Last year I met a former batch mate from Singapore for coffee on my way to BangkokThailand. She has been working in Human Resources for a large company. After 2 lattes of catching up, she mentioned that our degrees should have included forensic analysis and alumni speed dialing because most of her work especially vetting for degree qualified vacancies includes having to contact various institutions particularly from India, China and the Philippines to confirm whether Maria graduated with a degree in engineering or Pedro did indeed acquire a masters degree through coursework rather than through Visa, MasterCard and/or American express.
Because online, I was able to buy a doctorate degree for my son Mr Samson May for $199 dollars. The problem is Dr. May is my cuddly purebred Rottweiler.
So why do people fake their qualification?
According to Singapore's Manpower Ministry, applicants want to have an edge in the competitive job market and so fake their qualifications, and embellish their resume by enhancing their work accomplishments and roles. That's why people are buying diplomas from online degree mills charging between a few dollars to thousands depending on whether an after sale service is required with telephone operators verifying degrees and sending transcripts to prospective employees. Filipinos have it easy, they just go to "RectoUniversity" along Claro M. Recto Avenue in Manila for expediency and prompt service.
After conducting a survey Michael Worthington, co-founder of workplace expert ResumeDoctor.com, stated that "something you put on your resume could haunt you years later." Remember George O'Leary? His name is forever etched on my memory after our university career counsellor constantly warned us not to do an "O'leary" on our resume. George was Notre Dame's football coach for all of five days. Then the lies on his resume caught up with him. He had said he had a master's degree in education from "NYU-StonyBrookUniversity". Well it is a campus that doesn't exist and he only took two courses from NYU and never graduated. Another is Mark Victor Hansen, a motivational speaker, co-creator of the "chicken soup for the soul" book series which is the biggest selling non-fiction franchise in the history of American publishing, and Oprah aficionado. Having been awarded an honorary PHD in 2002, his lies soon caught up with him when it was revealed that his two master's degrees from Southern Illinois University according to the New Yorker were a figment of his imagination.
Our local "celebrities" have also been caught extending their scholastic achievements. So does Wendy Puyat (a publicized high society “celebrity”) have a master's degree in visual communications from the Ecole Supérièure de Design Industrelle-Créapole (ENSCI) and the Sorbonne? Or is it one of those RectoUniversity degrees? Based on my research, it is pie in the sky. Like having Italian "grade" fabric which is very much a creative extension of Italian Made, highly associating her designs with the luxury fabric industry that brought fame and wealth to Venice and many Italian regions since the renaissance period. By the way, the Sorbonne is the prestigious University Paris-Sorbonne founded in 1257 nowadays symbolising the French university system as well as representing the French intellectual prowess. Famous alumni include St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, Victor Hugo, and Pope Benedict XVI - born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, and then Wendy Puyat according to her website.
Talking about creative extensions, I noticed that our very own "ambassadress of beauty", Vicki Belo otherwise known as surgeon to the stars is very thin on experience. Calling yourself surgeon from a one year residency at Makati Med, one year dermatology diploma in Thailand and preceptorship with Dr Jeffrey Klein who never endorses anyone with just 2.5 days of training is quite remarkable. But like anything in Manila, you can get someone else to suck fat out of people.
Hopefully Bong Revilla Jr will not make me call him Doctor.
Why should we care?
First, it is illegal under section 315 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines and secondly it stains the authenticity of our educational system affecting everyone with a degree gained after at least four years of hard work. Filipino workers are now particularly scrutinized specially when an increasing number of OFW's now include doctors, nurses, therapist, oil rig engineers, software developers, hotel executives, not just nannies and go-go dancers as in the past. Our counterfeit industry is so good the Koreans came in droves buying fake "Recto" degrees. Furthermore, it wasn't so long ago that Philippine-trained doctors now based in the US as well as the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) filed protests against Desperate Housewife after a discriminatory remark about doctors graduating from the Philippines, signifying how global the perception and presumption that training is of low quality in this country.
That is why your achievement should speak for itself like Kermit the frog who received an Honorary Doctorate in Amphibious Letters from the authentic Long IslandUniversity, as a result of environmental efforts. Fake degrees are the same as passing a fake Louis Vuitton Bag, as the real thing, nakakadiri like the parade of fakes during the movie premiere screening of "for the first time".
1.Pepper Teehankee- Mensa/Ateneo 2.Celine Lopez- grad.UAP 3.2 Antons- 1.architect/architecture grad 2.grad from La Roche 4. Wendy Puyat- Masters in whatever 5. Maurice A.- graduated in the US from wherever 6. Nugent- American University
"That is why your achievement should speak for itself like Kermit the frog who received an Honorary Doctorate in Amphibious Letters from the authentic Long Island University, as a result of environmental efforts. Fake degrees are the same as passing a fake Louis Vuitton Bag, as the real thing, nakakadiri like the parade of fakes during the movie premiere screening of "for the first time"."
Art. 315 of the Revised Penal Code states that estafa is committed through ;x x x
2. By means of the following false pretenses or fraudulent acts executed prior to or simultaneously with the commission of the fraid:
a. By using fictitious name or falsely pretending to possess power, influence, qualifications, property, credit, agency, business or imaginary transactions or by means of other similar deceits.
Thus, it is punishable by law when a person claims to possess qualifications he/she does not have when such claim is used in the commission of a fraud.
GUCCI GANG- "Thus, it is punishable by law when a person claims to possess qualifications he/she does not have when such claim is used in the commission of a fraud."
Hoy Gucci Gang itigil nyo yan! "it stains the authenticity of our educational system affecting everyone with a degree gained after at least four years of hard work"
Jose Marie Mortel Bautista, now Ramon Bong Revilla Jr
He was conferred post baccalaureate, a Doctorate Degree in Public Administration (Honoris Causa) by the Cavite State University in 2005 and a Doctorate Degree in Humanities (Honoris Causa) by the Nueva Vizcaya State University in 2006.
Eeeeeeee.....A plan by Philippine Tatler editor-in-chief Anton San Diego to put his fellow International School alumni, the newly-divorced socialite Wendy Puyat, on the cover of the high-brow magazine is encountering resistance from Tatler’s parent office in Hong Kong.
