Joe Cheng at the SEOUL Drama Awards

Joe Cheng attended the recently held Seoul Drama Awards... this was on October 14, 2008 where he presented an award together with the korean actress Park Chae Rim (Dalja's Spring, All About Eve, Dating Now, etc)... they were presenting the Best Leading Male and Female awards. Joe was greatly welcomed by about 500 South Korean fans and though he didn't use proper pronunciation when he greeted them in korean, a lot were still mesmerized by his charm.. haha (^-^)v

you can watch the video below (sorry, there are no english subs)...



credits:
jongyoonji @ youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30tYophhqM

sigh... lucky koreans... anyong!

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

4th Batch of Melamine Negative Milk Products

here's the 4th batch, cleared by DOH as of 10-14-08. you may view the article that contains the updated list of melamine-positive and melamine-negative products here: UPDATED MELAMINE-CONTAMINATION-TEST LIST

Tested Negative for Melamine:
1. Anchor Fresh Milk
2. Caidenly Biscuits (Milk Flavor)
3. Candyman Kendi Mint Chocolate Filled Center
4. Candyman Vi-Va Caramel Sweets Chocolate Filled Center
5. Dairy Champ Evaporada
6. DongGuan Bairong Chocolate Cream Biscuits
7. DongGuan Wanjiang Wan Fu Papaya Cookie
8. DongGuan Bairong Apple Biscuits
9. DongGuan Golden Paddyfield Giadenjy Biscuits
10. DongGuan Golden Paddyfield Little Biscuits
11. DongGuan Mayong Guang Feng Food
12. Engtian Layer Biscuits
13. Eugnitan Layer Biscuits
14. F&N Blue Cow Condensada
15. F&N Daisy Condensada
16. Farmhouse Skimmed Milk Powder
17. Fat & Thin Milky Soya Drink
18. Fudielai Biscuits
19. Keko Candy
20. Kyoto Cookies
21. Liu Wei Bang Lollipop Candy
22. M&M's Minis Chocolate Candies
23. Mai Wei Su Cookies
24. Milky Soya Milk Drink (Chocolate)
25. Milky Soya Milk Drink (Green Apple)
26. Milky Soya Milk Drink (Melon)
27. Milky Soya Milk Drink (Sweet Corn)
28. Pengtian Thin Cracker
29. Pokka Soy 4 U Soy Bean Drink
30. Prime Roast Calcium Enriched Nutritious Cereal
31. Prime Roast Oligosacharide Nutritious Cereal
32. Sally Sikaoqi Milk Candy
33. Sally Sikaoqi Coffee Candy
34. Sukacita Little Bear Biscuits (Chocolate flavor)
35. Suntree Coffee Candy
36. Tiong Hwa Soya Milk (unsweetened)
37. Vitasoy Calci Plus Healthy Soya Drink (Low Sugar Hi-Calcium Low Fat Cholesterol Free)
38. Yeo's Drink
39. Zhen Xin Sandwich Biscuits
40. Zhongshan Lewwa Food Jelly (Pudding)
41. Zhongshan Meihua Butter with Filling Cake


...helping in my own little ways... (^-^)v

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

3rd batch of Melamine Negative Milk Products

So far, 49 milk products have been cleared on 10-08-08. It was reported that the BFAD still has “less than a hundred" products left to test, the result of which would be released Monday and Friday next week...

For the mean time, here's the 3rd batch of milk products that have tested negative for melamine contamination:

source: http://news.abs-cbn.com/research/09/29/08/updated-list-products-being-tested-bfad-melamine



Tested negative for melamine
(3rd batch, based on Health Sec. Francisco Duque's announcement, Oct. 10, 2008)

1. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink (Mango Magic)
2. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink (Orange Chill)
3. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink (Strawberry Spin)
4. Arla Full Cream Milk Repacked
5. Austria Milk Candies
6. Candyman White Rabbit Butter Toffee Candy
7. Cottage Milk Sweet Cream Butter Milk
8. Crisp Bean Chocolate
9. Crisp Chocolate Stone
10. Dairy America Milk Powder Repacked
11. Dairy Kreem Skimmed Milk Powder
12. Dong Guan Bairong Coconut Biscuits
13. Farmland Milk Powder
14. Kiddie Soya Milk Egg Delight
15. La Crema (Puregold) Skimmed Milk Powder, Original
16. La Crema (Puregold) Skimmed Milk Powder, Regular
17. Magic Chew Grape Fruit Sharing
18. Milk Drink in Red Can (in Chinese Characters)
19. Oakland Skimmed Milk Powder
20. Showa Tempura Batter Mix


No results yet (balance from the original partial list of 56 milk products undergoing BFAD testing)

• Dutch Lady Pure Milk
• Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (Red bean ice Cream)
• Meiji Ujikintoko (Red bean and green tea frozen confection)
• Mengniu Original Drink Milk
• Mengniu Pure Milk
• Milk chocolate bars/china
• Milk chocolate candies/china
• Monmilk high calcium milk
• Monmilk pure mil
• Monmilk suan suan ru sour milk beverage (mango flavor)
• Natural choice milk ice var
• Nespray
• Nutri-express 15 nutritional elements (blue, red and orange label and cap)
• Nutri-express milk green apple
• Prime roast cereals 28gm
• Strawberry sorbet
• Trappist dairy low fat yogurt drink
• Vita fresh milk
• Yili High calcium 250ml
• Yili High calcium milk 1L
• Yili High calcium low fat milk beverage
• Yili low fat milk 1L
• Yili milk
• Yili puremilk 250ml
• Yili puremilk 1L

so let's all cross our fingers and hope none of the remaining products would test positive for melamine contamination...

...helping in my own little ways... (^-^)v


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

Wu Chun's bday

Wu Chun turned a year older yesterday, october 10, 2008...

he's now 29... hmm.. just 4 years older than me... hehehe (^-^)v

because i was under the spell of the never ending melamine scandal, i forgot that it was wu chun's b-day yesterday... i'm so sorry SUPERMAN... it wasn't intentional, i was just so busy surfing and checking for the latest updates regarding this milk scare issue... anyways, hope you had a great b-day bash! may all your wishes come true! i wish you all the best! may you have more blessings, projects and of course, good health always! :) (i'm talking as if you'll be able to read this.. errrr! hehehe well, who knows?)

75 days before christmas... whew! that was really fast! my last count was a hundred days more.. see? now we're down to 75... we may be waking up one day and it's already christmas eve... i think i better start my wish list and gift list now... i'll be posting it soon...

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

Melamine Testing Update

Apart from the 28 products initially cleared by DOH, here comes an updated list of the 21 others which underwent lab tests for melamine contamination...

source: http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/10/08/08/update-2-doh-finds-melamine-jolly-cow-milk-21-products-cleared

Negative list

The 21 dairy products cleared by the DOH of melamine contamination are:

1. Anmum Materna Milk Powder Chocolate Flavor (400g)
2. Bear Brand Choco (300g)
3. Bear Brand Sterilized Milk (200ml)
4. Cadbury Choclairs
5. Carnation Calcium Plus Non-fat Milk Powder
6. Klim Instant Full Cream Milk Powder
7. Milk Chocolate Bar (40g)
8. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
9. Monmilk Hi-calcium Low fat milk (1L)
10. Monmilk Deluxe Pure Milk
11. Nestle Chocolate Flavor Ice cream
12. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk
13. Nestle Fresh Milk (1L)
14. Nestle Kitkat
15. Nestle Milk chocolate (40g)
16. Nestle Pops Ice cream
17. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice cream
18. Nestogen 1 DHA
19. Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink
20. Blue Tree Express Milk Drink or Green Apple Flavor (500ml)
21. Prime Roast Instant Nutritious Cereal (28g)

sadly, one more milk product tested positive for melamine... Jolly Cow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (1 liter), a product of the People's Republic of China, contained 4 ppm. what i've been wanting to see in these NEGATIVE LIST is my favorite biscuit cookie Oreo double stuff... but i haven't seen any article online that had this... sigh...

