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WHATTHEHELL? 

I retweeted a tweet tweeted by a friend of mine. Apparently, Mister Donut PH read it, too!

This is a Facebook event invite for a most intriguing documentary that GMA will be showing this coming Sunday, the 150th birthday of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. 

PIGING (A Food Documentary on Dr. Jose Rizal) Sunday, June 19 at 10:30pm - June 20 at 1:30am

Kilala ng bawat Filipino si Jose Rizal. ‘Yun ang akala natin.

Ang pinakamabuting paraan para tuklasin ang nilalaman ng puso ng isang tao ay alamin ang nilalaman ng kanyang plato. Ang plato ng ating pambansang bayani ay puno ng mga lasa, kulay at linamnam na nagpapakita ng mayamang kultura at kalinangang Filipino. Naiiba ba ang panlasa ng di-pangkaraniwang bayani mula sa panlasa ng karaniwang Filipino?

Malugod kayong inaanyayahan ng GMA Sunday Night Box Office (SNBO) sa isang piging sa pagdiriwang ng ika-150 kaarawan ng pinakadakilang Filipino, Dr. Jose Rizal. Samahan si Cesar Montano sa kauna-unahang food documentary tungkol sa pinakamamahal nating pambansang bayani ngayong Linggo, June 19 sa GMA-7 sa direksyon ni Rico Gutierrez. Prinodyus ng GMA News and Public Affairs.

Lasapin ang kasaysayan at kilalanin si Jose Rizal sa isang natatanging paraan.

(In English)

Every Filipino knows Jose Rizal. Or so we think. 

The best way to know what’s in a man’s heart is by finding out what’s in his dinner plate. Our hero’s plate was always filled with the flavors, colors, and textures that reflect the rich Filipino culture and heritage. Was the palate of this extraordinary man any different from the ordinary Filipino?

GMA Sunday Night Box Office (SNBO) cordially invites you to a feast in celebration of the birth of the greatest Filipino, Dr. Jose Rizal. Hosted by Cesar Montano, watch this first-ever food documentary about our beloved national hero this Sunday, June 19 on GMA-7. Directed by Rico Gutierrez. Produced by GMA News and Public Affairs.

Take a bite of history and get to know Jose Rizal in a different light. 

In our SS016 class (Social Sciences course), or our Philippine History class, today,

we were given this assignment.

We were to submit an article for each: Pro-Filipino and Anti-Filipino; whose authors were of another nationality and country.

I will post both articles here and let you people read them.

Please give out your comments and sentiments about this “issue” for I have been encountering many Filipinos themselves degrading and making a mock of their own country and heritage.

It is such a pity and just reading all of this almost made me sober up and burst in tears. I love my country. I love the Philippines and its people. But I can’t help but to be enraged and be saddened at the appalling truths that I have come across as I continued reading and searching for more websites and articles that discusses this matter.

I will only be posting excerpts from the two articles and give you the link at the end of each.

—

Anti-Filipino:

 

“To all filipino people:
Please recognize your ROOTS! You come from the Third World ! You country is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there live in poverty! Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH influence than chinese, and absolutely no JAPANESE influence whatsoever. People in Japan and China , do not act like you. They do not constantly talk about sex and they have a MUCH HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other. There is NO WAY that you can connect yourself to Asia other than location. Your culture and technological advancement does not even come CLOSE to What Chinese, people have done in the past and what Japanese and Korean people are doing now! Everything you do is distinctly filipino. You cannot take credit for Japanese cars, video games, or Hentai! It’s not an ‘asian thing’ it’s, an ‘American thing’. You have no concept of culture…no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy! Can you demonstrate how you use Confucianism or Taoism in you everyday life?? You can’t. And you will NEVER be able to. I understand that you are trying to create an identity for yourselves as young people… but it is NOT related to Asia ..

Your Identity is Filipino. That’s all you are. Just Filipino. Think about what that means…..

Sincerely,
Art”

 

Click the link to read it in full..

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=349866 

 

—

 

Pro-Filipino:

 

“Filipinos always complain about the corruption in the
Philippines. Do you really think the corruption is the
problem of the Philippines ? I do not think so. I
strongly believe that the problem is the lack of love
for the Philippines .