Celine Lopez wrote "A book report," one on French revolutionary Victor Hugo's most popular novel.
"The summer he passed, I read Les Miserables for the first of many times in my life. Being suddenly a stranger in the world I had inhabited for some years now, the book suddenly provided me with a lesson my grandfather failed to teach me: that the perfect world is found in an imperfect world, my world after him."
How bizarre that one of the main protagonists in the Pinoyblogosphere's latest revolts against the so-called elite's exposed decadence, should choose a book that is the ANTI-THESIS of her and her friends' reason for being . Peddling values which belong to the 19th century. Guiltless partying and bacchanalia of the sin-free. Values that say you have your world and I have mine and never the twain shall meet.
But Celine Lopez' column is not a book report. It is not even about the book. She chose the title and the book to tell us she is a woman of substance, that someone so young could read something so old. Quelle classe. I have never before read her column, but at least she can string words together to make pretty. It is mostly self-involved, as I imagine most of her columns are.
But then we are all self-involved to a degree aren't we? So, moving on.
Second she writes a cute little story of when she was a little girl and how she coped with her grandfather's death.
"In the end, with all my infallible adoration, I realized my lolo was like every human being. A Jean Valjean. It was my idea to put him on a pedestal; he never asked for it. He never insisted on it. Unlike Cosette’s and especially Marius’ grief in learning of Valjean’s truth, I loved him more for his humanity and not his godliness. A betrayal of thought redeemed by truth."
Other than herself, the main subject in her story happens to belong to one of the most powerful families in the Philippines, of which she is a part.
Old landed aristocrats, remnants of the old world. In her own words, she was lost without her grandfather, a little girl worthy of empathy and understanding.
"As a young adult I constantly tested what was truly right and wrong. Embracing my lessons from my mistakes more than my triumphs, I grew up still fragile, flawed and questioning."
So, she grew up fragile, little-girl-lost-y without her anchor. Empathy. We are also supposed to empathise with her sins, in her ventures from the perfect world.
"It’s ironic that, in his theatrical setting of the perfect life for me in my early years, he further made me want to discover what makes the world ill. Perhaps feeling I had been stupid and fearing I would continuing being so, it drove me to find every flaw and to ultimately understand it."
And every flaw means doing what has been alleged in that BLOG down under- Gorrell's? Well, that makes for a lot of understanding.
Then she ends her little ditty with a piece of advice. She is, after all, a woman of substance.
"Life is a dramatic comedy and tragedy, forever interchanging until the curtains draw. Like in every story, what gives it meaning and remembrance is the plot, the characters and the struggle.
Let your will be the engine, your loved ones the wheels and your struggles the inspiration in creating your plot. Then, in this imperfect world, with our imperfect selves, we find perfect dreams in sleep."
So, let us be humble in our imperfections, she says. Let ye who hath no sin cast the first stone.
Woman of substance.
Family of substance.
Fierce pride, but willing to learn from mistakes.
She paints herself as battle-weary, little-girl-lost-y, experimenting-with-life kind of girl.
Only sociopaths ( unaturally born without a conscience like Tiny Dick Tim, Celine, Wendy and DJ ) or natural born criminals have to LIE, cheat and steal another's identity or INVENT bespoke resumes that elevate their knowledge to IMPOSSIBLE heights.
THEY all suffer from LOW self-esteem, BORDERLINE psychosis and HAD very unhappy childhoods.
Why they become GRIFTERS and swindlers ARE the classic examples of a life in CRIME. They DO tend to band together ( hence the saying honor among thieves and thick as thieves )
WHAT will go down as a footnote in Philippine social history during the first decade of the 21st century WAS how THIS Gucci Gang rose, fell and was tarred and feathered by this blog. FIRST was their fascination with COCAINE and shabu, their hanging out at EMBASSY while claiming to write columns in the STAR newspaper.
ONE by one, they were exposed for what they were, shallow thirtysomethings and whose only claim to fame was their UTTER stupidity and family names that were FADED aristocrats.
DID they think we would be as STUPID as them. To believe their FAKE resumes ?
BUT drugs do that to the mind. BUT as time reveals everything, it is SAD their 5 minutes of FAME came crashing down to such a TRAGIC ending.
Celine will become a spinster, Wendy a call girl, Tim will commit suicide and DJ like CUNANAN who murdered Gianni Versace will be PUT down by the police.
I really hope THIS doesn't happen. But history if we DON'T learn from it, REPEATS itself. Like a broken record. Like terminal hiccups.
What is seriously disturbing is that its this lifestyle of this minute elite, emblazoned and featured on the most popular broadsheet day in day out, featured on TV and radio shows, that shape young people's idea of the 'good life.' It probably wouldn't matter if this were Shanghai. But this is Manila folks.
If Tim Yap does indeed embody his section of my generation, he simply manifests the perennial disease of generations before; a pseudo elite that has washed its hands off of this nation.
Famous alumni include St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, Victor Hugo, and Pope Benedict XVI - born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, and then Wendy Puyat according to her website...