besides my unstoppable growing paranoia of this milk scare issue, i'm posting this to update others who are also interested and concerned on the progress of the lab tests conducted by DOH and BFAD... hopefully, by spreading the news and posting them here in my blog, i'm able disseminate information even to those who just happen to pass by my site...

again, i just wanna help in my own little ways... (^-^)v

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

JOE's Pepero Commercial

despite the growing melamine milk scandal, joe cheng still signed the contract and endorsed PEPERO's chocolate sticks manufactured by LOTTE. well, this brave hottie said that the milk powder used in this product has been subjected and cleared from melamine contamination before he agreed signing for the project. wearing a tight white clothing, he turns himself into a cupid and using the long chocolate stick to change into a cupid arrow, easily earned him NT $3,500,000 (whew! that's a lot huh?!).

below is an article i got from http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT2/4549777.shtml that features joe's pepero commercial:

Credits:
Thanks to Kassy for the translation
YCYC - arjoe.net family

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Udn.com
2008/10/7
Joe Cheng endorsing chocolate stick; Taiwan ’s LOTTE has to study a bit more
Zheng Yuan Chang has successfully invaded Korea , after getting a Korean beverage advertisement, lately he’s being picked as to endorse a chocolate stick. But the toxic milk crisis is still going on plus China ’s LOTTE’s teddy bear cookie was being tested by Macau to have Melamine in it. Zheng Yuan Chang is taking on quite a big risk to endorse for this product. Yesterday his manager He An Li gave a hard smile and said: [When I have to release the news of him endorsing this product, everyone keeps asking me whether the cookies contain any milk powder? Is it toxic?]

In order to make everyone feeling more secure, yesterday Taiwan ’s LOTTE manufacturer has released a statement stating that all the products for Taiwan ’s LOTTE have already been tested on 29th of September and the products are free of Melamine. He An Li also said that during the toxic milk crisis and cookies, the manufacturer has took the initiative to contact them (Joe’s management company) and informed them that all the products are undergoing the testing phase. Once the tested result is out, they have also immediately notified them about it, very sincere.

Zheng Yuan Chang said, normally he only drinks black coffee and seldom eats snack so he did not suffer from the toxic milk crisis. This endorsement has left a very deep impression on him because he will turn into a cupid in the advertisement. The story plot in the advertisement is to have him leading a group of young girls to express their love bravely by aiming their arrow of love at the guy that they desire, little does he knows that in the end all the young girls are aiming their arrows at Zheng Yuan Chang, very hilarious.

i have actually seen the video in youtube. it was really funny... but i wish the commercial was a bit longer... i think it only lasted for 20seconds... sigh... i haven't had much glimpse of my joe cheng... hehehehe

though i've been so paranoid and greatly affected by the melamine scandal, i actually wouldn't mind eating this choco stick for JOE CHENG... as the saying goes, "for every rule, there's an exception" and in this case, joe's the exception... haha :P anything for him.. no questions asked... hehehe (^-^)v

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

Growing Milk Paranoia

with my growing paranoia about the melamine milk scare issue, i just can't help but surf all day for related articles that can help me (and those who would be able to read my posts) further widen my understanding and awareness of the issue. this has been ongoing for several weeks now and obviously, i've been very much affected.

from searching all day, i have read several relevant articles and blogs that will be very helpful (i think) so i will be posting them here. apparently, from what i've read, the melamine scandal has widened in terms of the products involved. it is found that the contaminated baby formula is not the only problem. Now it's definitely a larger picture... which includes not only milk, but other products like ice cream, yoghurt, coffee and tea drinks, candies, soup, cheese powder, confectionery such as biscuits, ready-made desserts, and chocolates, as well as any food containing milk from China have been suspected of contamination. this has lead to several bans from import in Asian countries like Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and Philippines.


look at the pictures below... aren't they yummy?!? of course they are! full of unwanted calories but they really taste good! now we can't just indulge for as much as we want... not only because we are conscious of our diet o weight... but also because we need to be cautious and check labels first before purchasing them from supermarkets, department stores, groceries, etc...

