Summer is soon to be over. Rainy season almost near. School boys and girls are getting ready with stuffs and uniforms. We cannot be as postponing as now. If only we can extend the holidays of summer or just be in this season for the rest of our lives. Every body is waiting for summer and just like that it is to end so quick.
I wanna reflect a little bit of how memorable summer has been for many of us. Where else can we trace the joy of the season but in the social network sites. Instagram has never been this demanding, this summer might be the largest of population added to the instagram community. Most of us taking pictures of our vacations in the beach or just in the pool or the out of town picnic, the summer concerts or the experiments we made at home just to quench our thirsts for summer foods like sorbets.
Throwback Thursday is the name of a weekly post theme that social media users participate in as part of a very general "throwback" activity for posting content.On Thursdays, people usually post photos on sites like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook that are from the past. Photos can be from years ago or from just a few days ago. There aren't really any limitations, and it really just gives people an excuse to post more.
Definitely tThurs is just another innovation in the realm of #sentisabado if you can remember. But most of the hash-tags in twitter and instagram are containing that nostalgic theme.
#Richard or #LoveandLies can be your hashtags if you are following the latest suspoense drama in GMA. If your staying late after that and an avid of junky love stories, you might be tweeting about #QueenandI because of it's funny yet romantic color. #RobinDude or #Akihiro for TV 5 fans who enjoyed Akihiro Blanco's first ever stint as lead in a month long series. #Aerosmith if you are so into the concert of Aerosmith this month here in Manila or #JasonMraz who also did one. #PBACommisioner with teh recently concluded game between Brangay Ginebra and Alaska Aces where Alaska brought the trophy home. You may want to include #QuenGil or #MMMKJuanPonce if you liked the two part mini series of Enrique Mari Gil in MMK where he portrayed as the adolescent Juan Ponce Enrile.
You may be saddened by the season finale of #GleeSeason4 and disappointed by the results of #AmericanIdol12 which also concluded it's season early this month. You may want to tweet about the #SantaCruzan in your Barangay or #kALOKALIKE which may be your favorite Showtime segment. #iTweetMOAkoSaAraneta is another favorite hashtag because of the successful concert of Jomari Viceral in Araneta.
What's your favorite summer hashtags? The NBA Playoffs Conferences already started. Miami just won the night over Indiana Pacers. Still I am going to join the club of Pacers believers. I may be posting a lot about it in my home pages. What about you? You may be following the controversy of Ai Ai de las Alas' frustrated marriage, then tweet about it.
Summer is soon to be over. Sadness may take control over ones predisposition if one has nothing left to remember about the summer that passed. It is good to take more photos of summer escapades and share it to the world. Actually, sharing it to your self in the future when the truth is you can browse it anytime tomorrow when you are missing yesterday.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
However Democratic This World Maybe
This is the Philippines, three times colonized by various imperial powers for four centuries. Never the oppressor. Always the oppressed. Victim of cultural inferiority. The country which until now never really appreciated its own culture and historicity, hence adores the culture of the west with utmost guilty pleasure.
This is the Philippines where Hayden Kho can do feminine desecration and come out in public with his own brand of perfume as if he's one of the most fragrant guys on earth. Where Raymart Santiago and Eduardo Atilano can beat an old media man at the airport and have a primetime TV show after 6 months. Where a president accused opf plunder, sentenced and overthrown from office can become a presidential candidate again and almost won now the proclaimed mayor of the state capital. This is the Philippines. a country which never get tired and will never get tired of Kris Aquino's real life drama. A country very much different from that of Australia, France, New Zealand or Sweden. This is the country where Nancy Binay can win a senatorial race and tramp Milagros Magsaysay and Risa Hontiveros on a national election. A country in need of axiological more than political and economic reforms.
There are times when no one can blame you for being too hopeless, you feel you have all the reasons to pack your stuffs and migrate to another country where opportunities for financial and professional stability are lurking.
A little sense of foolishness can be found in our frenzy for the election season. We love voting for law makers who will legislate the regulations of the land but it seems that very few of us have the interest in obeying laws. No less than the largets religious institution in this country misreads the provision on the separation between the Church and state. Until now, the battles is neck to neck between prolife and pro RH with both political and religious color. The media, another outfit which seem to disregard the Fair Elections Act Sec 6.7-6.8 when MMK Kampanyaserye hit the television serving the interests of the candidates whose very lives were portrayed in the episodes within the campaign and pre-campaign seasons. Th elikes of Grace Poe Llamansares played by Erich Gonzales; Alan Peter Cayetano played by Gerald Randolph Anderson Jr.; Leni Robredo played by Kaye Abad and just two weeks before the election, the life of Jackie Enrile's octagenarian father Juan Ponce Enrile in a two part mini series played by the charming Enrique Mari Gil, all benefited from the show.
I will never find an answer as to why the Philippines is like this. None of us will ever make it alone. Yet rather than asking the questions from where these things originated, the country should start working on a solution to definite sociological problems. And the senatorial election is very much an influential factor to finding an answer. Imposition of laws that can forge order and proper discipline are engines of sophisticated political anbd economic prosperity. If we have the right persons in the government, hotly now, the senate, then we can be a bit secure that necessary laws will be enacted and implemented.
