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2007
THE annual recognition ceremony for our community elementary school took place yesterday, in the heat of the morning sun; thankfully, it was over a little past 10:30 am, thanks to the tight program prepared by the Grandview Elementary School management headed by Luis Marasigan, its officer-in-charge.So how did my
worried Grade V son fare this time? Well, Budi wound up a fighting fourth; on the basis of academic grades alone (which I think account for 70% of the total grade), his performance this year would have been good [...]
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03
2007
1. THE Villafuerte telenovelaPUT IT 1-0 in favor of LRay.Yesterday morning, a battle of press conferences marked the first salvo in the war for the hearts and minds of the electorate, simulcast in leading radio stations in Naga.I did not see the
bizarre father-and-son conflict make it into national TV the other night, for the entire nation to see, when deadline for filing of candidacies for local posts came. But snippets of the younger Villafuerte's press con I heard, and his father's riposte a few minutes later.Luis, Jr. spilled the guts on why he defied his father's [...]
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2007
Pilgrimage destinations in RPManila Bulletin, Philippines - 12 hours ago6) Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church in Naga City, Camarines Sur. The Peñafrancia Shrine Basilica Minore is the newest and biggest Catholic Basilica in the ...
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2007
30 - LTO to deploy assistance teams in Bicol roads for HolyBalita.org, UK - 21 hours agoElena, Camarines Norte; Libmanan and Naga City in Camarines Sur; Polangui, Albay and Matnog in Sorsogon province. Road assistance points would regulate ...
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WV cagers off to Nike Elite CampVisayan Daily Star, Philippines - Mar 29, 2007He was part of the Western Visayas quintet that won a silver in the 2006 Palarong Pambansa in Naga City. Also on that team were 6-1 Vivero and the 5-10 De ...
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2007
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2007
Dekada otsenta hanggan sa mga enot na taon kan dekada nobenta sakong namatean an magayon na serbisyo kan perokaril sa Kabikolan. Sabi kan mga nagkaerenot pang marhay sako, orog daang labi-kagayon an perokaril kaidto, na totoo man nanggad ta kun mahihiling ta an mga lumang ladawan kan mga tren kaidto, yaon an gayon asin pagiging elegante. Alagad sa ngunyan daing biyahe an tren haling Manila pasiring Bikol, dara kan distroso kan mga nakaaging kalamidad, asin laen pa man kayan an kadakulon na mga dahilan kun tadaw ta an satong pangenot na sasakyan palyado—kun bakong mayo—na ngunyan.Sa Bikol, an mga riles [...]
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2007
KINS, one of them a prominent national figure, both won in the previous local election, thanks to the influence and machinery of the former.Midway through the term, they have a nasty falling out as the up-and-coming politician begins to defy his older benefactor.Wizened pol responds by putting up a candidate against his former protégé to stop his reelection bid.The protégé beats the challenge and swamps his benefactor's candidate.If you think this storyline describes the
father-and-son split in Camarines Sur politics that continue to make
national headlines is one of the bizarre developments in this election, think again. You [...]
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03
2007
It's 9M and I'm still battling with our system and excel. Starving and exhausted. Fridays and end of the month are the busiest and stressful times for us in this office.I wish I have that bangus na sinigang when I go home.
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03
2007
My column for this week's issue of Vox Bikol.YESTERDAY, I had the opportunity to catch Civil Service Commission chair Karina Constantino-David’s address on the topic “Bureaucracy, Governance and Human Development in the Philippines.� Occasion was the 2007 general assembly of the
Human Development Network (HDN), the foremost advocacy group for the propagation and mainstreaming of sustainable human development in the country.The state of Philippine public service, as she described, is a mix of good and bad news. Let me start with the good news.The hope of our country is in the local governments, and outside Manila. I have [...]
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2007
Ariola: Tagaytay postscriptsSun.Star, Philippines - 39 minutes agoEli Posugac from Naga City. As if by fate, the very first acquaintance I made out there was with Judge Eli who hails from the city where I trace my own ...
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2007
What will make me leave the PhilippinesManila Mail, DC - 37 minutes agoIt is this kind of politics why I no longer wonder why good people like Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Mayor Jesse Robredo of Naga City or outstanding Bulacan ...
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2007
Okay guys, it has been so long to be blogging again. Let me reminisce some things I've done last week. Monday-preparation of my students for their final exams, Tuesday-one of my class was given an examination and one of my students in that class has done a very disappointing attitude. He took a picture on the test paper of one of my student taking the exam ahead of him. Well, technology really gave us a headache..hightech gadgets to hightech cheating are rampant. Anyway, I should not be affected, I still believe "Kung anu [...]
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2007
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manly Hopkins SJ (1844-89)An kinâbán napápanô kan kagayónan nin Diós.Minákurab, sÃring sa pagsilyáb kan palaráng inuúkag;MinatÃpon minadakúla, sÃring sa búlos kan lánangPinugâ. Tâdáw an táo saÃya daà na mináhinanyog?Kadákol nang nag-arági, nag-arági, nag-arági;An gabós aláng na sa barakálan; láen an pagmáan, sa gÃbo naatián;Gabós dará an atî kan táo, nakÃkiheras sa párong kan táo: an dagâDaÃng anúman, daÃng namamatéan an bitÃs na nagdadalágan.Alágad sa gabós na inÃ, daà nauúbos an kapalibútan;Sa lambáng bágay yáon an hinahánap na kalâbásan;AsÃn minsán an húring liwánag mawarâ sa madiklóm na SulnúpanAy, pagkaága, sa kolór-dagáng hanggánan, mináwarak sa Subangán—Húli ta [...]
