GBE Celebrates Med Week 2011 and 41st Anniversary with 2nd “Med Life, My Life” Photo Contest
The Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity (GBEF) of the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery celebrated its 41st anniversary and Medicine Week 2011 by successfully staging the second “Med Life, My Life” Photo Contest last September 26 to 30, 2011 at the UST Medicine Museum.
The “Med Life, My Life” Photo Competition is an annual photo contest during the Medicine Week sponsored by GBEF. It aims to highlight the typical life of a Thomasian Medical Student, his sacrifices, joys, difficulties and triumphs as encapsulated in photographs.
The opening of the museum and photo competition exhibit was led by Dr. Ma. Graciela Garayblas-Gonzaga, dean of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery with Dr. Imelda Abao-Dakis, Faculty Secretary and Dr. Noel Martin S. Bautista, Faculty Adviser of the Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity.
The Opening Ceremonies started with a prayer led by Kiel Martin followed by opening remarks delivered by dean Gonzaga. Current Vice Grand (Internal) Chancellor Hance Angas shared some words. The affair was capped with the cutting of the ceremonial ribbon opening the exhibits and a simple merienda.
The “Med Life, My Life” Photo Competition 2011 was judged by Prof. Jay Javier who teaches photography at the UST faculty of Arts and Letters and AB Photography at the College of St Benilde. Prof. Javier also owns a photo studio, Fotofabrik. The second judge is Prof. Jun Barrameda of the UST College of Fine Arts and Design where he teaches photography. He is also a commercial and advertising photographer and also teaches AB Photography at the College of St Benilde. The third judge is Dr. Angelo Umerez, a photography enthusiast and hobbyist.
(Left to Right: Prof Jay Javier, Dr. Angelo Umerez and Prof. Jun Barrameda)
The winners of the photo competition were as follows:
Karlo Jose Villanueva (“Focus”), First Place and People’s Choice Award:
April Joy Malong (“Regular Monday”), Second Place:
and Kevin Giller, (“The Sweetest Joy”), Third Place:
The winners were awarded P7,000.00, P5,000.00 and P3,000.00 cash, respectively. People’s Choice Award was given a cash prize of P2,000.
The GBE@41 Medicine Museum Exhibit featured the birth and growth of the Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity from September 20, 1970, its foundation day going through the four decades of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The exhibit vignettes showed photos, souvenir items, and other representative items from the different decades.
Click the link to View the rest of the photos of the event below. Photos courtesy by Emiliano Gulmatico.
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Vote for the People’s Choice Award in the “Med Life, My Life” Photo Contest 2011
Vote for your favorite photo/s for the People’s Choice Award in the”Med Life, My Life” Photo Contest 2011. The photo with the greatest number of “Likes” by 12:00 NN September 30, 2011, Friday, will be awarded the “People’s Choice” Award and P2,000.00 in cash!
Make sure you are logged in at facebook.com and click on View on Facebook. Browse through the different entries and “Like” your favorite photo/s.
"Med Life, My Life" Photo Contest 2011
“Med Life, My Life” Photo Competition 2011 Mechanics
Due to numerous requests, the deadline for the submission of entries has been extended to 10:00 AM, September 26, 2011 (Monday). To submit your entries, just proceed to the UST Medicine Museum and look for any member of the GBE Fraternity.
Theme: “Med Life, My Life”
The life of a typical Thomasian medical student is not easy. Each day is like a lifetime in itself. He goes through all the emotions of life: joy, sadness, hope, despair, fear, pride, amusement, love and a lot more. Each moment as a medical student is both a gift – full of wonder and discovery and a challenge – full of surprises and fear of failure.
“Med Life, My Life” Photo Contest hopes to encapsulate in photographs the everyday struggles, successes, difficulties, joys and triumphs a typical Thomasian medical student experiences.
All qualifying photographs will be prominently highlighted and exhibited at the UST Medicine Museum during the whole Medicine Week from September 26 to30, 2011.
Eligibility
- The contest is open only to bonafide students of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery from first year to fourth year (Medical Clerks). Members of the Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity are not eligible to compete in the “Med Life, My Life”Photo Competition.
