ako.pinay.babae
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
snippets snippets
I was in the middle of a room with a woman across me lecturing about how we should keep emotions at bay in the workplace. That we should learn to take things in stride, that it's all part of the job. What bullshit that is. I don't buy it. No one should take rudeness in stride.
Basic rules of decency apply. all the time.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
ngayon lang.
matagal ko naman nang alam kung bakit hindi na kita kakausapin. -----
I guess no matter how much you manifest your trust in someone, that doesn't mean shit when it's her ego on the line.
and sometimes, that's okay. We all have to deal with our shit on our own. So deal with it. So you don't disappoint people the way you disappointed me.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
naman
oh please. isip ka uli. tsaka mo sabihin sa sarili mo na tama yang ginagawa mo.
____________________________________Monday, July 07, 2008
sana
Wag mo sanang makalimutan kung ano ang tunay na importante sa buhay mo. Wag na sana ulit.
____________________________________Monday, November 12, 2007
not today
Sometimes, when older people tell me that I’m too idealistic because I’m still this young, I feel guilty that I am still free to look at the world with the right amount of hope and frustration. I don’t really know how it is to work so that mouths will be fed, or children will be educated. Now I know that’s wrong. I realize that I’m only an idealist when it comes to the basic things in life. Like my right to safety, freedom, justice. The truth is, there should never be concessions in matters like that. Otherwise, people will disappear and only a few will really care. People will fight empty battles in mock war lands. Idealism doesn’t go with age. It goes when people believe that life cannot be better, when people believe that the most basic things in a society are only the responsibility of institutions.
It’s not even ideal to demand justice in society. It is just right to do so.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Four Short Films from Rock Ed Philippines
Labels: rock ed, rock the rehas
A 101 on Philippine jails as seen through the eyes of Tado Jimenez.
A backstage view of the youtube inmates-dancing phenomenon by Pepe Diokno
An overview of life in congested detention centers by Lourd de Veyra and Marj Lachica.
A circular conversation between major players of the Phil justice system by Gang Badoy.
Unlikely film makers tell us what they learned about Philippine jails and our justice system. For screenings: rehas@rockedphilippines.org
We also encourage private barkada screenings for a fee of used clothes donation for inmates as well as toiletries, board games, musical instruments, sports equipment, books and magazines for the inmates of the detention centers and prisons we visited. Email now.
Feel free to download posters and post on your site. All poster photos by Mon Guinto of LomoManila. Poster design by Gang Badoy (proud, kasi amateur)
text by: Gang Badoy
Thursday, June 21, 2007
One Rock Ed Nation
there will be a new volunteers' orientation on our anniversary day itself. JULY 1 2007. SUNDAY. 3pm sa 3rd floor ng Garage Multi-Media Training Center, JesCom Bldg, sa Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Ave Quezon City. For details text 0916-409-2378. si Leslie yan. Good luck, masungit yon. 
okey. congratulations. hindi na ito fling. 2nd year anniv na naten. cheers. ipagpatuloy ang kaunlaran. sama kayo. game. dalawang concert para sa dalawang taon ng pawis, paos, at puyat. isa sa saguijo at yung isa naman sa eastwood. mag donate ng mga lumang libro. game. angkulitnanamen. ito na rin ay isang rally for good governance. dahil walang kwenta ang humiyaw na wakasan na ang kahirapan kung hindi man lang tayo humingi ng maayos na pamamalakad mula sa gobyerno. sa inggles, we have no business talking about ending poverty if we stay silent and do nothing to demand a rational government. ending poverty is not the rock star's business. it is the government's --and it is ours. let artists be artists, someday. but for now, let them be our voices. pero sama kayo. dalawa yan. game. tumulong, mag volunteer maski saan, deserve your voice. we don't want your money, we want your voice. sa tagalog, hindi namin kailangan ng pera niyo, pero kailangan ng Rock Ed Philippines ang boses mo. join the voice. no more excuses. enough.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
YTRiP Walk: Bahay Nakpil
But how much of our society is really defined by the value we put on kinship and family? Sama kayo sa sabado, June 9, 2pm, sa BAHAY NAKPIL sa Quiapo. Tapos usap tayo tungkol sa pamilyang Pilipino. To join the Bahay Nakpil Walk of YTRiP, reply to this message or send an email to youthtrip@gmail.com, or text 0917.477.0754
Marami ang nagsasabi na iba talaga ang pamilyang Pilipino. Kahit hindi nga kadugo, pwede pa ring isama sa family tree.
photo by this link: http://static.flickr.com/75/204348085_49407c1453.jpg
Sunday, June 03, 2007
F. Sionil Jose, Photography for Non-Photographers on YTRiP website
Monday, May 21, 2007
Wang Wang Patrol
Nakakainis na tyinatyaga mong mangawit at mainip sa traffic tapos may sasakyang biglang dadaan na para bang walang traffic sa mundo at may third lane sa isang 2-lane street. Tapos may wang wang pa. Kakainis yung tunog at ilaw. Nakakainis yun kahit na isa o tatlo pa ang numero sa plaka ng sasakyan. Mas nakakainis kapag wala tayong tapang sabihan ang kapwa natin Pilipino kapag may mali syang ginawa. Hindi man natin opisyal na tungkulin ang manghuli ng mga lumalabag sa batas, pwede naman tayong magpahayag (sa tama at legal na pamamaraan) ng mga pangyayaring lumabag sa batas kung atin itong nasaksihan. Kaya naman sa http://wangwangpatrol.blogspot.com, dokumentado ang mga sasakyang lumalabag sa batas pan-trapiko. Libre kayong magkwento. Kung wala kang disiplina sa kalye, malamang sa malamang, wala ka ring disiplina sa iba pang aspeto ng lipunan. Ang saklap naman nun kasi malaking parte ng pag-unlad ng isang bayan dumedepende din sa disiplina ng mga mamamayan. Sa kalye o saan pa man. Labels: pinas, rock ed, wangwangpatrol
Sunday, May 20, 2007
An Open Letter to Team Lestat
Text by Gang Badoy, Founder and Executive Director of Rock Ed Philippines Labels: rock ed, team lestat
An Open Letter to Team Lestat.
