This is a dying piece of Folk Music from the Manobo Tribe - a Lumad (Native) of Davao City.
When I was still a child, I used to see them in their colorful native costumes... and perform really subliminal tunes to some extent can be compared to most techno trance music.
However, the beat of this folk music is unique... it humms a monotonous chord or key which the jumpy melody played in a slightly hurried beat soothes the senses...
At any rate... it stimulates the mind... I will try to find more about them in these modern times.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Why Risky Jobs are handled by Reckless Workers?
Remember the old adage "When you pay bananas - you get monkeys"...
Here in out country, no matter how many times the minimum wage is raised up, the cost of living is always growing at a rate much faster than any wage adjustment can be made.
The above diagram is a bit exaggerated, well it is made so in order to express a point more intensely.
This reflection on the distribution of wealth flashed into my mind right after reading the news about the LPG tragedy in Dasmarinas, Cavite.
If and only if, the wealthy cartel controllers would reinvent themselves... and start to think bottom up... they will be hiring the best and most disciplined drivers and staff to handle and deliver their goods. What is paying your driver P35,000 a month just to do the job with utmost safety?
The hard truth is, no LPG barron will pay that much amount to their delivery team because they are indispensible... moreover, raising their salaries is looked upon as expense - not as an investment for improved service and security through labor security and loyalty.
Another point to think about... What would happen if you accidently collide into an LPG equiped Taxi?... What would happen if an LPG-equiped Taxi hits your house?...
Even if the LPG companies shuts down... it is still not enough payment for the lives they have indirectly taken away due to their indirect negligence and deliberate commission by omission.
Will it hurt their income or profit if they pay just a little bit more to improve the dignity of labor of their workers in the frontline?.
Go figure!
Here in out country, no matter how many times the minimum wage is raised up, the cost of living is always growing at a rate much faster than any wage adjustment can be made.
The above diagram is a bit exaggerated, well it is made so in order to express a point more intensely.
This reflection on the distribution of wealth flashed into my mind right after reading the news about the LPG tragedy in Dasmarinas, Cavite.
If and only if, the wealthy cartel controllers would reinvent themselves... and start to think bottom up... they will be hiring the best and most disciplined drivers and staff to handle and deliver their goods. What is paying your driver P35,000 a month just to do the job with utmost safety?
Another point to think about... What would happen if you accidently collide into an LPG equiped Taxi?... What would happen if an LPG-equiped Taxi hits your house?...
Even if the LPG companies shuts down... it is still not enough payment for the lives they have indirectly taken away due to their indirect negligence and deliberate commission by omission.
Will it hurt their income or profit if they pay just a little bit more to improve the dignity of labor of their workers in the frontline?.
Go figure!
9 killed, 1 hurt in fiery road accident in Cavite
06/23/2010 | 08:07 AM
At least nine people, one of them a two-year-old child, died a fiery death after a truck delivering liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) rammed an eatery in Cavite province before dawn Wednesday.
Police and witnesses said some 550 LPG tanks exploded after the truck carrying them went out of control and hit an electric post, following an attempt to overtake another truck.
“Galing kami sa Rosario, Cavite, at papunta kami sa pier ng Batangas para papunta sa Occidental Mindoro. Parang naano, nagbasyo ang preno. Pag overtake namin sa trailer, nakaiwas siya, nakakita siya ng maiwasan pag overtake bumigay ang kargada namin, naputol ang tagiliran tumilapon ang karga namin," truck helper John Eric Esmelia said in an interview on dwIZ radio.
(We were heading for Batangas pier to get to Occidental Mindoro. We just overtook a trailer truck when our vehicle’s brakes failed. We managed to avoid hitting other vehicles until we crashed and our LPG cargo fell from the truck.)
Esmelia and fellow helper Jun Espartero were arrested and detained at the police station, even as police look for truck driver Merco Lachica and fellow helper Joel Ocawan.
Wednesday’s incident occurred less than 24 hours after a sport-utility vehicle crashed in Dasmariñas City, killing seven people and injuring five. [See: 7 die, 5 hurt in predawn Cavite road accident]
In Wednesday’s incident, at least six of the nine fatalities were from the King James eatery, according to a report by dzBB’s Denver Trinidad.
They included eatery owner Jocelyn Bascugin and sons James, 2, and Jonald Bascugin, 12; and helpers Natalie Roa, 21; Julie Ann Vergara, 18; Joy Ann, 21; and Jeremy, 25. The other two fatalities were not immediately identified.
At least one person (not identified yet) was injured and rushed to a nearby hospital.
William Tungcol, a security guard at the nearby Mount View Industrial Park, said the truck hit an electric post and then hit a parked car. Its LPG cargo then snapped loose.
Initial investigation showed the incident occurred around 1 a.m. at the eatery at Governors’ Drive in Bangkal village in Carmona town.
The area is considered accident-prone due to the lack of lighting.
The Elf-type truck (VRA-361) driven by Lachica had come from Rosario, Cavite. Police theorized sparks from the electric post ignited the fumes from the LPG tanks.
“Lumakas ang apoy ... Dinampot agad kami ng pulis (The fire was so intense. Police arrested us shortly after the incident)," Esmelia said. — LBG, GMANews.TV
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Plundering H20
17 June 2010
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA
It used to be an innocuous office along Kalayaan Avenue in Balara, past Miriam and the Tuason’s former estate, La Vista. Sometime during Cory Aquino’s term, there was some brouhaha over the appointee to chair its Board of Trustees, one Porthos Alma Jose. I forget the specifics of why employees rallied against Alma Jose, which eventually led to his being replaced. The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) next came to great public notice when Dona Gloria appointed one Prospero Pichay, a year after being defeated in the 2007 senatorial elections. Such a low-profile position for one so high profile particularly in the defense of his Dona? But it seems there is so much to supervising the various local water utility agencies strewn all over the land than meets one’s ordinary eye.