- Photos must be taken only within the vicinity of the UST Campus, preferably within the confines of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (St. Martin de Porres) and the UST Hospital Clinical Division Buildings. It can be a photo of a student or group of students and should appear candid and not posed. The photo entry should not have previously been exhibited, competed, won nor have been published in any book or photography magazine.
- The photo entry must have a Title and a short Photo Description/ caption (2 to 3 sentences and not exceeding 1,000 characters) about the photo and its relevance to the contest theme “Med Life, My Life”
- Participants may use any digital or film-based camera. Entries must be printed in full colour (or Black and White if applicable) on any brand of photo paper in 8R size (8 inches x 10 inches) and unmounted.
- Manually retouched and/or painted over print outputs are not allowed.
- Creative effects done within the camera at the time of exposure e.g. multiple exposures, flash fill, lighting, filtration, etc. are allowed.
- Digital retouching on density, contrast adjustments, minor cropping, burning, and dodging may be tolerated, although major manipulation of main images through adding or subtracting are not allowed.
Criteria:
- Content and Value pertaining to the Theme: Med Life, My Life: 40%
- This criterion pertains to the Theme “Med Life, My Life” encapsulating the everyday struggles, successes, difficulties, joys and triumphs a typical Thomasian medical student experiences. - Visual Impact/Artistic Merit: 30%
- This criterion refers to the aesthetic and creative qualities of the entry and how it evokes various emotions from the viewer of the photo. - Originality of Concept: 20%
- Photo entries will be evaluated according to its uniqueness and creative execution. - Caption: 10%
- The originality, creativity, relevance of the title and caption to the photo and the contest theme “Med Life, My Life”.
Registration:
- P50.00 for the first photo entry. Succeeding photo entries are FREE. You can download the registration forms here.
- There will be no pre-registration. Only the actual entries in photo form will require registration.
Submission of Entries
Each entry should be submitted in an envelope with a “Med Life, My Life” Photo Competition 2011 entry form in triplicate (one copy attached to the photograph, one for the receiving staff, and one copy for the photographer-entrant).
There is no limit to the number of photos a participant may submit. In case two or more entries of the same participant win any of the prize/s, the prize of the higher value shall be awarded. The remaining prize/s will be given in favor of the succeeding winner/s in descending order.
The placement of identifying marks, such as names, addresses or any sign to insinuate information about the owner of the entry is strictly prohibited.
The name of the contest participant should not appear on the face of the entry.
In order to be qualified for the People’s Choice Award, a digital copy of the photo can also be emailed as an attachment to photocontest@gbefraternity.com, noelmd@gmail.com and emil_gulmatico@rocketmail.com. Emailed photo entries will be posted in the “Med Life, My Life 2011 Online Exhibit” and be voted upon by “Facebook Likes”.
Entries should be submitted to member of the Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity on or before 5:00 PM of September 24, 2011, Saturday. Or contact the following Gamman Brods – Hance Angas: 0915-8180089; Kiel Martin: 0917-8858745; Anton Javier: 0916-4178583 or Emil Gulmatico: 0916-4970789 for entry submission. Please identify yourself and state you’re going to submit your entry/entries.
Judging and Awarding of Prizes:
- Judging of the Med Life, My Life Photo Contest entries is tentatively scheduled in the morning of September 30, 2011, Friday from 10:00 AM to 12:00 NN.
- Announcement and awarding of Prizes to winners date and venue to be announced.
- Judges’ decision is final. The Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity reserves the right to modify the mechanics and contest rules.
- Prizes at stake: First Prize P7,000.00, Second Prize P5,000.00 and Third Prize P3,000.00
There will also be a “People’s Choice” Award with a cash price of P2,000.00. This will be determined by the photo garnering the highest number of Facebook Likes. The photos will also be posted in the “Med Life, My Life 2011 Online Exhibit” by the Exhibit administrator and will be opened for voting (“Liking”) until a certain date and time (to be announced). The photo garnering the most number of Facebook Likes will be declared “People’s Choice Award”.
All entries will be returned to the contest participants after the exhibit.
