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Mark Timothy J. Libunao is a 32-year old registered Medical Technologist, a father to a 5-year old amiable and smart little boy and a husband to a registered Physical Therapist. He is an accomplished campus journalist, student leader, businessman, salesman and most of all, a loving father and husband, an obedient son, a caring brother, a very loyal and dear friend.


An Editor-in-Chief of his high school and college publications, a student council president for three years in college, a volunteer grade school teacher and a social mobilizer who was able to spearhead various community projects in Quezon City. He led several national organizations including the Quezon City Red Cross Youth Council, College Editors' Guild of the Philippines, Jesuit Volunteers of the Philippines and Philippine Society of Medical Technology Students. His glorious years came when he was elected as a student commissioner of the National Youth Commission under the Office of the President of the Philippines last 2002 and 2003. He worked and was designated as the Chief Medical Technologist of Murphy Diagnostic & Multi-Specialty Center and Hope Medical & Multi-Specialty Center in Quezon City before he entered medical school.

He is the eldest son of Mr. Freddie Mandario Libunao & Mrs. Ma. Sonia Jaleco Jesena of Hughes St., Maasin, Iloilo. He has two siblings: Bryan Paul graduated with a Masters Degree in Integrated Marketing and Communications in the University of Asia and the Pacific and Maria Mikaela who is a second year Medical Technology student of Centro Escolar University.

His wife, Ma. Theresa Acay of Marikina City is a registered Physical Therapist while his son Mikhail Thaddeus is a pre-school pupil of Jesus Christ Saves Global Outreach Christian Academy (JCA) in Quezon City.

He finished his grade school and high school in Ateneo de Iloilo (formerly Santa Maria Catholic School). He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Medical Technology in World Citi Colleges and was awarded as the Most Outstanding Intern of the Year of Philippine Heart Center & World Citi Medical Center. He is presently on his third year Post Graduate course as Doctor of Medicine in Far Eastern University - Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation where he served as the Treasurer of the Medicine Student Council last 2007 and 2009. He was a former faculty of the KATINKO Wellness Institute Foundation Inc. where he taught Anatomy & Physiology, Massage Economics, Microbiology, Parasitology and Public Hygiene to Massage Therapists. Presently, he is one of the board of directors of Healthville Inc., a wellness company he co-founded with his brother.



Monday, April 27, 2009

LAKBAYAW FESTIVAL COPIES ENTIRE DINAGYANG DANCE ROUTINE / CHOREOGRAPHY FOR TWO STRAIGHT YEARS



To the Dinagyang fans' awe: I was flaming with anger and disbelief of what i saw, a contigent from Tondo, Manila is performing a cheap copy of Tribu Paghidaet's routine performed last year (2008) in Aliwan. Worse, this copycat group claims to come from a legitimate festival. Wow, imitation they say is the highest form of flattery, but copying the whole routine which is the brain child, the intellectual property of Tribu Paghidaet's choreographer is not a simple imitation, it's a theft... an art theft. This is so far the grandest art
theft I saw being showcased in the grandest festival of the Philippines.

LAKBAYAW FESTIVAL'S ROUTINE IS SO FAR THE CHEAPEST AND THE WORST FORM OF ART I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.


THE ORIGINAL: TRIBU PAGHIDAET OF DINAGYANG FESTIVAL FROM ILOILO PERFORMING IN ALIWAN 2008
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THE "ART THIEVES": TRIBU MODELIAN OF LAKBAYAW FESTIVAL FROM TONDO PERFORMING IN ALIWAN 2009


Added post: January 20, 2010, to highlight yet another act of theft!

I again would like to emphasize and point out that Tribu Modelian of Lakbayaw Festival from Tondo has committed the same theft again. The entire dance routine / choreography of Tribu Paghidaet of Dinagyang Festival which was performed in Aliwan Fiesta 2009 last year was copied / imitated and falsely-owned by Tribu Modelian. In fact, that same performace of Tribu Paghidaet in Aliwan last year was performed by Tribu Modelian, in its entirity, in the recently concluded Lakbayaw Festival 2010 in Tondo, Manila.


THE ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE BY TRIBU PAGHIDAET (DINAGYANG) IN ALIWAN FIESTA (APRIL 2009)


THE COPIED / STOLEN DANCE ROUTINE / CHOREOGRAPHY OF TRIBU MODELIAN OF LAKBAYAW FESTIVAL SHOWCASED IN THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED LAKBAYAW FESTIVAL 2010 IN TONDO, MANILA


I therefore urge you to sign the petition I made, calling the attention of the authorities in the preservation of arts & culture to sanction or penalize Tribu Modelian and Lakbayaw Festival: Tribu Modelian for blatantly copying a brainchild of Paghidaet's choreographer and for Lakbayaw Festival for allowing such act to go on in their festival.

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LAKBAYAW FESTIVAL SHOULD BE SANCTIONED FOR BLATANTLY COPYING DINAGYANG - 2ND PETITION - thepetitionsite.com

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