The UPLB Broadcaster's Society held it's 5th annual Gandingan Awards and invited the Broadcast Community a.k.a. The Country's major networks to accepted the "Isko't Iska's Broadcast Choice Awards."
I am not covering the event officially, so I did not really take notes or whatsoever, so let me just give you the low down of what Gandingan is.
Gandingan, according to Wikipedia, is a Philippine set of four large, hanging gongs used by the Maguindanao as part of their kulintang ensemble. When integrated into the ensemble, it functions as a secondary melodic instrument after the main melodic instrument, the kulintang. When played solo, the gandingan allows fellow Maguindanao to communicate with each other, allowing them to send messages or warnings via long distances. This ability to imitate tones of the Maguindanao language using this instrument has given the gandingan the connotation: the “talking gongs.
Gandingan is sort of like the representation of the Voice of the students, that's why it's a Broadcast Choice Awards. Based from what I've listened to during the program, there are three ways to get in. 1) Panelist, 2) Screening, 3) Campus wide Survey.
Watching this awards night really brought me back to my college days when we, as Mass Communcation students were very much idealistic. We were really determined to get into the business and pursue our dreams. Eventually we did, in our own ways. :) Life happened.
I wish these kids could really preserve their ideas and be idealistic. Shucks, it's really hard to blog about the truth once you hit "graduate school".
Anyway, back to the Gandingan Awards, this is something that's not really new to me, I've heard it last semester from a professor but this is the first time that I am going attend the event with my date... my Mudra (Mother, in Beckinese, gay-lingo)
I was using a Canon 500D but got point and shoot shots instead. I just need to have a faster shutter and cover the event for my personal consumption... that I will share to you! :)
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| Our exclusive entrance :) |
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| Band Practice |
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| Networks ready to cover |
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| We got good seats |
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| This guy, Kits Contemplacion, sang our campaign (Maki-Book[lat]'s jingle) |
The team in charge to distract the dead air. :)
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| Hosts. I like the guy, I think Lainus is his name. He's young, witty and very idealistic. He kinda reminds me of someone I used to know back in College when we're still studying Mass Communication. ( We also majored in broadcasting) |
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| Audience |
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| Prayer and National Anthem |
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| I wish I could type his name. All I know is he accepted the award for " Umagang Kay Ganda" , he's one of the hosts in that show and... he's cute. |
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| My personal highlight is when I saw Ms. Jessica Soho |
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| So glad I'm sitting in front that I was able to take a really good picture of her and see her up close |
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| I've been a "Showtime" convert from time to time, and I like Kuya Kim! He gamely gave in to the audience's request for a "sampol, sampol, sampol!" |
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| There's Ted Failon of course, who was initially wearing a body-hugging shirt but was able to get away with it. |
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| Representatives of those who were not able to make it |
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| Vicky Morales looks very regal |
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| I like her and her outfit |
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| Kara David is Cute! |
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| And she jokes with the audience too! |
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| There's Howie Severino ( I like his documentaries! ) |
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| Here's the DJ China Heart |
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| Here's China Heart again after accepting his award |
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| I think I distracted Ted Failon with my camera flash. |
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| The Man in suit is the "Voice" behind ABS-CBN. Literally, he's been doing the station's V.O.s for ages! |
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| I think Kuya Kim Atienza is the friendliest of them all! |
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| The highlight of the Gandingan - making broadcasters promise to stie |
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| Maki Pulido accepting the Award for I-Witness |
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| My Mudra's favorite is Jiggy Manicad, because she already met him before and finds him very nice. He's also from UP. |
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| There's Arnold Clavio. I am hoping to see the Puppet "Arn-Arn" :) |
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Of course the night would not end without my Mom having at least one Photo Op. Here she is with Howie Severino.
We left a little early because we wouldn't want to be caught in "people-traffic" and also the real reason is - we're super hungry! So we decided to just go to Mc Donald's and have our late dinner ( It was already eleven in the evening).
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