Team Lestat is the core group of Rock Ed music and arts events. It was named such because we joke each other that no one in the group sleeps til the work is done. It turns out to be anything but a joke. Rock Ed started in the Philippines. It started as a teacher and a musician* going around schools. (*ako at si Noel Cabangon yon) It was not patterned from any existing organization. It took its shape as the people started to join. Rock Ed is not a traditional NGO. Although it is a duly-registered non-stock, non-profit organization, Rock Ed as a social movement ends in 2015. In 2015, we disband.
We are a ten-year campaign. The movement was designed to be that way because without a deadline, people don't feel the urgency to move. We also know that in ten years there may be other methods that are more effective than what we are doing now. We refuse to impose on the younger ones "what worked in 2005." Other than that, to date, we may not have enough money to sustain through the years with this intensity.
Rock Ed is run by true volunteers, no paid staff. No money is paid to rent an office. We have never paid to print a business card, no flyer, no brochure. We have never paid a publication to cover us. We have never paid media for publicity or exposure. All photographers donate their services for free. All film-makers, the best in the country, document us as volunteer work. Our massive radio show on crucial partner NU107 FM is run by volunteers without funding. Our only capital is our genius and our passion. Laway, luha, pawis, puyat. We have no equipment, save for our personal cellphones, cars, laptops, borrowed projectors. Even our workshop materials are personal donations. All funding from the UN went straight to staging one project a year. (Rock the Riles) And in 2006 they only gave us less than a thousand dollars.
The accountant who takes care of our taxes is a volunteer. The law firm that assisted us in our incorporation volunteered its services. No administrative funding goes to Rock Ed as overhead. All our cars are over-used for delivery of books and transportation. Trucks and vans are lent to us by companies who support us. Coke lends us transportation and donates beverages to us to sell for cash. Pale Pilsen, Red Horse, Cali, Toby's, the same. Globe lent us a sound system and the large scale projector. Eastwood as a venue supports the cause. CCP, the same. Preview Magazine, same. Burn, Bite, Pulp, Fudge, Manual, the Phil Daily Inquirer, same. They all lend us their magnified voices. All campaign materials like shirts and buttons are donated or from personal contributions of volunteers. All commercial sponsors paid for the rented equipment for every gig and event. We rarely ask for cash except for vaccines and load allowances for volunteers who coordinate the projects via phone. Our website is designed, maintained and updated by a volunteer without a single cent ever paid to him. None.
We started with no cash. We still don't have cash. But we have guts, creativity, sweat, insomnia, and the energy to party for other purposes. All our gigs have been funded by the people participating in the said projects. Minimum talent fees are usually donated by other institutions that request for our participation. Talent fees are the main reason why we want funding. We do not prioritize fund raising concerts for other causes, our concerts are our advocacies in themselves. We primarily stage free concerts. Concerts that charge nothing at the gate except open participation --which is why we focus on 'collection concerts.' That is what we do best.
We do not report to a foreign funder. We are not bound to support any foreign agency's objectives because they do not fund our administration. We have never paid a full fee for artists. Their generosity has been the backbone of this campaign. We never solicit from politicians. Only one politician has donated to us and stuck by our policy of not endorsing him nor even acknowledging his donation in public. We are, arguably, the biggest, most widespread incurring-the-lowest-cost media campaign in the Philippines today. We are not bound by any creed. Religion is debatably the choice of an individual, while nation-building is without a doubt, a decision of many.
We do not accept money from obviously corrupt officials because this only abates their own guilt (if any). It gives the corrupt official a justification. A feeling that what he's doing is okay because 'he helps an NGO anyway.' He donates to build houses on the side when he's not stealing or carousing with power, alcohol and guns. (the pronoun "he" was used for purposes of brevity. We know that there are females prominently in this arena as well) It is not okay to deal with the corrupt as if they had integrity when in plain-sight they do not. No. That feeds their dishonest self-assesment. That only perpetuates the 'padrino' cycle we have been trying to break away from. Our projects should not be funded or fed by blood money. We should pool our meager resources so that we are never in a position that desperate. We are not officially with any government agency. Though we are open to working with them. We partner with other NGOs because we understand that no single NGO can do the gamut. It takes all advocacies, side by side. Other NGOs feed children, nurture mothers, build houses, give out scholarships. And we salute them. In turn, we build states of mind. We show a range of points of view. We build new attitudes towards participation. A bar graph or a chart cannot show for our success. We have no bottom line. But we can see our work in the changing climate of what is the rave among the young now. The young seek out songs that are socially relevant. They wear shirts stylishly designed as Filipino. The young now think it is hip to be involved. Eventually they will distinguish which one is fad and which one is commitment. The difference will shine through their life choices. We change angles. We provide starting points for the young to be more nation involved. We are the ante-room to political awakening. And civic awareness. That is what we have done. Our musicians have set trends that lean towards nation building. That abstraction will see fruition into concrete decisions these young ones will make when they get older.
