EOD Results as of 11;40PM Dec.15
Thailand 51 57 65 173 Vietnam 45 46 41 132 Singapore 31 22 31 84 Malaysia 26 29 45 100 Indonesia 26 27 48 101 Philippines 23 23 35 81 Laos 22 11 35 68 Myanmar 7 14 29 50 Cambodia 2 6 18 26 Brunei 1 1 8 10 Timor Leste 0 0 3 3 Grand Total 234 236 358 828
Hindi ako makapaniwalang nahihirapan ang Pinas na maipagpag ang Laos...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 16, 2009 2:17:58 GMT 9
Post the results here...
Passing rate of UST for the period of 2002 to 2006…
Chemical Engineering 518 examinees, 270 passers… 52.12%.. 8th in national…
Civil Engineering 467 examinees, 411 passers… 88.01%... 4th in national…
Electronics and Communication Engineering 620 examinees, 417 passers… 67.26%... 9th in national…
Mechanical Engineering 325 examinees, 278 passers… 85.54%... 6th in national…
Registered Electrical Engineers 311 examinees, 264 passers… 84.89% 6th in national…
Source: A Study of Philippine Schools’ Performance in the National Licensure Examinations By Dennard D. Dacumos
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 16, 2009 1:56:03 GMT 9
Source: www.ust.edu.phMasayang Paskuhan sa ating lahat!UST Christmas concert raises funds for art restoration By Rowena C. Burgos Philippine Daily Inquirer
Annual classical concert will further raise money to restore the UST Museum’s priceless art collection while kicking off the celebration for UST’s 400th anniversary in 2011 as Asia’s oldest university THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO Tomas (UST) Museum of Arts and Sciences is the country’s oldest museum, and its priceless visual arts collection contains not only Spanish colonial works but also Modernist pieces, considering that the UST school of Fine Arts is the birthplace of modernism in the Philippines. But the renovation of the museum and the restoration, cleaning and maintenance of its artworks only began in earnest in the 1990s.
Restoring one painting alone costs at least P300,000 that the income from the university’s laboratory for painting restoration and snack nook in the Main Building is not enough.
So Andrew Gan, Jonathan Matti and Greg Jarencio joined forces with art patroness Maricris Zobel to make the annual UST Christmas Concert Gala a fundraising project for the museum.
Last year, the concert raised funds for the restoration. This year, the seventh UST Christmas Concert Gala, which is on Dec. 3, Thursday, 7 p.m. at the UST Chapel, will raise more funds for the project.
“Despite the economic situation, we hope to double the amount of the funds raised last year,” says Fr. Isidro Abaño, UST Museum director and UST assistant to the Rector for quadricentennial activities and highlights. Abaño and Zobel are co-chairpersons of the concert.
The Christmas concert will feature Thomasian talents like the internationally famous UST Singers, premiere soprano Rachelle Gerodias, tenor Abdul Candao, UST Symphony Orchestra conductor Herminigildo Ranera, USTeMUNDO Ethnic Group, UST Jazz Ensemble and the Tiples de Santo Domingo Boys Choir.
Donations from the Christmas concert gala will be used to bankroll the UST’s heritage conservation efforts, which will focus on the restoration of paintings, and the cleaning and maintenance of sculptures of the UST Museum.
The recently restored oils on canvas are Romualdo Locatelli’s “Young Balinese Girl,” Ricarte Purugganan’s portrait of Fr. Buenaventura Garcia Paredes, OP, Juan Arzeo’s portraits of San Vicente Ferrer and Fr. Juan Antonio Zulaybar, OP, Severino Fabie’s portrait of Dr. Jose Rizal and Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Undergoing restoration are Dante Fabie’s “Our Lady of Naval,” “El Amor Misere Cordioso,” portrait of Bishop Domingo Salazar, OP, and Benavides’ “Foundation of UST.”
Another beneficiary of the concert is the scholarship program for students of the UST Conservatory of Music. Part of this year’s concert proceeds will go to the victims of Tropical Storm “Ondoy” and Typhoon “Pepeng.”
Piolo Pascual sculpture
“The concert is just a prologue to the quadricentennial celebration in 2011,” Abaño says. In 2011, UST marks its 400th anniversary as Asia’s oldest university.
On Dec. 10, the grand finals for the quadricentennial songwriting competition will be held, while the quadricentennial countdown will begin on Dec. 18 during the traditional UST Paskuhan with the launch of 400 Days to 400th Year.
In 2011, there will be a parade, grand Mass, alumni homecoming, lectures, launch of UST housing project for poor families, opening of a museum gallery and unveiling of Ramon Orlina’s bronze-and-glass monument called Tetra Global, representing the university’s 400 years of existence. “Charlene Gonzales and Piolo Pascual, who are UST alumni, modeled for this artwork,” Abaño says.
