Team
Editors
Contributors
(In alphabetical order)
JINJI BUHAIN
Bio to follow.
CHIKIT CORPUZ-VESTERBÆK
Denmark-based MassComm-Journ grad, who currently works as a social and healthcare worker in the city of Aalborg (pronounced Ohl-bor). An active member of YMCA-YWCA in Denmark, where she does volunteer work for a club for pre-teens. Discovered a knack for learning languages — speaks, Ilokano, Filipino, English, Danish and Danish Sign Language. Fondest memories from UPCB? Everything! Everyone!
DENNIS DUNGAO
Singapore-based Dennis Dungao had been a contributor for Philippine dailies The Manila Times, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Malaya before becoming Sun Star Pampanga’s youngest columnist. He is now writer-editor for OFW Pinoy Star and contributes once in a while for a number of Singaporean glossies. Being apolitical, Dennis writes travel and lifestyle, and is deep into water sports as much as he is into kickboxing. His fond recollections of UP Baguio were of Manang Mane, “GS”, “Teatro Kabute”, “SPEAR”, Lobby, “Freshman Night”, and endless banter with Dr. Luis Derry about history.
CHERRY FE GATAN
Bio to follow.
SHIRLEY RUTH ORONAN
(BA Mass Comm Journalism 1997)
After a six-year stint with a real estate services provider as Marketing Communications Specialist, Tuesday now works for a leading BTO company as Communications Specialist. As such, her knack for writing and the frustration to be a graphics artist are both satisfied. When time permits, she does “raket” work for an advertising agency in QC (treating it as a welcome distraction from the corporate world). Between home and office work, she loves to travel mostly on motorbike with her husband. Tuesday is also busy with her five kids, all boys.
ROMANNE POSADAS
(BA Social Sciences 2002)
Rem is curiously one of several UP Baguio alumni who had been seen gracing Philippine television joining the likes of Angelo Castro (newscaster) and Angel Aquino (model/host/actress). Although a TV stint was not among Rem’s plans, his penchant for adventures brought him to audition for the lead role in a reality-based show. As if destiny was on his side, his audacity managed to get him the producer’s nod. Now, viewers who prefer alternative TV formats had to endure 13 episodes (one season) of exasperating experience but suffice it to say, a comic relief. His documentary, One Night with an Angel, soon became a regular Thursday affair on RPN9. Outside show business, Rem has been serving as a technical staff in various capacities under the Office of the President for almost five years now. Among his other adventures include appeasing irate callers for four hours every night (his endurance lasted for two months), teaching university students about the life and works of our national hero, selling the country’s number one noodle brand, consulting for the Office of Senator Mar Roxas, and enrolling in post-graduate courses but never seeing the light of graduation. This obsessive-compulsive social scientist is probably the most ambitious. In 2000, his batch mates voted him as Most Likely to Become President of the Philippines. At 28, he thinks his destiny will only be fulfilled if he becomes a popular television icon. No wonder he is putting all this effort.
NARS SANTOS
(BA Social Sciences 1991)
The commoner.
Nars was to become the first Filipino genetic scientist. And then he received his UPCAT results in May of 1985. In his third year, the hills of the Cordilleras beckoned but a UP Baguio diploma got the better of him. In March of 1998, he went to work in Singapore. In that first-world city-state, while strolling at Orchard Road, he realized money could not buy happiness. After four years, he went back to the country in November of 2001. He has already found his happiness: in familiar places, in the company of loved ones and the only girl in his life now, Zoey, a golden retriever.
RYAN SEBASTIAN
Ryan Nazareno Sebastian is a member of UPCB Earthquake Babies ’90. He graduated with a degree on BA Social Sciences major in Sociology and Economics. Aside from handling the Kulinarya Tourism Program of the Department of Tourism, he enjoys eating breakfast, morning snacks, lunch, afternoon snacks, dinner, midnight snacks and loves to dig in the “sitsirya” bag during idle time! He is not Ryan Taba for nothing.
ED TAALA
(AB Economics)
Ed earned an AB Econ and MURP from UP. Bought a MS in Computer science from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. A former Philippine government employee living in a trailer home in the US midwest tornado alley. Makes a living as a software integration swami, guru and sensei using HL7 standards with a 24/7 leash. Intends to join the US Peace Corps in lieu of retirement.
JOSE VOLTAIRE TUPAZ
(BA Social Sciences, Political Science and Economics 2002)
Avant-garde activist.
An advocate of indigenous peoples’ rights, Voltz is carving a niche in policy advocacy that nurtures and promotes indigenous knowledge and practices. He traces his politicization back to his active involvement in student politics, having been elected as a topnotcher second year representative, then as Vice Chairperson and, subsequently, as Chairperson of the UP College Baguio Student Council. He also headed the Baguio-Benguet chapter of the National Union of Students of the Philippines. Before moving to the metropolis, he served as the Secretary General of the militant Tongtongan Ti Umili (BAYAN-Baguio). He occasionally writes for webmagazines and performs with the People’s Chorale under the direction of Maestro Jun de Leon, Jr. of the UP College of Music. He sees blogging as yet another arena of contemporary engagement in politics and culture.
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