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03
2007
AMBUBULATOKaidto na an harigi mikawayan pa sana,pigtatakutan an ambubulatona garo mga ulaypan,lalo na kun makalaog ini sa talingakakakanon daa kaini an alimantaksagkod na an biktima matigbak.Kaya bago magturog,pigpapagpag munaan mga tamong asin ulnantanganing matunlagan mga haralabang insekto.Minsan, nakakua kamingsampulong ambubulato,garo ini mga kutongpiggadan ni Nanay,pigtipon niya an mga iniasin sabay-sabay na pigrunotkan saiyang bakya.Asin duman,nahiling kong naglaad sindakulay berde, maliwanagon!Sa boot-boot ko,nagigin palan aninipotan mga ginagadan na ambubulato.Abang gayon kan saindangdurungan na kagadanan!CADLANKinagat kan namok an buasa may harani sa saiyang talinga.Dai na kaini namati an kulogkan enot na tadok.Basog-basog na an namok.Nakakapananok gayod an dugo kan bua.Kan nakakuang salming [...]
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2007
THE GOVERNMENT'S
decision to push through with its feeding program as a belated response to the hunger issue, widely rebuked by the opposition as a
political stunt, clouds its modest beginnings, insofar as Naga and 24 other Philippine cities are concerned.Our first encounter with providing rice subsidy to school children came through the Street and Urban Working Children Project (SUWCP), an AusAid-funded initiative that the DILG implemented early in the decade. But it needs to be underscored that the incentive is aimed at improving school attendance and minimizing dropout; the hunger part is merely secondary.When AusAid discontinued funding [...]
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03
2007
BURIED in the pages of last week's Bicol Mail is a
story on how automation can really screw up what used to be acceptable public service. A good teaser that immediately crossed my mind is this entry's title. Feel free to suggest better ones.The agency involved is the
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), a state monopoly whose adventures with the so-called eCard system, and its most recent iteration, the eCard Plus has only made life miserable among its members.Being a state monopoly, it faces no competition in delivering insurance and allied services to the more than 1 [...]
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2007
THREE QUICK points in reaction to Manolo's column
today, using our experience in Naga as reference. Whether a local experience like ours will hold water at the national level is entirely another matter, so let me proceed with this caveat in mind.1. Clear mandate, not majority. When Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo won for the first time in 1988, he won by a margin of less than 1,000, over a field at least four candidates. At best, his mandate was by merely plurality. But the results, including that slim winning edge, were accepted by all other [...]
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2007
...ESPECIALLY if you are a lowly motorbiker.Last night, on my way home after a quick trip to the city center at around 6pm, an eager beaver white Mitsubishi L-300 van ran me off the road near the Caceres Sports Arena along San Felipe.For about a kilometer, a convoy of solidly built vehicles coming from the city's uplands -- with passenger jeepneys interspersed -- passed me by, beginning at the Peñafrancia Church; but they were at least cruising patiently at less than normal speed. Then came that L-300 van charging, overtaking another vehicle at the convoy's tail, apparently [...]
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2007
INQUIRER'S Patricia Evangelista has indeed come of age: from a
champion public speaker, to a bratty columnist accused of
writing for self-gratification, to the brave solitary voice of her generation who, unlike
Tim Yap, dares to tell the world that our
empress and her generals have no clothes on.Her column
today at the Inquirer is painfully spot on, particularly the following paragraphs on
my favorite Bikolano senator and the glass house he has built around himself:I interviewed Sen. Joker Arroyo, whose defense of human rights is his platform for reelection. I ask why he [...]
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2007
Dato running under Kampi, Mikey with LakasABS CBN News, Philippines - 1 hour agoDato said his being a Bicolano is not new because he studied at the Ateneo de Naga University in Naga City: "I am not new to this province. ...
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2007
Dato running under Kampi, Mikey with LakasABS CBN News, Philippines - 13 hours agoDato said his being a Bicolano is not new because he studied at the Ateneo de Naga University in Naga City: "I am not new to this province. ...
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2007
Dato running under Kampi, Mikey with LakasABS CBN News, Philippines - Mar 24, 2007Dato said his being a Bicolano is not new because he studied at the Ateneo de Naga University in Naga City: "I am not new to this province. ...
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2007
Dato running under Kampi, Mikey with LakasABS CBN News, Philippines - Mar 24, 2007Dato said his being a Bicolano is not new because he studied at the Ateneo de Naga University in Naga City: "I am not new to this province. ...
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THE annual recognition ceremony for our community elementary school took place yesterday, in the heat of the morning sun; thankfully, it was over a little past 10:30 am, thanks to the tight program prepared by the Grandview Elementary School management headed by Luis Marasigan, its officer-in-charge.So how did my worried Grade V son fare this time? Well, Budi wound up a fighting fourth; on the basis of academic grades alone (which I think account for 70% of the total grade), his performance this year would have been good [...]Read the rest of this entry »