We do not beg from Filipinos abroad, they have financial duties on their own that is why they left. We welcome their support though. We should just keep doing what we do and let the rest figure out that they have to participate and help, too. We should keep doing what we do so the others, on their own volition, will be prodded to give, too. We should create projects that are worthwhile and be stringent on money-prudence so people will trust us and feel better about helping the cause. All centavos accounted for, has been our internal practice. Especially within the CORE GROUP. Especially within the central office. Integrity starts here. The leadership of Rock Ed is rotating. An ad hoc committee leads each project. A new set of people run the next. We have no set of officers nor a board of trustees. We have convenors and all have a say. We don't have a ruling set of elders that undermine the opinions of the young and the sometimes inactive. Everyone has an idea. Everyone can contribute to the crucial decisions. All input considered. We don't endorse any political party. We support local officials regardless of leaning for as long as they prioritize the majority and those who need assistance the most. We support local officials who keep their promises.
We are just a group of Filipinos who believe that there is no more excuse not to help our nation lift its chin against all the violence that bad governance in the past has caused us. We are just a group of artists, teachers, musicians, poets, photographers, entrepreneurs, private citizens who want to say ENOUGH. The madness of being impoverished should end now. And we will do it on our own. And we will do it with integrity. And we will do it now. No More Excuses, Philippines. Enough. ( www.rockedphilippines.org)
On July 1, 2007 -- we mark the end of our second year as a movement. We have eight more years as a collective. And then we have the rest of our lives after 2015 to be catalysts of change separately in our individual spheres of business, entertainment, political administration, the academe, young education, literature, cultural work, development work, and whichever field we choose to be in. We will continue to build this nation, our nation alongside each other. And we won't stop until all have equal standing in opportunities for health, education and livelihood. And we won't stop until we have a rational government. We won't stop until our artists can afford to be purists again.
And we won't use cliches here. No words like hero, champion, or idol. No words like brave and noble and valor. And I'll tell you why --- because the work we do is nothing to be cocky or boastful about. This is just meeting the minimum requirement. This is the minimum requirement from a good citizen. And that is all we are trying to be --good citizens. That is all.
But be proud anyway --because you are not just Rock Ed Philippines.
You are the Philippines.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Keep Your Promises Launch
Sa Big Sky. Kasi tapos na ang kampanya at pagboto. Tayo naman ang mangungulit. Keep your Promises.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
when no means yes
sabi ni vin kailangan mo daw i-spell out kung ano ang ibig mong sabihin. Otherwise, a person can just subscribe to a meaning favorable to him/her. Madalas nga yata ganun, nilalagyan natin ng meaning lahat. kahit wala naman. Sabi namin ng mga kaibigan ko, okay lang lagyan mo ng meaning basta alam mo na wala naman talagang meaning (anlabo).
Mahirap na nga makisalamuha sa iba period. Mas mahirap kung may hinihintay pa silang iba mula sa'yo. Sa panahon ngayon, importanteng importante na ang maging klaro sa lahat ng bagay. Sa sarili at sa iba.
Eh di sana hindi ka nahihirapan ngayon. Pati sya. ang baduy no. nakakainis na baduy na totoo pa.
Waw flip nyo kasi eh.
flip.
flip.
flip.
haha.
papagalitan ako ni beng kasi english title ko pero tagalog sinulat ko. pag nakaisip kayo ng akmang taytol na tagalog sige palitan na natin. haha
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Rock Ed Radio
Learning is the new rock and roll.
www.rockedradio.com
Monday, May 14, 2007
Keep Your Promises*
A vigilant nation is essential to a true and functioning democracy. Our responsibilities as a citizen will never stop with a vote. Equally important is our willingness to guard the way we are governed. Ensure that promises made are kept.
The voting is done. Winners will be announced soon. This means new business for everyone.
Sana ang bago nating pagkaabalahan eh ang paniniguro na lahat ng ipinangakong progresibong pagbabago ng mga nanalo ay matupad.
Whether you voted for whoever wins, you still have to demand that they keep their promises. In the end, it doesn't matter who the winners' owe their victory to. What matters is that they do their job well. What matters is that lives will be better because they won.
Paalala natin sa kanila yun. At ipaalam na di lang boto ang dapat nating bantayan, kundi pati silang nanalo.
* Join Rock Ed Philippines on May 19, 2007, Big Sky. KEEP YOUR PROMISES. with Radioactive Sago Project, Paramita, Peryodiko, Day One Movement and Cosmic Love
Magdala na din ng mga libro kung nais nyong mag-donate.