Let me first talk about my country, Korea . It might
help you understand my point. After the Korean War,
South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the
world. Koreans had to start from scratch because
entire country was destroyed after the Korean War, and
we had no natural resources.

Koreans used to talk about the Philippines , for
Filipinos were very rich in Asia . We envy Filipinos.
Koreans really wanted to be well off like Filipinos.
Many Koreans died of famine. My father & brother also
died because of famine. Korean government was very corrupt
and is ! still very corrupt beyond your imagination,
but Korea was able to develop dramatically because Koreans
really did their best for the common good
with their heart burning with patriotism.

Koreans did not workjust for themselves but also for
their neighborhood and country. Education inspired
young men with the spirit of patriotism.”

 

“I am sure that love is the keyword, which Filipinos

should remember. We cannot change the sinful structure
at once. It should start from person. Love must start
in everybody, in a small scale and have to grow. A lot
of things happen if we open up to love. Let’s put away
our prejudices and look at our worries with our new
eyes.

I discover that every person is worthy to be loved.
Trust in love, because it makes changes possible. Love
changes you and me. It changes people,contexts and
relationships. It changes the world. Please love your
neighborhood and country.

Jesus Christ said that whatever we do to others we do
to Him. In the Philippines , there is God for people
who are abused and abandoned. There is God who is
crying for love. If you have a child, teach them how
to love the Philippines . Teach them why they have to love
their neighborhood and country. You already know that
God also will be very happy if you love others.

That’s all I really want to ask you Filipinos.”

 

Click the link to read in full..

http://www.filipinosworld.net/2009/07/our-country-philippines.html 

 

—

 

Now, I know the Pro-Filipino article described so much negative in our country, even comparing it to South Korea, however, it is Pro-Filipino for it speaks to the people of this country to be strong and to learn the meaning of love and real patriotism.

He even shared the struggles and the overcoming of it in their country to us.

For us to, perhaps, learn something from it.

Although there is too much religious and irrational reasoning in his argument, he may have a point. A very strong point that we, Filipinos, should understand.

To become united and help ourselves as one country instead of our selfish individual selves.

Racism, discrimination, self loathing, pride that is not in place, selfishness, crab mentality, ignorance, and too much lack of action.

Those are some of the negative traits that I find in many of us Filipinos in my observation. There are laws. There are law breakers. The authorities don’t give a damn. So now, the masses I find in Metro Manila hardly follow those “laws” as a result. That thinking of “everybody’s doing it and getting away with it so I guess it’s okay”. But it’s NOT okay.

Where is the change going to start?

Like what this Korean author of the Pro-Filipino article said, change must start with us; from each person who has love for his country and for his neighbors.

- Chi-28

nawala ang kasabawan ng utak ko nung nabasa ko ang post ni Kuya Karlo. tungkol yun sa overpopulation. isusulat ko ang opinyon ko tungkol dito. uulitin ko, opinyon to. pwede kayong hindi sumang-ayon, pero hindi ako tumatanggap ng haters :)

tama si Kuya Karlo, na overpopulation ang ginagawang dahilan ng gobyerno upang maipatupad ang sari-saring bills katulad ng RH Bill. ganyan nalang palagi ang isyu eh, kasi overpopulated na daw ang Pilipinas.

may tanong ako. overpopulated ba talaga ang Pilipinas?

bago kayo sumagot, tingnan natin ang kahulugan ng salitang “overpopulation.” ayon sa Wikipedia (alam kong hindi ganun ka reliable ang Wiki pero dito nalang), ang ibig sabihin ng overpopulation ay:

Overpopulation is a condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat.

ang tanong: overpopulated ba talaga ang Pilipinas? masyado na bang marami ang tao sa Pilipinas sa puntong hindi na tayo pasok sa capacity ng buong bansang ito?

sa aking opinyon, hindi overpopulated ang Pilipinas. tingnan nyo, marami pang lugar sa Pilipinas na walang nakatirang tao. nakakagalaw pa rin naman tayo nang malaya sa bansang ito at hindi naman tayo nagsisiksikan. oo, alam kong sasabihin nyo na overpopulated ang mga nasa squatters. para sa akin, kaya lang sila nagkakaganyan kasi mas pinipili nilang manirahan sa iisang lugar kesa sa manirahan sa kabukiran kung saan maliit lang ang populasyon.