Museum renovation
It was in 1992 when Abaño was appointed director of the museum. He studied “Conservation and Cultural Heritage of the Church with the Jesuits in Rome,” the Dominican priest said with a laugh. “I was very fortunate for our professor then was the director of the Vatican Museum. I had access to the Vatican lab and archives.”
Renovation of the UST Museum started in 1997, beginning with Abaño’s office (where students used to hang out) which had a leaking roof. The main hall was renovated to accommodate different exhibitions.
Abaño then put up the laboratory for conservation. “My happiest moment would be when a Filipino is able to develop our very own materials for artwork conservation so we don’t have to import. Ang mahal din kasi.”
The Center for Heritage and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School, on the other hand, does studies on cultural mapping, which become master plans for tourism of major provinces and cities. The center is headed by Eric Zerrudo, director of the UST Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics and the Metropolitan Museum.
Abaño plans to build a gallery for the other artworks at the UST Main Building and the award-winning creations of UST Architecture and Fine Arts students that are neatly stored in huge cabinets.
The UST Museum has specimens of natural history, coins, medals and memorabilia, ethnographic materials, Oriental Arts objects, and Philippine religious images and paintings. The extensive collection has been built over the years by the powerful and influential Dominicans, a religious institute of leading theologians and scholars.
Abaño, together with Ma. Zita Oebanda, UST Museum collection management and documentation assistant, also started the detailed documentation of the museum’s 913 artworks and their condition reports for conservation.
Some of the priceless paintings include Fernando Amorsolo’s work on bayanihan and Juan Luna’s "Portrait of a Soldier." “Either one of these paintings can buy a house and lot in Ayala Alabang,” Abaño says.
The newest paintings are displayed in the administrative offices of different colleges.
“In my concept, heritage is very important to UST, being a 400-year-old university,” Abano said. “When you speak of heritage, it belongs to everybody; it doesn’t belong to an individual person, so it’s a social responsibility. And that’s part of my mission, to make sure these things are preserved.”
Abaño added that people without sense of heritage are like people with no roots. “If you don’t have heritage, you don’t have roots, you have no sense of pride,” he says. “In a country where the sense of heritage is strong, the sense of pride is also high.”
For details, call the UST Museum at 7811815 or 7409718; e-mail museum@mnl.ust.edu.ph; or visit www.ustmuseum.com.
Inquirer
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 16, 2009 1:48:44 GMT 9
The team set to compete in the 2011 Fiba-Asia... Its main goal is to win the tournament to qualify to the 2012 London Olympics... After shell-lacking the Powerade-Team Pilipinas, the team had a so-so stint in the on-going PBA conference where they lost a lot of their games... their former import was replaced by an NBA journeyman after it was found that Giles has attitude problems... the team is still not yet final and hopefully, our very own Dylan Ababou will make the final cut...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 16, 2009 1:42:40 GMT 9
Anong trip n'yong panoorin? Alam ko lang ipapalabas ay Panday ni Bong Revilla at Wapakman ni Manny Pacquiao...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 12, 2009 2:36:20 GMT 9
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Vietnam (VIE) 14 10 10 34 2 Singapore (SIN) 14 6 12 32 3 Thailand (THA) 13 22 17 52 4 Indonesia (INA) 11 7 14 32 5 Malaysia (MAS) 8 9 18 35 6 Philippines (PHI) 7 10 7 24 7 Laos (LAO) 4 3 11 18 8 Myanmar (MYA) 2 4 7 13 9 Cambodia (CAM) 1 3 4 8 10 Brunei (BRU) 0 0 3 3 11 Timor-Leste (TLS) 0 0 1 1 Total 73 73 104 250
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 12, 2009 2:23:41 GMT 9
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 12, 2009 2:20:51 GMT 9
UST gets a new gym by Francis T. Wakefield Source: Manila Bulletin | August 7, 2008
The construction of a 5,792-seater University of Santo Tomas (UST) gymnasium is now in full swing after university officials, led by Rector Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., led its groundbreaking ceremonies last week.
The construction of the P600-million, state-of-the-start, four-storey gymnasium, designed by Thomasian architects Jose Pedro Recio and Carmelo T. Casas, will be done as part of UST's quadricentennial celebration in 2011.
The four-storey sports complex will house a basketball court, with bleachers to accommodate 5,792 patrons. Aside from basketball, the complex will also house the facilities for badminton, fencing, table tennis, indoor track, dancing, gymnastics, and a fitness center. There will also be classrooms, administrative offices, and space for food concessionaires. A multi-level parking space will also be built outside the gymnasium.
When the old UST gymnasium (located near P. Noval. St., in Sampaloc) was first built in the 1940s, UST only had 3,000 students. Today, after more than 60 years, the population has ballooned to almost 40,000. Aside from students, UST is also the home of 1,600 faculty members, 600 professional support staff, 1,400 employees of the UST hospital and 150,000 parishioners of the UST Santissimo Rosario Parish.
Fr. De la Rosa said the UST gym used to be the biggest in the country, a favorite venue for university affairs like graduation ceremonies, eucharistic celebrations, college anniversaries, rallies and dance concerts.