Friday, May 04, 2007
SweetsPOP
SweetsPOP is a combined effort of Sweetspot Rcdgs and Rock Ed for the benefit of RockBakuna. Rock Ed's vaccination missions project. May 4. Friday. Saguijo.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
fragments
because i cannot create an entirety.
and then someone shouted that there's videoke. So i sang the songs they liked. and then applause. Two songs in a provincial jail. I realized that sometimes, we converse through means that do not require us to be directly honest. through means that will allow us to still feel the movement of our jaws and lips when they form a smile. I guess I was telling them that, Yes, I wasn't ready to take in the bars and the guards and the high walls. to hear the bells of lock-up and tales of the night. But so what if i wasn't ready? I was there already.
in the middle of the yard was a kid on her father's lap. I learned before i left that she stayed there sometimes because of her father's fear that revenge may cost him his daughter. i realized i was searching for fear in her face because that was what's in mine.
everyone didn't look different from people i see outside those walls. but they are different. i can tell you many reasons why they are but i think you already know some of them. we know but we choose to forget. because we're not ready. because it really is heavy.
but here's the thing. in spaces like these, nobody is ready. but that doesn't matter.
Photo Credit: Clare Amador 2006.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
awake outside
Somehow, everything is different when you see them at the moment you meet the sunrise. Like somehow, all is well and that the light is a reflection of all that is beautiful, coming out of a darkness. So we watch with more intent. With our hearts beating harder than it was the night before. Even when at night you felt more alive.
les 11/5/06
now
so we were having coffee by 12midnight, talking about life at 24. wondering how we came to be the women we are. i tell her that this is not the life i imagined to have. i think i even used the words God and will in the same sentence. and i tell her i could not have it any better but that i know it will get better so birthdays are more welcome. she said that hers is the life she imagined when she was younger and that her steadiness is the best gift there is. so we decided that all those that hold us down will be those that will keep us afloat. so we never forget the enormity of our dreams and the steadiness in our lives.
les 10/29/06
Monday, October 23, 2006
simula ngayon
tonight i really ached. ang bigat ng gabi ko at naramdaman ko talaga na may nag-iba sa pagkatao ko. Pero hindi ata tama na pasalamatan kita, so i will make you a promise instead. Na simula ngayong gabi, at sa mga susunod pang mga gabi at araw, i will build on your aches so i will be braver in my dreams and action.
____________________________________Sunday, October 22, 2006
in-between
Sometimes all i want to do is scream. Scream until you look at me and listen. And then I will tell you of all my hopes, all my dreams. And you will listen and tell me yours. Then we will walk together, towards the land where our dreams are never more than a day-old.
____________________________________what i tell them
The question of hope is always thrown at me these days. They ask me if i have hope for the country and when I tell them I do, they ask how that can be. Then i will tell them of the kids I meet, whose smiles are bright, whose eyes say that, Yes, we will take care of this country but take care of us first. And I will tell them of men and women I met who share common dreams, who work together towards common goals. I will tell them of all the blogs I read, of all the conversations I had with people, young and old, professing their love for country and hunger for real change and progress.
And then they will stop. And the,y I think, for that instant, will believe in hope too.
moment in grey
i saw you today in the corner. Across me. your fingers busy. your stance waiting. you seem uncomfortable of the khakis you wear. Like you would rather be in a shirt, in shorts, hugging your child without worry. your fingers are as busy as your worrying mind. the lines on your face and hands tell me you are tired but cannot stop. I think yours is the courage we need. Every part on hold but moving.
So I think we will build on your courage, and do what we can. If not for you, then at least for them who keep your fingers busy, your mind and soul worried.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
our essentials
we must ache.
she said that while we were drinking our coffee, thinking of what prods us to haul our asses off the comfort of anything that shelters us from real pain, from poverty, from a world lacking in dignity.
so we promise to really look, to never pretend that our eyes are not burning with pain and confusion.
then we will ache.
and there will be change.
kahit sa sarili man lang.
on Ytrip
Benedict Anderson said that a nation is an imagined community. And that in this imagined community, we will never be able to meet all of its inhabitants, but we will always be conscious of their existence. I think this is why Ytrip exists. We want to make the Filipino imagined community a bit more real. We want to have more faces, more shapes in our imaginings. We want to meet as many Filipinos, Filipinas as we can and listen to them as they share their stories so they will not be forgotten. We want every Filipino to be more than conscious of the existence of the other. We want Filipinos to converse. We want them to ask more questions and understand each other better.
A nation is an imagined community. It rests well in our imaginations, in our memories. And because it is so, we can re-imagine the nation we want to be. Now is the time to seek as many faces, to listen to as many stories. Now is the time to create new memories of a Filipino nation that lives in dignity and progress. We hope to be the generation that is rarely confused and lost in their identity, rarely constrained to dream and to create the opportunities to attain them.
Ang lawak ng pagtulong ay nahuhugot sa paglawak ng mundo. Inaanyayahan namin kayong palawakin ang Pilipinas sa inyong imahinasyon, sa inyong isipan upang lumawak pang lalo ang inyong mundo ng pagtulong.
Discover our home. Together.
10.05.06
madalas iniisip ko kung papaano ako nagbago. pero pabalik-balik ako sa katotohanang kaya patuloy akong hindi nawawala dahil marami kayong hawak ang kamay ko.
les. 10.05.06
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Love in Six Acts
LOVE IN SIX ACTS
(from a Nike Ad in the early 1990s)
FALLING IN LOVE IN SIX ACTS
A passion play
(Or what happens when you fall down that long well of passion
over a person, a place, a sport, a game, a belief, and your heart goes boom and your mind leaves town.)
ACT I
LUST
(I think I love you. Who are you anyway?)
Here it is, the big "Wow," the big "Gee," the big "YesYesYes" you've been waiting for. This is where you find something or someone and believe they are better, greater, cuter, wiser, more wonderful than anything you have ever known.
