Today is National Day of Families.
My heart goes to this Filipino family who on their first day immigrating to another land landed on the news.
Bloggers all over the world also mark today Unite for Human Rights.
Here’s what we can do as individuals to advance the rights of the child, like the lost boy in Canada or child laborers at an Ericsson supplier in Bangladesh.
People of all kinds are once again flocking to San Francisco.
Where before it was after gold, now it is after the world’s newest sports - the clash between those for Tibet or for China via the Olympic torch relay, and/or to hide from immigration officials.
Thank God I survived April Fools’ Day with no one making a spoof on me.
Here are the top 100 April Fools’ Day hoaxes of all time.
Have a good laugh! Incidentally, check No. 12. Very interesting.
I am starting another blog.
Yup, this time for the activities of the Davao City Sports Council, Inc.
Check out updates on the local sports scene of Davao here.
Those praying for divine intervention to oust the Malacanang occupant via the Catholic bishops should seek guidance from somewhere else.
For the third time, the bishops are a big disappointment to them.
First, at the height of the Hello Garci election fraud in 2005, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines did not support calls for GMA’s ouster.
Second, at the height of renewed calls to open up the Hello Garci scandal in the wake of the 2007 elections, the CBCP again refused to support such move preferring to help hide the truth.
And now, for a 0-3 at the bat, the CBCP once more rejected calls for GMA to resign amid the NBN-ZTE multibillion scandal.
I say change in this country lies in peoples’, not in bishops’, hands.
Amen.
(5:40 a.m.)
I am having erratic internet signal in my house which explains my erratic postings. I cannot access my mails too because of this problem. I apologize to those who are expecting me to reply to their emails.
In fact, I wrote the previous post on Ambassador Kenney’s visit to a MILF camp last Tuesday yet but I can only post it today due to the same weak signal.
My wife is mulling to cut this PLDT DSL connection. We are paying for a broadband service and gets slower than dial up if, luckily, there is one at all.
Hohum.
(5:02 a.m.)
Kosovo will become the newest country today when it declares its independence. The US and a number of EU countries are expected to immediately recognize the new nation in cold-war era Yugoslavia.
It has been under UN supervision since the genocidal attempts by Serbians to cleanse it out of ethnic Albanians.
My friend, Davaoena newshen Ayan Mellejor is at the thick of this historic moment in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital. She is working there for the past 3 years serving initially as Information Officer, and now as Administrative Officer of the UN contingent.
The reconstruction of Bakerohan Bridge is finally moving. And the DPWH has vowed that the work would be “fast.”
One immediately notices billboards on both sides of its approach that “your taxes is moving.”
At the foot of the bridge, there is a giant billboard with the picture of the President proclaiming that it is here where “your taxes is going.”
Ho hum.
(10:12 a.m.)
I have not posted regularly because there had been an absence of, if not a very weak, internet signal in my house lately. I am pissed off with this damn bad PLDT DSL service.
My brief comments on the Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada testimony in the Senate on the scandalous national broadband network (NBN) deal are in the news today. I noticed however that the print version is more complete. The online version had two glaring differences. I said “People are fed up with the infighting of the elite.” The online version mentioned “fighting of the elite.”
I also premised my conclusion that Lozada “was part of the scam” when he was willing to reduce the overprice at the level “hindi bubukol.” This was totally omitted in the online version.
There is a TV report that the Catholic bishops are calling for a crusade for “truth” in the light of this latest witness account on the NBN deal. I hope they are not selective because in the case of the massive cheating in the 2004 elections, the CBCP prefers to shut its mouth, and thereby help hide the “truth.”
(10:50 a.m.)
I’m leaving 5 a.m. for Koronadal City, South Cotabato, about 3 and a half hours drive south of Davao City to keynote this bloggers’ meet up.
Organized by the CSIT Student Council of the Notre Dame of Marbel University led by Mark, the conference is an echo of the Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit which I sponsored last October.
This is a fitting prep for the 4th Philippine Bloggers Summit on April 26 at UP Diliman.
(3:51 a.m.)
It was during the early part of last year’s election when the five-decade old Bankerohan Bridge (aka Gov. Generoso Bridge) collapsed. And so for the remainder of the electoral campaign, Mayor Rody Duterte almost every night discussed problems associated with the bridge and how we needed to elect administration candidates to help rebuild it.
Since then and many promises thereafter particularly from the President, Rep. Boy Nograles and Department of Public Works & Highways (DPWH) functionaries, nothing has happened with the reconstruction of the fallen bridge.
It has been nine months now and the Mayor has “held his hands up signifying his frustration.”
Two reports carried this story today. Please visit this new blog.
Remember our search for Davao’s Millennium Baby at the start of year 2000?
Well, the baby is now an 8-year old healthy and bright boy. He was born closest after the strike of midnight on January 1 and vested five others born minutes into the new millennium.
As chair of the city’s Millennium celebration in 1999-2000, I kept track of the young boy.
When he turned 5, I asked NCCC Mall for a special gift. And so on New Year’s Day, his birthday three years ago, the mall treated him and his family to free movies, snacks and rides and games at Timezone.
When he started school, I asked the Holy Child School of Davao, one of the best in the city, for a scholarship. He’s doing good at school I am told.
Belated happy birthday to Patrick Mille Ortiz!
For those in Davao City and the neighboring cities and provinces, this new blog might interest you.
Check it out and be one with us.
(5:57 a.m.)
Here’s my priority to-do list for this year:
1. Finish constructing our new house;
2. Advance key advocacies, i.e., participatory governance, alternative energy, consumer protection, livelihood promotion, and my other projects at the City Council;
3. Man the house. My wife Evelyn would be busy this year as she starts to sit at the board of the Davao City Chamber of Commerce & Industry;
4. Help revitalize the Liberal Party in the Davao Region
(6:10 p.m.)
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