SUBJECT : Mr. Anton R. Mendoza is Neither Registered nor Licensed to Practice the Regulated Profession of Architecture
REFERENCE : page C-9 of the 1 June 2007 issue of Philippine Star
Dear Sirs/ Mesdames,
Warm greetings from the Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture (“PRBoA”). The PRBoA is the entity, under the Professional Regulation Commission (“PRC”, a quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative body), tasked with the implementation and enforcement of Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9266, otherwise known as The Architecture Act of 2004 (effective 10 April 2004), its implementing rules and regulations or IRR (effective 01 December 2004) and its derivative regulations. Today, the attention of the reconstituted PRBoA was called in regard to your publication’s 12 June 2007 feature on the supposed architectural work/s by a non-registered and non-licensed person going by the name of Anton R. Mendoza, referred to as an “architect” on page C-9 of the said issue (reference Attachment 1). Please be advised that per the attached 13 March 2007 certification issued by the PRC (reference Attachment 2), Mr. Anton R. Mendoza appears to be neither registered nor licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines. Mr. Mendoza may therefore be held liable for the illegal practice of architecture under R.A. No. 9266. Likewise, please be advised that the title of “architect” under R.A. 9266 (and even under its predecessor laws R.A. No. 1581 of 1956 and R.A. No. 545 of 1950) is a legal title bestowed only on individuals who are registered and licensed by the state to engage in the practice of the regulated profession of architecture. Currently, there are only 23,000 architects registered by the PRC. In your future editions, please have your writers (such as Mr. Pepper Teehankee, author of the subject article) to verify fully with the person/s they will be featuring as architect/s if such individuals are indeed registered and licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines. Your writers may ask for their PRC identification card/s as proof of registration and validity of license (and please have them take note of the registration number, the expiry date/s and the regulated profession stated) i.e. the PRC identification card must be one for architects and not for any other regulated profession. In the case of foreign architects your writers will feature (including former Filipinos), they can ask for the temporary or special permit issued by the PRC, allowing such individuals to practice architecture in the country for a limited period. In the case of architectural firms your writers will feature, please have them ask for the firm’s SEC registration to confirm if seventy five percent (75%) of the architectural firm’s ownership and management are held by registered and licensed architects. Otherwise, you may readily inquire from or secure a certification from the PRC Registration Division or from the SEC (in the case of firms) to fully ascertain the professional status of such persons (natural or juridical). Under R.A. No. 9266, the registered and licensed architect/s or other regulated professionals who performed architectural functions/ services for Mr. Mendoza, may also be held administratively and/or criminally liable for aiding and abetting the practice of a non-registered and non-licensed person/ architect (such as Mr. Mendoza). Let the PRBoA take this opportunity to advise you that should your publication continue to feature non-registered or non-licensed architects in the future (particularly Mr. Mendoza), responsible officers of your publication may also be held similarly liable by the state under R.A. No. 9266, its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) and derivative regulations promulgated periodically by either the PRC or the PRBoA. The same may also hold true for the owners of the architectural works that will be featured as Mr. Mendoza’s. In consideration of the foregoing, the PRBoA requests that the appropriate correction be made by Mr. Teehankee and Your paper as regards Mr. Mendoza’s professional status. Thank You very much for your continuing support for Filipino architects and for the attention that you shall give the foregoing matters.
Mr. Anton R. Mendoza appears to be neither registered nor licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines.
Mr. Mendoza may therefore be held liable for the illegal practice of architecture under R.A. No. 9266. Likewise, please be advised that the title of “architect” under R.A. 9266 (and even under its predecessor laws R.A. No. 1581 of 1956 and R.A. No. 545 of 1950) is a legal title bestowed only on individuals who are registered and licensed by the state to engage in the practice of the regulated profession of architecture.
As a matter of disclosure, I was once consulted by some landscape architects on the illegal practise of the profession where some rather famous commercial establishments took out full page ads announcing that foreign architectural firms and landscape architects created the designs for their commercial establishment.
As a result of that incident, the architects' associations established ties with the National Bureau of Investigation for efficient enforcement of the Architecture and Landscape Architecture laws. NBI agents are now trained to recognize these violations and may file the cases themselves.
Furthermore, these associations, who strongly lobbied for the passage of these laws are quite serious in ensuring their enforcement. I have no doubt that they are more than willing to assist in the prosecution of these cases.
Incidentally, all those who aid and abet the violation of the law may also be held liable criminally, civilly and where applicable, administratively.
WE CAN SUE PUBLICATIONS IF THEY CONTINUE TO PUBLISH FAKE TITLES!
Let the PRBoA take this opportunity to advise you that SHOULD YOUR PUBLICATION continue to feature non-registered or non-licensed architects in the future (particularly Mr. Mendoza), responsible officers of your publication may also be held similarly liable by the state under R.A. No. 9266, its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) and derivative regulations promulgated periodically by either the PRC or the PRBoA.
well they should be held liable because architecture like medicine is regulated meaning public liability, safety and insurance issues have to be taken into account etc.
They all use their surnames and connections to get jobs they are not legally allowed to do being unregistered and all. And as Mr Larry Leviste already said FAKES.
SUBJECT : Mr. Anton Mendoza is Neither Registered nor Licensed to Practice the Regulated Profession of Architecture
REFERENCES :
1) Without Batting an Eyelash by Mr. Maurice Arcache on page F2 of the April 13, 2007 PDI Lifestyle section issue under the title “Truly a vintage celebration”; and
2) Without Batting an Eyelash by Mr. Maurice Arcache on page C2 of the March 13, 2007 PDI Lifestyle section issue under the title “Japanese dinner becomes a Mediterranean feast”
Dear Sirs/ Mesdames,
Warm greetings again from the Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture (“PRBoA”). Thank You very much for publishing the PRBoA letter concerning Mr. Ed Calma in the Opinion section of the May 26, 2007 PDI issue. Recently, the attention of the reconstituted PRBoA was again called in regard to the appearance of a non-registered and non licensed person going by the name Anton Mendoza, referred to as an “architect” with accompanying photos, in the above-referenced issues (see Attachments 1 and 2).
Please be advised that per the attached 13 March 2007 certification issued by the Professional Regulation Commission or PRC (reference Attachment 3), Mr. Mendoza appears to be neither registered nor licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines. Under R.A. No. 9266 (The Architecture Act of 2004), its IRR and derivative regulations, Mr. Mendoza, as a non-registered person, may be held liable for use of the title “architect” or for the illegal practice of architecture if warranted. In your future editions, may we request your writers to verify fully with the person/s the PDI shall feature as architect/s if such individuals are indeed registered and licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines. Your staff/ writers may ask for their PRC identification card/s as proof of registration and validity of license (and please take note of the registration number, the expiry date/s and the regulated profession stated) i.e. the PRC identification card must be one for architects and not forany other regulated profession. In the case of foreign architects you will feature (including former Filipinos), you can ask for the temporary or special permit issued by the PRC, allowing such individuals to practice architecture in the country for a limited period. In the case of architectural firms you will feature, please ask for their SEC registration to confirm if seventy five percent (75%) of the architectural firm’s ownership and management are held by registered and licensed architects.
Otherwise, your writers/ staff may readily inquire from or secure a certification from the PRC Registration Division or from the SEC (in the case of firms) to fully ascertain the professional status of such persons (natural or juridical). There is no need to publish this letter and its attachments as these are only furnished for your collective information/ future reference.
