‘Automatic For The People’ Archives
K to 12 is coming to town
“You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” Its Victor Hugo saying these fluttering words . And Voltaire too.” Nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come”. François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire and Victor Hugo are both French writing legends. However, the parallels of these two quotes are light years away from the time and place of this piece. The K to 12 , has got little too do with the two writers but the idea whose time has come is [...]
Summer Salad
In the not- so- distant past, the eighties to be exact, summer for this young boy was enjoying the tab-ang waters in the makeshift bamboo slits in a place called Latayan. In the Brgy. Paypayon ,Oras of my childhood , where the folks who dwell in these sweet abode nestled on bamboo columns , where people we called friends. We used to jump from the bamboo edges farthest from the road. In fact, it was the gauge for the boy’s swimming skill. When jumping to the murky-sweet waters , the [...]
Hot logs to classroom chairs
Exactly a year ago today , this author forwarded a letter to Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla requesting for chairs to be used in the External Campus of Leyte Normal University. With unequivocal recommendation from San Isidro ,Leyte Mayor Alan Ang and with a short explanation on the receiving desk in the capitol, we waited for a positive response. More than a month after, we received a truckload of surprises from the provicial government of Leyte. The prime mover trucks carries about [...]
Fiesta Fever
A great day for any business is the advent of fiests and the avalanche-sort of spending spree due to the feast day celebrations . The sitio, barangay, town, city and even a street has patron saint whose feast day must be observed. Professions like the medical, dental and the teachers including cockfighters have their saints to venerate and give credit. Everyday of the Catholic calendar has one or two saints underneath the number or date. The name below is the name of the saint which [...]
A united front for K to 12
An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis (1878 - 1937) U.S. journalist and writer. New York Sun With absolute certainty, there will be mass trainings for teachers this summer, for the implementation of the K to 12 curriculums. This would mean that the grade school and high school teachers will be attending cramped and fast-paced lectures and workshops, the scenario will be akin to the UBD (Understanding by Design) Curriculum mass training at the [...]
DOTA addicts
The computer game defense of the ancients is wrecking havoc as the next officially permitted opium for the youth. The game has reached epic in terms of popularity. Defense of the ancients or DOTA is a combat sports with mythical creatures knifing, pummeling ,killing and obliterating the enemy. The violence is too gruesome if only the chracters are not that outright ugly or morphed into monstrous proportion. The sound that is emitted is quite edgy in its cruel resonance .Similarly, DOTA [...]
We are proud of ‘em
Smart Gilas-Pilipinas, the developmental basketball team that placed fourth in the FIBA-ASIA Championship, is both lauded and criticized by some sectors . The fourth place finish fell short of a nation’s expectations but it proved at the same time that much could be done to improve the predicament of the basketball situation in our country. Mr. Recah Trinidad of the Inquirer, called it a “national heartache” or he had gone so far to declare that Smart’s Manuel V. [...]
Necessary deworming
President Benigno Aquino said his administration will focus on tackling corruption and poverty, as well as trying to stop the country’s most talented people seeking work abroad. In an interview with the BBC, the President said corruption cases were being filed on an weekly basis. He said the government would also lift social spending and job creation. President Aquino came to power 10 months ago. And while his campaign slogan was “if there’s no corruption, there would be no [...]
Time to be vigilant
According to an American watchdog whose web address is http://victims-and-citizens-against-crime.org/vicprob.htm, this year, almost six million Americans will become victims of violent crime. That number in the country is still unknown , however in the www.nscb.gov.ph web page , National Capital Region the Crime Rate by Area and by Type of Crime per 100,000 population from 2001 to 2009, with Index Crimes is 359 , compared to 327.1 for the rest of the country. The total crimes in the [...]
Shifting paths, empowering lives
Max Surban call these roads as luxurious not because of its affluence but the fact that he was jumping from his seat due to the rough ride that it gives, in most dialect the Indo-malay word “Lukso “ is the same it means “jump”. And certainly , it wasn’t because of glee that artist and comedian Max Surban is spewing those ironic catch-phrase. Disgust could be closer to the ironic outburst. That was 2006 , an exact half-decade prior to this day. In 2006 I sat with Max Surban [...]
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