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i found the list below in http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/melamine-contaminated-food-list.html you can also find other melamine related articles from this site. bear in mind though that this is merely to raise awareness and not to promote condemnation of any particular products mentioned:

• Powdered baby milk.
• HK finds melamine in Chinese-made cheesecake.
• Cookies With Melamine Found in Netherlands.
• Mr Brown coffee products.
• Manufacturing giant Unilever recalls melamine tainted tea.
• Melamine Detected in Two More Ritz Snacks.
• More Chinese-made sweets recalled in Japan.
• White Rabbit brand Chinese candy contaminated: Asian health officials.
• Lipton, Glico and Ritz the latest businesses to be affected by milk powder scandal.
• Hong Kong finds traces of melamine in Cadbury products.
• Recalled Melamine Milk Products include Asian versions of Bairong grape cream crackers, Dove chocolate, Dreyers cake mix, Dutch Lady candy, First Choice crackers, Kraft Oreo wafer sticks, M&Ms, Magnum ice cream, Mentos bottle yoghurt, Snickers funsize, Yili hi-cal milk, Youcan sesame snacks and others. Testing of some of those has already proven negative.
• Melamine Found in More China-Made Products, including Heinz DHA+AA baby cereal.
• 305 Chinese dairy-based products temporarily banned in Korea.
• US bloggers have gone so far as to uncover dozens of products recalled in China that were still on the shelves of their local supermarkets.
• 31 new milk powder brands found tainted.

there are other related articles in this site that you may want to check out:
* Melamine in Milk
* Melamine Scandal Widens
* Milky Melamine

this is just getting worse everyday... when will this be over??? and come to think of it, manufacturers, not only of food but other products as well like computers, fabric, shoes, clothes, etc, have built factories in China and hired Chinese workers... not that i am discriminating them but with the rate this melamine scandal is continuing to magnify, i can't help but wonder... how can they regain the trust of consumers not only in Asia but in the entire world? they have taken away 4 innocent lives and have made numerous others sick... where is this gonna lead us all?

hope i was of help in my own little ways...

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

Melamine Milk Scare

Melamine is an organic base and a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass and if mixed with resins, has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred, and has several other industrial uses. Melamine combines with cyanuric acid to form melamine cyanurate, which has been implicated on the Chinese protein export contaminations. Melamine is also a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide. It is formed in the body of mammals who have ingested cyromazine. It has been reported that cyromazine can also be converted to melamine in plants.
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Melamine by itself is nontoxic in low doses, but when combined with cyanuric acid, it can cause fatal kidney stones due to the formation of an insoluble melamine cyanurate. Melamine is described as being "Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Chronic exposure may cause cancer or reproductive damage. Eye, skin and respiratory irritant." However, the toxic dose is on par with common table salt with an LD50 of more than 3 grams per kilogram of bodyweight. FDA scientists explained that when melamine and cyanuric acid are absorbed into the bloodstream, they concentrate and interact in the urine-filled renal microtubules, then crystalize and form large numbers of round yellow crytals, which in turn block and damage the renal cells that line the tubes, causing the kidneys to malfunction.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine

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what's happening to the world?! war between US and IRAQ is still a very long way from "over" and here comes this very frightening MELAMINE a.k.a. "Milk Scare" scandal... this is really alarming...

i have received several forwarded text messages regarding this issue and i can't help but get paranoid... i can hear this in the office and at home... in televisions and in the internet... the whole world is going crazy over this toxic chemical -- melamine... hearing that 4 babies have died and approximately 53,000 others sickened due to melamine-contaminated infant formula milk in China just made the panic and tension grow larger...

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this is really scaring me... we consume a lot of dairy products daily so how can we just take this for granted? especially people who love chocolates, ice cream, yogurts, powdered and bottled milk a lot. i just heard recently that cadbury and oreo were positive... it made me so sad...