Just recently, Pichay and his Dona’s anointees were extended midnight appointments to the board of LWUA. Among them are Renato S. Velasco, once a palace factotum who has been with the Dona from her senatorial days, and Susana D. Vargas, before then a deputy executive secretary in charge of Finance and Administration. Along with Prospero Pichay who was re-apponted to five-year terms, a recent appointee to the Board was one Bonifacio Maria Pena, the brother of a Negros Occidental mayor. And long-time “acting” administrator Daniel Landingin was finally given a “permanent” appointment.
Pichay of course was concurrently named Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs after Gabriel Claudio resigned for reasons of health. Whereupon, Claudio was re-appointed, also just a scant few months ago, to chair the MWSS, which deals with the water needs of Metropolitan Manila. While Pichay was unable to steer the Gibo campaign to victory or even close to one, he has clearly been very active in deals and operations that amount to nothing less than systematic plunder — plundering water, so to speak.
He bloated the Capital Investment Program of the agency and disbursed a total of 3 billion 354 million in 2009, despite approval of only 2.4 billion, of which 400 million came from LWUA funds, 1.5 billion from the Department of Health, and 490 million from the DPWH. There is about 3.3 million more from foreign assistance. Now how was this done? There is an axiom in government expenditure procedures that state one can only purchase or bid out projects if there is an accompanying certification of the availability of funds.
LWUA’s Board of Trustees apparently took the assurance of Mr. Prospero Pichay that he had a commitment from Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to commit 6 billion pesos from the President’s Social Fund. Without clear availability of funds, they awarded a long list of projects in 2009, and used the LWUA Fund for some 1.24 billion pesos released to various water districts and charged the same to Receivable Miscellaneous-Miscellaneous Claims. In short, payable by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines. The Commission on Audit in its May 24, 2010 report has ruled that the receivable from the GoP has no basis or legal document to back up the claim except for the verbal commitment (kuno) from the Office of the President as warranted by its Chairman Pichay. In short, laway lamang. And coming from one whose prefabrications of “fact” and contortions of “truth” have always had media questioning his credibility, the Board apparently was taken in.
Then again, listen to how the many water districts had been growling. Pichay’s men would tell them to submit a water project (especially those municipalities with little or no running water system), and ask them to bloat the amount to ensure that some people “upstairs” got a hefty cut. Not a “London Cut” as in prime rib, but a “King’s Cut”, if you know what I mean. If the water district manager balked, the “operators” went to the mayor of the municipality, who, for his own “London Cut”, would only be too willing to proclaim another “project for the benefit of his constituents”. 2010 after all was re-election year for these local executives. Now how will the local water districts pay for these LWUA-extended projects? From their collections of course. And what happens if these collections do not suffice because the projects were overpriced to plunderous amounts? Problema na ng susunod na gobyerno. Or, he, he, he…lista sa tubig.
No wonder Pichay had himself re-appointed, along with Velasco and Vargas, in midnight fashion. May pagtatakpan?
And then there is Pichay’s foray into banking. Yes, banking!
In June of 2009, LWUA, as approved by its Board, purchased 60% of the total issued and outstanding common shares of Express Savings Bank, a private bank operating out of an office in Cabuyao, Laguna. For its 445,337 issued shares, LWUA paid 80 million pesos. Now read this: Express Savings is a thrift bank currently under rehabilitation, as administered by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Pichay had a dream. That together with the National Electrification Administration (NEA), he would conjure a Water and Energy Bank (WE Bank), and he brought the idea up to the BSP. But Deputy Governor Nesting Espenilla informed him that the BSP is currently enforcing a moratorium in the establishment of new banks and advised him to instead consider acquiring an existing financing company for the purpose of addressing LWUA’s financing requirements. And so, Pichay instead bought 60% of the Cabuyao bank. The OGCC (Alberto Agra?) sustained his action as within its corporate powers. The ESBI now controlled by LWUA then applied with BSP for quasi-banking authority. But BSP said it had to have at least 650 million pesos in minimum capital accounts.
In partial fulfilment of BSP requirements, LWUA then deposited 400 million pesos as “advance payment” to capital subscription pending BSP approval and SEC registration. But this is contrary to the General Provisions of the General Appropriations Act which restricts government-owned and controlled corporations from investing in non-government securities, money market placements and similar investments or deposit in private banking institutions. So what is the legal basis for Pichay’s grandiose dream of becoming a banker on top of being water czar? Nada.
But Pichay is wise too. Wise as in “wa-is” in the everyday patois. He did not sign those water contracts. His “career” officials did. And in a gesture of appreciation, he had the “acting” appointment of Daniel I. Landingin as Administrator made permanent in the twilight of his Dona’s reign.
One more problem for the incoming administration of President Noynoy Aquino. But wait! The employees of the LWUA have been so scandalized at the high-jinks and financial legerdemain of their Chairman and his Board that they are willing to be the ones to bodily remove Pichay and his ilk from the premises of LWUA if the new President will just withdraw their questionable appointments. Bodily remove, or “kakaladkarin palabas” if necessary.
There must be a thousand and one acts committed under this Gloriannic reign in several agencies, departments and GOCC’s as well as GFI’s that qualify as “plunder”. This expose is just one of them.
(banayo_at@yahoo.com)
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA
It used to be an innocuous office along Kalayaan Avenue in Balara, past Miriam and the Tuason’s former estate, La Vista. Sometime during Cory Aquino’s term, there was some brouhaha over the appointee to chair its Board of Trustees, one Porthos Alma Jose. I forget the specifics of why employees rallied against Alma Jose, which eventually led to his being replaced. The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) next came to great public notice when Dona Gloria appointed one Prospero Pichay, a year after being defeated in the 2007 senatorial elections. Such a low-profile position for one so high profile particularly in the defense of his Dona? But it seems there is so much to supervising the various local water utility agencies strewn all over the land than meets one’s ordinary eye.