kaya hindi ako naniniwala sa mga sinasabi ng mga pro-RH. masyadong malawak pa ang Pilipinas, at kaya pa nitong tustusan ang mas malaking populasyon. may ibang bansa nga katulad ng China kung saan may mas malaking populasyon kesa sa Pilipinas.

wag na wag nyong sabihin na overpopulation ang dahilan kung bakit naghihirap ang isang bansa, kasi wala yang tamang basehan. napatunayan din ng isang Nobel Prize winner na hindi overpopulation ang dahilan ng kahirapan. paki-search nalang sa Google ang kanyang pangalan. may mga bansang hindi mahirap kahit na malaki ang populasyon.

KORUPSYON ang dahilan kung bakit mahirap ang bansa natin, at hindi overpopulation. kung hindi lang corrupt ang ilan sa gobyernong ito, malamang natustusan ang mga mahihirap at ang mga nakatira sa squatter areas.

MANILA, Philippines - Vice President Jejomar Binay has been chosen by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) as its most distinguished alumnus for the year.

Binay graduated in UP Diliman with a degree in Political Science in 1962, and pursued Law in the same university in 1963. He graduated from law school in 1967.

He received a Diploma in Land Use Program from UP’s School of Urban Regional Planning in 1993, and a Diploma in Environmental and Natural Resources Management from the UP Open University in 2004.

UPAA will give an award to Binay and to other selected UP alumni on June 25, the group’s homecoming and reunion.

“Special awards will also be given to individuals who have rendered excellent service in the pursuit of the goals of the university and the association,” UPAA President Gladys Tiongco said in a statement.

Awardees for Lifetime Achievement include painter Araceli Limcaco-Dans, fashion designer Jose “Pitoy” Moreno, dancer and teacher Corazon Generoso-Iñigo, and scientist Baldomero Olivera.

UPAA’s Distinguished Service awardees are Dr. Raymond Liongson and musician-singer Conrado Ong III.

Special Recognition awards, meanwhile, go to Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 2011 Shamcey Supsup and John Gabriel Pelias, who garnered the highest general weighted average in UP since World War II.

Below are the other UP alumni who are recognized for their outstanding achievements in various fields:

• Dr. Danielito Franco (Agricultural Engineering)
• Luisita “Luchi” Cruz-Valdez (Broadcast Journalism)
• Dr. Rex Demafelis (Chemical Engineering)
• Teresita Ang-See (Community Empowerment and Responsibility)
• Robert Lo (Community Service)
• Ricardo Zamora (Culture and the Arts: Music)
• Dr. Jimmuel Naval (Culture and the Arts)
• Grace Nono (Culture and the Arts: Contemporary Ethnic Music)
• Dr. Raul Navarro (Culture and the Arts)
• Jerrold Tarog (Culture and the Arts: Film)
• Alleli Ester Domingo (Education Innovation)
• Dr. Lino Dizon (Education Innovation: History and Culture)
• Dr. Daniel Bolong (Entrepreneurship and Employment Creation)
• Roberto Alingog (Entrepreneurship and Employment Creation)
• Dr. Marita Tolentino-Reyes (Good Governance)
• Ilocos Sur Governor Deogracias Victor Savellano (Good Governance)
• Dr. Francisca Tolete-Velcek (Global Health and Medical Education)
• Dr. Eliseo Prisno III (Maritime Health / Global Health)
• Dr. Jose Gatchalian (Labor Management Cooperation for Industrial Peace and Harmony)
• Lourdes Santos-Rivera (Poverty Alleviation and Human Development)
• Ma. Isabel Echanis-Melgar (Public Health Promotion)
• Fortunato dela Peña (Public Service)
• Department of Health Undersecretary Teodoro Herbosa (Public Service)
• Dr. Cristina Parel (Science and Technology)
• Dr. Arcelia Alejar (Science and Technology)
• Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo (Science and Technology)
• Dr. Danilo Cardenas (Science and Technology)
• Dr. Bonifacio Comandante Jr. (Science and Technology)
• Engr. Ramon Ramirez (Social Cohesion)
• Dr. June Caridad Pagaduan-Lopez (Social Cohesion)
• Dr. Josefina Almonte (Women Empowerment)

“Similar to what we did last year, the UPAA made a special effort to identify unsung alumni achievers — those whose accomplishments in little-known corners of the country are remarkable but have remained unheralded and unrecognized,” Tiongco said.