So far, only 2 Chinese milk products namely Green Food Yili Pure Milk and Mengniu Original Drink Milk from China have both tested and confirmed positive for melamine contamination according to the Department of Health (DOH), tests conducted by BFAD. There were about 56 milk products subject to testing, 28 of which have been completely tested and cleared (others still in process). below is a list of those that have been tested negative for melamine contamination as identified by our Health Secretary Francisco Duque:

NEGATIVE
1. Anchor Lite Milk

2. Anlene High calcium low fat milk UHT

3. Bear Brand instant

4. Chic Choc milk chocolate

5. Farmland skim milk

6. Jinwei Drink

7. Jolly Cow pure fresh milk

8. Kiddie Soya Milk Egg Delight

9. Lactogen 1 DHA infant formula

10. M&M milk chocolate candies

11. M&M peanut chocolate candies

12. Milk Boy

13. Nestogen 2 DHA follow-up formula

14. Nestogen 3 DHA follow-up formula

15. Nido 3+ prebio with DHA

16. Nido Full Cream milk powder

17. Nido Jr.

18. No-sugar chocolate of Isomalt 2 Oligosaccharide

19. Nutri Express milk drink

20. Pura UHT fresh Milk

21. Snickers fresh roasted in caramel nogut in thick milk chocolate

22. Vitasoy soya milk drink

23. Wahaha Orange

24. Wahaha Yellow

25. Want want Milk Drink

26. Windmill Skim Milk Powder

27. Yinlu Milk Peanut

28. Yogi Yogurt Flavored Milk Drink

source: www.abs-cbnnews.com

this is the list they have as of October 3, 2008. you may view the entire article @ http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/10/03/08/two-chinese-milk-products-rp-test-positive-melamine

though it would be very hard for me to stop myself from eating my favorite biscuit cookie (oreo double stuff), i have no choice but to give it up for now until all results have been released from lab tests... keeping my fingers crossed again...

sigh...


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

quarter of a century

twenty-five years and a day ago, a baby girl was born and was named gracie... hahaha :P

waaaahhhhh! i'm already a quarter of a century old... been alive for 25 years... thank you Lord! Ü seems like a very long period of time, but hey! i don't feel that old at all... and i believe i don't look that old either... hahahaha :P

sigh... i've been living on earth for 25 years now but i feel like i still have a lot of things to do... i still have a lot of plans in life... i want my own house... i want my own car... i want my family to have their own car as well... of course, i want to have my own family too... i want to have my own business so i won't need to work for a boss... i want to go to baguio, bohol, cebu, davao and palawan... i want to go to taiwan and south korea... i want to go to USA (as a tourist and not as a worker/student.. haha :P laziness as usual...)... i want to go to London... i want to go to Paris... i also wanna go to australia.. yes, down south baby! in short, i want to travel the world...

the question is WHEN? hopefully soon... wish wish wish Ü
to all my friends who greeted me via text messaging, thanks! to those who sent me messages and comments in friendster, thank you also! and to my friend who called me from singapore, thank you so much for being a little "galante" yesterday.. hehehe
thanks to you all for remembering my day! i'm really overwhelmed! Ü

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

gone too soon...

never knew that september would also symbolize a sad event for me... not even a week after my promotion was released, this sad news came up...

last september 17, wednesday, my granny finally gave up living... after staying in the hospital for almost 6 days and being diagnosed of having a clot in her head besides her worsening heart condition, and after having a lot of tubes and life support machines connected to her weak body, she finally gave up...

i'm sad of course, but in a way also happy because finally, she'll now be able to rest after living 86 long years on earth. that was indeed very long dude! because from what i know, our generation's life expectancy now is only up to 75 years old. this may even lower in the coming years due to several factors like environmental issues, society and lifestyle, pollution and global warming, synthetic/artificial food products, radiations, etc... i think we'll be lucky to even reach 65.

sigh... all our relatives have arrived today because today's the last wake, tomorrow would be the internment. there are a lot of people going here and there. the house is quite a mess. well i guess this is how it's suppose to look like in times like this.

this is really sad... we'll miss you lola...

