(Excuse this one unabashed  blogging / bragging.. but.. )

\/ Jack with sister Jessica

    & her hubby, Romeo Cleto

The maternal family of Jack Kintanar Cariño [http://www.jackcarino.multiply.com] -- better known as the Kintanar clan of Cebu -- will be honored as the UP Centennial Family in the upcoming UP Grand Centennial Alumni and Faculty Homecoming & Reunion on June 21 at the Araneta Coliseum.

Although Jack's paternal family -- the Cariño Ibaloi family of Baguio -- is equally deserving of the award, the Kintanar branch of their family was chosen for the citation because of the sheer number of UP graduates or alumni within the family -- that means lolos and lolas up to the apos or grand children..

(By the way, the Kintanar clan is the same family where personalities from both sides of the political spectrum come from, e.g. ex-congressman Simeon Kintanar of Cebu, a general, the late Rolly Kintanar of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the late Jennifer Maria Kintanar Cariño of the New People's Army's Jennifer Cariño Command, [http://jackcarino.multiply.com/journal/item/18/Jennifer Maria Cariño: Oh,To Die Young].)

                              Jack's mom, Josefina Kinatanar Cariño.

Jack's mother, Josefina Kintanar Carño, 82, (UP Diliman, AB English) the eldest among the Kintanar brood, will be attending the awarding ceremony together with her sisters and brothers, now still in their productive senior years.

 

CONGRATS, Jack... you have two proud branches of the family.

 

 

 

                                                                                                      Jack's mom talking to son-in-law, Geoff.

 

 

Start:	Mar 31, '08 08:00a
End:	Apr 4, '08
Location:	Tagaytay City

DEADLINE for applications -- Feb. 15, 2008


The University of the Philippines' Department of
Filipino and Philippine Literature (DFPP) will hold
its DFPP Creative Writing Workshop on March 31-April
4, 2008 at the Soka Gakkai Center, Tagaytay
City.

The workshop is open to beginning authors writing in
Filipino, preferably college students. Literary
forms included in the workshop are poetry, short
story, children's literature, play, and creative
non-fiction (short essay).

Applicants must submit five (5) copies of the hard
copy 12 points, double-spaced manuscript, including
its digital file.

Authors may submit at least five poems, two stories (10 pages), two children's stories 5-7 pages), one one-act play, and one short essay (10 pages).

Applications forms are available at the UP
Department of Filipino, College of Arts and Letters,
University of the Philipines, Diliman, Quezon City.

Deadline of submission is on February 15, 2008.

For details, call Mr. Vlad Gonzales at 9244899; 09175442416.
Or email at dirtypopmachine@yahoo.comi

Link-- http://yoopee.multiply.com/journal/item/930/>

My niece, Apple Chan (BS Interior Design and UP Varsity athlete), blogged about her torturous days of "paglilihi" over UP's famous "isaw."

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NK-http://applechan88.blogs.friendste

r.com/my_blog/2007/07/all_i_want_

is_i.html

All I want is ISAW!!!! NOW!!!

     I feel like I am going crazy right now. I thought I was done with the first trimester and I am almost home free from morning sickness and craving. Oh yes I am done with the morning si

ckness but it was replaced by extreme cravings. It gets a bit

frustrating that what I crave for this very moment, or I would say since last midnight was ISA

W. When ISAW crossed my mind while I was doing my nightly prayer befo

re going to sleep, I was immensely d

ist

racted.

    My mind started to reminisce the good old times in UP while waiting for the ISAW's to be

cooked. I am such a big eater whe

n it c

omes to ISAW. I could finish more

t

han 25 sticks of

various ISAW at one time. Then we will transfer to another ISAW stand because their chicken ISAW is better. You know that each vendor has its specialty. Darn thinking more about

it in detail makes me extremely hungry. I never cared about the bacteria scare. If it is

not clean then a lot of people mo

st

ly UP students would have been

sick lon

g before.

    Right now is extremely difficult for me when it comes to satisfying my craving. I guess I am in the Filipino food mode. But not just any Filipino food. I have pakbet sitting on top of the s

tove right now but that's not what I want to eat anymore. I finished a whole kaldero full of Chicken Tinola a couple of days ago. I cooke

d Menudo, Adobo, Sinigang,  Tortang Talong an

d a lot more. So I am done with those ba

sic Filipino dishes.  I hope someone co

uld just at le

ast understand the feeling I am

having. 

