SP Resolution No. 2013-167

One reason why I am proud that I am a Nagueño is because Naga is a haven of responsible and responsive leaders. The resolution passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod is one of the testament that the City Council really serves as the voice of the Nagueños. Congratulations to all the councilors especially to Councilor Gabby Bordado! #Save651! :)))

photo courtesy of Councilor Gabby Bordado FB.

Aquino Facts and My Perspective

my curiosity was aroused when i saw a link of a youtube video which was entitled, Aquino Coquangco, facts they don't want you to know. actually, hindi ko ikakaila na i would have voted for noynoy during the 2010 presidential elections if indeed i was allowed to vote because of my belief that he is the most viable lesser evil among the presidential aspirants. ang ibig kong sabihin ng viable ay ang mas may malaking posibilidad na manalo and lesser evil because he and his family is known to have a clean record and a hard stand against corruption. plus, the need of the times dictates that the country needs a president who can inspire the Filipino people to be united, to rally behind their government and most of all, a president who can make the Filipino people trust their government once again after almost 9 years of an administration tainted with graft, corruption and negligence. yun yung kailangan natin sa aking palagay. come to think of it, i could have endorsed Gibo or Gordon to my parents but i just think that more than Gibo's vision of a great Philippines, the Filipino people need a president who can unify the them.


if i will be asked if PNoy unified the Filipino so far, i don't really know what to answer. frankly speaking, i'm having second thoughts now if my decision to campaign noynoy to my parents and friends is correct because of the different issues that faced his barely one year and four months old administration. basta ang alam ko, and based from my observation alone, there's an atmosphere that people are now slowly giving their trust to their government. feeling ko nga, totoo na he's laidback, totoo na he lacks motivation to do what a president should do, totoo na kulang ang performance niya, buti na lang, he picked competent people to run his government (mostly but not all) like DOJ Secretary De Lima, DOE Secretary Almendras, DOF Secretary Purisima, DSWD Secretary Soliman, DFA Secretary Del Rosario and DILG Secretary Robredo to name a few. (parang si DBM Secretary Abad lang naman ang ayaw ko because of the comments he made regarding the budget cuts made in the SUCs which according to him, more funds doesn't mean high quality. ayos lang siya? funds in SUCs would mean more supplies for the professors, more improvement in infrastructure, more upgrades and laboratories and so on? now, is quality and availability of funds not connected? perhaps, i should make a separate blogpost on this).


Going back, dun lang ata siya nakakabawi. if those people will be out, PNoy will be having some hard time of having an image that his government is working very hard for the Filipino people. moving on, i find the video very much biased against the Aquino's. for one, i personally think that we cannot blame the Aquino's with regards to the decisions of Ysidra and is there any concrete evidence with regards to the lost of the treasures of the First Philippine Republic and the rise of Ysidra Coquangco as one of the richest person in the Philippines during the 1900's? Can we blame Cory alone for the flaws of the 1987 Constitution when there are in fact 48 people who framed the constitution and what Cory did was to appoint them and perhaps campaign for the ratification of the consitution? Is it correct and valid to directly drag the name of the Aquino family with the killing of the people who supported the battle of hacienda luisita farmers when in fact, the Aquino family only owns 1% of the Hacienda Luisita property because it is owned by a corporation? Same with the SCTEX, i think the money didn't go to the Aquino's, the money went to the Coquangco-owned corporation which owns the hacienda luisita property. But on the other hand, kung may pinaniniwalaan man ako sa video, that's the part where Cory did nothing or perhaps did not exert much effort in giving the piece of land that the Hacienda Luisita farmers deserve which kahit hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa rin naman inaaksyunan ni PNoy. PNoy have more or less five years to do what her mother failed to do with Luisita but the sooner he address it, the better.


if i had used my emotions while watching the video, perhaps i am now starting to hate the Aquino's because it is what the video implies - that we should hate the Aquino's and the yellow 'propaganda' because it done nothing good to our country. but here's what i think, personally, i'm pro-noynoy but i can say that i'm pro-government. by that i mean, what the Philippines need at this moment is to support their government regardless of the sitting president. but support shall also be coupled with critiquing as the need arises. Filipino people should be open-minded and critical because what the government does definitely affects them. we can never see a GREAT COUNTRY when what we are doing is just criticizing, criticizing and criticizing. try supporting  and doing our own little part and the moment we stood as one in support of our government, that's the moment we can climb up the ladder of progress.