Just recently, Pichay and his Dona’s anointees were extended midnight appointments to the board of LWUA. Among them are Renato S. Velasco, once a palace factotum who has been with the Dona from her senatorial days, and Susana D. Vargas, before then a deputy executive secretary in charge of Finance and Administration. Along with Prospero Pichay who was re-apponted to five-year terms, a recent appointee to the Board was one Bonifacio Maria Pena, the brother of a Negros Occidental mayor. And long-time “acting” administrator Daniel Landingin was finally given a “permanent” appointment.
Pichay of course was concurrently named Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs after Gabriel Claudio resigned for reasons of health. Whereupon, Claudio was re-appointed, also just a scant few months ago, to chair the MWSS, which deals with the water needs of Metropolitan Manila. While Pichay was unable to steer the Gibo campaign to victory or even close to one, he has clearly been very active in deals and operations that amount to nothing less than systematic plunder — plundering water, so to speak.
He bloated the Capital Investment Program of the agency and disbursed a total of 3 billion 354 million in 2009, despite approval of only 2.4 billion, of which 400 million came from LWUA funds, 1.5 billion from the Department of Health, and 490 million from the DPWH. There is about 3.3 million more from foreign assistance. Now how was this done? There is an axiom in government expenditure procedures that state one can only purchase or bid out projects if there is an accompanying certification of the availability of funds.
LWUA’s Board of Trustees apparently took the assurance of Mr. Prospero Pichay that he had a commitment from Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to commit 6 billion pesos from the President’s Social Fund. Without clear availability of funds, they awarded a long list of projects in 2009, and used the LWUA Fund for some 1.24 billion pesos released to various water districts and charged the same to Receivable Miscellaneous-Miscellaneous Claims. In short, payable by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines. The Commission on Audit in its May 24, 2010 report has ruled that the receivable from the GoP has no basis or legal document to back up the claim except for the verbal commitment (kuno) from the Office of the President as warranted by its Chairman Pichay. In short, laway lamang. And coming from one whose prefabrications of “fact” and contortions of “truth” have always had media questioning his credibility, the Board apparently was taken in.
Then again, listen to how the many water districts had been growling. Pichay’s men would tell them to submit a water project (especially those municipalities with little or no running water system), and ask them to bloat the amount to ensure that some people “upstairs” got a hefty cut. Not a “London Cut” as in prime rib, but a “King’s Cut”, if you know what I mean. If the water district manager balked, the “operators” went to the mayor of the municipality, who, for his own “London Cut”, would only be too willing to proclaim another “project for the benefit of his constituents”. 2010 after all was re-election year for these local executives. Now how will the local water districts pay for these LWUA-extended projects? From their collections of course. And what happens if these collections do not suffice because the projects were overpriced to plunderous amounts? Problema na ng susunod na gobyerno. Or, he, he, he…lista sa tubig.
No wonder Pichay had himself re-appointed, along with Velasco and Vargas, in midnight fashion. May pagtatakpan?
And then there is Pichay’s foray into banking. Yes, banking!
In June of 2009, LWUA, as approved by its Board, purchased 60% of the total issued and outstanding common shares of Express Savings Bank, a private bank operating out of an office in Cabuyao, Laguna. For its 445,337 issued shares, LWUA paid 80 million pesos. Now read this: Express Savings is a thrift bank currently under rehabilitation, as administered by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Pichay had a dream. That together with the National Electrification Administration (NEA), he would conjure a Water and Energy Bank (WE Bank), and he brought the idea up to the BSP. But Deputy Governor Nesting Espenilla informed him that the BSP is currently enforcing a moratorium in the establishment of new banks and advised him to instead consider acquiring an existing financing company for the purpose of addressing LWUA’s financing requirements. And so, Pichay instead bought 60% of the Cabuyao bank. The OGCC (Alberto Agra?) sustained his action as within its corporate powers. The ESBI now controlled by LWUA then applied with BSP for quasi-banking authority. But BSP said it had to have at least 650 million pesos in minimum capital accounts.
In partial fulfilment of BSP requirements, LWUA then deposited 400 million pesos as “advance payment” to capital subscription pending BSP approval and SEC registration. But this is contrary to the General Provisions of the General Appropriations Act which restricts government-owned and controlled corporations from investing in non-government securities, money market placements and similar investments or deposit in private banking institutions. So what is the legal basis for Pichay’s grandiose dream of becoming a banker on top of being water czar? Nada.
But Pichay is wise too. Wise as in “wa-is” in the everyday patois. He did not sign those water contracts. His “career” officials did. And in a gesture of appreciation, he had the “acting” appointment of Daniel I. Landingin as Administrator made permanent in the twilight of his Dona’s reign.
One more problem for the incoming administration of President Noynoy Aquino. But wait! The employees of the LWUA have been so scandalized at the high-jinks and financial legerdemain of their Chairman and his Board that they are willing to be the ones to bodily remove Pichay and his ilk from the premises of LWUA if the new President will just withdraw their questionable appointments. Bodily remove, or “kakaladkarin palabas” if necessary.
There must be a thousand and one acts committed under this Gloriannic reign in several agencies, departments and GOCC’s as well as GFI’s that qualify as “plunder”. This expose is just one of them.
(banayo_at@yahoo.com)
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Bottle School Run June 13 : Rebuilding Ondoy Typhoon
 Bottle School Run June 13 : Rebuilding Ondoy Typhoon Damaged Classrooms | May 17, '10 2:43 AM for everyone |
| Start: | Jun 13, '10 05:00a |
| End: | Jun 13, '10 11:00a |
Rebuilding damaged classrooms
NOTE ::::::
PLEASE WAIT FOR OUR ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN THE REGISTRATION IS OPEN.... WE ARE STILL PRINTING THE NUMBERS
Ondoy and Pepeng destroyed 2800 day care centers, affecting over a million school children.