    I want ISAW in the middle of Boulder, Colorado, a place with very few Asians and mostly white people. Even if Boulder is so gorgeous with all respect, now I feel like that it is a wrong place to be in for a pregnant person born and raised in the Philippines. Cravings for ISAW can be a serious issue in all aspects. So even i

f I get access to ISAW right this

very moment, the ambiance of  eating ISAW in UP is not going to be replicated here. Although Boulder may seem to be like UP Los Banos in many angles, still who would eat ISAW with me with all gusto and to-die-for feeling like I have.

    How can I get my hands to those very de

li

cious ISAW dipped in slightly spicy vinegar filled

with garlic and onions?

    I was trying to explain in very simple and plain English what this I am feeling. Ok, I craved for steak and mashed potato early on. It was very easy, there are like tons of restaurant

s serving that over here. But all I want is ISAW

and it has to be now. The need to satisfy is extremely important. Not even a prime cut ste

ak could take out this craving.

    So my mind works like a crazy scientist trying to look for a solution. They obviously are not selling chicken gut or pig intestines anywhere here. Unlike in Divisoria where they sell bags of uncooked ISAW.  Of course, they would throw that away here. It is not approved

by the Food Board as safe to be consumed. 

And e

ven if I would ask the local butcher shop they are not allowed to sell it to anybody or else th

ey would get a bad evaluation. But who would

know? And much worse they would only think I am crazy.

    Fine! Do I just buy a live chicken and kill it to extract it guts out? No! This is Boulder goodness gracious. I am still logical and sensible in some ways if not most even if I am under the spell of isaw. Actually, I have not met a single Filipino in my months of stay here and if my neighbors see me kill a chick

en and excitedl

y take out the guts and barbecue it, they would only think Filipinos are crazy. They mi

ght call the animal rights society or som

ething. Then I am screwed.

    So what should I do? I am just boiling eggs now. Maybe it would immediately kill the hunger and I will just deal with this mind over matter internally and hopefully soon it would go away. The power of the mind is surely strong

er than any of these hormonal imbalances tak

i

ng over me.

    Oh yeah that's right, I will cook tokwa't baboy and pritong lumpia that would take my mind away the ISAW that I am dying to eat r

ight now!I sure hope it works.

    I promise, when I get back to Manila by next year, I will set aside one day just for ISAW DAY! All my friends are invited and it's on me. I will binge on ISAW and no one can stop me eat all the ISAW I missed all these years. I ju

st hope the manong would have enough ISAW

f

or that day!

    I love you ISAW!!! I trully miss you!

Ola!

baguiowriter wrote on Sep 22 I know that UP Diliman just he ld an “Isaw Eating Contest” in August this year. WOW, I should have been there myself, but I saw the announcement Sunday when we went to eat japanese food at Dilimall (Do you still call the place that way now, guys?) bathala03 wrote on Sep 22 Awww..what an ordeal. Suddenly I miss UP’s isaw (Ilang-Ilang branch). arrrghh. jackcarino wrote on Sep 22 Yes, sayang! We missed the Isaw Eating Contest. Invite us thru this site next time. falcon1 wrote o n Sep 22 where the heck is the orange isaw in front of ilang ilang res hall?! gad. i had to go under th erapy when i realised they were no longer there. 0_o bathala03 wrote on Sep 22 falcon1 said where the heck is the orange isaw in front of ilang ilang res hall?! gad . i had to go under therapy when i realised they were no longer there. 0_o They transferred to the vacant lot facin g College of Law. Near Romulo Hall. baguiowriter wrote on Sep 22 I suspect the “isaw” vendors of UP have resorted to some “gayu ma” of sort, o r maybe some addicting in gredients, to keep a captive market. xapplexchanx wrote on Sep 22 I am confident I will win the the Isaw Eating Contest, just wait til I get this baby out of my belly so I could stuff myself again with the undying isaw. By the way, I can also proclaim myself a winner in t he Bal ot Eating Contest (with spicy vinegar)---my favorite afternoon comfort food while seated in the middle of the the grandstand field. I miss UP all of a sudden! leaflens wrote today at 12:23 AM my sister who’s been in california since 2001 still has a huge isaw craving to this day (taga-peyups din siya). tama, mahirap nga to be in a foreign lang and be pinoy and have that isaw craving ... b akit kaya walang nakakaisip na pinoy na magbenta niyan diyan? hm.

 The "Product" of thi

s Super Paglilihi --

Of Global Bloodline, Born Jan. 20, 2008

Michael Anthony

                                           (photo taken an hour after birth)