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PostHeaderIcon Unveiling of upibalon.com in Naga City

8/16/2008 | Posted by mesiamd | Edit Post

The UP Ibalon Bicol headed by Butch Robredo met at Bob Marlin's in Naga City, Philippines on August 8, 2008 to unveil its improved, user-friendly site: www.upibalon.com developed by Dr. Andy Gimpaya.

The attendees were: Butch Robredo, Ann Mariano, Waying Manlañgit-Tam, Sieg Borromeo-Bulaong and husband, Dulce Bernardo-Dionisio, Alaine Alberto-Fornoles, Jun Olin, Totoy Badiola, Dan Daz, May Velasco-Yorobe, and Andy Gimpaya.

Here are Dan Daz' photos of the event:




Dr. Andy Gimpaya presents www.upibalon.com, the UP Ibalon Web Community's flagship in the Web.





Upibalon.com is a full-feature Web 2.0 site and shall also host as sub-domains the UPCAT Resources Site and the UPCAT Support Forum. Special domain shall also be donated to the mother organization in UP Diliman and to members who request their own sub-domain. This blog site (UP Ibalon Bicol) shall remain in its own domain, www.upibalonbicol.com.



















The photo may also be viewed and downloaded in the link below:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/upibalonbicol/spnew
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PostHeaderIcon Blogging tip: Spruce up your blog with picture collage

3/29/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
[This article, I believe, tackles general interest topic so I lifted it from my personal blog.]

Picasa is a light-weight graphic application that Google offers as a free download. Picture collage creation is one of its coolest features.





How do we produce these effects? Incredibly easy. Moments after you install Picasa, it will find all the pictures, and some supported video files too, in your hard drives and immediate network, including long lost pictures whose locations you have lost track of long ago. The pictures shall be organized in folders for your effortless access. In Picasa's application interface, CTRL + select the pictures you like to include then click Picture Collage from Picasa's Create menu. You will immediately see the preview of your collage. When satisfied with your creation, save the composite picture as graphic file.



You may select from any of the four options for your final collage output: picture pile, picture grid, contact sheet and multi-exposure. You may choose white, gray or black for background color of your collage, or you may set the farthest picture as your background graphic.



Download your free Picasa here to explore its other features. Very soon you will start posting professional-looking graphics to spruce up your blog.
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PostHeaderIcon Centers of Commerce in Albay Still Inundated - Photos by Dan Daz

3/13/2008 | Posted by andygimpaya | Edit Post


Wet or flooded highway to and from Legaspi City





Somewhere in Culiat, Daraga Albay




Typical house in the midst of flooded areas




Right in the heart of Legaspi City - Peñaranda Corner Lakandula Sts.


Bicol University Campus

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PostHeaderIcon New Interface of our Web Site

3/13/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post

You have to bear with us. We like to put our blog in order, so we we have to make revisions and some posts for maintenance purposes. We also have to change our previous interface to add flexibility and more functionalities. Some readers have in fact expressed appreciation for the previous look and feel. But sadly it has to go.

But this one is better from technical, and hopefully, aesthetic, point of view. What do you say?

My high school batchmates got enamored with the previous theme that they like it for our blog. Click here to check.They are yet to see this one. Hopefully, we shall stick with this for quite a while.
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PostHeaderIcon US-based Bicolana Gears Up to Augment Aid to Albay Typhoon Victims

3/08/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post

After Typhoons Reming and Milenyo in 2006, Albay province got stuck in continuing calamity. Photos by Dan Daz we posted earlier in this blog show just the lighter side, almost artistic side, of the devastation. We know that the count of victims continue to rise because even with just heavy rains, minus the typhoon, thousands continue to be mass-evacuated in seemingly regular basis. And there is no end to miseries in sight. From America, Divinia Nolasco Ries, who hails from Guinobatan, Albay, sent this encouraging e-mail:

Hello to the new ones, the young ones, and the young once!!
Hey Mickey, this is Vines (Nolasco-Ries) from Indiana, Ibalon batch 73. Pls give my best to Mac Pavia.