Thank You very much for your continuing support for Filipino architects and for the attention that you shall give the foregoing matters.
Yours sincerely, For the PRBoA Armando N. ALLÍ Chairman
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: International Montessori school, Assumption High School, UA&P and Parsons School of Design ("Tim Gunn was my teache!")
OCCUPATION: Editor of Ystyle, columnist of selfindulgent weekly column called "From Coffee to Cocktails" and mother of Loungeri Lux, special limited edition batches of swimwear and t-shirts.
CURRENT STATUS: Completely committed.
What was your childhood like? Pretty surreal. I grew up with my grandfather and eccentric relatives. My parents are pretty stable so they were my rock. I had an uncle who role carriages in the city while wearing a fur coat and an aunt who had a more colorful love life than my total favorite Kris Aquino (I'm not being sarcastic, I am so taken by her.) So, no, it wasn't normal at all, and for that I am grateful.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: St. Jude Catholic (yes, I am!) School (right beside Malacanang Palace, where classes would be suspended every time there were be rallies against the government, where we had our prom during lunch time within the school's basketball court - of course, I hosted the program) and then 1 went to De La Salle University where I took Marketing studies.
Right now I am constantly learning by surrounding myself with likeminded people, young kids and artists from diverse fields and industries - it's one, non-stop exhilarating ride to higher learning. 1 also just recently took private French language studies at Berlitz.
OCCUPATION: TV host, MTV Bling/Eventologist /Inquirer's Super! Editor, creative director and columnist/Embassy Super Club and Cuisine co-owner/just recently-ODM watch designer/ (Whew!). I am also currently hosting a segment every Friday on Wazzup, Wazzup in Studio 23.
CURRENTSTATUS: SINGLE? COMMITTED? ENGAGED? Single in my vision, committed to my advocacies, engaged with my work
HOLD DEPARTURE ORDER FOR GUCCI GANG'S MARCEL CRESPO
In his six-page affidavit complaint for estafa through falsification lodged with the Makati City Prosecutor’s Office, Jimenez through his lawyer Edgardo Francisco.... Marcel Crespo et al of malversing more than $ 45 million worth of shares in Meridian Telekoms.
Following the filing of the case, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez ordered Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan to include Marcel Crespo in the bureau’s watchlist.
The FIRST lipo made by Belo Clinic on Osang FLOPPED big time! Osang was in the process of suing the clinic so Dra. Belo asked some doctors at St. Lukes to REDO the lipo on Osang. After that, Osang agreed to endorse Belo.
I don't know if Dra. Belo has hired more competent surgeons since then. But, Osang can use the evidences from the first incidence to justify her claim that: "palpak sa Belo Clinic."
My God what a shame having a fake diploma fake gucci bags everything are fake anyway what can we do most of the social climbers are really fakes like the Gucci gangs. They must hang themself
yeah but intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
the sorbonne is not that prestigious. it IS old but the french consider it banal or ordinary. virtually anybody who speaks french can enter. what the french consider prestigious are the grande ecoles or the specialized private schools such as the ecole des beaux-arts, or the ecole national d'administration where those who want a good career in government need to go.
Lopez's lawyer sent a letter to Gorrell, which states that "(she) is no longer in communication with Montano ... The letter also pointed out that Lopez and her friend Marco Antonio have been persistent in asking Montano to pay back the debt, but the latter would only provide "vague answers and a series of denials".
THIS letter is saying that CELINE and MARCO have both admitted to the CRIME of DJ!
The Parliament of Iran is discussing a draft bill that criminalizes “establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy (abandonment of one’s religion).”
This is on top of a long list of crimes punishable by death.
Those convicted of these crimes “should be punished as ‘mohareb’ (enemy of God) and ‘corrupt on the earth’,” the text says.
Under Iranian law the standard punishments for these two crimes are “hanging, amputation of the right hand and then the left foot as well as exile”.
The bill — which is yet to be debated by lawmakers — also stipulates that the punishment handed out in these cases “cannot be commuted, suspended or changed”.
"Let the PRB take this opportunity to advise you that should your PUBLICATION continue to feature non-registered or non-licensed architects in the future responsible officers of your publication may also be held similarly liable by the state under R.A. No. 9266, its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) ..."
THE PREFESSIONAL REGULATORY BOARD should take a HARD STAND against these COLUMNISTS who keep on SELF-PROMOTING.
hahaha! I think soozyhopper also studied there... Cupertino is a school for kids who are MENATLLY incapacitated or with down-syndrome in La Vista subdivision.
Why is Cupertino being dragged into all of this? Real kids with real special needs go there. How easy for you to even mention that school in the same breath as these good for nothing social climbers? Shame, shame.
Lopez's lawyer sent a letter to Gorrell, which states that "(she) is no longer in communication with Montano ... The letter also pointed out that Lopez and her friend Marco Antonio have been persistent in asking Montano to pay back the debt, but the latter would only provide "vague answers and a series of denials".
THIS letter is saying that CELINE and MARCO have both admitted to the CRIME of DJ!
Tim Yap and his Embassy friends are regular visitors of the Alabang Boys at the PDEA detention cell bringing with them big placards that say: “Justice for the Alabang Boys, Justice for All Social Users!
What information do employers look for in background checks? (Do we care at all about background checks in the Philippines, if the applicant is from a famous family?)
The gossip world (well, at least mine) is like retail. Not busy at all except for the bit of information I heard (NOT from the patola vine because it is getting trimmed and grafted) that the Philippine Tatler wants to put Wendy Puyat on its cover and is still 'waiting for approval' from Hong Kong.
you should include the carriers of fake, bogus degrees in special education and masters of special education major in communication disorders...nagpapanggap na special education teachers tsaka speech pathologists dito sa us
Our end is an egalitarian society where gaps due to class, age, sex, religion, and race hardly exist.
Our foremost advocacy is to put key sectors of society under scrutiny to identify and denounce all forms of debauchery and pretensions.
Our battleground is the internet and the ever expanding online community.
Our weapon is the power of words fiercely protected by the freedom of speech.
Our mode of engagement is the open forum where we welcome all opinions, arguments, expositions and presentation of facts towards a greater consensus, on which we stand together to render our collective judgment.