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

Wu Chun Blogged again

I've been browsing Chun's blog for several times now... this was since he visited the Philippines last July. i was really so surprised and impressed of how kind this guy was to his Filipino fans when he was here.. mainly the reason why i became one of his huge fans, literally and figuratively... hahaha... i've read some of his entries and i really loved reading them especially the quotes/lessons he adds on each one. i also love it every time he mentions tagalog/filipino words in his entries, makes me feel he loves his filipino fans a lot! Ü

Their Philippine tour for Romantic Princess made me very eager to know what he'll write in his blog after visiting the Philippines. I checked almost everyday, but i guess a famous star like him would barely have time to post his entries in a regular manner... so, that may be the reason why he was able to publish his posts this month only for august and september.

I got this from his blog entry entitled "Superman is back!" dated 8-08-08. Filipino fans should read this... really a must! Ü

"Phewwww… Finally, Superman got little time tonight to complete his unfinished blog :-)

After Butterfly Lovers wrapped up, I was ready for tons of jobs that were lining up but never did I expect that the heavy workload... workload which I myself, someone who thinks himself as a Superman, finally came to feel tiredness in his life... WOW!!! To me, there are good and bad in every moment of my experiences that's why I've always told myself that I am lucky for all the opportunities and I will always cherish every moment and be responsible not only to myself but to everyone so I wont live a regretful life. No matter how tired I am, there's always happiness when it comes to visiting all the countries I've visited recently and here, I really wanna thank everyone from all parts of the world who has been supporting me all these while…

The Philippines - Visiting Phil has always been my 1st priority! Although I've been to Phil a couple of times already, its always different when it comes to work and I've always loved to meet those who have supported us all these while... anyhow... mission accomplished!!! haha! "Maraming Salamat"!

Korea - Really had a great time during the Romantic Princess Celebration with all my Korean supporters… Well, I can speak better Korean now… haha! Su Go Ha Say So Yo

Japan - Attended my 1st Butterfly Lovers press conference outside China and surprisingly it was Japan!!! I also spent one whole day filming a program for a a Japanese TV channel discovering the life of NINJAS… Another Great experience for me!

HK – I did something crazy this time!

Managed to sneak out late at night after supper with my director around 2.30am! It came to a point where I felt so much like walking along the streets in HK… I walked alone from JORDAN to TSIM SHA TSUI and along the streets where I used to go before my showbiz life. I always walk 4 years ago and although its already 3am and all shops are close, i am still full of energy J Its unbelievable and I dotn know when I can do that again…hahaa!"

the whole article can be viewed here: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/wuchun10cool/9765596 or you can just check out his blog here: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/wuchun10cool. i have his blog listed as well in my links (check my "just a click away" and "blog exchange" tabs) so suit yourself.

well i think the title suits him well... for someone who's a super hunk, a super gorgeous, a super kind, a super brave and a super busy star! so good luck to you SUPERMAN! i wish you more success, blessings, projects and good health always! (^-^)v


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

customer shock absorber 3

at long last... after waiting and struggling for almost a year... i've reached the 3rd level.. woooohoooo!!! thank you Lord! Ü

there has been several times when i thought of almost giving up and just contenting myself of being a 2nd level agent... i feel like no matter what i do, there will always be one metric required that i'll eventually fail most especially during the last month of the qualifying months i'll be using... there was even a time when i was just 2 seconds short to pass my AHT and when I was just 0.03% short to pass FTR... in filipino, "halos ga-hibla na lang nga, pumalpak pa..." i've been frustrated several times on hitting my target grades... but i often end up crying because i usually fail most especially my AHT.

but i guess there's really a reward for holding on and never giving up despite failing numerous times... and this is it. after crossing my fingers several times, my wish was finally granted... though i had to wait for almost a year, i really feel overwhelmed and i'm really grateful to God because finally, all of my hardwork paid off. last friday, they sent me an email that the promotions have been released... and i was so happy i can't contain it! Ü

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this just made my beliefs grow stronger... that things really do happen for a reason you'll know in due time and that there is always a perfect time for everything, time according to His will...