RSR and Gov. JOEY

it's october 26 and it's Raul S. Roco Day in Naga City if i am not mistaken. well, since my childhood, Raul S. Roco was my idol in public service and in politics. his ideals, his principles and his personality made me believe that he is the best president the Philippines never had. he died early because of prostate cancer a year after the 2004 Philippine presidential elections.

Also, this day is the birthday of the good and humble governor of the province of Albay. every passing day, he proves that he deserves to be an idol of many. his vision for Albay is very wonderful (Albay Rising like California in the next 30 years) but what is more evident is the results of what he is doing. if and only if, he decides to run for a senate seat in the next election, i'll vote for him and even campaign for him. haha.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RSR and GOV. JOEY!

***photos taken from the facebook page of governor Joey Salceda.

No to SUC Budget Cut!

a rally against SUC budget cut was staged in BU. sayang i did not attend because i cannot attend dahil may field work kami sa Anislag (a rurban barangay of Daraga in Albay) on Self-Awareness but kung wala kaming field nung mga panahong yun, i will surely attend the rally (first time ko sana!).

Anyway, eto lang mana ang gusto kong sabihin - 
STOP SUC BUDGET CUT!
Higher education must be accessible to all.

businesses

TODAY, I HIT TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.

FIRST bird. i finally got my Professional Driver's License which will be good until 2013 after almost a week of going to the Land Transportation Office and that is quite an achievement for me. haha. yehess!

by the way, i wonder why i do not heard the name of LTO under the most corrupt government offices. i am thinking that perhaps corruption in LTO is lesser compared to those agencies labeled as corrupt and that is awful because from experience, corruption there is evident. tsktsk. hope proper authorities will soon act to curb corruption there.

SECOND bird. i am now a registered voter of Naga City after registering at the COMELEC Naga Office after LTO. i insisted to have myself registered way ahead of the 2013 Senatorial and Local Elections to avoid the rush, the siksikan and long lines when the election is just months away which is quite a practice of Filipinos since then. yehess! sooner, i can exercise my right of suffrage. :)

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tomorrow, i'll go back to Legazpi to hopefully finished many impending businesses with regards to HWA, Blue Feathers Society and of course my enrollment for the 1st semester of AY 2011-2012 and i'm afraid i'll celebrate my birthday there for the first time. tsktsk. as usual, it is enrollment and my parents are cash-stripped therefore there is no pamblow-out. walang pondo! tsktsk. i guess i need to find other reasons to have a beautiful, happy, memorable yet simple birthday.

but hopefully, i can go back in Naga sooner than later or perhaps Friday. haha. HOPEFULLY!

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ATE alex, your always welcome though i know it's not that of an effort. well, i'm preparing my gift which i will give to you sooner or LATER. HAHA. kthanksbye ate alekks! :D

RH now

i can't stop campaigning for RH Bill in my own little ways especially that tomorrow (if i am right) is the scheduled debate about RH Bill in the House of Representatives. well, i guess i stated the reason why i am for RH Bill passage. let me state some of my reasons by quoting the staunch RH advocate Carlos Celdran, "the bill aims to provide awareness and education. it isn't about abortion or population control." i would like to believe that at this point in time, i don't personally need RH but thinking about the millions of Filipinos living under the poverty line, we need to educate them. we need to give them the chance and opportunity to choose their path away from poverty by (in this case) giving them access to both natural and artificial family planning whichever they would want to use. we are a nation of strong 92 million and more Filipinos. yes, i believe that population is our very asset but then again, this bill is not about population control and i would like to believe that the bill will paved way for a sustainable population growth which will be very helpful for the country. we cannot waste more and more time. our time is now! i'm pro-life. pro-quality life for the Filipino people. pass the RH bill!

