Archive: Currrent Events
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Dec 22, 2011
1 CommentCDO and Iligan needs help
Hard to believe but the photos below were taken in Cagayan De Oro 3 weeks ago. It was a shock when I turned on the TV to watch the news and saw the damage done by the typhoon. It looked as if part of Cagayan and Iligan were rice fields, submerged in brown murky water....
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Oct 25, 2011
No CommentsA call for responsible journalism
Please stop using the phrase “krisis sa Mindanao” o “kaguluhan sa Mindanao” on your news reports. Mindanao is a very big island. While a tragedy indeed happened in Basilan, it is only a part of a big land area. It is a disservice to all who live in Mindanao in peace. People who are not...
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Jul 23, 2011
No CommentsSNUPS Awards and Underwater Photo Exhibit
Ohai there, it’s Saturday! My favorite day of the week. For most people it’s thank god it’s Friday, for us in the BPO sector, it’s thank god it’s Saturday. I was thinking of hitting Divisoria and and some of the thrift stores I frequent to look for furniture and other stuff for the house this...
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Jul 21, 2011
No CommentsLiberty through Critical Reasoning – The Annual UP Pi Sigma Open Debate Tournament
The 24th Annual UP Pi Sigma Fraternity OPEN DEBATE Tournament - A Metro Invitational Tourney - Open to All Colleges and Universities in Metro Manila Registration still ongoing until July 29, 2011 For details, you may contact mobile nos. 0917-6481474 Email: ricardo_jonson@yahoo.com Ricardo Jonson Jr. Debate Chairperson 24th Annual UP Pi Sigma Fraternity Open...
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Jul 13, 2011
No CommentsURGENT ALERT, PLEASE CIRCULATE: RMP Lit-Num school red-tagged, host community attacked by paramilitaries
The paramilitary group, Wild Dogs, attacked a Higaonon community in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur after staff of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) asked permission for the reopening of their Literacy and Numeracy (Lit-Num) School in the the municipality. On June 10, 2011, Melissa Amado-Comiso, the coordinator of the Lit-Num program, accompanied by Datu...
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Mar 07, 2010
No CommentsRemembering Marcel
Reposting an article I read over at Mindanews: (This piece was posted as a Facebook entry by the author. A friend of hers, Inday Espina-Varona, editor in chief of The Philippine Graphic sent this out to other friends “for two reasons. One, that it us a powerful expression of a pain that cannot go away...
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Feb 23, 2010
No CommentsNogie, you suck.
A frat brother sent me a link to an article that made me laugh early this morning. It was about Nogie drumming up results of him winning over Sarah Duterte in a mock election held in UP Mindanao. There were 46 participants only, most of which were his scholars. Desperate...
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Sep 15, 2009
6 CommentsI will not vote for Noynoy
Everybody’s agog at Ninoy’s decision to run for president, most especially after Mar’s decision to step down and give up his ambition for a man whose last name is more popular than his. And yet what does Ninoy really have to offer the filipino people? His last name made popular by the role his parents played...
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Jul 27, 2009
2 CommentsFull Transcription of GMA’s 9th SONA
Tens of millions lost their jobs; billions across the globe have been hurt—the poor always harder than the rich. No one was spared.. It has affected us already. But the story of the Philippines in 2008 is that the country weathered a succession of global crises in fuel, in food, then in finance and finally the...
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Jun 05, 2009
No CommentsNo to ConAss!
I can't join the lobbying on the streets and at the congress because of work, but I'll do my own share here on this blog. Read the statement here. (longer post to follow...