The Bottle School Run is a community-based solution to build a pioneer bottle school. 1.5 liter PET bottles will be used as building blocks to raise fallen walls.
Join this revolution with your contribution of two (2) PET bottles and your running fee for construction materials and labor.
3, 5, 10 K ( run includes McKinley Hills)
http://illacdiaz.multiply.com/photos/album/503/The_Bottle_School_Project_2010
Registration Sites:
Youth & Sports Dev't office 2nd Flr.
Taguig city Auditorium c/o Mr. Evan Edrada
6281999 loc. 584
Taguig Satellite Office 4th Flr Market Market
R.O.X. The Fort
Soon at Planet Sports ( next few days)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The “Gloria Step Down” Syndrome, a Toilet humor
During my waking moments this morning, some flashes of visions about experiences dating back from my college dormitory life… and days when I have stayed in hotel rooms with a common toilet… and also during times when I was in a crowded mall or restaurant and people are cuing for their turns in a common toilet.
I can’t help but wonder what it’s like being in Glorias’ position whenever I am using the throne and a long cue is waiting desperately outside for their turn.
Here are some points very much similar to Glorias’ position and to those who are in their positions inside a single toilet seat with a long single line of people who are holding themselves with all their might to not give out while waiting deliriously outside the toilet door as follows:
- No one can force her to step down until her turn is over;
- If it’s your turn then it’s your turn, no one can stop it;
- If you can’t be patient and you can’t help it, step out of the line, go find a bush;
- It’s all about self control;
- When it’s your turn, you can always take revenge on the next one in line, but when you do so – the whole world will hate you;
- When you’re the next one in line, it is always the longest wait until it’s your time;
- When it is your turn, it’s always easier to hold it a bit longer;
- During your turn, and if you have a tinge of a Napoleonic mentality (common with leaders below 5 feet tall)… you would normally tend to prolong your turn in any which way you can, you seem to give the impression that your use of this throne is your birth right and nobody can change that;
- That when you are in the position, you can’t help but keep hearing the pounding of knocks on the door and a mob desperately wanting you to step out of it.
The “Gloria Step Down” syndrome is probably not the right term for this Toilet seat inspired thought. But it surely does feel the same.
I can now relate with how traditional politicians think whenever I am using a common toilet. Which brings me to realization of how blessed I am to have my own toilet, I can sit in my throne for as long as I want… it’s clean and nobody gets angry. For your thoughts.
Friday, May 7, 2010
The Irony of Modern Philippine Politics
Reflecting on the current political landscape of this country... one who is enlightened and highly evolved cannot help himself but laugh at this country and it's people.
Firstly, where in the world can you find a convicted criminal can run for public office and be able to win an election?...
Secondly, Where in the world can you find a country that prohibits NEPOTISM yet - find political dynasties ruling nearly almost every single region/ province and town?
Thirdly, where on earth can you find politicians who are willing to kill and die just for a stupid seat inside a government building? Well... maybe it's not the seat nor the pay they are really after... I don't have to mention the obvious.
This country is cruel to the press people... it is also considered to be one of the most dangerous place to live for a reporter or journalist.
It is also the only country where you can find junks valued as treasures.. and real treasures treated as junks.
This value system is very much evident all around the country... you can start observing how they make their public transportations... adorned with so much cosmetic vanity... where everything else works like fancy LED lamps, blinkers, horns, Stickers and many other Stainless non-essentials... except for the safety design of the jeep.
This is also a country where a slapstick comedian or a brawny gladiator can become its' king!... No need to elaborate... just look at the influence they bring to the masses... so many emulating rich celebrities with their manner of speaking, habits - worse - moralities. I haven't seen so much gay children until this decade.... I haven't seen so much young adults thinking so low of themselves - yet dream of making it someday by merely mimicking their celebrity idols in their queer, quirky manners.
It is unthinkable in my own opinion to see people idolizing cosmetically enhanced personalities with very small brains... How on earth can they find peace of mind listening to the noise that comes out of the mouth of these personalities... celebrities and political figure heads?... Unbelievable... to the point that it is somewhat amazing!
It is indeed a country where the majority is not thinking. The complacency of the people can be attributed to the food they eat or probably to Flouride in their toothpaste?... Flouride by the way was used to flourinate the water being fed to Gulag Labor and Prison Camps to make them complacent which makes them easier to lead to do slave labor or even lead to the slaughter.
At any rate... if one must categorically evaluate the potential leaders who are vying for the highest position in this land... they should create a criteria for the selection of their choices.
However, people are not that meticulous anymore... they vote by means of gut feel. Something that is very hard to analyze.
Here is something to share for those who might still be undecided in picking your president. This is unsolcited, but I will give it anyway... so here it goes:
My Short Simple and Quick Criteria for choosing a Philippine President:
1. Does he or she look PRESIDENTIABLE? (Be Honest to yourself - he or she needs to represent all of us to the rest of the world... If we put a clown here - much worse a tyrant - then we will be the biggest Global Joke.) (I still think Raul Manglapuz would have made a really Great President... which reminds me of an Abraham Lincoln Figure.)
2. Does he or she possess Competency? (Check the track record for their reliability and sense of responsibility in handling their business and organization... what impact has he or she made in the society?)
3. What's his/her I.Q. and E.Q. level?... (The Presidential seat or position is a very sensitive job and it needs somebody who is exceptional when it comes to Intellectual and Emotional stability.)
4. What is this guys Moral Bearing in society? (You can't put the sake of the whole nation in the hands of a Morally broke individual... He/she must have a strong- iron hard Moral Stand and that is to preserve and persevere for the common good - with prime importance about Family being the basic unit of society).
5. The solidness of his or her stand. (How firm or solid is his conviction for his crusade or fight?) (sometimes, a bad experience in his or her early history can contribute so much into his future decision making policies and stand)... We need an incorruptible leader.