I have a favor to ask. I raised a small amount of money for Albay's typhoon victims through our local Michiana Fil-Am Assoc (FAAM) dito sa Northern Indiana. I was thinking of raising more money to help build toilets sa areas na nagrabe ng typhoon but I got busy. For now, could you, Mac Pavia and Edna give me an idea kung ano ang most important need relating to the typhoon damages. Start with a small project.

Thanks!!!
Vines


Calling on Mighty, Mac Pavia, and Edna.

(Photo by Dan Daz)

Blog Admin
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PostHeaderIcon New Look and Feel for Our Website - Check in Now

3/08/2008 | Posted by andygimpaya | Edit Post


Tell us what you think. We are open to suggestions on how to improve our weblog. As blog admin, I am still open to volunteers who can co-administer this site and improve it some more Calling on everybody who knows his HTML or XML or Java. We do not like UP Ibalon to get shortchanged as far as what the Web has to offer right now.

At the moment, I am giving some efforts towards form, leaving the content or substance aspect to Totie and May. We will continue to explore look and feel options that will give justice to your posts, fellows! And we will keep on trying a bit of everything until everybody includes himself in our talent pool of authors.

Can everybody do a check in post even just once. Come on.
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PostHeaderIcon From e-group moderator/blog admin

3/06/2008 | Posted by andygimpaya | Edit Post
We acknowledge the following members who registered to the UP Ibalon Bicol e-group in the last 7 days:
ImeldaTresvalles- Cabanes
Gods Lanuza
Annelee Badiola-Lojo
Stephen Acabado
Bingbing Badiola-Bretan
Rose Bernardo Nayve
Again, we welcome you all and we appreciate your response. (Balot, I have posted the invitation to Mhel Galvante-Magpantay. Please follow up).

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To all:
We have been researching, exploring the possibility of merging the 2 existing alumni e-groups because we believe in one communication channel for all UP Ibalon alumni. In fact we believe in one strong UP Ibalon alumni association, to include even those non-regulars who consider themselves UP Ibalon alumni. Every single UP alumnus is too valuable to ignore. The latest word from Yahoo! is that merging 2 Yahoo! groups is just not possible. So meanwhile, we can offer the UP Ibalon Bicol weblog as a medium of communication common to all. We put in the sidebar all the links we can find to web sites that have UP Ibalon content. Anyone may also subscribe to our RSS feeds. From our long-term discussions, maybe we can arrive at a consensus on what to do on issues that affect us and where the UP Ibalon should go.

After that Feb. 02 2008 alumni reunion, our effort to establish immediate Web presence, through weblog and e-group, was a rapid response to concerns that the reunion could be another hello-goodbye affair, a perennial complaint I was told. (This author has been inactive in UP Ibalon affairs for so many years and has not been updated on several issues). Personally, I do not see it as trying to put up another alumni association. We simply liked to extract the most long-term benefits for the alumni out of Eden's expenses.

Now, we are moving. And who knows what great things we can do, considering that our membership cover a wide range of professions and areas of businesses.

Everybody, please speak up and keep discussions flowing!
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PostHeaderIcon Featuring: Aguirangan Island

3/03/2008 | Posted by andygimpaya | Edit Post
Time to relax our mind. Join us in a boat trip to Aguirangan Island, one of the hidden treasures of the Bicol Region. The video below was taken last Oct 2007 during the homecoming of Boy Remo, one of the early members of the UP Ibalon and now based in America. So this presentation features Boy Remo, his wife Rebecca, some of our high school batchmates at Ateneo de Naga, the Aguirangan island off the coast of Parubcan, Camarines Sur, and the sunset view from the Partido side of Mount Isarog.

Enjoy the trip to the sounds of the '70s from Burt Bacharach and Seals and Crofts, which hopefully are off-patent or off-copyright by now.