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

p.s. thank you so much! sorry if i had been impatient several times and if i kept asking why i still have not reached my target. i know You gave this to me now because now is the perfect time. You're truly the best! Your will be done always! Ü

UP Pep Squad did it again! Ü

Earlier today, at about 2 pm, the very much anticipated annual UAAP Cheerdance Competition was held at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City. I actually planned watching this but I was not aware that it would be held a week earlier than i thought. so i just contented myself by watching it at studio 23. the coliseum was jam packed! head count was 23,433 paxs. a lot of people going here and there... but all were patient enough to wait till they see all the presentations.

1st in line was the DLSU PEP Squad, followed by the UST Salinggawi Dance troupe, then the UP PEP Squad, FEU, NU, AdU , UE and ADMU. honestly, i expected a lot from the salinggawi dance troupe since they had been perennial winners of this competition. but i was disappointed... i don't know if it's because i expected too much from them or if the presentation was not really that good. UP is so original, as always.. hehe :P i was really amazed by their tribal theme. all the others played contemporary and old school songs except UP who played filipiniana/tribal songs (i'm not sure if this is the right song genre). FEU's and Ateneo's cheerdances are also good. i actually thought Ateneo had a good chance to climb up to the top 3, but surprisingly they weren't able to snatch a place.. i really wonder why..

and the results: 2nd runner up goes to FEU, 1st runner up goes to UST and the champion for 2 years in a row are the UP PEP Squad Cheerdancers! Ü (yah... this is just like the result last year...) personally, i think FEU's better than UST from what i saw... no offense meant tigers..

woooohoooo! Ü this is yet another reason to celebrate my fellow ISKOs and ISKAs. and just in time for the UP Centennial year and hosting of the 2008 UAAP. (though we're not able to bag awards in basketball, at least we're champions in cheering! Ü)

i was really really happy! but i think i would have had more fun if i was right there chanting "U-nibersidad ng Pilipinas.. U-nibersidad ng Pilipinas.. matatapang, matatalino. walang takot kahit kanino. hinding-hindi magpapahuli. ganyan kaming mga taga-UP!" i really miss those times! Ü


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

the power of holding hands

- anonymous -

i was sitting on a beach one summer day, watching 2 kids, a boy and a girl, playing in the sand.
they were hard at work building a sandcastle by the water’s edge, with gates and towers and
moats and internal passages. just when they had nearly finished their project, a big wave came
along and knocked it off, reducing it to a heap of wet sand. i expected the children to burst into
tears, devastated by what had happened to all their hard work. but they surprised me.
instead, they ran up the shore away from the water, laughing and holding hands,
and sat down to build another castle.
i realized that they had taught me an important lesson… all the things in our lives,
all the complicated structures we spend so much time and energy creating, are built on sand.
only our relationships to other people endure.
sooner or later the wave will come along and knock down what we have worked so hard to build up.
when that happens, only the person who has somebody’s hand to hold will be able to laugh..

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

the men of my dreams

twenty-five days to go and i'm turning twenty-five... yes, twenty-five and still single... i don't actually know why. i know for a fact that i'm chubby, but i don't think that's the reason because i see other girls who are a lot bigger than me but they all have boyfriends. well, is it too much to ask for a guy who's tall, has fair/light complexion, has chinky (tsinito) eyes, smells good and who's rich?! hahaha :P maybe my friends are right... they said i'm asking for too much... in other words, i'm setting very high standards that they sometimes wonder if such a guy exists... well i think he does exist... i've met one before.. hihi but we're just friends, unfortunately... sigh...

but i also heard one of my friends say, that we shouldn't be looking for that special SOMEONE... because that special SOMEONE will just come along, at the right place and at the right time... hopefully... so for the mean time, i'll just feast my eyes on the following guys who swept me off my feet several times.. haha

here's my top 10 dream guys:

10. Aga Muhlach - he's my filipino version of tom cruise. i think he's already in his 40's but his face looks just as young as he was 10 or 20 years ago.