Lust isn't a sin, it's a necessity, for with lust as our guide we imagine our bodies moving the way our bodies were meant to move: we can do marathons with our feet, lift pounds with our arms, have stars in our eyes and do a nifty tango. And you think:
I have no need of food, I have no need of sleep, I have no needs other than occasionally chewing a breath mint. You are the best thing that's ever happened to me, probably because you haven't happened to me yet. Now I can pass into the next Act, so poetically called:
ACT II
EUPHORIA
(Or: Oh Yippee, you're mine.)
You feel funny inside. You feel funny outside. You feel you could do anything and no one would dare laugh at you. This love, you will treasure. You will not put it in the basement next to your rowing machine, treadmill, and thermal body sweat wrap. And you will not take this love for granted, because that is the biggest sin of all. And you say:
I feel so good, I feel so strong, I feel actually attractive and I could learn to live with that feeling. Oh let us sing and dance and eat brown mushy foods low in fat! Oh joy! Oh rapture! -----
Oh but what if I'm no good at thiss? Oh I am no good at this. I am a dingy speck on the wall of humanity and look how badly painted that wall is! I am becoming very, very afraid. That must be because I'm passing into the Third Act, called:
ACT III
FEAR
(Also known as: Uh-oh.)
This is where the doubt begins, where the mind comes back from shopping, yells at the heart, binds and gags it to a nice lounge chair and allows guilt, failure, and remembrances of things past to sit in for a nice game of bridge. This is where you fear what you need most. If it's a person you love, you fear appearing foolish in front of them. If it's a sport, you fear being foolish in front of many, many people at the same time. And you begin to think:
oh no. What if I'm wrong? What if this stinks? What if my heart has blinders on, it's had blinders on before, in fact it had dark heavy patches taped all over it. How can anyone love me if I don't love myself? I mean, I love myself, there are just parts between the top of my head and the bottom of my feet that could use some improvement. I'm not demeaning myself, I have relatives who do that.
ACT IV
DISGUST
(And the strange desire to eat everything in sight, hide in your room, and watch old Gidget movies with friends from high school.)
Now comes that unavoidable time when you say to anyone who will listen: what the heck am I doing, anyway? If it's a person you love, first you hate only their foulest inadequacies, then you start hating their good points as well. If it's running you love, you start to hate hills, sidewalks, and bad weather, and soon anything that slightly resembles a bump, concrete, or a small breeze. I can't believe I ever said I felt this way, I must have been dreaming! Wait, THIS IS NO DREAM, THIS IS A FILM NOIR MOVIE, and one of those really dark ones, too. I mean, this is love? This is what they tell you about when you're 11 and naive? Or 32 and more naive?
ACT V
THE TRUTH
(Love is hard work. And, sometimes, hard work can really hurt.)
Love is a game. If they didn't tell you before, we will tell you now. Love is a game and if you play you either win, lose, or get ejected before the game is over. There are no ties. Maybe you'll lose and learn some great meaningful answer from it all (like if it looks too good to be true, it is). It's easy to love something when you don't have to work at it. It's harder when it asks something of you, you just might be afraid to give.
GIVE IT ANYWAY. The heart is the most resilient muscle. It is also the stupidest. So if this love you've found is good to you, hold it, keep it, shout about it. If it isn't, then maybe you should just become very good friends.
ACT VI
THE FINALE
(Also known as the big whopperdoodle, or, the most important part of this whole darn thing.)
So this is love, as demanding and nourishing and difficult as it can be, and as strong and wise as it makes you become. There is something to be gained from commitment. There are rewards for staying when you would rather leave. And there is something to be said for running up that hill when you would rather slide down it. And so you let love come perch upon your shoulder. And you do not turn it away. You do the tango.
Just do it.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Mangagoy Public Market on Fire
October 3, 2006. Bislig, Surigao del Sur. a massive fire ate up approximately 3000 households in the public market area of the seaside city of Bislig Surigao del Sur. Many of the affected are small scale merchants who live on the stores surrounding the public market, and fishermen who rely heavily on the public market for deals. This is the biggest fire in the history of the town, rendering around 15000 people homeless and with little supply of food. The town is still in shock. As of this writing, rescue and relief operations are being done to find the bodies of those trapped in the fire. The town depends on the public market for their daily supply of food, and with the market now gone, they will need every help they can get. Bislig is five hours away from Davao and Butuan.
Help can be of any form: clothes, food, utensils, medicines, cash etc. for those who can give please send your donations to Rockedphilippines and we will make sure these will reach the proper authorities in Bislig. Let us know how we can reach you for pick up of goods thru our email rockedphilippines@yahoo.com. For those who are giving cash donations you may send it to the rocked bank account: Bank of the Philippine Islands Loyola Katipunan QC Branch. bank account name: ROCK ED PROJECT . bank account # : 3080-0073-44. please send us an email with the details of your donation (amount, deposit number, date and time) so that we can give you back confirmations.
For Videos, click here
Text by: Joey Climaco
ang tunay na dahilan kung bakit naimbento ang videoke
tuwing may bagong break, isa lang ang nararapat na gawin. Yun ay mag-videoke, with zero cool songs allowed.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
mula sa kwadradong mundo
Nais kong may sumulyap gamit ang iyong mga mata.
Nais kong may tumahak ng mga daanang nag-iiwan ng putik sa iyong mga paa.