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PostHeaderIcon RSS Feeds Now Available from this Weblog

3/02/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
You may now incorporate in your own websites RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds from this weblog. Contact us for instructions if you are interested. Here is our feed url:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/UpIbalonBicol

We do not like empty spaces in our blog pages so we stuff the sidebar with RRS feeds from the locals like the Philippine Daily Inquirer, ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Philippine Commentaries, Buy n Sell Philippines, and the biggies of world news like Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera. The sidebar also includes a preview of our own RSS Feeds as they appear to subscribers.

Blog Admin
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PostHeaderIcon Video Compilation

3/01/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post





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PostHeaderIcon Slideshows

3/01/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post



- Blog Admin

ASSORTED:



UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion - February 2, 2008



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PostHeaderIcon Happy Birthday Bingbing Badiola - Bretan!

2/29/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post


To our leap year celebrant,

Happy Birthday Bingbing!

From all UP Ibalon Alumni
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PostHeaderIcon New UP Ibalon Alumni Project Upcoming

2/27/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
The UP Ibalon Alumni Steering Committee met tonight at Kopi Roti, Magsaysay Ave., Naga City and gets closer to endorsing a new project. Watch and hear Interim President Butch Robredo give a summary in the video clip below. We apologize for the underexposure. Masyado dimly-lit sa Kopi Roti. Pang lovers an ambiance. Anyway, the audio is clear enough for you to make out what Butch is telling us. Ann Mariano will post the transcript of the meeting anytime shortly. Totie, the committee recognizes with deep appreciation your cash donation. Nasa banko na. Thank you.


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PostHeaderIcon Addendum: Steering Committee Meeting Update

2/24/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
Not anymore included in Ann's update:
1) Availability of P5000 donation, to be deposited by Totie Mesia to one of our bank accounts (Thanks, Totie!);
2) Next meeting, Feb 27, Rose Bernardo-Nayve will bring her Wi-Fi capable laptop, so anyone can participate in a video conferencing. (Attention all interested alumni, YM or Skype, take your pick.);
3) Next meeting, Dulce Bernardo will bring her Bayantel Span unit. (So, stand-by, Mighty and others who have Bayantel Span subscription: We will call you).

-Blog Admin
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PostHeaderIcon UP Ibalon Bicol Interim Officers Meet Anew

2/24/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
The UP Ibalon Bicol Interim Officers Meeting pushed through successfully at Max's Restaurant, Avenue Square, Magsaysay Ave., Naga City, Feb. 23, 2008. The full transcript shall be available shortly after this post courtesy of Naning Mariano. Meanwhile, take a peek at the beautiful faces in that meeting here. Next meeting shall be on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008.

For your easy access, we also include here the links to the videos of the UP IBalon alumni reunion at Eden Borja-Fernando's residence last Feb. 2, 2008.

UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 1
UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 2
UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 3
UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 4
UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 5
UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 6
UP Ibalon Alumni Reunion Part 7




-Blog Admin
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PostHeaderIcon Search engines can now find our site!

2/22/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
The Google indexer finally found our blog. This site is now searchable in Google and other search engines. Type "UP Ibalon Bicol" in Google search and see the result. Totie, May keep our pages burning. Where are the rest? Do not just read, contribute an article. I know Mighty is now preparing to post the history of the UP Ibalon in a series of articles. See you.!

- Blog Admin
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PostHeaderIcon Message from Admin

2/20/2008 | Posted by Anonymous | Edit Post
Do not wonder if our site cannot be Googled yet. The Google indexer that goes over the whole Internet has not found our niche yet. It takes time, but we are assured that once the indexer finds our site, we will be satisfied. We already submitted our site data and site map to Google and made revisions to the HTML of our default page by inserting some meta data, etc. At the moment Internet search engines cannot find us yet but everything should be ok soon.

If you like to add pictures to our slideshow (see top right pane of the main page), post them to the Photos section of our Yahoo Group. We will select from your posts.

Enjoy!

-From Blog Admin
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