6. Religion Neutral - a real leader will be neutral in all forms of religion... He will not be taking sides to any religious group... yet he must be well informed and learned in the ways of all religions in order to be able to not cross the lines and prevent offending or insulting any sector whatsoever.
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7. The best leader is best chosen with your eyes closed... If you listen to each one of them speak... without looking at them... you will be able to see clearly the kind of person speaking. I prefer a personality that can hold the attention of every single citizen... locally or even internationally. If he can seize the attention of the masses - simply because he speaks the truth and not just uttering words written by his speech writer - or like some reporter reading the news... Then he is the man or lady for the house (the seat!). (How nice it would be to have a Filipino Churchill managing this country...)
This is just a simple criteria that may serve well in choosing a really qualified candidate.
I hope it's not too late to share this to everyone who will vote on Monday...
May God bless and guide this country... may the best candidate win... in spite of the anticipated - cheating.
Help us Oh God!...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Alarming and Rising Number of Suicides
For the past 2 years, I cannot help but notice the apparent rise in the incidence of suicides among adolescent Filipinos.
Most of them coming from the middle class of society, but many also comes from the poor.
I don't have the statistical figures and demographic picture, but I can mention some in passing... One teenager jumped from the 5th level inside a big popular mall and died on the spot last year... the reason - rumors say that he had some argument with his girlfriend, others say it was just peer pressure. I asked if the kid had his parents with him always? the answer was unclear... apparently, he was lacking the attention he needed while he was growing up and most probably - a deep seated depression was haunting him.
A few more incident from those in the age between 30's and 40's...a male and a female... both had some marital problems.... and then, there are more with celebrity and political figures... their children committing suicide either by jumping off a building or by shooting at ones' self. No apparent reason can be seen right away, but I am always tempted to ask if they are really given the attention needed when they were growing up.
I am not exempted to this dilemma when I was still in my teens... I do recall several times that I have entertained the thought of committing suicide. I have researched many ways how to do it... and sometimes - to the extent of thinking about doing it with the result of causing more damage to my family. Those were my dark years and I do admit, I am really relieved to have outgrew it as I grew more matured.
I would like to think that the rise in suicide is the result of many OFW becoming more prosperous with their life as rich slaves abroad... while becoming poor family managers because they rarely have the time to spend for their own kids.
The new generation of Pinoy are children growing up without the guidance of their parents... they all get accustomed to bonding with their parents only by way of email or cyber chatting if they are lucky to have internet in their homes or enough internet cafe budget. However, for most under the middle class or the lower middle class... Most working parents seldom have the time to spend their physical selves with their kids.
Although Material prosperity is to a certain level better than 50 years ago... the spiritual and moral values of the young generation has been systematically destroyed.
Thanks to a government who takes pride in promoting the best maids, nurses, construction workers and caregivers of the globe... How can a child be proud of himself or his family when he knows for a fact that his mother is a slave in HK, Saudi, America, Rest of Asia and Europe?... this is the general air...
Of course, there are still more variations of this scenario... however, I would like to emphasize on this since this is the most common.
If the sudden rise of young Pinoy Suicides doesn't sound the alarm?... what will it take to really wake up the sleeping Pinoy consciousness?
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Most of them coming from the middle class of society, but many also comes from the poor.
I don't have the statistical figures and demographic picture, but I can mention some in passing... One teenager jumped from the 5th level inside a big popular mall and died on the spot last year... the reason - rumors say that he had some argument with his girlfriend, others say it was just peer pressure. I asked if the kid had his parents with him always? the answer was unclear... apparently, he was lacking the attention he needed while he was growing up and most probably - a deep seated depression was haunting him.
A few more incident from those in the age between 30's and 40's...a male and a female... both had some marital problems.... and then, there are more with celebrity and political figures... their children committing suicide either by jumping off a building or by shooting at ones' self. No apparent reason can be seen right away, but I am always tempted to ask if they are really given the attention needed when they were growing up.
I am not exempted to this dilemma when I was still in my teens... I do recall several times that I have entertained the thought of committing suicide. I have researched many ways how to do it... and sometimes - to the extent of thinking about doing it with the result of causing more damage to my family. Those were my dark years and I do admit, I am really relieved to have outgrew it as I grew more matured.
I would like to think that the rise in suicide is the result of many OFW becoming more prosperous with their life as rich slaves abroad... while becoming poor family managers because they rarely have the time to spend for their own kids.
The new generation of Pinoy are children growing up without the guidance of their parents... they all get accustomed to bonding with their parents only by way of email or cyber chatting if they are lucky to have internet in their homes or enough internet cafe budget. However, for most under the middle class or the lower middle class... Most working parents seldom have the time to spend their physical selves with their kids.
Although Material prosperity is to a certain level better than 50 years ago... the spiritual and moral values of the young generation has been systematically destroyed.
Thanks to a government who takes pride in promoting the best maids, nurses, construction workers and caregivers of the globe... How can a child be proud of himself or his family when he knows for a fact that his mother is a slave in HK, Saudi, America, Rest of Asia and Europe?... this is the general air...
Of course, there are still more variations of this scenario... however, I would like to emphasize on this since this is the most common.
If the sudden rise of young Pinoy Suicides doesn't sound the alarm?... what will it take to really wake up the sleeping Pinoy consciousness?
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
The Future of the Philippines
Patrick and Company... the street scavenger kids of Manila... these kids have a sense of responsibility in their tender ages, they also have dreams....... not to be mistaken as one of those Rugby Boys...
Rugby Boys are those kids already addicted to glue and have twisted ways of thinking, always living a very dangerous life every night in the streets of Manila.
This is the real picture... and it is big.
