Be a part of history and become an Aztec for Life!

Our committee is in the process of forming an official SDSU Alumni Association (SDSU AA) – AB Samahan-Filipino Alumni Chapter. We need to gather as much interest and show the strength of our Filipino community. You can sign-up as a lifetime or annual member (see below) or simply send us an email indicating your interest.

Contact Deanna Encarnacion: deannaxoxo@cox.net with your interest in signing up as a lifetime, annual, or potential member. Simply send us your name, contact information, and the year you graduated or attended SDSU.

The annual Balboa Park December Nights holiday festival is being held this Friday (5-10 PM) and Saturday (noon to 10 PM). The House of the Philippines will participate again in the HPR International Christmas Festival as we join the other cottages in serving food from around the world.  They will have chicken adobo, pancit, lumpia and rice.

Participating museums will have free admission from 5-9 PM. With over 300,000 people expected to attend over the two days, come early to get a nearby parking spot! The park will be closed to cars as the city puts out decorations and entertainment to celebrate the holiday season.

For more event and parking information go to http://www.balboapark.org/decembernights.

For more information on the House of Philippines go to http://www.houseofthephilippines.org

Public Lecture hosted by the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies at UC San Diego

“Asian Concerns Related to Global Re-balancing: Perspectives from the Philippines”

Speaker:  Francis G. Estrada

Monday, 11/07/2011
04:00pm-05:00pm
Location: IR/PS, Gardner Room (UCSD)
Open to: Public, Invited Guest, Students, DRT Member, Alumni
Event email: rzfanshel@ucsd.edu

TOPIC/BIO
In these times of severe economic imbalances, testing the very foundations of globalization could not be more relevant. Mr. Estrada will speak on the  fundamental issues underlying the prevailing prescriptions to the current economic crisis.

Francis G. Estrada serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at De La Salle University, a leading Philippine private university.  He also chairs the Board of Visitors of the Philippine Military Academy. He also serves as independent director and adviser to a number of for-profit and not-for-profit institutions in Asia. He was the first alumnus to be elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Institute of Management (“AIM”).

Upon his return to the Philippines in 1997, after 22 years overseas, Mr. Estrada co-founded and served as Chairman, General Partner of Equity Managers Asia, Inc. (Philippines), a financial and investment advisory boutique.  He has extensive experience in international merchant banking, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, direct investments and general management.  He has lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. He has done business and traveled extensively in Asia, the US, Europe and the Middle East for over 35 years.

Mr. Estrada was named “Most Outstanding Alumnus” of the Asian Institute of Management in 1989. He holds Bachelor of Arts (Literature) and Bachelor of Science (Business Administration) degrees from De La Salle University (Philippines), and a Master in Business Management, “with Distinction” from the Asian Institute of Management. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1989.  He has traveled widely and speaks Pilipino, English, Spanish and some Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu.

This event is co-sponsored by the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies.

Registration is required. Reception following the event.  Click on this link for registration and directions:http://empac.ucsd.edu/news-events/events/events_20111005.htm

For more information about this talk, contact Rosalie Fanshel with questions. Rzfanshel@ucsd.edu or 858.822-3103

CHERPLE.COM
LAUNCHED IN TAGALOG FOR PHILIPPINE USERS

–Free App That Allows Two-Way
Text Conversations Between U.S.
Cell Phones and On-Line Users Worldwide Now Easier to Use for Tagalog Speakers –

Cherple.com, a free Web application that
allows two-way text communication between on-line computers and U.S. mobile
cellular devices, is now available in Tagalog to make it even easier for Filipino
users to make use of the already popular service.  The Tagalog site can be found at
www.cherple.ph.

Globaltel Media Inc., the creators behind
the Cherple.com family of mobile products, says the new language-specific site
will make it easier for Tagalog speakers to have free, two-way PC to text
conversations with their friends and family in the U.S.  The original English version of Cherple.com
already has an international audience with the highest number of users coming
from the Philippines.  Language specific versions are in the works
for Korea, China, India,
Mexico and Brazil – all countries with high
Cherple.com user traffic.

“I live in the Philippines
with my family, but I also have relatives in the U.S.,”
said Jaimie Javier, a Cherple® user in Cavite.  “We have been using Cherple® English and
although it never affected the actual communication between my family in America, I
could not be more excited to use the site in my Tagalog. Now, I will be able
show the site to more of my family.  This
will be much easier for them to use and they are very eager to text chat with
our family in the U.S.”

Cherple’s ® patented technology provides any of the global 1.5 billion
on-line users with back-and-forth text-message conversations to any of the 3.3
billion wireless devices worldwide using standard SMS messaging.  SMS or Short Message Service is a standard
implemented by all wireless carriers and virtually all mobile devices.

Cherple® can be run directly from
www.cherple.ph.  To initiate a
conversation, the on-line user enters a friend or relative’s name and their US cell phone
number into the Cherple® application.  Within seconds a two-way “chat” is
initiated between the on-line user and a U.S.-based mobile cellular phone.  Standard text messaging rates apply to the
cell phone user, but there is no cost to the on-line user who initiates and
maintains the conversation.

Cherple® follows the Mobile Marketing
Association’s permission-based guidelines and is opt-in / opt-out
compliant.  For
more on Cherple.com, visit www.cherple.com.

It is a well-crafted movie which depicts how the Filipinos fared during the Philippine-American War.  Movies that inform us about our history are always worth seeing. Now showing at the Horton Plaza theaters.

BY DIRECTOR JOHN SAYLES PREMIERES

IN SAN DIEGO

(San Diego, CA) – The San Diego Asian Film Foundation (SDAFF) is proud to announce the San Diego premiere of the Philippine-American War Film, AMIGO, by John Sayles, at 7PM on Friday, August 5 at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Sayles is an Oscar-nominated director and writer of such films as LONE STAR, SUNSHINE STATE, and THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES. AMIGO will be Sayles’ first foray into an Asian Pacific-themed film and stars actors DJ Qualls and Chris Cooper.

It is 1900. Trapped between Spanish and American colonizers, an indigenous spirit in the Philippines swells, and heroes are made. A maverick of American independent cinema, director John Sayles journeys across cultures to find that in the heat of conflict, there are no easy answers, and only the efforts by those destined to make the most of their situation.

AMIGO

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 | 7:00PM

Est. Running Time: 128 minutes

In Tagalog and Spanish w/English Subtitles

San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts

1659 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

SDAFF members $8. General Admission tickets are $10.

For more information and to order pre-sale tickets: www.SDAFF.org | 619.400.5906 | Daniel@sdaff.org.