as to the opposition of the catholic church, well, i am a proud catholic but i think supporting the RH bill will not make me less of a catholic because i know God wants the best for His people and God wants better life especially for the poor. but let me quote another statement, this time from Leloy Claudio with regards to the opposition of the Catholic church. "Condoms and anti-colonial novels are, after all, eerily similar: they piss off the powerful because they liberate" and perhaps you can read his blogpost about the RH bill and the Catholic opposition through this link.

close kami ni gov

i personally saw governor Joey Salceda of Albay for a couple of times now. i saw him once in BU during the opening of the regional SCUAA and a couple of time during the pinakaMAGAYON festival that i witnessed. thinking that i am a Darageuño by real birth by Polangueño by roots and by 'legal' birth, Albayano by blood but Nagueño by heart, i didn't hesitate to add his genuine facebook account wherein he is almost always 24/7 online and would give out comments and posts different things on his wall and other's wall. well, i would like to admit that among the politicians that we have today, governor Salceda belongs to the one i admire because of his pro-environment stand, his leadership style and the way he lead albay. i can say that albay is progressing much and that's because of him. Polangui, as an example, is almost a city kulang na lang sa legality because hindi pa nito abot ang population requirement and the size requirement stated in Local Government Code if i am correct. so yun, i add governor joey during the heat of Magayon Festival and upon responding to my request, he posted this on my wall"

of course, as courtesy, i heed to his request in helping him thus i posted it also on my wall hoping that my friends would like it. well, i would like to believe that some of my friends liked the festival page and also added gov. salceda. just like rokksi. gov also did the same thing and ask rokksi to help him promote the festival page. well, i'm amazed with the statement of gov which goes like 'si gov joey sarte salceda tabi ini'. for me, it's a statement of humility. that's why i commented (which was not inlcuded in the printscreen). sabi ko, napakahumble naman ni gov.

to my surprise, governor salceda posted on my wall and poof... friends na kami! joke lang. hm. we had a little conversation and my admiration to governor salceda ay dumagdag because it's very seldom for a governor to get connected to his constituents. sabi nga ni melvz nung nagsayaw si gov ng rapapa with dianne necio, hindi mo lamang makita ang governor namin na mangganyan (btw, melvz is from the ISLAmic republic of Masbate). haha. my bestfriend was also amazed and said that i was bigaten because the good governor commented on my wall. well, sabi ko friends na kami. close friends. haha.

my point in posting this is that, the accessibility of governor joey salceda is highly commendable. i remember secretary jesse robredo whose cellphone number is open to public and would reply whenever you text him. well, i guess public officials should be accessible for their constituents. pero, close na kami ni gov. haha. :D

btw, this happened way back april pa. may katagalan na. haha. :D

i voted!

This year's USC/CSC Election is quite a different one for me in two ways, first, i am not running for any position and second, i'm serving as part of the College Student Electoral Board as one of the two student members. i always believe that voting or casting one's vote is very much important if we want to see something and if we want to feel the change. this year's election in the university level was quite hot due to only two parties contesting for the crown. i watched and heard them say their platforms from the college convocations up to the HARAPAN@BU which in turn, both cleared my mind on who are the rightful ones to receive my single yet powerful vote. in the college level, there are three opposing parties thus making it hard to choose between the candidates. however, i can say that i choose the best person i deemed fit for the position and let's say for the lesser evil. moreover, perhaps the "party bias" should i say took in effect being a born BULeader.

well, still the bottomline: I VOTED FOR THE COLOR OF CHANGE IN THE USC and VOTED FOR THE MOST PROMISING PERSONS IN THE CSC.

ps. too bad i didn't voted for my crush in the College Student Council. hmmmm.