Wallow with me in these reflections and may you appreciate the blessings in your life... count them.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Distorting the once sacred sexual act into porn rubbish
Marahil isa ka sa mga nag aakala na walang masamang dulot ang pornographia sa taboid, pirated DVD's, magazin, atbp. Isang obserbasyon ang aking ginawa kamakailan lang sa ating paligid sa Maynila.
Mga napuna ko:
1. Lantarang pornographia sa lansangan, tabloid at magazin at pocketbook;
2. Bastos at malaswang kasuotan ng mga babae sa noon time shows;
3. malisyosong mga eksena sa mga palabas at pelikulang tagalog at ingles;
4.Bastos na mga comedyanteng bakla sa mga Stand-up bars nagkalat sa lansangan, halos iisa ang motibo at linya ng mga bastos na pagpapatawa na parang normal lang sa kanila.
Noong araw, wala kang makikitang ganito sa publiko... mas pino pa ang mga tao nung mga dekada 70, 80 at 90. Ngunit ngayon... unti-unti nang nasakop ng kalaswaan ang kultura ni Juan Dela Cruz.
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It is really disheartening to find that the rampant sexual perversion of our society has been left to proliferate due to the Governments' neglect. How can I blame the Government when the very leaders have dysfunctional families themselves. Majority of them most probably have porn materials under their bed... or in their cell phones or computers. The idolized celebrities are no exception to this... as a matter of fact, they are being emulated by the masses since their good innocent looking facade lures the masses to follow their lead.
How on earth can anyone give their applause to these celebrities who have one way or another have video sexual scandals in their life? Even the youth, since they have less time spent with their parents have been influenced by the desensitizing effect of internet porn and tri-media porn.
Even condoms are marketed with much gusto and hype...
My dear friends... when sex has lost its' sanctity... then the end is truly near.
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Here's an article shared by some friends... If we need statistical studies and analysis to prove the harmful effect of porn into our lives... then may this help solve the problem.
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Study Shows Pornography' s Impact on Marriage
By a Catholic Priest named: John Flynn, LC
ROME, FEB. 7, 2010 (Zenit.org). - Pornography is a visual distortion of sexuality that is a major threat to marriage, says a report published in December by the Family Research Council.
Patrick F. Fagan, senior fellow and director of the council's Center for Research on Marriage and Religion, described the social and psychological effects of pornography in his study: "The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community."
Contrary to the argument that pornography is just harmless pleasure, Fagan referred to clinical evidence showing that it significantly distorts attitudes and perceptions about the nature of sexuality.
If they are habitual users of pornography men will tend to have a higher tolerance for abnormal sexual behaviors, the study noted. It's also a habit that is very addictive due to the release of the hormones that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain.
Fagan acknowledged that sexual energies are powerful forces, but precisely because of this society needs to channel these energies in a way that foments the common good. Thus, marriage legitimizes sexual intimacy, it protects the children that are the fruit of intercourse, and promotes social stability.
Setting limits on sexual activity helps teens as they mature to correctly orient their sexuality. Unfortunately, the study commented, developments in the modern media have broken down these barriers and greatly increased the ways in which pornographers can intrude into family life.
Family consequences
When it comes to the consequences for marriage, Fagan referred to studies showing how the use of porn by husbands severely affects wives.
In many cases the wives of pornography users develop deep psychological wounds, he observed. This includes feelings of betrayal, loss, mistrust, and anger. Wives can also feel unattractive or sexually inadequate, which in turn can lead to depression after finding out that their husbands view pornography.
Male viewers of pornography, Fagan added, tend to diminish their emotional involvement in their sexual relations, which has the effect of wives experiencing decreased intimacy from their husbands. In one study husbands reported loving their spouses less after long periods of looking at pornography.
Pornography also has an impact on the physical side of the relationship as prolonged exposure fosters dissatisfaction with the other spouse and their sexual behavior.
Other studies referred to by Fagan found that pornography users increasingly see the institution of marriage as sexually confining and this leads them to doubt the value of marriage as a social institution.
Real infidelity
The emotional distancing from their wives and marriage itself is not without consequences. Fagan observed that the use of pornography and other forms of online sexual contact is considered by many wives to be just as damaging to the relationship as real-life infidelity.
In fact, men and women react to pornography in different ways. One study carried out among undergraduates found that men were more upset by sexual infidelity and women by emotional infidelity.
Another study examined different types of degrading pornography. Both men and women rated the same three major themes as the most degrading of all, but with different intensities: women rated them as even more degrading than men did.
The impact on wives increases when the husbands become addicted to porn. One study cited by Fagan revealed that 40% of such sex addicts lose their spouses. There has not been a lot of research on the relationship between pornography and divorce, but he reported that one study of reports by divorce lawyers found that 68% of divorce cases involved one party meeting a new love interest over the Internet, and 56% involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic Web sites.
It's not only women who suffer when pornography becomes an addiction. Fagan's report noted that addictive pornography use leads to lower self-esteem and a weakened ability among men to carry out a meaningful social and work life. One survey of pornography addicts found that they had felt distressed and experienced impairment in an important aspect of their lives as a result of their addiction.
Illusory
Pornography presents sexual activity as a sort of sporting event or innocent fun, Fagan commented, without any major impact on emotions or health. This simply does not correspond to reality he argued.
In fact, pornography leads to distorted perceptions of social reality: an exaggerated perception of the level of sexual activity in the general population, and an inflated estimate of the likelihood of premarital and extramarital sexual activity. It also leads to an overestimation of the general prevalence of perversions such as group sex, bestiality, and sadomasochistic activity.
"Thus the beliefs being formed in the mind of the viewer of pornography are far removed from reality," Fagan noted. "A case could be made that repeated viewing of pornography induces a mental illness in matters sexual."
Among the distortions created by pornography are three beliefs: (1) sexual relationships are recreational in nature, (2) men are generally sexually driven, and (3) women are sex objects or commodities.
