Circumstantial Culture
Being away from home allows one an opportunity to look at his own people with a detached perspective. It is with that note that this blog is being written.
Because I am overseas, I only manage to get fresh news from home by watching the news in TFC. It is very refreshing to hear news of Filipinos achieving so much in the fields of boxing, entertainment/music, fashion and sometimes, even science, but it is quite disconcerting to hear news about the degenerating political and social climate in the Philippines. But I am not a political science expert nor am I an authority in social analysis. I speak of what is simply on my mind right now, as I also think of the future of the Filipino people.
Sundays at U.P.
12 May 2010
I love Sundays. Its the only day where I can really stop for a while and "smell the roses". I love Sundays, and I love spending it in U.P. I fell in love with the place the first time I entered its gateways in 1997 as a college freshman, and up to now, i still feel that "wow" feeling when...
Source: dolphins' cry
Death by Potpot in a Sweaty Race for Earth
When I first heard about Race Across Dumaguete, it was through Facebook, and it was a little too late for me to do anything about it. There, plastered on my Facebook wall late last year, were pictures of many of my friends—Angeline Dy, Zara Dy, John Philip Uy, among others—in various poses of sweaty...
Source: The Spy in the Sandwich Eats the Sun
So what about Earth Day 2010 ?
20 April 2010
Its Earth Day on the 22nd of April. So what now?
"What can i contribute anyway, im just one man?"
"So what if i do these? Others will still continue doing it"
"I conserve, while others consume as much as they...
Source: dolphins' cry
WWF Hails New Act to Protect Country’s Top Coral Reef
While the country celebrated the 68th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, environmentalists celebrated yet another historical event. Last 6 April, the enabling act for Tubbataha Reefs was signed into law, after eight long years of lobbying and congressional discussion.
Republic Act 10067 or the Tubbataha...
Source: Ang Sa Wari Ko
It’s really bad and frightening
The title of this post sums it all. It came from one of my PhD students who is with a government bureau tasked to look at agriculture in many provinces around the Philippines. She has been traveling and assessing the effects of the latest ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) in the Philippines.
I would...
Source: Filipino Voices
Binding agreement on climate change between countries is a must!!!
The different nations of the world shall be having another climate change summit this year in Mexico City to attempt to have a “binding agreement” that will address the rising temperature of the world which basically put every single human being and other species at risk of extinction contrary...
Source: Greenoys Blog
PGMA forms task force for Haiti rescue, relief efforts
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the today the activation of a task force within the Philippine Peacekeeping Contingent in Haiti that will conduct search and rescues, and relief efforts for Filipinos affected by the earthquake in that Caribbean nation.
Deputy presidential spokesperson Gary...
Source: PINOYWORLD Philippines | Pinoy Blogger's Official Blog
