registration and the Filipino people.

Had a tiring day..together with some church friends and my family we went to QC City hall to register for the 2010 elections..and you know what? I realized many things about our country…

WE FILIPINOS LOVE to blame! We FILIPINOS LOVE to cram.

We were in the city hall like 9 or 10 am and we finished around 5pm, for what? For a validated registration form and know what?we will get back tomorrow for the actual registration. “Ka-badtrip talaga” to wait for almost 9 hours just for that form, but come to think of it…We had all the time to register the past few months and yet we cram for registration now and blame the comelec, the city hall, the government for this? But do we always blame them? I know our system really sucks but do we always blame them why our system or country sucks..Our country sucks because we the people also suck!(forgive me for the term,but can’t think of any term)..We do not move on from blaming them..rally reklamo “>dito rally jan, reklamo dito reklamo sa taas and for what?…why not just move on, find something remarkable to do then try to help others..dba? Maxado tayong tayong “>nanisi, maxado tayong ng-eexpect sa “kanila” and we know for a fact na ever since eh ganyan na sila..dba?so why blame?why nag?

this day made me realize many things…Kanina, many people were so mad, sobrang sarcastic at nang-aasar pa sa mga comelec and it made me think..”why are you people like that?”..Imagine there were only about 40-50 comelec there handling about over 5,000 people and you expect them to be as efficient as you want them to be? Some of them are volunteers lang and please don’t blame them! they just do their jobs, their super toxic jobs for how mucH?(Bka mas malaki pa allowance ng students eh)..Kawawa sila kanina talaga…ngkulang ba ang comelec sa pagpapaalala na mg-register ng maaga? Ako Ako “>Mismo, Ako ang Simula and all other orgs keep on reminding us to vote early..but still here we are Filipinos..cramming and nagging.

Look at ondoy..Do you still remember what some Filipinos did after the tragedy? NANISI NG GOBYERNO at ng maraming tao!..maybe the government had some contributions why we were flooded that hard..pero did those people thought na “ay oo may kasalanan din tayo,.ngtatapon din tayo ng basura eh, nakatira tayo sa malapit sa ilog eh”..

Elections is just a few months away, aside from intelligently picking the right candidates, we Filipinos should also reflect on things that matter and ask ourselves these questions….Have I done something so far for my country that is significant? Do I always blame other people for what is happening to me right now? Do I always see the wrong side of things and forget the good things that is around me? Am I willing to change for the benefit of my society?..I know these questions are hard to fulfill, but try to reflect..This may sound cliche but if we only just know how to start change within ourselves and influence others with that change..we could slowly make an impact and maybe someday really someday change the way our country goes..

“Ang tunay na kabanalan ay ang ang “>pagkakawang-gawa, ang pag-ibig sa kapwa at ang isukat ang bawat kilos, gawa’t pangungusap sa talagang katuwiran.”- Emilio Jacinto

NO TO ERAP…PLEASE!

Last night my family were talking over the dinner about the decision of ERAP to run again and for the first time in the history of our Political conversations over meals that we came with a unified stand on a political matter and yes we do all agree that plssss…no to ERAP again. ERAP is a good guy (i think??!hehe!) but he has done many things that really tainted his character (JUETENG, KILLINGS, PLUNDER)

Come to think of it too..if ERAP wins, isn’t that a shame to our country?? We people powered against ERAP then we convicted him to prison then we will make him president again…what a shame!..I don’t know what ERAP is thinking when he decided to run, maybe “maraming ng sulsol sa kanya”..but pls pls if ever you are a voter think twice if you want to vote ERAP. I know this blog post might sound really bad or evil but I just want to voice out my opinion and as a “concerned communicologist”  I think it would be of some help if I could share my opinions to the public what I think is essential in the next elections…so again I plea to all of you who are reading this…NO TO ERAP!…..PLEASE!

“ERAP PARA SA MAHIRAP”-ERAP —>BOOO!!

Using New Social Media: The Miley Cyrus Gimmick

“It’s the Climb”-Miley Cyrus sure does know how to get to the top, by doing “the climb”..Miley Cyrus climb all up to the news stands, yahoo and google searches the past days because of the “gimmick” she did…Quitting twitter.

Miley Cyrus is one of our big stars nowadays, with sold-out concerts, hit TV show (Hannah Montana), platinum albums and block-buster movies, surely Hannah Montana aka Miley Cyrus is way up there. But It wasn’t enough for Miley, I think, because she made something that is quite weird;quitting twitter…Saying that her Bf Liam Hemsworth doesn’t allow of it and citing some differences with, twitter ….HUWAT??!!