Our fight is within the bounds of what is humane, moral and legal; we are here not to destroy but to transform.
Our readership is a community of men and women from all sectors of society and from all walks of life.
We are diverse, but are one in our quest for unity and progress.
This is our world.
This is DONA VICTORINA!
ngineers, software developers, hotel executives, not just nannies and go-go dancers as in the past. Our counterfeit industry is so good the Koreans came in droves buying fake "Recto" degrees. Furthermore, it wasn't so long ago that Philippine-trained doctors now based in the US as well as the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) filed protests against Desperate Housewife after a discriminatory remark about doctors graduating from the 
1.Pepper Teehankee- Mensa/Ateneo
2.Celine Lopez- grad.UAP
3.2 Antons- 1.architect/architecture grad
2.grad from La Roche
4. Wendy Puyat- Masters in whatever
5. Maurice A.- graduated in the US from wherever
6. Nugent- American University
I LOVE GUCCI GANG!
The easy way out... PRESS RELEASE!!!!
Tim has a degree in ST. BENILDE not de LA SALLE HOKEY!!!
they don't need education anyway. mas masarap mag COKE!
COKE IS IT!
JERKS GIVE BRIAN HIS MOnEY!
THIEVES, FAKERS, PRETENDERS!
"That is why your achievement should speak for itself like Kermit the frog who received an Honorary Doctorate in Amphibious Letters from the authentic Long Island University, as a result of environmental efforts. Fake degrees are the same as passing a fake Louis Vuitton Bag, as the real thing, nakakadiri like the parade of fakes during the movie premiere screening of "for the first time"."
WE LOVE BOLDSTAR!!!!!
Note from Trixie:
Art. 315 of the Revised Penal Code states that estafa is committed through ;x x x
2. By means of the following false pretenses or fraudulent acts executed prior to or simultaneously with the commission of the fraid:
a. By using fictitious name or falsely pretending to possess power, influence, qualifications, property, credit, agency, business or imaginary transactions or by means of other similar deceits.
Thus, it is punishable by law when a person claims to possess qualifications he/she does not have when such claim is used in the commission of a fraud.
GUCCI GANG- "Thus, it is punishable by law when a person claims to possess qualifications he/she does not have when such claim is used in the commission of a fraud."
Fraud
Definition:
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
OR
GUCCI GANG
Hoy Gucci Gang itigil nyo yan!
"it stains the authenticity of our educational system affecting everyone with a degree gained after at least four years of hard work"
"Kermit the frog who received an Honorary Doctorate in Amphibious Letters"
Celine has a baccalaureate degree in "Chemistry of Coke"!
Not nurses but doctors. sa desperate housewives mga doctors ng pinas ang inokray... di po nurses
to clarify:
Jose Marie Mortel Bautista, now Ramon Bong Revilla Jr
He was conferred post baccalaureate, a Doctorate Degree in Public Administration (Honoris Causa) by the Cavite State University in 2005 and a Doctorate Degree in Humanities (Honoris Causa) by the Nueva Vizcaya State University in 2006.
thanks b.star
Eeeeeeee.....A plan by Philippine Tatler editor-in-chief Anton San Diego to put his fellow International School alumni, the newly-divorced socialite Wendy Puyat, on the cover of the high-brow magazine is encountering resistance from Tatler’s parent office in Hong Kong.
High School graduate sila pareho!
Wendy Puyat went to St Scholastica but did not finish there.
Celine Lopez wrote "A book report," one on French revolutionary Victor Hugo's most popular novel.
"The summer he passed, I read Les Miserables for the first of many times in my life. Being suddenly a stranger in the world I had inhabited for some years now, the book suddenly provided me with a lesson my grandfather failed to teach me: that the perfect world is found in an imperfect world, my world after him."
How bizarre that one of the main protagonists in the Pinoyblogosphere's latest revolts against the so-called elite's exposed decadence, should choose a book that is the ANTI-THESIS of her and her friends' reason for being . Peddling values which belong to the 19th century. Guiltless partying and bacchanalia of the sin-free. Values that say you have your world and I have mine and never the twain shall meet.
But Celine Lopez' column is not a book report. It is not even about the book. She chose the title and the book to tell us she is a woman of substance, that someone so young could read something so old. Quelle classe. I have never before read her column, but at least she can string words together to make pretty. It is mostly self-involved, as I imagine most of her columns are.
But then we are all self-involved to a degree aren't we? So, moving on.
Second she writes a cute little story of when she was a little girl and how she coped with her grandfather's death.
"In the end, with all my infallible adoration, I realized my lolo was like every human being. A Jean Valjean. It was my idea to put him on a pedestal; he never asked for it. He never insisted on it. Unlike Cosette’s and especially Marius’ grief in learning of Valjean’s truth, I loved him more for his humanity and not his godliness. A betrayal of thought redeemed by truth."
Other than herself, the main subject in her story happens to belong to one of the most powerful families in the Philippines, of which she is a part.
Old landed aristocrats, remnants of the old world. In her own words, she was lost without her grandfather, a little girl worthy of empathy and understanding.
"As a young adult I constantly tested what was truly right and wrong. Embracing my lessons from my mistakes more than my triumphs, I grew up still fragile, flawed and questioning."
So, she grew up fragile, little-girl-lost-y without her anchor. Empathy. We are also supposed to empathise with her sins, in her ventures from the perfect world.
"It’s ironic that, in his theatrical setting of the perfect life for me in my early years, he further made me want to discover what makes the world ill. Perhaps feeling I had been stupid and fearing I would continuing being so, it drove me to find every flaw and to ultimately understand it."
And every flaw means doing what has been alleged in that BLOG down under- Gorrell's? Well, that makes for a lot of understanding.
Then she ends her little ditty with a piece of advice. She is, after all, a woman of substance.
"Life is a dramatic comedy and tragedy, forever interchanging until the curtains draw. Like in every story, what gives it meaning and remembrance is the plot, the characters and the struggle.
Let your will be the engine, your loved ones the wheels and your struggles the inspiration in creating your plot. Then, in this imperfect world, with our imperfect selves, we find perfect dreams in sleep."