The new gym, Fr. dela Rosa added, will be more than just a place for events and ceremonies as it will serve as a monument to the unique and unparalleled holistic sports development program of the university. It will become part of the UST Sports Complex, and will become the home of the UST varsity players and the Growling Tigers.
The new gym will also serve as a museum that will enshrine all the trophies, medals and other memorabilia of various UAAP championships the university has won throughout the years. Championship banners will also hang from the rafters of the gymnasium.
ALUMNI SUPPORT
A number of UST's former basketball stars took time out and joined the ground breaking ceremonies. They include former Glowing Goldie superstar and three-time former PBA MVP Bogs Adornado, 1995 PBA rookie-of-the-year Dennis Espino, former UAAP Most
Valuable Player (MVP) Christopher Cantonjos, former UAAP juniors MVP Gerald Francisco, Purefoods Giants player Rey Evangelista, former pro Estong Ballesteros, Red Bull players Cyrus Baguio and Jojo Duncil, who won the 2006 Finals MVP, and Welcoat superstar Nino Gelig.
Also present were UST basketball head coach Pido Jarencio, who played for UST in the early 80s and his coaching staff, Mrs. Felicitas Francisco, UAAP board member, Thomasian and Olympian Tshomlee Go who will compete in this year's Beijing Olympics.
Fr. de la Rosa, was joined in the lowering of the time capsule (which contains the plans for the building, a copy of the Academia Magazine, current newspapers, and other memorabilia of the present) by Rev. Fr. Ermito de Sagon, IPEA director; Angelo Salvador Cachero, president of the Central Student Council and Architect Casas.
Rev. Fr. Isidro C. Abano, O.P., secretary general, UST, acted as the master of ceremonies. The UST gymnasium is expected to be finished by 2010.
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 12, 2009 2:02:24 GMT 9
meron ng 3 Thomasian SEAG medalists... 2 gold, 1 silver...lahat galing Taekwondo...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 12, 2009 1:57:28 GMT 9
Manny Pacquiao, current pound-for-pound champion... 50 wins (38 via KO), 3 losses, 1 draw... last fight against Cotto where he scored a 12th round TKO... known for his lightning-quick movement and strong punches...
Floyd Mayweather, Jr., former pound-for-pound champion... undefeated in 40 fights... he toyed with Marquez for a unanimous decision on his last fight... more of a counter-puncher with excellent defensive stance...
Ito na ang pinakamabigat na laban ni Pacman... baka magka-trilogy ito...
Pero bago yan kailangan muna nilang talunin ang makakalaban nila... si Clottey kay Pacquiao at si Mosley kay Mayweather...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 10, 2009 22:53:17 GMT 9
ang gaganda ng 1st gold medalists natin... Philippine taekwondo jins (from left) Camille Alarilla, Janice Lagman and Rani Ann Ortega show off their gold medals for their victory in the Poomsae female team competition during the 25th Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, Laos yesterday. JUN MENDOZAPhilippine Star1 Gold, 1 Silver, 4 Bronzes na ang Team Pilipinas... good for 5th...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 9, 2009 1:23:11 GMT 9
may isa ng silver ang Pinas... courtesy of water polo...
|
|
|
Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 9, 2009 1:15:07 GMT 9
Liga Tomasino holds outreach for Ondoy victimsTHIS TIME, basketball had to take a back seat for a greater cause. Growling Tigers Jeric Fortuna, Clark Bautista, Jeric Teng, AC Marquez and alumnus Japs Cuan worked hand in hand with the Thomasian alumni group “Liga Tomasino” in distributing relief goods to flood victims in Sitio Mustang last October 18. “We should realize that we are all so blessed,” Liga Tomasino executive board member Oliver Sara said. “It is during this time that we should discover our greatest capacity to help other people.” Liga Tomasino, a non-profit organization that aims to “help and support UST’s pursuit of sports excellence,” sought the help of the Tigers in packing food items and giving them to the typhoon victims. “We in Liga Tomasino are so proud of our Tiger players,” Alexis Revilla, executive board member of Liga Tomasino said. “We should all remember that being a Thomasian should not end upon graduation, rather it is our responsibility to always give back and support the University in whatever way possible,” Revilla said. The Tigers also sought to boost the morale of young typhoon victims by playing patintero with them. The kids reciprocated by performing a rap song. A day before the outreach program, Liga Tomasino organized a thanksgiving dinner for the men’s basketball team on P. Noval Street, Sampaloc Manila. Michaela Del Callar, president of Liga Tomasino, explained that the Thanksgiving dinner is a yearly event intended to show support for the Tigers’ coaching staff and players, as well as the other varsity players. Present in the dinner were Season ’72 Most Valuable Player (MVP) Dylan Ababou and Rookie of the Year Teng ,among other players. “We just hope other Thomasian alumni would join us to help the student-athletes in any way they can,” Del Callar said. Varsitarian
|
|