Posts Tagged With: Philippines
Rustic and beautiful Pangasinan
So I got back from Pangasinan yesterday evening and today I fly to Cagayan de Oro. We stayed in San Manuel where our donor, San Roque Power Corporation, is graciously hosting us and the teachers for their Teachers Training. I couldn’t leave the compound for those 3 days but on the third day, we left [...]
Mt. Batulao
Batulao was a last-minute change. Originally, we were set to climb Daguldol so that we had the option of going to the beach after. But with half of the friends I invited unable to go and with more logistical concerns, I decided to change to Batulao instead. On hindsight, I thought it was a good [...]
Conquering Mt. Apo – Oct. 21-26, 2010
(First of a series of 4) Mt. Apo to me seemed like a distant dream. I started climbing in 2008, but even then I didn’t think I’d have it in me to climb Apo. Even when the opportunity presented itself, I was always doubtful. I doubted whether I was capable or whether the trainings I’ve [...]
Adventure, where are you?
I give up! There’s no bungee jumping facility anywhere in the Philippines. The one in Subic doesn’t exist anymore, and the Agas Agas Bridge in Leyte has yet to be transformed into an extreme outdoor adventure site. Where is adventure when you need it? I spent so much time researching and looking for a perfect [...]
Reign of Terror
Abraham Johannes Muste, a pacifist and an anti-war activist in the 1930s said and I quote, “The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.” If we go by his definition of a surviving democracy, then we can nearly conclude that [...]
The Ondoy Aftermath
I am overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed with the images I see on TV, the videos I get to watch about the Ondoy aftermath, the stories I hear of people rescuing other people, people dying, people needing to be rescued, still. I am overwhelmed because so many people are in need and while I know relief [...]
35 is not 1000 —unless you’re from the Customs
This is how corrupt our Bureau of CUSTOMS is. Today, I asked my brother OJ to pass by the Post office in Pasay so he can get the two books my mom had sent us from Michigan. Early this week, I received a Claim slip that said I was only to show my ID as [...]
The plight of teachers
I’ve always known that the plight of public school teachers in our country is deplorable. But until I saw with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears from these undervalued and underpaid molders of our country’s young, and those who work closely with them, I never realized how much I didn’t know. I [...]
My generation does not have to be a disappointment
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that’s news. If they aren’t, that’s news too. – Kenneth Rexroth I [...]
KZ Tweeting on SONA 2009
Thank goodness there was Live SONA Coverage online for us who were not at home to watch GMA mock the Filipino people with lie after every moronic lie. Here’s to us Filipinos who know that behind every fact and figure is a forgotten scandal and a controversy and while our fake president has been challenged [...]
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