Anyway, here's my sample ballot containing the list of the candidates whom i voted..

pagbitiw

sa kabila po ng ilang imbitasyong aking natanggap mula sa aking kinaaanibang partido na BU League of Democrats (BU Leaders) na tumakbo muli para sa parating na college student council election, nagdesisyon po ako na wag na munang tumakbo sa anumang posisyon sa konseho ng mga mag-aaral sa kolehiyo ng pamantasan ng bicol - kolehiyo ng agham panlipunan at pilosopiya. nais ko pong iparating ang aking taos pusong pasasasalamat sa bu leaders sa tiwalang kanilang ibinigay mula pa noong ako'y nag-uumpisa pa lamang at sa kanilang tiwala hanggang ngayon. hangad kong manatili bilang miyembro ng partido sa mga susunod na halalan subalit hindi ngayong halalan dahil sa sensitibong posisyong aking hinahawakan bilang isa sa dalawang mag-aaral na miyembro College Electoral Student Board. gayunpaman, nais ko ding ipaalam na tumanggi ako sa kadahilanang GUSTO KO PO MUNANG PAGTUUNAN NG PANSIN ANG BUHAY PAG-IBIG KO SA SUSUNOD NA ACADEMIC YEAR! maraming salamat po!

-outgoing CSSP CSC Representative Russ Daniel O. Baldoza

ang drama ko naman. haha. pero grabe ang rason ko ano? para sa lovelife? pero sympre kung ganun mo ako kakilala, sasabihin mong hindi ako ganun kababaw. eto lang muna ang sasabihin ko sa ngayon, MAY MGA BAGAY NA KAHIT GUSTO PA NATING IPAGPATULOY AY KAILANGAN NATING TUMIGIL MUNA. HINDI DAHIL AYAW NA NATIN O UMAAYAW NA TAYO KUNDI DAHIL KINAKAILANGAN NATIN. MAY MGA PAGKAKATAON SA ATING BUHAY NA KAILANGAN PUMILI SA PAGITAN NG DALAWANG, TATLO O KAHIT ILANG BAGAY NA HAWAK MO. HINDI PWEDENG PALAGI MO SILANG HAWAK. AT DUMATING NA AKO SA PUNTONG YUN. marami akong gustong sabihin pero sa mga susunod na post na lang yun.

a new beginning...

long before the National Board of Canvassers convened, its almost certain the Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino is the front runner for the presidential race. but unlike the presidential race, the vice-presidential race is like a puzzle because of the neck-to-neck fight by Sen. Mar Roxas and Mayor Jejomar Binay. now, after almost a month after the elections, the smoke cleared and its clear that we will have Noynoy Aquino as our President-elect with 14,641,803 votes received from the Filipinos and Jejomar Binay as our Vice-President Elect with 14,501,371 votes received. Both of them will be proclaimed probably Wednesday according to the news.

Personally, i favored noynoy though i didn't have the right to vote on the belief that what the Philippines currently needs is a person whom the Filipino people can trust. i believe that ones the trust is bestowed to the government then we can start our travel in the road map to progress. for vp, i am for mar because i believe in the competence of mr. palengke but since he is not that privileged to be elected and since most of the Filipinos favored Mayor Binay, i think it is rightful for me to put my trust to the duly-elected vp instead of calling him to resign or make some fb page calling for his ouster even though he is not yet starting to perform his tasks as vp. and i think it is rightful for us Filipinos to trust our next leaders and to help them in every little way we can. i am not hoping that noynoy and binay can transform the Philippines in just a blink of an eye. but i am hoping that they can bring the change the the Philippines need slowly and surely.

my congratulations to the next president and vice-president. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! :D

ano ba tayo???

hmm. well, as i was browsing facebook, a fanpage calling for the ouster of the presidential front-runner Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco III struck my attention and suddenly, a question was formed in my mind.


ANO BA TAYONG MGA FILIPINO??? GANITO NA LANG BA TAYO???


hmm. alam natin na hindi lahat ng tao gusto ang isang kandidato. in an election, there are different parties with different candidates. sympre, we as the electorate have the rights to choose whoever we want to be elected. i think that's the gift of democracy, we can choose who we wanted as our leader. however, on the other side, sympre may mananalo, may matatalo. maaring ang kandidatong binoto mo eh sya ang mananalo o maaari rin namang matatalo sya ng kandidatong ayaw na ayaw mo.

but then, why will some group of people can't respect the voice of the plurality of the Filipinos? ang malala pa, some are calling for his ouster kahit hindi pa nga napproclaimed ng national board of canvassers. come on, we're better than this Filipinos. why not give the guy who garnered the most number of votes of the Filipinos a chance? stop this madness first and lets see what this guy has to offer.
WAG TAYONG MASYADONG JUDGEMENTAL!