You can download these rules here.
Click here to view last year’s winning photos.
SHIFT Happened and with a Bang, too!
by Anton Oliver Montiel Javier
The bass resounded with the cheers of the crowd from end to end in Jupiter Street, Makati as the ultimate car show party, SHIFT, was hosted by the Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity in upscale Fiamma last August 20, 2011.
“This is one of the most well–‐attended parties I have ever seen,” remarks incumbent Lord Keeper of the Chest Angelo Miguel Realina as he glances at his watch at around 10:45 PM. “Usually nagpa–‐party ako ng mga 12 eh.” But Fiamma was already near 80 percent capacity by 11 PM and was overflowing with people by 1 AM.
The party was sponsored by Tsikot.com, Siomai House, Myx Mobile Bar, San Miguel Brewery, Inc., Fitness First, STP, Prestone, Autobot, Autogenix, and Malaya Business Insight and was held in partnership with the College of Science Dance Troupe, The Terpsichorean Circle, and the Mu Sigma Epsilon Sorority from UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and the Phi Kappa Mu Fraternity from the UP College of Medicine.
It was eye candy from inside out.
Outside Fiamma was a car show from Tsikoteers where Ivy Divino, from FHM 100 SEXIEST and Chiaki Morita, FHM Online Babe of the Month for August 2011 were posing for everybody’s cameras. The car show drew attention not only from males enamored by the scrumptiously skimpy attires of the FHM Models, but also from the most tasteful of female car aficionados.
“I like the one second to the last one,” remarked Kyla Flores, a third year medical student pertaining to a modded Honda hatchback. “It’s one of the first nice ones to come out.” And an impressive collection it was. Most noteworthy among the cars were a Honda City with the most number of Sesame Street Elmo’s crammed inside a single vehicle, a BMW M3 with beautiful paintwork and stunningly colorful rims, and a Honda Civic so extensively modified it looked like a car built inside a stereo. There was also a Scion Xb and a rather vintage Miata, the latter being currently priced at PhP 2.4 million.
The inside of Fiamma was juiced up with the addition of two free–‐flowing minibars besides those of Fiamma that gave free flavored and light beers from San Miguel. There were also games by Myx Mobile Bar where contestants won free memberships to Fitness First inclusive of one month free use of all amenities.
“Congratulations sa party,” said Connel Go. “Best service in any party I’ve ever seen.”
“Usually around this time, yung mga party, wala nang beer eh,” remarked Kevin Dineros around 1 AM. But beer was free until 3:30 AM. Cocktails were freely flowing until 2:45 AM.
“Iba kayo bros,” remarked Michael Anthony Sabado.
“Da beast!” remarked former Lord Grand Chancellor Roque Xerxes Torres.
The party was a brainchild of Lord Keeper of the Chest Angelo Miguel Realina and was made possible with the extensive support of Dr. Noel Martin Bautista and the rest of the academic brothers. It also serendipitously coincided with the weekend after which the GBE Fraternity achieved a 100% passing rate for the physicians’ licensure examinations.
Photos after the jump:
SHIFT HAPPENS on August 20, 2011 at Fiamma, Makati City
Drown the post-shifting blues as the GAMMA BETA EPSILON FRATERNITY along with FITNESS FIRST, MALAYA BUSINESS INSIGHT, SAN MIGUEL BEER, SIOMAI HOUSE, TSIKOT.COM, PHI KAPPA MU FRATERNITY of UP College of Medicine, UST COLLEGE OF SCIENCE DANCE TROUPE, MU SIGMA EPSILON SORORITY & TERPSICHOREAN CIRCLE of UST Faculty of Medicine & Surgery invite you to upscale FIAMMA on August 20, 2011, Saturday, for a night to remember with unlimited beer, free flowing cocktails by MYX MOBILE BAR, and the esteemed and tasteful crowd of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery.
Join us at Shift: Let’s Take Things up a Notch!
Pre-selling of tickets only at 300 Php so get one today!
For inquiries, please contact the following:
Emil: 0923-7136504 or 0916-4970789 or Ace (UP Med): 0922-8778806