Malaman ang iyong mga kinatatakutan.
Marinig ang daan-daang bulong ng iyong puso at panalanging sinasambit ng iyong labi.
Malaman ang kasaysayan ng pagod sa iyong mata at kamay, mga linyang naglalaman ng kwento ng iyong buhay.
Maranasan ang bigat ng kawalan.
Maramdaman ang nagbibigay sa iyo ng halakhak, makilala ang mga nagbabalik ng liwanag sa unti-unti mong namamatay na mga mata.
Mabigyan ng hugis ang nagbibigay ng katahimikang sumasaglit sa iyong mukha.
Masilip ang iyong mga pinakatatagong pangarap.
Hayaan mong pasukin ang iyong mundo.
Makita ang iyong mukha. Bigyang-hugis ang iyong pighati. Marinig ang tinig mong puno ng pag-asa at paghihintay.
Paghihintay sa kanilang bukas makinig, sumulyap, rumamdam.
*para sa pangako ko kay clare.
maulap
nagbura ako ng lahat ng entries na may bahid ng galit. Ang sarap.
____________________________________Sunday, September 24, 2006
habang naghihintay
Father and son doing rounds in the coffee shop. Hoping for generosity or mercy. Many will look away. Many will choose to ignore the screaming image in front of them. How heartbreaking to see not just the tattered clothes and battered bodies. But also the eyes that reflect all that is lacking in society.
Kaya ata dapat sobra tayong gutom tumulong. It doesn't make sense to know so much but do less than we can. We need to stretch ourselves so we can cover all bases. Not many can afford our indifference. Many children cannot wait for our decision to act and respond. Many women cannot wait for the time we decide to speak out for them. Many who have lost their voice to poverty and injustice cannot wait for us to be braver.
Ayoko na ng masyadong magkakaibang mundo. Gusto ko ng lipunang binubuo ng mga mamamayan na sumisigaw, gumagalaw. Mas maraming Pilipinong tunay na tumitingin at nakikinig sa pangyayari sa paligid nila. Mas maraming ngiting umaabot hanggang sa mata. Yun ang gusto ko. Yun at marami pa.
Friday, September 08, 2006
first conversation
wala akong matandaan masyado eh. basta ang kyut nun. nginitian lang ako na-blanko na. shet. ang lupit naman nun.
____________________________________Monday, August 28, 2006
RockBakuna
May nakapagsabi sa'kin noon na P500.00 ang kailangan para sa kumpletong bakuna ng isang bata. Sa iba, maliit lang itong halaga kapalit ng kalusugan at seguridad ng kanilang mga anak. Pero sa marami, ilang araw o kaya naman ay isang buwan nang sahod ang halagang iyan. Kaya naman kahit na gusto nilang siguruhin ang proteksyon ng kanilang anak sa sakit, minsan hindi talaga kaya.
It is the right of every child to be safe from preventable diseases and to have access to medications that will ensure such. Support Rock Ed Philippines Vaccination Drive. Kung kaya nating tumulong sa anumang paraan, gawin na natin. Tama na'ng Palusot.
Friday, August 11, 2006
sabi nila
may mga bagay na kusang nagbabago. Nung una akala mo tama para sa'yo pero sa gitna ng lahat malalaman mong nagkamali ka pala ng desisyon. Ganun daw talaga.
____________________________________Monday, August 07, 2006
one more starbucks moment
its great to have something to look forward to, as well as to meet people who give you more hope that things can be changed. Nothing beats a great sit-down with people you admire and respect so you can talk about dreams, plans, hopes as well as diss those you wish to never come across with again. (Posible ba to, mga tsang? hahaha)Pero sige na nga, eksayted na rin ako kahit na para bang hindi. Wala ka ng magagawa olive. Sana lang di kami binigyan ng homework ni clare. Hehehe.
P.S. Sabi sa'yo clare, metrowalk is our turf. Haha.
Monday, July 17, 2006
in somebody's company
i forgot how good it feels to just sit with them. Even when i stare into space and struggle to empty out my brain of all the tiring thoughts. Swerte ko talaga. We came together when I was struggling (and failing) for rest, peace. Madami talaga akong maling desisyon sa buhay ko. Ayus na din. Yung kagalingan ng iba ko pang mga desisyon ay produkto ng mga kinailangan kong harapin at tanggapin dahil sa mga kawengwengan ko. Kaya naman, minsan, nakakatsamba ako, nakaka-jackpot din. Jackpot nga ata ako sa inyo. Baka lang ha. I'm willing to wait out if I'm right. Kahit buong buhay ko. (nakanampotah, dito kayo magtetext sa'kin tapos sasabihin nyo na grabe leslie, am so touched, napag-desisyunan naming suklian ang iyong pagmamahal ng monthy subsidy in the amount of.... (surprise me) hahahahaha)
____________________________________wrangler
may bago akong nadiscover na baduy na kanta. Di ko alam taytol pero eto lyrics... Tonight, I celebrate my love for you.. Eto ay sa gitna ng pagfefeeling naming magkakaibigan na i-psychoanalyze ang isa pa naming kaibigan at habang isiniwalat ni roc-oh na makikipag-breyk na sya. Naku naku eto nagagawa ng exposure sa kawrangleran. Haha. Roc-oh mukhang hindi ka muna makakatunayt..ikaw din pala olive.
