mikhailnovich

kanina sa adjustment:

Nakaupo na ako dahil nag-eencode na ng subjects ko. May isang estudyanteng lumapit, nagtatanong tungkol sa pinasa niyang papel.
Si bossing naman, dahil helpful, nagprisinta nang hanapin ang papel ng bata.

"Anong apelyido mo?" sabi ni bossing.

Ako naman sadyang chismoso, nakinig narin.

Tulala ang bata...nag-iisip.

"Sir, ano pong apelyido mo?" ulit na pagtanong ni bossing.

Wala paring sagot. Tila binibilang ata ng estudyante ang buhok ni bossing. Inaabot ang mga adjustment forms sa hindi malamang dahilan. Inaagaw na niya ito.

"Sir, ano pong APELYIDO nyo? Hinahanap ko na dito." nakangiting parang nasisiraan ng bait si bossing. 

Natatawa na ako.

Nagsalita ang babae sa kabilang upuan "Sir, FAMILY NAME NIYO PO".

Tulala pa rin ang estudyante, naka-drugs o bagong gising  ata ang loko.

"SURNAME?! Ano pa bang ibang tawag dun?" nagtitinginan na kami ng mga tao sa paligid, nagiisip na parang kasali sa Game Ka Na Ba.

Kinuha na ni bossing ang EAF ng estudyante.

Wala naman palang problema ang bata...well, meron, hindi niya alam ang pangalan niya.

Kung ilalagay ko sa salita ng isang kaibigan, "Matangkad, Gwapo...kaso TANGA"

Moral of the story:
Matulog para hindi bangag 'pag kausap ang registrar.

mikhailnovich

Art Arena: The Seven-Day Shuffle

Art Arena: Quick Draw: Seven Day Shuffle is an art contest sponsored by the United Nations, UNESCO, NCCA and Groundbreakers Inc., in cooperation with Manga Kami! Studios. Entries will only be accepted during the Mangaholix Manga Mania Animangaming convention at SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia on May 31st.

DEADLINE
Before 3:00pm on May 31, 2008 during the Mangaholix Manga Mania

THEME
You must create a pin up, editorial cartoon or 1 page comic that promotes one (1) of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.

Strictly NO SOFTCOPY entries!

HARDCOPY ENTRIES
• Any medium is acceptable.
• Entries should be in A4 size
• Landscape or Portrait orientation is acceptable
• Should include 3 copies of the entry. Xerox or reprints are acceptable (Do not pass the original copy of your work)

GUIDELINES
• Contestant must be a Filipino citizen or resident
• Any elements in the artwork that is deemed inappropriate for public viewing shall be immediately disqualified (e.g. gore, nudity, sex, extreme violence etc.)
• Plagiarism is strictly prohibited (The use of characters, concepts or elements that are registered and copyrighted under any recognized creator or company).
• Collaborations (Artworks with multiple contributors) are accepted.

PRIZES
• First Place: Php 2,000 •Second Place: Php 1,000 •Third Place: Php 500

About the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

By 2015 all 189 United Nations Member States have pledged to:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education
• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empower women
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

4. Reduce child mortality
• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

5. Improve maternal health
• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
• Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020

8. Develop a global partnership for development
• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction - nationally and internationally
• Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
• Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
• In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies - especially information and communications technologies

For more information on the Millennium Development Goals, see the following Websites Millennium Development Goals & United Nations - Philippines convention. Please submit your entries to the main Mangaholix booth.

mikhailnovich

• You promise to protect us from claims anyone makes that you violated their rights in connection with your Project or Manga Pilot. This means you’ll pay for all the lawyers to fight it out and all the other costs necessary to fend off those claims, in or out of court. And, if things do get ugly and end up going to court, this means you’ll also pay for all the expert witnesses and court costs and, if the other guy or gal wins, you’ll pay whatever the court awards them, too
• (This means should any lawsuit happen, you shoulder ALL legal payments. AND, bare in mind that the lawsuits will take place in USA, meaning you pay $ instead of peso. So, the $20 don't feel so big now, eh?)
  
• GIVING US ADAPTATION RIGHTS
  You give us the right to reformat, adapt, and modify the Manga Pilot for iManga, our motion graphics video format, as well as for other ways that we may change it in order to display, print, and exhibit it.
• (Basically they'll pay you for the pages you do. But if they make shirts, animations, cards or other merchandise, you get nothing!)
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• MORAL RIGHTS” AND YOUR CREDIT
  “Moral rights” is a fancy term (the French thought it up) that basically has to do with having your name attached to your creation (your credit!) and the right to approve or disapprove certain changes to your creation. Of course, we want you to get credit for your creation, and we want to work with you in case there are changes, but we want to do so under the terms in this pact instead of under fancy French idea. So, in order for us to adapt the Manga Pilot for different media, and to determine how we should include your credit in tough situations, you agree to give up any "moral rights" you might have.
  Of course, you still have your rights under this pact to your credit.
• (They want YOU to give up your moral rights coz it's UNCOOL and want you to adapt the stipulations in this contract instead. Wow...)
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• WHAT WE CAN DO WITH YOUR CREDIT
  And, speaking of your credit, customarily we give you credit for your work as the writer and/or artist of the Manga Pilot. However, we may have to shorten or leave out your credit when the space available or the conventions of a format won’t permit it or if it would have to be too small to read (for example, when the Manga Pilot is viewed on mobile phones). You’re OK with this.
• (They are not obliged to credit you on your work if it inconveniences them.)
  
• AFTER THE EXCLUSIVE PERIOD OF THIS PACT ENDS
  Once the Exclusive Period ends and even if you and we haven’t entered into an Original Property Agreement, we’ll still have the worldwide right, continuing forever, to publish the Manga Pilot on a non-exclusive basis.
• (They basically have the right to publish your pilot and not pay you a cent FOREVER!)
• The contract also states that payment will ONLY be given once they have recieved AND accepted your comic. And since accepting is a subjective perrogative on their part, if they don't like a part of your story, you'll have no choice but to change it or revise it, or you will not get paid.