So, let us be humble in our imperfections, she says. Let ye who hath no sin cast the first stone.
Woman of substance.
Family of substance.
Fierce pride, but willing to learn from mistakes.
She paints herself as battle-weary, little-girl-lost-y, experimenting-with-life kind of girl.
Oh the bravura!
L.P. Leviste sez.........
Only sociopaths ( unaturally born without a conscience like Tiny Dick Tim, Celine, Wendy and DJ ) or natural born criminals have to LIE, cheat and steal another's identity or INVENT bespoke resumes that elevate their knowledge to IMPOSSIBLE heights.
THEY all suffer from LOW self-esteem, BORDERLINE psychosis and HAD very unhappy childhoods.
Why they become GRIFTERS and swindlers ARE the classic examples of a life in CRIME. They DO tend to band together ( hence the saying honor among thieves and thick as thieves )
WHAT will go down as a footnote in Philippine social history during the first decade of the 21st century WAS how THIS Gucci Gang rose, fell and was tarred and feathered by this blog. FIRST was their fascination with COCAINE and shabu, their hanging out at EMBASSY while claiming to write columns in the STAR newspaper.
ONE by one, they were exposed for what they were, shallow thirtysomethings and whose only claim to fame was their UTTER stupidity and family names that were FADED aristocrats.
DID they think we would be as STUPID as them. To believe their FAKE resumes ?
BUT drugs do that to the mind. BUT as time reveals everything, it is SAD their 5 minutes of FAME came crashing down to such a TRAGIC ending.
Celine will become a spinster, Wendy a call girl, Tim will commit suicide and DJ like CUNANAN who murdered Gianni Versace will be PUT down by the police.
I really hope THIS doesn't happen. But history if we DON'T learn from it, REPEATS itself. Like a broken record. Like terminal hiccups.
What is seriously disturbing is that its this lifestyle of this minute elite, emblazoned and featured on the most popular broadsheet day in day out, featured on TV and radio shows, that shape young people's idea of the 'good life.' It probably wouldn't matter if this were Shanghai. But this is Manila folks.
If Tim Yap does indeed embody his section of my generation, he simply manifests the perennial disease of generations before; a pseudo elite that has washed its hands off of this nation.
Famous alumni include St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, Victor Hugo, and Pope Benedict XVI - born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, and then Wendy Puyat according to her website...
WHAT A SHAME!
Kindly PRINT!
ATTENTION : Isaac G. Belmonte
Editor-in-Chief
SUBJECT : Mr. Anton R. Mendoza is Neither Registered nor
Licensed to Practice the Regulated Profession of
Architecture
REFERENCE : page C-9 of the 1 June 2007 issue of Philippine Star
Dear Sirs/ Mesdames,
Warm greetings from the Professional Regulatory Board of
Architecture (“PRBoA”). The PRBoA is the entity, under the
Professional Regulation Commission (“PRC”, a quasi-judicial and
quasi-legislative body), tasked with the implementation and
enforcement of Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9266, otherwise known as The
Architecture Act of 2004 (effective 10 April 2004), its implementing
rules and regulations or IRR (effective 01 December 2004) and its
derivative regulations.
Today, the attention of the reconstituted PRBoA was called in
regard to your publication’s 12 June 2007 feature on the supposed
architectural work/s by a non-registered and non-licensed person
going by the name of Anton R. Mendoza, referred to as an “architect”
on page C-9 of the said issue (reference Attachment 1).
Please be advised that per the attached 13 March 2007
certification issued by the PRC (reference Attachment 2), Mr. Anton
R. Mendoza appears to be neither registered nor licensed to practice
architecture in the Philippines. Mr. Mendoza may therefore be held
liable for the illegal practice of architecture under R.A. No. 9266.
Likewise, please be advised that the title of “architect” under R.A.
9266 (and even under its predecessor laws R.A. No. 1581 of 1956 and
R.A. No. 545 of 1950) is a legal title bestowed only on individuals
who are registered and licensed by the state to engage in the
practice of the regulated profession of architecture. Currently,
there are only 23,000 architects registered by the PRC.
In your future editions, please have your writers (such as Mr.
Pepper Teehankee, author of the subject article) to verify fully
with the person/s they will be featuring as architect/s if such
individuals are indeed registered and licensed to practice
architecture in the Philippines. Your writers may ask for their PRC
identification card/s as proof of registration and validity of
license (and please have them take note of the registration number,
the expiry date/s and the regulated profession stated) i.e. the PRC
identification card must be one for architects and not for any other
regulated profession.
In the case of foreign architects your writers will feature
(including former Filipinos), they can ask for the temporary or
special permit issued by the PRC, allowing such individuals to
practice architecture in the country for a limited period. In the
case of architectural firms your writers will feature, please have
them ask for the firm’s SEC registration to confirm if seventy five
percent (75%) of the architectural firm’s ownership and management
are held by registered and licensed architects.
Otherwise, you may readily inquire from or secure a
certification from the PRC Registration Division or from the SEC (in
the case of firms) to fully ascertain the professional status of
such persons (natural or juridical).
Under R.A. No. 9266, the registered and licensed architect/s
or other regulated professionals who performed architectural
functions/ services for Mr. Mendoza, may also be held
administratively and/or criminally liable for aiding and abetting
the practice of a non-registered and non-licensed person/ architect
(such as Mr. Mendoza).
Let the PRBoA take this opportunity to advise you that should
your publication continue to feature non-registered or non-licensed
architects in the future (particularly Mr. Mendoza), responsible
officers of your publication may also be held similarly liable by
the state under R.A. No. 9266, its implementing rules and
regulations (IRR) and derivative regulations promulgated
periodically by either the PRC or the PRBoA. The same may also hold
true for the owners of the architectural works that will be featured
as Mr. Mendoza’s.
In consideration of the foregoing, the PRBoA requests that the
appropriate correction be made by Mr. Teehankee and Your paper as
regards Mr. Mendoza’s professional status.
Thank You very much for your continuing support for Filipino
architects and for the attention that you shall give the foregoing
matters.
Yours sincerely,
For the PRBoA
Armando N. ALLÍ
Chairman
Mr. Anton R. Mendoza appears to be neither registered nor licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines.