____________________________________Tuesday, July 04, 2006
hey sexy (hang-over from the best-dressed ball shebang)*
I think, no, let me correct that, I know I'm lucky when it comes to my friends. That I have these people on my side makes me braver. Totoo yun. Hindi ko 'to sinusulat dahil wala na kong pera at gusto kong i-subsidize ninyo ang maluho kong pamumuhay. :-)
* Walang kakone-koneksyon ang taytol sa sinulat ko. Ang payat lang kasi ni olive sa peechure tapos kami ni tessa may hang-over pa from a party we attended. (langyang yan mahigit isang linggo na may hang-over pa? Eh kaya nga, ganun kalupeeet yung party na yun!!!! [conversation with myself while writing all this. yung iba bad na kaya di ko na ilalagay. hahaha])
Thursday, June 29, 2006
One Rock Ed Nation
"ONE ROCK ED NATION"
Rock Ed's First Anniversary Concert
NGO Fair and Musicians' Gathering for Justice and Peace
In cooperation with Prime Shift
Eastwood Main Plaza
Saturday, July 1 2006
5pm
Free Admission
White bands that say NO MORE EXCUSES, PHILIPPINES will be given away to the first hundred people that sign up to volunteer for any of the NGOs present onsite.
As of today, the bands who have confirmed to play for that celebration are: Noel Cabangon, Paolo Santos, Radioactive Sago Project, UpdharmaDown, Giniling Festival, JuanPabloDream, Kala, Dictalicense, Chillitees, SVC, Paramita, Ang Bandang Shirley, Cherry Cornflakes, Cynthia Alexander, Agaw Agimat, Chicosci, Narda, Salindiwa, Sheila and the Insects, Pupil, Menaya, Isha, The Ronnies, Sound, Drip, Makatha, Stonefree, OuterHope and many more surprise guests. Keep posted.
Feel free to cut and paste this announcement on your blogs, Friendster and Multiply accounts. Please feel free to send it your email lists as well. Salamat. Rock Ed is just a ten-year project. We encourage you to document your participation in all ten concerts and give us photos on our last ROCK ED NATION concert come July 1, 2015. We intend to document our ten-year revolution. And we'd like to invite you to be part of it.
If you want to volunteer to help usher during the concert date itself, kindly email rock_ed_events@yahoo.com put ATTN: Leslie for July 1.
Text by: Gang Badoy
Photo and Text Lifted from Rock Ed Website
Friday, June 23, 2006
katipunan
Of all of my friends, i'm the only one who is constantly in Katipunan. People think it's because I really love visiting Cinky. But now I realize that Katipunan holds a lot of personal history for me. I met my amazing friends in school. It's in Katipunan where we started to formulate dreams for our country. Many of my great and enlightening discussions with professors and friends were in the scattered niches of Katipunan. Marami kasi sa mga panahon na umuwi ako ng bahay na mas mabigat ang pakiramdam pero mas gutom tumulong eh nanggaling ako sa Katipunan. (Malamang kausap ko nun si Cinky or Vane or Tessa)It is only now that I truly appreciate the value of conversing with people, with friends. It serves as my reminder, it allows me to gain my focus once again. Madalas kasi nawawala talaga ako. But two people made me realize that the conversations are essential in my actions and plans. Kaya kung kahit sa lenggwahe wala ang pagtulong sa bayan, malamang lalong wala sa plano at gawa. So I always look forward to meeting with my friends. Ang dami ko pang kailangang iproseso kaya ang laking tulong ng bawat upo natin para magkape sa mga bagay na dapat nating planuhin at gawin para sa sarili at para sa bansa.
Ang totoo nito, gusto ko lang maapreciate ni cinky yung madalas kong pagpunta sa katipunan kahit pagod na pagod ako sa trabaho. (naks parang totoo) haha. Mas masarap lang pumunta sa Katipunan, or saan man, kung katulad ni Cinky o Vane ang makakasama at makakausap mo.
Now, I think I will stress less on all the effort it takes to meet with Cinky. Hehe.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
independence day '06
Like most national holidays, there was never anything extraordinary with the way I viewed Independence Day. I saw it as another free day. I guess the by-product of reaping the benefits of another generation's battle is that it loses most of its value to the generation it was handed to. In freedom, as with everything else handed to us, its value is never as immense as to those who lived in a time when they had to fight for it. It is hard for me to imagine living under obvious colonial or authoritarian rule. So that one day in the year where we commemorate the fight for freedom of earlier generations of Filipino, I usually sleep through the whole shebang.
But in learning and understanding the value of all that I am able to accomplish and take on because of the courage of others, I think I was given an opportunity to find my own celebration of all the sacrifices of others before me. The best way to celebrate the bravery of Filipinos, then and now, is to be braver like them. Braver in my dreams, braver in my actions. Braver in my hope and plans for a better future for this country.
I will still probably sleep through June 12. But I'm more comfortable with that now because I have consciously taken a stand to herald the heroes of Philippine history by building on what they started. By trying to find ways to make the lives of many of us better in most, if not everyday of the years ahead.
Tama si Gang, hindi tayo ang pag-asa ng bayan, Tayo ang Bayan.
Sa pagbabago, onting tapang ata ang unang-una kailangan. Maybe we need to stop waiting for someone to save us. Tayo na yun. Bayan ng matapang.