For more information about the UP Grand Faculty and Alumni Homecoming and Reunion, contact UPAA at (632) 920-6871, 920-6868 or 920-6875, or send an e-mail to upalum@yahoo.com.ph.

Source: abs-cbnnews.com

Sabi ni JR:“UTAK!!!”

UTAK NAMAN DAW GAMITIN NATIN, wika ng ating pambansang bayani. 

kung babangon sya sa nilibingan nya, malamang unang kakainin nya yung mga WALANG UTAK na nagpapatakbo ng gobyerno natin. 

AY! Magugutom pala sya, kasi wala nga palang utak. ang gulo, puta.

oo nga pala, Maligayang Araw ng Kalayaan! 

Sorry, I couldn’t see you. I need to go to sleep as early as I can be.

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This is a Jeepney. Its also another type of transportation in the Philippines. The Jeepney is a very popular choice of transportation for most Filipinos. Not one jeepney looks like another. They are art pieces on wheels.

Let’s all run away from the craziness of this life :D #running #igersmanila #Philippines #eunheegalaxy :) (Taken with instagram)

One of the casualties of the war was this stunning wax image of...

4 Phases.

Ang pagpapalit-anyo ng buwan noong june 16, 2011. 

Free Screening: Rizal Movies at the University Library:

“In celebration of Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s 150th Birth Anniversary, the University Library will have a screening of films about the national hero on 21 June 2011 at the Audio Visual Room, Basement (Media Services) of the University Library.”

Marlboro Hills..

- Batanes, PH

There were at least nine women linked with Rizal; namely Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckette, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby and Josephine Bracken. These women might have been beguiled by his intelligence, charm and wit.

 

Segunda Katigbak and Leonor Valenzuela

Segunda Katigbak was her puppy love. Unfortunately, his first love was engaged to be married to a town mate- Manuel Luz. After his admiration for a short girl in the person of Segunda, then came Leonor Valenzuela a.k.a. Orang, a tall girl from Pagsanjan. Rizal send her love notes written in invisible ink, that could only be deciphered over the warmth of the lamp or candle. He visited her on the eve of his departure to Spain and bade her a last goodbye.

Leonor Rivera
Leonor Rivera, his sweetheart for 11 years played the greatest influence in keeping him from falling in love with other women during his travel. Unfortunately, Leonor’s mother disapproved of her daughter’s relationship with Rizal, who was then a known filibustero. She hid from Leonor all letters sent to her sweetheart. Leonor believing that Rizal had already forgotten her, sadly consented her to marry the Englishman Henry Kipping, her mother’s choice.

Consuelo Ortiga
Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, the prettier of Don Pablo Ortiga’s daughters, fell in love with him. He dedicated to her A la Senorita C.O. y R., which became one of his best poems. The Ortiga’s residence in Madrid was frequented by Rizal and his compatriots. He probably fell in love with her and Consuelo apparently asked him for romantic verses. He suddenly backed out before the relationship turned into a serious romance, because he wanted to remain loyal to Leonor Rivera and he did not want to destroy hid friendship with Eduardo de Lete who was madly in love with Consuelo.

O Sei San
O Sei San, a Japanese samurai’s daughter taught Rizal the Japanese art of painting known as su-mie. She also helped Rizal improve his knowledge of Japanese language. If Rizal was a man without a patriotic mission, he would have married this lovely and intelligent woman and lived a stable and happy life with her in Japan because Spanish legation there offered him a lucrative job.

