Cher, cher… may I go out?
This post is for all the teachers, educators, parents and those who are thankful for their mentors as well.
“Teachers make every other profession”.
How to Assess your Date through their Favorite Foreign Movies
So you are on a date and you ask her… so what’s your favorite movies?
How to write for everyone?
When you are reading, do you sometimes scratch your head while you try to understand what you are reading? It’s hard to comprehend something when you can’t even understand the words they are using. You tried so hard to look for an answer and when you thought that you have found it, you still fail because you don’t understand the answer. Well, here are some tips I wish those people would do, how to write for everyone?
How can one man have so much power over you?
I watched the DVD of Music and Lyrics a few days ago. I’m a hundred years late in watching this film but I don’t mind. I still loved it anyway.
I liked it for the fact that I was reminded of how men are total jerks. Recall the scenes where Drew talked about her relationship with famous novelist, Sloan. She struggled with the fact that she invested her love on a guy who would eventually write a book about it in not so good words – thus earning his income on her sad, pitiful story. Kiss and tell. And those who tell most often than not choose the way they tell – where they turn out to be the victims. Men? Victims. Come on.
A Pinoy!
Pinoy is what Filipinos call each other, a
term of endearment. You’re Pinoy from Pilipino just like you’re tisoy
from mestizo or chinoy from chino.
It’s a nickname just as Minoy is from Maximo, Ninoy from Benigno,
Tinay from Florentina and Kikay from Francisca. But now they’re Maxi
and Ben and Tintin and Cheska.
You’ve been called indio, goo-goo, Negro, flip, noypits. Or Filipino,
a biscuit th at is brown outside and white inside, or a word stricken
from the dictionary which means domestic. Ay, lintik!
You’re Juan de la Cruz or Mang Pandoy. You’re common tao, masa, urban
poor but also Cecile Licad and Don Jaime, Jose Rizal and Tony Meloto,
Shawie and Pacquiao and Nick Joaquin, galing galing.
Born June 12, 1896, the Republic of the RP is a Gemini, good at
connecting, good at loving-loving, good at texting and interpersonal
skills.
Filipinos like to yakap, akbay, hawak, kalong, kalabit. We sleep side
by side, siping-siping, we go out kabit kabit.
Ibang Laypistayl
Nung isang linggo sa opisina:
Lisa: Are you on holidays next week, Jon?…No you’re not leaving us! (pabiro)
Jon: Actually, I didn’t take any holidays last year, this is the first time I’m gonna be off.
Lisa: Oh, my heart is bleeding for you mate…why didn’t you? Or take a longer one this time?
Jon: I don’t feel like resting too long, back in the Philippines you rarely get holidays. Worst is if you insist on having one, you might not have a job when you come back!
Hanggang ngayon, parang di pa rin ako nakakapag-adjust sa tinatawag na “laid-back” lifestyle ng mga australyano. Siguro dahil galing tayo sa bansang walang ginawa kundi kumayod nang kumayod para lang kumita ng konti para tustusan ang mga “basic needs”. Malaki ngang pagbabago kung mapupunta ka sa buhay na parang konting effort lang eh sapat na para suportahan ang mga kailangan mo. Siguro ang katumbas ng “laid back” lifestyle nila eh “overworked-underpaid” lifestyle sa atin.
Mabanggit ko lang ang konting katibayan:
Reviving the Nation
The Vision
Where do we go from here? Where must the Philippines be ten, fifteen years from now?
We must not be afraid to dream of a country which is free of poverty by the year 2020.
We have to make a decision to solve this problem in our generation.
This translates to two million Filipino getting out of the poverty trap every year.
Can this be done? Yes, this can be done. Is there hope? Yes there is. How do we do this?
LPG Fuel: A Health Risk?
“Why is the government allowing LPG fuel when it is a health risk? Many drivers claim that their health deteriorated with LPG.” I received this message from my friend who works for an NGO. As a commuter who values the role of public transport drivers, I became deeply concerned. So I will attempt to answer her question.
According to news reports
the Department of Health (DOH) is currently investigating a surge of heath risks among drivers of public utility vehicles fueled by Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said, “We have received reports of drivers of LPG-driven public vehicles suffering from difficulty in breathing and skin allergy.” He said that if LPG is indeed proven to pose health risks, the DOH will “make a recommendation to immediately stop the use of such technology.”
Ain’t that for cooking? Why use LPG for fuel anyway? Click here to read the rest of the entry
[DYuTYub #17] Toni Gonzaga – “Catch Me I’m Fallin”
How can time be so wrong
For love to come along?
Catch me I’m falling for you
Lyrics
Peborit ni B! 
We are Responsible For The Shortage of Doctors, Not the Rich Nations
In an article from International Herald Tribune published last July 20, the rich nations were blamed for the shortage of doctors, not only in the Philippines, but in all poor countries. As much as 18,000 Filipino doctors leave the country, mostly going to the U.S. to undergo training and eventually, to stay there for good. Even Africa, where millions are afflicted with AIDS and very much in need of medical attention, is being drained of its doctors. It appears that monetary compensation is one obvious factor why a healthcare professional leaves his home country. Another less obvious one is career satisfaction, which some overzealous people think should be second priority to the god, Patriotism. In the end, it is the recruitment of foreign-educated doctors by rich nations that is blamed for this “brain-drain”.
I don’t believe it is the rich nations’ fault that a lot of doctors flock to their countries for training and medical practice. That is like blaming the bakery with the better-tasting bread for another bakery’s loss of loyal customers. Or blaming a more reputable, consistent university for having more incoming freshmen than a college who’s failed to improve itself. The rich nations are short of healthcare professionals and are willing to compensate well those who’d come to its shores to work, which is admirable really because it shows how much they care about their nation’s health and well-being that they’d spend for its survival and maintenance.
And now, contrast this with what is happening in our country.
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