As a result, Fagan described how pornography fosters the idea that the degradation of women is acceptable. Moreover, since males use pornography much more frequently than females, its prevalence leads to the view that women are sex objects or sexual commodities.
Fagan observed that a significant amount of pornography is violent in content. A study of different pornographic media found violence in almost a quarter of magazine scenes, in more than a quarter of video scenes, and in just over 40% of online pornography.
Studies suggest that there is a connection between exposure to pornography and subsequent sexual aggression, he added. Even the consumption of non-violent pornography increases men's willingness to force their sexual desires on reluctant partners, Fagan added.
The recourse to pornography is also associated with sexual offenses, Fagan affirmed. He quoted one study of convicted Internet sexual offenders who reported that they spent more than eleven hours per week viewing pornographic images of children on the Internet.
Another study of sex offenders and non-offenders revealed significant differences in their use of pornography as adolescents. Significant proportions of rapists and molesters had used hard-core pornography during their adolescence.
Adolescents
So pornography is not only damaging marriages, but it is also having a severe impact on adolescents. One study of teens showed that habitual use of pornography frequently leads to abandonment of fidelity to girlfriends. As well, pornography use increased their subsequent marital infidelity rate by more than 300%.
Fagan described how the viewing of pornography by teenagers disorients them during the developmental phase when they are learning how to handle their sexuality and when they are most vulnerable to uncertainty about their sexual beliefs and moral values.
One study of adolescents found that sexually explicit Internet material significantly increased their uncertainties about sexuality. Another study found that adolescents exposed to high levels of pornography had lower levels of sexual self-esteem.
There is also a significant relationship between frequent pornography use and feelings of loneliness, including major depression.
High adolescent consumption of pornography is linked to significantly increased sexual intercourse with non-romantic friends and can be a significant factor in teenage pregnancy.
Well before the advent of the Internet the Second Vatican Council commented in its decree on the media that, if properly utilized, the media can be of great service to mankind.
"The Church recognizes, too, that men can employ these media contrary to the plan of the Creator and to their own loss. Indeed, the Church experiences maternal grief at the harm all too often done to society by their evil use," the decree observed (Par. 2). An evil use that only too often today is poisoning families and marriages.
ROME, FEB. 7, 2010 (Zenit.org). - Pornography is a visual distortion of sexuality that is a major threat to marriage, says a report published in December by the Family Research Council.
Patrick F. Fagan, senior fellow and director of the council's Center for Research on Marriage and Religion, described the social and psychological effects of pornography in his study: "The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community."
Contrary to the argument that pornography is just harmless pleasure, Fagan referred to clinical evidence showing that it significantly distorts attitudes and perceptions about the nature of sexuality.
If they are habitual users of pornography men will tend to have a higher tolerance for abnormal sexual behaviors, the study noted. It's also a habit that is very addictive due to the release of the hormones that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain.
Fagan acknowledged that sexual energies are powerful forces, but precisely because of this society needs to channel these energies in a way that foments the common good. Thus, marriage legitimizes sexual intimacy, it protects the children that are the fruit of intercourse, and promotes social stability.
Setting limits on sexual activity helps teens as they mature to correctly orient their sexuality. Unfortunately, the study commented, developments in the modern media have broken down these barriers and greatly increased the ways in which pornographers can intrude into family life.
Family consequences
When it comes to the consequences for marriage, Fagan referred to studies showing how the use of porn by husbands severely affects wives.
In many cases the wives of pornography users develop deep psychological wounds, he observed. This includes feelings of betrayal, loss, mistrust, and anger. Wives can also feel unattractive or sexually inadequate, which in turn can lead to depression after finding out that their husbands view pornography.
Male viewers of pornography, Fagan added, tend to diminish their emotional involvement in their sexual relations, which has the effect of wives experiencing decreased intimacy from their husbands. In one study husbands reported loving their spouses less after long periods of looking at pornography.
Pornography also has an impact on the physical side of the relationship as prolonged exposure fosters dissatisfaction with the other spouse and their sexual behavior.
Other studies referred to by Fagan found that pornography users increasingly see the institution of marriage as sexually confining and this leads them to doubt the value of marriage as a social institution.
Real infidelity
The emotional distancing from their wives and marriage itself is not without consequences. Fagan observed that the use of pornography and other forms of online sexual contact is considered by many wives to be just as damaging to the relationship as real-life infidelity.
In fact, men and women react to pornography in different ways. One study carried out among undergraduates found that men were more upset by sexual infidelity and women by emotional infidelity.
Another study examined different types of degrading pornography. Both men and women rated the same three major themes as the most degrading of all, but with different intensities: women rated them as even more degrading than men did.
The impact on wives increases when the husbands become addicted to porn. One study cited by Fagan revealed that 40% of such sex addicts lose their spouses. There has not been a lot of research on the relationship between pornography and divorce, but he reported that one study of reports by divorce lawyers found that 68% of divorce cases involved one party meeting a new love interest over the Internet, and 56% involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic Web sites.
It's not only women who suffer when pornography becomes an addiction. Fagan's report noted that addictive pornography use leads to lower self-esteem and a weakened ability among men to carry out a meaningful social and work life. One survey of pornography addicts found that they had felt distressed and experienced impairment in an important aspect of their lives as a result of their addiction.
Illusory
Pornography presents sexual activity as a sort of sporting event or innocent fun, Fagan commented, without any major impact on emotions or health. This simply does not correspond to reality he argued.
In fact, pornography leads to distorted perceptions of social reality: an exaggerated perception of the level of sexual activity in the general population, and an inflated estimate of the likelihood of premarital and extramarital sexual activity. It also leads to an overestimation of the general prevalence of perversions such as group sex, bestiality, and sadomasochistic activity.
"Thus the beliefs being formed in the mind of the viewer of pornography are far removed from reality," Fagan noted. "A case could be made that repeated viewing of pornography induces a mental illness in matters sexual."
