my Amazing CAMPing experience!

If you guys think I actually went camping - dirt, hiking boots, tents and all - then you are sadly mistaken.

When I say camping, I mean ACamp. The ACamp (a.k.a. Assimilation Camp) of AIESEC is a way for the new members to get to know the different departments of the organization, meet the executive board of their Local Committee and of course, to meet our fellow members. I have to say that this experience has changed my perspective on student organizations forever. I'm a very active student and I love all my orgs but I can honestly say that I'm willing to quit everything to focus on AIESEC (don't worry other orgs.. I'm not going to quit...... yet.)

AIESEC UST was established a year ago, under Ralph Sales. In only its second year, AIESEC is slowly gaining the reputation of being great organization in the University of Santo Tomas.

UST ACamp 2012 was held last August 26-27, 2012 at AltaRoca Mountain Resort and Convention Center in Antipolo.

We were greeted by our energetic dancing facilitators. (If you're not a morning person, like me, this can become quite overwhelming. haha)

For the rest of the day, we were all given a group as each Local Committee Vice President discussed how their respective department works with each of them conducting a unique simulation.

Peter Gyorfi (National Vice President for Talent Management and Local Committee Development)
 facilitating one of the groups 

Nathan Quiambao (LCVP Finance) helps a group with the
Talent Management simulation

Guam Partosa (LCVP External Relations)

My awesome group: Mervin and The Girls, with our Facilitators, Bea and Jill

After every break, we were called back into the plenary hall by... yes... more dancing.. 

At some point, every time we hear a song playing, we all go running into the hall and start to dance. (I have to comment that, now, every time I hear Starships by Nicki Minaj, I find myself with an urge to dance.)

Joyce Domingo, UST's LCP, telling us about her own AIESEC experience

Our very wacky facilitators 

Some members of the AIESEC UST Executive Board with Michael Fua,
National Vice President for Communications

Joyce Domingo, UST's very pretty Local Committee President

Our two fun masters, Chino and Jill!

Michael Fua, Peter Gyorfi and Chino Araullo from AIESEC in the Philippines 

In AIESEC, I've found like-minded people who share the same vision as I do, to create a positive change in the world, it may sound a bit idealistic, but it's very true. The only regret I have regarding AIESEC was not joining sooner.

I love how after just two days spent together, we've made new friends, met people who changed our lives, and people who have inspired and believe in us. In the two weeks I've been a member, I can honestly say that I have fallen in love with this organization and the people who work to make it what it is.

CA Students!

Patrick Uy, Rae Garcia, Me, Stephen Velez, Sharie Nepomuceno and JM Borja

I am a VERY proud AIESECer.

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*Some photos taken from AIESEC UST facebook page

I Wanna Go To TheMall!

As some of you may know, I'm part of TOMCAT, a university wide organization that caters to the media needs of students in the University of Santo Tomas. A few days ago, my partner, Tricia and I were able to interview some team members of TheMall.ph, for our morning show, Tomsilog. We were quite nervous since we weren't properly briefed about who our guests were and we had to wing our interview. When we met Janie, Mark and Jin though, we were put at ease by their easy going personalities and warm smiles.

Janey & Mark

Jin

An outfit Mark and Janey styled
(Clothes from Chocolate, Necklace from Zuri)

The interview went smoothly as we talked about the fashion industry, various Filipino designers and of course their website, TheMall.ph.

The night before, I was able to go through their site and check out the different features it had. One of my favorite features, besides the shopping of course, is their Featured Outfit for each week. The users of TheMall.ph can create an account and mix and match different products from the site and submit their work and can be that week's Featured Outfit. I like how the site is not only there for shopping but they also create a relationship with their consumers.

While TheMall displays everything from home designs to women's clothing, they don't directly sell you the items but lets you directly contact the seller of the item, add it to your closet or to your wishlist.

An Arnold Galang dress that caught my attention. Such a pretty dress!

They have some really cool stuff and right now, they have an on-going Anniversary Sale, so be sure to check out the site!

Tricia and I really had fun with our guests! Thank you! Please try to come back, we'd love to have you on Tomsilog again.

And thank you for the yummy yummy cake! We really loved it!

TheMall is a partner site of Summit Media, FemaleNetwork.com, cosmo.ph, spot.ph, yummy.ph and of course stylebible.ph

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If you want to listen to the episode, click here to download it. :)