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Who is your favorite Miss UP Cebu 2015 candidate?

Iskolar, who will be Miss UP Cebu 2015? Support your candidate in the poll below. (from Miss UP Cebu) Who will be the next Miss UP Cebu? Previous pageant winners have become Miss Cebu title holders in the past two years. Will this year's winner compete in the Miss Cebu pageant on the coming years and eventually reign supreme over her co-candidates? That's the exciting part of Miss UP Cebu 2015. (DISCLAIMER: The following poll is unofficial and will not reflect in the People's Choice Award. It was created purely to gain publicity about this highly anticipated event in UP Cebu this April 2015. You may vote for the official People's Choice Award  here . Support your candidate now, Iskolar.)

UP Cebu Intrams 2015 Cheerdance Competition

Here are the winners of this year's UP Cebu Intramurals Cheerdance competition. (from Speak UP, Iskolar) Each year in UP Cebu Intramurals, Cheerdance competition is one of the highlights of the entire event. This year's season is no excuse to that especially Socsci Stallions geared up and finished second place. Below are the the videos of the different clusters' performance in the Cheerdance competition. If you've got additional videos not included in the list, do let me know so we can update the list. GOLDEN SCIONS - Champion Golden Scions - UP Cebu Intrams Cheerdance 2015 Check out the Golden Scions Cheerdance performance! #UPCebuIntrams #Champion Posted by Zuprome on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 SOCSCI STALLIONS - 1st Runner-up Yes. 2nd Place for Intrams 2015 Cheerdance Competition. Angel already uploaded the front view. mehehe. But the side view looks awesome as well! Viva Soc Sci! <3 We don't wait for change, we

8 Signs It’s Already Hell Week(s) in UP Cebu

UP HELL WEEK is now showing, Iskolar! Ready na mo? Source: Judah dela Cruz Yes, we’re exaggerating when we refer the remaining weeks of each semester as ‘UP Hell Week(s)’ but during these times, we see a lot of changes within the UP Cebu community. On another post, I’ve already created recommended tips to survive UP Hell Week and feel free to read it by clicking the link provided. Today, I’ve decided to write another post about this significant time of the semester wherein students exert all efforts remaining to save the sinking grade! Here are signs you see in UP Cebu every time the UP Hell Week season kicks in!  1. Surveys, experiments everywhere. Mostly conducted by the Psych students (and sometimes we’ve got some from Management and Mass Communication students), we see a lot of posts in "Speak UP, Iskolar" and "Overheard at UP" asking for help to answer their surveys. Our friends greet us with messages in our Facebook and Tw

7 Recommended Tips to Survive UP Hell Week

UP HELL WEEK. Ang tulog nababawi. Ang singko hindi. Yes, that's true, Iskolar! Source: Judah dela Cruz Iskolars, last hunat na lang! In the next few weeks before this semester officially ends, you need to exert all efforts to save your dying grades. In UP Cebu, seeing zombies in the campus from time to time is slowly becoming a normal sighting. This will go until the end of the semester since some postponed exams are now finally scheduled and you have no choice but to take them. In the next few weeks, unsay tips sa mga freshie and feeling freshie nga wala kahibawo unsay buhaton to survive this UP Hell Week(s)?   After asking my friends what tips to recommend to the UP Cebu students, I have compiled 7 chronological steps you may want to take to survive this UP Hell Week happening every semester's end. (Warning: I am not liable to any physical, emotional, spiritual or mental damage if you decide to follow these steps.) 1. Prepare. Before anything el

Searching for Cebuano poems? Check out Balakista!

CEBUANO POETRY. Check out Balakista for fresh Cebuano poems . Are you searching for Cebuano poems either because you are required for academic research or you simply want to read modern, fresh Cebuano poetry today? You should definitely check out Balakista: Tingog sa Batan-ong Bisaya . This is a site that publishes Cebuano poems or locally referred as "balak bisaya" but did you know that it should have been "Balak Binisaya"? Bisaya refers to people while Binisaya is to the language, Cebuano. Mistakes like this is normal for people who have no thorough knowledge about Cebuano identity. Balakista publishes mostly free-verse Cebuano poems. This is the type of poetry that most young poets embrace in their writing. Balakista has about more than 50 contributors and has been around for nearly four years . If you're a newbie poet or if you are someone who wants to publish your own Cebuano poems, you can also submit it to Balakista, in their Facebook p

#UPCebuAfterSunset compiles ghost stories from UP Cebu

Ghost hunting, horror stories, paranormal activities… you can visit UP Cebu to experience these out-of-this-world events. Yes, University of the Philippines Cebu is one of the spooky places in Cebu where there are spiritual sightings. I have compiled several ghost sightings in the campus as determined by some of the students I’ve talked to and conversations heard and read here and there, some of which are edited version of confessions from “ Speak UP, Iskolar ” published late last year. Believe it or not, according to them, these stories are true and they can attest to the veracity of these experiences. I have categorized these stories according to the places these ghost stories happened. If you have additional stories you experienced, feel free to share those to us by sending it here . ADMIN CR (1) “Kuyog ko sa akong friend adto then nisulod siya sa Admin CR.  Manudlay usa daw siya before mi manulod sa among klase. Nahibu’ng ko kay nikalit na siyag siyagit.

Meet the Miss Cebu 2015 Candidates

Candidates for Miss Cebu 2015 are officially announced earlier today in the Miss Cebu Facebook account . Miss Cebu 2015 pageant is one of the highlights in the Sinulog 2015 Celebration . To know other events for the Sinulog Festival, check out the Sinulog Festival schedule here . The Pre-Pageant Night will be on January 10, 2015, Saturday, 7 pm, at the Ayala Activity Center. The Coronation Night of Miss Cebu 2015 will be on January 14, 2015, Wednesday, 6:30 pm, at the Pacific Grand Ballroom, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino.  Please see the candidates vying for the title below: Candidate No. 1: Hanica Rachel Arshia J. Ong She is from Mandaue City and currently taking up Law at the University of San Carlos. Candidate No. 2: Febb C. Flores She is from Talisay City and is a Nursing graduate from Cebu Velez College. Currently, she works in Cebu Velez General Hospital as an OR Staff Nurse. Candidate No. 3: Mary Cyrielle A. Wong She is from