Mr. Mendoza may therefore be held
liable for the illegal practice of architecture under R.A. No. 9266.
Likewise, please be advised that the title of “architect” under R.A.
9266 (and even under its predecessor laws R.A. No. 1581 of 1956 and R.A. No. 545 of 1950) is a legal title bestowed only on individuals who are registered and licensed by the state to engage in the practice of the regulated profession of architecture.
Tim Yuck... Did not graduate from AIM or did he??? I heard he went around GMA telling people that he finished his course... Please confirm...
As a matter of disclosure, I was once consulted by some landscape architects on the illegal practise of the profession where some rather famous commercial establishments took out full page ads announcing that foreign architectural firms and landscape architects created the designs for their commercial establishment.
As a result of that incident, the architects' associations established ties with the National Bureau of Investigation for efficient enforcement of the Architecture and Landscape Architecture laws. NBI agents are now trained to recognize these violations and may file the cases themselves.
Furthermore, these associations, who strongly lobbied for the passage of these laws are quite serious in ensuring their enforcement. I have no doubt that they are more than willing to assist in the prosecution of these cases.
Incidentally, all those who aid and abet the violation of the law may also be held liable criminally, civilly and where applicable, administratively.
Columnists who aid and abet the crime of FRAUD may also be held liable criminally, civilly ...
W A R N I N G !!!!
My GASH! Mabuti pa mga JANITOR dito sa U.P. have genuine curriculum vitae... THESE NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS are a bunch of LIARS!!!
WE CAN SUE PUBLICATIONS IF THEY CONTINUE TO PUBLISH FAKE TITLES!
Let the PRBoA take this opportunity to advise you that SHOULD YOUR PUBLICATION continue to feature non-registered or non-licensed architects in the future (particularly Mr. Mendoza), responsible officers of your publication may also be held similarly liable by the state under R.A. No. 9266, its implementing rules and
regulations (IRR) and derivative regulations promulgated
periodically by either the PRC or the PRBoA.
well they should be held liable because architecture like medicine is regulated meaning public liability, safety and insurance issues have to be taken into account etc.
They all use their surnames and connections to get jobs they are not legally allowed to do being unregistered and all. And as Mr Larry Leviste already said FAKES.
For me its utter arrogance.
ATTENTION : Mr. Isagani Yambot
Publisher
M. Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc
Editor in Chief
SUBJECT : Mr. Anton Mendoza is Neither Registered nor
Licensed to Practice the Regulated Profession of
Architecture
REFERENCES :
1) Without Batting an Eyelash by Mr. Maurice Arcache on
page F2 of the April 13, 2007 PDI Lifestyle section issue
under the title “Truly a vintage celebration”; and
2) Without Batting an Eyelash by Mr. Maurice Arcache on
page C2 of the March 13, 2007 PDI Lifestyle section issue
under the title “Japanese dinner becomes a Mediterranean
feast”
Dear Sirs/ Mesdames,
Warm greetings again from the Professional Regulatory Board of
Architecture (“PRBoA”).
Thank You very much for publishing the PRBoA letter concerning
Mr. Ed Calma in the Opinion section of the May 26, 2007 PDI issue.
Recently, the attention of the reconstituted PRBoA was again
called in regard to the appearance of a non-registered and non licensed person going by the name Anton Mendoza, referred to as an “architect” with accompanying photos, in the above-referenced issues
(see Attachments 1 and 2).
Please be advised that per the attached 13 March 2007
certification issued by the Professional Regulation Commission or
PRC (reference Attachment 3), Mr. Mendoza appears to be neither
registered nor licensed to practice architecture in the Philippines. Under R.A. No. 9266 (The Architecture Act of 2004), its IRR and derivative regulations, Mr. Mendoza, as a non-registered person, may be held liable for use of the title “architect” or for the illegal practice of architecture if warranted.
In your future editions, may we request your writers to verify
fully with the person/s the PDI shall feature as architect/s if such individuals are indeed registered and licensed to practice
architecture in the Philippines. Your staff/ writers may ask for
their PRC identification card/s as proof of registration and
validity of license (and please take note of the registration
number, the expiry date/s and the regulated profession stated) i.e.
the PRC identification card must be one for architects and not forany other regulated profession.
In the case of foreign architects you will feature (including
former Filipinos), you can ask for the temporary or special permit issued by the PRC, allowing such individuals to practice
architecture in the country for a limited period. In the case of
architectural firms you will feature, please ask for their SEC
registration to confirm if seventy five percent (75%) of the
architectural firm’s ownership and management are held by registered and licensed architects.
Otherwise, your writers/ staff may readily inquire from or
secure a certification from the PRC Registration Division or from
the SEC (in the case of firms) to fully ascertain the professional status of such persons (natural or juridical).
There is no need to publish this letter and its attachments as
these are only furnished for your collective information/ future
reference.
Thank You very much for your continuing support for Filipino
architects and for the attention that you shall give the foregoing matters.
Yours sincerely,
For the PRBoA
Armando N. ALLÍ
Chairman
THE better word is HUBRIS of COLUMNISTS!
FROM CELINE Lopez' MOUTH!!!!
BIRTHDAY: October 9
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: International Montessori school, Assumption High School, UA&P and Parsons School of Design ("Tim Gunn was my teache!")
OCCUPATION: Editor of Ystyle, columnist of selfindulgent weekly column called "From Coffee to Cocktails" and mother of Loungeri Lux, special limited edition batches of swimwear and t-shirts.
CURRENT STATUS: Completely committed.
What was your childhood like? Pretty surreal. I grew up with my grandfather and eccentric relatives. My parents are pretty stable so they were my rock. I had an uncle who role carriages in the city while wearing a fur coat and an aunt who had a more colorful love life than my total favorite Kris Aquino (I'm not being sarcastic, I am so taken by her.) So, no, it wasn't normal at all, and for that I am grateful.
From TINY
BRIEF BACKGROUNDER
AGE: Younger than Celine.
BIRTHDAY: January 17
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: St. Jude Catholic (yes, I am!) School (right beside Malacanang Palace, where classes would be suspended every time there were be rallies against the government, where we had our prom during lunch time within the school's basketball court - of course, I hosted the program) and then 1 went to De La Salle University where I took Marketing studies.
