Do you know that:
March 22, 1897, at the Tejeros Convention in Cavite, Gat. Andres Bonifacio was elected as Director of the Interior. When he was being proclaimed, a member of the Magdaló faction of the Katipunan stood up and protested saying the position is an exalted one and only a lawyer should hold. Gat. Andres Bonifacio was hurt and felt insulted. It was agreed upon that whoever got elected was to be respected. Bonifacio demanded Tirona to retract what he said, but instead of apologizing, he left the scene. Bonifacio drew his pistol and was about to shoot Tirona when Artemio Ricarte intervened and prevented what could have been a blood bath.
That is one of the oldest, if not, the first election related violence in the Philippine annals.
So, here I am inside a jeepney and on my way to work and I thought of sharing this to you.
Everyday, I ride a jeepney to go to work. I get to experience a lot of things every 20 minutes inside the jeepney. Even when waiting for a ride, I am already exposed to a lot of things.
Let me begin a day’s journey in the street corner where I wait for a ride. Nowadays, the National and Local Elections just loom around the corner and politicians(and wannabe politicians), particularly at the local level, hires a lot of guys who drive around town in a vehicle with loud speakers. It can be very annoying sometimes, particularly the ones who use what they call “trompa” or speakers shaped like a trumpet. Some even play jingles that can really annoy you. Posters are eyesores, jingles are earsores(is there such a term as an earsore?).
At last, here comes the jeepney! Now, I can go to work in peace. But most of the time, the ride is not peaceful.
Sometimes, I would have to endure the old “manangs” talking loudly in their native dialect. I even had an experience wherein there was a girl(who looked like a boy clad in jejemon outfit) who was fast asleep. Her head kept on tossing sideways annoying other passengers beside her. I could tell if she’s drunk as I have anosmia(I lost my olfactory sensitivity).
Most of the time, the jeepney’s inner part, the seats behind the driver are vacant, but some passengers insist on sitting beside the door, or “estribo” as we call it in Filipino. As a result, all the other passengers on that side will have to adjust to let the passenger sit.
Those are just some of my everyday experiences on my way to work.
March 17, 2010 is the 53rd death anniversary of President Ramon F. Magsaysay. He is the president who opened Malacañan to the masses. He named the presidential plane, “Mt. Pinatubo,” a volcano in his home province of Zambales and died when the plane crashed in Cebu. http://ping.fm/Xe97l
This was taken last Saturday (March 6, 2010) at the Bangantalinga shoreline in Iba, Zambales just after the sunset. The photo is a bit blurry because it was taken on my Nokia n70 mobile phone.
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” -Saint Augustine
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This is what happened to the part of the National Highway in Zambales in Carael, Botolan, Zambales. The damage was caused by typhoon Kiko that caused a major flood, almost submerging 10 baranggays in the town. This was taken August 12, 2009. The flood began Aug.6 and up to now, the road is still impassable.
Confucius said, “If a ruler sets himself right, he will be followed without his command. If he does not set himself right, even his commands will not be obeyed.” (13:6)
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Nanalo si pacquiao sa laban nila ni Hatton. Pinabagsak niya si Hatton sa round 2 ng kanilang ‘fight’ (pronounced as ‘payt’ by pakyaw)
Sigurado, MADADAGDAGAN NA NAMAN ANG HANGIN SA ULO NYA, HINDI UTAK(WALA SIYA NUN).
Sinong naniniwala?
I came across another article(this time an inspiring one) and I was moved. It was about a kid who was discovered to be totally deaf when he was three years old. He is Stephen J. Hopson from Michigan.
His parents decided to enroll him in a normal school (I remember Dick and Rick Hoyt, the father-and-son tandem who trekked 3,700+ miles across America despite the disability of Rick I strongly recommend watching that video in youtube.com entitled, “A Journey of Life Together”). When he was in grade 3, from almost the beginning of the school term, he was taunted (v. insulted) by his classmates. He began to feel inferior of himself and his capabilities.
His grade 5 teacher changed the way he looked at himself when she cried, “THAT’S RIGHT STEPHEN!” after he gave a correct answer. He became more confident and a better person.
You can click on the title of this post for the full article.
I suddenly remember one of my students who sent me an SMS last year that said, “Gudpm sir..muzta po..tnx po s mga tnuro nio sa amin..nga2mit q na po n0w..” it means, “Good afternoon sir, how are you. Thank you for what you’ve taught us. I find it useful.”
I wasn’t able to get his/her name though, but that message from my former student(+639105425*** is his/her number) is still in my inbox after almost 1 year(i got the message April 19, 2008).
Things like that makes me smile. With what i do everyday, for the past 6years, it has been a routinary task. But for some, what i do makes an impact in their lives. I never knew it will come to this point that I am helping shape the lives of others.
To my former student, whoever you are, THANK YOU!
I came across an article about Dr. John Nash(click the title of the post for the article), “the most remarkable mathematician of the second half of the century,” according to Mikhail Gromov in 1997.
You’re probably familiar with his name if you have seen the movie “A Beautiful Mind” starring Russell Crowe. The movie was inspired from a biography of Dr. Nash of the same title.
Dr. Nash told a reporter once, “If you’re going to develop exeptional ideas, it requires a type of thinking that is not simply practical thinking.”
And to describe Dr. Nash, i go for this one-liner, “simply a remarkable genius.”