Gertrude Beckett
While Rizal was in London annotating the Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, he boarded in the house of the Beckett family, within walking distance of the British Museum. Gertrude, a blue-eyed and buxom girl was the oldest of the three Beckett daughters. She fell in love with Rizal. Tottie helped him in his painting and sculpture. But Rizal suddenly left London for Paris to avoid Gertrude, who was seriously in love with him. Before leaving London, he was able to finish the group carving of the Beckett sisters. He gave the group carving to Gertrude as a sign of their brief relationship.

Nellie Boustead
Rizal having lost Leonor Rivera, entertained the thought of courting other ladies. While a guest of the Boustead family at their residence in the resort city of Biarritz, he had befriended the two pretty daughters of his host, Eduardo Boustead. Rizal used to fence with the sisters at the studio of Juan Luna. Antonio Luna, Juan’s brother and also a frequent visitor of the Bousteads, courted Nellie but she was deeply infatuated with Rizal. In a party held by Filipinos in Madrid, a drunken Antonio Luna uttered unsavory remarks against Nellie Boustead. This prompted Rizal to challenge Luna into a duel. Fortunately, Luna apologized to Rizal, thus averting tragedy for the compatriots.

Their love affair unfortunately did not end in marriage. It failed because Rizal refused to be converted to the Protestant faith, as Nellie demanded and Nellie’s mother did not like a physician without enough paying clientele to be a son-in-law. The lovers, however, parted as good friends when Rizal left Europe.

Suzanne Jacoby
In 1890, Rizal moved to Brussels because of the high cost of living in Paris. In Brussels, he lived in the boarding house of the two Jacoby sisters. In time, they fell deeply in love with each other. Suzanne cried when Rizal left Brussels and wrote him when he was in Madrid.

Josephine Bracken
In the last days of February 1895, while still in Dapitan, Rizal met an 18-year old petite Irish girl, with bold blue eyes, brown hair and a happy disposition. She was Josephine Bracken, the adopted daughter of George Taufer from Hong Kong, who came to Dapitan to seek Rizal for eye treatment. Rizal was physically attracted to her. His loneliness and boredom must have taken the measure of him and what could be a better diversion that to fall in love again. But the Rizal sisters suspected Josephine as an agent of the friars and they considered her as a threat to Rizal’s security.

Rizal asked Josephine to marry him, but she was not yet ready to make a decision due to her responsibility to the blind Taufer. Since Taufer’s blindness was untreatable, he left for Hon Kong on March 1895. Josephine stayed with Rizal’s family in Manila. Upon her return to Dapitan, Rizal tried to arrange with Father Antonio Obach for their marriage. However, the priest wanted a retraction as a precondition before marrying them. Rizal upon the advice of his family and friends and with Josephine’s consent took her as his wife even without the Church blessings. Josephine later give birth prematurely to a stillborn baby, a result of some incidence, which might have shocked or frightened her.

I’m used to the idea of “not having classes” on holidays, including Christmas, New Year and the like; and of course weekdays (although in college, it’s possible to have classes seven days a week). And we usually “celebrate” whenever declarations come saying “[Insert date here] is a holiday; therefore, no classes on all levels.” and the students will go “Yaaaay!” thinking it will be another day out of school so yaaay.

What I don’t get is the need, or rather, the act of saying “yaaay”. I have to be honest, school is hard, with all the homework and exams but hey, didn’t you pay for it? Don’t you know you need to learn something? Don’t you know that the money you spent on class cancelled never goes back to your savings? I don’t know if this attitude happens also outside the Philippines but, people say that the youth is the country’s future. If this attitude settles on every youth in this generation and the next, what future will the country have?

Bokeh.

proposed flag of Pampanga/Amanu Sisuan

(simple tricolor version)

mt. province lowest point (c) sherelyn natividad

Packed Jeepney.

Photo taken in Bicol, Philippines

One of the casualties of the war was this stunning wax image of Rizal by Guillermo E. Tolentino (later to be first National Artist for Sculpture). This image wore Rizal’s original clothes and had human hair stitched on the head and styled, allegedly, by Rizal’s own barber. It was the closest to seeing the National Hero alive but the Japanese decided to make a bonfire in the UP LIbrary and Rizal who was in the Filipiniana section melted away.

(via Ambeth R. Ocampo)