Right now I am constantly learning by surrounding myself with likeminded people, young kids and artists from diverse fields and industries - it's one, non-stop exhilarating ride to higher learning. 1 also just recently took private French language studies at Berlitz.
OCCUPATION: TV host, MTV Bling/Eventologist /Inquirer's Super! Editor, creative director and columnist/Embassy Super Club and Cuisine co-owner/just recently-ODM watch designer/ (Whew!). I am also currently hosting a segment every Friday on Wazzup, Wazzup in Studio 23.
CURRENTSTATUS: SINGLE? COMMITTED? ENGAGED? Single in my vision, committed to my advocacies, engaged with my work
'Fake degrees are the same as passing a fake Louis Vuitton Bag"
YOU MEAN FAKE GUCCI's
HOLD DEPARTURE ORDER FOR GUCCI GANG'S MARCEL CRESPO
In his six-page affidavit complaint for estafa through falsification lodged with the Makati City Prosecutor’s Office, Jimenez through his lawyer Edgardo Francisco.... Marcel Crespo et al of malversing more than $ 45 million worth of shares in Meridian Telekoms.
Following the filing of the case, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez ordered Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan to include Marcel Crespo in the bureau’s watchlist.
The FIRST lipo made by Belo Clinic on Osang FLOPPED big time! Osang was in the process of suing the clinic so Dra. Belo asked some doctors at St. Lukes to REDO the lipo on Osang. After that, Osang agreed to endorse Belo.
I don't know if Dra. Belo has hired more competent surgeons since then. But, Osang can use the evidences from the first incidence to justify her claim that: "palpak sa Belo Clinic."
Dean William R. Inge:
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values."
My God what a shame having a fake diploma fake gucci bags everything are fake anyway what can we do most of the social climbers are really fakes like the Gucci gangs. They must hang themself
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
~Albert Einstein
yeah but intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
the sorbonne is not that prestigious. it IS old but the french consider it banal or ordinary. virtually anybody who speaks french can enter. what the french consider prestigious are the grande ecoles or the specialized private schools such as the ecole des beaux-arts, or the ecole national d'administration where those who want a good career in government need to go.
Lopez's lawyer sent a letter to Gorrell, which states that "(she) is no longer in communication with Montano ... The letter also pointed out that Lopez and her friend Marco Antonio have been persistent in asking Montano to pay back the debt, but the latter would only provide "vague answers and a series of denials".
THIS letter is saying that CELINE and MARCO have both admitted to the CRIME of DJ!
OFF TOPIC!
This is very disturbing!
The Parliament of Iran is discussing a draft bill that criminalizes “establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy (abandonment of one’s religion).”
This is on top of a long list of crimes punishable by death.
Those convicted of these crimes “should be punished as ‘mohareb’ (enemy of God) and ‘corrupt on the earth’,” the text says.
Under Iranian law the standard punishments for these two crimes are “hanging, amputation of the right hand and then the left foot as well as exile”.
The bill — which is yet to be debated by lawmakers — also stipulates that the punishment handed out in these cases “cannot be commuted, suspended or changed”.
"Let the PRB take this opportunity to advise you that should your PUBLICATION continue to feature non-registered or non-licensed architects in the future responsible officers of your publication may also be held similarly liable by the state under R.A. No. 9266, its implementing rules and
regulations (IRR) ..."
THE PREFESSIONAL REGULATORY BOARD should take a HARD STAND against these COLUMNISTS who keep on SELF-PROMOTING.
I SAY SUE THEM!!!!!
SUE Ambassador Tim Yap!
Dear Ms.Boldstar
did Ms.Halitosis graduate from Parsons School of Design ?
She also claims "Tim Gunn was my teache!"
Ms.Halitosis NEVER graduated from UA&P !!!
Check with the registrar!
Pepper Teehankee did not graduate from Ateneo. Please do not insult our school!
MENSA, Pepper?
You must be kidding me. Baka special child si Pepper from Cupertino near Raul Manzano's house!
hahaha! I think soozyhopper also studied there... Cupertino is a school for kids who are MENATLLY incapacitated or with down-syndrome in La Vista subdivision.
Why is Cupertino being dragged into all of this? Real kids with real special needs go there. How easy for you to even mention that school in the same breath as these good for nothing social climbers? Shame, shame.
Guilty
Lopez's lawyer sent a letter to Gorrell, which states that "(she) is no longer in communication with Montano ... The letter also pointed out that Lopez and her friend Marco Antonio have been persistent in asking Montano to pay back the debt, but the latter would only provide "vague answers and a series of denials".
THIS letter is saying that CELINE and MARCO have both admitted to the CRIME of DJ!
GUILTY
What do TIM YAP, pusher Joe Tecson and pusher Joseph Brodette have in common?
They all came from ST. BENILDE
from proffessional hecklet
Tim Yap and his Embassy friends are regular visitors of the Alabang Boys at the PDEA detention cell bringing with them big placards that say: “Justice for the Alabang Boys, Justice for All Social Users!
Famous alumni include St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, Victor Hugo, and Pope Benedict XVI - born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, and then...
Wendy Puyat according to her website.
Did she even graduate from Assumption?
Tim Yap gets his drugs from Tecson and Brodette free of charge... Ask the two boys!
What information do employers look for in background checks? (Do we care at all about background checks in the Philippines, if the applicant is from a famous family?)
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/146737
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Obliquely related to this post:
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-ucfraud18-2009feb18,0,4680489.story
UC wants the truth on student applications
"UC enrollments may be canceled if students are found to be evasive or lying."
the point of this article is not the Diplomas but the LIES that go with it!
The gossip world (well, at least mine) is like retail. Not busy at all except for the bit of information I heard (NOT from the patola vine because it is getting trimmed and grafted) that the Philippine Tatler wants to put Wendy Puyat on its cover and is still 'waiting for approval' from Hong Kong.
Hmmm....I wonder how long this 'wait' will be.
you should include the carriers of fake, bogus degrees in special education and masters of special education major in communication disorders...nagpapanggap na special education teachers tsaka speech pathologists dito sa us
why isnt KC Concepcion in your list?! she went to some cooking school in france, ever wonder why they can NEVER give the "course she took"?