Archive for October, 2007

10
Oct

We want a face lift!

By sinigang 0 Comments
Categories: Current Affairs

HELP US MAKE AN OFFICIAL TATAY PEPE’S LOGO!

If we like it and decide to use it, we’ll give you PHP2,000 (pesos) if you live in the Philippines or $50 if you live in the United States!! We’ll pick out 5 other designs as runner-ups and we’ll give you a bag of goodies containing Tatay Pepe’s stuff like t-shirt, key chain, pencil, etc. Sounds inviting?! Read On.

1. THIS isn’t a contest because we can’t afford a full scale campaign. This is more of Tatay Pepe’s asking for your help designing our new logo.

2. We’ve never really had an official logo. This is what we’ve been using interchangeably for the last 6 years. You can go from here:

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3. We want to be seen. We want exposure. We want recognition. We want people to see our logo and know it is TATAY PEPE’S.

4. We want to put it on t-shirts, signage, posters, key chains, postcards, magnets, and any other promotional materials we can think of. Please bear that in mind when making the logo.

5. We want to promote our music as much as we want to promote our food and setting.

6. The logo has to be HIGH QUALITY, in FULL COLOR and in BLACK and WHITE and in JPEG format.

7. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE: YOUR LOGO MUST BE ORIGINAL!! Don’t get an image or a design anywhere on the internet. ALL materials online are copyrighted, otherwise we could have done it ourselves. There are hundreds of interesting images we’ve seen online that may be used for our logo but we can’t use it becuase it is either for sale or copyrighted.

8. You will have to submit a signed a paper along with your design that says the work you are submitting is yours and is original, not copied anywhere. We will use that against you if we chose your design and get in trouble later for infringement. So please, only submit original materials.

9. SUBMIT your design on a Cd with a copy of the design printed out.

10. You acknowledge that any submission becomes the property of TATAY PEPE’S. Should we decide to use your design, we will own that design and you lose rights over it. We will however feature you on our website as the creator of our new logo. We will acknowledge you as the designer for as long as we’re using that design. In short, we have the right to use the design for whatever purpose and you can not come to us at any point to reclaim it or ask for more compensation.

11. We are asking for help because we can’t afford to hire a professional to create a design for us. If you are a freelance artist, graphic artist, computer graphics designer and could use some extra cash, then this is for you!

12. You can send as many as you want but we will not return the said materials. We will dispose of them accordingly.

13. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE IN BY DECEMBER 15, 2007. We will place the designs we like so far on our website by December 20, perhaps give you a chance to vote on what you like! ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNER WILL BE ON JANUARY 15, 2007. PLEASE NOTE THAT IF WE DO NOT CHOOSE ANY DESIGNS TO BE OUR OFFICIAL LOGO, there will be NO WINNER only the 5 runner-ups. We want to make sure the logo we pick is somethign we would want to use for a long time. If we feel no design is qualified, there will be NO winner. We can’t pick out from what’s submitted if the submission doesn’t meet our requirement. Sorry but that is our decision.

14. Please submit your design on cd with the signed paper that it is your original work.

For Philippines entries: Hand deliver to the Restobar
OR Mail it to: TATAY PEPE’S RESTOBAR, Along South Osmena Street, General Santos City 9500

For US entries: Please submit interest via email at tataypepes@gmail.com and we will give you an address where to mail it in the United States. This is to protect the co-owner’s privacy’s address.

15. We will give out our thank you money via cash (given at the restobar), by check, or thru paypal. We will give the goodies for the runner-ups at the restobar or we will mail it for entries chosen outside General Santos City and the United States.

PLEASE DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES, CLARIFICATIONS, OR CONCERNS REGARDING THIS PROMOTION VIA EMAIL at tataypepes@gmail.com

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR BEING ONE WITH US!!

LOG on to TATAY PEPE’S ONLINE to get to know us and have an idea for the logo design!

02
Oct

Another Malu-like Controversy in the Offing?

By sinigang 3 Comments
Categories: Current Affairs

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NOT AGAIN! Anybody who watched the premiere episode of Desperate Housewives last Sunday would know what I’m talking about. For those who missed it, Check out a clip on Youtube. Susan Meyer (played by Teri Hatcher) went for a check up and uttered the following lines:

“Okay, before we go any further, can I check those
diplomas? Cause I would just like to make sure they are not from some
med school in the Philippines.”

What’s wrong with that line? Most people are overreacting and are calling it a racial slur. I wouldn’t be surprised if Filipino bloggers around the world would start another campaign to boycott the show like the recent Malu controversy asking to blacklist Manila Standard Today! We are such sensitive, passionate and emotional people, what I can tell you? But to be honest, in this instance, I wasn’t offended. It wasn’t an insult to the Filipino people. It wasn’t racist. I was a little bit hurt- just a little bit because it is the truth. While we are producing fine, talented and competent medical practitioners in the field of medicine, nursing and physical therapy among others, we are also producing a bunch of inept, unqualified and inefficient  medical people at an alarming rate! Just look at the number of nursing schools without proper credentials sprouting all over the Philippines, some offering a nursing diploma in just months! Heck, we know for a fact that one can even buy a diploma of your choice in Avenida!

Let me tell you why I am not offended. First of all, the doctor in question isn’t even Filipino. He’s Caucasian. Second of all, she said some med school- she didn’t say, I would just like to make sure they are not from a med school in the Philippines. See the huge difference? There are some med school in the US too and everywhere else that are being frowned upon. The scriptwriters probably alluded the Philippines in the light of the Philippine Nursing exam leakage and alleged cheating last year that was headlined for all the world to know. With that said, one (like Hatcher’s character) is bound to question another’s competency and qualification in the practice of medicine. It is part of a patient’s bill of rights. In the Philippines, a Filipino patient may not even know that he/she has rights but here in the US and in most countries, the patients are on top of their medical condition. They make it a point to meddle on their affairs from what drug to take, the kind of care they want and most especially who will provide for that care. While offensive, majority of Filipino nurses who may or may not have been in the field for years and are highly competent are being bluntly dismissed by patients because they look young or they appear to be a student nurse or dear Lord help them, because they’re colored! Such is life. Reality bites.

Before fellow Filipinos around the globe start another online
revolution, I hope they watch the episode and judge for themselves. It
was a one liner that shouldn’t be taken out of context and out of
proportion. It was a general statement referring to some med school in the Philippines. So hush now. Besides, if you come from the suburbs like Wisteria Lane, you probably can’t help asking for your doctor’s credentials before continuing treatment. No harm in that I guess…