9. Tom Cruise - though he's a lot older than me and he has also grown a lot older by now, i believe he's one of the most gorgeous faces i've seen in hollywood.



8. Nick Carter - yes, the youngest member of the boyband, Backstreet Boys... one of my obsessions before.. haha growing in the boyband era, how would i not fall for him?



7. Wu Chun - who doesn't know him? he's been here in the philippines just recently and a lot's been crazy over him... i'm one of them... haha because besides having a beautiful face and a beautiful soul, he's also a hunk... a super hunk!



6. Lee Junki / Lee Jihoon - i can't split them, i think they rank equally. Lee Junki is Nicko of the tagalized version of the KDrama My Girl while Lee Jihoon is Henry of the tagalized Wonderful Life.

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Lee Jun Ki.....................................................................Lee Ji Hoon

5. Vic Zhou - undoubtedly, he's the most gorgeous face i've seen in all the taiwanese and korean dramas i've watched... yes, he's a little cuter than joe... just a little cuter.. haha



4. Chris Evans - the HUMAN TORCH in fantastic 4. he looks so gorgeous and so super hunk...



3. Sam Milby - despite all the issues and intrigues he's facing (most especially the gender issues), i really don't care! i like him and that's it! he's body is so nice (macho). he's also very talented (figure-skating, dancing, singing, in playing the guitar, composing songs, etc.). he's definitely more than just a pretty face... he just can't speak tagalog that well until now... but who cares? he can understand tagalog and i can speak english so there won't be a problem.. haha :P



2. Dingdong Dantes - FREDO of Dyesebel, SERGIO of Marimar, AQUANO of Atlantika, YBRAHIM of Encantadia, ADRIAN of Twin Hearts, CARLOS MIGUEL of Sana ay Ikaw na Nga, BRIX of AnaKareNina and IÑAKI a.k.a. JR Wacqs of TGIS... yes, i've been watching him since he appeared in tgis in 1995. i've seen him grow from being a teenage trasher haired heart throb to becoming a little chubby but handsome actor in his early 20's and now, in his late 20's, being nominated as one of the 25 sexiest men in the world by E! entertainment. he's been really a hunk lately... i was almost drooling when i saw his pictures in the bench blackout fashion show...

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1. Joe Cheng - obviously, as can be seen in this blog, i've been so head over heels crazy over him. i don't think there's a need to elaborate... :P

now tell me, are my standards really that high?! hehe v(^-^)v


~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*

let the BER months begin...

today, september 1, marks the first day of the BER months... well, i'm not anymore suprised of how time flys so fast nowadays. why? because i've been shocked since the month of JUNE arrived. i have realized since then and i've been feeling like i've been watching a fastforwarded version of my own life with everything happening so fast around me.

the past new year's eve felt like just 2 months ago... and now we're nearing christmas again... waaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! and of course, a week after christmas would be new year again. like what i've said earlier, i'm no longer suprised of this fast track life but i'm still not used to it.

i feel like SEPTEMBER arrived so early this year. besides being an indicator of the fast approaching christmas and new year, this month symbolizes a lot more events for me. first, this is my birth month... yeah... i'll be a year older this month. second, i know a lot who are also celebrating their birthday this month, so we'll all be a year older... hehehe third, our program is nearing the peak again. we'll be ramping up and training several trainees for the coming winter peak... which also indidcates that by the last week of december or early january, the program will be ramping down just like the usual annual ramp down... this kind of makes me sad because after being able to stay after 3 ramp downs, i have a strong feeling that i can no longer avoid it this time. so i have been preparing myself and have been thinking of what to do and/or where to transfer in case. fourth, after september comes october, my hire month. october 17, 2008 is my 3rd anniversary in etel as an employee. dude, that was real fast!

today, it's 115 days before christmas. yes, a hundred days is still a lot.. but thinking of how fast days pass lately, i dunno... i think this will not take long. we may wake up one day and it's already just a week before christmas eve... who knows... or maybe, it has already passed...

~grazhishu~
*new wu chun fan*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*