One-Minute Hirit 24: Pinagtataguan Kayo Ngayon ni BBM?! Eh Matagal Nang ...

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Sa totoo lang, maliban sa mga atraso ng mga Marcos sa kasaysayan ng ating bayan hanggang sa kasalukuyan, yung mismong pag-iwas ni BBM sa mga debate noong kampanya ay RED FLAG na! Isipin mo, tumatakbong pagka-presidente tapos umiiwas sa mga debate! Masamang precedent at ehemplo! Ni di na nga ako magtataka kung may mga bata sa elementarya na tatakbo para sa student council nila, tapos iiwas sa debate at idadahilan, “Eh presidente nga ng ating bayan, umiwas sa debate, ako pa kaya?” (Mabuti pa si Ka Leody de Guzman, nagpakita at nakipagtagisan ng talino sa lahat ng debate noon . . . Ang imahe sa thumbnail ay mula sa balita ng Philippine Daily Inquirer, "Bongbong Marcos shuns Comelec debates, cites 'preferred mode of communication with people," ni Neil Arwin Mercado, ika-14 ng Marso, 2022.)

#ElizabethOropesa #BBM #TeamUnity kuno #Philippines #oneminutehirit

One-Minute Hirit 23: SMNI Partner Na ng TV CGTN ng “Komunistang” Tsina?!...

“Matagal na akong nagtataka kung bakit hindi nireredtag ni Lorraine Badoy at Jeffrey Celis ang bansang People’s Republic of China, eh itong bansang ito ay lantarang pinamumunuan pa nga ng kanilang partido komunista, ng Chinese Communist Party.”

The ADHD Chronicles: A Sunday Mass Memory and Some (1980)

(Interior of Ascension of Our Lord Parish Church - Greater Lagro, Novaliches, Quezon City, photo from Fr. Raul Beni Barcela, from the church's Facebook page's post, July 11, 2023)

Now that I'm a father of more than 17 years, the more I realize that I really was a different kid. For years now, occasionally during Sunday Mass, right before the offertory we tell any of our three children to volunteer and pick up a collection bag and go around. And any given Sunday's chosen one does it promptly and properly.

When I was five, for the first (and last!) time, my mother asked me to do the same at the Ascension of Our Lord Parish Church in Greater Lagro, Quezon City. So I picked up a collection bag, but I just stood near her—paralyzed. I just kept mumbling to her repeatedly, "Which aisle should I go first?" She replied and, I'm sure, gave me directions. But I didn't, or couldn't, follow. And soon the offertory song was over and I just returned the collection bag empty. (And just now, I'm thinking, if there were five collection bags in all in that church, then they must've lost approximately 20% of their Sunday Mass income because of me.)

Also at that age, I moved the slowest in kindergarten: always the last to return my empty saucer at the end of (or after!) recess, the last to unpack and repack my bag or plastic envelope, etc.

I still remember the day we visited the Infirmary for our very first annual physical checkup in UPIS, and when we were through, I was the last to climb aboard the bus because I stayed overtime at the last clinic struggling to tie my shoes. (I finally figured out how to tie my shoes properly in . . . first year high school!)

When we returned to our classroom, during dismissal, our teacher announced that she would distribute giveaways. So we all gathered excitedly around her desk. Unfortunately, she followed up with a condition: "Only for the kids who move fast."

Well, I wasn't that slow not to realize that I was excluded from the final blessing. So right there and then I walked out of the classroom—quickly, uncharacteristically.

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(And you can check out one of my latest published poems here!)

One-Minute Hirit 22: Logohan sa Bagong Pilipinas: Gumawa ng Logo, Parang...

“Moderate your greed.” – Romulo Neri, former NEDA Director-General of GMA’s administration

One-Minute Hirit 21: Isang Pagpupugay kay Amando Doronila, Magiting na M...

From Veteran newsman,author Amando Doronila; 95 By: Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 9, 2023:

More than a decade ago, he already sensed the emerging challenges to newspapers from the internet.

“Newspapers today are flooded by social media stories from Facebook or Twitter which are hard to verify and authenticate,” said Doronila who served as chief editor of the Chronicle before it was shut down by Marcos and after Marcos was toppled.

“Cyberspace journalism gives us an oversupply of information from impressionable citizen journalists. And this Internet journalism poses a threat to the survival of the newspaper as a medium of information,” he said. 

Born on Feb. 6, 1928, in Dumangas, Iloilo, he began his career as a reporter and columnist for the Manila Bulletin and was a political columnist for the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1972.

When Marcos imposed martial law in 1972, Doronila and other journalists like Luis Beltran and Maximo Soliven were arrested and detained.

Sa Pinas, ang Pagnanakaw ay Di Anomalya

(Ang imahe ay mula sa tweet na ito.)

Kung nakawan ang lakaran

ng mga kinauukulan,

eh di ito'y di na anomalya.

Kaya tayo nang magpasya,

na sa susunod na mabalitaan

na tayo'y muling pinagnakawan,

na sabihin na lang sa isa't isa

kung ano ang baligtad,

"Uy, gumawa na naman sila

ng regularidad!"

One-Minute Hirit 20: “Secretary Larry Gadon”: Wala Na Bang Iba?!

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Ang imahe sa itaas ay mula sa INQUIRER.net Facebook page, 3/22/2023: https://www.facebook.com/inquirerdotn.... Sa totoo lang, napatula ako sa pagtatalaga kay Larry Gadon bilang Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation: http://karlosevillaofquezoncity.blogs.... Naniniwala ako na mas mahusay sa posisyong iyan si Atty. Luke Espiritu, pero siyempre, malabong alukin ni BBM, at lalong mas malabong makompromiso si attorney (pa rin) at tanggapin ang alok na mula sa administrasyong ito. Subscribe po tayo ditto sa YouTube channel ni Atty. Luke Espiritu:    • Luke Espiritu, ig...  . Mula sa https://votepilipinas.com/candidate/e... “Luke Espiritu, 47, is a lawyer, labor organizer and activist for human rights, climate justice and gender equality. He is the former national president, spokesperson and current labor organizer of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino as well as the former national president of the Solidarity of Unions in the Philippines for Empowerment and Reforms Federation.”