Everything is now falling into place

Two months from now, I'll be hopefully marching out of school. But before that, every Mass Communication student should undergo the process of cooking and must be well-done before the school serves their finest students to the real world (since as what I remember from a promotional video of the school, they stated that they don't release half-cooked students). That is why, after our pre-cooking process (pertaining to thesis defense last December), we now experience being boiled and fried as we present our theses in front of the public. We call it OBRA KULASA, where every batch should be able to come up with a particular creative theme that suites the issues to be presented in the theses.

 Being one of the batches that tackles development and societal issues, we have come up with a fine-dining theme since we, as researchers were like cooking up recipes towards development. It's a matter of the right amount of skills and passion to voice out the issues that need to be addressed in the society. Moreover, fine-dining is like the irony of the real society we belong to. The elegance and the formality of the ambience mask the true face of reality, just as like the issues presented in our theses that tended to be hidden need attention.

I was asked to do studies of the theme of how the posters should look like. And being in love with vintagey looks, I proposed an old diner ambience for the poster. Unfortunately, the group still sticked with the conventional theme of fine-dining. Thank God I'm in love with Photoshop.

My Choice 

The chosen one

I loooove teasers. I love making other people go crazy about something unrevealed. So I also come up doing layouts for the teasers, indicating: What's cooking, with a short statements regarding your thesis, in line with the fine-dining theme. There are 9 sets of teasers produced, and here is the example, a teaser on our thesis on gay portrayals in films.

It turned out very nice and organized event. And oh, I almost forget telling I directed the first half of the program. We are even commended because of handling the flow of the program properly, especially in handling and responding to some technical difficulties. :D I loove the feeling.

Director/powerpoint clicker/spinner - multi-tasker!

 proud trainee of media productions in the past! 

(c) Zarina Ventajar

(c) Andrea Rivera & Karlyne Domingo

We are scheduled to present in the second half of the program, and the feeling of anxiety during the thesis defense is reinforced and even gets worse. It seems we are literally placed in a big oven, waiting for us to be cooked and well-done. Thank God it turned out so well that we are able to respond to all the questions raised on us. Now, I can finally burry my thesis off the ground, together with the tears and the blood I shed during the research process.

serving food while eating! (c) Marje Davantes/Andy Rivera

The final thesis stretch! THE BLOOPERS! (c)Marje &Andy

DONE! (c) Jaika Ricote

Here's our dishes! Sumptuous issues that are new to the taste buds of people! 

(c) Marje & Andy

The "GISA"/Q&A portion (c) Marje & Andy

Oh yes! I can finally feel it, three major events and two final projects to go, and we are finally done! I can finally say that everything fell into place so far, and I'm very hopeful that the rest will be the same. It was really a tough ride for all of us, but thank God He is always there, showing the direction to the right path. I'm almost there. I can finally see the end of this ride, just as the passengers of LRT/MRT/Train are already starting to hold their bags tight and approaching the nearest way to the exit door. But I know, the journey doesn't end there. Just like the LRT/MRT/train terminal, which is full of snatchers, harassers and holdapers roaming around, you have to be careful of yourself as you completely get out of the terminal, and wait for another bus, jeepney, or maybe tricycle to ride on in reaching your goals. Of course, it's now up to you in choosing the best vehicle to ride!