Among the distortions created by pornography are three beliefs: (1) sexual relationships are recreational in nature, (2) men are generally sexually driven, and (3) women are sex objects or commodities.
As a result, Fagan described how pornography fosters the idea that the degradation of women is acceptable. Moreover, since males use pornography much more frequently than females, its prevalence leads to the view that women are sex objects or sexual commodities.
Fagan observed that a significant amount of pornography is violent in content. A study of different pornographic media found violence in almost a quarter of magazine scenes, in more than a quarter of video scenes, and in just over 40% of online pornography.
Studies suggest that there is a connection between exposure to pornography and subsequent sexual aggression, he added. Even the consumption of non-violent pornography increases men's willingness to force their sexual desires on reluctant partners, Fagan added.
The recourse to pornography is also associated with sexual offenses, Fagan affirmed. He quoted one study of convicted Internet sexual offenders who reported that they spent more than eleven hours per week viewing pornographic images of children on the Internet.
Another study of sex offenders and non-offenders revealed significant differences in their use of pornography as adolescents. Significant proportions of rapists and molesters had used hard-core pornography during their adolescence.
Adolescents
So pornography is not only damaging marriages, but it is also having a severe impact on adolescents. One study of teens showed that habitual use of pornography frequently leads to abandonment of fidelity to girlfriends. As well, pornography use increased their subsequent marital infidelity rate by more than 300%.
Fagan described how the viewing of pornography by teenagers disorients them during the developmental phase when they are learning how to handle their sexuality and when they are most vulnerable to uncertainty about their sexual beliefs and moral values.
One study of adolescents found that sexually explicit Internet material significantly increased their uncertainties about sexuality. Another study found that adolescents exposed to high levels of pornography had lower levels of sexual self-esteem.
There is also a significant relationship between frequent pornography use and feelings of loneliness, including major depression.
High adolescent consumption of pornography is linked to significantly increased sexual intercourse with non-romantic friends and can be a significant factor in teenage pregnancy.
Well before the advent of the Internet the Second Vatican Council commented in its decree on the media that, if properly utilized, the media can be of great service to mankind.
"The Church recognizes, too, that men can employ these media contrary to the plan of the Creator and to their own loss. Indeed, the Church experiences maternal grief at the harm all too often done to society by their evil use," the decree observed (Par. 2). An evil use that only too often today is poisoning families and marriages.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Buhay Subdivision
1. Everything seems to look organized... pero, wala kang kapitbahay;
Have you ever noticed the fact that - you don't really know your immediate neighbor or kapitbahay?
2. There is no real community spirit;
Of course there is a community, but in reality, it is just a cluster of homes in one area which is basically meant to be just the bedroom of the family. Everyone spends more time outside the subdivisions... only the home workers or maids are really left inside the houses most of the times.
3. Fixed unnecessary cost of living;
Ever noticed the fixed homeowners fee, maintenance fee, security fee, garbage collection fee and the cost of fuel or transportation or travelling one has to put in his/her budget when one needs to live inside a subdivision comfortably.
4. Limitations and restrictions to improve ones house;
Bawal mag drill ng sariling poso, no one can drill ones' own deep well, Nobody can put up a store front very easily, not easy to alter the looks of his house - if a subdivision has an architectural theme, nobody can build an off the grid house which is high energy efficient that can run on solar, wind and earth ground free energy; making a practical house that will have solar panels as it's roof, a sustainable vegetable organic garden with it's own composting facility, large windows or glass walls to allow natural lighting and also wind to pass through, and other unorthodox design which will make it virtually off the grid and your own water purification system with your own deep well.
5. Tendency to live in a shell;
People tend to live more independently inside subdivisions or villages... nothing wrong with that for as long as it doesn't affect their budget.
The big picture is...
People seems to make themselves more enslaved to their jobs or work whether overseas or locally in order to upkeep their expensive subdivision living cost.
Let us call this phenomenon for this matter as SLC (Subdivision Living Cost).
The question is begging to be asked right now... How much is your SLC?
For one to have a decent and comfortable life, one should check whether his SLC is bigger than his net worth or Productive Income.
If ones' SLC is bigger... one will only become more enslaved by his present work as an OFW or in many cases... enslaved by debt.
One will be working for the rest of his entire life just to pay interest of his debt to the real estate developer.
The Really Big Picture is...
OFW earnings... = Enslavement with the price of Broken Families + SLC = Exponential Profit and Earnings to the Real Estate Developer.
If an OFW leaves his wife for more than 6 months in a subdivision alone... do you think yuor kapitbahay will keep her from committing adultery?
How can a country even talk about being a strong republic when it's very fiber of society; the family, is systematically destroyed in favor of the politicians and the elites?
Food for thought.
MANNY VILLAR TRUTH EXPOSED!!! - FAILON NGAYON ON C5 VS. VILLAR'S 23 SUBDIVISIONS!!
23 SUBDIVISIONS AND MANNY VILLAR'S COMPANIES OBVIOUSLY BENEFITED FROM C5 PROJECTS.
START FROM 2:12
1) CAMELLA MOLINO
2) LESSANDRA BACOOR
3) SIENNAS VILLAS
4) MERIDA
5) FRONTERRA
6) LESSANDRA MOLINO
7) LESSANDRA BUCANDALA
8) BELLA VISTA
9) TIERRA NEVADA
10) PRISTINA
11) TERASA
12) LESSANDRA IMUS
13) CERRITOS 1
14) CERRITOS TRAILS
15) CERRITOS HEIGHTS
16) LESSANDRA HEIGHTS
17) COLINA
18) PORTOFINO HEIGHTS
19) PORTOFINO SOUTH
20) PONTICELLI CROWN ASIA
21) SPRINGVILLE
22) CASSANDRA NG CAMELLA
23) AMALFI CROWN ASIA
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