The first thing, incumbent senators must allot a budget for their crash course in European and Asian Studies. Visit the nations in Europe and Asia which are ahead of us like the United Kingdom,Singapore and South Korea then study what measures are applicable also in the Philippines. Scrutinize it. Do not just experiment. Becasue we are wasting a lot of money in testing a system which is not 100% sure to be working. Create jobs and opportunities. Make our people healthy not just fed and then they will be ready to be educated. Voters education should top the list if we want to avoid another Nancy Binay the next time to enter the picture.
Whenever I see the faces of my once brilliant professors and my mentors, I know there is hope in this country. That though Nicanor Abelardo, Raul Manglapus, Claro M Recto, and Ninoy Aquino had long gone by there is assurance for some individuals like them are still alive. Whenever I see photos of me with youth participants who attended my powerpoint lectures on youth leadership, I know there is a spark of brighter tomorrow in this archipelago. I am always encourage to continue doing what I do to the kids who will one day take over our posts or perhaps one day be the names to shade in my ballot.
I'm sure I can do no more with the folks who championed Nancy Binay a senate seat but there is a lot to be done forming the intellectual makeup of the youngsters who are potential leaders of the destiny being honed. And if ever the Philippines has her own destiny to boast, then I like being part of its fulfillment. Even if it means a stockpile of powerpoint CDs and workshop modules.
This is the Philippines where Hayden Kho can do feminine desecration and come out in public with his own brand of perfume as if he's one of the most fragrant guys on earth. Where Raymart Santiago and Eduardo Atilano can beat an old media man at the airport and have a primetime TV show after 6 months. Where a president accused opf plunder, sentenced and overthrown from office can become a presidential candidate again and almost won now the proclaimed mayor of the state capital. This is the Philippines. a country which never get tired and will never get tired of Kris Aquino's real life drama. A country very much different from that of Australia, France, New Zealand or Sweden. This is the country where Nancy Binay can win a senatorial race and tramp Milagros Magsaysay and Risa Hontiveros on a national election. A country in need of axiological more than political and economic reforms.
There are times when no one can blame you for being too hopeless, you feel you have all the reasons to pack your stuffs and migrate to another country where opportunities for financial and professional stability are lurking.
A little sense of foolishness can be found in our frenzy for the election season. We love voting for law makers who will legislate the regulations of the land but it seems that very few of us have the interest in obeying laws. No less than the largets religious institution in this country misreads the provision on the separation between the Church and state. Until now, the battles is neck to neck between prolife and pro RH with both political and religious color. The media, another outfit which seem to disregard the Fair Elections Act Sec 6.7-6.8 when MMK Kampanyaserye hit the television serving the interests of the candidates whose very lives were portrayed in the episodes within the campaign and pre-campaign seasons. Th elikes of Grace Poe Llamansares played by Erich Gonzales; Alan Peter Cayetano played by Gerald Randolph Anderson Jr.; Leni Robredo played by Kaye Abad and just two weeks before the election, the life of Jackie Enrile's octagenarian father Juan Ponce Enrile in a two part mini series played by the charming Enrique Mari Gil, all benefited from the show.
I will never find an answer as to why the Philippines is like this. None of us will ever make it alone. Yet rather than asking the questions from where these things originated, the country should start working on a solution to definite sociological problems. And the senatorial election is very much an influential factor to finding an answer. Imposition of laws that can forge order and proper discipline are engines of sophisticated political anbd economic prosperity. If we have the right persons in the government, hotly now, the senate, then we can be a bit secure that necessary laws will be enacted and implemented.
The first thing, incumbent senators must allot a budget for their crash course in European and Asian Studies. Visit the nations in Europe and Asia which are ahead of us like the United Kingdom,Singapore and South Korea then study what measures are applicable also in the Philippines. Scrutinize it. Do not just experiment. Becasue we are wasting a lot of money in testing a system which is not 100% sure to be working. Create jobs and opportunities. Make our people healthy not just fed and then they will be ready to be educated. Voters education should top the list if we want to avoid another Nancy Binay the next time to enter the picture.
Whenever I see the faces of my once brilliant professors and my mentors, I know there is hope in this country. That though Nicanor Abelardo, Raul Manglapus, Claro M Recto, and Ninoy Aquino had long gone by there is assurance for some individuals like them are still alive. Whenever I see photos of me with youth participants who attended my powerpoint lectures on youth leadership, I know there is a spark of brighter tomorrow in this archipelago. I am always encourage to continue doing what I do to the kids who will one day take over our posts or perhaps one day be the names to shade in my ballot.
I'm sure I can do no more with the folks who championed Nancy Binay a senate seat but there is a lot to be done forming the intellectual makeup of the youngsters who are potential leaders of the destiny being honed. And if ever the Philippines has her own destiny to boast, then I like being part of its fulfillment. Even if it means a stockpile of powerpoint CDs and workshop modules.
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