just NO!

today is the 10th of June, just two days away from the celebration of the 111th Philippine Independence Day so i just decided to have a post on the current situation our country was in. after all, hndi nman siguro masama na magsalita ng tungkol sa Pilipinas. hmm. most of us, if not all, knows that today a GRAND RALLY against the passage of House Bill No. 1109 or the convening of Congress as Constituent Assembly or CON-ASS that will gave way to Charter Change. meaning, ammendments will be done to the present 1987 Constitution.

well, to tell everyone honestly. hndi pa nman ganun kadami at kalayo ang kaalaman ko tungkol sa Charter Change pro atleast may alam naman aq. from what i have know, a Charter Change can just happen through three different modes, namely, People's Initiative, Constitutional Convention and Constituent Assembly.

going back to HB 1109, the 3/4 of our honorable congressmen have voted in favor of it doing it themselves without the participation of the upper chamber because arguments from some of the congressmen states that the voting should be done with the upper and lower chamber together thus outnumbering the senators that we know are against ChaCha before 2010 national polls. as what the CBCP President have said in his blog, it seems that the leadership of the land and of Congress seem to be so "desperate" that they would even change the Constitutional Rules of Congress in order to speedily pursue and accomodate the Constituent Assembly (CON-ASS). hmm. Speaker Prospero Nograles have cleared it that the Constituent Assembly will not be used to prolong the term of anyone, specifically president Gloria Arroyo but that has yet to be justified and proved.

pro majority of the Filipino are not sure if they will believe what the speaker have been saying especially that the speaker and the most distrusted president in the philippine history are alies. tiwala tlga. mahirap mabuo at lalung-lalo na mas mahirap buohin muli.

personally, i am not against Charter Change. but i think it will be better if the Charter Change can occur after the 2010 National Polls and through the Constitutional Convention. a process that is indeed good for the greatest number having the participation even from non-political people. to cut the story short, just NO! wag na muna. ska na lang.

mismo!

it's the 7th day of May we're just on the mid-2nd quater of the year just few weeks away from the stepping and beginning the next chapter of our lives (zephy). good luck to all of us! anyways, i was reminded of the Pacquaio-Hatton fight wherein pacman knock-out the pride of manchester. but not the fight, nor the knock down of hatton urged me to write this entry for my blog.

i'm thinking that those who have watched the fight on GMA-7 was aware of the lenghty commercials between the rounds of the fight. and i say that one of the commercials caught my attention and it was this one:


many artists coming from the different worlds of showbizness particulary from ABS and GMA plus some people from private sectors and the academe have appeared in the commercial urging people to join their advocacy in promoting social change.

i can say that i was one of those people who have tried to access the site projected along the commercial, i registered and wrote my 'pledge' as part of the thing that i can do to create and be a part of the big social change for the glory of the Philippines. but upon seeing the entries of the site, in particular the 'WALL OF COMMITMENT' i was quite disappointed in the insincerity of some people that have accessed and created their own pledges. but that was ok!

though i can say that the site or the advocacy promotes and encourages Filipinos to do and be a part of 'CHANGE' that can affect the history of the Philippine Republic. i can say that the tagline or the title of the advocacy disagrees with the filipino spirit of BAYANIHAN wherein Filipinos help each others thus leaving no one behind and creating a greater wave of change, if i may say it. i guess, the advocacy would be better if it can also create and promote a spirit of unity and camaraderie among the Filipinos who have pledged to do their part and to encourage them to be part o a 'ONE PHILIPPINES' that someday will be facing the whole world as better people for a better world. maybe mas maganda ang "TAYO MISMO."

Let's help each other and also others and others of people to take part in creating not just a big wave but a GIGANTIC HUGE TIDAL WAVE of change for our country. pro mas maganda pa rin kung mag-uumpisa tayo sa ating sarili as Mahatma Gandhi have said, "be the change you want to see in the world" (am i right?). have your say!

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ironic man pra sbihin ko ito sa panahong ito, gusto q pa ring sbhin...

kung baduy na ang paggamit ng Filipino sa mga posts sa blog, sna hndi kna lang nggng Filipino!
peaceout!