This is not the first time that new social media was used by an artist for a publicity stunt, Ashton Kutcher did it with challenging CNN’s Larry King in twitter, Chris Brown also did that with an apology to his fans and to Rihanna in Youtube and now its Miley..Is this a trend? Or are artists really see the impact of New Social Media on their fame. New Social Media is free and its very accessible to any part of the world, so why not take advantage  of it…Artists don’t really have to pay just to be noticed online, it’s a matter of getting the right formula for a “gimmick”  and boom! what they get in return is additional fame!

How about you??do you have any “gimmick”? Try using new social media for your fame.

“You make me love you”- Miley Cyrus (7 things)

Why Rio de Janeiro in 2016? The process of selecting the olympic host city

The latest buzz right now on the international sporting arena is the selection of Rio de Janeiro as the host city for the 2016 Olympics  but now people are wondering what does it take to be a host city and how do they choose the host city?..Before I thought it was just a random choice from the Olympic body but now I became really aware on how they choose the city, because the selection of Rio was really controversial  since it was picked out of Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo (which in truth are more developed cities than Rio)..

Let me share you with I researched online on how is the Olympic city host chosen

1. Countries who want to be a host city first submits its proposal to the IOC(International Olympic Committee) then the IOC will pick finalists from those who submitted. Countries or Cities who submitted will undergo different selections (you know the usual selection committees…oh i Remember our PRSP days!haha!)

2. Then after the finalists were chosen…all the finalists will pitch for 1 hour to the voting members of IOC

3. Then the members of IOC will vote who will be the host city..of course members who are part of the country of the finalists will not be allowed to vote.

Now you know how…But what benefit does the host city get? Of course lots and lots of investments and billions of dollars of advertisements for their country or city…So the countries do invest a lot just to be the host city in the Olympics (Even Barrack Obama was affected when Chicago wasn’t chosen as the host city).

Rio will be the 1st South American City to host the Olympics.

Sources:

time.com

comtahoebonanza.com

pjstar.com

The danger of new social media: Jacque bermejo incident

The New Social Media has become a very important tool for all of us, especially for us Filipinos. New Social Media specifically the social networking were one of the main reasons why all the news about “ondoy” spread instantly; from the rescue operations, to videos of disasters to donation.. the new social media became an instant help for all of us, but what if it instantly becomes the threat to your life??

Jacque Bermejo (a Filipina worker in Dubai) became an instant celebrity over the last few days because of the alleged remarks she said on Facebook;“buti n lng am hir in dubai! maybe so many sinners bak der! so yeah deserving wat hapend (sic),”..

Filipinos were outraged by the comments, an instant 1,000+ hate comments were immediately sent to her Facebook wall; blogs and forums were flooded with fierce messages over her because of the very insensitive remark.

But what if Jacque was innocent?? Last night, ABS-CBN broadcast an exclusive interview with her and according to Jacque it was not her who made that comment, it was someone who hacked her account. Jacque said that she was very terrified and afraid of her life because of what happened…

I don’t know if it was the truth or not but in my own opinion I do believe she is innocent; she was just a victim. Like other victims of ‘ondoy’ , she doesn’t know where to start now, “para siyang nasalanta din ng bagyo”, typhoon filled with outrage over her.

The New social media is really powerful it can save lives but what is sad, is that it can also destroy one’s life (both literally and figuratively). Just like what I said in my recent post “Internet and our Future”, I am still now afraid of what might happen to new social media and to our society but like what I always say let us just continue to pray and hope that our future will always be better.

“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”- Jeremiah 29:11

Philippines, Indonesia and American Samoa

I don’t know what is happening right now, disaster after disaster.. With the super flood in the Philippines last Saturday up until now…Now comes a tsunami both in Indonesia and American Samoa, killing 88 (the number is still rising) in American Samoa and damaging major buildings in Indonesia (although no death has been confirmed yet since the magnitude of the tsunami in Indonesia is not that severe).

Are we facing the end of our days? Is climate change soon to happen? Is God angry with us??

I don’t want to speculate on many things but all I know is that what is happening right now is the works done by us, by mankind. We continue to destroy our mother earth, we continue to do things that are very harmful to our planet, so this is the result of our carelessness.

What we can do right now, is just pray for those who are in need of dire help and try do simple things that may contribute for the benefit of them.

Donations for the Victims of Ondoy

I want to share to you the ways on how we can help the victims of Ondoy..this is my own little way of spreading the love for our fellow Filipinos who are in need of clothes, money, food or whatever we can give to them.