Photo Credit: Leonardo Coll, RockBayan 2006
Friday, June 02, 2006
nangangarap
Marami akong pangarap. Para sa sarili, sa pamilya, sa bayan. Pangarap kong magkaroon ng independent bookstore. Pangarap kong maging rak star. Pangarap kong maipagpatayo ng resthouse ang nanay ko. Pangarap kong bigyan ng eroplano si May, ng Hummer si RJ. Pangarap kong pagkatapos ng dalawang taon, si Clare at si Jason na. Pangarap kong mapansin naman ni Beng ang hairstyle ng iba. Pangarap kong dumami ang myembro ng isa pang movement ni Gang. (ayus yun may tee-sert na umpisa pa lang)Pangarap kong magkaroon ng trabahong mamahalin ni Vane at Pam. Pangarap kong matupad ni Olive lahat ng plano nya kahit hindi sya sa Shell magtrabaho. Pangarap kong makahanap ng ibang trabaho si Tessa, period. Pangarap kong magkaroon ng totoong gobyerno. Pangarap kong lahat ng batang Pilipino nag-aaral.Pangarap kong wala nang kakatok sa bintana ng sinasakyan ko para manlimos. Pangarap kong walang makikitang matanda sa kalye na walang makain at mauwian.
Basta marami akong pangarap. Marami sa kanila talagang parang ang hirap abutin. Marami sa kanila kailangan ko talagang igapang para matupad. Minsan talaga nakakapagod. Eh iniisip mo pa lang kung pa'no mo tutuparin, pagod ka na. Malamang pag inumpisahan mo ng isakatuparan, wala ng hiningang matitira sa'yo, umpisa pa lang. Importanteng-importante sa'kin noon ang may mga malalaking pangarap. Kasi pakiramdam ko yun ang magiginga basehan ng galing ng aking pagkatao. Eh kung mabigyan ko ng eroplano si May, aba, iba nga namang usapan yon. Kaso unti-unti ko ding naiintindihan, (sa tulong ng isang Concert Producer/Rock Star) na dapat wala naman talagang malaki o maliit na pangarap. iba't-ibang hugis lang. Kaya natututo na din akong mag-resize ng mga pangarap. Hindi na eroplano para kay May, Yacht na lang muna. :-)
Kaya maging maliit o malaki man ang pangarap sa mata ng iba, wala na yung halaga sa'kin ngayon. Ang mahalaga na ata sa'kin eh nanatili akong nangangarap at kumikilos para maisakatuparan ang pangarap na yon. Ang mahalaga na ata eh lumalawak at dumadami ang hugis ng mga pangarap ko, na naisasama ko ang bayan ko hindi lang ang sarili.
Pinakamahirap talaga kasing isakatuparan ang mga pangarap para sa iba, para sa bayan. Pero ayos lang, hindi ko man mabigyan ng tirahan ang lahat ng nakikita kong natutulog sa lansangan, hindi ko rin naman sila kinakalimutan. Pag nakalimutan mo na pala sila, hindi mo na rin sila naisasama sa mga pangarap mo. Kaya tama na hindi natin sila kalimutan, bayaann nating tumatak ang imahe nila sa ating utak, gaano man kasakit o kahirap. Pag nandun sila, pag nanatili sila, malamang mahahanapan natin ng hugis ang pangarap natin para sa kanila.
Sabi ni Mike, masarap tumanda ng may saysay. Mahirap yun pero masarap nga.
P.S. Masarap ding tumandang may eroplano.
Golden Couple
Meron kaming kaibigang Golden Couple. Yung kumocouples greeting ng walang pakundangan. (kahit walang couples friendster ayos lang, di na nila yun kailangan) Sila yung umpisa pa lang eh alam na nilang aabot sila sa golden, diamond at anuman mang precious-stone anniversary. Ganon sila kasigurado sa relasyon nila na kapag kinumpara ang iba pang relasyon naming magkakaibigan eh walang laban lahat. Nakita ko uli itong litrato nila kaya naisip ko sila. (sa sobrang golden couple nila, pag iniisip ko sila, isang tao na lang sila na hindi. nyak,anlabo) Naisip ko din kung masarap nga kayang bata ka pa lang eh nakilala mo na yung taong gusto mo makasama sa natitira mo pang buhay. Pa'no kaya nun binabago ang pangarap nila para sa sarili nila? Kasi ako selfish talaga. Marami pang gustong gawin para sa sarili. Sila din naman may kanya-kanyang pangarap. Pero dahil inlab sila sa isa't-isa, nakaangkla na din ang mga pangarap nila sa buhay at kinabukasang binubuo nila. (naks) Pero kung titignan talaga sila, mukhang buo pa rin ang pangarap nila para sa sarili nila. Masaya ako na golden couple kayo. At pasensya na nilagay ko ang litrato nyo. Gusto ko lang malaman ng iba (sige na nga, masiguro para sa sarili) na kaya pa ring magkaroon ng sariling pangarap kahit na para bang nabubuhay ka para dun sa isa.
mala-sherpa
A high school student asked me before why I didn't like GMA, so I answered her question. At the end of the forum, she told that what I said stuck to her and that she's glad we spoke. I realized then that I had to be more careful of my pronouncements. Because for some reason, (maybe by virtue of age or whatever), there are those who will listen to what I have to say, who will believe in what I claim to know. Whether by chance or by choice, we are always leading someone. Someone will always follow the path we take. The least we could do is take them to a place where they will feel free to think for themselves and not just claim our ideals for their own.