‘Musing Maasin’ Archives
Another first
Last Thursday, top executives at Hitachi GST Philippines Inc. turned-over a new metrology and robotics laboratory facilities to its lucky recipient school—Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU). Aside from giving scholarships, trainings and grants to the university, Hitachi has also hired around 59 of EVSU’s engineering graduates, report says. The launching of said hi-tech facilities also highlighted EVSU’s 105th founding anniversary celebration this week. This corner is hoping [...]
Review: EVRAA 2012
Hats off to the education and local officials of Maasin City (and Southern Leyte) for successfully hosting the 2012 Eastern Visayas Regional Athletic Association (EVRAA) Meet last January 29-February 4. Maasin City took center stage again in this year’s biggest sports competition in the region. Its first hosting was in 2005 where the city emerged as overall champion. In this year's final tally, the winners were Leyte (1st), Eastern Samar (2nd ), Maasin City (3rd), Ormoc City (4th [...]
Notes from farmers’ group
In this issue, I am sharing my space here with Angelo Kairos Torres Dela Cruz of Task Force Mapalad (TFM). For those who are not aware of it, TFM is a national federation of farmers, farm workers and individuals working for agrarian reform and rural development. According to Dela Cruz, TFM’s mission is to improve the quality of life of farmers and farm workers by supporting their initiatives for access to land resources and productivity development. Below is a press statement from TFM thru [...]
‘More fun’ in Grade 1 soon?
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy,” noted sci-fi writer Robert Anson Heinlein. Meanwhile the Department of Education (DepEd) recently announced that incoming Grade 1 pupils will have “enjoyable, less burdensome” time in school under the K+12 curriculum starting June 2012. “The new curriculum is centered more on the students rather on the traditional way of teaching which is focused on the teacher,” Education Secretary Br. Armin A. Luistro said. To [...]
Losing humanity
“There were 43.8 million abortions in 2008, up by 2.2 million from 2003,” said a global report on Thursday. Lancet, a leading medical journal, also published that “back-street abortion” is surging in developing countries (to include the Philippines). Back-street or backyard abortion means “an illegal and usually dangerous operation to end a pregnancy done by someone who is not medically qualified.” This situation is ‘‘attributed” to the continuing rise in the world's [...]
Wet lesson
“La Niña will be of weak-to-moderate strength this January-February, and will gradually weaken and expected to dissipate between March and May. Its peak is likely this January,” reported PAGASA on its La Niña Advisory No. 3 dated January 11. Well, this is something to look forward to, particularly with our local government units who are now in deep situation managing the security of its respective constituents in the face of this “abnormal” weather condition. Although we [...]
Still helpless against cybercrimes?
Philippines is now a “haven” for transnational organized crime syndicates involved in cyber pornography, cyber sex dens, illegal online gambling, credit card fraud and identity theft due to weak laws against cyber crimes and the poor technical know-how of law enforcers, Inquirer reports. Interestingly, our authorities have acknowledged that” existing Philippine jurisprudence is insufficient to bring cybercriminals to justice.” "The current laws aren't even able to address the [...]
New Year paradox
For this new year, I feel like sharing (again) an old forwarded email entitled “The Paradox of our Age” known to have penned by an American pastor Dr. Bob Moorehead. The thoughts below summed up everything in our “civilization”. This corner hopes that this 2012 (and onward) , we will be more aware of those things that matter most in our lives: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend [...]
Catch the “Butcher”
The arrest order of former congressman and army major general Jovito Palparan is expected in Pres. Noynoy Aquino’s administration. With Aquino’s battle cry for “Tuwid na landas (Rightful path)”, prosecuting—and convicting—the likes of Palparan will surely pave the way for a more democratic Philippines—where one is free to exercise one’s basic rights without fear or threat of abduction, abuse, reprisal, torture or death by any individual or sector in the society. Palparan has [...]
Person of the Year: OFW
If TIME had picked “The Protester” as person of the year for their magazine, we might as well have our own: the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) as Person of the Year. True, we owe much to our OFWs (now swelling to 10 million). Their existence (or exile?) greatly helps the national economic survival. Report says total OFWs’ remittances in 2010 was P18.8 billion, which has greatly stimulated our domestic economy. This year the government even projected it will exceed its P20.1-billion [...]
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