Government Centers for Donation:

1.Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) center at the Batasan complex in Quezon City ,

2. DSWD National Capital Region (NCR) Office in Quiapo, Manila

3. DSWD National Resource Operations Center in Pasay City

Private Firms

1. Petron and Shell Gas Stations all over Metro Manila are accepting donations

2. Balay Expo at Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City

Media

1. ABS-CBN Sagip Kapamilya Foundation warehouse office.# 13 Examiner St., West Triangle, Quezon City

Tel: +632-413-2667

2. GMA KAPUSO FOUNDATION, INC. 2nd Floor GMA Kapuso Center
GMA Network Drive cor. Samar Streets
Diliman, Quezon City

Schools

1. UP Manila (Padre Faura St. Ermita Manila) contact: 09173567760 or 09228523554 or drop it at CAS-SC office

2. Ateneo De Manila (Katipunan Avenue)

Drop the items off at the lobby of Manuel V. Pangilinan Leadership Center, the University Dormitory lobby, or the Cervini Hall lobby.

3. UP Diliman, Drop off the items at the Dean’s office of College of Mass Communication

Text Donations

1. Philippine Red Cross

Text: RED AMOUNT and send to 2899 for Globe users or 4483 for Smart users.

2. TXTPower is accepting international donations via Paypal and will be sent to Philippine Red Cross

All the details that I got were from FAcebook, TV and Google..

Hope all the details can help.

Let us all pray for the victims.God bless!

Ondoy…A shocker!

Yesterday was just phenomenal..The whole Philippines was shocked with the typhoon Ondoy. Ondoy was just a signal number 1 storm but what it did was like a signal number 4 typhoon. Many were at their roofs crying for help (even showbiz personalities like Cristine Reyes, Benjie Paras and Chokoleit were stranded..PBA Governor and Manager of REd bull Barako Tony Chua died in marikina), many were stucked at their schools (My batch mates at UPM slept at school) and too bad many died (A total of 55 bodies were found as of today).

Was Ondoy a shocker or are we just not prepared??

A record of 341mm amount of rainfall was measured by PAG-ASA yesterday and we had like 330mm for one month..so imagine 341mm for just 6 hours. Maybe we were shocked…Another news is that President GMA used P800 million of emergency fund for her foreign trips and many Filipinos wasn’t bothered by the rain and instead went to go out since they thought it was only signal number 1…Maybe we were also not prepared.

We were both shocked and not prepared..This is a lesson for all of us Filipinos.

Hope all of us can recover quickly form this event and I pray that we all learn from our own mistakes.

Internet and our future

Internet is already part of our lives. It may sound cheesy but truly the internet is a thing we can’t afford to lose

Like what many people are saying, people are beginning to find the internet a necessity, before the internet was just for entertainment and for business purposes but now its more than just that! Internet now is like a cell phone, a TV, a car, a gas range, a dog! It’s like everything you can imagine of. It’s part of your life whether its business or personal life. Nowadays, if you are living in an urban community you must really have some internet access for you to survive. I don’t know if this is a good thing or not, but all I can conclude is that, the world is really evolving into something that we can’t predict.

Do you know one of the main reasons why Obama won in the US presidential elections?—Because of the internet.

Do you know why Charisse Pempengco became an instant hit all over the world?— Because of the internet.

Do you know why I am writing this blog post? — Because of the internet.

The internet is developing into a super-duper power (The internet now is a superpower!hehe!), like what our speaker from Yehey Philippines last Saturday in our class said; Users of Facebook can form their own country. That’s how many people are getting hooked into the internet, that’s how large the internet is capable of doing and maybe more than that. I don’t know but maybe someday, we just don’t go out on our homes because we can get everything from the internet (I know many people who just work at home because they have internet access).

Is the rise of the internet as a super-duper power a good thing or a bad thing?? I don’t know, but all I can say is that we must all be ready for what might happen.

““For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”- African Proverb

Villar, Aquino, Teodoro…who’s next?

I just can’t help but get excited over the turn of events in the political arena the past few months…With Manny Villar clearly leading the race the past few months with little competition from other hopeful presidents. MV was leading surveys and was flooding our television sets with his witty commercials.

Then came Nonoy with his dramatic entrance to the arena. With the teary announcement of Mar backing out of the race, Nonoy instantly announced his plans for the 2010 (“let us continue the fight of my parents”) and from the recent  survey, Nonoy was number 1.

It was clear cut for the past week that it would be head on with Noynoy vs. Villar, but wait! Gibo Teodoro is now for president. Just hours ago, Lakas-Kampi (Ruling Party) made its announcement that Secretary of Defense Gilbert Teodoro will be its standard-bearer, there were some comments, that maybe he can make it to the top. With the backing of the administration, and a proper mix of charisma and intelligence (number 1 in bar exams) + a beautiful wife and powerful family (Cojuangco clan) maybe he can compete with Noynoy and Villar.

Who’s next??!! ERap? Noli? Chiz or Loren?..I don’t know, but all I can predict is that the 2010 elections will be or can be the most exciting this country has ever seen. With no sure winner (unlike in the past elections where there are only two sure winners), now the race is so tight that no one can really know who’s gonna be our next leader.

*will soon post the resume of Villar, Aquino and Teodoro and other presidentiables*